Electrical & Computer Engineering Welcome

Welcome from CHAIR

Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern University and A & M College (Flagship Institution of the only HBCU System in the United States). The natural beauty of the SU campus grounds is manifested by the scenic environment of the land, decorated by the gleaming Mississippi River, Lake Kernan and natural ravines. The aesthetic of the flagship campus is also enriched and highlighted by the historical Scott's Bluff - overlooking the mighty Mississippi River and gigantic bridges.

Stimulated and energized by the former Governor Pinchback, our diligent ECE people in the PBS Pinchback Hall follow a legacy of striving for excellence. Traditionally Southern University is viewed as a Teaching-Focused University. The prominent “Scope and Sequence" model is well applied to plan the scope and depth of ECE curricula and course instruction, to ensure comprehensive and cohesive student understanding, as well as the logical progression of learning! A majority of our ECE professors have formerly gained the comprehensive teaching experience of instructing about 200 classes with zero assistance, covering up to 50 diverse undergraduate and graduate courses individually. Our distinctive ECE professor has also demonstrated high professionalism and broad competence via independently instructing 13 diverse graduate lecture courses with zero assistance on the beautiful SU campus!

Powered by the spirits of the Jaguar, ECE at Southern University has made exceptional achievement in the fields of engineering and science. Watching over ECE daily within our line of sight, the tallest state capitol building in the USA inspires this team to produce in-depth, high-quality research outcomes worthy of the most prestigious IEEE, ASME, SAE, and ASCE - widely recognized as the gold standards in engineering. Based on the existing academic records, we are proud to report to the global academic community that our selected research works are always well qualified to be officially and orally presented at the rank "A" top-tier international conferences (such as IEEE Congress, ASME Congress, SAE Congress) organized in any top country worldwide. Nurtured by the Mississippi River's fertile soil, inherent creativity is deeply rooted in the minds of our ECE people. At our picturesque home on the flagship campus, three distinguished professors have made substantial intellectual contributions (e. g. Sole Authorship) to multiple key top-tier engineering and science journals including IEEE Transactions, ASME Transactions, and SAE Transactions. We anticipate that more and more colleagues might be able to produce genuine top-tier research outcomes on behalf of Southern University (e. g. Nature, Science, IEEE Transactions, ASME Transactions, and SAE Transactions) in the near future. Meanwhile some ECE students have already been acknowledged as the first authors at the rank "A" IEEE International Conferences.

ECE is indeed strong in the engineering applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is convenient and straightforward to confirm the details on the world-renowned IEEE Xplore platform that almost all major schemes of AI have already been implemented or enhanced in our research works, such as Fuzzy Logic Systems (FLC), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Hybrid Fuzzy Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation (EC), Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Nonlinear Component Analysis (NCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Kernel Fuzzy C-Means Clustering (KFCM), Fuzzy Stochastic Control (FSC), as well as Nonlinear Least Squares Regression Machine Learning.

Finally I sincerely wish to send "Good Hope" to all our ECE faculty members, staffs, current & future students, alumni & alumna, as well as domestic & international academic friends. Let us collaborate to advance scientific discovery and to uplift human civilization!

Zhengmao Ye, Ph.D (IEEE, ASME, SAE), Professor & Interim Chair, Multidisciplinary Researcher & Educator