University of Texas at Dallas

The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science has developed a computational facility consisting of a network of Sun servers and Sun engineering workstations. All systems are connected via an extensive fiber-optic Ethernet and, through the Texas Higher Education Network, have direct access to most major national and international networks. In addition, ample personal computers are available for student use.

The Engineering and Computer Science Complex provides extensive facilities for research in telecommunications, computer networks, wireless networks, digital systems, microelectronics and computer science.

Located in the new $85 million Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory building, a Class 10000 microelectronics clean room facility with optical lithography, sputter deposition and evaporation is available for projects and research, as well as an electron beam lithography pattern generator capable of sub-micron resolution.

The Optical Measurements Laboratory has a visible and near-infrared Gaertner ellipsometer for optical inspection of material systems, a variety of interferometric configurations, high-precision positioning devices and supporting optical and electrical components. The Optical Communications Laboratory includes attenuators, optical power meters, lasers, APD/p-I-n photodetectors, optical tables and couplers to support system-level research.

The Electronic Materials Processing lab has facilities for fabricating and characterizing semiconductor and optical devices.

The Computer Systems Laboratory includes a network of workstations, personal computers, FPGA development systems and academic and design tools to support research in VLSI design and computer architecture.

The Digital Signal Processing Laboratory has several multi-CPU workstations in a variety of network configurations for simulation experiments, as well as hardware developmental facilities such as microphone arrays, active noise controllers, speech compressors and echo cancellers.

The Nonlinear Optics Laboratory has a dedicated network of Sun workstations for the development of simulation methods and software for optical transmission and communication systems, optical routers and all-optical networks.

The Broadband Communications Laboratory has design and modeling tools for fiber and wireless transmission systems and networks, and all-optical packet routing and switching.

The Advanced Communications Technologies Laboratory provides facilities for designing network hardware, software, components and applications.

The Center for Systems, Communications and Signal Processing promotes research and education in general communications, signal processing, control systems, medical and biological systems, circuits and systems, and related software. The Center for Applied Optics, which has produced more than 20 Ph.D. graduates and whose faculty carry out research in enabling technologies for microelectronics and telecommunications, is also in the Jonsson School.

In addition to the facilities on campus, cooperative arrangements have been established with many local companies to make their facilities available to UTD graduate engineering students.