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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

ECE Professor A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos will be honored with the 2010 International George Montefiore Award in September.

Douglas B. Williams will become the interim chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective July 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Pamela Bhatti has been accepted into the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute KL2 Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars program.

ECE faculty members Matthieu Bloch and Steven McLaughlin win the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.

The Father's Day Council of Atlanta has selected Gary S. May as one of three recipients of the 2011 Father of the Year Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Douglas Brooks won the Best Poster Award at the 2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, held April 3-5 in San Francisco.

Jordan Greenlee wins the 2011 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

Jerome Meisel has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

ECE Associate Professor Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee and his Ph.D. student, Jen-Cheng (Tommy) Huang, along with their HP collaborators Matteo Manchiero and Yoshio Turner won the Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Co

ECE Students Recognized for Fellowship Awards

ECE Associate Professor Paul Hasler has been named the 2011 recipient of the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.

It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Scott Wills, died on the morning of Friday, December 2 after a long, brave battle with melanoma.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been named the recipient of the 2011 IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Young Engineer Award.

A group of Georgia Tech faculty and students from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering won the Student Best Paper Award at the 8th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitori

ECE Professor Rao Tummala receives the 2011 TechnoVisionary Award from the India Semiconductor Association.

Tom Conte has been elected as the IEEE Computer Society First Vice President, effective January 1, 2012.

ECE Ph.D. student James Hall wins first place in paper competition at the 2011 Aircraft Worthiness and Sustainment Conference.

An anti-counterfeiting device developed by ECE and Microsoft Engineers is featured in a collection of vignettes called Science@Microsoft.

The 2012 graduate programs rankings from U.S. News & World Report have been published, and the results are outstanding for both Georgia Tech and ECE.

ECE Associate Professor Ayanna Howard was featured on a CNN segment about using robots for search and rescue missions.

ECE Ph.D. student Paresa Modarres wins Best in Session Paper Award at Techcon, held September 11-13 in Austin, Tex.