Locations:
| Department Office: 224 Phillips Hall (C6) |
| Graduate Office: 229 Phillips Hall (C6) |
| M.Eng. Office: 222 Phillips Hall (C6) |
Statistics:
| 36 active faculty |
| 237 graduate students |
The scope of Electrical Engineering is wide, and the traditional image of circuits and soldering irons is little related to most of the activity here. The biggest groups of graduate students and faculty are working on semiconductors and on signals and systems, but computer engineering is rapidly expanding, and there is active research in optics, plasmas and space physics, microwaves and antennas, and power systems and control. Signals and systems is primarily concerned with telecommunications issues such as signal processing, wireless communications, and information theory. Semiconductor research here is shaped by the Nanofabrication Facility, so while there is work on VLSI design, the primary focus is on novel fabrication processes, thin films, and micromachines. The addition of Duffield Hall has dramatically expanded Cornell's nanofabrication capabilities.
The classrooms, offices, undergraduate laboratories, and many of the graduate research laboratories are housed in Phillips Hall and in Rhodes Hall. Among the graduate research laboratories are those devoted to communications, computer engineering, control systems, digital signal processing, high-energy particle beams, integrated circuits, ionospheric physics and radio-wave propagation, lasers and optoelectronics, microwave and semiconductor devices, and semiconductor material preparation and characterization. Faculty members and graduate students use the facilities of the following centers, laboratories, and programs: the Center for Applied Mathematics, the Electronic Packaging Program, the Laboratory of Plasma Studies, the Materials Science Center, and the Cornell Theory Center. In addition, the facilities of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (Arecibo, Puerto Rico), and the Jicamarca Radio Observatory (Peru) are available. All research areas are served by a variety of computing resources. These include networked multi-MIP workstations, PCs, and the Cornell Supercomputing Facility.