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Telecommunications is developing as an outstanding
program on The University of Mississippi campus, and with the addition
of two new faculty members, the department looks for more growth
and accomplishments in telecom education and research programs.
After being in the National Center for Physical Acoustics for a
number of years, the Center for Wireless Communications moved to
a new home in Anderson Hall and the Engineering Science Building.
With the move, the center became affiliated with the Department
of Electrical Engineering.
“The merger marks a milestone in the development of the electrical
engineering department,” said Dean Kai-Fong Lee. “With
traditional strengths in electromagnetics and radio frequency, and
growing strengths in communication theory and networking, the department
is poised to be a leader in teaching and research in the rapidly
developing field of wireless communication systems.”
The center was established on campus in 1994 as a natural evolution
of the Center for Telecommunications, which was created in 1986.
Encouragement and contributions from Mobile Telecommunications Corp.
of Jackson, Miss., helped create the center.
Dr. John N. Daigle, a principal engineer of MITRE Corp. and professor
of electrical engineering, was selected center director. A Fellow
of the IEEE, Daigle has wide experience in the wireless industry
and has taught in a variety of areas related to computing and communications.
Under Daigle’s leadership, a mission for the center was formulated
to meet the challenges of the emerging generation of wireless communications.
The interdisciplinary research and instructional program blends
electrical engineering, computer science, economics, and the politics
of regulation.
Research and education are the major objectives of the center. The
center seeks to contribute to the solution of problems of national
significance by pushing the limits in the application of wireless
communications technologies and to educate top-quality graduates
equipped to deal with broad problems in the field of wireless communications.
“Much of the research to date has been carried out in cooperation
with industrial partners, and both students and faculty have benefited
enormously from this partnership,” said Daigle.
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