Welcome

The Mission of the UAF Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is to offer the highest quality, contemporary education at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to perform research appropriate to the technical needs of the state of Alaska, the nation, and the world. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department offers degrees at the baccalaureate, masters, and Ph.D. levels.

Alaska's environment and remote location provide unique opportunities for research in a wide range of areas, such as the use of acoustic, light and radio wave techniques for measuring fish in Alaskan rivers to the geophysical properties of the aurora. Remote sensing for biomedical (animal tracking) and environmental (ground water and air monitoring) applications is an important research area for Alaska. Electric power systems research includes issues related to isolated rural Alaskan communities, analysis of larger interconnected generation, transmission and distribution systems serving major Alaskan population centers, and the use of alternative energy systems.

Program Educational Objectives and Outcomes

The UAF Electrical Engineering program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

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ECE uses Cadence products

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News and Events

• April 2008 - The Alaska Microgravity Team recently flew their experiment for a small satellite attitude control system in the zero-g environment of a NASA C-9 aircraft last week. Full Story...
  
  
• April 2008 - UAF Student Steven Kibler has won the IEEE NW Area Student Paper Contest held in Seattle on April 19 for his paper "Real Time Optoelectrical Visualization for the Optimization of Micromouse Hardware". Full Story...
  
  
• February 2008 - The Alaska Microgravity Team was recently selected to participate in the 2008 Flight Campaign of NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Program. This is a team comprised of University of Alaska Fairbanks electrical and mechanical engineering students. The team will test the stability of small satellite attitude control systems (ACS). This will be accomplished by designing and constructing two control systems, one mechanical and one electromagnetic, then the students will evaluate the stability and accuracy of the systems in zero gravity. The team has recently released a student video showing their latest experiences on this mission. To see this video, or find out more on the Alaska Microgravity Team, please visit their site here.
  
  
• April 2007 - The UAF MicroMouse team won the IEEE North Area MicroMouse competition. A joint competition was held between the Region 6 NW Area (AK, WA, OR, part of ID) and the Region 6 NE Area (MT, UT, parts of ID and WY). A MicroMouse is a small autonomous robot that navigates a previously unseen maze to find it's way to the center square. The UAF team consisted of David Giessel, Steven Kibler and Devin Boyer, all ECE students. The UAF MicroMouse had the best score at the competition in Boise on April 14, 2007. The mouse was named "55 41 46 31" which is the ASCII hexadecimal code for "UAF1." The UAF MicroMouse home page can be accessed here.

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