April 20, 2009
New book co-authored by two EE alumni
Yasmin Karimli Jun Liu Yasmin Karimli ( BSEE 1993, MSEE 1995) and Jun Liu ( MSEE 1999, Ph.D. 2003) have co-authored a new book, HSPA Performance and Evolution: A practical perspective, just published by John Wiley and Sons. After graduating from UWEE, Yasmin entered the telecommunications industry and is currently the Head of…
April 9, 2009
Gupta, Hauck, and Heaton Win Community of Innovator Awards
Scott Hauck has been named the 2009 winner of the College of Engineering’s Faculty Innovator: Teaching and Learning award. This award is based on innovative and lasting contributions to engineering education, as well as showing a high-level commitment to students both in and outside of the classroom. Maya Gupta has been named the 2009 winner…
April 6, 2009
Brian Pepin wins Dean’s Medal
Brian Pepin, an undergraduate student here in Electrical Engineering, has been honored as a 2009 Dean’s Medal recipient. The winners were selected based on academic excellence, research and industry experience, campus and community involvement, and faculty recommendation letters. The medals are scheduled to be presented at College of Engineering’s Community of Innovators Awards ceremony on…
March 10, 2009
Patrick Tague wins ‘Best Student Paper’
At the recent 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), held in Athens, EE graduate student Patrick Tague was awarded the Best Student Paper Award for his paper “Probabilistic Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming via Random Key Distribution”. The paper was co-authored with EE PhD graduate Dr. Mingyan Li…
March 5, 2009
Frank Sun wins Fulbright Fellowship
Frank Sun, a graduate student working with Professor David Allstot in the System-on-Chip lab, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. The Fulbright Grant, sponsored by the State Department, is for research to be conducted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) in Belgium during the 2009-2010 academic year. Frank will be working on circuits for…
February 20, 2009
Two graduate students win NDSEG Fellowships
Will Biederman Dan Yeager Professor Brian Otis reports that two of his EE graduate students, Dan Yeager and Will Biederman, have been awarded National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) graduate fellowships. The NDSEG is a prestigious three-year Ph.D. fellowship offered to only about 200 students nationwide each year. The program is intended “as a…
February 15, 2009
Lih Lin Promoted
Congratulations to Professor Lih Lin on her promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2009. Professor Lin has made excellent research contributions in Optical MEMS, Quantum Dot Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits, and Optical Plasmonic Tweezers. One of her recent research efforts is in biomedical applications of photonics, particularly in developing a new integrated endoscope system. The…
February 5, 2009
EE Authors Win 2009 Award for Excellence
Ehsan Saeedi, Samuel Kim, and Professor Babak Parviz have been named winners of the 2009 Awards for Excellence by the Emerald Literati Network.The winning paper is “Building flexible circuits with self-assembly”, which appeared in Circuit World volume 34 last year. The article has been named a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards…
February 1, 2009
Gupta to speak at Early Career Award Recognition Symposium March 4th
Professor Maya Gupta will be honored for her Early Career Award on March 4th. The symposium will convene in the Hogness Auditorium (Health Sciences A420) at 2:30 p.m. with welcoming comments by Provost Phyllis Wise. Maya will speak on the subject “How to Make Good Guesses”. A reception in the Health Sciences Lobby, C300, will…
January 10, 2009
Former student Cameron Charles wins NSF CAREER award
Cameron Charles, a former graduate student under David Allstot, has been given a 2009 NSF CAREER award. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Congratulations Cameron!
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