Electrical & Computer Engineering professor Ari Arapostathis was elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Fellows are academic and industry professionals with extraordinary accomplishments in the field of electrical engineering. Arapostathis was elected for his contributions in nonlinear and stochastic control as well as applications in power systems. Currently, he is developing control techniques that would allow U.S. Navy ships' power systems to continue operating after sustaining damage.

Kaibin Huang, jointly supervised by Professors Jeff Andrews and Robert Heath, won Best Student Paper Award at the Global Telecommunications Conference. The paper, Multi-Antenna Limited Feedback for Temporally-Correlated Channels: Feedback Compression, was also authored by Bishwarup Mondal, R. W. Heath, Jr., and J. G. Andrews. The GLOBECOM conference is one of the two biggest communications conferences every year (the other is ICC).

The third annual Edison Lecture featured ECE professor and renewable energy authority, Dr. Mack Grady, and some of the country's leading lights in wind and solar power. The free interactive show included audience participation, give-aways, and demonstrations which brought the excitement of technology alive. Speakers discussed the ongoing transition from finite, expensive, and polluting energy sources to clean and cheap energy.

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