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Learn about electrification!

Explore the latest technological advancements in the future of electrification at the Minnesota Center for Electrification Opportunity's (CEO) "Electroposium 2023: Shaping the Electrified Future."

Hosted by CSE's Technological Leadership Institute, the Electroposium will feature hands-on training, informational sessions, breakout sessions, and networking with industry professionals and academic experts. The event is free for University of Minnesota students. 

For more information and to register, visit the Electroposium 2023 website.

Quantum materials: a new paradigm for sensing

Quantum materials provide responses and states of matter with no classical analogs. As such, they offer opportunities to create various platforms for future devices crucial to human health, energy efficiency, communications, and imaging. I will describe the physics challenges and sensing opportunities these materials offer. I will then focus on using the relativistic electrons in graphene for biosensing. Specifically, we have developed a new platform for multiplexed, rapid, easy-to-use detectors of biological analytes. I will discuss the unique aspects of graphene involved, resulting in our demonstration of the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, decease biomarkers in saliva, opioids in wastewater, and respiratory infection at clinically relevant levels. Time permitting, I will explain our efforts to use quantum materials to create new quantum simulators.

IEEE UMN Student Branch will have a social on Wednesday, September 27th at 6:30 in the IEEE lounge in Keller Hall. Room 2-110. Join us to chill, eat, and relax. Ask some questions and get connected with amazing people.

Microelectronics security in CHIPS era

The CHIPS Act has brought much needed excitement for onshoring/reshoring the front-end and back-end fabrication test and facilities. However, much of the security concerns during the design of modern system on chips (SoCs) or system-in-package (SiPs) have little to do with onshoring. This talk will discuss challenges to securing silicon development lifecycle with CHIPS in place, offer solutions to engineers and practitioners, and present research challenges and opportunities for academics.

Established in 2009, the Eleanore Hale Wilson Fund supports engineering field leaders for travel to Minnesota to share their expertise and discoveries with University of Minnesota graduate students, faculty, and alumni. The Fund also supports the reception held in honor of each speaker. 

A list of employers is available at Handshake. The event takes place from noon to 6:00 PM on September 19 and September 20.

Get all the information you need to prepare for the CSE Career Fair.

Get ready for the CSE career fair this week by touching up that resume. IEEE UMN and Marvell are hosting a resume review event today! RSVP for the event

The event runs from 5:30PM to 7:30PM in room 3-180 Keller Hall. 

Flexible and Printed Bioelectronic Sensors

Flexible and printed electronics are ideally suited for sensing applications that require conformable and easily-customizable circuits. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the materials and fabrication processes that enable flexible electronics, and the potential benefits for applications in medical research and health care. I will discuss two applications from our recent work that use flexible bioelectronic sensing arrays: (1) chronic multimodal neural interface devices using transparent, inkjet-printed electrocorticography (ECoG) arrays, and (2) wearable skin sensor patches for real-time, continuous monitoring of chemical biomarkers. To expand the capabilities of such flexible sensors, our group is also developing strategies to incorporate flexible transistors into otherwise passive sensor devices. In that area, I will present our recent progress combining solution-processed oxide semiconductors with novel photonic processing techniques to produce flexible transistors.

Speaker bio

Sarah Swisher is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research sits at the intersection of semiconductor device physics, materials science, and bioengineering. She leverages the benefits of flexible electronics to enable advancements in biological sensors and medical devices. Her research approach is collaborative and multidisciplinary, with ties to the Center for Neuroengineering, the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, and the Translational Center for Resuscitative Trauma Care. Her recent awards include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Intel Foundation Robert Noyce Memorial Fellowship in Microelectronics, and the Russell J. Penrose Excellence in Teaching Award.

Established in 2009, the Eleanore Hale Wilson Fund supports engineering field leaders for travel to Minnesota to share their expertise and discoveries with University of Minnesota graduate students, faculty, and alumni. The Fund also supports the reception held in honor of each speaker. 

Confluence of Electromagnetics, Circuits and Systems Enables the Third Wireless Revolution

ICs have fueled several revolutions that have deeply impacted modern society, including the computing revolution, the internet and the first two wireless revolutions. We are at the dawn of the third wireless revolution, which I call the Wireless Mobile Reality revolution. Over the next fifteen years, new wireless paradigms spanning from RF to mmWave/THz will change the way in which we interact with the real world, through applications such as mobile virtual and augmented reality, vision quality imaging, gesture recognition and bio- and materials-sensing. However, ICs are starting to run out of steam - scaling is no longer yielding better transistors that are faster and lower power. Therefore, circuit design needs to be refreshed with new tools that draw inspiration from the layers below (electromagnetics and device physics) and the layers above (communication systems and networking). In this talk, I will describe research along these lines from the CoSMIC lab at Columbia University.

Speaker bio

Harish Krishnaswamy is a Professor and the Director of the Columbia High-Speed and Millimeter-Wave IC Laboratory (CoSMIC). In 2017, he co-founded MixComm Inc., Chatham, NJ, USA, a venture-backed start-up, to commercialize CoSMIC Laboratory’s advanced wireless research. MixComm was acquired in February 2022 by Sivers Semiconductors for $155M, where he is currently MD of the Wireless Business Unit. His research interests include integrated devices, circuits, and systems for a variety of RF, millimeter-wave (mmWave), and sub-mmWave applications. Krishnaswamy has been the recipient of seven Best Paper Awards, the Best Thesis in Experimental Research Award from USC in 2009, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, the 2014 IBM Faculty Award, and the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He has been a member of the TPC of several conferences, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE SSCS and on the DARPA Microelectronics Exploratory Council.

Established in 2009, the Eleanore Hale Wilson Fund supports engineering field leaders for travel to Minnesota to share their expertise and discoveries with University of Minnesota graduate students, faculty, and alumni. The Fund also supports the reception held in honor of each speaker.

Join us this summer at the "Quantum + Chips" program. Led by Paul Palmberg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tony Low, the 10 day program is designed for undergraduate students (from freshmen to seniors) to introduce them to key topics in quantum phenomena and their computing devices. The next program runs from July 31 through August 11. 

Participating companies include Intel, Skywater, 3M, Seagate, Quantinuum, and Google.

The "Quantum + Chips" feature carefully curated lectures designed by Professor Low and team, computer labs, experimental labs demo and tours, company visits, and talks by industry and academia experts on frontiers computing device and technologies. Check out our program agenda page for more information! Limited travel scholarships for undergrad students from US institutions, so apply now! Breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided at the summer school. We only have limited capacity, so attendance is only for selected students. Interested students please send your resume to:

Professor Tony Low (tlow@umn.edu) and Professor Steve Koester (skoester@umn.edu)

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Hosted by the Bell Museum

Recommended for all ages

Join us for our next in-person Star Party! We’re going back to the basics this time. We’ll have telescopes set up by our Learning Landscape, and our expert staff will be there to show you the cosmic sights. There will not be an indoor portion to this star party.

Registration is requested

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