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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

The fields of electrical and computer engineering are on the cutting edge of development, discovery, and changes in technology.

Electrical engineers design and develop electrical and electronic systems and devices such as communications equipment, integrated circuits, and computers.

Computer engineers specialize in areas such as embedded systems, computer networks, database systems, and cybersecurity.

Academic programs

UMassD's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department offers the following academic programs:

Undergraduate
Graduate
Graduate Certificates

Computer Engineering BS, BS/MS
Undergraduate

Major

4 + 1
4+1 accelerated program
Minor
Computer Engineering Cybersecurity
Undergraduate

Concentration

Minor
Electrical Engineering BS, BS/MS
Undergraduate

Major

4 + 1
4+1 accelerated program
Minor

Acoustics Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Communications Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Computer Engineering MS
Graduate
Computer Systems Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Digital Signal Processing Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Electrical Engineering MS
Graduate
Electrical Engineering PhD
Graduate
Electrical Engineering Systems Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Radio Frequency Photonics Engineering Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate

Acoustics Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Communications Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Computer Systems Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Digital Signal Processing Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Electrical Engineering Systems Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate
Radio Frequency Photonics Engineering Graduate Certificate
Graduate
Certificate

Course information

Course listings for the upcoming semester
Graduate course offerings for the upcoming semester

Department videos

Computer Engineering: creating tools for progress

Electrical Engineering: shaping the future

Department news

ECE News

PhD student David Anchieta in Sydney, Australia

Electrical engineering PhD student wins Best Paper Award from Acoustical Society of America

David Campos Anchieta recently received the award for a paper he presented at the ASA meeting in Sydney, Australia

Students and SMART scholarship winners Chris Brunette and James Bourgeois stand side by side in the library

Two UMassD students receive prestigious SMART Scholarship

The Department of Defense SMART Scholarship awards full tuition and a stipend, and guarantees employment after graduation.

UMass Dartmouth and Roger Williams University launch 4+1 engineering program partnership

UMassD and RWU to provide joint accelerated master's programs in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and civil engineering

Department feature stories

Electrical engineering graduate student Divyamaan Sahoo

Divyamaan Sahoo MS '24: The art of engineering

Artist turned engineer develops new solutions in marine acoustics

Clivens Joseph '24, '25: Charged with creativity, grounded in excellence

College Now alum and first-generation college student finds out what he's capable of at UMassD

Christopher Brunette sitting in the library

Christopher Brunette '24, '25: Never stop asking "why?"

Electrical and computer engineering student says curiosity is what makes him an engineer

Contact

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Science & Engineering Building, Room 213
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300

508-999-9164
508-999-8489
ece@umassd.edu

Chairperson

Dayalan Kasilingam, PhD

Professor / Chairperson
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 217C

508-999-8534
dkasilingam@umassd.edu

Events

Oct

2:00PM

ECE Seminar - Speaker: Dr. Xuejun Lu, UMASS Lowell

Topic:Enhancing Light-Matter Interaction Through Engineering Electromagnetic Fields, -- Toward high-performance infrared (IR) photodetectors and focal plane array (FPA) Speaker: Dr. Xuejun Lu, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) Lowell, Massachusetts Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Zoom Conference Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/95530531512 Meeting ID: 955 3053 1512 Passcode: 691285 Abstract: Light-Matter Interaction plays critical roles in many photonics devices. In this seminar, I will discuss two approaches to enhance light-matter interaction, i.e., surface plasmonic resonance and optical antenna, as well as their applications in achieving high performance mid-IR and longwave IR photodetectors and FPAs. Device working principles and the enhancement mechanism through engineering electromagnetic fields will be presented. Biography: Dr. Xuejun Lu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University Massachusetts Lowell (UML). He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the microelectronic research center, UT Austin from 2001 to 2002 and a Senior Engineer at Finisar from 2002 to 2003. He joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University Massachusetts Lowell as an assistant professor in 2003. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008 and full professor in 2013. His research interests include: Surface plasmonics and optical antenna enhanced mid-wave and longwave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) photodetectors and focal plane arrays (FPA), Multi-color (band) IR sensors; Flexible thin-film transistors; Stand-off remote chemical sensor; Optical antenna enhanced avalanche photodiode (APD), Optical antenna induced strong light-matter interaction, Single quantum dot emitters; LWIR Electro-optic modulators based on intersubband transitions; High-quality ultra-uniform quantum dot and III-V material growth techniques. The Seminar is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Yifei Li via email at yifei.li@umassd.edu.

Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A

Oct

3:30PM

Adding C-Like Atomic Operation Support to Rust

College of Engineering Computer & Information Science CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Dante Broggi Date & Time: Monday October 28, 2024 at 3:30 pm Thesis Advisor: Dr. Adnan El-Nasan Committee Members: Dr. Firas Khatib and Professor Clinton Rogers Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/5039281530?pwd=Qnp6dGNlQVFPam5saHJWb3YyQ3dBQT09 Meeting ID: 503 928 1530 Passcode: 582509 Abstract: Many common programming languages (C, C++, Rust, Swift) provide an API to enable programmers to access atomic operations for use by multithreaded algorithms such as parallelized searches and to provide access to data structures such as concurrent linked lists. We investigated atomic operations in Rust and added wide pointer atomic support to mitigate the ABA problem in a way that is based on the solution supported in the Pony runtime. The ABA problem is a general problem scenario in which a function falsely assumes that atomically loading bitwise equivalent values means nothing relevant has changed between the loads. This can occur due to an algorithm failure, or due to object allocation reuse for logically distinct objects. We added experimental support for wide pointers with a 64-bit counter alongside the 64-bit pointer. This circumvents the ambiguity of having 2 or more pointers that point to the same address but are semantically different. Such pointers can occur, for example, when one is created in such a way that permits reading a whole array while the other is intended to read or write only the first element, or one was recently deallocated (these additional semantic differences are called the pointers provenance data). Rust extensively uses pointer provenance data to optimize its reference types by implementing their documented exclusivity and immutability guarantees. We implemented the standard atomic operations of load, store, and compare and swap (CAS) on Rust-wide pointers, both in the Rust intermediate representation interpreter Miri and in the LLVM backend, in a way that preserves provenance without hindering later optimization by exposing it unnecessarily. This implementation was assessed using several individual-operation correctness tests and an analysis of how our solution changes the result of a case of the ABA problem in a stack. We also tested the API design against that desired by our preceding attempt at translating the Pony runtime into Rust [1], where this or similar API is one of the blockers to further progress. We found that the proposed API is satisfactory, and the implementation passes the correctness tests and avoids internal ABA problems in all test cases. For further information please contact Dr. Adnan El-Nasan at aelnasan@umassd.edu.

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Nov

11:00AM

ECE Seminar - Speaker: Dr. Francisco Robles, Georgia Tech and Emory University

Topic: Towards in-vivo, non-invasive, label-free, real-time 3D histological imaging via 3D quantitative phase contrast Speaker: Dr. Francisco Robles, Associate Professor Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech and Emory University Atlanta, GA Zoom Conference Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/96205425369 Meeting ID: 962 0542 5369 Passcode: 337041 Abstract: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) and refractive index (RI) tomography enable label-free measurements of biological samples with exquisite subcellular contrast and nanometer-scale sensitivity, providing unprecedented access to important histological and biophysical information of cells and tissues non-invasively. However, conventional QPI and RI tomography methods are restricted to thin samples due to their reliance on a transmission-based optical geometry, which hinders their overall clinical utility, particularly for in vivo applications. To overcome this important challenge, my lab has recently developed a technology called quantitative oblique back-illumination microscopy (qOBM), which provides the same level of quantitative cellular and subcellular histological and biophysical information but with epi-illumination. Thus, qOBM can be applied to image large tissues, non-invasively and in vivo, enabling many new applications that were previously out of reach of conventional phase imaging technologies. In this presentation I will discuss the theory and inner workings of qOBM, along with my lab's efforts to apply this technology to novel biomedical and clinical applications, including imaging organoids and assessing brain tumor margins in vivo. Biography: Dr. Robles is an Associate Professor at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He earned his PhD in Medical Physics from Duke University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke in the department of Chemistry. His lab at Georgia Tech and Emory University focuses on developing and advancing label-free optical imaging and spectroscopy technologies to help improve our understanding of biological processes and our ability to identify disease. The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Ana Doblas via email at adoblas@umassd.edu.

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Nov

1:00PM

Professional & Graduate School Fair

Come connect with representatives from various professional schools, including those in the medical and legal fields, as well as graduate schools. Gain valuable insights into their programs, admission requirements, and strategies to enhance your competitiveness as an applicant. The fair is from 1-4pm, but you do not need to attend the entire time. Come and go as you and your schedule permits. For a list of schools who will be at the event and to register for the fair, please visit Handshake at https://app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/49201. Registration is encouraged, but not required.

The Marketplace

Nov

11:00AM

ECE Seminar - Speaker: Dr. Zachary A. Steelman, 711th Human Performance Wing Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX.

Topic: Imaging the cellular effects of directed energy using advanced microscopy Speaker: Dr. Zachary A. Steelman, Research Biomedical Engineer 711th Human Performance Wing Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A Zoom Conference Link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97175731135 Meeting ID: 971 7573 1135 Passcode: 806238 Abstract: Directed energy - including lasers, pulsed electric fields, free-field microwaves, and radiofrequency radiation's induce unique biological effects which can be difficult to quantify. My talk will present an overview of advanced optical imaging systems, developed within the Bioeffects Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which help to visualize and quantify the impacts of directed energy exposure at the cellular level. Imaging techniques include quantitative phase imaging (QPI), Brillouin spectroscopy, custom 3D-printed fluorescence microscopy, and streak- and strobe-photography for ultrafast imaging. System design and applications for understanding mechanisms of directed energy-induced cellular damage are discussed. Biography: Dr. Zachary A. Steelman is a Research Biomedical Engineer at the 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Dr. Steelman completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, as well as a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Duke University in 2020. After a brief postdoc with the National Research Council (NRC), Dr. Steelman joined AFRL in 2022. Dr. Steelman's work focuses on designing advanced optical imaging systems to characterize the biological effects of directed energy exposure. He is the author of 30 scientific journal articles and has been recognized with numerous national and international awards. The Seminar is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Ana Doblas via email at adoblas@umassd.edu.

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