June 1, 2007
Emeritus Professor Chih-Chi Hsu
Emeritus Professor Chih-Chi Hsu passed away peacefully on July 11, 2007, at the age of 84. Professor Hsu was born in Shanghai, China. Having earned his undergraduate degree at Chiao-Tung University, he came to the U.S. in 1948 for graduate study. He received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan and his doctorate from…
Leo Lam wins Business Plan Competition award
EE graduate student Leo Lam was part of the IS4D team (along with two UW Business School MBA students) that was awarded the “Best Idea Award for Technology” in the UW Business School’s Business Plan Competition, hosted by their Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. This competition is one of the most prominent business plan competitions…
May 2, 2007
EE Students win PhD Fellowships
Cherry Wakayama Jeff Walling EE would like to recognize Cherry Wakayama, advised by Richard Shi and Wolf Kohn, and Jeffrey Walling, advised by David Allstot, for being awarded Intel Foundation Fellowships. These Intel Fellowships are renewable forup to 2 years. The Fellowship includes a stipend and an Intel microprocessor-based personal computer system. Congratulations to both…
May 1, 2007
Angel Bailey wins CoE Innovator award
Our own Angel Bailey, Administrative Coordinator par excellence, has been selected as the “Outstanding Classified Staff Innovator” in the UW College of Engineering’s Community of Innovators Awards! EE had quite a few people nominated for Innovator awards: Leo Lam and Ken Eguro for “Teaching Assistant Innovator”; Xiaoyu Miao, Mitch Lum and Jeremy Holleman for “Research…
April 1, 2007
NASA to Test Portable Robot Surgeon
March 9, 2007
EE Senior Receives Goldwater Honorable Mention
Sam Burden, an undergraduate student double-majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, recently received honorable mention in the 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Competition. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Programwas created in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who served our country through various governmental roles for over…
March 8, 2007
Two EE grad students win NSF fellowships
Amy Dashiell Rob Egbert Two EE graduate students – Amy Dashiell, advised by Mari Ostendorf; and Robert Egbert, advised by Brian Otis – have been awarded prestigious NSF Fellowships. These NSF Graduate Research Fellowships provide three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees, and are intended for students who…
March 7, 2007
Students awarded “Best Paper”
A paper by Patrick Ngatchou (Recent EE graduate advised by Professor El-Sharkawi and Affiliate Professor Meldrum), Jianchun Dong (current Ph.D. student advised by Professor Parviz), and others has been named co-winner of the 2006 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Congratulations!
March 2, 2007
Gupta receives Young Investigator Award
EE Assistant Professor Maya Gupta has received a 2007 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The award is for “Joint Deconvolution and Classification.” According to the ONR’s program description: “The objectives of the Young Investigator Program (YIP) are to attract to naval research outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher…
February 20, 2007
Grad students win conference best paper award
A paper by Samuel Kim and Ehsan Saeedi was named “best paper” at the January IEEE Nanoelectronics and Molecular Systems conference in Bangkok. Kim traveled to the conference and presented the paper – titled “Self-Assembled Heterogeneous Fluorescence Detection System” – to a group of scientists, researchers, and panel judges. Babak Parviz is Saeedi’s advisor and…
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