DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Few industries have changed faster than computer science and electrical engineering. Cloud technology, Internet security and mobile applications are a few of the advances that have revolutionized the workforce and global economy. The industry has expanded so rapidly that’s it’s impossible to predict how technology careers will change in four years, but one thing is certain: A degree from UMKC’s Computer Science Electrical Engineering Department will prepare you to adjust to your new role and help move society forward.
PROGRAMS
The Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering appears young because it was formally organized in 2003. But its roots are firmly entrenched in UMKC’s history.
This university has focused on 21st-century careers since the University of Kansas City offered its first general engineering degree in the 1950s. The program – and the university, now UMKC – has undergone revolutionary change since then. The university added an electrical engineering master’s program in 1964 to deepen its research and training. As technology grew, the university collaborated with the University of Missouri-Columbia to offer an undergraduate degree, which was accredited by ABET in 1978. A satellite campus at UMKC allowed students to earn their undergraduate and master’s degrees from MU but remain in Kansas City. The program was transferred to UMKC’s newly formed School of Computing and Engineering in 2001.
As demand for electrical engineering grew, so did programming. The first programming courses were offered in the early 1970s. The first computer science degree came in the late 1970s. It laid the groundwork for the Computer Science Telecommunication Program in 1984. The discipline then joined the Electrical Engineering program in the School of Computing and Engineering in 2001.
By 2003, Dean William Osborne organized the School of Computing and Engineering into departments, forming the Computer Science Electrical Engineering Department and the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department.
The mission of the Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering (CSEE) is to provide competitive educational opportunities and focused research in the disciplines supported in the department to generate the professional and technical workforce and research needed for economic development. To accomplish this mission, the department seeks to:
- Conduct research that advances knowledge in these disciplines and their applications.
- Educate and graduate students who are knowledgeable about these disciplines who become lifelong learners and leaders.
- Engage in service and outreach to enrich the community, state and profession.
Ghulam M. Chaudhry, Ph.D.
Thanks for your interest in the Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering at UMKC. We are at the center of the science and technologies that change human interaction. We create and collect data and information. Then we pioneer innovative ideas about how to connect, network, manipulate, disseminate and incorporate that data into our daily lives.
Class sizes are small, so students build relationships with faculty and staff. Our distinguished faculty members are on the front line of research in specialties such as computer security, wireless networking and nanotechnology. The work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the National Institutes of Health, industry and government organizations like the Department of Defense. If you’re ready to be a lifelong learner – a must in this rapidly growing field – schedule a visit today.
Sincerely,
Ghulam M. Chaudhry, Ph.D.
CSEE Professor and Department Chair
David Roller
VP, Chief Information Officer
Commerce Bank
Brian Faros
VP, Chief Information Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Zdenka Guadarrama, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department Chair
Rockhurst University
Jay Indurkar
Senior Project Manager
Sprint
Pradeep Natarajan
Manager, Informix Engineering, Tech Support
IBM
K.K. Kailasam
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer
Cerner Corp.
Praveen Rao, Ph.D., Chair
Associate Professor
UMKC School of Computing and Engineering
Barton Stanley
Andrew Blairs
Wesley Stueve
Walt Rolston
Vice President, Aviation Product Engineering
Garmin International
Soundrapandian Sankar
Engineer
Black & Veatch
Richard D. Swanson
Chris Ruckman, P.E.
Lead Electrical Engineer, Electrical & Controls Department Manager
Burns & McDonnell
Cory Beard, Ph.D., Chair, ECE Advisory Board
Associate Professor
UMKC School of Computing and Engineering
Jim Breed
Director, Engineering and Computer Science Program
Rockhurst University
Edward Downey
President
Capital Electric Construction Co., Inc.
Katie Gunn Foster
Kiewit
Casey Hicks
Power Delivery Regional General Manager
Black & Veatch
Jim Lammers
President
Trinity Animation
Matt Mohler
Electrical Engineer II
Honeywell FM&T
Ariel Muthyala
Electrical Engineer
Honeywell FM&T
Greg Nohalty
Dir. RF Engineering
Sprint
Jeremy Paben
VP of Engineering
EyeVerify
Gary Short, P.E.
President
Sys-tek Companies
Bill Sparks
Sr. Electrical Engineer
Honeywell
Cindi Talbert-Tapp
Director of Lide Engagement
Oxford Grand at Shoal Creek
Bill Thomas
Lead Electrical
Ian Wolstenholme
Electrical Engineer, Substation Group
Burns & McDonnell
Kristen Yardley
Systems Engineer, Project Manager
Engenious Design
Mohammad Kuhail, Ph.D., Chair
Assistant Teaching Professor
UMKC School of Computing and Engineering
Ken Halford
Team Lead, Quality Assurance
PeopleAdmin
Salil Talauliker
CTO/Founder
CreativeCapsule
Andrew James Goodenow
Associate CIO, Information Access
UMKC
Gerald Rogers
Senior Software Engineer
Intel
Mihwa Cha
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Crossinnovations
Nathan Brown
Angelia Ewing
Sr. Director Financial Systems
Cerner Corp.
Joel Sherwood
IT Architect
Hallmark Cards Inc.
Andy Frank
Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank
FACULTY
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Directory
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Cory Beard, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor |
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Deb Chatterjee, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor |
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Dianxiang Xu |
Professor |
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Ghulam Chaudhry, Ph.D. |
Executive Engineer and CSEE Department Chair |
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Glenn Kelley McCabe |
Recruitment Coordinator |
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Ken Mitchell, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor |
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Kendall Bingham |
Instructor |
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Kevin Kirkpatrick |
Associate Teaching Professor |
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Lein Harn, Ph.D. |
Professor |
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Mahbube Khoda Siddiki, Ph.D. |
Instructor |
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Masud Chowdhury, Ph.D. |
Professor |
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May Zein El Din |
Instructor |
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Cory Beard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, 1999
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1992
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1990
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Reliability, quality of service and performability for service-oriented architectures
- Scheduling and service prioritization for wireless systems
- Sensor networks for home energy savings
- Pre-emptive and queuing policies for emergency traffic in wireless cellular networks
- MAC layer quality of service and emergency traffic prioritization in ad-hoc networks
Deb Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, 1998
- M.A.Sc., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University, 1992
- M.Tech., Electronics and Electrical Communication Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, 1984
- B.Eng. Electronics & Telecommunications, Jadavpur University, 1982
Research Focus/Expertise
- Computational electromagnetics
- Ultrawideband arrays for application to radar and biomedical imaging
- RF propagation path loss modeling for wireless communications
- Signal integrity, EMI/EMC analysis of high-speed interconnects
- Integration of sensor and platform — antenna placement analysis
- Applications of graphene and carbon nanotube antennas
Ghulam Chaudhry, Ph.D.
Executive Engineer and CSEE Department Chair
Degrees
- Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, 1989
- M.S., Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, 1986
- M.Sc., Electronics/Physics, Zakariya University, 1978
Courses Taught
- Logic Design
- Computer Design
- Computer Arch. & Interfacing
- Embedded Systems
- VLSI Design
- HDL Based Digital Design
- Computer Arithmetic
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Embedded system design
- Computer architecture and design
- Digital system design
- HDL-based design
- Computer arithmetic
- FPGA and VLSI design
Ken Mitchell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1997
- M.S., Computer Science, University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1994
- M.M., Music Performance, Indiana University, 1980
- B.M., Music Performance, Indiana University, 1979
- Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna, 1977-78
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Network performance modeling and analysis
- Capacity planning for service-oriented architectures
- Scheduling in wireless networks
- Dynamic processes in complex networks
Kendall Bingham
Instructor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, 1999
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1992
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1990
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Reliability, quality of service and performability for service-oriented architectures
- Scheduling and service prioritization for wireless systems
- Sensor networks for home energy savings
- Pre-emptive and queuing policies for emergency traffic in wireless cellular networks
- MAC layer quality of service and emergency traffic prioritization in ad-hoc networks
Kevin Kirkpatrick
Associate Teaching Professor
Degrees
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1989
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1981
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Automatic control systems
- Electric power systems
Lein Harn, Ph.D.
Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1984
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1977
Research Focus/Expertise:
- Network security
- Cryptography
Mahbube Khoda Siddiki, Ph.D.
Instructor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University, 2012
- M.S., Material Science, Paul Sabatier University, 2008
- M.S., Engineering in Energy Technology, Asian Institute of Technology
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus/Expertise:
- High efficiency single and multi-junction solar cells
- Desgn, performance and economic analysis of photovoltaic systems
- Renewable energy resources and technologies
- Nanotechnology in energy conversion and storage
- Modeling and simulation of energy and dynamic systems
Masud Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 2004
- B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1999
Research Focus/Expertise:
- High-performance issues of VLSI circuits
- Emerging post-silicon device and interconnect technologies for the next generation integrated circuits
- Optically reconfigurable VLSI circuits
- Carbon Nanotube (CNT) and graphene-based logic and memory designs
- CNT and graphene-based energy generation and storage devices
