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The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech is proud to announce that the number of incoming freshman female students has hit the 20 percent mark, according to the latest admissions data from the Georgia Tech Undergraduate

ECE Professor John D. Cressler has been appointed to the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics, effective July 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Ping-Chang Shih received the 2013 Outreach for Engineers Scholarship for the Specialty Outreach Forum and the 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering, which was held June 9-14 in Nantes, France.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named to the 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

ECE Ph.D. student Benjamin Cook has been selected for a 2013-2014 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been appointed as a member of the 2014-2015 Defense Science Study Group.

ECE Associate Professor Raheem Beyah has been named as a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2014.

The Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named five faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the 2013 Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and two of her Ph.D. students, Hae Won Park and Richard Coogle, took the first place prize at the DARwIn-OP Humanoids Application Challenge at the 2013 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013).