The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Issue, which includes undergraduate engineering program rankings, has been published, and the results for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech are very good.

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 Professor Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva was named as a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis has been named the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics, effective March 1.

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 Assistant Professor Matthieu Bloch took part in the EU-US Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, held November 21-23 in Chantilly, France.

ECE School Chair Steven W. McLaughlin recently talked with bloggers from AroundTI about university research and the present and future of engineering education.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and GSU's Yu-ping Chen have been named to Atlanta Magazine's 2013 Innovation Index.

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.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has published a new textbook, Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channels.

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, effective November 1.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts–IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal.

Led by ECE Assistant Professor Pamela Bhatti, researchers are developing a device that could improve sound quality offered by cochlear implants.

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.

Professor Thomas M. Conte has been elected as president of the IEEE Computer Society.

ECE Ph.D. student Yue Zhang won the Outstanding Interactive Presentation Award at the 62nd IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, held May 29-June 1, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.

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 Ph.D. student Uppili Raghunathan received the 2013 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir is a recipient of the 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award.

From building RF components for cell phones to teaching signal processing and electromagnetics at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Alenka Zajić has always been interested in engineering and communicatio

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 Assistant Professor Jongman Kim has been selected for the 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues will receive the 2013 IET Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Premium Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Hanju Oh received the first place poster award at the IEEE Global Interposer Technology Conference, held November 5-7 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan received the 2014 IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT) Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award on May 29 at the IEEE Electronic Components Technology Conference.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang had one of the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Microwave Magazine for August, September, and November of 2013.

Five Ph.D. students from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) won Best Paper in Session Awards at SRC TECHCON 2014, the most of any university attending the conference.

ECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Bashir Akbar was named a finalist in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition, held on June 5.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li was honored with two IEEE awards–the James E. Avant Garde Award and the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Wireless Recognition Award–during fall semester 2013.

ECE Ph.D. student Nelson Lourenco was awarded the 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Abbie Kressner has received a Chih Foundation Research Award.

The Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named six faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award .

Elliot Moore will take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2014 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium, to be held Oct. 26-29 in Irvine, California.