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Departmental News & Announcements Archive 2008-2007
Faculty & Department News
New institute at UCSB improving energy efficiency - The launch of UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency has received considerable media attention. In addition to print coverage in Santa Barbara and Ventura, the story’s been picked up by a number of Websites and eMail newsletters, and NPR affiliate KCLU ran a six-minute feature in their news programming. The feature includes interviews with Dean Matthew Tirrell, Institute director John Bowers, and Igor Mezic, head of the Institute’s Dynamics of Energy Efficiency technology focus area - more.... (March 2008)
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Evelyn Hu
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Professor Evelyn Hu elected to the National Academy of Sciences: NAS is the country's most prestigious scientific organization and election to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Hu joined the UCSB faculty in 1984 and serves as scientific director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Her research focuses on the formation of nanophotonic devices that may provide more energy-efficient lighting sources and may also facilitate new, faster computation and communications - more... (April 2008)
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Professor Kenneth Rose receives the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award: The paper co-authored with his former students Drs. Aggarwal and Regunathan, "Efficient bit-rate scalability for weighted square error optimization in audio coding," was published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (July 2006). This major award honors a paper of exceptional merit, appearing in one of the Society's Transactions within a 5-year window. This is the second time in three years that Rose has received this award - more... (March 2008)
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Kenneth Rose |
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Convergence Vol 9 |
"More from Less," "Which Way to the Hydrogen Highway," and "Control Freaks," are featured in the UCSB Engineering & Science Magazine Convergence (v. 9). These articles showcase the work of ECE faculty and affiliated faculty members Steve Denbaars, Shuji Nakamura, Umesh Mishra, Petar Kokotovic, Andrew Teel, Roy Smith, Forrest Brewer, and John Bowers - pdf... (Fall 2007) |
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Hespanha named as a 2008 IEEE Fellow: The Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Professor Joao Hespanha as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to stability techniques for switched and hybrid systems - more... (January 2008)
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Joao Hespanha |
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Evelyn Hu
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Hu First to Receive an Endowed Chair Established for UCSB Director of the California NanoSystems Institute in Memory of Peter J. Clarke: UCSB has received a $350,000 gift from Tegal Corp. of Petaluma to establish the endowed chair. The chair is named for the late scientific pioneer Peter J. Clarke. In 1967, Clarke invented the first commercially successful magnetron sputtering devise. Hu, Director of the UCSB CSNI, is a professor in the ECE and Materials departments - more... (July 2007) |
An Article Entitled "Silicon and Beyond" in the Award-Winning UCSB Engineering and Science Magazine Convergence Features the Research of ECE Faculty Members Mark Rodwell and Chris Palmstrom. "Has the semiconductor revolution run its course? Not quite, say these researchers, who are working on new materials and looking for a miracle or two..." - pdf... (Summer 2007) |
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The UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department newsletter "ECE News" hits the stands - Highlights include articles on the Center for Bio-Image Informatics; the world's first hybrid silicon laser; an interview with UCSB ECE Alumnus, Isaac Barpal, a pioneer of hybrid vehicle technology; nanotechnology training programs for students and teachers; the Technology Management Program; CE student senior projects; and the Leadership in Team Engineering Program (LITE) - pdf... (May 2007) |
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Steve Butner
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Professor Steven Butner honored with a UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award – The Distinguished Teaching Award acknowledges the efforts of Senate faculty members who have successfully united teaching and research. Professor Butner has been a member of the UCSB faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1981. Numerous students describe Steve as, “one of the best teachers in the college of engineering.” - more... (May 2007) |
U.S. News |
U.S. News Ranks UC Santa Barbara Graduate Programs Among Best (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – In its annual rankings of leading graduate and professional programs at American universities, U.S. News & World Report magazine has rated UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering and its Gevirtz Graduate School of Education among the country's leaders. The Ph.D. programs in the biological sciences and in chemistry were also highly rated - more... (April 2007) |
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index has placed the UCSB Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at number 10 and the Computer Engineering Program at number six in their 2005 rankings of top research universities. The index by Academic Analytics ranks 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions... |
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Volkan Rodoplu |
Professor Volkan Rodoplu awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award - The NSF CAREER Award is one of the most prestigious national awards given to young faculty. His research "QoS Maps for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" develops new methodologies to collect, refine and disseminate quality-of-service metrics in mobile, wireless sensor networks, thus enabling networks of small, microprocessor-sensors to scale to thousands to millions of nodes - more... (January 2007) |
Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a 2006 Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India - Founded in 1930, the National Academy of Sciences, India is the oldest Science Academy in India. Its main objective is to provide a national forum for the publication of research work carried out by Indian scientists and to provide opportunities for exchange of views among them - more... (January 2007) |
Sanjit Mitra |
John Bowers |
UCSB's Professor John Bowers and Intel Corporation listed on Discover magazine's Top 100 Technology Advances in 2006 - The January 2007 issue of Discover magazine has listed "Bower's joint research on laser emitting chips for signal processing" as one of its top 100 technology advances of 2006... (January 2007)
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Alumni News
Roger C. Wood
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The Roger Wood Initiative has been established by a group of alumni and friends from the College of Engineering and the ECE Department as a vehicle for honoring and recognizing Roger’s incredible contributions to their lives and to the UCSB campus. Through the establishment of a prominent tribute that will endure for many generations, this permanent endowment will attach Roger’s name to three central elements: (1) undergraduate and graduate support; (2) the ability to equip state of the art teaching facilities; and (3) and faculty support - pdf... (June 2008) |
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"ECE News" Interviews Isaac Barpal - Isaac Barpal, who earned both an MS and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UCSB (in '68 and '70 respectively), credits UCSB with allowing him to pursue highly innovative work during his Ph.D. program on parallel hybrid propulsion systems, the technological foundation of today's hybrid cars - more... (May 2007) |
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Student News
Chuan Xu receives the “2008 IBM Problem Solving Award Based on the Use of the EIP Tool Suite” at the IEEE Conference, EPEP ’08, held in San Jose, California. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by students in solving the most interesting problems using IBM’s Electromagnetic Field Solver Suite of Tools called the EIP tools. Xu, a PhD student in Prof. Kaustav Banerjee’s research group, received the award for making innovative use of the EIP tools in his research project related to 3-D Thermal Analysis of Complex VLSI Interconnects---a problem that cannot be handled by any of the existing thermal simulation tools - more... (October 2008) |
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ECE 189 Capstone
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HiCam group winners of Computer Engineering Capstone Project Presentation Day "Best ECE Project" and "Best Poster" awards - Team members Charles De Cuir, Michelle Olofson, Man-Sum Lai, Sergey Butylkov and Vanessa Wentz took home $500 for each award for their project at the June 5th event - more... (June 2008)
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ECE Ph.D. student, Sheng-Chih Lin, research highlighted on the cover of the Jan. 2008 "IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices" journal - the journal cover image shows a self-consistent simulation of the temperature profile of a modern silicon integrated circuit adapted from the paper titled ‘‘ Cool Chips: Opportunities and Implications for Power and Thermal Management’’ by S-C Lin and K. Banerjee, published in the same issue. Lin's doctoral work was on thermal management of nanoscale integrated circuits. He worked with Prof. Kaustav Banerjee and graduated in Dec. 2007.. He is now on the Technical Staff at Intel Corp - journal cover... (Feb 2008) |
Sheng-Chin Lin
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Firat Kart
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Firat Kart, an ECE graduate student, won first prize in the Services Computing Contest for a presentation, demonstration and paper on "A Distributed e-Healthcare System Based on the Service Oriented Architecture" at the IEEE Services Computing Conference / International Conference on Web Services (SCC/ICWS)... (July 2007)
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ECE 4 Students Complete Course Design Project that Monitors the UCSB Lagoon - ECE 4 is a class offered in the Spring of each year as an introductory class to engineering for freshmen. The class is designed to be project and team oriented and not lecture based. This year’s project focuses on developing sensors that monitor the UCSB Lagoon in an attempt to better analyze temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and turbidity levels... (June 2007) |
ECE 4 Students
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KEYT News
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Computer Engineering Program Senior "Capstone" Project Day covered by Santa Barbara ABC Affiliate KEYT 3 - This year's event was sponsored by Google and featured final projects by ECE 189, CS 189, ECE 188 and the Leadership in Team Engineering Program - .mpg... (June 2007)
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CE Capstone Award
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Geographic Location Audio Information System (G.L.A.I.S) group winners of "Computer Engineering Capstone Project Presentation Day / Best ECE Project" award - Team members Davis Brimer, Samantha Alt, Ethan Kravitz, David Fong and Daniel Popescu took home the $1000 award for their project at the Google sponsored event... (June 2007)
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ECE Graduate student Bridget Benson has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. NSF makes annual awards to graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This extremely competitive fellowship provides three years of financial support. Bridget's research interests span computer engineering and aquatic sciences, focusing on building adaptive sampling techniques and computing devices for monitoring lakes and oceans. (May 2007) |
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Davis Brimer |
Fourth-year computer engineering major Davis Brimer and physics major Alex Proctor, leaders of Active Life Technologies, received $10,000 for the Most Fundable Idea and $5,000 for the Alumni Choice Award at the New Venture Competition at UCSB. The company took home the top prize for its invention, the Osteoprobe - a device that measures bone density in a living patient - more... (April 2007)
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Fionna Dunne and Nicholas Clark win the 2006 Best Undergraduate Paper Award at the International Telemetering Conference - The International Foundation for Telemetering (IFT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the professional and technical interests of the "Telemetering Community." The basic purpose of the IFT is the promotion and stimulation of technical growth in telemetering and its allied arts and sciences - more... (April 2007)
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