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 diplay
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 minstorm 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
- 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.
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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.