Congratulations to Professors Ness Shroff and Steve Ringel for their success in winning a MURI this year. OSU is the lead institution with Prof. Shroff as the PI on a 7-University team that was funded from ARO on the project entitled Stochastic Control of Multi-scale Networks: Modeling, Analysis and Algorithms.
Another MURI lead by UCSB had Ohio State as part of an 8-University team with Prof. Ringel leading the team from OSU (including Prof. Len Brillson). OSU, UCSB, and MIT are the 3 main players on the MURI. The project from ONR is entitled DRIFT: Design-for-Reliabilty Initiative for Future Technololgies. (3/08)
Prof. Len Brillson was just awarded a $966,120 grant from the Office of Naval Research to study "Multifunctional Oxide Materials, Their Application and Devices (MFMA)". This is work in collaboration with Profs. John Volakis (Director, ESL) and Henk Verweij (MSE). This is an initiative to "leverage Ohio strengths in nanoceramics, magnetics, and telecommunications into state-of-the-art, revolutionary electronics technology," including ultrasensitive RF communications and high temperature active electronics. This work is in collaboration with several Central Ohio companies.
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 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
Third Frontier Commission Awards : The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded a $28 million state grant to establish the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST). $20 million of the grant is for capital equipment and $8 million will be used to leverage research, development, and commercialization of sensor technology. The Institute is a consortium of universities and industries in Ohio led by University of Dayton; The Ohio State University ECE faculty principally involved are John Volakis, Joel Johnson, and Randy Moses. OSU will receive more than $3.5 million in capital funds from the State. These funds will be used to significantly expand our research space in sensor research as well as develop a software radar laboratory, an ultra-wideband sensing and communication network research facility, and a persistent video sensing and monitoring laboratory.
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has also announced the award for the new Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC). Professor Robert Collins of the University of Toledo and Dr. Robert J. Davis of OSU will be the center Co-Directors. The Ohio State University ECE faculty principally involved are Paul Berger and Steven Ringel. The $18.3 million budget for the center includes approximately $6.8 million for OSU over three years to fund research, development, and commercialization activities in advanced photovoltaic materials, devices, and systems in the College of Engineering and the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 3/06
American Vacuum Society to honor Brillson for scientific achievement
Leonard Brillson, professor and internationally known expert in electronic materials at the OSU Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics, will receive the 2006 Gaede-Langmuir Award for Scientific and Technological Achievement from the AVS Science and Technology Society during next fall’s annual AVS meeting in San Francisco.
AVS is the world’s leading professional organization representing scientists and engineers at the center of the science and technology of semiconductor microelectronics. The award recognizes Brillson for more than 30 years of work leading to an understanding of the fundamental importance of atomic scale chemical bonding, metallurgical reactions, and diffusion at interfaces, and their effects on the electrical properties of solid state materials and devices.
Notably, Brillson's pioneering research working showed that semiconductors, the workhorse of modern electronics, chemically react at their atomic-scale interface with other materials to alter how electricity moves across. By controlling how these interfaces form, he showed how devices from transistors to solar cells can be improved. Brillson is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, a professor of Physics in the College of Mathematics and Physics Sciences, as well as a Center for Materials Research Scholar.
Director of the newly formed IMR named
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Prof. Steven Ringel has been appointed as the first Director of the newly formed OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR). With broad faculty participation, the Institute is expected to provide coordination, leadership and support for the entire materials research community.
The Fred I. Diamond Award goes to...
Congratulations to Prof. Yuan Zheng and his Ph.D. student, Eric J. Balster, for receiving the Fred I. Diamond Award for the Best Technical Paper by the Air Force Rome Laboratory. The award is conferred annually for the paper that best represents work performed in house which contributes to technology for eventual improvement of U. S. Air Force operational capability.
Paper: E. Balster, Y.F. Zheng and R. Ewing, "Feature-based wavelet shrinkage algorithm for image denoising," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 14, No. 12, December 2005, pp. 2024-2039.
Best Poster Award for ESL students
Congratulations to F. Gundes and K. Zhao (advisor Prof. JinFa Lee) for being awarded one of the three best poster awards at the 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC 2006) for their paper "Higher Oder ABCs for FEM Applications."
Grant money for first quarter tops $4 million
From January through March 2006, ECE was awarded $2.53M and the ElectroScience Lab was awarded $1.77M in new grant money, for a total of $4.3M. These totals are the result of 45 various awards, those of $100K and above are listed:
- Profs. Randy Moses and Lee Potter: AFOSR MURI
OSU, MIT, Univ. of Michigan, Boston Univ. and Florida State all received a portion of $1.1M per year. OSU will receive approximately $400K per year for three years with a two year option.
- Prof. Steve Ringel:
ONR, $335K;
DoD DURIP, $378K
- Prof. John Volakis: AFOSR DURIP, $350K
- Prof. Len Brillson: ONR $270K
- Prof. Longya Xu: Smiths Aerospace, $200K
- Prof. David Orin: NSF, $300K
- Prof. Umit Ozguner: Air Force (RASER), $100
Five ECE Faculty Honored
Prof. Joel Johnson has been selected for the 2006 COE Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education while Profs. Paul Berger, Len Brillson, Jin-Fa Lee and Wu Lu are the recipients of the 2006 Lumley Research award.
Congratulations to all of them!
OSU Licenses Dr. Hesham El Gamal's wireless communications technoogy to WebSky, Inc.
A new method of space-time coding, co-developed by the iCORE Wireless Communicatoins Laboratory at the University of Alberta and Dr. Hesham El Gamal at The Ohio State University, operates at efficiencies nearly equal to the known theoretical limits. Potential applications for this technology include: high data rate cellular wireless communications, ad-hoc wireless networks with multi-antenna terminals, portable networks with multi-antenna systems, and mobile multi-user networks.
See the complete story on OSU's Office of Technology Licensing web site.
Boyer selected as Jefferson Science Fellow
Prof. Kim Boyer was recently selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. He will spend a year at the State Department in Washington, and then return to OSU where he will be on call as a science and technology consultant to the State Department for another five years.
Selections were made by a panel consisting of representatives from the National Academies of Science, along with representatives from the State Department (present and past), and others from a range of academic disciplines.
More information on the program can be found at The National Academies web site.
Anderson awarded 2006 TopCat Woman of the Year
Betty Lise Anderson, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named TopCAT Outstanding Woman of the Year by TechColumbus for her outstanding achievements in technology. Professor Anderson conducts research in the general areas of photonics and optical engineering, and published Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices, 1 st edition (McGraw-Hill) in 2005.
TopCAT stands for top contributors to the advancement of technology. Award
winners were drawn from more than 300 nominations. The Janaury 12 event was
organized by TechColumbus, which was formed in October from the merger of the
Columbus Technology Council and the Business Technology Center. It’s also linked
to SciTech, the developer of Ohio State University’s research park.
TechColumbus’ mission is to accelerate the development of technology businesses
in the region and assist existing companies to use technology to become more
competitive.
Contact: Gina Langen, College of Engineering, 688-4423, Langen.2@osu.edu
IPS students receive recognition for student papers
Congratulations to Arun Kannu for winning a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications. He was one of only three winners selected from more than 40 award nominations. The prize included a plaque, a $400 check, and a Van Trees' famous 4-book set on detection and estimation.
Congratulations also go out to Adam Margetts for being one of only 10 finalists in the student paper award contest at ICASSP.
ECE student awarded at OSU Research Forum
ECE undergrad student Simon Curran was awarded second place in the 2005 OSU Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Curran presented his work entitled "Real-Time Computer-Control of a High-Performance, Series-Compliant, Articulated Hopping Leg." His advisors are ECE professor David Orin and ME professor James Schmiedeler.
The Denman Undergraduate Research Forum provides a means for undergraduate students to share their research with members and friends of the OSU community; recognizes the significant contributions to research by OSU undergraduates; and facilitates exchange between students, faculty, and the public. Students enrolled in any undergraduate degree program at OSU are invited to participate, provided they are engaged in supervised research projects. Click here for a listing of all Denman winners.
TELR research grant awarded to ECE professor and undergradate student
Professor Ron Reano, a recent addition to the ECE faculty, was recently awarded a TELR Research on Research Grant for Summer 2005. He and his undergraduate partner, David Daniel, an ECE major, are one of ten pairs of faculty and undergraduates selected for the program.
The TELR Research on Research Grant program is designed to extend The Ohio State University faculty members' research into the undergraduate learning environment by using technology as the catalyst. The grant recipient teams will show their finished products in a Showcase Event during the week of August 22 in the Digital Union on the third floor of the Science and Engineering Library.
Six ECE students receive scholarships for undergraduate research projects
6 ECE juniors won undergraduate research scholarships for 2005-6 to perform Honors Thesis (Distinction) research projects. Individual award amounts varied, but the total for the six ECE students was $17,500 for next year. There were 49 students in the competition for the College of Engineering this year, with 45 students winning scholarships. All ECE students who competed won scholarships. ECE students who won the scholarships are: Nathan Denning, Ahmed Fasih, Jonathan Kopachek, Kevin Ponziani, Stephen Sawyer, and Thomas Sokol.
This scholarship money ($17,500) is funded through the University or the College of Engineering and is in addition to the approximately $170,000 in merit scholarships that ECE annual disburses to our undergraduates. In the past, we have had as many as 16 EE/ECE students win these scholarships, so our numbers are down from our historical performance. Numbers from some other deparments are: Mech (13), CEEGS (7), ChemE (6), ISE (5).
ECE Professor earns patent
ECE professor, Dr. Hesham El-Gamal , recently received a patent for "System Employing Threaded Space-Time Architecture for Transporting Symboils and Receivers for Multi-User Detection and Decoding of Symbols," (U.S. patent 6,898,248).
ElectroScience Lab research scientist earns two patents
ESL researcher, Dr. Eric Walton, recently received two patents:
"Sidelobe controlled radio transmission region in metallic panel"
(3-1-05 # 6,860,081) An invention for improving the performance of cell
phones and other radio communication devices while inside automobiles.
"Radar System using Random RF Noise"
(3-8-05; #6,864,834) An invention of a new type of very wide band short
range radar that can operate in crowded frequency bands. It can be used
for evaluation of highway conditions, buried pipe location, land mine
location, or even Space Shuttle tile delamination.
Dr. Walton's areas of interest include radio and radar signal analysis, radar target identification, compact range development, and antenna design. A major area of continuing research is the development of high resolution radar imaging techniques. Specific research topics include superresolution inverse synthetic aperture imaging, higher order spectral analysis and time frequency distribution interpretation of radar scattering. All of these topics have led to improved radar scattering phenomenological concepts with applications to radar target identification. He is the author of several papers and more than 15 reports specifically related to radar target identification.
Neal A. Smith Chair in Electrical Engineering Annnounced
Dr. Steven A. Ringel has been appointed the Neal A. Smith Chair in Electrical Engineering, in recognition of his expertise and research accomplishments in electronic materials and devices aimed toward the advancement of alternative energy and power-related semiconductor technologies, photovolotaics and optoelectronics.
Professor Ringel leads an internationally-recognized research program in the interdisciplinary area of Materials, Photonics and Devices, with a primary focus on Electronic Materials and their applications in Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics. He is the Director and Founder of 3 major laboratories, the Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory, the Defect Spectroscopy Laboratory, and the Electronic Materials Characterization and Photovoltaics Laboratory, and is a co-director of the Department's 4000 sq. foot micro-fabrication cleanroom facility. Professor Ringel is a very active member of OSU's Center for Materials Research (CMR), and he has been at the core of the evolution of the campus-wide Electronic Materials research thrust to its position as a Key Focus Area at Ohio State. Through these efforts as well as the development of new classes in this area, Professor Ringel is committed to enhancing interdisciplinary education in the area of electronic materials and devices at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Visit Prof. Ringel's web page for more information on his research activities and publications.
