Nominations are now open for the 2016 Roger P. Webb Awards, which recognize the excellence of the faculty, staff, and students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

A new educational collaboration among Georgia Tech, the city of Shenzhen and Tianjin University in China will expand global opportunities in science, technology and engineering education.

ECE Ph.D. student Jackson McCormick won an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Sungjin Cho and Fumin Zhang, both of Georgia Tech ECE, received the runner-up Best Student Paper Award at the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, held October 24-26 in Shanghai, China. 

ECE Professor John D. Cressler has released the second edition of his textbook, Silicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology,

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis received the 2016 Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL Development for Science and Technology at the opening ceremony of CHINA SSL 2016, held on November 15 in Beijing, China.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

ECE Ph.D. student Min-gu Kim won the third place Oral Student Paper Award at IEEE Sensors 2016, held October 30-November 2 in Orlando, Florida.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has published a new book, RF and mm-Wave Power Generation in Silicon.

The Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions, including Georgia Tech.

Nexidia, a leading developer of dialogue and audio analysis products and technologies, was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) with a Technology and Engineering Achievement Emmy Award for Phonetic Indexing and Timing.

On Sept. 14, Ajeet Rohatgi, Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named one of the 19 funding recipients in the Photovoltaics Research and Development Program as part of the U.S. DoE SunShot Initiative.

Georgia Tech’s Aditya Anupam and Ridhima Gupta received the Students' Choice Award at the Serious Games Competition, held November 30-December 4 during the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has been elected to a two-year term as secretary for the Atmospheric and Space Electricity (ASE) Group in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), effective January 1, 2017. 

ECE Professors Faramarz Fekri and Xiaoli Ma have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2016.

Mohammad Faisal Amir, Duckhwan Kim, and Jae Ha Kung received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (IEEE S3S), held October 10-13, 2016 in San Francisco, California.

A group of Georgia Tech students from the IEEE Power & Energy Society aim to improve access to clean, reliable power at a remote health center in one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, using a solar-based microgrid.

EE alumni Hardie Davis, Jr. and C. Dean Alford are featured in this story about public servants and politicians in Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine profile.

In the study, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of California Santa Barbara created a scanning tool called ‘BarFinder’ to track down the unique features of bad repositories.

Nine employees from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) were honored with Years of Service Awards at the 2016 Service Recognition Reception.

ECE Professor Abhijit Chatterjee and a team of his present and former Ph.D. students have been chosen for the 2015 Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)/IEEE Test Technology Technical Council Best Paper Award.

ECE Professor Bonnie Ferri has been unanimously selected for the 2016 Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.

Do cyborgs really need to eat? Granted, there’s no practical way to answer this question at the moment, but with robotics technology improving rapidly each year, the question of fuel sources is a fascinating one. Is organic fuel for cyborgs a necessity?

On April 22, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 15th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

Justin Romberg has been appointed as the new associate chair for Research, and independent of that new role, as the Schlumberger Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

ECE faculty and students were recognized at Georgia Tech awards programs held on April 21 and 22.

ECE Ph.D. student Ryan Bahr was chosen for the GOMACTech 2016 Best Student Poster Paper Award.

Bonnie Ferri has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. Ferri will be presented with this award at the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, to be held October 18-21, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah has been appointed as the associate chair for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective September 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Zachary Fleetwood has received the 2016 IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

Three Ph.D. students from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) won Best Paper in Session Awards at SRC TECHCON 2016, making Georgia Tech one of two universities with the most awards received at the conference.

ECE Ph.D. student Edgar Garay has been selected to receive a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) program and become a Sloan Fellow.

Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Zachary Fleetwood has been selected for the 2016 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Award.

When Patricia Ford, Miss Georgia and a Georgia Tech alumna, competed for the Miss America title on September 11, she outshined the competition, thanks to her computer-coded shoes.

Mary Ann Weitnauer has been appointed as senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

Raheem Beyah has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective March 1.

MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

ECE Regents' Professor Emeritus Russell M. Mersereau will receive the 2017 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in areas of speech and audio processing.

ECE's Sean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award.