Princeton Summer Institute

Summer Research for Undergraduates

• 2000 Projects
• 1999 Projects
• 1998 Projects
• 1997 Projects
• 1996 Projects

The 2001 Program

The Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University will be holding the Princeton Summer Institute from June 11, 2001 through August 10, 2001. The program, which is in its 5th year is funded by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant, is designed to give undergraduates an opportunity to work with members of the EE faculty and their research groups on advanced research topics, while also participating in several optional, interdisciplinary, hands-on short courses.

Program Structure

The program is designed to give both an in-depth research experience on a particular topic, as well as a broad hands-on exposure to a range of areas within EE. Areas of research will coincide with faculty interests within the department. See the Research Areas page. A partial list of research topics includes:

• Nanotechnology and its applications in electrical, optical, magnetic, and bio devices
• Dynamically-reconfigurable computer architectures
• VLSI & Semiconductor fabrication
• Medical applications of lasers
• Image processing for compression and transmission
• Multimedia networks
• Heterostructure semiconductor devices and materials
• Optical networking
• Configurable Computing
• Video Signal Processing architectures
• Parallel computer architectures and applications
• And many more!

Some of the work may also be associated with the Princeton Materials Institute and the Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials -- two interdisciplinary research centers at Princeton linking EE with physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and geology.

Friday afternoons will typically be devoted to a series of interdisciplinary talks on topics such as:

• Microchip Fabrication
• Multimedia
• Flat Panel Display
• Parallel programming
• Optical Communications
• Computer-Aided Design
• Heterostruture Physics