UT ECE graduate student Geoffrey Luke has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows. Geoff is working with Prof. Stas Emelianov on the detection of micrometastases in the sentinel lymph node in the BME track in ECE and awarded a recruiting TA position.

UT ECE graduate student Jason Soric recently won Best Presentation at the 2012 Mini-Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems held at Baylor University on March 23. Jason presented a paper on Microwave Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials. Jason is supervised by Dr. Andrea Alù in the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Research Group.

UT ECE student Anjali Datta has been selected to receive a prestigious Hertz Fellowship. According to the Hertz foundation The highly competitive selection process includes a comprehensive written application, four references, and two rounds of technical interviews by recognized leaders in applied science and engineering. The foundation also notes that the Hertz Fellowship is valued at more than $250,000 per student, with support lasting up to five years. In addition to Anjali, Kelly Moynihan from our BME department also received a Hertz Fellowship. Anjali is working with Prof.

Six UT ECE students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate research Fellowships for 2012. The Cockrell School of Engineering was awarded 30 NSF Graduate Fellowships for 2012 overall, second most in the nation.

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.

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 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. 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 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.

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.