On behalf of the SenSIP faculty and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering (IAFSE) administration, we welcome you to the Sensor Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Center. SenSIP originated as an IAFSE research cluster with signal processing and communications faculty from the Department of Electrical Engineering in 2004. IAFSE cluster funding supported activities across disciplines with faculty seeking a common research and education agenda in sensor theory and applications. New contracts and grant opportunities brought new membership to SenSIP from the Biodesign Institute and the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Sponsored collaborative programs in defense, industry and education brought together researchers and visitors from other universities including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, University of Melbourne, University of New Mexico, Prairie View A&M, Princeton University, Purdue University, University of Washington in St. Louis and several other leading institutions.

SenSIP launched an industry consortium with focus areas in digital signal processing (DSP), wireless communications, sensor systems, information networks, and applications in multimodal sensing, real time systems, and sensor networks. The industry consortium is directed by A. Spanias and has four paying members, namely, Acoustic Technologies, National Instruments, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon Missile Systems. We invite SenSIP consortium membership from local and national industry with benefits that include:

• results from student research projects,

• privileged access to state-of-the-art research through SenSIP reports, journal and conference preprints,

• faculty consulting,

• continuing education,

• technical seminars with distinguished speakers,

• doctoral and master student portfolios,

• software and hardware tools, and

• member passwords to restricted SenSIP research and education content.

SenSIP also launched a biannual workshop with plenary talks and archived publications. The first SenSIP workshop was organized and chaired by A. Papandreou-Suppappola in Sedona (May 2008). This successful workshop featured several plenary speakers from NSF, AFOSR, National Instruments, and other well known federal, university and industrial labs. We look forward to a strong industry-university research and education partnership.
 

Andreas Spanias and Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola,
SenSIP Center Co-Directors