August 30, 2004
Department wins more undergrad seats, TAs
Our Department has won a competition for 40 undergraduate seats which will bring some new resources to the Department. The most visible of these resources is 14 new TA positions, which will increase our TA allocation up from 33 to 47 slots! These TA positions will be extremely helpful in improving the support of our…
July 30, 2004
Melissa Meyer wins poster contest
Melissa Meyer recently grabbed a share of first prize for her entry at the CEDAR 2004 Student Poster Contest in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Melissa’s poster was entitled “A Two Year Summary of Field-Aligned Irregularity Observations at Sub-Auroral Latitude”. It was one of 79 entries from the national and international upper-atmospheric physics community. Congratulations Melissa!
May 30, 2004
Costas Boulis Awarded ‘Best Student Paper’
EE grad student Costas Boulis was selected for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2004 European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. This is a highly selective conference with only 17% of all submissions being accepted, so this is quite an honor. Congratulations to Costas!
April 30, 2004
Jandhyala wins UW squash tournament
Vikram Jandhyala, an A-division squash player, has won the 2004 UW intramural squash tournament. See this page on the UW team’s squash site for the harrowing play-by-play! Vikram is also the top player in the UW league (when he gets time to play matches) and an active player in the Seattle squash league, one of…
March 30, 2004
EE Commencement
On June 11, UW Electrical Engineering held its graduation celebration in Kane Hall. Chris Kenworthy (UWEE ’76) delivered the commencement address. A standing room only crowd was on-hand to honor our 174 BSEE, 66 MSEE, and 41 PhD recipients. We are proud of our graduates and wish them the best as they go out to…
February 1, 2004
Pyayt Wins Nanotechnology UIF Award
First year EE graduate student Anna Pyayt has been awarded the Nanotechnology UIF Graduate Research award for 2004-05 for her research titled “Novel wavelength selective switch based on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication technique”. The award includes a graduate stipend, tuition, and benefits, as well as a research allowance for travel or materials and supplies….
January 5, 2004
Radha Poovendran wins YIP Award
Assistant Professor Radha Poovendran has won a prestigious Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the Office of Naval Research. Radha’s winning proposal was titled “Self-Organizing Randomization Protocols for Routing and Security of Broadband Wireless Networks”. His award is one of only 26 given out this year. This most recent award adds to the honors Radha…
January 3, 2004
Klavins and Javidi latest CAREER recipients
The EE department is proud to honor two more NSF CAREER award recipients – Assistant Professors Tara Javidi and Eric Klavins. Eric’s CAREER award is for his proposal “Programmed Robotic Self Assembly”. Tara’s winning proposal is titled “Cross-Layer Integrated Protocol Design for Broadband Wireless Data Networks: A Microeconomic Approach.” We would like to congratulate Tara…
January 2, 2004
Alex Mamishev interviewed on KUOW
On March 1, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Alex Mamishev was interviewed on KUOW radio regarding SWAT Robotics and their participation in FIRST. Also participating were several students from Forest Ridge High School, as well as UW SWAT student mentors. You can listen to the interview from the KUOW archives. RealAudio stream MP3 version
October 11, 2003
Affiliate Prof. Goldstein wins IEEE, OSA honors
Affiliate Professor Evan Goldstein was recently elected to the rank of Fellow of the Optical Society of America “For contributions to the fundamental understanding of optically amplified multiwavelength communication systems.” He has also been named a 2004 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to optical communications.”
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