The University of Texas at Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  (UT ECE) hosted the Fall 2014 Senior Design Open House on Monday, November 24, 2014. UT ECE undergraduate seniors presented demonstrations of their projects spanning two semesters of work.

UT ECE professors Michael Orshansky and Surya Santoso have been elevated to IEEE Fellows. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

UT ECE graduate student Scott Maddox has been named the recipient of the Best Student paper Award from the 2014 MRS Electronic Materials Conference for his talk "Effects of Growth Rate, Substrate Temperature, and a Bi Surfactant on Doping Limits in InAs: Si Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” Scott was selected to receive the award from a field of nearly 170 student talks. The Electronic Materials Conference is hosted by the Materials Research Society and bills itself as "the premier annual forum on the preparation and characterization of electronic materials."

20 UT ECE students were named recipients of awards in the form of scholarships and fellowships from Texas Instruments in a ceremony at The University of Texas at Austin on November 7, 2014.

UT ECE PhD student Ms. Debarati Kundu has been selected as one of the winners of the 2014 Roberto Padovani Scholarship for being one of the best performing interns at Qualcomm. Named after Dr. Roberto Padovani, one of the leading innovators of the company, the scholarship, first created in 2008, is awarded each year to about seven Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development interns out of hundreds of interns. The winners receive a cash award of $5,000.

UT ECE professor Andrea Alù and a team of researchers have achieved a milestone in modern wireless and cellular telecommunications, creating a radically smaller, more efficient radio wave circulator that could be used in cellphones and other wireless devices, as reported in the latest issue of Nature Physics.

UT ECE lost a valued friend on October 14, 2014 when faculty member Eric Swanson passed away unexpectedly at the age of 58.

UT ECE PhD student Francesco Monticone has been named the recipient of the Homer Lindsey Bruce Graduate Fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School. The Bruce Endowed Graduate Fellowships were established by The University of Texas System Board of Regents for the benefit of The University of Texas at Austin in March 2000. Awards are based on major accomplishments since entering Graduate School, a well-defined program of research, strong personal statement, and letters of recommendation.

This summer, Dr. Ramesh Yerraballi of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT ECE) led a group of sixteen first-year students on a study-abroad program to Hyderabad, India.

UT ECE professor Joydeep Ghosh has received two research awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totalling more than $1 Million focusing on topics in complex data modeling in the healthcare field.