Faculty Areas of
Specialization
At UTSI, EECS faculty members are involved with a number
of projects that may be of interest to prospective graduate students. Present
faculty research interests and active projects are listed below.
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Dr. L. M. Smith -- Dr. Smith works in a variety of fields involving
the use of electrical engineering in multidisciplinary research. Research
interests include electro-optics, image processing, digital signal
processing, and statistical data analysis. His recent research has involved interferometric investigation of plasma sources, analysis of signals from
strain gauges, and the application of communication theory principles to
engine test telemetry.
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Dr. B. W. Bomar -- Research interests include analog and digital
signal processing, embedded instrumentation and wireless sensors, digital
systems design including field programmable logic and hardware description
languages, and microelectronics. Current research involves high-speed
PC-based data acquisition and signal processing and miniature embedded
instrumentation for high-temperature and high-G environments.
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Dr. A. Pujol -- Present research deals with determining the validity
of synthetic aperture radar's ability to image submerged objects, including
submarines. The research acquires SAR oceanic and estuarine water surfaces
data in three formats: processed recorded digital data on magnetic tape,
photographic images, and digitally processed photographic images. Initial
data analysis is performed by using photo interpretation techniques, with
later expansion to digital and photogrammetric techniques.
- Dr. B. A. Whitehead
-- Dr. Whitehead works primarily in data-driven
software systems, with an emphasis on aerospace applications. Current and
completed projects include software architectures for propulsion system test
analysis, 3-D audio cuing for airplane navigation, embedded systems for data
acquisition, evolutionary neural network architectures, and neural network
applications to fault detection in engine testing.
