Wireless Center of Excellence (WiCE)

Chang-wen Chen, Ph.D., Henry Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director

Ivica Kostanic, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical Director

WiCE is devoted to creating a new generation of wireless engineering professionals through education and research. Driven by its academic program, WiCE considers wireless to be any system or device that relies on electromagnetic-wave propagation to perform one or more of its functions. This context includes such diverse applications as radar, global positioning, location, sensing, etc., as well as the broader class of communications systems such as satellites, point-to-point/multi-point, WLAN and wireless WAN. In partnership with industry, WiCE offers the opportunity for faculty and both undergraduate and graduate students to engage in research and to study wireless concepts in a variety of courses. Research areas include propagation modeling, wireless systems engineering, personal communications systems, wireless sensors and multimedia communications, while also supporting simulation, fabrication and measurement of wireless communications and other systems and components.

Laboratory test equipment includes Grayson’s Spectrum Tracker, and spectrum and vector network analyzers, oscilloscopes, microwave amplifiers, oscillators and mixers, signal generators and associated active and passive RF devices. The lab performs experimental investigation using the anechoic chamber and screen room facilities. WiCE is supported by significant laboratory facilities as described under “Electrical Engineering” in the College of Engineering section of this catalog.