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The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU has a long tradition of excellence in teaching and research, starting with the inception of the Electrical Engineering program at "Brooklyn Poly" in 1885. The department rose to prominence in the mid-twentieth century for work in microwaves, communications, electrical machinery, and automatic control. Current research and degree programs focus on:
- Telecommunications (including Wireless and High-Speed Integrated Networks)
- Digital Signal Processing (including still and video image processing)
- Computer Engineering
- Control and Robotics
- Electrical Power Systems
- Electromagnetics & Microwaves
- Electrophysics of materials (especially plasmas)
A faculty of some 25 professors offers undergraduate programs to more than 450 students at Brooklyn's MetroTech Center. Masters programs, including part-time study programs for working engineers, serve about 200 students on three campuses: those in Brooklyn and Melville, as well as one in Westchester County. The approximately 50 PhD candidates are largely supported by fellowships and assistantships.
Faculty and students are engaged in research sponsored at an annual rate of about $2.5 million by government agencies and industrial organizations. Most of those projects are coordinated in centers such as the Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (sponsored by New York State), The NSF sponsored Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) and the Weber Research Institute (formerly the Microwave Research Institute).
Special features of undergraduate programs include opportunities for research projects, a computer engineering curriculum run in cooperation with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, and recent curriculum innovations influenced by Polytechnic's participation in the Gateway Coalition of eight major universities, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Special MS programs allow students to concentrate on Telecommunication Networks, Systems Engineering, Electrophysics, and Computer Engineering, as well as a standard Electrical Engineering program.
While the eminence of our department is partly due to the research and textbooks produced by our faculty, our strong reputation is largely a result of the success of our graduates in their careers after college. Therefore, the department is dedicated to serving the needs of its students, and preparing them for the evolving trends in their future fields of employment.
Potential students and potential employers of our graduates are encouraged to visit -- in person on campus, or virtually through the department web pages. More information about the heritage of the department can be found at department history.
· 1 National Academy of Engineering member: Prof. David Goodman
· 12 Fellows of the IEEE
- Prof. Philip Balaban
- Prof. Henry Bertoni
- Prof. Robert R. Boorstyn
- Prof. David C. Chang
- Prof. Jonathan Chao
- Prof. David Goodman
- Prof. Spencer Kuo
- Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang
- Prof. Philip Sarachik
- Prof. Leonard Shaw
- Prof. Yao Wang
- Prof. Dante Youla
· More than 15 National Faculty Awards:
- Prof. Henry Bertoni, 1993 Neal Shepherd Best Propagation Paper Award of the IEEE VT Society
- Prof. Nirod Das, 1993 RWP King Paper Award from IEEE AP Society
- Prof. David Goodman, 1997 ACM/SIGMOBILE Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems Users, Data, and Computing"
- Prof. I-Tai Lu, NSF Engineering Initiation Award
- Prof. Yao Wang, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, Young Investigator Category, Year 1999-2000
- Prof. Jonathan Chao, 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE’s Circuits and Systems Society
- 4 recipients of NSF Career Awards: Prof. Ramesh Karri (1997), Prof. Ivan Selesnick (1999), Prof. Elza Erkip, Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang (2001)
- Prof. David Goodman, 2003 Avant Garde award from the Vehicular Technology Society of the IEEE
- Prof. Elza Erkip, IEEE Communication Society's 2004 Stephen O. Rice prize.
- Prof. Shivendra S. Panwar and Prof. Yao Wang, 2004 IEEE Communication Society's Leonard G. Abraham Prize
- Prof. Peter Voltz, Athanasios Papoulis Award 2004
- Prof. Spencer Kuo, 2005 Asian-American Engineer of the Year
- Prof. E. Erkip, Best Paper of the Communication Theory Symposium of ICC 2007
· Chairman of Technical organizations:
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Prof. Henry Bertoni, Chairman of the Technical Committee on Personal Communications of the IEEE Communications Society, was on the Administrative Committee (ADCOM) of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectric and Frequency Control Society
· More than 60 Patents from faculty within the Department
- Prof. Jonathan Chao : 39
- Prof. David Goodman:8
- Prof. Spensor Kuo: 4
- Prof. Farshad Khorami: 9
- Prof. I-Tai Lu: 3
- Prof. Shivendra Panwar: 3
- Prof. Nirod Das: 1
· More than 40 Books, Book chapters published by faculty members
- Prof. David Goodman: 9
- Prof. I-Tai Lu: 10
- Prof. S. Unnikrishna Pillai: 4
- Prof. Shivendra Panwar: 3
- Prof. Jonathan Chao: 3
- Prof. Yao Wang: 8
- Prof. Andrej Stefanov: 3
- Prof. Nirod Das: 4
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