July 1, 2010
Ali Al-Awami awarded ‘Best Poster’
At the recent 2010 General Meeting of the IEEE Power and Energy Society in Minneapolis, EE Ph.D. student Ali Al-Awami’s poster presentation “Combining Wind and Thermal Bids in Short-Term Electricity Markets” was selected as “Best Poster”. Professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi, Ali’s Ph.D. advisor, was co-author of the presentation. More information on the meeting can be found…
June 3, 2010
Bowen Cheng awarded ‘Best Paper’
EE Ph.D. student Bowen Cheng has been honored with the “Best Paper of the Symposium” award at the 42nd International Symposium on Microelectronics, held in San Jose, California last year (the award was made this year). His paper, titled “Microspring Characterization and Flip Chip Assembly Reliability”, was chosen out of 150 total candidates. Bowen is…
June 2, 2010
Erik Josberger receives Astronaut Scholarship
EE undergraduate Erik Josberger has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The scholarship is for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year. Recipients are chosen based on their proven ability to perform research and develop ideas, innovation and technology, as well as for their exceptional academic performance. Awards are very competitive – Erik…
May 6, 2010
Linda Bai awarded NSF Fellowship
The department is proud to announce that we’ve got a third National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardee – Linda Bai. Linda is studying for her Ph.D. under Professor Sumit Roy. GRFP awards provide three years of support including an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance, an international travel allowance, and TeraGrid supercomputer access. More…
May 4, 2010
Sudip Shekhar awarded ‘Best Paper’
Sudip Shekhar, who received his Ph.D. working with Professor Dave Allstot before moving along to Intel Labs, was lead author on a paper that received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2010 Darlington Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. The paper, titled “Strong injection locking in low-Q LC…
May 3, 2010
Grad student Patrick Aubin receives post-doctoral awards
Patrick Aubin, a Ph.D. student graduating Spring Quarter 2010, has received two awards for post-doctoral work. Patrick’s advisor is William Ledoux, Affiliate Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering. EE faculty serving on Patrick’s Ph.D. Supervisory Committee are Professors Blake Hannaford and Mohamed El-Sharkawi. Patrick has been granted a Whitaker International Scholar award that is a two…
May 1, 2010
Pavel Nikitin awarded ‘Best Paper’
EE Affiliate Professor Pavel Nikitin’s paper “Phase Based Spatial Identification of UHF RFID Tags” was named ‘Best Paper’ at the recent IEEE RFID 2010 conference in Orlando, Florida. Pavel’s co-authors were Rene Martinez, Shashi Ramamurthy, Hunter Leland, Gary Spiess, and Kodukula Rao. There were 130 papers submitted to the conference, out of which 39 were…
April 8, 2010
Leo Lam wins 2010 “Student Innovator: Teaching” award
Leo Lam has been named the winner of the College of Engineering’s 2010 “Student Innovator: Teaching” award. The award is chosen based on enthusiasm for the subject, the ability to engage students, an innovative approach in the classroom, and the ability to facilitate the participation of under-represented groups. A complete list of this year’s winners…
April 7, 2010
Remote Access Lab Proposal Funded
An EE proposal written to the UW Tech Fee Committee for an Electrical Engineering Remote Access Lab has been preliminarily funded for approximately $86,000. This proposal will help create a virtual lab space where students can remotely connect from home or anywhere in the world and complete their assignments remotely. The goal is to simulate…
April 6, 2010
Eric Arendt receives Dean’s Medal
For the third year in a row, an EE student has been selected as one of the Dean’s Medalists! Eric Arendt is a double degree student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.86. He stands out not only as an exceptional student, but as a leader and mentor…
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