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

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

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

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Optical Wireless Applications (COWA), housed in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech celebrates its longtime partnership with Agilent Technologies in this video.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Georgia Electronic Design Center are featured as the Faculty Spotlight on the Agilent Technologies web site.

ECE faculty members Alenka Zajić and Gordon L. Stuber received the Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award for their paper, "Wideband MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Geometry-Based Statistical Modeling with Experimental Verification."

ECE Professor Ali Adibi was elected as an OSA Fellow, effective January 1.

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) were presented the Academic R&D Award at IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA, an industry event held in Santa Clara, Calif. on December 10.

ECE Ph.D. student Paragkumar Thadesar won first place in the student paper competition at the 2nd Annual IEEE Global Interposer Technology Workshop, held November 14-16 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

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

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

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

An ECE project team is among 12 selected for the upcoming Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest Engibous Summit.

ECE Professor John Papapolymerou has been appointed editor-in-chief of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.

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.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Chen receives a fellowship from the American Society of Nondestructive Testing.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been named among the 51 recipients of the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Chenyun Pan wins Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on IC Design and Technology.

Jordan Greenlee wins the 2011 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been named the recipient of the 2011 IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Young Engineer Award.

ECE Professor Rao Tummala receives the 2011 TechnoVisionary Award from the India Semiconductor Association.

The 2012 graduate programs rankings from U.S. News & World Report have been published, and the results are outstanding for both Georgia Tech and ECE.

Five ECE Ph.D. Students win 2011 GTRIC honors.

ECE Professor John Cressler will receive IEEE graduate teaching honor.

Six Georgia Tech faculty members elected as IEEE Fellows.

Vijay Sukumaran and Rao Tummala take Intel Best Student Paper Honors.

Zubin Mevawalla and Gary May receive Best Student Abstract Award.

ECE Students Recognized for Fellowship Awards

It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Scott Wills, died on the morning of Friday, December 2 after a long, brave battle with melanoma.

ECE Ph.D. student Prabir Saha earned the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM).