EcE - the School of Engineering and Design - Brunel University

Electronic & Computer Engineering
(ECE)
Brunel
....A 50-year journey
University
Professor Abdul H. Sadka, FIET
Head of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Director of Centre for Media Communications Research
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From Acton Technical college
to becoming
Brunel University in 1966
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Father of EE at Brunel
• Fellow of IEE and through
that head of EIT Board
• Policy for the training of
technologists in industry
• Sadly died in 1973 but his
legacy remains
• A building on the Uxbridge
campus is named after him
Professor Robin Howell, FIEE
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Diploma in Technology Course
in
Electrical Engineering
• First course commenced in January 1957
• 4-year course
• 6 months in the College and 6 months in industry per year
• EE Department had 3 labs dealing with Electrical Science,
Measurements, and Machines and Power
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Prospectus 1958-59
“The students for whom the course is most
suitable are young men who might be
judged to be able later to manage
production units in manufacturing firms and
to be earning, by current standards,
between £1100 and £1350 a year by the
time they are thirty. “
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First EE Graduating Cohort
First graduates from 1961
Brunel University in1962 after the move to Uxbridge in 1961
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ECE Alumni in the Industry
• 22 graduates of EE in 1966 – since
then some 4500
• Brunel graduates in decision making
roles in all major organisations
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Leading Brunel EE Alumni in Academia
Professor Sir John O’Reilly FREng
Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University
Professor Leehter Yao
Vice President at Taipei University
(Graduate of 1969) – President of IET,
2004
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Former Heads of EE at Brunel
• Professor Michael Sterling FREng, FIEE
• Vice Chancellor Brunel 1990 – 2001
• President of IET 2002
• Professor Gerry Musgrave FIEE
• Pro Vice Chancellor
• Career in commercial management
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EE Alumni in the World
• Private Businesses
• City Radio in
Botswana
• Panther design
• Greek Parliament
• Vicar
• Teachers
Services
• Pangaro
Incorporated in New
York
• Vocalis
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Senior EE Alumni
• Graduated from Brunel in
1967 with a 1 st in Electrical
and Electronic Engineering
• Career in automotive
electronic control systems
with Lucas, with Jaguar
• Elected president of the
IMechE in 2005
• Honorary degree from Brunel
Dr Andrew Ives
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Brunel Honorary Graduates – IET Presidents
Year
Elected
IET President
Affiliation to Brunel
1977 Percy Albert Allaway Brunel Honorary Graduate
1997 David Jefferies CBE FREng Brunel Honorary Graduate
2005 Sir John Chisholm FREng CEng Brunel Honorary Graduate
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IET Current Board of Trustees
– Eur Ing Professor Barry
Jones FIET– Vice
President (Brunel
Emeritus Professor of
Manufacturing Metrology)
– Professor Colin Aitchison
BSc ARCS, former HoD
and Dean, Brunel
Emeritus Professor –
Ordinary member
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IET Deputy president
• Professor Mike Short (FREng BA
CEng FIET)
• Vice President R&D O2
(Telefonica)
• Member of ECE Industrial
Advisory Panel
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Electronic and Computer Engineering at Brunel -
Today
• Cross disciplinary academic unit (Engineers, Technologists, Artists
and Physicists)
• One of the largest disciplines of the University and part of the School
of Engineering and Design
• 46 academic staff
• Student Population
– 600 Ug
– 160 MSc
– 140 PhD
• Ranked 5 th in the UK last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008)
• Research portfolio of £7.5M worth of ongoing Research G&C’s
• International partnerships with Overseas institutions (Universities,
Ministries etc)
• Excellent record of employment among our graduates
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Taught Provision - Today
• 9 BEng/BSc courses and 4 corresponding MEng programmes
• Cross-disciplinary provision in EEE, CSE as well as Digital Media
• MSc taught programmes in Data Comms, Wireless Comms, Sustainable
Power, Distributed Computing and Multimedia Technologies
• Off-campus MSc delivery in Greece and Germany
• IET accredited teaching provisions
• Industrial contributions and support
• Good record of Student Satisfaction (top quartile of UK universities)
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ECE Research Scope
Systems
Telecommunications
BIPS CESR SIRG CMCR WNCC
Prof Malcolm Irving
Prof Wamadeva
Balachandran
Prof Peter Hobson
Prof Abdul H. Sadka
Prof. H. Al-Raweshidy
Prof J. Cosmas
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School of Engineering and Design
Brunel Institute of Power Systems
Prof. Malcolm Irving
Co-Director
Dr. Gareth Taylor
Reader, Co-Director
Dr. Mohamed Darwish
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Ahmed Zobaa
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Jeremy Daniel
Computer Manager
Power systems analysis
and control
Power electronics and FACTS
Renewable generation
Active filters for power quality
Power market analysis
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Sensors & Instrumentation Research Group
The Chandrayaan -1 space
The CMS Particle Detector at
the LHC, CERN: Endcap
mission and the C1XS X-ray
spectrometer.
during installation and a
display of a “beam splash”
event.
Fluorescing fibres for the
MICE muon detector.
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Centre for Electronic Systems Research (CESR)
CESR is an inter-disciplinary research centre engaged in both fundamental and applied
research to improve the control and operations of industrial processes and to enrich the
quality of life and services for the 21 st century needs
The main areas of research in the Centre are:
Artificial Intelligent Systems
Bio-nanotechnology
Biometrics
Charge Particle Dynamics
Evolvable Hardware
Ultrasonic NDT
Image and Vision Systems
Location Based Services (LBS)
Reconfigurable Computing
Human Factors in Electronic System Design
Integrated Micromachined Microfluidic Chip for
Point-of-Care Diagnostics (Doctor-on-a-Chip)
Artificial intelligent techniques are employed
in modelling of DNA mismatch repair
expression
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Centre for Media Communication Systems
Virtual/augmented reality technologies
Visual media processing
Ubiquitous and
Heterogeneous
Network
3D Imaging technologies
Media transport and delivery over heterogeneous networks
Speech/audio processing & recognition
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Wireless Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC)
Prof. Hamed Al Rawshedy, Prof. John Cosmas
Joint Directors
Dr Marios Hadjinicolaou
Data Comms MSc Course Director
Dr Raj Nilavalan
Wireless Comms MSc Course Director
Dr Kostas Banitsas
Data Comms (Athens) MSc Course Director
Dr Qiang Ni
Wireless Comms Lecturer
Antennas and Wireless Communications Equipment
Multimedia Communication Applications
Design and Provisioning
Network
and System Simulators
State of the Art
Equipment and Facilities
DSP and FPGA Development Environments
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