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Prof. Bean receives 2009 IEEE Undergrad Teaching Award - July 1, 2008
images/news/Prof. Bean  receives 2009 IEEE Undergrad Teaching Award Congratulations to Prof. John Bean who has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. According to Lloyd Harriott, ECE Dept. Chair, John was cited "For providing opportunities to both undergraduate and pre-college students for discovery through both laboratory projects and virtual experiments on the world wide web."    John Bean's Virtual Lab

Ben Calhoun selected as a Teaching and Technology Initiative Fellow - April 29, 2008
images/news/Ben Calhoun selected as a Teaching and Technology Initiative Fellow Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Ben Calhoun for being selected as a Teaching and Technology Initiative Fellow for 2008-9. His project, "Software Infrastructure for Collaborative Engineering Design" will help establish real-world design experiences and institutional memory for student projects. Great job, Ben!

Avik Ghosh wins FEST award - April 24, 2008
images/news/Avik Ghosh wins FEST award Congratulations to Avik Ghosh for winning a FEST award (Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology) for work on graphene as an electronic material. This was one of only four FEST awards out of 32 proposals.

Avik Ghosh honored as a University Teaching Fellow - April 24, 2008
"In his short career, Avik Ghosh has done groundbreaking nano-electronics research describing how electronic current moves at the most fundamental, atomic level," said department chairman Lloyd Harriott.    See UVa Today article for more information

Open House - School of Engineering & Applied Science - February 23, 2008
Free event open to the public that provides an opportunity for visitors to meet faculty and staff, interact with current students, take tours of state-of-the-art facilities, and attend interesting exhibits, presentations and demonstrations. Bring friends, family members and others who have always wanted to know the answer to the question: What do Engineers do?    <See Schedule of Events>

EE Grad Students Win VPRGS Award - January 25, 2008
Mark Hanson and Neda Cvijetic have been selected to receive the 2008-9 VPRGS Fellowship Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences and Engineering. Keep up the good work!

UVA's Engineering School Receives $1.3 M - January 24, 2008
images/news/UVA's Engineering School Receives  $1.3 M NSF has awarded $1.3 million to a team of UVa researchers to study a problem that threatens the continued evolution of microelectronics. The team consists of electrical engineering faculty: John Bean (PI); Lloyd Harriott (dept. chair); Avik Ghosh, asst. prof.; Chemistry Prof. Lin Pu, and Physics asst. prof, Keith Williams.    For additional info, see UVA Today article

ECE Faculty Wins NSF Career Award - January 23, 2008
Congratulations, Dr. Avik Ghosh! Dr. Ghosh has just received an NSF CAREEER Award entitled "Understanding Electron Dynamics at the Nano-Micro Interface". This is a highly competitive and prestigious program and reflects very well on the excellent quality of his work.

Visiting Speaker: Bob Newgard - November 6, 2007
Please join us for a seminar with Bob Newgard from Rockwell Collins on Tuesday, November 6th. Mr. Newgard will be presenting "RF Technologies: Enabling Ubiquitous Communication Systems?"

Eminent Speaker Series - October 26, 2007
On Friday, October 26, John Baillieul, PhD, of Boston University, will be presenting "The Evolving Applications of Control Theory to Devices, Networks and Life Itself" at the eighteenth session of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eminent Speakers Series. Please join us in Thornton E316 at 4:00pm for the talk. Reception will follow.

Industrial Advisory Board - October 26, 2007
The 2007 meeting of ECE's Industrial Advisory Board will take place on Friday, October 26, 2007.

Guest Speaker - October 22, 2007
On Monday, ECE will be hosting "The Scale Vector-Thread Processor," a presentation by Chris Batten, PhD candidate from MIT. Please join us at 1pm in Thornton E303. Reception to follow.

ECE Staff Volunteers - September 19, 2007
images/news/ECE Staff Volunteers ECE Staff members Natalie Edwards, Katherine Harlow and Gloria Walker spend the day preparing food for the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen as participants in this year's United Way Day of Caring.

ECE Grad Student Orientation - August 27, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Olsson Hall, Rm. 120
The program starts at 3 p.m. with welcome by Nathan Swami and Katherine Harlow and concludes at 4:20 p.m.
The program wraps up with a Pizza Fest.

'Nanospikes' Add New Dimension to Solar, Biomedical, Microelectronics Research - August 14, 2007
Through the creation of nano/micro laser texturing and nanospikes on the surfaces of semiconductors and metals, Mool C. Gupta, Langley Distinguished Professor in U.Va.'s Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is adding an entirely new dimension to these materials' effectiveness.    Full Article

U.Va. Engineering School-Developed Nanocomposite Material Wins Nanotech Award - July 19, 2007
Professor Mool C. Gupta and research team honored by Nanotech Briefs magazine for the development of an ultra-lightweight nanocomposite.    For complete story see

Dept. Awards Picnic - April 25, 2007
Dept.

Congratulations to Prof. Zongli Lin! - November 20, 2006
images/news/Congratulations to Prof. Zongli Lin! Profs. Zongli Lin has recently been elected to Fellow status of the IEEE. Prof. Lin's citation is for his contributions to linear and nonlinear control theory.

Congratulations to Prof. Gang Tao! - November 20, 2006
images/news/Congratulations to Prof. Gang Tao! Prof. Gang Tao has been elected to Fellow of IEEE.
This honor is for his contributions to adaptive control theory and application to aircraft.    IEEE Fellow History

Eminent Speakers Series - November 17, 2006
On Friday, November 17, Clint Schow, of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, will be presenting at the fourteenth session of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eminent Speakers Series. Please join us in Thornton E316 at 3:30pm for the talk. Reception will follow.

Eminent Speaker Series - October 20, 2006
On Friday, October 20, David Carlson, Chief Scientist for BP-Solar, will be presenting "Photovoltaic Technology: Present and Future" at the thirteenth session of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eminent Speakers Series. Please join us in Thornton E316 at 3:30pm for the talk. Reception will follow.

Eminent Speaker Series - September 22, 2006
images/news/Eminent Speaker Series On Friday, September 29, Pranav Ashar, PhD, CTO for NetFortis, Inc., will be presenting "Insights into Recent Developments in Formal Verification Methods" at the twelfth session of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eminent Speakers Series. Please join us in Thornton E316 at 3:30pm for the talk. Reception will follow.

Congratulations - September 12, 2006
Congratulations to Katherine L. Harlow for being elected Chair of the Engineering School's Classified Staff Employee Council. Dan Fetko continues to serve as member of the Provost's Employee Council.

ECE Graduate Student Orientation/Pizza Party - August 21, 2006
ECE Graduate Student Orientation and Pizza Party.
Get to know new and current students and faculty. Learn about the Department and student organizations. Meet the Graduate Coordinator.
Date: Monday, August 21, 2006
Time: 3:30 p.m. (TIME CHANGE-originally 3 p.m.)
Place: Room E316 classroom, Thornton Hall

4th Annual INAC/NCN Molecular Conduction and Sensing Workshop - July 26, 2006
The Nanoquest Institute at the University of Virginia is co-sponsoring the three-day workshop, currently taking place at the Omni Hotel. As in prior workshops, there will be tutorials and a poster session in addition to technical sessions. For more info on the workshop, including the agenda,    visit the website.

ECE Prof Toby Berger Recipient of IEEE Award for Exceptional Teaching of Graduate Students - July 21, 2006
images/news/ECE Prof Toby Berger Recipient of IEEE Award for Exceptional Teaching of Graduate Students Toby Berger, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has been named the recipient of the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award “for sustained excellence in graduate education and research in information theory” by the IEEE.    <More>

EE Graduate Council Website - June 2, 2006
Stay informed of all Electrical Engineering graduate student special events and social gatherings by visiting the EE Graduate Council Website linked on the Graduate-Current page.    Link

Departmental Awards Picnic - May 2, 2006
Congratulations to all those who received awards at last Friday's annual departmental picnic. Owen Miller recieved the James S. Miller Award. P. Case Taintor, Marija Cvijetic and Adam Showalter received the Louis T. Rader Chairperson's Award. Haijun Fang and Xiaowei Li received the Graduate Research Award. The Outstanding GTA Award was presented to Sean Happel, Erkin Seker and Yu Liu. And the William L. Everitt Student Award for Excellence was given to Jeeyoung Byun and Atul Khosla. Additionally, two faculty were recognized: Dr. N. Scott Barker received the New Faculty Teaching Award and Dr. P. Paxton Marshall received the Faculty Educational Innovation Award. For photos of this years picnic as well as previous events, check out the new ECE Photo Gallery under Dept. Info!    Photos

ECE Professors Harriott and Lin visit China - April 26, 2006
Department Chair Lloyd Harriott and Prof. Zongli Lin of the ECE dept. along with Engineering School Dean Jim Aylor returned from China this week after a two-week visit to meet with professors and students in hopes to strengthen ties with the country's developing programs.    <More>

ECE Professors Harriott and Lin visit China - April 26, 2006
Department Chair Lloyd Harriott and Prof. Zongli Lin of the ECE dept. along with Engineering School Dean Jim Aylor returned from China this week after a two-week visit to meet with professors and students in hopes to strengthen ties with the country's developing programs.    <More>

New Book Authored by Acton and Ray - April 26, 2006
images/news/New Book Authored by Acton and Ray Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking (Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video & Multimedia Processing)Published by Morgan & Claypool, 2006. Authored by: Scott T. Acton, Professor, ECE/UVa and Nilanjan Ray(former postdoc in ECE/UVa and PhD from UVA. Ray is currently a sr. research scientist at UtopiaCompression Corp.LA.******************************************    Abstract

Toby Berger Elected to NAE - April 24, 2006
images/news/Toby Berger Elected to NAE On Friday, Feb 10, 2006, ECE Professor Toby Berger, was named one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the theory and practice of lossy data compression.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."    See the article here.

Eminent Speaker Series - April 21, 2006
Please join us this Friday for "Are You Stealing Content?! Multimedia Security: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly," a presentation by visitor Ed Delp, PhD, The Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. This 11th Session of the Eminent Speaker Series will take place in Thornton Hall E316. Reception to follow.    More on Dr. Delp

Eminent Speaker Series - April 14, 2006
images/news/Eminent Speaker Series This Friday, Vasily Moshnyaga, PhD, Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Fukuoka University in Japan, will be presenting "Adaptive Techniques for Energy-Efficient Video Processing" at the tenth session of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eminent Speakers Series. Please join us in Thornton E316 at 3:30pm for the talk. Reception will follow.    Abstract and Bio

Happy Birthday, TJ - April 13, 2006
April 13, 2006 is the 263rd Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's Birthday.    More

T-shirt Design Contest - April 5, 2006
IEEE Student Branch is sponsoring a
EE/CpE T-shirt Design Contest    See IEEE for details

Congratulations! - March 21, 2006
images/news/Congratulations! Dean James H. Aylor announced
that Prof. Joanne Betcha Dugan has been
appointed as the next Director of Computer Engr.
This four-year appointment was effective Jan. 10, 2006.

Seminar - March 17, 2006
C311 Conference Room, Thornton Hall
Title: Photonic Applications for Millimeter-Wave Local Oscillators for ALMA

Speaker: Bill Shillue, NRAO
Abstract:
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio astronomical facility currently under construction in Chile [1]. Due to the unprecedented combination of high frequencies (950 GHz), long baselines (20 km), the interferometruc array will require Local Oscillators (LO) and LO references with extremely low phase-noise and phase drift. The design calls for wideband millimeter-wave LO's at each antenna, referenced to an ultrastable, tunable photonic reference which is transmitted from a central building over distances of up to 15 km. The photonic reference is converted to a millimiter-wave signal (27-122 GHz range) by a high-speed photomixer at the antenna. This photonic system will be described.    abstract continued

SEAS Open House - February 25, 2006
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Annual Open House
9:00AM - 3:00PM, Saturday, February 25, 2006    Additional Details

Eminent Speaker Seminar - February 24, 2006
images/news/Eminent Speaker Seminar Dr. Joseph N. Mait of the US Army Research Lab and former UVA ECE professor and ECE alumnus will speak on "New Vistas for Imaging."
Date: Friday, Feb. 24, 2006
Time: 3:30 p.m.; Place: E316 Thornton

Welcome Back, Prof. Brandt-Pearce! - February 6, 2006
images/news/Welcome Back, Prof. Brandt-Pearce! Prof. Maite Brandt-Pearce recently returned from a Fall 2005 sabbatical in France where she taught a course at the prestigious Eurocom Institute.

Seminar - January 30, 2006
Andreas Beling
Photonics Division of the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik in Berlin, Germany

Monday, January 30, 2006 at 9:30 a.m.
C311 ECE Dept. Conference Room, Thornton Hall

InP-Based 1.55 µm Waveguide-Integrated Photodetectors for High-Speed Applications

Welcome New Faculty - January 13, 2006
The department is pleased to announce the arrival of 3 new professors this semester. They are:Toby Berger(from Cornell), Joe Campbell(from U of Texas, Austin), and Ben Calhoun(from MIT). More info can be found at    Faculty Profiles

Eminent Speaker Series - December 2, 2005
Please join us for Session 8 of the Eminent Speakers Series featuring Greg Snider, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He will give his presentation, "Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: The Future of Computing?" at 3:30pm, Friday, December 2nd in Thornton E316. Reception will follow.    More on Dr. Snider

Eminent Speaker Series - November 11, 2005
Friday, November 11, University Distinguished Professor Hassan Khalil, PhD, of Michigan State University will be joining us for the seventh session of the Eminent Speakers Series. His presentation will be on "Conditional Integral Action in Nonlinear Control" and will take place in Thornton E316 at 3:30pm.    More on Dr. Khalil

Overflow - November 3, 2005
images/news/Overflow John Lach took teaching outside the classroom yesterday with a very well attended session during office hours for ECE 200.    View Photo

Time for Tea! - October 26, 2005
images/news/Time for Tea! Friday Tea Time made its public debut last week outside E316 before Professor Datta's presentation as part of the Eminent Speakers Series. A big thank you to Mark Hanson for coordinating!

Eminent Speaker Seminar - October 21, 2005
Prof. Supriyo Datta, Purdue Univ., will present a seminar on, "Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demons" on Fri, Oct. 21, 2005, 3:30-4:30 pm in E316 Thornton.

ECE Team Wins SRC Prize - October 20, 2005
images/news/ECE Team Wins SRC Prize Garrett Rose, Wei Huang, Yan Zhang, Adam Cabe, Zhenyu Qi and Wenqian Wu, led by Dr. Stan, won first place in Phase One of an annual contest sponsored by the semiconductor industry to improve the design of integrated computer circuits. The U.Va. System on Chip (SoC) entry, "An SRAD Image Processor as a Reconfigurable, Temperature-Aware SoC Designed for Low-Power Operation," won a cash prize of $7,000.    Full Story

EE Alumna honored with award - September 24, 2005
The Serpentine Society of the Alumni Association honored K. Scottie Ginn (EE 1980) with the 2005 Bernard D. Mayes Award.    More about Ms. Ginn can be found at the UVA Alumni Association

The University of Virginia and the National Institute of Aerospace Announces Fifth Langley Professor - September 13, 2005
Excerpt from UVA SEAS News
"The University of Virginia and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) are pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Mool G. Gupta as Langley Professor in Quantum/Molecular Materials Design for Sensors. Dr. Gupta is the fifth of six Langley Professors to be appointed by each of the six founding member universities of NIA.    More SEAS Article Continued

University of Virginia Engineers Tap Potential of Unused Terahertz Spectrum - August 30, 2005
Excerpt from UVA SEAS NEWS
"Communications companies regularly spend billions of dollars for small portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet they wouldn't pay a dime for the large range of frequencies, between 100 gigahertz and 10 terahertz, in the terahertz range. This may soon change. Work being done by engineers at the University of Virginia could transform this neglected area of the spectrum into valuable real estate."    SEAS article

Welcome New Faculty - August 24, 2005
Several new faculty joined the department this semester:
Eric Bryerton - Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching Microwave Engr II. Dr. Bryerton is currently a scientist with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Joe Campbell joined our department this month as a visiting professor. He will join us in December as Lucien Carr, III Professor after having served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin; Avik Ghosh - Assistant Prof, teaching Electromagnetic Fields. Dr. Ghosh hails from Purdue University where he was a principal scientist; and Mool Gupta, Langeley Professor, teaching Photonics. Dr. Gupta was previously a professor at Old Dominion University. He also has a position with the National Institute of Aerospace.    article continued

New SEAS Dean announced - July 19, 2005
images/news/New SEAS Dean announced July 19, 2005 -- University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III today announced the promotion of interim Dean James H. Aylor to dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and tasked him with leading the school into a new era of growth in research and education.
Noting that the University has targeted progress in science and technology as a major institutional priority, Casteen said, “These are challenging times, and there are tremendous rewards for the institutions that get it right.
“Jim's year as the interim dean has been a productive and positive one."    Article continues at

Undergraduate Research & Design Symposium Winners - May 16, 2005
Congratulations to Brian Gawalt, Steve Driskill, Amin Mehr, Ben Roberts, and Brent Schavitz on their success at this year's URDS.
Brian took home the second place award in the individual category for his project: "Automatic Modulation Identification." Steve, Amin, Ben and Brent were awarded first place in the group category for their project: "A Power Supply Oriented Small-Caliber EML Design Methodology."    Photos of Event

Distinguished Speaker - May 12, 2005
Colloquium: Mary Jane Irwin
Date: Thu, May 12, 2005
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Place: E316 Thornton Hall
Description: On-Line Power Aware Systems:
Mary Jane Irwin
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

ECE Annual Awards Picnic - May 2, 2005
images/news/ECE Annual Awards Picnic The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Annual Awards picinc was held on Friday, April 29, 2005. The following award winners were announced--congratulations to all!
University Teaching Award-John Lach
New Faculty Teaching Award-Yibin Zheng
James S. Miller Award-Marija Cvijetic
Louis T. Rader Chairperson's Award-Vinayak Deshpande, Brian Gawalt and Alexander Neuhausen
Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award-Tariq Assaf and Vinu Vijay Kumar, Xidong Tang received honorable mention
William L. Everitt Award for Excellence-Sean Happel and Margaret Perschy
Outstanding GTA Award-Benjamin Kidd and Craig Lorie
University Outstanding GTA Award-Benjamin Kidd

Eminent Speaker Series - April 22, 2005
images/news/Eminent Speaker Series Lucy Pao, PhD, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder will present on the topic of "Multisensor Fusion Algorithms for Tracking Applications" on Friday, April 22 at 3:30pm in E316 Thornton Hall. Reception will follow.    More on Dr. Pao

Dr. Mool G. Gupta New Faculty Member - April 1, 2005
images/news/Dr. Mool G. Gupta New Faculty Member Distinguished Langley Professor Joins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering...“We are very excited about Professor Gupta’s arrival,” says Prof. Lloyd Harriott, Chair of the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.“His research and expertise adds a new dimension to the department in the area of opto-electronics, photonics and quantum devices. We are also looking forward to his presence here working to strengthen our ties with NASA.” See    SEAS News for more details.

Major Declaration Day for 1st years - March 30, 2005
Wednesday, March 30th is Major Declaration Day for first-year, undeclared engineering students From 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. representatives for each major will be available to answer any questions students may have.
This event will be held on the arcade outside of Thornton Hall. In the event of inclement weather, tables will be set up in the lobby of A-wing Thornton Hall.

Eminent Speakers Series - March 25, 2005
This Friday, Dr. Toby Berger, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, will be visiting the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as part of the ongoing Eminent Speakers Series. He will speak on "Adapting Information Theory to the Analysis of Real Neuron Networks" from 3:30 to 4:30pm in E316.    For more information on the speaker...

SEAS OPEN HOUSE- 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - February 26, 2005
Welcome to the 2005 Engineering Open House web site. This year's Open House will be held Feb. 26 from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Thornton Hall.
This Open House is held annually, and open to the public. This event is of interest to prospective students. It also can be attractive to school groups. Often, members of the general University community and local area persons attend. Visitors can observe School activities, meet with faculty and staff, interact with students, and attend a number of interesting exhibits, presentations, demonstrations, etc. We hope you find this event of interest, and will come.>>info from SEAS web    <See More Details on Events>

ECE Seminar - February 10, 2005
Seminar Title:
TEAM: A Traffic Engineering Automated Manager for Packet Switched and Optical Networks

by: CATERINA SCOGLIO
Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Date: Feb. 10, 9:30 a.m. E316 Thornton Hall

Eminent Speakers Series - February 4, 2005
The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to present the third installment of its Eminent Speaker Series. Mark A. Reed, PhD, will be visiting the University at the beginning of February to lead a discussion on "Atomic and Molecular Scale Electronic Transport." The event will be held on Friday, February 4th, from 3:30-4:30pm in E 316, Thornton Hall    More on the speaker...

Engineering School Graduate Named Tau Beta Pi 2004 Distinguished Alumna - February 3, 2005
Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, has named Jill S. Tietjen ’76 the 2004 Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumna. The award is given to recognize alumni who demonstrate adherence to the ideals of Tau Beta Pi (integrity, breadth of interest, adaptability, and unselfish activity) and to fostering a spirit of liberal culture on local, national, and international scales...
FROM SEAS News -posted by s.malone    [More]

ECE Seminar - January 27, 2005
ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
Physics of Nanoscale Devices
by: Avik Ghosh, Purdue University

Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005
Time: 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Place: E316 Thornton Hall

Eminent Speakers Series - November 30, 2004
images/news/Eminent Speakers Series The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to present the second installment of the Eminent Speaker Series. Rama Chellappa, PhD, will be visiting us from the University of Maryland at the end of this week to discuss "Recognition of Humans and their Activities." The event will be held on Friday, December 3, from 3:30-4:30pm in E 316, Thornton...    More on the speaker...

Eminent Speakers Series - November 8, 2004
The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to present the first installment of its Eminent Speaker Series. Charles Bouman, PhD, will be visiting the University at the end of this week to lead a discussion on "Deep Tissue Imaging with Light: The Magic of Computational Inverse Methods in Biomedical Imaging." The event will be held on Friday, November 12, from 3:30-4:30pm in E 316, Thornton Hall.    For more information on the speaker...

EE Open House - November 4, 2004
Come learn about the exciting and fun undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering.
WHERE: C310 and C311 Thornton Hall-ECE Conf. Rms
are located down the hall from the Student Lounge.
TIME: 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
FOOD: Dessert served from 7-9 p.m.
CONTACT PERSON: Prof. Scott Barker    More about EE

ECE Department receives large gift - October 1, 2004
Ann Lee Brown, widow of the Engineering School's Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus Charles L. Brown, donates $10.5 million to the University. This generous gift includes scholarship funds for the ECE graduate program and will provide undergraduate students with equipment and other resources. The ECE department's name has been changed to the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.---posted by S.Malone    For additional details please see UVa article

Jim Aylor appointed Interim Dean effective August 25, 2004 - August 31, 2004
images/news/Jim Aylor appointed Interim Dean effective August 25, 2004 UVa's Vice President and Provost, Gene Block, announced that Jim Aylor, Louis T. Rader Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Sr. Associate Dean of SEAS has agreed to serve as Interim Dean. "Jim has a long and productive history with SEAS and brings great expertise to this effort." Congratulations, Jim!!---S.Malone

Welcome Katherine Harlow - August 16, 2004
Katherine joined our department on August 2, 2004 as the Graduate Resources Coordinator. She earned a B.A. degree in History and African and African-American Studies from the University of Virginia. After having spent a year in New Orleans at the International House of Blues Foundation Katherine returned to her home in Charlottesville, Va -S.Malone

ECE Department Awards Picnic 2004 - May 5, 2004
images/news/ECE Department Awards Picnic 2004 The Electrical & Computer Engineering Department held the Awards Picnic on April 29. Congratulations to all on a job well done. The following awards were presented:
The James S. Miller Award- Brian Gawalt
The Louis T. Rader Award- Jonathan Clay Kelley, Christopher Edward Rehorn, Neda Cvijetic, Sharon Michelle Woodruff, and James Van Dyke
The William L. Everitt Award for Excellence- Michael H. Jones and Kyeong-Jae Lee
The University of Virginia Outstanding GTA Award- Charles Molhoek
The Outstanding GTA Award- Robert Bass
The New Faculty Teaching Award- Dr. Tommy R. Guess
The Faculty Educational Innovation Award- Dr. N.Scott Barker

Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium - May 3, 2004
images/news/Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium Congratulations to our own undergraduates Neda Cvijetic (EE)and Alla Aksel (CpE)for placing First and Second place in The Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium held on April 27. We are proud of you. For more detailed information please visit the following link.    Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium 2004

Photodetectors: UV to IR - April 19, 2004
images/news/Photodetectors: UV to IR ECE Eminent Speakers Series Presents
J.C. Campbell
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Microelectronics Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
Photodectectors: UV to IR
April 30, 2004
3:00pm, Thornton Hall Room E-316
Refreshments and informal discussion:
2:30pm in Thornton C-311

Congratulations John Bean - March 25, 2004
images/news/Congratulations John Bean Congratulations goes out to John Bean for receiving one of this year's All-University Outstanding Teaching Awards. This a very important honor and we appreciate his dedication to the ECE Department. Please click on the following link for more information on the history and recipients of other award winners. We are proud of you.    Faculty Teaching Award Winners

Congratulations Arthur Lichtenberger - February 23, 2004
images/news/Congratulations Arthur Lichtenberger The Daily Progress featured an article about the research of one of our very own, Arthur Lichtenberger. Arthur is responsible for the development of a telescope circuit to help astronomers study the universe. For more detailed information regarding this important development click on the following link.Congrats Art! For more information the following Cavalier Daily link contains an article on Art: http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=18967&pid=1122    Device helps put eye on the universe.

Visiting Professor Paul Bond - February 2, 2004
images/news/Visiting Professor Paul Bond The ECE Department would like to welcome Paul Bond. He is teaching ECE 333 Computer Architecture for the Spring 04 semester. Paul is a Senior Computer Hardware Engineer with experience in computer research, computer architecture, digital design (ASIC and FPGA, VHDL and Verilog), and design verification. Special expertise in system level simulations and design validation.

Professional Preparation-
Georgia Institute of Technology- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering 1987
Georgia Institute of Technology- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering 1989
Georgia Institute of Technology- PhD (EE) 1995

Welcome Lloyd Harriott - January 19, 2004
images/news/Welcome Lloyd Harriott The ECE Department would like to welcome its new Chairman Lloyd Harriott. The following is a brief description of Lloyd's background.
Professional Preparation-
Hartwick College Physics B.A. 1974
SUNY Binghamton Physics M.A. 1976
SUNY Binghamton Physics Ph.D. 1980
Professional Summary-
Developed technology and applications for advanced lithography including direct write electron beam lithography (EBES), focused ion beam (FIB), and SCALPEL projection electron beam lithography as well as advance optical lithography including deep ultraviolet (DUV), phase shifting (PSM) and other methods. Currently doing research in nanofabrication and molecular electronics. Over 130 technical and scientific publications and more than 50 invited talks at international conferences.

Thank you Steve Wilson - January 16, 2004
images/news/Thank you Steve Wilson A big Thank You goes out to Steve Wilson for his excellent service as Interim Chairman this Fall until the position was filled by Lloyd Harriott.

VEF Distinguished Alumni Award - October 15, 2003
images/news/VEF Distinguished Alumni Award Congratulations goes out to Loria B. Yeadon for recently receiving the Virginia Engineering Foundation's Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is given out to graduates who through their career and service to the University, state or nation have brought recognition to UVa and to themselves as individuals. Loria is a member of ECE's Industrial Advisory Board. For more information on Loria's background please visit the IAB link under Department Info.

Congratulations Joanne Dugan - October 10, 2003
images/news/Congratulations Joanne Dugan Joanne Dugan will be receiving the Harriett B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society, given to an outstanding woman engineering educator in recognition of her contribution to the profession. This award is underwritten by Hewlett-Packard, and will be officiallly presented at an upcoming conference on Frontiers in Education. Way to go Joanne!

Visiting Professor Toby Berger - October 10, 2003
images/news/Visiting Professor Toby Berger The ECE department is proud to host Prof. Toby Berger, Cornell University, as a visiting professor during the fall 2003 term, during which he will be teaching ECE 611, Probability and Stochastic Processes. Prof. Berger is an eminent information theorist who has made contributions throughout the information theory discipline. Recently he was designated the Claude Shannon Lecturer, the top award of the IEEE Information Theory Group. Prof. Berger's biosketch follows.
Toby Berger received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Yale in 1962 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1964 and 1966. From 1962 to 1968 he was a Senior Scientist at Raytheon Company. In 1968 he joined the faculty of Cornell University where he is presently the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering. His research interests include information theory, random fields, communication networks, wireless communications, video compression, voice and signature compression and verification, biological information theory, quantum information theory, and coherent signal processing. Berger has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the Japan Association for Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the Ministry of Education of the PRC. An IEEE Fellow, he has served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Berger received the 1982 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and the 2002 Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.

RF MEMS for GHz to THz Applications - September 3, 2003
Please join us for Speaker Gabriel M. Rebeiz Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor today, 3:00pm, Thornton C311
Visit the ECE Department Calendar for more information.

ECE Grad Awardees - June 26, 2003
images/news/ECE Grad Awardees Congratulations to Vinu Vijay Kumar for receiving the 2003-2004 L. William Ballard Endowed Fellowship and Yuping Xiao for receiving the 2003-2004 VEF Fellowship. We are proud of you, keep up the excellent work!!

Congratulations Scott Barker on receiving the NSF CAREER Award! - February 20, 2003
images/news/Congratulations Scott Barker on receiving the NSF CAREER Award! A big congrats to Scott Barker on recently receiving the NSF CAREER Award. The proposal title is: "Development of an Integrated Millimeter-wave Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Detection and Identification of DNA". Way to go Scott!

Visit Professor John Bean's Virtual Lab - February 4, 2003
images/news/Visit Professor John Bean's Virtual Lab Visit Professor John Bean's Virtual Lab    UVA Virtual Lab

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