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Departmental News & Announcements Archive 2006
Professor Arthur Gossard and co-authors awarded the 2005-2006 Newcomb Cleveland Prize - Professor Gossard and his co-authors from the UCSB Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation have been selected as the recipients of the 2005-2006 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their paper "Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots" - more... (December 2006)
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Arthur Gossard |
The ECE Electronics Shop is going lead free - Paul Gritt, ECE Department Technical Support Manager, has announced that the Shop has ordered solder and irons to support lead-free student labs. All support staff will use lead free solder as well. Students will be trained and expected to use lead free solder by Winter 2007. Keeping students, faculty and staff safe from harmful chemicals is the department's first priority. Going lead-free is part of the Shop's commitment to maintaining a safe working environment. (December 2006) |
John Bowers
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UCSB's John Bowers and Intel Corporation win PC Magazine's 2006 Technical Excellence Award for Best Semiconductor Technology - PC Magazine announced its 2006 Technical Excellence Awards. UCSB / Intel's Hybrid Silicon Laser won the award for Best Semiconductor Technology. Professor John Bowers, Alex Fang and Hyundai Park from UCSB as well as Oded Cohen, Mario Paniccia, and Richard Jones from Intel Corporation developed on this technology - more... (December 2006) |
Professor Allen Gersho wins the 2007 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award - The IEEE Board of Directors
named Professor Gersho as the recipient of its 2007
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
with the following citation: "For contributions to the
theory and application of speech coding" - more... |
Allen Gersho |
Sanjit Mitra |
Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a Foreign Fellow of INAE - The Indian
National Academy of Engineering (INAE) honors Indian and Foreign
nationals who are elected by "peer" committees in
recognition of their personal achievements in engineering
in
new and developing fields of technology. Election to the Academy
is only by nomination made by Fellows of INAE affiliated to
various engineering sections. Professor Sanjit K. Mitra was
recently elected a Foreign Fellow of INAE for his major contributions
to signal and image processing - more... |
Professor Joao
Hespanha's work awarded as the 2006 George Axelby Outstanding Paper - Hespanha's paper "Uniform Stability of Switched Linear
Systems: Extensions of LaSalle's Invariance Principle"
was selected for the Axelby Award that recognizes outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control - more...
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Joao Hespanha |
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UCSB Engineering has
been listed as the top graduate program in the The Princeton Review's list of "Top
20 Graduate Engineering Programs" - To help inform students about the quality of graduate engineering programs, The Princeton Review has collected and validated institutional and program specific data over the past two academic years to develop its first-ever list of the Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs... |
UCSB's Professor John Bowers and Intel develop the world's first hybrid silicon laser - This chip
that emits and guides light could drive silicon photonics
into wide use in future computers and data centers - more...
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John Bowers |
Umesh Mishra |
Professor Umesh
Mishra receives the IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2007 for the "Development
of Gallium Nitride Electronics" - The IEEE David Sarnoff Award was established in 1959 through agreement between the RCA Corporation and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to recognize exceptional contributions to electronics - more...
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2006 Millenium Technology Prize Awarded to UCSB's Shuji Nakamura - The award recognizes his invention of revolutionary new light sources: blue, green, and white light-emitting diodes and the blue laser diode. The award, which includes a cash prize of one million Euros (approximately $1.3-million USD) is the world's biggest technology award. Presented by Finland's Millennium Prize Foundation, the award recognizes outstanding technological achievement aimed at promoting quality of life and sustainable development - more...
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Shuji Nakamura |
Hua Lee |
Professor Hua Lee named the 2005-2006 Electrical Engineering Outstanding Faculty
Award - Hua Lee has been selected
by the department's graduating seniors as the outstanding faculty member based on his teaching
excellence. The award was presented at the commencement ceremony, held
on June 17, 2006.
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CE Professors Steve Butner and Rich Wolski named "Outstanding Faculty" - Electrical and Computer Engineering's Steve Butner
and Computer Science's Rich Wolski were selected by their department's graduating seniors as outstanding
faculty members in Computer Engineering for 2005-2006 based
on their teaching excellence. The award was presented at the
commencement ceremony held June 17, 2006.
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Steve Butner |
Sanjit Mitra |
Professor Sanjit K. Mitra receives the 2006
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal - The IEEE recognizes exceptional
achievements by individuals and
organizations. The IEEE Board of Directors has given this award
to Professor Mitra with the following citation "for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering
education through pioneering textbooks, innovative laboratory
development, and curriculum reform" - more... |
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