August 2, 2002

EE has six undergrad Mary Gates winners!

The EE department is pleased to announce that six of its undergraduate students have been awarded Mary Gates Research Training Grants. These prestigious and competitive grants are awarded on a campus-wide basis to undergraduates as a way to enhance their educational experiences, enabling them more fully to pursue their education and deepen their involvement in…


August 1, 2002

Departmental awards winners announced

On May 21 EE faculty staff and students gathered to recognize this year’s winners at our third annual Awards and Recognition Event. Congratulations to our 2002 awardees! Outstanding Teaching Award Radha Poovendran Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Mingyan Li and Eddie Chan Outstanding Research Advisor Award Radha Poovendran and Carl Sechen Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award…


June 1, 2002

UWEE Welcomes Dr. Kai Strunz

The Electric Engineering faculty is pleased to welcome Kai Strunz, who arrived in April, as its most recent Assistant Professor. We were able to compete successfully with the delights of Paris in persuading him to cast his future with the department and, in particular, with the Energy Group. We hope that any of you who…


April 1, 2002

Mark Chang wins Intel fellowship

Mark Chang, a PhD candidate with Professor Scott Hauck’s ACME Lab, has been awarded an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship. This 2001-2002 Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award provides one year of full tuition and fees, along with a twelve-month stipend. The fellowship award also includes the opportunity to conduct research or an internship at Intel, as…


March 1, 2002

Deirdre Meldrum speaks on “Life on a Chip”

Professor Deirdre Meldrum will be giving a talk titled “Life on a Chip” on Friday, May 3 at 3:30 in Room A102 of the Physics-Astronomy Building. A reception will follow in the foyer. This talk is part of the College of Arts and Science’s Science Forum series, and is sponsored by that college, the Office…


February 1, 2002

Charles Peach wins SRC Fellowship!

A Graduate Fellowship from Semiconductor Research Corporation has been awarded to Charles Peach, one of Professor David Allstot’s graduate students. The industry sponsor of this award is Texas Instruments, through their membership in the SRC. The three-year SRC Fellowship provides full tuition and fees, a $1550/month stipend, and a $2000 unrestricted gift to the UWEE…


July 1, 2001

Carl Sechen named IEEE Fellow

The IEEE has announced that Professor Carl Sechen has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective January 2002. His citation reads “For contributions to automated placement and routing in integrated circuits.” The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the…


May 1, 2001

Kudos to Kuterdem!

Our own EE graduate student Gorkem Kuterdem has just completed tenure as the President of the University GPSS (Graduate and Professional Student Senate). Gorkem had a great chance to learn about the various processes of the University, and ways to address the concerns and desires of a wide variety of student constituencies. Gorkem reports that…


April 1, 2001

EE Faculty Early Career Award Winners

The quality of our faculty is outstanding. A large portion of the faculty have received recognition early in their careers: Early Career Awards All nine of the Assistant Professors hired from July 1998-June 2001 have received the NSF Early Career Development Award. A total of ten Electrical Engineering Faculty have received the NSF Early Career…


March 30, 2001

EE Graduation Recognition Events

Thursday, June 7, HUB Auditorium (1st floor) Ph.D./MSEE Recognition – 7pm BSEE Recognition – 8pm (graduates, please arrive about 10 minutes early) For the first time, the EE Department is holding graduation recognition events for all of its graduating students. These informal events will provide individual recognition to all students who graduated or will graduate…



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