INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2005</strong> - 4 -
INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2005</strong> From the Director of the Institute of Electronic Systems The Institute of Electronic Systems of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of WUT offers a wide range of opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students. It offers also its technical and intellectual resources for the industry. Our teaching and research activities respond to the needs of today’s electronics and computer engineering. The Institute offers courses , and opportunities for studying and research in: automatic measurement and test systems, microsystems, semiconductor and smart sensors, flow measurements, measurement and control systems for experiments in high-energy physics, neural networks and adaptive measurement systems, optoelectronic circuits for sensing and telecommunication, adaptive signal detection and estimation methods, modeling of radar disturbances, digital signal processing for radar systems, RF and microwave monolithic integrated circuits design and testing, design of software systems for VLSI integrated circuits, analogue and pulse electronic circuits and systems, microprocessor and digital systems, digital signal processing of biomedical signals, artificial intelligence methods, soft computing and fuzzy logic, photoacoustics. Our activities in these topics are hardware oriented and devoted to practical applications in medicine, radar, radio communication, distributed environment-monitoring systems, high energy physics experiments and others. The Institute has developed a network of modern teaching and research laboratories. It creates a strong basis for our staff to perform and fulfill research programs for the Polish industry and within the European research programs. The continuing programme of expansion and development of the Institute is driven by 10 professors (including 2 full professors), 3 associate professors and 38 assistant professors. 31 Ph.D. students sponsored and guided by the professors of the Institute, participate in research activities. In <strong>2005</strong> two of them obtained the Doctor degree (Ph.D.). Members of the Institute staff are devoted researchers. In <strong>2005</strong> they published 10 scientific and teaching books and book chapters, 111 journal papers and 72 papers in conference proceedings. Some of the professors are recognized worldwide as authorities and act as reviewers of papers submitted for publications in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, on Circuits and Systems, on Measurements and Instrumentation and other international journals and conferences. For their outstanding achievements in research and teaching, academics of the Institute have gained 13 Awards of the Rector of the WUT. New research laboratory devoted to development of electronic measurement and control systems for TESLA linear collider at the Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron – DESY, Hamburg, Germany is active in the Institute. These activities are performed under the long term FP6 European Project CARE “Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe”. Each year the Institute organizes the IEEE-SPIE Multi-Symposium on: Advanced Electronics and Photonics and on Digital Signal Processing and Radar Signal Processing in Wilga. This scientific event is devoted mainly for Ph.D. Students and young researchers. In <strong>2005</strong> over 200 participants presented their papers at the Symposium. - 5 -