University of Mississippi

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University of Mississippi

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History

• Founded in 1848 as the first state university in Mississippi.

• Engineering was taught in 1848, one of the first in the nation.

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• School of Engineering was established in 1900, as the first Engineering School in Mississippi



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Celebrating 110th Anniversary: Manufacturing Leaders Since 1900



School of Engineering

• Enrollment: over 1,000 students• 50 tenure track faculty in 6

academic departments• Annual Research Expenditure: $10-

12M/yr

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Six Academic Departments

• Geology and Geological Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

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• Chemical Engineering• Civil Engineering• Computer and Information Science• Electrical Engineering



Engineering Research Centers

• National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering

• Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute• Center for Advanced Infrastructure

Technology• Center for Wireless Communication • Center for Applied Electromagnetic

Systems • Center for Community Earthquake

Preparedness • Institute for Advanced Education in

Geospatial Sciences6



Other Related Centers

• National Center for Physical Acoustics• Center for Manufacturing Excellence • Center for Mathematics and Science

Education • National Institute for Undersea Science

and Technology

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Researh Capabilities

• EE has one of the strongest group in the nation for small antenna and radar power research.

• CE & ME conduct forefront research in nanomaterials, for blast, impact, infrastructure protection applications.

• ChE works on renewable energy and CO2 sequestration

• GGE has a strong focus on Geospatial Information Science and Technology

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National Center for Physical Acoustics

78,000 sq. feet of office/lab space47 FT employees, 30 students (graduate and undergraduate)Faculty and students w/ appointments in Physics and EngineeringAnnual research funding ~ $8-10 M Notable Facilities:•Anechoic chamber•Jet anechoic test facility•Mach 5 Tri-sonic Wind Tunnel•Fully computerized in-house • machine shop•Card-coded secure laboratories POC Pat Brown: [email protected]

662-915-5840



Atmospheric AcousticsSonic boom propagation, traffic noise and military noise impact.

Porous MediaDam and levee monitoring, personnel detection and standoff detection of explosives.

InfrasoundPropagation of low frequency sound outdoors and the development of specialized hardware to monitor this sound.

Aero-AcousticsJet noise, combustion and acoustic induced vibration

Material Sciences Composite materials and high temperature superconductors.

National Center for Physical AcousticsResearch Fields



UM Geoinformatics Center (UMGC)NASA (S6.02)

UMGC:– Founded in 2000– GIS&T applications

research• Greg Easson (

[email protected])

Evolutionary Computing (EC):• EC to extract features from

imagery• Multi-stage training to

recognize feature• Rapid run time after training

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Genetic programming

Original image

Training data

UnsupervisedClusteringAlgorithms

FitnessEvaluation

Evolutionary Framework

Parameters

Non-linearSolutions

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Multi-layered data Preprocessed Image Feature Extracted

Cluster

Top View

3D View



Contact Information

Alex Cheng, Dean of Engineering, [email protected]

Atef Elsherbeni, Associate Dean for Research, [email protected]

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12” X 12” Mach 5 Wind Tunnel

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