Graduate Studies at the MSRC Graduate Studies at the MSRC Graduate Research Scope Electronic and photonic systems are advancing at a dramatic rate, driven by a rich combination of technology advances and enabling a wide variety of new systems ranging from consumer applications through large scale systems. The MSRC research and graduate education program is a systems-integration approach based on exploring advances in a wide range of topics contributing to advanced electronic and photonic systems. Current funded research and research interests therefore span a wide spectrum.
Research also draws on combinations of the above components to achieve novel system functions.
Systems research explores high performance system testbeds including parallel arrays of high performance digital signal processors for computational accelerators. Such testbeds provide a foundation for insertion of experimental new technologies into a complete system. Several faculty are also engaged in cooperative interdisciplinary research projects, including materials and device research projects in the Depts. of Physics and Chemical Engineering and with research projects in the Health Sciences Center. This broad range of technology capabilities is applied to a variety of applications and to technical barriers facing future higher performance systems. All students in the Center at either the masters or Ph.D. level paricipate in the Microelectronics Systems course sequence in which topics including advanced packaging, wafer-scale architectures, and contemporary communication systems are covered in an integrated fashion.