Contact (ECS)

Tel: 703-292-8339
Fax: 703-292-9147

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Vasundara Varadan
Division Director

About ECS

The Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) Division supports research and education to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components and to define and apply the principles of information-based systems for control, communications, and computation.

The study of micro- and nanoelectronics, photonics, and electromechanical devices and their integration into circuits and microsystems is a core discipline of Electrical Engineering. Modern computing and communications systems are based on these devices, and trends toward smaller devices raise new research challenges to fabricate nanoscale structures and understand quantum principles that dominate their behavior.

Research on the principles of analysis and design of systems is a second core area in Electrical Engineering, and the convergence of control, communications, and computation forms the basis for new research directions in intelligent engineering systems. Learning and self-adaptive systems, distributed systems and networks, hybrid discrete-continuous representation, high performance simulation and domain-specific computing, and biologically-based search and optimization algorithms are research topics of current interest.

The integration of device research and systems principles enables broad applications to telecommunications, power and energy, environment, transportation, biomedical, manufacturing and other areas. The ECS Division supports integrative research through the announcement of opportunities with themes that encourage innovative and collaborative systems-oriented research.

The division also provides support for specialized resources and infrastructure (link to R&I) that facilitate research and educational activities.

Research Programs

Research support is available through the following programs:

Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies (EPDT)
Control, Networks, and Computational Intelligence (CNCI)
Integrative Systems (IS)

Information on target dates for submission of proposals and special solicitations is provided under Announcements.

For More Information

For further information on ECS activities, write

Division of Electrical and Communications Systems
National Science Foundation, Room 675
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230

or contact the Division Director or Program Directors by email; or contact by telephone, (703) 292-8339, or by Fax (703) 292-9147.

For information on NSF programs and policies, refer to the NSF Home Page: http://www.nsf.gov/.

For information on programs and policies of the NSF Directorate of Engineering, refer to the ENG Home Page: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/.

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Last updated:
17-Dec-2003