GENERAL FOCUS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
There is an increasingly heavy reliance on electrical engineering for many important innovations with high societal impact. Chips for mobile devices, 5G internet capability, advanced battery power and surgery robots are transforming societies globally. Applications of electrical engineering as envisioned by the themes of the UT are in healthcare and medical technologies, intelligent manufacturing systems, communication and Internet of Things technology, robotics and thus enabling our digital society. The ambition of the discipline Electrical Engineering is to innovate in devices, circuits and systems, as well as the applications of these systems in biomedical, robotics and wireless communication technologies.
EEMCS at the UT is world leading in Core Electronic Systems. We are pioneers in Lab-on-Chip and Biomedical Sensors and Systems, we are very strong in (tele)robotics and have a strong track record on analog circuit design and electromagnetic compatibility. The UT has a very strong electrical engineering profile, where top class researchers work on the fundaments of the discipline as well as the aforementioned application areas.
Our goal is to reinforce these strengths in core electronic systems and communication technology that are the basis of our research and the fundaments of the discipline. Within these sector support, we do that in the following focus areas:
Phased Array Antenna Systems Phased Array Antenna Systems
Phased Array Antenna Systems allow wireless capacity increase of several orders of magnitude. Since phased array systems may contain up to thousands of antennas, transmitters and receivers, fundamentally new technical solutions are required to make them cost-effective and energy efficient.
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We are strong in biometric signal processing applications and wants to strengthen its digital signal processing fundaments in Image Processing. The challenge is to connect deep learning-based image processing solutions with the specific requirements of the application domain.
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Advanced Computing Systems To reinforce our basis in Advanced Computing Systems projects are focused on advanced digital hardware design research, as well as research in new computing paradigms such as neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing hardware. With these projects Electrical Engineering intends to secure its fundaments for the next generation of computing.
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Electrical Engineering at the UT is leading in vertical integration technology where unconventional sensor or memory technologies are combined with electronics on a single chip. The research project focusses on the study of novel devices for the IoT era, building build on our strength in sensors, lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip as well as electronic device research, all fueled by the UT world class Nanolab in the MESA+ institute.
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Electrical energy will become ubiquitous and needs to be delivered to the application in an intelligent way. Building on our strengths in core electronic systems such as medium-power integrated electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, as well as our smart grid research program, we invest in Power Electronics.
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