Events Listing

IEEE UMN hosts its weekly meetings at 6 PM on Mondays via Zoom. All are welcome to join in as we plan, discuss, and organize events and networking opportunities. This is a great way to become involved in the decisions that IEEE makes!

IEEE and Marvell Technologies will be hosting a career fair prep event in preparation for the CSE Career Fair! Join us on Thursday, February 3,   in 3-125 Keller Hall from 5pm - 6pm for an info session on the semiconductor industry and the ECE and CS positions Marvell is seeking to fill. Then, join us from 6pm - 7pm in the ECE Learning Center located in 2-276 Keller Hall for one-on-one meetings with industry professionals who can help with resume reviewing, interview questions, and elevator pitch practice. There will also be free pizza and soda so make sure to join!

A New Paradigm for Online Education and Research in "Power" Worldwide: Using ONR-funded Low-cost Rapid
Real-time Platform 

Compact and high-efficiency AC-AC power converters are crucial in grid integration of renewable and electrification of various sectors. Compared to existing ones, one of the leading contenders for a better AC-AC converter is the Matrix Converter (MC). This talk explores the research work to make these promising converters a more practically viable solution.

Research and education in power electronics, power systems, and drives, are limited to well-funded universities and companies. The major bottleneck is the exorbitant cost associated with the required software and laboratory infrastructure. As part of the Office of Naval Research funded project, a new code/model-based numerical simulation, and real-time prototyping platform was developed to make research and teaching in power fields more accessible. This talk explores the details of this research and its successful commercialization.

Biography of Dr. Raju

Dr. Siddharth Raju, is currently a researcher at the University of Minnesota. He received his Bachelor’s degree from SSN College, Anna University, India, in 2011, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2017. His research focuses on power electronics, electric drives, and real-time embedded controls. He is the co-author of the textbook on “Analysis and Control of Electric Drives” with Ned Mohan and 3 additional books in power electronics and renewable energy, to be published by Wiley.

Siddharth is the founder of Sciamble Corp., which was set up to commercialize his research work. The startup specializes in rapid real-time prototyping solutions. In a short period of two years since commercialization, his lab developments have been acquired by over 30 universities and companies worldwide, including well-known ones such as Texas A&M, Colorado State, MathWorks, and Semikron.

Throughout the month of February, MCSE (Multicultural Student Engagement) is proud to be working in collaboration with other university affiliates such as SUA, BSU and the African American & African Studies Department to celebrate Blackness in the past, present, and future. Please check MCSE's Black History Month 2022 page for details on events and celebrations.

IEEE UMN is hosting a game night on Monday, Jan 31st at 6 pm in the IEEE room (2-110 Keller Hall). Come join us for games, snacks, and the chance to hang out with your fellow ECE peers! 

About the talk

The U.S. National Science Foundation propels the nation forward by advancing fundamental research in all fields of science and engineering. NSF supports research and people by providing facilities, instruments, and funding to support their ingenuity and sustain the U.S. as a global leader in research and innovation. In this talk by the leader of the NSF Directorate for Engineering, learn about NSF’s priorities, new funding opportunities, and vision for engineering.

About the speaker

Susan Margulies, Ph.D., is an assistant director of the National Science Foundation, leading the Directorate for Engineering, and a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, jointly housed in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the School of Medicine at Emory University. She is Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics and previously served as chair of the department.

Using an integrated biomechanics approach consisting of relevant animal models, cell and tissue experiments, and complementary computational models and human studies, Dr. Margulies’s research has generated new knowledge about the structural and functional responses of the brain and lung to their mechanical environment. Her lab has pioneered new methods for measuring functional effects of large or repeated tissue distortions; identified injury tolerances, response cascades, and causal signaling pathways; and translated these discoveries to preclinical therapeutic trials to mitigate and prevent brain and lung injuries in children and adults. Results are published in 185 peer-reviewed papers, including over 50 trainees.

Dr. Margulies is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Biomedical Engineering Society, and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

Presented by the College of Science and Engineering Dean's Office and the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Inter-Chiplet Synchronization of Multi-Die VLSI Systems

In VLSI systems, computing is projected to contain hundreds of components from heterogeneous processors, memories, and interconnect, in order to achieve performance gains and energy-efficiency in the face of increasing power-density. However, both hardware and software designers are faced with limitations in the improvement of instructions-per-cycle and clock frequency. As a result, designers have sought out heterogeneous computing devices, in system architecture and VLSI packaging, to accelerate current and future workloads.  At the VLSI packaging level, silicon interposer based heterogeneous integration of multi-die systems (MDS) has provided a new avenue for scaling of in-package computation, memory, and interconnects.

In this talk, I will focus on the synchronization subset of our efforts for silicon interposer based integration of VLSI multi-die systems (MDS).  In particular, I will present the solution our team has developed for inter-die synchronization in MDS that has a resonant clocking technology backbone. Resonant clocking technologies, which work on adiabatic, charge-recycling switching principles, generate very high frequency clock signals at a low power dissipation rate. In MDS, the presented implementation has a minimum footprint on the active interposer, which is important for yield and cost.  The proposed solution provides a centralized, synchronized and lightweight clock generation and delivery system that eliminates the need for PLLs and various clock/phase correction/synchronization overhead, which could especially be prohibitive for large scale MDS systems.  In addition to a superior synchronization profile, the proposed resonant clocking delivery leads to an average of ~40% total chiplet power savings (~72% on the clock network) in comparison to PLL-synchronized ARM Cortex M0-based 10mm by 12mm multi-core MDS simulation model.  At the end of this talk, I will also highlight two specific solutions our team developed for increased heterogeneity in architectures (and their efficiency) using resonant-clocking based inter-chipset synchronization,  where these architectures 1) demand frequency/voltage points distributed both spatially and temporally to achieve optimal performance, 2) require efficient I/O interface between chiplets.

About the speaker

Baris Taskin received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in 2005, where currently he is a Professor. Between 2003-2004, he was a PhD intern engineer at MultiGiG Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, working on electronic design automation of integrated circuit timing and clocking. He is an "A. Richard Newton Award" winner from the ACM SIGDA in 2007 (for junior faculty starting new programs in EDA), a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009, the Distinguished Service Award from ACM SIGDA in 2012, the Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award from IEEE Philadelphia in 2013 and the Drexel ECE Department's Outstanding Research Award in 2015. He is an associate editor for JCSC and Elsevier's Microelectronics. He served as the General Chair for SLIP 2016 and GLVLSI 2019, as the Chair for IEEE CEDA Pennsylvania Chapter (2018-current), and the Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's VLSI and Systems Applications Technical Committee (IEEE CASS VSA-TC) (2018-2020). Learn more about Drexel University's VLSI and Architecture Laboratory (VANDAL).
 

Join the Bell Museum as we jump around the sky visiting our favorite sights in the sky: Caroline’s Rose Cluster, Lepus, Bode’s Galaxy, The Intergalactic Wander, and more! There’s something for everyone to love. For those interested in objects closer to home, stay tuned for updates on the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon!

Don’t forget to bring your questions, as we’ll save time for Q & A.

If you are an international students, and want to know more about CPT/OPT options, or ask questions about them, please attend the virtual information session. 

Please note: These sessions are for informational purposes only. Applicants must still complete the CPT/OPT Virtual Workshops linked from the ISSS website prior to submitting their application to ISSS.

International Students: Start your UMN experience off in the best way possible by attending Global Gopher Events on January 12!

During Global Gopher Events, you will learn how to succeed academically at the University of Minnesota and how to prepare for a career after graduation! Most of all, we hope to welcome you to the University of Minnesota and the international community. Get more details about the event.