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We are happy to announce that Mr. Kyung-Young Jung, ECE graduate student working under the supervision of Professor Fernando Teixeira, is one of the winners of this year's Presidential Fellowship competition. This is the second year in a row that one of our graduate students has won this prestigious award. (11/07)
Congratulations to Professors Robert Lee and Joel Johnson on being elected IEEE Fellows. Professor Lee was cited for his “for contributions to finite element and finite difference methods in electromagnetics” and Professor Johnson was cited for his "contributions to ocean surface remote sensing using microwave systems." Every year only 0.1% of the IEEE members are elected Fellows, the highest rank within the IEEE. Currently, about 2% of the membership holds the Fellow rank. (11/07)
Congratuations to Prof. Steve Yurkovich for receiving the Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award for the Winter/Spring 2007 semester. He was selected from one of many institutions which offer courses in GM's program, by the TEP (Technical Education Program) staff and by students who work full-time for GM and take courses via distance learning toward a master's degree. (10/07)
Ben Munk, professor emeritus, received the 2007 Antennas and Propagation John Kraus Antenna Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (10/07)
Professor Jose Cruz has been appointed a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control to acknowledge his outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the fields of interest of IFAC. (10/07)
Congratulations to Molly Wambold of the ElectroScience Laboratory staff for receiving the Above and Beyond College of Engineering Staff Award for her outstanding work this past year. And, congratulations to Susan Noble in Electrical and Computer Engineering for being nominated. (9/07)
Mr. T. Lerttwiriyaprapa (P. Pathak and J. Volakis, advisors) has been selected as one of three finalists in the 2007 USNC/CNC URSI Student Paper Competition. He will give an oral presentation during the final phase of this competition at the 2007 URSI North American Radio Science Meeting in Ottawa. (7/16/07)
Ms. Dongmin Liu (W. Lu, advisor) is one of the winners of the Presidential Fellowship Award. According to the Graduate School, "...these fellowships recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project..." (5/24/07)
Prof. Steve Yurkovich was named Acting Director of OSU's Center for Automotive Research. He has been the Education Director of CAR for approximately eight years. In his research, funded by General motors and other automotive companies, he supervises students in ECE and ME and publishes in the area of automotive powertrain control. (5/24/07)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will hold its third Grand Challenge competition on November 3, 2007. The DARPA Urban Challenge features autonomous ground vehicles conducting simulated military supply missions in a mock urban area. Read more. The multi-stage selection process for teams to enter the competition required recently that a 5-minute video of the present status (as of April 15, 2007) of developments on their car be submitted. View the video. The OSU-ACT team is led by Prof. Umit Ozguner.
Professor Umit Catalyurek has earned one of NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards, which recognize a young researcher's dual commitment to scholarship and education. He will receive $400,000 in funding over five years for an ambitious project titled “Scalable combinatorial scientific computing.” Catalyurek will use the award to design efficient algorithms to enable increasingly large parallel computing systems to solve ever more complex scientific problems. Read the full article, by Holly Wagner. Professor Catalyurek is also a professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. (5/14/07)
Congratulations to Jiti Gupta for receiving the prestigious 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award given by the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) Board of Directors. The AMTA society is the main national organization associated with antenna measurements. (4/11/07)
Congratulations to ECE GTA, James Bontempo! We are pleased to announce that James has won the Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) -- only 10 awards are given in the whole university. According to the announcement, "...Out of the approximately 2500 GTAs at Ohio State this year, 224 individuals were nominated for the GATA. Over 100 GTAs chose to undergo the rigorous application process in order to compete for the award. To be nominated is, in itself, quite an honor. To be chosen as one of the top 10 is truly exceptional..." (4/11/07)
Congratulations ECE Faculty award winners! We are pleased to announce that the following ECE faculty and research members received 2007 College of Engineering awards:
Lumley Research Awards - Yuan Zheng, Kevin Passino, Mohammed Ismail, Andrea Serrani, Bob Burkholder Innovators Award - Betty Lise Anderson
Diversity Excellence Award - Joe Cruz
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