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…
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…
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