Electrical engineering junior Joe Luck was one of four students recently awarded scholarships by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).

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.

The Texas Instruments University Program profiles David G. Taylor, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.

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

The Panasonic/Georgia Tech team–known as PIC Jackets–took third place in the Freescale Cup autonomous vehicle race event at SAE Convergence, held at the Detroit Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich. on October 17.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva has been appointed as an associate director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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