Ralph Tanbourgi has been named the recipeint of the best student paper award at the 2014 European Wireless Conference for a paper that he co-authored with Prof. Jeffrey Andrews and UT ECE alumnus Harprett Dhillon.
UT ECE student David Dillen has been awarded a 2014 Intel PhD Fellowhsip. Davis is supervised by Prof. Emanuel Tutuc. The award consists of an educational stipend of $45K and a Research Total Industry Experience (TIE) grant of $5K.
Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2014 Indo-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (IAFOE). The IAFOE program brings together outstanding, early-career Indian and American engineers from industry, universities, and other research institutions to introduce their areas of engineering research and technical work to facilitate an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.
Prof. Seth Bank has been awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award for his work on "Optical characterization of semiconductors and metal-semiconductor nanocomposites."
UT ECE alumnus Brett Paulson has been named the recipient of the Cockrell School of Engineering Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award for 2014. Established in 1991, the Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award (OYEG) recognizes rising stars of Cockrell School alumni under the age of 40. Honorees are selected for their early outstanding professional achievements, dedication to public service and support of higher education. Including this year’s honoree, 27 alumni have received this award.
A message to engineering students graduating across the country this month: If you’re in the market for a mentor, or you just need some career inspiration, have a talk with Cockrell School alumnus Bob Mansfield.
The University of Texas at Austin Engineering Student Council presneted Prof. Yale Patt the award for Outstanding ECE Professor 2014 at the Cockrell School of Engineering Awards Banquet in April. This is the third time Prof. Patt has been recognized. He was also named Outstanding ECE Professor in 2007 and 2009. Winners were determined by student voting.
Prof. David Pan has received the 2014 RAISE (Recognizing Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Instilling Strength and Excellence) Award. The award was given at the annual RAISE Excellence Award Ceremony co-hosted by the Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association (AAAFSA) and the Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective (APAC). One faculty member and one staff member at UT Austin were honored for the 2014 RAISE Excellence Award.
Prof. Ranjit Gharpurey, along with a colleague, Prof. J. C. Rudell from the University of Washington, has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
UT ECE students in the Real-Time Operating Systems course held their autonomous robot race final on Friday, May 2. The students design and implement a distributed RTOS and implement autonomous driving with up to 8 sensors and two motors.
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