ResearchLab Facilities
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has well equipped instruction and research laboratories for:
- Electronic circuits
- Digital circuits
- Solid-state electronics
- Biomedical electronics
- Communications
- Microwave techniques
- Real-time control systems
- Holography
- Fiber-optics
- Coherent light optics
- Digital systems design
- Computer systems (including distributed and parallel systems)
- Security
- Networking
- Computer graphics
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer vision
- Robotics
In addition, the department has excellent computing facilities, with most of its computers upgraded in the last three years, and all of its computers linked to Northwestern University's ever-evolving high-speed backbone network connection to the Internet.
Open Labs
The Wilkinson Computing Lab
The Wilkinson Lab hosts 22 well-equipped Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstations with modern GPUs, and a high-volume laser printer. The lab is supplemented by a number of high-end remote servers. A wide variety of graphics, CAD, circuit design/simulation, database, and other software packages are available on these machines. It is located in Tech M338.
24/7 Lab (Tech MG22)
Accessible via a swipe of a valid Wildcard at any time of the day or night, students can use the lab for personal projects and class-related work. The lab is equipped with power supplies, Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, DMMs, temperature controlled soldering stations and hand tools. The work surfaces are static dissipative and grounded. There is a good assortment of electronic parts to get you started. Breadboards are available for sign-out (see Royce or Steve).
Look on the shelves and you will find magazines like Nuts and Volts (project oriented), Electronic Design, NASA Tech Briefs, and Evaluation Engineering. The magazines are yours to keep, but please leave the catalogs in the lab for others.
Our goal is to give our students a great place to work on and develop their ideas. This lab is a work in progress. Please direct any questions, comments or feedback to Royce Morris.