Abhilash Goyal won a Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), which was held March 19-21 in Santa Clara, Calif.

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

Vincent J. Mooney received the Best Paper Award at the Architecture of Computing Systems 2012 Conference, held February 29-March 2 in Munich, Germany.

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

Four employees and five students from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering received top Georgia Tech honors at the Institute’s annual Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on April 12 and at Student Honors Day on April 19.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Northrop Grumman and Georgia Tech are teaming up to develop a new micro gyro technology for DARPA.