A cluster of high-performance Linux servers (each with 32 cores) supports research and courses in parallel and cloud computing. Students gain hands-on programming experience solving computationally intensive problems using various programming paradigms such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), POSIX Thread (Pthread), OpenMP and Hadoop.
Electrical and computer engineering students gain practical experience in the use of basic hardware components, Verilog hardware description language and state-of-the-art field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Through experiments, students become familiar with gates, multiplexers, decoders, flip-flops, counters, registers and displays. Computer engineering students also design and implement more advanced and practical digital systems using the same software and hardware.
Students study, design and build the interaction between the physical world and (embedded) processors via sensors, keypads, LCDs, motors, communication devices, amplifiers, A/D and D/A converters, and more. Students receive hands-on experience working with various lab projects, a compact implementation of hardware and software functions with a micro-controller so as to meet the specifications for a specific application.
