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Necmiye Ozay receives IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
Ozay’s research has already impacted the field of hybrid and cyber-physical systems, and become part of real-life systems.Katie Bouman talks legacy of the black hole imaging project and favorite U-M memories
Before Bouman became the face of the project that brought us the first ever image of a black hole, she was wowing ECE professors with design projects and hoarding Domino’s pizza with her HKN family.Kathryn Beeman named Irma M. Wyman Scholar for her efforts supporting women in STEM
Beeman, an Electrical Engineering undergrad, serves as the External Vice President for the Society for Women Engineers at U-M.U-M Society of Women Engineers honored with top awards at national conference
ECE leaders and members in SWE share their favorite parts of the conference, including taking home three awards for the U-M chapter.Heath Hofmann named IEEE Fellow for his impact in the areas of electric machinery and drive systems
Prof. Hofmann’s control technology has been implemented in commercial vehicles, and he works tirelessly to enhance opportunities for underrepresented students.Peter Seiler named IEEE Fellow for his impactful contributions to robust control theory
Prof. Seiler’s contributions to Matlab’s Robust Control Toolbox and to the control of vehicle platoons have resulted in major industrial applications.Lei Ying named IEEE Fellow for fundamental research in cloud computing systems and wireless networks
Prof. Ying’s theoretical research addresses a broad range of fundamental problems arising from big-data analytics.Euisik Yoon named IEEE Fellow for groundbreaking research in Bio-MEMS
Prof. Yoon’s research has contributed to a better understanding of the brain, as well as improved detection and treatment of cancer.Zetian Mi named IEEE Fellow for his pioneering contributions to III-nitride photonics and clean energy
Prof. Mi’s research is impacting the future of alternative energy, as well as improved methods for water purification and air disinfection.Baja Racing wins 1st Place Overall Award at SAE Louisville
In their first competition since the pandemic began, Baja proved they are still among the world’s finest, placing top ten in every event out of over 75 competitors.Mimicking a human fingertip’s sensitivity and sense of direction for robotic applications
With the help of 1.6 million GaN nanopillars per sensor, the University of Michigan team was able to provide human-level sensitivity with directionality on a compact, easily manufactured systemEgg-carton-style patterning keeps charged nanoparticles in place and suitable for a wide range of applications
Prof. Jay Guo and his team discovered a scalable way to settle down and precisely arrange micro- and nano-sized particles according to sizeNew grant aims to create better algorithms to manage big data by getting “non-real”
Professors Laura Balzano and Hessam Mahdavifar are developing new ways to compress data through randomized algorithms to remove redundanciesIntroduction to Discrete Events Systems: Third Edition
This popular textbook, first published in 1999, is now available as an e-book, or hard cover on demand.Stories from Study Abroad
EECS students Richa Patwa and Caroline Nguyen reflect on their experiences in Spain and France before the pandemic sent them home.Dr. Donnell Walton honored with the 2021 ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship
Walton spoke about his career path and his current role as the director of the Corning Technology Center Silicon Valley.Lauren Cooper awarded Department of Energy Fellowship for her work on ultra-short pulse fiber lasers
Cooper’s research is focused on nonlinear coherent pulse stacking, a method of generating pulses with energies and pulse durations suitable for particle accelerators and attosecond science.New collaborative project for advancing energy justice in Detroit
In partnership with Detroit-based community organizations, Prof. Johanna Mathieu co-leads a team of researchers working to reduce disparities in household energy insecurity for low and moderate income households.Three researchers earn MICRO Test of Time for groundbreaking timing speculation work
Todd Austin, David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and a group of alumni were recognized by ACM MICRO for their landmark 2003 paper.Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2021
PhD student Scarborough was recognized for his work developing a more efficient method to convert signals to higher frequencies, benefiting applications that require very low power and low noise.Three members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2021 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop
PhD students Sijia Geng, Bahareh Hadidian, and Nasimeh Heydaribeni will participate in the intensive workshop that brings together outstanding women and gender minorities interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS.Herbert Winful receives University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship
Elaheh Ahmadi receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to support future sensor and communication systems
Ahmadi’s research is focused on using GaN and Ga2O3 materials to provide higher output power per unit area at higher frequencies.Khalil Najafi receives Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award
Najafi received this award for his service while a member of the ECE Department Heads Association$1.7M to build everyday exoskeletons to assist with lifting, walking and climbing stairs
The modular exoskeleton system will help workers and the elderly, boosting ankle, knee and/or hip joints by mounting new motors to off-the-shelf orthotics.$1.8M to develop room temperature, controllable quantum nanomaterials
The project could pave the way for compact quantum computing and communications as well as efficient UV lamps for sterilization and air purification.The artistry of mathematical models
Artist and professor Jessica Wynne features Prof. Laura Balzano’s blackboard in a photography series that captures the abstract beauty of problem solving.Intel’s Jon Zapp plans the technologies of the future
Zapp, an EE alum who led the development of Intel’s Tiger Lake processor, talks combining his love of high tech with his skills in marketing and finance, his career at Intel, his favorite classes at Michigan, and his love of Backroom pizza.The NAE invites Necmiye Ozay to symposium to advance the engineering frontier
Prof. Ozay presented on her research that is relevant to cybersecurity and the future of space exploration.Anthony England, former NASA astronaut, professor, and dean, retires
England has dedicated more than two decades of his distinguished career helping students reach for the stars to understand more about Earth and other planets.Educating a quantum workforce with QuSTEAM while opening doors to a broad and diverse range of students
Michigan is part of a multi-institution effort to create new flexible courses for undergraduate students interested in being part of the second quantum revolutionSolar cells with 30-year lifetimes for power-generating windows
High-efficiency but fragile molecules for converting light to electricity thrive with a little protection.$1M for open-source first-responder robots
An open-source perception and movement system, to be developed with NSF funding, could enable robots that partner with humans in fires and disaster areas.Fawwaz Ulaby retires after nearly four decades of championing students and excelling at research and leadership
Students say Ulaby, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and recipient of the Edison Medal, is one of the best professors – and people – they’ve ever known.New student team constructs robotic submarine, finishes 4th at international competition
Michigan Robosub built their first autonomous submarine and competed virtually against 54 teams from 12 countries, completing several aquatic tasks.$1 Million DARPA contract to empower the wireless systems of the future
Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi is working to design a new kind of semiconductor that can provide high power at high frequenciesFaster path planning for rubble-roving robots
Splitting the path into difficult and easy terrain speeds up path planning for robots that use “hands” to maintain balance on uneven ground.Most powerful laser in the U.S. to begin operations soon, supported by $18.5M from the NSF
With first light anticipated in 2022, the NSF will provide five years of operations funding, ramping up as the ZEUS user facility progresses to full capacity.Che-Hsuan Cheng’s hybrid transistor earns Best Poster Award
Cheng’s research may help advance the design of next generation microchip devices, as well as ultrasensitive UV photodetectors.New monograph in network information theory
The authors discuss a theoretical approach to the design of efficient information networksECE alum Linda Guillory breaks two world records for vintage video game collections
Guillory, an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments, shares her memories of U-M and how her love of fixing broken video games helped her become a world-renowned gaming collector.High Efficiency Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes to sterilize pathogens, including COVID-19
Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi has been honored with the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from “Photonics Research.”Sung Yul Chu wins IEEE Power Electronics Society PhD Thesis Talk Award
Chu is recognized for his research on wireless power transfer for electric vehicle charging.ECE’s Culture Club brings the (virtual) community together
Each event is led by an ECE student, staff, or faculty member and showcases the different traditions, languages, food, crafts, history, etc., of their home country or region.$20M NSF AI-EDGE Institute aims to transform 5G and beyond networks
University of Michigan is a core member of a new NSF-led Institute that is a collaboration between 11 institutions, three government research labs, and four global companiesUsing remote sensing to track microplastics in the ocean
Electrical Engineering undergrad Madeline Evans is a key researcher on a project that uses NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System to monitor microplastic pollution that harms marine ecosystems.Michigan Electric Racing takes first place at Formula SAE Michigan
The student team overcame a year of pandemic-related challenges and completed a near perfect sweep of the Electric Vehicle Class events.Using neural networks and machine learning to design the first universal decoder for the next generation of wireless systems
PhD student Mohammad Vahid Jamali has been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to work on developing a single neural decoder that can decode several channel codes at once.Awards for outstanding Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides of 2020 and 2021
These awards honor outstanding student teachers, who are critical to ECE’s mission to provide top level education and instruction.Michigan startup MemryX, Inc. promises faster, cheaper AI processing
The ECE startup builds neuromorphic computer chips uniquely suitable for AI applicationsEmbracing Risk: Cyber insurance as an incentive mechanism for cybersecurity
This new book by Mingyan Liu offers an engineering and strategic approach to improving cybersecurity through cyber insurance$7.5M MURI to make dynamic AI smarter and safer
Researchers from four U.S. institutions aim to pull the best from control theory and machine learning to build safer mobile, intelligent systems.Deltek’s Senior Director Shirin Mangold found her passion and her voice through Michigan Engineering’s Co-op program
The Engineering Cooperative Education Program introduced Mangold (CE 1993) to life as a working engineer and inspired her to pursue a career in software engineering.Nanotech OLED electrode liberates 20% more light, could slash display power consumption
A five-nanometer-thick layer of silver and copper outperforms conventional indium tin oxide without adding cost.Snails carrying the world’s smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery
Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.ECE alum and entrepreneur Fred Gibbons teaches engineers to make products that people need
From growing up in a small East Coast fishing village to becoming lifelong friends with Steve Jobs, Stanford Professor Fred Gibbons shares his journey as a first-generation college student and what inspired him to teach product management and design.Q&A with entrepreneur, philanthropist, and alum Dr. B. Jin Chang
After graduating from U-M where he worked with Prof. Emmett Leith, Dr. Chang founded SurgiTel, which provides dental professionals and surgeons with ergonomic vision-aide products.Dawn of nitride ferroelectric semiconductors for next-generation electronics
Herbert Winful awarded the 2021 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
With Slide, student entrepreneurs aim to make contact sharing frictionless
Profiles in ECE: Rucha Apte (MS ECE 2021)
Twelve students inducted into the 2021 Excellence in ECE Honor Roll
This Honor Roll was created to recognize students who go above and beyond for our community by volunteering outside of academic, professional, and student club commitmentsLee Boysel: In Memoriam (12/31/1938 – 4/25/2021)
Boysel (BSE MSE EE 1962 1963), founder, president and CEO of Four-Phase Systems, Inc., helped change the course of microprocessing with his company’s invention of the AL1 microprocessor in 1969. He received the COE Alumni Merit Award for ECE in 2007.A resilient campus
Helping robots learn what they can and can’t do in new situations
Three teams of graduate students awarded prizes for their final projects in Image Processing (EECS 556)
ADHD in engineering: Improving education for neurodiverse college STEM students
New textbook introduces students to the field of Quantum Nanotechnology
Dr. Pilar Herrera-Fierro, senior director of the LNF, receives 2021 COE staff excellence award
ECE Lab Kit team recognized by the College of Engineering with the Team Staff Excellence Award
When the pandemic shut down in-person instruction, this six-member team created and delivered individual lab kits to 1,200 students around the world so hands-on lab experience could continue.Kristen Thornton awarded College of Engineering’s Staff Excellence Award for her unwavering dedication and exemplary service to students
Lisa Armstrong recognized with the Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award for her decades of service to the college and the department
Sandeep Pradhan named ECE’s 2021 HKN Professor of the Year
The HKN Professor of the Year Award is determined by popular vote by all undergraduate and graduate students in the departmentECE Undergraduate 2021 Virtual Yearbook and Virtual Graduation
The Class of 2021 Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduate students share memories, photos, and quotes of their time here at Michigan.ECE Graduate 2021 Virtual Yearbook and Virtual Graduation
The Class of 2021 Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students share memories, photos, and quotes of their time here at Michigan.Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award for contributions to Metamaterials research
Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for new robotics course that focuses on equitable education
3D motion tracking system could streamline vision for autonomous tech
Setting the nation’s engineering research agenda
Qing Qu uses data and machine learning to optimize the world
ECE Expeditions goes virtual and international
Anatoly Maksimchuk recognized for his achievements in high-intensity lasers and laser-plasma interaction
Building on decades of groundbreaking research, Maksimchuk is a key member of the team building the $20M laser facility known as ZEUS2021 EECS Undergraduate Student Awards
2021 College-wide awards for EECS undergraduate students
Outstanding Chapter Award for Michigan’s IEEE-HKN Honor Society
Pei Zhang solemnly swears that he’s up to some good
Artificial photosynthesis devices that improve themselves with use
New “Women in ECE” organization provides professional development and community
Adaptation and innovation in lab intensive engineering courses
As COVID-19 broke the way classes are traditionally taught, faculty quickly adapted and found successful solutions that could be continued post-pandemicJames Gruber receives NDSEG Fellowship to advance research in high-power THz devices
Menglou Rao awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in antennas for compact systems and EM radiation detection from biofilms
Xin Zan awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to advance research in wireless power transfer
Caroline Crockett awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research bridging two fields
Markus Borsch awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in quantum engineering
Four ECE graduate students recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Building ethical engineering leaders: public welfare awareness in graduate education
New online education program brings high-demand topics in technology to the world
Sijia Geng receives Barbour Scholarship to further her research in renewable energy systems
Raj Nadakuditi receives Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award
Xiaofan Cui awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement in ECE
Khalil Najafi receives Stephen S. Attwood Award from College of Engineering
Zetian Mi receives Research Excellence Award from the College of Engineering
U-Michigan, Ford open world-class robotics complex
The facility will accelerate the future of advanced and more equitable robotics and mobilityDr. Jim and Judith Seydel’s gifts to ECE support students while honoring those who empowered his career
A MiTEE student and her quest to shape the future of space satellites
$6.25 million to develop new semiconductors for artificial photosynthesis
Research to advance low-power speech recognition highlighted by Intel
Michael Flynn and his group are applying their groundbreaking work in beamforming to the challenge of low-power on-chip speech recognition.Stephen Rand: officially retired, but still breaking new ground
“Egg carton” quantum dot array could lead to ultralow power devices
Redesigning an Electrical Engineering curriculum with a focus on systems principles and engineering design
2021 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Raytheon’s Dr. Katherine Herrick is the 2020 ECE Alumni Merit Award winner
Alumni profile: A conversation with Douglas Densmore
Entrepreneur Dr. Scott Hanson awarded 2020 ECE Alumni Rising Star Award
Navin Shenoy, Intel’s Executive Vice President, awarded ECE’s highest Alumni Award Honor
Prof. Tara Javidi awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for her excellence in information and system theory education
Jian-Ming Jin awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for his excellence in electromagnetics education
Alumni profile: A conversation with Robert Scott
Kamal Sarabandi and Lutgarde Raskin elected to National Academy of Engineering
Fairer AI for long-term equity
First IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security
The workshop, co-organized by a team including two EECS faculty, focused on ensuring the safety of Level 3 autonomous vehicles, where humans must be ready to take over control.Elaheh Ahmadi receives CAREER Award to improve efficiency in high power electrical systems
The research could improve efficiency in systems such as electric vehicles, grid systems, mass transit, and industrial automationLawser family scholarship supports EECS wolverines
‘Solving for equity’: A Michigan Robotics course flips the script on engineering ed
Undergrad earns MLK Spirit Award for leadership and commitment to social justice
New ‘living textbook’ for computational sciences
Demba Komma awarded Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship for research on IoT localization technologies
ECE students, faculty recognized with 2021 MLK Spirit Awards
Kaleo Roberts receives scholarship from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Pioneering a way to keep very small satellites in orbit
DYNAMO achieves first observation of the “charge separation effect”