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Electrical engineering at the University dates back to 1906, when the field of electrical engineering was just emerging. In our early years, we helped bring new technology such as light bulbs and telegraphs to the people of Nevada. Throughout the department's long history, we've worked hard to keep doing just that.
Electrical engineering has gone from a field focused on electricity to a diverse profession that deals with electronics, communications, control, instrumentation design, image and signal processing, and power systems in a wide range of applications, from homes to hospitals. In 2006, as part of a developing interest in biomedical applications, the department added biomedical engineering to our name and our areas of focus. Since then, our innovative researchers have worked on developing engineering solutions to medical challenges.
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Stiffness of the microenvironment upregulates ERBB2 expression in 3D cultures of MCF10A within the range of mammographic density
(2016)The effects of the stiffness of the microenvironment on the molecular response of 3D colony organization, at the maximum level of mammographic density (MD), are investigated. Phenotypic profiling reveals that 3D colony ... -
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Quality control of subgrade soil using intelligent compaction
(2016)Intelligent Compaction (IC) of subgrade soil has been proposed to continuously monitor the stiffness of subgrade during its compaction. Modern IC rollers are vibratory compactors equipped with (1) an onboard measuring ... -
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Super-resolution measurement of distance between transcription sites using RNA FISH with intronic probes
(2016)Nascent transcripts being copied from specific human genes can be detected using RNA FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) with intronic probes, and the distance between two different nascent transcripts is often ... -
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Binding of nuclear factor kappa B to noncanonical consensus sites reveals its multimodal role during the early inflammatory response
(2016)Mammalian cells have developed intricate mechanisms to interpret, integrate, and respond to extracellular stimuli. For example, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) rapidly activates proinflammatory genes, but our understanding of ... -
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Preparation of photoluminescence tunable Cu-doped AgInS2 and AgInS2/ZnS nanocrystals and their application as cellular imaging probes
(2016)In this work, high-quality Cu doped AIS and AIS/ZnS NCs have been first synthesized via a surface doping approach. By varying the Cu doping concentrations, Cu doped AIS NCs exhibit a photoluminescence red-shift from around ... -
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BioSig3D: High Content Screening of Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Models
(2016)BioSig3D is a computational platform for high-content screening of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models that are imaged in full 3D volume. It provides an end-to-end solution for designing high content screening assays, ... -
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On-Chip Sensing of Thermoelectric Thin Film's Merit
(Sensors, 2015)Thermoelectric thin films have been widely explored for thermal-to-electrical energy conversion or solid-state cooling, because they can remove heat from integrated circuit (IC) chips or micro-electromechanical systems ... -
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Functionalized Buckyballs for Visualizing Microbial Species in Different States and Environments
(Scientific Reports, 2015)To date, in situ visualization of microbial density has remained an open problem. Here, functionalized buckyballs (e.g., C60-pyrrolidine tris acid) are shown to be a versatile platform that allows internalization within a ... -
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Nanosecond electric pulses differentially affect inward and outward currents in patch clamped adrenal chromaffin cells
(2017)This study examined the effect of 5 ns electric pulses on macroscopic ionic currents in whole-cell voltage-clamped adrenal chromaffin cells. Current-voltage (I-V) relationships first established that the early peak inward ... -
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Buckyballs conjugated with nucleic acid sequences identifies microorganisms in live cell assays
(2017)Rapid identification of bacteria can play an important role at the point of care, evaluating the health of the ecosystem, and discovering spatiotemporal distributions of a bacterial community. We introduce a method for ... -
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Estimation of water content in a power transformer using moisture dynamic measurement of its oil
(2017)Careful monitoring of high voltage equipments and diagnosing the critical conditions before they lead to a disaster are prerequisites of condition-based maintenance. Moisture content in a transformer is regarded as one of ... -
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Power Spectra of Ionospheric Scintillations
(2017)Second order statistical moments of the phase fluctuations are obtained taking into account the boundary condition, diffraction effects and polarization coefficients of the ordinary and extraordinary waves. The variance ... -
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Test bed for applications of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles
(2017)This article addresses the development and implementation of a test bed for applications of heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems. The test bed consists of unmanned aerial vehicles (Parrot AR. Drones versions 1 or 2, ... -
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Statistical Moments and Scintillation Level of Scattered Electromagnetic Waves in the Magnetized plasma
(2018)Statistical characteristics of scattered ordinary and extraordinary electromagnetic waves in the magnetized plasma are considered using the smooth perturbation method. Diffraction effects and polarization coefficients are ... -
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High-Dimensional Phenotyping Identifies Age-Emergent Cells in Human Mammary Epithelia
(2018)Aging is associated with tissue-level changes in cellular composition that are correlated with increased susceptibility to disease. Aging human mammary tissue shows skewed progenitor cell potency, resulting in diminished ... -
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Fusion of encoder-decoder deep networks improves delineation of multiple nuclear phenotypes
(2018)Nuclear segmentation is an important step for profiling aberrant regions of histology sections. If nuclear segmentation can be resolved, then new biomarkers of nuclear phenotypes and their organization can be predicted for ... -
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An Overview of Direct Current Distribution System Architectures & Benefits
(2018)This paper examines existing and future direct current (DC) distribution systems with a wide range of applications in data centers, telecommunication systems, commercial buildings, residential homes, electric vehicles, ... -
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Using a hybrid neuron in physiologically inspired models of the basal ganglia
(2013)Our current understanding of the basal ganglia has facilitated the creation of computational models that have contributed novel theories, explored new functional anatomy and demonstrated results complementing physiological ... -
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Efficiently Passing Messages in Distributed Spiking Neural Network Simulation
(2013)Efficiently passing spiking messages in a neural model is an important aspect of high-performance simulation. As the scale of networks has increased so has the size of the computing systems required to simulate them. In ... -
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Detection of Mechanical Abnormalities in Induction Motors by Electric Measurements
(1999)The paper gives an overview of the issues and means of detection of mechanical abnormalities in induction motors by electric measurements. If undetected and untreated, the worn or damaged bearings, rotor imbalance and ...
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