The Integrated Systems Center has organized a day of presentations and discussion about the future of Electrical Engineering as a discipline and profession with a group of world-renowned leaders and innovators. Much of the future of this discipline depends on how we become aware of the current challenges and opportunities and react to them.

This meeting is organized as a forum, with ample time for the audience to interact and ask questions. The forum is of interest to professors, research and teaching staff and graduate students in EE and neighbor disciplines, such as microtechniques, computer science and communication systems.

The forum will take place in the EPFL Polydôme. Please click here to download the campus map with the Polydôme marked. The day's schedule is given in the table below. You can find the abstracts by clicking on the titles. Download Forum Flyer (1.2 MB pdf).

The forum is open to everyone, but for planning reasons please send an e-mail to anil.leblebici@epfl.ch to confirm your participation.

Program:
10:00	Electrical Engineering at a Crossroad: Challenges and opportunities Giovanni De Micheli Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
10:45	The “Meaning” of Electrical Engineering Jan M. Rabaey University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
11:30	A SWOT Analysis of Electrical Engineering Heinrich Meyr RWTH Aachen University of Technology, Germany
12:30-14:00	L U N C H   B R E A K
14:00	Electrical Engineering: Where the Physical World meets the Virtual World Mark Horowitz Stanford University, California, USA
14:45	Ambient SoC Initiative Satoshi Goto Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
15:30	Towards Electrical Engineering - Again Lothar Thiele Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
16:15-17:00	DISCUSSION

 

Note: Presentation videos are available: Follow the links given through the presentation TITLES in the table above. In the new page, click the links on bottom of page to download.