ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor, effective August 15.

Four ECE students–Greg Droge, Zachary Lochner, Temi Olubanjo, and Carol Young–have been awarded ARCS Foundation Fellowships.

ECE Professor Manos Tentzeris and his Ph.D. student Rushi Vyas received the Architecture Award of Excellence from the Architecture World Summit, held in Bangalore, India on July 25-26.

ECE faculty members Alenka Zajić and Gordon L. Stuber received the Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award for their paper, "Wideband MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Geometry-Based Statistical Modeling with Experimental Verification."

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been appointed as the ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in Analog Integrated Circuit Design, effective August 15.

Magnus Egerstedt is among five faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology teaching the first courses offered by Georgia Tech on Coursera.

ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo will take part in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions as a member of the Forum’s Young Scientists community.

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering has been named the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Women in Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group of the Year Award.

An ECE project team is among 12 selected for the upcoming Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest Engibous Summit.