The Future of Electrical Engineering

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.