ECE faculty members and students received awards and recognitions at the Georgia Tech Faculty & Staff Honors Luncheon and at the Georgia Tech Student Honors Day.

An ECE student team – consisting of Francesco Amato, Christopher Peterson, and Muhammad Bashir Akbar – won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE RFID-TA 2015 Conference, held September 16-18 in Tokyo, Japan.

This article was written by Omer T. Inan, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his Ph.D. student Andrew Wiens.

Georgia Tech and Emory faculty members are uniting to train the next generation of engineering students in healthcare robotics technologies, so they can better understand the changing needs of patients and their caregivers and healthcare providers.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has been selected for an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his project entitled “Very-short Antennas via Ionized Plasmas for Efficient Radiation.”

ECE Ph.D. student Spyridon (Spyros) Pavlidis received the European Microwave Conference Young Engineer Prize at the 45th European Microwave Conference (part of European Microwave Week), held September 6-11 in Paris, France.

On April 22, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 14th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan won a Best Paper Award at the 10th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2015), held September 13-16 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Ahmet Ceyhan has been named the recipient of the 2014 S.C. Sun Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named to The Root 100 2015, a list of 100 African-Americans ages 25 to 45 who are responsible for the year’s most significant moments, movements, and ideas.

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has been awarded the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

The UMI-Georgia Tech-CNRS, an international research lab based in Metz, France at Georgia Tech-Lorraine (GTL), has successfully completed a process demonstration on the new Aixtron MOCVD system by growing a variety of III-nitrides and device structures.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum awarded the 2015 Current Achievement Trophy to NASA's Kepler Mission Team on March 25 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C.

Arijit Raychowdhury has been appointed as the ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1.

ECE Associate Professor Christopher F. Barnes has published a new textbook entitled Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wave Theory Foundations, Analysis and Algorithms.

ECE Associate Professor Azad Naeemi will lead a new benchmarking program to evaluate new and emerging computing devices.

ECE's Hyung Suk (James) Yang, Chaoqi Zhang, and Muhannad Bakir have been named the winners of the 2014 IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Best Paper Award in the Advanced Packaging Technologies category.

Stanislav (Stas) Emelianov has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Chair in Microelectronics and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

Georgia Tech researchers Christopher R. Valenta and Gregory D. Durgin have been named the recipients of the 2014 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award.

Deepak Divan has been appointed as the John E. Pippin Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

Nominations are now open for the 2015 Roger P. Webb Awards, which recognize the excellence of the faculty, staff, and students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE Ph.D. student Nelson E. Lourenco has been honored with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

ECE Ph.D. student William Song won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), held April 21-23 in Monterey, California.

ECE's Ahmad Beirami and Zhixuan Xia have been chosen for Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards, which will be presented at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Dinner on April 15.

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for a CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

ECE Ph.D. student Song Hu will receive an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship later this spring.

Maryam Saeedifard has been named as the Atlanta IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Engineer for 2015.

Ayanna Howard has been appointed to the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 17.

The Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)/Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society has been selected for the 2014 IEEE SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholars–Deepak Divan, Stanislav Emelianov, and Ravi Kane–bringing the Institute’s total of GRA Eminent Scholars to 22.

ECE undergraduate and graduate student enrollments continue to rise, and females comprise 21% of our incoming freshman class – its highest mark ever.

A paper published by ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues has been named as one of the 50 most downloaded IEEE Sensors Journal papers for the months of November and December 2014.

ECE Assistant Professor Maryam Saeedifard received the 2015 Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for her paper, “Trends in Microgrid Control,” from the IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee.

Semiconductor Research Corporation, the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has awarded $103 million to Georgia Institute of Technology during more than 30 years of supporting research at the university.

Waymond R. Scott has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective February 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Shoufeng Lan received a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Silver Award at the 2015 MRS Meeting, held November 29-December 4 in Boston, Massachusetts.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris will receive the 2015 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Microwaves, Antennas, & Propagation at an upcoming technical conference.

ECE Assistant Professors Mark A. Davenport and Hua Wang have been selected for the 2015 Lockheed Dean's Excellence in Teaching Awards.

ECE Ph.D. student Song Hu has been named the recipient of the 2015-2016 Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Li received the Best Paper Award at Photoptics 2015, the Third International Conference on Photonics, Optics, and Laser Technology, held March 12-14 in Berlin, Germany.