The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been elected to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Board of Governors for a remarkable, seventh consecutive three-year term.

Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.

ECE Ph.D. student Pranav Gupta received a Best Paper Award at the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems 2018 Workshop, held June 3-7 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

EAS Professor Felix Herrmann has been named as a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the period covering January through June 2019.

Pamela Bhatti has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (J-TEHM) for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2019. 

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship, effective May 1, 2018.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan D. Saltaformaggio has received the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

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The Richard A. Tapia Award is awarded annually to an individual who demonstrates significant research leadership and strong commitment and contributions to diversifying computing.

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

John Papapolymerou and his colleagues have been selected for the 2012 H.A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS).

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.

Peter Song, a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech who works in John Cressler's research group, was selected for the NSTRF Class of 2012.

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

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been named as one of 26 professors from across the U.S.–and the sole winner from Georgia Tech–to receive a 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.

ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler won two IEEE awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo.

ECE faculty, staff, and students were honored at the 2012 Roger P. Webb Awards Program, held on April 25 at the Klaus Building Atrium.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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