Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been named as one of 26 professors from across the U.S.–and the sole winner from Georgia Tech–to receive a 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.

The Texas Instruments University Program profiles David G. Taylor, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.

ECE faculty, staff, and students were honored at the 2012 Roger P. Webb Awards Program, held on April 25 at the Klaus Building Atrium.

The Panasonic/Georgia Tech team–known as PIC Jackets–took third place in the Freescale Cup autonomous vehicle race event at SAE Convergence, held at the Detroit Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich. on October 17.

Eight ECE faculty members have been successfully promoted and tenured, effective July 1, 2012.

ECE Ph.D. student Ben Cook wins a prestigious IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award.

Douglas B. Williams has been named senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective October 1.

Mitch Costley has been selected to attend the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, which will take place July 1-6 in Lindau, Germany.

ECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Professor Anthony J. Yezzi has been named as a Ken Byers Professor, effective October 1.

ECE Ph.D. alumnus Damien Rontani received the Supélec Foundation Prize

ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler won two IEEE awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Chen won first place in the poster competition at the 39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, held July 15-20 in Denver, Colo.

Eleven ECE faculty members will receive the Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award from the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning on March 15.

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

ECE M.S. student Outmane Lemtiri Chlieh has received a 2012 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society BS/MS Scholarship.

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

John D. Cressler has been named editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

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

ECE Professor Miroslav Begovic has been elected president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

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.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Optical Wireless Applications (COWA), housed in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Bonnie Ferri received a 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Women in Engineering Excellence Awards Banquet, held on March 29 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

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.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva has been appointed as an associate director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech.

ECE Professor Chin-Hui Lee has been named the recipient of the 2012 ISCA Medal.

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

ECE Professor John Papapolymerou has been appointed to a two-year term on the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee.

ECE Ph.D. student Vachan Kumar received the Best Student Poster Award at the IEEE Global Interposer Technology Workshop, which was held on November 14-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Ph.D. student Aida Vera Lopez received an Honorable Mention Award at the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition.

Carlos A. Donado Morcillo won first place honors in the Student Paper Competition at the 2012 IEEE Radio Wireless Week.

ECE Professor Oliver Brand has been named associate director for the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology.

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.

Maysam Ghovanloo and Xueliang Huo recently learned that their paper, "Evaluation of a Wireless Wearable Tongue-Computer Interface by Individuals with High-Level Spinal Cord Injuries," has been named among the top 10 most cited articles of 2010, repre