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Electrical and computer engineering professors John Nestor, David Rich, and Yih-Choung Yu will discuss their research areas noon Wednesday in Acopian Engineering Center room 200.
Lunch will be provided. The event is sponsored by the student chapter of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the electrical and computer engineering department.
All three professors have involved multiple students in their research.
Nestor, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, conducts research in computer-aided design for large-scale integrated circuits. The American Society for Engineering Education honored him with the John A. Curtis Award for presenting the best paper at the Computers in Education Division session of its 2002 annual conference. The paper describes applet software Nestor developed with Lafayette students to help their electrical and computer engineering peers master Computer-Aided Design.
Rich, also associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has research interests that include circuit design and process technology for mixed digital/analog/RF large scale ICs; integrated data conversion systems; analog filter design; communication electronics; electroacoustics; and audio engineering. He mentored Brandon Cochenour ’03 (Lower Burrell, Pa.) in research on improving the way stereo loudspeakers deliver sound, which earned the student first place for his paper at the Walter B. Morton Student Contest held by the Lehigh Valley Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Cochenour also published his research in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and was invited to present it in March at the 114th AES Convention in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Yu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, conducts research in bioengineering, signal processing, and control applications in electromechanical systems and medicine. Last year, he received a Lindback Foundation grant for research to improve testing procedures for heart assist devices and enhance cardiovascular physiology instruction.