September 10, 2010
Professor Jandhyala Named an Inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Vikram Jandhyala for being selected by the UW Center for Commercialization to receive the inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow. Candidates for this honor were nominated by department chairs and C4C technology managers. Interim President Phyllis Wise established the Provost’s UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows Program in recognition of the value that UW faculty entrepreneurship…
September 5, 2010
Shwetak Patel receives Top Innovator Award
Professor Shwetak Patel has been honored by Seattle Business magazine with a 2010 Top Innovator award. He also will be featured on the cover of the soon-to-be released November issue and on seattlebusinessmag.com. The award ceremony was held on October 21 at Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe. Congratulations Shwetak!
September 4, 2010
2010 Outstanding Paper awarded to Kaibao Nie
EE Adjunct Professor Kaibao Nie was lead author on the paper recently selected by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering to receive its 2010 Outstanding Paper award. The paper, “Encoding frequency modulation to improve cochlear implant performance in noise”, was authored by Nie, Ginger Stickney, and Fan-Gang Zeng. The award was presented at the 32nd Annual…
September 3, 2010
Nichols’ Poster Takes Second at OCEANS 2010
EE graduate student Nicole Nichol’s poster “Call and Component Evaluation for Improved Performance of Recognition of Killer Whale Individuals” tied for second place in the Student Poster Program held as part of the 2010 IEEE OCEANS conference, held in September at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. Fifty eight poster abstracts were…
September 2, 2010
Students’ Article Featured on Cover of Nanotechnology
The September 2010 issue of the journal Nanotechnology featured an article by UW EE students Ehsan Saeedi, Christian Marcheselli, and Angela Shum – plus their article was featured on the cover! The article, “Inertially assisted nanoscale self-assembly”, appears in Nanotechnology Volume 21, Number 37. These students work with Professor Babak Parviz in the Bionanotechnology Lab….
August 11, 2010
NRC Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs
The NRC assessment of the UW Department of Electrical Engineering, released on September 27, 2010, is based on clearly erroneous data. The resulting rankings are therefore not representative of the accomplishments of UWEE. The following explains a few of the errors in the NRC document: In 2006 (the reporting year when the data was collected),…
August 10, 2010
Ming-Ting Sun Wins 2010 IBM Faculty Award
Congratulations to Professor Ming-Ting Sun for receiving the 2010 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM Faculty Awards program is intended to foster collaboration between IBM researchers and faculty members at leading universities worldwide. The program also promotes courseware development and curriculum innovation in areas of interest to IBM. To be eligible for an award, a senior…
August 1, 2010
Two UWEE Papers in Proceedings of IEEE
Proceedings of the IEEE has a special issue out this September on RFID technology. This is the first time that this prestigious journal devotes the whole issue to RFID, and two papers have authors from our department! The first paper titled, “RFID: From Supply Chains to Sensor Nets,” was written by Sumit Roy, Vikram Jandhyala,…
July 5, 2010
Mari Ostendorf receives Rigas Award
Professor Mari Ostendorf has been honored with the Harriett B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society. The award, which is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, will be presented to her on October 28th during the Frontiers in Education Conference in Washington, D.C. The Rigas Award recognizes excellence in teaching, the development of educational technology which enhances…
July 2, 2010
Frankye Jones named 2010 Distinguished Graduate Program Assistant
Frankye Jones has been awarded the Distinguished Graduate Program Assistant Recipient for 2010 by The UW Graduate School. This award is in its second year, having been established by Vice Provost and Dean Gerald Baldasty in 2009. Nominations for the award are solicited campus-wide from all faculty Graduate Program Coordinators. Professor Bruce Darling nominated Frankye…
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