Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5329 USA
(269) 276-3150

Academic Labs

The WMU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering houses numerous laboratories that support faculty and student research.

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Associated faculty and staff

  • David Florida
  • Dr. Simin Masihi
  • Dr. Damon Miller

Location

Room B-216 Floyd Hall

Supported courses

  • ECE 2210
  • ECE 3200

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • Digital storage oscilloscope four channels, color, 100 MHz bandwidth
  • 20 MHz arbitrary function generator.
  • Bench power supplies with triple outputs, 0-30VDC and +/- 0-15VDC.
  • Digital multi meter with 6 ½ digit display

Personal computers are used to run office applications, web browsers and SPICE software. 

Associated faculty and staff

  • Dr. Damon A. Miller
  • Dr. Ralph Tanner
  • David Florida

Location

Room B-215 Floyd Hall

Courses and research supported

  • ECE 2100

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • Digital storage oscilloscope and printer.
  • 3 MHz function generator.
  • Built-in power supplies include 0-48VDC, 0-120VAC, 5VDC and +/-15VDC.
  • Variable bench power supplies include 0-30VDC and +/- 0-15VDC.

Personal computers are used to run office applications, web browsers and SPICE software. There is also a local network featuring temporary storage on a file server and work group printing. Many small instruments are used in this lab, including analog meter movements of various types and component substitution boxes.

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Associated faculty and staff

Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Location

Room A-208 Floyd Hall

Supported courses

  • ECE 4550
  • ECE 5550
  • ECE 6550
  • ECE 4900
  • ECE 6970
  • Senior Design
  • Master's and Ph.D. thesis and disserations

Capabilities

Six workstations are available, scanner, and printers. Other dedicated tools hardware and software include: Several TI instruments DSP processors such as TMDX320026701 DSP.

  • Real-time image processing, TI TMDX320026711
  • Ground penetrating radar imaging system
  • Several Imaging equipment including infrared thermography imaging system
  • Color CCD tele-camera, Nikon cameras: Software and AV cables, VCR controller, and several Nikon digital cameras
  • Several education material for outreach programs, 20 Lego mindstorm robot kits, and five electronic snap kits, and one Boe-Bot robot kit
  • Impact echo system for acoustic testing
  • Digital video camera, Ricoh RDC-1
  • Several environmental sensors
  • Four real-time cameras
  • Several frame grabbers
  • Microscope E400, Nikon, on loan to ITIA
  • Radan and surfer software packages
  • Matlab imaging and signal processing software package
  • Several imaging tools software packages
  • Mathematics, Matlab software
  • Visual Studio, C/C++/Java
  • ProfileMaker Pro 3.1

Research topics

  • Signal processing with an emphasis on images and sound.
  • Medical image analysis and feature extraction.
  • Intelligent transportation systems.
  • Non-destructive evaluation techniques.
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Associated faculty and staff

  • Dr. Dean Johnson
  • David Florida

Location

Room B-213 Floyd Hall

Courses and research supported

  • ECE 2500

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • Electronics trainer, analog and digital.
  • Programmable digital logic, FPGA trainer.
  • Built-in power supplies include 0-48VDC, 0-120VAC, 5VDC and +/-15VDC.

Personal computers are used to run office applications, digital and logic design software, and various other packages.

Associated faculty and staff

  • Dr. Johnson Asumadu
  • Dr. Ralph Tanner

Location

Room B-212 Floyd Hall

Courses and research supported

  • ECE 2110
  • ECE 3300

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • Digital storage oscilloscope and printer.
  • Digital multimeter and function generator.
  • Built-in power supplies include 0-48VDC, 0-120VAC, 5VDC and +/-15VDC.

Personal computers are used to run office applications, a language compiler and debug/monitoring software. There is also a local network featuring temporary storage on a file server and work group printing. Five additional stations at the rear of the lab are comprised of dynamometer test stands.

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Associated faculty and staff

Location

Room B-210 Floyd Hall

Courses and research supported

  • ECE 4525
  • ECE 4500
  • ECE 4510
  • ECE 4570
  • ECE 5580
  • ECE 6050
  • ECE 6720

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • 9S12 family microcontroller trainer.
  • Logic analyzer, analog oscilloscope, function generator.
  • Built-in power supplies include 0-48VDC, 0-120VAC, 5VDC and +/-15VDC.

Personal computers are used to run office applications, a language compiler and debug/monitoring software. There is also a local network featuring temporary storage on a file server and workgroup printing.

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Associated faculty and staff

Location

Room B-214 Floyd Hall

Courses and research supported

  • ECE 2510
  • EDMM 2001
  • Incidental Graduate Course Use

Capabilities

Ten workstations are available in this lab. Workstation equipment consists of the following:

  • 9S12 family microcontroller trainer
  • Digital storage oscilloscope
  • 20 MHz arbitrary function generator
  •     Bench power supplies with triple outputs 0-6VDC and +/- 0-30VDC

Personal computers are used to run office applications, digital and logic design software, and various other simulation software.