Summary of Engineering Research

COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY

W. K. JENKINS, Director
202 Computer and Systems Research Laboratory, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana, IL 61801 · 217-333-2510

The Coordinated Science Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research unit in the College of Engineering established in 1951. Major emphasis is on programs providing graduate thesis research in the areas of electronics, electronic materials, control, communication and computing systems, signal processing, and VLSI circuits. Faculty members hold joint appointments in a wide range of departments including Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, General Engineering, Library and Information Science, and Materials Science and Engineering. CSL laboratories and centers support more than 425 research and administrative staff in interdisciplinary research efforts that often would be unavailable to individual faculty members operating solely within their respective departments. Within CSL there are several more formalized organizations: the Decision and Control Laboratory, the Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, and the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development. CSL maintains unique facilities in materials processing including photochemical etching, electron-beam welding, inert gas brazing, chemical plating, computer-aided design, electronic circuit characterization, molecular beam epitaxy, and glass-blowing. A cooperative facility, called the EpiCenter, is operated in the Engineering Sciences Building by the Materials Research Laboratory, the Microelectronics Laboratory, and CSL for the molecular beam epitaxial growth of new semiconductor materials. The single largest research program in CSL is the Joint Services Electronics Program, which supports a broad program of electronics. Two large, block-funded programs in CSL are the NASA Illinois Computing Laboratory Aerospace Systems Software project and the Semiconductor Research Corporation program, which supports research in silicon integrated circuits. The remaining support comes from a vast assortment of government agencies, industrial sponsors, and private gifts. Many faculty members in CSL participate in interdisciplinary research programs in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Microelectronics Laboratory, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. CSL has a nationally recognized research and teaching reputation for excellence as exemplified by its faculty awards and honors, including numerous fellows named by national societies, several winners of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, as well as outstanding teaching awards by the UIUC campus.

Faculty associated with CSL are listed below. Research projects conducted in the College of Engineering are described in the respective departmental sections.

Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering



Department of Computer Science



Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department of General Engineering



Department of Library and Information Science



Department of Materials Science and Engineering



Department of Mathematics