Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrates the Spring 2025 graduates whose innovation, leadership, and determination are shaping a brighter future.

Professor Mary Ann Weitnauer, a leader in wireless communications research and a trailblazer for women in engineering, retires after a remarkable 48-year academic and professional career.

The winning ECE project advances UAV technology using gallium nitride semiconductors, while the interdisciplinary winner creates affordable, precise reaction wheels for better satellite orientation control. 

The ECE alum's remarkable academic and professional journey has culminated in the creation of the John Slaughter Chair in Semiconductors, with Professor Alan Doolittle honored as the first recipient.

From IEEE Spectrum: Lukas Graber and the Plasma and Dielectrics Laboratory are reimagining high-voltage circuit breakers to operate without gases that are bad for the environment and harmful to humans.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrated its outstanding students, staff, and faculty at the 2025 Roger P. Webb Awards Program.

Computer engineering rose to fifth in the country, while electrical engineering came in at sixth in the latest U.S. News and World Report Graduate Program Rankings.

From trailblazers to industry leaders, some of ECE’s most impactful women were honored at the opening of the Pathway of Progress installation.

The ECE professor is among four Georgia Tech engineers to be recognized in the latest class of 151-year-old lifetime honor for scientific excellence.

Faculty members Daniel Molzahn and Fatih Sarioglu have been promoted to associate professor and professor, respectively.

Ph.D. student Wei Chun Wang will accept the conference’s Best Poster Presentation, while a number of other faculty members and students will present their work at the premiere microelectronics reliability conference.

The curriculum collaboration with the leading satellite operator will equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to drive innovations in satellite-based services.

The appointment further enhances the collaboration between Georgia Tech and GlobalFoundries to foster advancements in semiconductor research, education, and workforce development.

The graduates took home some of the College's highest awards, including the Dean's Impact Award, which went to an ECE trio that founded SafetySlate.

The new initiative enhances industry collaboration within academic environments, bridging skill and workforce gaps in electrical and computer engineering by offering students practical learning experiences and direct access to industry experts.

Professor Larry Heck was interviewed by Marketplace for their episode on how AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are working to catch up to popular large language model chatbots like ChatGPT.

From awards to presentations, researchers and alumni from several Georgia Tech schools had a significant impact at the premier microarchitecture conference.

Georgia Tech graduate students visited Micron Technology's midtown Atlanta location to learn about the culture of the leading American producer of DRAM, flash memory, and SSDs.

Three Georgia Tech industrial design students transformed their Senior Capstone project into a lasting gift for the Hive Makerspace.

Teams used the AI Makerspace and expertise from NVIDIA mentors to benchmark and improve their projects during the event, which offered in-person collaboration for the first time.

The faculty members and lecturers were celebrated by their students for outstanding teaching and educational impact.

Researchers will contribute extensive 3D heterogeneous integration expertise to the Texas Institute for Electronics-led initiative. 

In her new role, Professor Pamela Bhatti will lead the reappointment, promotion, and tenure process for the School.

Coogan will work closely with the ECE Graduate Affairs Office and the School’s Graduate Student Recruitment Committee to attract top Ph.D. applicants. 

ECE Master’s graduates share their experiences, challenges, and triumphs as they look back on the journey that shaped their academic and professional growth.

The Silicon Jackets hope to reduce the gap between graduation and employment, providing students with practical experience to accelerate their careers in chip design.

With bylines on numerous papers, along with faculty on panels and technical committees, ECE will have a large presence at the premier semiconductor and electronic device technology conference.

Read about this year's winners! ECE seniors will showcase their innovative, real-world solutions tackling a range of problems

ECE students, faculty, staff, and friends reflect on the achievements of the year and embrace gratitude of the season.

The philanthropic program, co-founded by ECE graduate Mel Coker, gives underrepresented student groups soft skills training and valuable networking opportunities, helping them to land jobs and become leaders in the workforce.

Georgia Tech electrical and computer engineering students will now benefit from an expanded tapeout-to-silicon curriculum and have access to Apple engineers to better prepare for a career in hardware engineering.

A group of Georgia Tech Researchers, featuring ECE professor Santiago Grijalva, are developing an artificial intelligence-enabled system named GridLogic to detect abnormal behavior inside an electrical grid network. The AFCEA publication Signal wrote about the program and how it will go beyond traditional anomaly detection and could protect other critical infrastructure segments, including distributed energy resources —solar panels and wind turbines, for instance—the network, and overall cyber-physical systems.

Spearheaded by Professor Santiago Grijalva, the NSF-backed project is set to enhance grid reliability and cost-efficiency with AI-driven decentralized optimization for renewables.

The prep event was designed to help undergraduate students make informed decisions about pursuing graduate school.

The event highlighted research and student projects conducted through the Center on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors, a JUMP 2.0 center, over the past year and previewed its upcoming goals.

Mehrotra, along with a team from Micron, engaged with faculty and students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering on research, academic collaborations, and the future of memory technology.

Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Shaolan Li wrote an article for EdUp Experience about ECE's new analog collaboration with Texas Instruments and how it's helping to the meet the demand for analog engineers in the workforce.

Backed by the National Science Foundation, the project uses computer games and visualizations to help students understand the often challenging topics of semiconductor and microelectronic physics.

Led by Ph.D. student Ryan Pickren, the research discovered 37 times more vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (which oversee and automate industrial processes) than was previously thought.

Now with the support of the National Science Foundation, Professor Karthikeyan Sundaresan is exploring the use of acoustic waves to develop more efficient and scalable Internet of Things sensors, potentially transforming various applications from smart homes to vehicle synchronization and more.