Facilities and Special Resources:
Computer Science: The Department's computing facilities includeSun and Silicon Graphics workstations, SGI Crimson and SPARC servers, and
high performance graphics workstations (SGI Indigo2, Onyx Reality Engine2).
The University Computing Services has over 400 workstations for general
student use and several highend machines, including a Silicon Graphics
Challenge XL 20processor system. The university's Imaging Research Center
also provides highend graphics support, including production quality input/output
devices and production software (Wavefront, Softimage and Alias).
Electrical Engineeringi: Faculty and students in the ElectricalEngineering Program at UMBC have access to UMBC's and UMCP's super minicomputer
computing resources supporting VMS and Unix, and to several Cray super
computers at NERSC and SDSC. The Department also has substantial computing
resources acquired with the new (1992) Engineering and Computer Science
Building:
- SGI Iris Indigo workstations served by SGI Crimson servers
- SUN workstations, and
- a network of Apple Macintosh and 486/Pentiumbased personal computers
The research and instructional activities of the Department
are supported by a number of new modern laboratories. Laserbased laboratories
support research in ultrafast nonlinear optics and optical spectroscopy,
coherent optical communications, diode laser physics, novel diode laser
structures, and optical fiber lasers. Device fabrication laboratories support
research in optical and electronic properties of compound semiconductors
and organic polymers, and in exploring and developing new materials, submicron
device structures, and processing technologies via CAIBE. Compound semiconductorgrowth research is being pursued using MOCVD techniques. A new remote sensing
signal and image processing laboratory supports research in multispectral
and hyperspectral imagery, pattern recognition, target tracking and detection,
image coding and progressive image transmission, computer vision, and medical
imaging. The Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory, and the Information
Systems Laboratory support research in adaptive equalization and coding
for fading multipath channels, communication system simulation software
development, adaptive aperture techniques for optical communications, digital
speech processing, DSP and adaptive signal processing algorithms, joint
timefrequency and timescale representations and analysis techniques, cyclostationary
signal processing, atmospheric pollutants and chemical agent detection
via FTIR spectrometry, and biomedical signal processing.
Outplacement: Graduating students find jobs in industry, business,
government, and universities.