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The Clark School has been a leader in cross-disciplinary engineering research for several decades, having established through the university three highly successful and well known institutes:
A joint institute of the Clark School and the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, IREAP applies basic science skills to practical problems and engineering skills to fundamental scientific investigations. The institute is recognized internationally in high-temperature plasma physics, plasma spectroscopy, relativistic microwave electronics, high-brightness charged particle beams, laser-plasma interactions, nonlinear dynamics (chaos), ion beam microfabrication techniques, microwave sintering of advanced materials, nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Associate Professor Timothy Horiuchi (ECE/ISR) holds a tiny prototype bat head next to a bat-inspired sonar device.
See "Robots That Hear" sidebar for more information.
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ISR advances and exploits fundamental methodological tools—intelligent control, modeling and optimization, communications and signal processing, computing, operations research, human factors, reliability and risk assessment, and systems integration—to solve systems engineering problems. The institute has produced enabling technologies for manufacturing processes, consumer products and very large-scale engineering systems such as hybrid communication networks, and made important contributions to basic research and education. ISR offers a full range of collaboration options for interested corporations.
MTECH accelerates new ventures, spurs economic growth, and brings university expertise to Maryland companies through technology entrepreneurship and research programs. Research programs are: the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (faculty research to enhance company competitiveness); Biotechnology Program (bioprocess scale-up, technical assistance, and training); Maryland Technology Extension Service (manufacturing solutions for Maryland companies); and A Scholars Program for Industry-Oriented Research in Engineering (undergraduate research projects).
Several institutes outside the Clark School jointly appoint our faculty and encourage cross-disciplinary research and education. Two such institutes are:
The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
The Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST)
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Above: A mobile robot, based on bat sonar,
that avoids collisions in complex environments.
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research Assistant Professor Timothy Horiuchi is developing robots that can hear. Helping pioneer a new field called "neuromorphic engineering," Horiuchi is part of a team that builds machines that mimic biological sensory processes and process information in a way that is similar to the brain. The neuromorphic approach seeks to create technology superior in size, speed and low power consumption.
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