Texas ECE hosted the Spring Awards Banquet on Monday, May 6, 2019 to honor the achievements of students and recognize the contributions of faculty during the 2018-2019 academic year. Texas ECE alumnus Eric Feng gave the keynote address. Mr. Feng is an American software engineer, business executive, and financier. He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, where he focuses on leading early stage consumer investments.Previously he was CTO of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company Flipboard, as well as the founding CTO of Hulu. He earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Texas ECE in 1999, and received the IEC Everitt Award as the top graduating engineering student.
The department recognized the student team winners of the Capstone Design Showcase where students demonstrate projects completed in a yearlong capstone design course sequence, solving open-ended problems in groups of 5-7 students.
The derpatment also awarded students for academic achievement and leadership, the Margarida Jacome Outstanding Dissertation Prize, excellence as Teaching Assistants, and the Dr. Beer Endowment for Student Excellence in written and spoken communication. The Texas ECE Undergraduate Advisory Board recognized outstanding faculty selected by the students "for a consistent display of care and excellence in and out of the classroom."
The list of award winners is presented here:
Margarida Jacome Outstanding Dissertation Prize
Dr. Meng Li
in recognition of his dissertation “A Synergistic Framework for Hardware IP Privacy and Integrity Protection”
Undergraduate Leadership Award
Megan Cooper
in Recognition of Excellence in Leadership 2018-2019
Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award
Robert Streit
in Recognition of Outstanding Academic Achievement 2018-2019
Graduate Leadership Award
Pranav Kumar
in Recognition of Excellence in Leadership 2018-2019
Graduate Academic Excellence Award
Ahmed Kord
in Recognition of Outstanding Academic Achievement 2018-2019
Dr. Beer Endowment for Student Awards for excellence in written and spoken communication
Christine Dao
Nick Nieman
Upasana Prabhu
Anthony Malloy Vento
Top Teaching Award
Alvaro Furlani Bastos
in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching in EE462L - Power Electronics Laboratory
Samuel L. Harper
in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching in EE 445L - Embedded Systems Design Lab
Alec M. Skipper
in Recognition of Excellence in Teaching in EE 438 - Fundamentals of Electronic Circuits and EE 302 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Advisory Board Outstanding Faculty
Prof. Nina Telang
Prof. Ramesh Yerraballi
Prof. Christine Julien
Prof. Brian Evans
Capstone Design Showcase Winners
First Place - Honors/Entrepreneurial Category
Stellar Spine
Marisa Drake, Sarah Jansen, Dayoung Lee, Pooja Muddasani, Zoe Ng, and Snigdha Sinha
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christine Julien
Second Place - Honors/Entrepreneurial Category
Feather
Alex Chan, David Chun, Caton Sun, Joel Wang, Joshua Yang, and Samuel Zhang
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Raul Longoria and Dr. Mark McDermott
Third Place - Honors/Entrepreneurial Category
Deep Learning Hardware Accelerator
Alex Dexter, Leigh Gonik, Shyam Sabhaya, Robert Streit, Zachary Susskind, and Brian Wang
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer
First Place - Industry Category
Augmented Reality in the Great Outdoors
Justin DuPont, Meagan Patton, Kailash Sivakumar, Tung To, Edilio Vera, and James Yoder
Project Partner: Nokia Bell Labs • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jack Lee
Second Place - Industry Category
Texas Instruments IoT Development Board
Michael Arthur, Jr., Tommy Gilbert, Kamish Momin, Matt Prost, Jacob Valencia, and Andrew Yu
Project Partner: Texas Instruments • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mikhail Belkin
Third Place - Industry Category
The Object Scanner
Trevor Jones, John Lee, Luis Petitjean, Tyler Schattel, and Natasha Sun
Project Partner: Texas Instruments • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ray Chen
