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ECE Explorations
About ECE Explorations
ECE Explorations is a weekly seminar series that introduces ECE students to new technologies, industry trends, and career opportunities in different electrical and computer engineering-related fields. A broad range of students attend these presentations. In the past, sophomores and juniors have constituted the majority of our audience, and they have the greatest need to be introduced to the wider world of engineering.
Sophomores are typically taking the calculus/physics core courses, although they will have had a hands-on, four-hour Introduction to ECE; most will have had one programming course. Juniors have typically completed beginning courses in circuits and computer engineering, and they will be taking courses in electromagnetics and solid state devices.
About the presentation
Industry speakers should plan to describe the technologies and career opportunities for engineers in their area. For example, you could describe the breakthroughs in technology for digital television transmission, highlighting your company's products. It is inappropriate to give a recruiting talk in which the company's activities and opportunities are a major theme. It is appropriate to invite the audience to join the company representative at the post-presentation reception for specific discussion about the company and to collect resumes.
Presentation format
Presentations are given every Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. in room 151 Everitt Lab. Talks should last 40 - 50 minutes. The 200-seat room is equipped with an overhead projector and 35 mm slide projector; it also has a PentiumPro 200 PC with 32 MB RAM, 1.5 GB disk, Windows NT 4.0, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with ethernet access to the Internet.
Sample abstracts
MOTOROLA, Alex Tziortzis, senior engineer. "Location Finding Techniques for Wireless Mobile Telephony." This presentation discusses the main techniques for location finding in a wireless environment. Comparison and contrasts between the leading technologies will be looked at as well as future considerations for systems like the FCC mandated Emergency 911 requirements for wireless carriers.
TELLABS, Ken Poland, hardware engineer. "T1 Technology." This lecture discusses the basic public-switched telephone network in North America, and establishes the historical need for T1. While T1 is a digital communications carrier of many uses, the focus is on its prime use for voice communications. Limitations of analog voice transmission are discussed, as well as theory of digital voice encoding and Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). T1 parameters such as electrical format, network alarming, and telephone signalling, as well as several communication protocols used in T1 are presented.
UIUC ECE FACULTY, Professor Jim Coleman. "Physical Electronics: Smaller can be Better." What if they wrote some software and there was nothing to run it on? Professor Coleman describes what's hot in the area of physical electronics, integrated circuits, lasers, etc. including hardware technology ranging from the very small to the even smaller.
Beth Katsinas
Beth Katsinas
Director of External Relations
53 Everitt Lab
1406 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 265-6285
Fax: (217) 265-6499
katsinas@uiuc.edu