Aug 15, 2016

Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

Mar 03, 2016

Four faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering will receive the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, which is sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL).

Aug 23, 2017

The nation’s first remote robotics lab, the Robotarium, opens.

Aug 16, 2017

Researchers can upload their own code, then watch Georgia Tech robots carry out the experiment.

Jun 12, 2017

ECE Ph.D. student Maria Santos has been chosen for a La Caixa Fellowship for Graduate Studies in North America.

Jun 08, 2017

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Oct 16, 2017

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has awarded a $27 million grant to develop new methods of creating robot teams.

May 15, 2017

Autonomous flying robots created to learn more about human interaction and obey rules of the sky.

Sep 10, 2018

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Issue, which includes undergraduate engineering program rankings.

Apr 16, 2018

Six recent ECE graduates were honored with Best Thesis Awards at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Banquet, held on April 9 at the Klaus Building Atrium. This is the largest number of students that ECE has ever had honored at this event.

Feb 06, 2018

John D. Cressler, Magnus Egerstedt, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

Jan 12, 2016

Professor Magnus Egerstedt's aims to make robots accessible to almost anyone.

Jul 29, 2016

Egerstedt will replace the founding executive director of IRIM, Henrik I. Christensen, who is moving to the University of California, San Diego.

Jul 14, 2022

The prestigious award is presented annually to one individual in recognition of their contributions to automatic control education in any form.

Apr 01, 2021

Magnus Egerstedt, Steve W. Chaddick school chair and professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will become dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine effective July 19, 2021. 

Jul 15, 2019

ECE Professor and School Chair Magnus Egerstedt received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), held July 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mar 11, 2019

Magnus Egerstedt has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.