Research
Dr. Engel’s primary research interests are in the area of integrated
circuit design. He has worked on a wide
variety of projects. These include fluid
level monitoring, remote monitoring of mice, digital hearing
aids, and portable medical devices .
This work is carried out in the VLSI Design
Research Laboratory (Engineering Building, Room 3036). The lab is well equipped with five
workstations, a large flatbed HP plotter, and a wide variety of test equipment
including a modest setup for probing
micro-chips. Cadence EDA tools are used extensively in all
of Dr. Engel’s research.
Dr. Engel has four active research projects:
Development
of a Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) IC
Development
of an Improved ASIC for use with Si Strip Detectors (HINP)
Development
of Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS)
Design Strategies
Development
of ASIC for a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) (NEW PROJECT!).
The GALS project was so successful that it has spawned a
This project was highlighted in the SIUE 2010 Tech Expo.
Dr. Engel works closely with the Nuclear Reactions Group
at Washington University and is also a member of the engineering school’s robotics research group.
Dr. Engel and his graduate students have designed several integrated
circuits have been successfully fabricated through MOSIS.
Dr. Engel works with many students on master’s projects. Many of these projects deal with the
development of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate arrays.
Dr. Engel and his graduate students will present a poster at the SORMA 2010 conference (