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

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.

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.

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.

Associated faculty and staff
- David Florida, Lab Supervisor
- Dr. Janos Grantner, Professor
- Dr. Lina Sawalha, Associate Professor
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.

Associated faculty and staff
- Dr. Brad Bazuin, Professor and Chair
- David Florida, Lab Supervisor
- Dr. Lina Sawalha, Associate Professor
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.