Najafi has been an outstanding leader, pioneering researcher, and distinguished educator throughout his career

PhD students Behnoush Rostami, Zhanni Wu, and Xueru Zhang will participate in the intensive workshop that brings together outstanding women interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS.

PhD student Ester Bentley designs smaller, better 3D mechanical resonators for use in high-performance gyroscopes to help unmanned systems navigate when GPS signal is jammed or lost.

Six ECE graduate students were selected for their outstanding research work in a variety of disciplines.

Accurate gyroscopes are a bottleneck for backup navigation systems in autonomous vehicles.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

Keeping time in the Internet of Things with frequency scaling

Students toured Amazon, Boeing, INRIX, Madrona Venture Partners, Microsoft, and Philips Healthcare in the Puget Sound area.

The Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World will recognize and incentivize outstanding research and scholarship related to engineering at the meso-scale, micron-scale, nano-scale and beyond.

The group brought together experts in radar and remote sensing, integrated circuits, imaging, navigation, power, communications, and nano-fabrication.

Believing in the power of creativity and quick action, the Fusses wanted to give the department maximum flexibility to respond to new initiatives and special needs wherever and whenever they arose. They are especially interested in expanding student diversity.

This team has spent countless hours planning and executing outreach activities to make our highly diverse and international student body feel welcome, and to expand its diversity in key areas.

There were 40 alumni in attendance, with graduation years ranging from 1965 to 2014.

Dr. Nader Najafi is now leading the development of some of the most advanced micro-scale medical technology in the world.

About 65 alumni, students, faculty, friends and family gathered for dinner and an opportunity to catch up with the department.

The ACC is one of the world’s premier scientific and engineering conferences dedicated to the advancement of control theory and practice.

As a devoted Michigan alumnus, he established the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan.

This annual ranking of innovative companies in SE Michigan is based on the quality of patents received during the past year.

Along with alumni, there were current and former faculty members, current students, friends, and colleagues, including several program managers, in attendance.

In recognition of how the Electrical Engineering discipline has evolved, the two graduate programs, Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering: Systems, have merged to form one graduate program: Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The goal of the project is to augment the transmission of audio and video with the sense of touch.

The IEEE Daniel E. Noble award is a Technical Field Award, which is among the highest awards given.

Tal is researching fabrication techniques for a micro rate-integrating gyroscope, using a vacuum mold and blowtorch.

His research is contributing to the overall project goal of enabling navigation in GPS denied zones through the use of specialized sensors.

Chris develops and tests control systems for MEMS inertial sensors, which are used to detect acceleration, tilt, and other attributes related to motion sensing.

The inventor of Google Glass is now developing glucose monitoring contact lenses.

Prof. Najafi is a world-recognized leader in the field of integrated sensors, MEMS, and microsystems.

The research group developed special fabrication processes that allows them to stack and bond seven different devices in layers.

McCullagh is working to develop energy harvesting devices and circuits to power wireless sensor nodes which can monitor bridge health.

“ePack utilizes state of the art micromachining technology to provide a cost effective and high performance packaging service for micro- and milli-scale devices.”

The researchers have built a complete system that integrates a high-quality energy-harvesting piezoelectric material with the circuitry that makes the power accessible.

The pair is being honored for their role developing technologies in microelectromechanical systems and working to apply these innovations when making new products.

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

The energy-harvesting devices are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

The monitoring system will collect data from surface and penetrating sensors, then wirelessly relay the information to an inspector on site or miles away.

The award for which Galchev was nominated honors young scientists for their achievement in the field of computer engineering and information technology.

The research has applications in health care, environmental monitoring, security, energy conservation and exploration, and more.