Professor James Coleman, Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and former PhD student S. David Roh recently earned a United States patent for their research and development of the dual distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) grating semiconductor laser.
ECE Professor Kent Choquette has been named a Fellow of SPIE, an international society whose goal is to advance an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
Professor Weng C. Chew, Y.T. Lo Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, was granted the 2008 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society “for outstanding contributions to education in the fields of electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics.”