The Department of Electrical Engineering

Consistently ranked in the top 10 percent nationally, the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University enjoys the tradition of an excellent reputation among electrical and computer engineering programs internationally. The department currently employs 49 faculty members, three who are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 20 who are Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) or other professional societies.

Our faculty members have achieved international recognition for their research in a number of key areas such as analog-digital integrated circuits design, communications, computer engineering, computer networks, computer vision, control, electromagnetics, electronic materials, high performance computing, optics, power engineering, robotics, signal processing, transportation, and wireless systems.

　
Center for Automotive Research

The OSU Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, CAR-IT , is an interdisciplinary university research center supported by the Transportation Research Endowment Program (TREP), and by industry and government grants and contracts. CAR-IT conducts fundamental and applied research in five major thrust areas: Electrical, Electronic and Electro-Mechanical Systems; Heavy Duty Vehicles; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Noise, Vibration and Dynamics; and Powertrain Systems.

The Center is located in a 35,000 sqft facility and offers advanced experimental facilities that include engine and vehicle dynamometers, vibrations, noise and acoustics laboratories (including a hemianechoic room containing a chassis dynamometer), an intelligent vehicle laboratory, engine fluid mechanics and combustion research facilities, and electric and hybrid-electric propulsion research facilities. In addition, CAR-IT has access to the full-service proving grounds of the Transportation Research Center, Inc. (http://www.trcpg.com/), located 45 miles northwest of the OSU campus. Approximately 15 faculty, 60 graduate students and 12 permanent staff are involved in the Center research and education programs.

Control and Intelligence Transportation Research

During the years 1994-99 CITR represented the "Control and Intelligent Transportation Research" of the Engineering College and was involved in establishing ITS-Ohio and participated in Demo'97 and Demo'99. In 1999 CITR was merged with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and the new CAR-IT was established.

Since 1999 CITR represents the "Control and Intelligent Transportation Research Lab" in the department of Electrical Engineering. CITR lab research areas are

Control Theory and Applications
Distributed Intelligence and Autonomy
ITS
Automotive Control
Simulation and Virtual Environments

The Center for Mapping

The Center for Mapping is both a NASA Commercial Space Center and an OSU interdisciplinary research center focused on spatial data technologies including remote sensing, geodesy using the Global Positioning System (GPS), inertial navigation systems (INS), photogrammetry, image processing, computer vision, image understanding, spatial cognition, modeling, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The Center performs basic research but focuses on applied research projects that yield commercially viable mapping and positioning technologies. One of our main goals is to make mapping faster, cheaper, more current, and more accurate than ever before.