Electrical engineering is a diverse discipline encompassing some of the smallest man-made objects, transistors for computer chips, as well as communications systems that span the earth and reach out into intergalactic space. The invention of the transistor a scant 40 years ago touched off a technological revolution that continues unabated today, including the development of lasers, fiber optics, microcomputers, satellite communications, control systems, and increasingly sophisticated signal processing algorithms, and communication networking, to name but a few areas.

Microelectronic Circuits, Devices and Computer Architecture
Optical Materials, Devices and Systems
Remote Sensing
Signal/Image Processing and Control
Telecommunications and Information Distribution

Research Areas
Research in the area of electronic devices includes the design of gallium arsenide RF, and microwave integrated circuits. Among the circuits that have been designed for industry, is a dual conversion TV turner chip used in cable TV boxes, fiber optic receivers, log amps, cell phone receivers, DBS receivers, and a high speed front end for a silicon CMOS PLL.

Research in the area of optoelectronics include photodetectors, lasers, and other light emitting structures and applications. Basic research is performed including analyzing quantized electronic states, phonons, and light absorption. Applied research is performed including device design, modeling, fabrication and characterization. Practical device development and technology transfer activities are emphasized with close collaborations with industry.

Research is also conducted in the areas of opto-electronics devices, VLSI design, analog phenomena in digital circuits, analog and digital circuit design, CAD for VLSI, and VLSI testing.

Computer architecture and organization, memory system design, and microarchitecture.

David Crouse, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Norman Scheinberg, Ph.D. - Professor
Mohamed Zahran, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Multiwavelength / Multiangle LIDAR Systems
Laser Induced Florescence monitoring for water quality
FTIR Spectroscopy
DIAL LIDAR to determine Ozone, NO2, SO2 concentrations.
Development of in-situ fiber optic probes for water monitoring
Thermal Imaging to determine sub-surface properties

Affiliations
NASA Goddard Institute of Space Sciences
New York State Energy and Research Development Agency
Department of Environmental Protection

Research Areas
Center for Telecommunication and Information Networking (CING) conducts research and development towards high-speed, multi-media, multi-service, integrated wired/wireless, and secure telecommuications and information distribution. Recent focus is on the advanced wireless ad hoc/sensor networks. We offer courses and labs in these areas to train undergraduate and graduate students to be leaders in this information era.

Current Research Projects
CTA by U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Wireless ad hoc/sensor networks in the areas of routing (component based, probalistic routing, multi-path, efficient broadcasting), MAC, transport protocols such as multihoming SCTP, reliable server pooling, protocol testing & verification, Multimedia support, and crosslayer optimization, multiuser detection in CDMA systems.

Samsung-CCNY Joint Laboratory
Projects include mainly areas of wireless personal area networks/sensor networks PHY, MAC and Mesh Routing, embedded systems, and wireless sensor network testbed. JL also actively participates in international standardization such as IEEE 802.15 WPAN, ZigBee, IEEE 1451, and IEEE 802.11 WLAN.

National Science Foundation
Major Research Instrument Development for Project include Computer Engineering with focus on Smart Brains for Robotics Applications using FPGA Technology; Using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) development tools smart robotics brains are being implemented based on reliable communication techniques such as Reliable Server Pools and Image Processing algorithms. This project will implement a proof-of-concept for such brains. The telecommunicatons technology will utilize 802.11 wireless technology and AODV as its routing algorithm.

Lab Facilities
Heterogeneous Network Testbed: High Speed networks, Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN, Routers, ATM switches, PC Net.
Wireless sensor network testbed based on standardized IEEE 802.15.4 MAC (SNET), Sniffer
Simulation software: OPNET, NS-2, MODSIM
ATM Test Equipment: ATM Generator and Analyzer
20+ Ultra Workstations (with Enterprise Server), PC Network, Wireless PDAs

Faculty Research Areas
Faculty Research Areas
Wireless Ad hoc and sensor networks including PHY/MAC/Routing, Qos, Transport, reliable server pooling, crosslayer optimization.
Wireless sensor network testbed: algorithm implementations, MAC, routing, transport, and applications such as remote sensing, structural monitoring, robot tracking.
IP based QoS Networks, High Speed Optical Networks, Bandwith management, Mobility support for IP networks.
Information Assurance, Generic Algorithm for network security.
Conformance testing of protocols, verification of protocols.
CDMA multiuser detection, Packet-switched CDMA networks, Cross-layer design

Mohammed A. Ali, Ph.D. – Professor
Michael Conner, Ph.D. - Professor
Ibrahim Habib, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Myung J. Lee, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Tarek N. Saadawi, Ph.D. - Professor
Yi Sun, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Ümit Uyar, Ph.D. - Associate Professor