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Electrical and Computer Engineering

A Department of the Institute of Technology

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ECE students receive 2008-2009 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

2008-05-05 16:02 (CDT)

ECE Ph.D. students Shahrouz Takyar (advisor: Tryphon Georgiou) and Sanjay Vijay Kumar (advisor: Sachin Sapatnekar) have been selected to receive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2008-2009.

ECE students win prizes at Undergraduate Research Symposium

2008-04-29 09:49 (CDT)

EE seniors Eric Severson and Dominic Hogan won First and Third Prize, respectively, from the Minnesota Chapter of Sigma Xi for the posters they presented at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium held on Friday, April 18, 2008...

Professor Mohan receives IEEE PES educator award

2008-04-23 16:31 (CDT)

Professor Ned Mohan has been selected the 2008 recipient of the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award from the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES).

ECE student receives award for outstanding service

2008-04-18 14:58 (CDT)

EE senior Patrick Delaney has been selected for the 2008 Paul A. Cartwright/IT Alumni Society Award for Outstanding Service.

Professor Cherkassky receives Microsoft Research Award

2008-04-02 16:34 (CDT)

Professor Vladimir Cherkassky has received the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award from Microsoft Research.

U of M teams up with Xcel Energy in groundbreaking wind-to-battery project

2008-04-01 09:44 (CDT)

Xcel Energy, in partnership with the University of Minnesota, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Great Plains Institute, will soon begin testing a cutting-edge technology to store wind energy in batteries.

Professor Leger receives Taylor Distinguished Service Award

2008-03-28 16:45 (CDT)

Professor Jim Leger has received the George W. Taylor Distinguished Service Award for 2008.

ECE student team wins 2nd place of Phase 1 of 2007 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge

2008-03-16 16:29 (CDT)

A University of Minnesota team led by Professor Ramesh Harjani has been selected as the 2nd place winner of Phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge.

Professor Giannakis elected EURASIP Fellow

2008-03-13 13:36 (CDT)

Professor Georgios Giannakis ... has been elected a Fellow of the European Association for Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP)...

Professor Sapatnekar selected Distinguished McKnight University Professor

2008-03-10 11:02 (CDT)

Professor Sachin Sapatnekar has been selected a Distinguished McKnight University Professor.

In Memoriam: Joseph M. Juran

2008-03-03 12:36 (CST)

Alumnus Joseph M. Juran (B.E.E. '24) died February 28, 2008, at the age of 103.... Juran named the Pareto principle...

Professor Amin receives University teaching award

2008-02-27 09:36 (CST)

Professor Massoud Amin has been chosen to receive one of this year's awards for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.

Professor Imbertson named ECE Professor of the Year

2008-02-24 16:50 (CST)

Professor Paul Imbertson has been named the ECE Professor of the Year by the IT Student Board (ITSB).

ECE Ph.D. student awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

2008-02-18 12:35 (CST)

Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student John Keane (advisor: Chris Kim) has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2008-2009.

Professor Judy receives IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Achievement Award

2008-02-15 16:25 (CST)

Professor Jack Judy has received the IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Achievement Award...

Professors Oh and Kim receive 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grants

2008-02-14 10:11 (CST)

Professors Sang-Hyun Oh and Chris Kim have both won 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant awards...

ECE Ph.D. student receives Samsung Electronics HTP

2008-02-13 16:23 (CST)

ECE graduate student Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim (advisor: Chris Kim) won the bronze medal in the 14th Samsung Electronics Humantech Thesis Prize competition.

Professor Mohan organizes workshop on curricular reform in electric energy systems

2008-02-12 12:52 (CST)

Professor Ned Mohan and his colleagues ... held an ONR-sponsored faculty workshop in Napa, California on 2008 February 7-9...

Professor Jindal receives NSF CAREER Award

2008-01-31 17:20 (CST)

Professor Nihar Jindal has been selected to receive the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Professor Kim named 2008-2010 McKnight Land-Grant Professor

2008-01-15 14:35 (CST)

Professor Chris Kim has been awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2008-2010.

ECE students selected as 45th DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest winners

2008-01-06 17:08 (CST)

ECE students Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim and Randy Persaud (advisor: Chris H. Kim) have been selected as winners of the 2008 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest...

ECE alumnus receives IEEE SPS best paper award

2008-01-06 15:36 (CST)

The paper ... which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing ... October, 2005, co-authored by Goran Dimic and Nikos Sidiropoulos, has received a 2007 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Professor Sobelman selected as a 2008 IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer

2007-12-31 13:59 (CST)

Professor Gerald Sobelman has been selected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for 2008-2009 by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

ECE alumnus Earl Bakken honored for contributions to medical device industry

2007-12-28 23:00 (CST)

When alumnus Earl Bakken invented a wearable pacemaker, he sparked a revolution in medicine.

ECE students win awards at the 2007 LifeScience Alley Conference

2007-12-11 11:15 (CST)

ECE students received awards ... at the 6th Annual LifeScience Alley Conference and Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Professors Campbell and Cherkassky elected IEEE Fellows

2007-11-15 11:20 (CST)

Professor Steve Campbell has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)... Professor Vladimir Cherkassky was also elected a Fellow...

Professor Mohan gives keynote address at power systems conference

2007-11-07 12:37 (CST)

Professor Ned Mohan gave a keynote address on November 6, 2007 at MIPSYCON.

ECE graduate student wins TECHCON 2007 best paper award

2007-09-21 14:12 (CDT)

ECE graduate student Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi won the Best in Session award at the 2007 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) TECHCON conference in the area of Digital and High Speed Circuit Design for his paper...

ECE graduate student authors one of top five papers at 2007 American Control Conference

2007-07-31 13:02 (CDT)

The paper ... by ECE graduate student Rashad Moarref and Professor Mihailo Jovanovic, was selected as one of the top five student papers presented at the 2007 American Control Conference (ACC 2007).

ECE student wins CrownCom 2007 Best Student Paper award

2007-07-18 14:58 (CDT)

The paper ... co-authored by ECE graduate student Juan-Andres Bazerque ... has won the Best Student Paper award at the Second International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2007).

Student thesis receives Honorary Mention at conference

2007-07-17 09:58 (CDT)

Gustavo Brown, an M.S. student at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay ... has received an Honorary Mention for his M.S. thesis ... at the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática 2007.

Professor Mohan organizes workshop on curricular reform in electric energy systems

2007-07-02 10:30 (CDT)

Professor Ned Mohan and his colleagues ... held an ONR/EPRI/AEP-sponsored workshop at the University of Minnesota on 2007 June 18-22.

ECE student and Professor Roychowdhury win DAC 2007 Best Paper Award

2007-06-11 11:31 (CDT)

The paper ... by ECE graduate student Shweta Srivastava and Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury, has been selected for a Best Paper award from the 44th annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), held in San Diego, June 4-8, 2007.

ECE student and Professor Sapiro win paper award

2007-06-11 11:21 (CDT)

The paper ... co-authored by Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Anthony Yezzi, Andrea C. Mennucci, and Professor Guillermo Sapiro, received the "Best Numerical Paper-Project Award" (for graduate students) at the International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, in Ischia, Italy, May-June, 2007.

Professor Kim receives IBM Faculty Partnership Award

2007-06-07 11:02 (CDT)

Professor Chris Kim has received an IBM Faculty Partnership Award for a second year to support his work on "Power and Performance Management Techniques for Aging Tolerance."

Professor Amin elected IIIA Fellow

2007-05-17 17:27 (CDT)

Professor Massoud Amin has been elected a Fellow of the Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (IIIA)...

Four ECE seniors win national design contest

2007-05-10 17:16 (CDT)

Four ECE seniors — Ziyad Aljarboua, Arvind Gururajan, John Aiton, and Ryan Westphal — recently entered their senior design project ... in the IEEE 7th Annual Student Design Contest.

Professor Imbertson named ECE Professor of the Year

2007-04-26 12:19 (CDT)

Professor Paul Imbertson has been named the ECE Professor of the Year by the IT Student Board (ITSB).

Professor Kiehl to lead effort to use biology to advance quantum physics and electronics

2007-04-06 15:11 (CDT)

Professor Rick Kiehl will lead a six-university effort that will use biological strategies to construct arrays of nanoparticles and will systematically characterize the resulting quantum electronic systems.

Professor Kaveh to serve as President-elect of IEEE Signal Processing Society

2007-04-06 13:56 (CDT)

Professor Mos Kaveh has been elected to serve as the President-elect of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2008-2009.

Professor Leger receives Taylor Teaching Award

2007-03-30 17:01 (CDT)

Professor Jim Leger has received the George W. Taylor/IT Alumni Society Award for Distinguished Teaching for 2007.

ECE alumnus receives ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award

2007-03-29 11:15 (CDT)

ECE Department alumnus Dr. Haifeng Qian has received the 2006 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation...

ECE alumni receive ONR Young Investigator Awards

2007-03-27 17:46 (CDT)

ECE Department alumni Liuqing Yang (M.S. '02, Ph.D. '04) and Shengli Zhou (Ph.D. '02) have been selected as winners in the 2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program.

Professors Mohan and Wollenberg receive University teaching awards

2007-03-01 10:35 (CST)

Professor Ned Mohan has been chosen to receive one of this year's Horace T. Morse – University of Minnesota Alumni Association Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. Also, Professor Bruce Wollenberg has been chosen to receive one of this year's awards for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.

Two ECE Ph.D. students receive Samsung Electronics HTP

2007-02-21 16:29 (CST)

ECE graduate students Hyungsoon Im (advisor: Sang-Hyun Oh) and Jaehyuk Choi (advisor: Euisik Yoon) received gold prizes from the 13th Samsung Electronics Humantech Thesis Prize competition.

Professor Jovanovic receives NSF CAREER Award

2007-02-21 13:00 (CST)

Professor Mihailo Jovanovic has been selected to receive the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Professor Sapiro elected editor-in-chief of new SIAM journal

2007-02-12 09:35 (CST)

Professor Guillermo Sapiro has been elected to be the first editor-in-chief of the new SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences...

Former ECE professor elected to National Academy of Engineering

2007-02-09 12:40 (CST)

Professor Steve Chou of Princeton University has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to nanoscale patterning and to the scaling of electronic, photonic, magnetic, and biological devices."

Professor Mohan organizes workshop on curricular reform in electric energy systems

2007-02-08 16:17 (CST)

Professor Ned Mohan and his colleagues organized an ONR/NSF/EPRI-sponsored workshop in Santa Fe, NM on 2007 February 2-3.

Professor Jindal named 2007-2009 McKnight Land-Grant Professor

2007-01-10 08:53 (CST)

Professor Nihar Jindal has been awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2007-2009.

ECE graduate student and Professor Sobelman win Best Paper Award

2006-11-30 10:40 (CST)

Graduate student Qingquan Zhang, Professor Gerald Sobelman, and Professor Tian He (from the Computer Science Department) won the best paper award ... at the International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), being held in Hong Kong on 2006 December 13-15.

Professor Luo elected IEEE Fellow

2006-11-20 17:26 (CST)

Professor Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)...

Professor Leger delivers invited plenary talk with Nobel Prize winners

2006-10-27 17:18 (CDT)

Professor Jim Leger recently gave a plenary talk together with Nobel laureates Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Wolfgang Ketterle at the European Optical Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France.

Professor Giannakis selected as a 2007 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer

2006-10-21 13:56 (CDT)

Professor Georgios Giannakis has been selected to serve as an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer...

Professor Mohan organizes renewable energy workshop

2006-10-14 16:01 (CDT)

Professor Ned Mohan organized an annual workshop on "Renewable Energy for Minnesota" on 2006 October 12th...

ECE Department news now available as Web feed

2006-10-01 16:43 (CDT)

In our ongoing efforts to improve the ECE Department Web site, we are proud to announce that the department news is now available as a Web feed.

Professor Campbell to lead new Center for Nanostructured Applications

2006-09-28 17:24 (CDT)

Professor Steve Campbell has been named the director of the new Center for Nanostructured Applications.

New Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems

2006-08-29 13:27 (CDT)

Professor Ned Mohan ... recently received a 5-year, $1.23M grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to establish the new Center for Reforming Undergraduate Education in Electric Energy Systems...

Professor Stadler named 2006 McKnight Fellow

2006-08-24 12:03 (CDT)

Professor Beth Stadler has been named a 2006 University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow.

College of Continuing Education announces P.E. refresher courses

2006-08-06 19:21 (CDT)

The University of Minnesota's College of Continuing Education has announced a series of P.E. Refresher Courses to prepare engineers for both the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and the Minnesota Professional Engineer Examination.

Professors Wang and Victora win INSIC Technical Achievement Award

2006-07-19 10:23 (CDT)

Professors Jian-Ping Wang and Randy Victora ... won the 2006 Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Technical Achievement Award...

Professor Kim receives IBM Faculty Partnership Award

2006-07-06 00:00 (CDT)

Professor Chris Kim has received an IBM Faculty Partnership Award to support his work on "Analysis, Measurement, and Design Techniques for NBTI Tolerance."

Alumnus Dr. Peter Herczfeld receives Pioneer Award from IEEE Microwave Society

2006-06-25 00:00 (CDT)

Professor Peter Herczfeld, from Drexel University, was awarded the Pioneer Award at the 2006 International Microwave Symposium...

U of M ranks second in nanotech industrial outreach

2006-05-31 00:00 (CDT)

The University of Minnesota ranks second among U.S. universities in industrial outreach in nanotechnology and microtechnology, according to the results of a survey published recently in the May/June 2006 issue of the nanotechnology trade publication Small Times.

Professor Cohen demonstrates IR mode-selective chemistry

2006-05-23 00:00 (CDT)

Professor Phil Cohen ... recently demonstrated using laser light instead of heat to remove hydrogen atoms from the surface of a silicon wafer.

"Tech Tune-Up" Nano-VLSI course to be held June 26-28

2006-05-01 00:01 (CDT)

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is hosting the "Tech Tune-Up: Nano-VLSI Design" course at the University of Minnesota on 2006 June 26-28.

Professor Mohan teaches power systems to 800

2006-05-01 00:00 (CDT)

Professor Ned Mohan taught an Internet-based short course called "Teaching Power Systems with an Integrated Software Laboratory" on 2006 April 28 to 800 participants from all over the world.

ECE alumnus Dr. Yunqian Ma receives INNS Young Investigator Award

2006-04-26 00:00 (CDT)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus Dr. Yunqian Ma (Ph.D.E.E. 2003) has received the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Young Investigator Award for 2006.

Professor Campbell awarded IT Distinguished Professorship

2006-04-03 00:00 (CDT)

Professor Steve Campbell has been awarded an IT Distinguished Professorship.

Professors Ernie and Sapiro receive Taylor Awards

2006-03-30 00:00 (CST)

Professor Doug Ernie has received the 2006 Taylor Service Award... Professor Guillermo Sapiro has received the 2006 Taylor Research Award...

Professor Leger to receive Morse–Alumni Teaching Award

2006-03-05 00:00 (CST)

Professor Jim Leger has been chosen to receive one of this year's Horace T. Morse – University of Minnesota Alumni Association Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

Professor Amin appointed to ORNL Committee

2006-03-01 00:00 (CST)

Professor Massoud Amin ... has been appointed as a member of the scientific advisory committee for the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for January 2006-May 2010.

ECE alumnus Dr. Gary Glover elected to NAE

2006-02-16 00:01 (CST)

Dr. Gary H. Glover ... was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)...

Professor Drayton in "True Stories of Women Engineers"

2006-02-16 00:00 (CST)

Professor Rhonda Drayton is featured in the newly-released book, Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers.

ECE graduate student receives MRS Student Research Gold Award

2006-01-27 00:00 (CST)

Graduate student Chad Barry received a student travel award and a research gold award from the Materials Research Society (MRS)...

ECE graduate student wins RWS 2006 Best Student Paper award

2006-01-24 00:00 (CST)

The paper ... co-authored by Renqui Wang, W. Zhao, and G. B. Giannakis, won the best student paper award at the IEEE Radio Wireless Symposium...

Workshop on renewable energy organized by Professor Mohan

2006-01-03 00:00 (CST)

The third annual workshop on renewable energy prospects in Minnesota was held on 2005 December 9th.

Tech Talk to feature Professor Harjani

2005-12-19 00:00 (CST)

The University of Minnesota's Tech Talk television program will feature Professor Ramesh Harjani talking about wireless communication.

Professor Thomas Misa joins ECE and Babbage Institute

2005-11-23 00:00 (CST)

Thomas Misa ... has been selected as the new director of the Charles Babbage Institute...

Professors Harjani and Lilja elected IEEE Fellows

2005-11-14 00:00 (CST)

Professor Ramesh Harjani has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)... Professor David Lilja was also elected a Fellow...

National Academy of Engineering inducts Professor Wollenberg

2005-10-21 00:00 (CST)

Professor Bruce Wollenberg (center) is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) by W. A. Wulf, President of NAE (left) and NAE Board Chair Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation (right).

Professor Drayton appointed to CICMT Advisory Board

2005-10-07 00:00 (CST)

Professor Rhonda Franklin Drayton has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technology (CICMT) Conference.