http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/ News about what happens in ECE ILLINOIS Wed 30 May 2012 00:00 CST 5 SELECT top 20 keyPost, datePost, strTitle, strAuthor, strDescription FROM blog.dbo.posts WHERE keyBlog = 1 AND blnApproved = 1 AND blnActive = 1 ORDER BY datePost DESC http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1688 ECE Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?boppart">Stephen Allen Boppart</a> led a research team that developed an imaging device that can give a peek behind the eardrum. The device could usher in a new suite of non-invasive, 3-D diagnostic imaging tools for primary-care physicians. Liz Ahlberg, U of I News Bureau Wed 30 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1687 Nathan Jack received the Outstanding Paper Award from the EOS/ESD Symposium held by the Electrostatic Discharge Association. His paper presented a new way to measure voltage in a chip when the chip is "zapped" by electrostatic discharge. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Tue 29 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1686 ECE Associate Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?dchen">Deming Chen</a> recently received a gift from Intel to research methods for speeding up computing while maximizing power efficiency. Elise King, Coordinated Science Lab Fri 25 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1679 ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?rakeshk">Rakesh Kumar</a> has received the Army Research Office's (ARO) Young Investigator Award. He will develop algorithmic techniques to make applications robust to numerical errors. Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science Lab Wed 23 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1675 The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) has named ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?aledan">Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia</a> the 2012 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer. Tom Moone, ECE ILLINOIS Fri 18 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1669 ECE Associate Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?jhasegaw">Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson</a> and ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?xiuling">Xiuling Li</a> are both recipients of the 2012 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Wed 16 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1666 ECE graduate student Pradeep Shenoy has an idea that could completely change how energy is converted from solar panels. He is avoiding energy conversion for the most part and maximizing energy production through a technique called differential power processing. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Tue 15 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1667 ECE Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?boppart">Stephen Allen Boppart</a> has been awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize, an international prize presented annually to a distinguished scientist in a selected field. Rick Kubetz, College of Engineering Tue 15 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1660 ECE Professor and College of Engineering Dean <a href="/directory/profile.asp?iadesida">Ilesanmi Adesida</a> has been named vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost of the Urbana campus. He will assume his new role on August 16. Mike Helenthal, U of I News Bureau Thu 10 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1647 Several ECE faculty took their love of running and used it as a way to help support and to help spread the word of the ECE building campaign. They used their participation in the Illinois Marathon held in Champaign on April 28 as a way to involve students in the ECE building campaign. Tom Moone, ECE ILLINOIS Wed 2 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1645 ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?rakeshk">Rakesh Kumar</a> recently received a 3-year grant from Oracle Labs to collaborate with the company to research energy efficiency in multithreaded processors. Elise King, Coordinated Science Lab Tue 1 May 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1641 Catrina A. Bryce is one of the newest professors to call ECE ILLINOIS home. Her area of expertise is in semiconductors and optoelectronics. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Fri 27 Apr 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1643 ECE faculty <a href="/directory/profile.asp?boppart">Stephen Allen Boppart</a> and <a href="/directory/profile.asp?carney">Paul Scott Carney</a> are part of a team of Illinois researchers who have developed a technique to computationally correct for aberrations in optical tomography, bringing the future of medical imaging into focus. Liz Ahlberg, U of I News Bureau Fri 27 Apr 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1637 ECE Graduate Student Qiaomin Xie and ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?yilu4">Yi Lu</a> recently won the Best Paper Award at the PERFORMANCE 2011 Conference. Elise King, Coordinated Science Lab Tue 24 Apr 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1617 A group of hardworking ECE students, led by ECE senior Ekta Shah, put together the department's first ever technical conference in February--ECE Pulse: the Heartbeat of Innovation. Ten companies took part, and more than 400 students registered for the event. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Fri 13 Apr 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1610 Like any good professor, ECE Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?rbashir">Rashid Bashir</a> wants to pass on what he's learned to students. That goes for both imparting knowledge of science and engineering to the students in his lab, and for passing on his experience when it comes to career choices. Steve McGaughey, Beckman Institute Wed 4 Apr 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1603 ECE Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?n-ahuja">Narendra Ahuja</a> received a grant from the Office of Naval Research to design an automated system for categorizing visual data. Elise King, Coordinated Science Lab Fri 30 Mar 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1601 <a href="/directory/profile.asp?pilawa">Robert Pilawa</a> is one of the latest faculty members in ECE. He is an expert in power electronics, with a focus on renewable energy. Heather Punke, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 26 Mar 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1598 ECE Assistant Professor <a href="/directory/profile.asp?mitras">Sayan Mitra</a> has received a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Jenny Applequist, Information Trust Institute Thu 22 Mar 2012 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1596 ECE alumnus Michael VanBlaricum, in conjunction with The Ian Fleming Foundation, brought three vehicles that had been used in James Bond films to the 2012 Engineering Open House. Tom Moone, ECE ILLINOIS Wed 21 Mar 2012 00:00 CST
