Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has awarded a Georgia Tech team with a three-year research contract to develop the next-generation of high-performance biosensors as part of SRC’s new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program.
Bernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as a Joseph M. Pettit Professor, effective September 1.
Christopher J. Rozell, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective September 1.
A team of researchers from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has won the 2013 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the findings of which could lead to better land mine detection methods.
ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva will receive the HENAAC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award at the Great Minds in STEM Conference, to be held October 2-5 in New Orleans.
ECE's Erin Hanson has received a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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ECE Ph.D. student Xiaohang Li has been awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious scholarship given by this society for optics and photonics professionals.
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).
ECE Assistant Professor Ying Zhang has received an NSF CAREER Award to support her research project, "Adaptive Power Management for Supercapacitor-Operated Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks."
ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair in the College of Engineering and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
ECE School Chair Steven W. McLaughlin recently talked with bloggers from AroundTI about university research and the present and future of engineering education.
Georgia Tech Ph.D. students Logan Sorenson and Peng Shao received the Outstanding Oral Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, held January 20-24, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Erik Verriest has been elected as an international member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He will be inducted into the Academy's Class of Technical Sciences on February 14, 2013.