OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego announced that its new Advanced Wireless Systems Research Center has opened the first of two labs to foster research, coursework, and experiential learning in next-generation wireless technology. The center’s new research training lab in the college’s Richard S. Shineman Center for Science, Engineering and Innovation is geared toward training students for […]
OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego announced that its new Advanced Wireless Systems Research Center has opened the first of two labs to foster research, coursework, and experiential learning in next-generation wireless technology.
The center’s new research training lab in the college’s Richard S. Shineman Center for Science, Engineering and Innovation is geared toward training students for jobs in environmental health and environmental medicine under terms of a NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant awarded last year to SUNY Oswego and three other Central New York SUNY colleges.
“The new laboratory provides our students the opportunity to work across academic disciplines to practice the problem-solving skills they are going to need in the real world, under supervision of our faculty and other experts who are coming up with solutions that will shape the health care of the future,” Deborah F. Stanley, president of SUNY Oswego, said in a news release.
Patanjali Parimi, who directs the Advanced Wireless Systems Research Center, said two new courses — “Computational Engineering” and “Computational Methods in Chemistry” — will launch in January; one is full and the other almost full. The center has two other courses in development for the fall of 2015.
“This interdisciplinary center of excellence in wireless science, engineering and technology brings together a wide range of technological fields in electrical and computer engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, medicine, health care and others,” Parimi said in the release.
The new wireless-research training laboratory has equipment including signal generators, signal analyzers, network and impedance analyzers, and computers running cutting-edge software packages.
Expert assistance
SUNY Oswego is inviting companies to fund research in the lab, and faculty at the college may take advantage of the equipment for their own projects, Parimi said. Students will benefit from opportunities to carry out projects, assist faculty members, and to study under the center’s research staff.
The university’s focus on wireless technology seeks to tie together curriculum and research to help serve industries around the globe whose collective applications of wireless total trillions of dollars, Parimi added.
While the new research training laboratory’s primary focus is curriculum development and research in environmental health and environmental medicine, it can also carry out new research in commercial and military communication and radar systems, antennas and phased arrays, automobile communication systems, and smart power grids, Parimi said. In health care alone, the center’s research interests include mobile health-care diagnostics, implantable devices, human-machine interface, non-invasive smart sensor systems, and computational methods in new drug design.
To extend the Advanced Wireless Research Systems Center’s research capabilities and its ability to collaborate with academic and industrial partners, the college said it is building a new communications and radars laboratory in Wilber Hall, slated to open next year.
That’s the next component in the university’s participation under the NYSUNY 2020 grant that totals $15 million and includes SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Onondaga Community College.