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Andrew Mason, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mailing Address:
2120 Engineering Building 
MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-2252

Office:
1217 Engineering Building
Ph: 517-355-6502
Fax:  517-353-1980
Email: mason@msu.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000 (Electrical Engineering) 
M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994 (Electrical Engineering) 
B.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 (Electrical Engineering) 
B.S., Western Kentucky University, 1991 (Physics)

 

Principal Scholarly Interests

Adaptive low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits; Nanostructured bioelectrochemical sensor arrays; Microsensor signal conditioning and signal processing circuits; Integrated microsystems and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

 

 

photo right: Low Power 4x5mm Sensor Signal Processing

SoC in 180nm CMOS


Recent Highlights

  • Welcome to new members of the AMSaC lab in 2008: Dr. Liya Meng, Dr. S. Kota, Stefan Schorr, Paul Suchyta, Waqar Qureshi, Xiaoyi Mi, and Lin Li
  • Dr. Mason travels to India July 2008 to give a workshop on teaching VLSI Design for the Indo-US Engineering Faculty Institutes
  • Congratulations to 2008 graduates from the AMSaC lab: Chao Yang (Ph.D.)
  • AMSaC lab presents a paper at the 2008 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
  • AMSaC lab presents a paper at the 2007 Biomedical Circuits and Systems conference in Montreal Canada and the 2007 Analog VLSI Workshop in Shannon Ireland.
  • Dr. Mason and colleagues receive an NSF grant to build a temperature controlled protein-based biosensor array microsystem for biological research.
  • Dr. Mason is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, June 2007.
  • AMSaC lab presents three papers at the IEEE International Symp. Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), May 2007, in New Orleans
  • Congratulations to 2007 graduates from the AMSaC lab: Chao Yang (MS), Yue Huang (MS), Daniel Rairigh (MS)
  • Dr. Mason and collaborators at The University of Michigan receive a Department of Homeland Security grant to develop a vapor phase gas sensor array with on-chip impedance readout circuitry.

Research Update (not so up to date...): AMSaC Newsletter


Project Websites

NSF IDBR Temperature Controlled Array Microsystem for Functional Proteomics (began Sept. 2007)

Associated Labs

Advanced MicroSystems and Circuits (AMSaC) Research Laboratory (Dr. Mason's Lab)

Micro and Nano Engineering Facility (MNEF) ERC Cleanroom

Keck Microfabrication Facility

Other MSU/ECE Research Labs

Associated Centers

Center for Nanostructured Biomimetic Interfaces (CNBI)

NSF Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS)