Electronic Engineering is many things

Dr. Anil Kokaram, EEE Department

www.mee.tcd.ie/~sigmedia

• Engineering: solving problems, creative, vital

• Electronic Engineering is not the same as it used to be:
Technology convergence
• This part of 1e8 gives some example of diversity : film and
video processing
• Electronics is not just one career!

Books

• Two Dimensional Signal and Image

Processing, J. Lim, Prentice Hall
• Introduction to Image Processing, Gonzalez
and Wintz, Prentice Hall
• Image Processing, The Fundamentals,
Maria Petrou, Wiley

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 Diversity :

How come an
EEngineer can
win an Oscar?
To Dr. Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, Ben Kent and Dr. Anil Kokaram for
the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools
that robustly utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion
picture sequences.
The Furnace toolset's modularity, flexibility and robustness have set a high
standard of quality for optical flow-based image manipulation.

Convergence of Technologies

Telecomms Computer Computing

Interconnect

Intelligence
Games BANKING
MEDICAL
SYSTEMS
Consumer
Video
TV Electronics

1985
Movies and cinema

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 Convergence of Technologies
email
Telecomms Computing

multimedia
video CD-I

MEDICINE conferencing
CINEMA
Video

Consumer Electronics
1995

Convergence of Technologies

Information Technology
EEE at the heart

2000 Information: music, voice, video, text, temperature,

Pressure, speed, size, colour ….

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 Electronics
changing the world
• Electronics : a disruptive Medical Electronics:
technology Ultrasound, NMR, Xrays,
• Changes the way you live Keyhole Surgery, Digital
• Promoting Equality, Impact on Records, Gene Sequencing
.mp3
Standard of Living, On use of
.avi FScreen TV
leisure time
2000

Personal VR
2000
Telephone and Mobile
VCR Tape DVD
1982 1999

Cd Audio
1985 1878 1995

What the EEE Department at

TCD does
• Hardware design (=design of chips) for hearing aids,
biomedical systems : heart monitors
• Device Physics: Liquid Crystal Displays for flat screen
viewing, smaller devices for faster more powerful
computers
• Information Engineering: Movie Special Effects, Image
processing for Medical Images, Video for mobile phones,
Technological Art, Music Technology, Reconfigurable
Radio (free mobile phones !!!)

www.mee.tcd.ie www.sigmedia.tv

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You may be interested in one of…

• Can I get a job when I graduate?

• What kind of job would that be?
• What’s the salary like?
• What happens in the lecture courses?
• What will I learn?

So …
• Jobs McLaren

The movies
Electronics

Investment Banking www.thefoundry.co.uk

Medicine

Sony, BBC
TV

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 Final Year Projects …

Its still changing …..

Fabric as
Electronic interconnect
for Smart Garments

Cinema and Games

The Ecology
Helping Nanoscience
Global Warming
Term
Trinity

Term
Trinity
Term
Michealmas

Term
Trinity

Term
Michealmas
Term
Hilary

Term
Michealmas

Semester 1

Semester II

Term
Hilary
Term
Hilary

4E1 Management for

1E1 Engineering Mathematics I 2E1 Engineering Mathematics III 3E1 Engineering Mathematics V Engineers

3E2 Engineering Mathematics VI 4E2 Engineering Project

1E2 Engineering Mathematics II 2E2 Engineering Mathematics IV

3E3 Management for Engineers

1E3 Computer Science I 2E3 Computer Science I 4C2 4C7
MicroCct Micro
1 Cct 2
2E4 Solids and Structures
3C1 Signals 3C3
1E4 Physics and Systems Elec. Eng II
4C5 DSP 4C3
2E5 Thermo-Fluids 1 Dig.
Control
3C2 3C4
2E6 Electronics Electronic Electromag
1E5 Chemistry Engineerjng I Optoelec.

2E8 2E7 4C6 4C11

Materials Eng.Sci Micro Opto
3D1 Micro 3C5 Tech Elec
1E6 Engineering Science Systems 1 Telecomms

2E9 Introduction to Engineering

1E7 Graphics & CAE 3C6 Electronics Project 4C4 4C10

Tele Digital
2E10 Engineering Laboratories comms Comms

1E8 Introduction to Engineering French/German for App. Sci. French/German for App. Sci.
(optional) (optional)

1st Year (JF) 2nd Year (SF) 3rd Year (JS) Final Year (SS)

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 Career Paths: Academic
EE UGRAD 3 years

4 years 5 years
EE PhD Research Fellow

1998
Lecturer

Professor
www.sigmedia.tv

Academic EE path : what they don’t

tell you

• Teaching AND Research AND Consulting : CCL,

Benz etc etc
• Funded Research : EU Projects, SFI (Sigmedia
over 2M Euros over last 6 years)
• Funded travel
– San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Palm Springs
CA, LA, Greece, Paris, La Rochelle, Porto, Lisbon,
Barcelona, Copenhagen, Singapore, Trinidad
• Sigmedia PhD students travelled to San Diego,
Trinidad, Poland, London this year alone.
• Start your own company

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 Do EE and win an Oscar
• 1996-1999? Bill Collis
at The Foundry
• … and the Matrix

Bill Collis Career

EE UGRAD 3 years

4 years 5 years
EE PhD Snell and Wilcox
2000
THE FOUNDRY
Researcher
www.thefoundry.co.uk

Chief Operating
Officer
The Foundry bought by Digital Domain 2007

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EE versatile, broad, job security
through adaptation