Integrated Vehicle Health Management
Vehicles that diagnose their own health, recognizing minor component failures and conditions that are likely to result in future component failures.

Performance-Based EMC Design
Making EMC design decisions based on actual requirements. Determining exactly what is required to comply with a given set of EMC specifications.

Safe and Reliable Automotive Electronics
The development of new design and test practices for automotive electronics is critical to ensuring the safety of the vehicle occupants.

Using Unintentional Emissions to Anticipate MOSFET and IGBT Failures
Passive detection of MOSFET and IGBT degradation before it can result in a catastrophic system failure.

Characterization of EMC Shielding Materials
Better methods for evaluating composite shielding materials.

Failure-Mode Models for MLCC and Tantalum Capacitors
Evaluating the gradual deterioration of MLCC and tantalum capacitors that can occur due to exposure to medium-to-high voltage transients; and developing models that represent the electrical behavior of these components.

First-Pass Compliance with Automotive EMC Requirements
A design procedure for ensuring that components and systems comply with all automotive EMC requirements.

Efficient, Low-Noise Power Inverters
Methods for reducing the electrical noise and improving the efficiency of DC-DC power converters and motor drivers for AC and brushless-DC motors.

Component-Level Characterization for System-Level EMC Simulations
Techniques for measuring the EM characteristics of components and using this data to model complex systems.

Improved Circuit Board Filters Employing SMT Capacitors
Improving the bandwidth of filters made with SMT capacitors using a flux-canceling technique.

Improved Tire Pressure Monitoring
Developing a better way to transmit and receive RF signals in cars and trucks to conserve power and improve communication.

Eliminating EMI Caused by Circuit Board/Chassis Resonances
Developing a simple method for determining the optimum value of ground post resistance in different situations and experimentally validating its effectiveness.

Wireless Sensors for Intelligent Transportation
Ad hoc wireless sensor networks to improve road safety and minimize the effects of abrupt changes in traffic conditions.

EM Modeling Using SPICE Circuit Solvers
Combining Finite Element electromagnetic analysis techniques with SPICE circuit solvers to perform fast and accurate electromagnetic simulations.

Driver Arousal Monitor
Systems to monitor the physiological condition of people interacting with automobiles and other types of computing systems.

Automated Vehicle Detection and Tracking
Automated techniques to detect and track vehicles on highways and roads for safety, planning, and security applications.

Data Transmission from Rotating Structures
Data transmission to and from wireless sensors mounted on rapidly rotating equipment.

Survey of Computational Electromagnetic Modeling Techniques
The current state of the art in computational electromagnetic (CEM) modeling and software.

Evaluating ICs as Sources of Radiated Emissions
Characterizing integrated circuits in a manner that quantifies their ability to generate radiated electromagnetic emissions.

Electronic Device Detection
Automatically detect and identify electronic devices based on their unintentional electromagnetic emissions.

Field Patterns from Antennas in Tires
Radiated field patterns from RFID antennas embedded in tire walls.

VLSI Design for Reduced EMI
Reducing the unintentional emissions from complex semi-conductor devices such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, and large field-programmable gate arrays.

AM Radio Interference in a Tractor
Analyzing the coupling paths that allow electronic noise to be heard in AM radio systems installed in high-tech tractors.

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Through Tires
An undergraduate student investigated the merits of locating the antennas for vehicle-to-vehicle communications in tires.

EMAP FEM-MOM Modeling Software
A 3D full-wave hybrid finite-element/moment-method modeling code.

Low Inductance Capacitors
The best high frequency capacitor designs generally employ a package that minimizes the connection inductance for a given application.

Efficient Capacitor Charging
Techniques for charging ultracapacitors that could greatly improve the efficiency of automotive systems that rely on ultracapacitors for energy storage.

Automotive EMC Expert System
Expert system algorithms to diagnose and solve electromagnetic compatibility problems with automotive designs before the first prototypes are built.

EMC Expert System for Printed Circuit Board Layout
Identify electromagnetic compatibility problems with a circuit board design before it is built.

Maximum Radiated Emissions Calculator
Identify electromagnetic compatibility problems with a circuit board design before it is built.