De La Salle University - Manila

Electronics and Communications Engineering

The Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering is the largest department in the College of Engineering at De La Salle University. Currently, the department has nineteen academic personnel, one non-academic personnel, and six support personnel providing technical, professional and administrative services. Different laboratories have been established for each area of specialization. A number of specialized modern research equipment were acquired from the Department of Science and Technology through Engineering and Science Education Program. The equipment are used by the personnel and students for research and development.

The Research Center of the Department will also provide consultancy services to industry, it also conduct industrially relevant researches. During the starting phase, the Center will identify research areas which have elements of research, service, and development. The results form the research in an identified area should be available as a service to out local industry. Aside from undertaking collaborative research projects with industry, the Research Center of the ECE department also aims to train industry-oriented researchers and engineers through seminars or short course training.

Mission Statement

The Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering envisions the ECE graduate as a competent and ethical professional in the areas of electronics, communications, and digital signal processing. The electronics and communications engineer uses a creative and systematic approach to the design, implementation, and management of various devices and systems of semiconductors, electronic instrumentation and control, and telecommunications, relying on knowledge and skills from the mathematical, physical, and social sciences.

Moreover, the student develops an adequate knowledge of the engineering creative process, thus, developing an understanding of the interaction of electronic devices and systems with each other and the environment they operate in.

Furthermore, the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, being part of the De La Salle University System, aims to teach the students minds the necessary research skills whose products will satisfy the needs of the a growing economy; and touch the hearts of its students instilling in them the socially responsible practice of the profession. And in effect, achieving the goal of becoming Christian Achievers for God and Country.

Research

The ECE department currently has three major research areas: electronics, communications, and digital signal processing. Presently, majority of researches under electronics involve studies on field programmable gate arrays. Equipped with several computers donated by Intel Corporation and a number of Xilinx Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), both faculty and students are able have hands on experience in the various applications of FPGAs. Researches on communications include studies on fiber optics and data transmission through various mediums. With equipment like spectrum analyzers, fiber optic splicer, digital oscilloscopes, etc., students are able to make researches on the wide field of communications. Finally, equipped with several Motorola and Texas Instruments digitals signal processors and evaluation modules, students and faculty are now able to broaden their research on digital signal processing. Recent researches on DSP includes mp3 compression/decompression, speech recognition and speech encoding.