Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and computer engineers combine cutting-edge technology and research with biology in areas such as systems biology, bioinformatics, biosensors, biomedical imaging, and medical equipment design. Faculty in our Electrical and Computer Engineering department collaborate with researchers in the life sciences, statistics, and mathematics to study how living systems function at multiple scales and how they interact with engineering materials and devices.
Computer engineering faculty study biological systems at the macromolecular level. This involves studying inference and analysis of genomes, learning about organisms through comparative genomics, and modeling complex gene interactions and multiscale analysis using systems biology approaches.
The application of electrical and computer engineering to biological sciences also offers the potential to create miniature biosensors for medical devices and instruments. Using electrical pulses on the nano scale, electrical engineering-based principles can measure the amount of current through a cell and stimulate the activity of pharmaceutical drugs on the body’s cells. Research on the nano scale can be expanded and applied to complete biological systems. In the ever-growing healthcare industry, the field of electrical engineering drives the design and production of inexpensive and portable diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
The ECpE department’s efforts are tied into important new initiatives at Iowa State, including high-performance computing and the bioeconomy.
Contact:
Santosh Pandey, Assistant Professor
515-294-7504
Email: pandey@iastate.edu
Affiliated Faculty:
Jaeyoun Kim, Assistant Professor
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~plasmon/
Liang Dong, Assistant Professor
Julie Dickerson, Associate Professor
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~julied/
Srinivas Aluru, Professor
http://vulcan.ee.iastate.edu/~aluru/
Namrata Vaswani, Assistant Professor
http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata/
Nicola Elia, Associate Professor
http://class.ee.iastate.edu/nelia/nicola_elia.htm
Umesh Vaidya, Assistant Professor
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~ugvaidya/
