UT Austin Hosts International Conference for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chairs

UT Austin recently hosted the largest gathering of electrical and computer engineering department heads from the U.S. and Canada organized by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA). The 2012 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo represents the first time the association has partnered with a university to host the annual event, a model that the association hopes to continue.

UT ECE Senior Simeon Bochev Selected as Cactus Yearbook 2012 Outstanding Student Award

UT ECE senior Simeon Bochev has been selected as a recipient of the Cactus Yearbook's 2012 Outstanding Student Award. Cactus Yearbook Outstanding Students are selected by the Outstanding Student Selection Committee and are honored in the Cactus Yearbook. Students are selected based on outstanding contribution to the University, scholarship, leadership, awards and honors received, participation in campus organizations, activities and campus committee work.

Prof. Metcalfe Reviews The Idea Factory, by Jon Gertner for The Wall Street Journal

UT ECE Professor of Innovation Robert Metcalfe recently reviewed New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner's history of Bell Labs, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, for The Wall Street Journal.

Read Dr. Metcalfe's review, Where the Future Came From, on The Wall Street Journal website.

Prof. Yerraballi Selected as Electrical Engineering Recipient of the 2012 Faculty Appreciation Award

Prof. Ramesh Yerraballi has been named the 2012 recipient of the Electrical Engineering Faculty Appreciation Award. The Student Engineering Council is hosting the award ceremony this Thursday, March 8th, 4-6pm in the SAC Ballroom.

If you can attend the ceremony to celebrate Ramesh’s award, please fill out the following form.

UT ECE Alumnus Kyungtae Han Wins 2012 Intel Achievement Award

UT ECE alumnus Kyungtae Han has been named the winner of the 2012 Intel Achievement Award For Developing the Converged Platform Power Management Framework. This is the highest technical award at Intel. At the awards ceremony in San Francisco on May 5th, Dr. Han will receive the award from Intel President andCEO Paul Otellini.

Dr. Han received his PhD ECE from UT Austin in August 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Brian L. Evans. He works at Intel Labs in the Portland, Oregon, area.

Eighth Annual Edison Lecture Series Engages Youth

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin hosted its eighth annual Edison Lecture Series on February 22-23, this year focusing on robotics. The series used robots as a platform to engage and excite youth from around central Texas about computing and engineering. During the past seven years, the series has reached nearly 22,000 students in the Austin area.

Prof. David Pan, Prof. Joydeep Ghosh and Students Win Best Paper at ASP-DAC 2012

Prof. David Pan, Prof. Joydeep Ghosh and graduate students Duo Ding and Bei Yu have received the 2012 ASP-DAC Best Paper Award for their paper EPIC: Efficient Prediction of IC Manufacturing Hotspots With A Unified Meta-Classification Formulation. ASP-DAC is one of the premier conferences for Electronic Design Automation.

Prof. Alù Receives SPIE Early Career Achievement Award

Professor Andrea Alù of UT ECE has been named the 2012 recipient of the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award. The award recognizes Andrea’s “pioneering contributions to optical metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena”. The SPIE Early Career Achievement Award is given to an early career professional in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions to any of the engineering or scientific fields of interests to SPIE.

Prof. Mikhail Belkin Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Mikhail Belkin of UT ECE was awarded an NSF CAREER award for his work on Terahertz Semiconductor Laser Sources for Operation Above Cryogenic Temperatures. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Alù's Cloaking Research Garners Media Attention

Prof. Andrea Alù’s research on cloaking a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time, has received attention from the BBC News and other major news sources. The idea, outlined in New Journal of Physics, could find first application in high-resolution microscopes.