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

ECE Ph.D. student Shreepad Panth has received the Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm.

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

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.

Amir Atabaki and Danny Duong, of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Thesis Awards earlier this spring.

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

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.

Two teams with ECE students are finalists in the 2012 InVenture Prize Competition.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WECE) received a 5-Star Organization Award at the Up with the White and Gold Ceremony held on April 23 at the Student Center Ballroom.

The Beta Mu chapter of Eta Kappa Nu wins the Outstanding Chapter Award for the seventh year in a row.

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

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.

A paper co-authored by Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his collaborators from Georgia Tech, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Perugia is among the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Sensors Journal.

ECE Professor John Papapolymerou has been appointed editor-in-chief of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.

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

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Chen receives a fellowship from the American Society of Nondestructive Testing.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been named among the 51 recipients of the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award.

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

ECE Assistant Professors Matthieu Bloch, Bo Hong, and Fumin Zhang have been selected to participate in teaching programs offered by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.