Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering
Announcements
MTA Launches Real-Time Bus Tracking Service Using Algorithms Developed by Prof. Maxemchuk and Collaborators at CCNY
The new Bus Time service enables customers to track bus location in real time on the Internet and via cell phones.
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Prof. Englund and Collaborators in Chemistry and Biology Awarded $1 Million Grant by the W.M. Keck Foundation
The grant will be used by Prof. Englund and collaborators in the Chemistry and Biology Departments to develop revolutionary new methods for visualizing neuronal activity using diamond nanoprobes.
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EnHANTs Demo Receives Best Student Demo Award in ACM SenSys 2011
The demo is based on a collaboration between the research groups of Profs. Carloni (CS), Kinget, Kymissis, and Zussman.
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Prof. Edward G. Coffman Awarded Larnder Prize
The annual Harold Larnder Prize recognizes an individual who has achieved international distinction in operational research.
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EE Seniors' SwarmBot Project Chosen as Cornell Cup Finalists
A team of our seniors will compete against UC Berkeley, MIT, and 20 others for the Intel Cornell Cup embedded design competition in Florida next May.
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Prof. Zussman Selected to Participate in the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
The symposium will bring together "65 of the nation's most
innovative young engineering educators."
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Prof. Englund receives Presidential Early Career Award
The White House recognized Prof. Englund for his "pioneering contributions to the theory and experiment of photonic nanostructures..and for his development of quantum optics in semiconductor chips."
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Prof. Englund joins Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative to develop light-matter interfaces
The MURI program aims to develop multi-functional light-matter interfaces based on neutral atoms and solids.
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Anthony Erlinger and Robert Margolies received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
The fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
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Prof. Chang receives the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award
The award recognizes Prof. Chang's "pioneering research and inspiring contributions in multimedia analysis and retrieval."
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Welcome to Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering, located on Columbia's beautiful Morningside campus in New York City! This Web site contains detailed information about all of our people, programs, and activities. An overview can also be found in the electrical engineering section of our school's annually updated bulletin.
In addition to electrical engineering programs, we also offer undergraduate and graduate computer engineering programs jointly with the Computer Science Department. More specific information about those programs can be found in the computer engineering section of the school's bulletin and on the computer engineering Web site.
Upcoming Events
2012 Armstrong Lecture: Technology and Business Innovations at Qualcomm with
Impact on a World of Nearly Six Billion Cellular Subscribers
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, Co-Founder and Director, Qualcomm, Inc.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Davis Auditorium, CEPSR
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Electrical Engineering Department Newsletter
Fall 2010 Download
Upcoming Seminars
Speaker: Flaminio Borgonovo, Politecnico di Milano
Research on Frame-Aloha Protocols for RFID at Politecnico di Milano
Date: 01-19-2012
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Speaker: Peter van de Ven, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
Optimal Tradeoff between Exposed and Hidden Nodes in Large Wireless Networks
Date: 01-23-2012
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Speaker: Vaneet Aggarwal, AT&T Labs-Research
Value of Knowledge in Wireless Networks
Date: 01-25-2012
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