Making a Difference Through Engineering

Learn more about the work we're doing at UD by exploring our areas of research, labs and related centers.


Areas of Research

  • Computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning
  • Digital signal and image processing, biomedical imaging and sensors
  • Embedded data processing
  • Nonlinear optics, metamaterials and holography
  • Acousto-optics and wave propagation
  • Radar Systems
  • Control systems and robotics
  • Nano-fabrication and optoelectronics, device technology
  • Micro- to nano-scale electronics, fabrication, integration and packaging
  • Ferroelectric varactor devices
  • High performance neuromorphic computing


Related Engineering Research Centers
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Center of Excellence for Thin-Film Research and Surface Engineering link-arrow link-arrow

Researchers at UD, with a combined 15 patents and more than 600 publications, collectively established CETRASE to focus on improvements of sensors, electronics, electro-optics and energy systems.

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Vision Lab: Center of Excellence for Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision link-arrow link-arrow

The Vision Lab's mission is to invent new technologies for sensor-based information extraction and automatic decision-making and to train undergraduate and graduate students to become outstanding candidates to learn, lead and serve in the areas of machine intelligence and autonomous systems.

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All Engineering Centers and Institutes link-arrow link-arrow

At UD, centers and institutes extend our focus on experiential learning beyond the classroom into a variety of co-curricular activities.



Contact Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Dayton, Ohio 45469 - 0232
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