Dr. Moshe Kam

Robert G. Quinn Professor & Department Head

Welcome to the site of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University – I am glad you are interested in us. We are a dynamic and young Department that offers a large number of paths to a successful professional career. We take pride in being accommodating and flexible: our programs can be tailored to a large number of student goals, objectives, and personal interests.

Perhaps the best evidence for the success of our program is the success of our graduates. You will find many of Drexel’s ECE graduates in leading positions in the Electrical and Computer Engineering industries, but also in positions of influence in other industries– Finance, Business, Law, and Medicine. For thousands of professionals, a Drexel ECE degree was the stepping stone to a rewarding career, both inside and outside of engineering.

Let me introduce some of our Department’s graduates:

Paul Baran is a well known innovator and intellectual leader, one of the inventors of packet-switched networks, and a major contributor to the invention of the Internet . In addition to his many contributions in the area of computer and communication networks, he is also credited with developing the first doorway metal detector , used in airports and public buildings.

Bernard Silver is a co-inventor (with Drexel Mechanical Engineering graduate Norman J. Woodland) of the Bar Code . Silver and Woodland hold the first patent on the bar code: US Patent 2,612,994 titled Classifying Apparatus and Method.

After receiving his Master of Science degree from Drexel University, Jay Shim continued his studies in Law, concentrating on patents and intellectual property. He now serves as Vice President and General Patent Counsel to Samsung Electronics in Korea.

Andres Lebaudy and Gary Cane founded Fairmount Automation a short time after graduating from Drexel. Fairmount develops automatic control equipment for harsh environments such as US military vessels and oil rigs.

After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from Drexel University, Kevin Atteson did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Doctorate there. He had since joined Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking and securities firm, in Manhattan, NY.

Kevin J. O’Hara co-founded Level 3 Communications in 1997. It is an international communications company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company operates one of the largest communications and Internet backbones in the world.

Whether you want to become an engineer, researcher, inventor, entrepreneur, financial analyst, physician, or intellectual property lawyer, Drexel’s ECE education can be a major milestone in your path to that objective. We develop with our students plans of study that are flexible, and matched to the student’s personal objectives. We also provide close advising and guidance to ensure that the student progresses well toward his/her target. In addition, we expose each one of our students to practice in the real world through co-op and internship opportunities with some the most influential corporations in our field.

Based on your career objectives we may include in your study plan additional elements, such as:

Supervised research with one of the ECE research groups

Study abroad

A Minor outside ECE in another subject

A project with one of the many not-for-profit organizations in the northeastern US, part of our Service Learning Program

Participation in the joint program toward the Bachelor and Master degrees (our BS-MS program)

Please review the description of our educational offerings on this site, and the description of our majors. If you have questions or need to talk to one of our advisors, please write to us on our contact page. We will be happy to get to know you better, and help you decide if ECE education is suitable for your goals.

Moshe Kam, Ph.D., P.E.
Robert G. Quinn Professor & Department Head
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

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Moshe Kam received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1977 from Tel Aviv University, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Drexel University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. His professional interests include Robotics and Navigation, Multi-sensor Systems and Sensor Fields, Information Assurance, and Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) "for contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection" (2001). Among his awards and recognitions are a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Dr. Kam has served IEEE as Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Executive Committee, and Vice President for Educational Activities.