Laboratories
State-of-the-art Facilities and immerse yourself in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research led by innovative faculty.
You'll work with faculty on joint professional projects in the department’s 16 state-of-the-art labs, each equipped with industry-standard technology and software packages.
The Hybrid Microelectronics Laboratory is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1101
The lab space is approximately 1148 square feet. This is one of the newest laboratories in the department, and has been primarily used for conducting experiments and fabricating semiconductor devices for the solid state courses.
The undergraduate and graduate students benefit from hands-on-experience of present cutting-edge technology and gain the conceptual understanding of the foundation of solid state device, as well as device fabrication and applications.
The lab is equipped with fabrication facility of front-end wafer processing using diffusion furnace for doping the semiconductor material, MA 56 mask aligner for photolithography, different sputtering units along with Kurt J. Lesker PV75 with two magnetron guns for deposition of indium tin oxide, silicon oxide, aluminum nitride and nickel.
Different characterization tools such as high frequency oscillator, four-point probe, optoelectronic test bench, curve tracer, parametric analyzer and analytical instrument are available to characterize the semiconductor device wafer level.
In 2005 to 2008, the DoD awarded research grant of half million dollars and the OPFET device has been successfully developed in this laboratory under Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay supervision. In 2011, the research on graphene FET has been started under the supervision of Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay to diversify the microelectronics lab to nanotechnology lab for developing new generation of biosensors.
In 2012, Dr. Chattopadhyay received half million dollars of research grant from the DoD to develop the optically triggered silicon carbide/gallium nitride (SiC/GaN) MESFET in the microelectronics laboratory to be used for advanced actuator system for military and commercial aviation (Boeing).
The Advanced Digital Circuits Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1102
Laboratory space is approximately 963 square feet. It has 30 Linux workstations that can accommodate 30 students and a laser printer. It supports ECE 526L (Verilog HDL for Digital Integrated Circuit Design Lab) and ECE 527L (Application Specific Integrated Circuit Development Lab).
The main software packages being run on these computers are the complete Synopsys integrated circuit development suite including Design Compiler, Test Compiler, Library Compiler, Static Timing Analyzer and related tools.
We also have installed Vera for formal verification, in anticipation of the development of a new integrated circuit verification course.
The Communications Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1536.
The laboratory space is approximately 958 square feet. The lab contains six desktop computers and seven fully-equipped workbenches and will accommodate 14 students.
It supports ECE 460L (Analog Communications Lab) and ECE 561L (Digital Communications Lab), and graduate students doing research in the communications area.
In addition to the traditional electronics workbench equipment (scopes, power supplies, etc.), the lab contains 7 digital spectrum analyzers.
The Optical Communications Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1550.
The lab space is approximately 338 square feet. and is one of the newest laboratories in the department.
The lab's primarily use is for conducting experiments and run simulation for the instructional laboratory ECE 666L, master thesis/project, and faculty/student research.
The Basic Circuits Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1562
Approximately 1127 square feet, this lab is utilized to introduce students to the fundamental practices of electrical circuit analysis and design and supports the course ECE 240L, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Laboratory.
The Basic Circuits Lab is also where ECE students learn how to use electronic equipment to simulate electric networks and measure the resultant response.
The Printed Circuit Board Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1564.
The laboratory space is approximately 635 square feet, and contains three computer stations, one exposure unit, one Motortool (Drill) and acid/corrosives cabinet.
The laboratory can accommodate two students at a time, and also supports senior-level students in the area of electronics and graduate students as well.
The Analog Electronics Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1566.
The laboratory space is approximately 1016 square feet, and is configured with seven work stations and can accommodate 21 students.
Two courses are supported by this laboratory, ECE 340L (Electronics I) and ECE 440L (Electronics II).
The workstations contain conventional electronics workbench equipment (i.e. scopes, power supplies, etc.).
The Electric Power Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1570.
The laboratory space is approximately 692 square feet. It contains six workstations and can accommodate 18 students.
It supports the following :
- ECE 410L, Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory,
- ECE 411 projects, senior design (EZ bike) projects and graduate students conducting research in the electric power area.
- ECE 412 power electronics projects
The Microwave and Antenna Lab and RF Circuits Lab are located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1590.
The laboratory space is approximately 2908 square feet. This lab is used as an instructional laboratory (ECE 370L and ECE 572L) and for senior projects, master thesis/projects, and faculty and student research.
During the academic year 2012 to 2103, this lab was renovated and the extra space was subdivided to accommodate Power Electronics and Power Grid Laboratories.
The space in this laboratory is large enough to hold classes. In fact, Senior Design classes (ECE492 and ECE492) as well as several other ECE courses are taught in this room.
The Basic Digital Circuits Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1601.
The laboratory space is approximately 1127 square feet, and is configured with 10 workstations that can accommodate as many as 20 students.
The Basic Digital Circuits lab also supports the ECE 320L, Digital Systems Laboratory.
The ECE Electronic Technician, Calibration and Repair Room is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1605
This is the working area of our Electronic Technician, Mr. Jose Rivera who is in charge of calibration, repair of all equipment Electrical and Computer Engineering laboratories.
He provides support to the ECE students and faculty. He also supervises peer lab assistants who are usually assigned to attend JD1561, JD1566, JD1601, JD1607, and JD2201.
He ensures that all the ECE labs are in proper working conditions and electrical and electronic components and parts are available for the students to use.
Mr. Rivera also assists the ECE faculty members with special projects.
The Digital Electronics and Microprocessor Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1607.
The laboratory space is approximately 1127 square fee, and is used for ECE 425L (Microprocessor Systems course), ECE 442L (Digital Electronics course), and ECE 443L (Pulse and Waveshaping course).
It provides nine stations that are equipped with test equipment.
All workstations are equipped with microprocessor development systems, and can support up to 18 students
The FPGA / ASIC Lab are located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 1612.
The laboratory space is approximately 643 square feet, and is used by students for the ECE 422, ECE 620, ECE 623, ECE 624, ECE 524/Lab, ECE 696, ECE 698, and ECE 699 courses.
Additionally, the lab is used by undergraduate and graduate students working on their projects and theses.
The Laboratory is equipped with state of the art design software packages from Synopsys, Actel, Xilinx and Mentor Graphics for FPGA/ASIC design and testability.
The ECE Senior Design Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 2201.
The laboratory space is approximately 2030 square feet. It is designed to be a workroom, primarily for those students enrolled in one of the Electrical Engineering Senior Design courses.
It is also used by other Electrical Engineering students enrolled on our junior and senior courses. The laboratory contains 20 computers divided between Sun and PC workstations.
It also contains 10 lab workbenches equipped with oscilloscopes, function generators, multimeters and power supplies.
Lockers are provided for students. The laboratory is designed to accommodate 30 to 40 students working on their senior design projects and other course work.
The Control Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 2203.
The laboratory space is approximately 1230 square feet.
This laboratory is used for ECE 309 (Numerical Methods in EE) and ECE 480 (Fundamentals of Control Systems) which are required ECE courses, and ECE 480L (Fundamentals of Control Systems Lab), ECE 580 (Digital Control), and ECE 581 (Fuzzy Control) that are taken by many undergraduate electrical engineering majors.
Also this laboratory is used by graduate students in Control Systems and Biomedical Engineering. The equipment provides stations for 18 students.
The Smart Room Laboratory is located in Jacaranda Hall, Room 2204.
The digital signal processing lab mainly functions as computer-assisted teaching classroom for digital signal processing and computer engineering classes, such as:
- ECE 101 (Introduction to Electrical Engineering),
- ECE 206 (Computer Programming for Electrical Engineers),
- ECE 309 (Numerical Methods in EE),
- ECE 350 (Linear Systems I),
- ECE 351 (Linear Systems II),
- ECE 420 (Digital Systems Design w/Programmable Logic),
- ECE 451 (Real-Time Digital Signal Processing),
- ECE 595 (System On Chip),
- ECE 651 (Digital Signal Processing I), and
- ECE 652 (Digital Signal Processing II).
It is also used for undergraduate senior design and graduate research projects in the field of digital signal processing.