Overview
Overview
The faculty members in the Electrical Engineering department have a wide spectrum of research interests that spans diverse fields such as:
- Electronic Devices, Circuits, and Systems
- Transportation Electrification
- Energy and Power Engineering
- Robotics and Control
Electronic Devices, Circuits and Systems
The EE department carries out innovative fundamental and applied research in materials, devices, circuits, photonics, and system on chip semiconductor systems.
Our mission is to create knowledge and educate highly skilled engineers and entrepreneurs to encourage, promote and enable job creation in semiconductor related sectors and build a strategic national capacity in semiconductors and nanotechnology.
Our work encapsulates a wide range of research and development capabilities including: Nanotechnology, Design and Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, Metrology and Characterization, Lasers, Electrooptics, Semiconductor materials, Sensors, Microelectromechanical devices, to name a few.
People
Research
- System on Chip
- Microtechnology and Nanotechnology
- Lasers and Electrooptics
- Enhanced Materials Systems
- Integrated Circuit Technologies
- Wideband Gap Semiconductor Technology
- RF and mm-wave Chip Design
- Mixed signal
- Embedded Systems
- Energy harvesting and Power management
- Sensors and networks
- Microwave & millimeter wave devices & imaging systems
- Radar/RF instrumentation and measurements
- MRI & NMR systems
Transportation Electrification
Energy and Power Engineering
An efficient and reliable electric power network is vital to the success of any modern economy. Khalifa University carries out innovative fundamental and applied electrical power research. Our research seeks to appreciate how complexity and uncertainty can be accommodated, managed and even planned for, in the resilient power networks of the future.
Our work encapsulates a wide range of research and development capabilities including: Energy conversion, Energy Resources, Power Electronics, High Voltage Engineering, Smart and micro-grids, Distribution Systems, Power Quality, Renewable Energy, among others.
People
Research
- Distribution Network Planning and Management
- Power Electronics
- Smart Grids
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Storage Systems
- Integration of Renewable Resources
- Microgrid Architectures
- Energy Management Systems
- Power Conversion
- High Voltage Techniques
Robotics and Control
Robotics activities involve multidisciplinary aspects and the EE department provides a major contribution on Control, Sensor Signal Processing and Computation topics, to develop solutions and applications for Safety and Security, Robotic Manufacturing, and Healthcare sectors.
The EECS Faculty actively collaborate with several leading international robotics labs and local industrial partners.
People
Research
- Unmanned systems (aerial, ground and marine)
- Biorobotics (bioinspired and medical)
- Autonomous manipulation
- Machine learning
- Process Control Systems
- Automatic Control Theory
