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ECBE Research and Instruction Labs

One of the main strengths of our programs is the strong emphasis on laboratory training. Almost all courses include a laboratory component. This enables our students to better understand and appreciate the fundamental concepts of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering. We offer modern and well-equipped instruction laboratory facilities.

The school has state-of-the-art research facilities in antennas and propagation, ASIC design, Bio-MEMS, Biosignal manipulation, Bioinstrumentation, digital imaging, digital instrumentation, digital signal processing, electronic design and test automation, embedded systems and control,  fault tolerant design, medical imaging, microscopy, mixed-signal design and test, nanoelectronics, photonics, network systems, power systems control and protection, real time embedded systems, renewable generation, RF electronics, smart grid and hybrid vehicles, telecommunications, VLSI design, wetlab techniques.

Instruction Labs Research LabsHigh Performance Computing Facility

Instruction Labs

  • Fabrication and Anechoic Chamber Lab

    Location: Engr E-128

    The Antennas Laboratory provides students with the computing, fabricating, testing and measuring equipment necessary to analyze, design, build, test and measure antennas for a wide variety of wireless applications from cell phones to radars. In addition, the lab features CST Studio, VPI Photonics, and TIMS-301 Modeling Systems for communication related courses.

    Fabrication and Anechoic Chamber Lab

  • Computer-Based Instruction Lab

    Location: Engr E-136

    The Computer-Based Instruction Lab consists of workstations featuring the following software: Microsoft Office, Matlab, Visual Studio, Visual C++, Matlab, National Instruments LabView, Orcad, and other software.

    Students in computer-Based Lab

  • Electronics Lab

    Location: Engr E-127

    The Electronics Laboratory contains instruments such as signal analyzers, function generators and oscilloscopes for advanced projects and research.

     

    A photo of the electronics lab

  • Electronics I Lab

    Location: Engr E-237

    The Electronics I Laboratory is comprised of workstations with each workstation consisting of a windows computer, oscilloscope, digital voltmeter, power supply, frequency generator, and logic analyzer. Each computer features the following software: Microsoft Office, Matlab, Visual Studio, Xilinx/Vivado, Matlab, National Instruments LabView, PSpice, Orcad, Digilent Adept, DipTrace, Femm, and other software.

    A photo of workstations of electronic lab

  • Electronics II Lab

    Location: Engr E-231

    The Electronics II Laboratory is comprised of workstations with each workstation consisting of a windows computer, oscilloscope, digital voltmeter, power supply, frequency generator, and logic analyzer. Each computer features the following software: Microsoft Office, Matlab, Visual Studio, Xilinx/Vivado, Matlab, National Instruments LabView, PSpice, Orcad, Digilent Adept, DipTrace, Femm, and other software.

    Electronics 2 Lab with comprised workstations

  • Instrumentation Lab

    Location: Engr E-3

    The Instrumentation Laboratory provides undergraduate and graduate students with biomedical equipment necessary to instruct fundamentals of biomedical instruments including Biosignal measurement and analysis, Biosignal manipulation, Bioinstrumentation, and electronics design for instrumentation.

    The layout of the lab consists of 6 general-purpose student lab benches plus an optical table for experiments. Each student lab bench consists of a windows computer, oscilloscope, function generator, BioPAC system, National Instruments USB data acquisition device with LabVIEW software, Digilent FPGA development boards, Backyard Brain Heart and Brain SpikerBox, Neuron and Muscle SpikeBox, and Evos FLoid cell imaging station.

    A photo of the instrumentation lab

  • Measurements Lab

    Location: Engr E-37

    The Measurements Laboratory provides undergraduate and graduate students with a state-of-the-art, hands-on teaching facility necessary to instruct fundamentals of biomedical studies including wet-lab techniques, Biosignal recording and analysis, Biomedical Imaging, Bioinstrumentation, and Microscopy.

    The layout of the lab includes 4 general-purpose student lab benches plus two wet-lab benches. Each student lab bench consists of Evos XL microscope, micropipette, serological pipette, Magnetic stirrer, and Vortex. The wet-lab equipment consists of RT-PCR instruments, Western Blot System, distilled water system, biosafety cabinet, CO2 incubator, chemical hood, temperature controlled centrifuge, Benchtop incubator-shaker, Nanodrop UV-vis spectrophotometer, pH meter, Balance, Automatic autoclave, Osmometer, and Refrigerate/Freezer.

    Students working in the measurements lab

  • Photonics Instruction Lab

    Location: Engr E-214

    The Photonics Instruction Laboratory provides students in undergraduate levels with the fundamentals of Photonics needed to be engaged in an experimental research. Photonics I (ECE 441) and Photonics II (ECE 448) experiments are: intensity modulation using polarizers and wave retarders, measurement of Gaussian beam complex curvature, construction of a Michelson's interferometer to be used for displacement and wavelength measurement, handling fibers and determination of numerical aperture, assembling and testing of a fiber-optic datalink, laser light modulation using an electro-optic device, and optical filtering using Fourier optics. In addition to these experiments, the Photonics research focuses on the terahertz optical A/D convertors and the photorefractive-based resonators.

    Photonics Instruction Lab

  • Power Systems Lab

    Location: Engr E-215

    The Power Systems Lab is a large teaching lab that accommodates students specializing in power systems. The power systems equipment includes the Hampden electric machines and power electronics experimentation consoles for conducting experiments and demonstrations on ac and dc electric machines and transformers, as well as power electronic converters and drives. The lab facilities also include the LabVolt experimentation consoles used for small scale power system modeling and simulation.

    A photo of power systems lab

  • Robotics and Control Lab

    Location: Engr E-132

    The Robotics and Control Laboratory includes equipment related to introductory robotics, mechatronics, and embedded control. This equipment includes robotic arms, haptic devices, programmable logic controllers, heatflow experiments, as well as two industrial robots.

    A photo of robotics and control lab

  • Senior Design Labs

    Location: Engr E-131 & Engr E-238

    The senior design labs provides senior design students computer resources and space to work on their projects. Each team is assigned a unique computer that features software specific to their team project.

    SIU senior students presenting their robot

  • Supercomputer and Advanced Control Lab

    Location: Engr E-230

    The Supercomputer and Advanced Control Laboratory consists of several high performance computing servers.

    A photo of the supercomputer and advanced control lab

  • Unix Workstation Lab

    Location: Engr E-234

    The Unix Workstation Laboratory consists of Linux based workstations featuring Cadence and Synopsys commercial software used for designing application-specific integrated circuits, and systems on chips.

    A photo of the unix lab

Research Labs

  • Bio-MEMS Lab

    Location: Engr E-123

    Bio-MEMS Lab

    Director: Dr. Hui Li
    Phone    : (618) 453-7922

    The Bio-MEMS lab develops micro/nanoengineering devices to improve current practices for pathogen diagnosis, personalize treatments, and drug screening.

  • Laboratory for Control and Optimization Lab

    Location: Engr E-205

    Real time embedded control

    Director: Dr. Arash Komaee
    Phone    : (618) 453-7022

    The Laboratory for Control and Optimization Lab is dedicated to research on control of miniaturized systems. The particular emphasis is on design and control of micro-scale robots remotely actuated by magnetic fields. Magnetic fields generated by electro- or permanent magnets are smartly manipulated to gain precise control over magnetized micro-robots. On the theoretical side, our research is aimed at developing novel control, measurement, and signal processing techniques required for precise positioning of micro-scale particles. On the experimental side, we design and implement physical testbeds to verify the effectiveness of our theory and advance them to applied technology. Research areas include control theory, estimation theory, signal processing, and electromagnetics.

  • Electronic Design and Test Automation Lab

    Location: Engr E-201

    Design Test

    Director: Dr. Spyros Tragoudas
    Phone: (618) 453-7051

    The Electronic Design and Test Automation Laboratory research areas are in VLSI Design Automation, Verification and Validation of Embedded Systems, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Security.

  • Digital Imaging Lab

    Location: Engr E-208

    Digital Imaging

    Director: Dr. Ying Chen
    Phone: (618) 453-7030

    The Digital Imaging Laboratory research areas are in medical image reconstruction, signal and image processing.

  • Digital Instrumentation Lab

    Location: Engr E-229

    Digital Instrumentation Lab

    Director: Dr. Jun Qin
    Phone: (618) 453-4038

    The Digital Instrumentation Laboratory houses equipment and software for research activities related to sensor and instrumentation, digital data acquisition, viral instrumentation, signal analysis, and ultrasound devices. Research areas include bioinstrumentation, digital data acquisition and analysis, acoustic medical applications, noise induced hearing loss, medical system development, ultrasound imaging, and theraputic ultrasound.

  • Embedded Systems Software Lab

    Location: Engr E-121

    Embedded Software Lab

    Director: Dr. Iraklis Anagnostopoulos
    Phone: (618) 453-3285

    The Embedded Systems Software Lab houses equipment and software for research activities related to embedded and many-core systems. Our research activities focus on the development of novel algorithms for run-time resource management, software frameworks and application customization. The goal is to produce innovative and efficient solutions while keeping high quality standards. Research Areas include embedded systems, real-time systems, many-core architectures, and application customization.

  • Edge Computing Laboratory

    Location: Engr E-115

    Fault Tolerant Lab

    Director: Dr. Mehdi Ghasemirahaghi

    The Edge Computing Lab at SIUC conducts research on intelligent and energy-efficient computing for resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The lab focuses on enabling advanced AI applications to operate efficiently across heterogeneous edge platforms by developing computation offloading techniques, adaptive workload partitioning, resource-aware scheduling, and performance and energy optimization. The methodologies developed in the lab can be applied to real-world use cases in areas such as robotics, autonomous systems, agriculture, healthcare, and other IoT-enabled environments.

  • Mixed Signal and Test Lab

    Location: Engr E-4C

    Mixed Signal and Test Lab

    Director: Dr. Haibo Wang
    Phone: (618) 453-7659
    Website: Haibo Wang

    The Mixed-Signal Design and Test Laboratory research areas are in in mixed-signal VLSI, sensor signal acquisition and processing, intelligent sensor system, and medical sensor device.

  • Nanoelectronics Lab

    Location: Engr E-233

    Ahmed Lab

    Director: Dr. Shaikh Ahmed
    Phone: (618) 453-7053

    Research activities in the Nanoelectronics Laboratory​ focus mainly in the field of theoretical and computational nanoelectronics with particular efforts to address technological challenges and to find possible solutions. The Group is currently interested and working on the multiscale electronic structure and quantum transport modeling of various nanostructures including novel transistors, semiconducting 2-D structures and nanowires, quantum dots and nanocrystals, solid-state lighting sources and their reliability, nanoscale thermoelectric and piezoelectric energy-harvesting devices, and nanoelectronic devices for applications in harsh environments. Research and computational efforts in the Nanoelectronics Laboratory make extensive use of advanced algorithms and state-of-the-art high-performance cluster and CPU/GPGPU distributed computing platforms. The Group is also extensively involved in developing community nanoelectronics software/tools for researchers and academicians around the globe.

  • Network Systems Lab

    Location: Engr E-112

    Network Systems Lab

    Director: Dr. Ning Weng
    Phone: (618) 453-7014

    The Network Systems Laboratory focuses on programmable network systems, network security and wireless sensor networks. The increasing network bandwidth, expanding network services, emerging wireless sensor networks and lacking security and quality of service pose continuing and growing challenges for the Internet to evolve and scale. Our lab addresses these challenges by developing network systems architecture, algorithms, methodology and system prototyping. Research areas include network processing systems, deep packet inspection, sensor networks, and embedded system security.

  • Photonics Lab

    Location: Engr E-211, E-214

    Photonics Lab

    Director: Dr. Steven Blair

    Phone: (618) 453-6329

    Photonics Laboratories provide students in undergraduate and graduate levels with the fundamentals of Photonics needed to be engaged in an experimental research. Photonics I (ECE 441) and Photonics II (ECE 448) experiments are: Intensity modulation using polarizers and wave retarders, Measurement of Gaussian beam complex curvature, Construction of a Michelson's interferometer to be used for displacement and wavelength measurement, Handling fibers and determination of numerical aperture, Assembling and testing of a fiber-optic datalink, Laser light modulation using an electro-optic device, and Optical filtering using Fourier optics. In addition to these experiments, the Photonics research focuses on the terahertz optical A/D convertors and the photorefractive-based resonators. Other research areas include neural networks, image transmission through optical fiber, 3D optical storage, and photonic delta sigma modulators.

  • Power Systems Design Lab

    Location: Engr E-109

    Power Systems Lab

    Director: Dr. Md Zahidul Islam

    Phone: (618) 453-7019

    The Power Systems Design Laboratory’s current research concentrations are (1) power systems operation and planning, (2) power systems protection, (3) power systems optimization, (4) renewable energy systems integration, (5) electricity markets analysis, (6) power systems security, (7) power systems reliability, and (8) smart grid.

  • VLSI System Research Lab

    Location: Engr E-225

    vlsi system research lab

    Director: Dr. Chao Lu
    Phone: (618) 453-3035

    The VLSI System Research Laboratory’s current research focuses on developing low power and high performance VLSI Systems, including: (1) process-device-circuit-system co-design and optimization (such as energy harvesting systems, 3D-IC VLSI system with emerging novel devices), (2) high efficient video coding (H.265) VLSI hardware implementation.

  • Wireless Communications and Information Systems Lab

    Location: Engr E-105

    Wireless Communications and Information Systems Lab

    Director: Dr. Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge
    Phone: (618) 453-7659

    Wireless Communications and Information Systems Laboratory (WCISL) is actively involved in the theoretical and practical aspects of modern communications and information systems. Research in WCISL focuses on design and analysis of (i) novel physical-layer transmission technologies for next-generation wireless communication systems and (ii) efficient algorithms for information processing through the applications of mathematical and statistical theories. Other research areas include massive MIMO systems, millimeter-wave wireless communications, wireless energy harvesting for Internet-of-Things, device-to-device communications, physical-layer security, and cooperative relay networks.

  • Biomedical Measurements Lab

    Chilman Bae in Biomedical Measurements Lab

    Director: Dr. Chilman Bae
    Phone: (618) 453-2130 
    Website: BAE Laboratory

    Dr. Bae's lab is dedicated to advancing our understanding of cellular mechanobiology through innovative biotechniques and tools, including numerical and computational simulations. They have made significant strides in the electrophysiological study of human mechanosensitive ion channels, specifically PIEZO1 and PIEZO2, by characterizing their biophysical properties and revealing the pathophysiological role of PIEZO1 in humans. Additionally, the lab investigates the synaptic mechanisms underlying opioid-induced, neuropathic, and HIV-associated pain in the spinal cord's dorsal horn.

High Performance Computing Facility

High-performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of supercomputers and/or computer clusters to accelerate the solution of fundamental problems in science, engineering and business that have broad scientific and economic impact. With generous support from ECBE alumni, the School has been able to invest in 2 new GP/GPU clusters for generative AI development. Each of those clusters boast a Intel Core Ultra 9, 192GB of DDR ram, 2x NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation GPU with 96GB vRAM, and is connected with Gigabit Ethernet and supported by appropriate software. Each server has an 8TB NVME M.2 SSD as a primary drive and a 8TB SSD as a secondary backup drive.

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