In 1988, the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology hired Bonnie Ferri as its first female faculty member. The School now has 13 women in its faculty ranks.

Samay Chandna, a first-year student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a College of Engineering Dean’s Scholarship. 

The College of Engineering search is an internal search open to tenured faculty at Georgia Tech.

In electrical and computer engineering (ECE) programs across the United States, women make up only 15% of undergraduates. The lack of gender diversity has academic administrators scrambling to find ways to attract and retain female students.

At the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, the School of ECE launched a Diversity and Inclusion Council focused on creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive environment at the School level.

Oliver Brand is the Executive Director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been named as a recipient of the 2020 Intel Rising Star Award.

John Hooper was the first director of the Microelectronics Research Center, now known as the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

Alenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020.

Georgia Tech faculty members Flavio Fenton and Anna Holcomb have been chosen to take part in the 25th annual Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program for the 2020-2021 school year.