In the News

Congratulations to Woo-Jun Yoon, a doctoral student of Prof. Paul Berger, who received an Honorable Mention at the 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in San Diego for his research on high-efficiency flexible polymer solar cells. (9/08)

Dr. Eric Walton, research scientist emeritus, recently received the 2008 Antenna Measurements Techniques Association (AMTA) Distinguished Achievement Award. This is the most prestigious award given annually to a single individual who distinguished himself throughout his/her career on antenna measurement techniques. Congratulations! (7/08)

Congratulations to Vineet Rawat for winning one of the best paper awards (2nd place) given at the 2008 International IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium. His paper was entitled "A Domain Decomposition for Time-Harmonic Electromagnetics," by Vineet Rawat and Jin-Fa Lee. The selection was from 176 student paper submissions. (7/08)

We would like to congratulate the following ECE faculty for their recent College awards: (5/08)

Harrison Award (only one given out in the entire College) - Prof. Hesham El-Gamal
Boyer Award for Teaching Innovation - Prof. Kevin Passino
Lumley Research Award - Profs. Hesham El-Gamal, Randy Moses, Joel Johnson, and Eylem Ekici; and Dr. Kubilay Sertel
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award - Prof. Andrea Serrani

The 2008 IEEE INFOCOM award for best paper was presented to Prof. Ness Shroff, C. Joo, and X. Lin for their paper, "Understanding the Capacity Region of the Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks." IEEE INFOCOM is the premier IEEE conference in networking. (4/08)

Prof. Steve Yurkovich is the recipient of the "2008 John R. Ragazzini Award in Control Education" of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). The Ragazzini Award has been given annually since 1979 to recognize outstanding contributions to automatic control education. The citation for Professor Yurkovich reads: "For leadership in control education through curriculum and laboratory development, for contributions in continuing education for control engineers in industry, and for promotion of student involvement in engineering professionalism." (3/08)

Congratulations to Professors Ness Shroff and Steve Ringel for their success in winning a MURI this year. OSU is the lead institution with Prof. Shroff as the PI on a 7-University team that was funded from ARO on the project entitled Stochastic Control of Multi-scale Networks: Modeling, Analysis and Algorithms.

Another MURI led by UCSB had Ohio State as part of an 8-University team with Prof. Ringel leading the team from OSU (including Prof. Len Brillson). OSU, UCSB, and MIT are the 3 main players on the MURI. The project from ONR is entitled DRIFT: Design-for-Reliability Initiative for Future Technologies. (3/08)

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