- Congratulations to Eric Simley, a graduate student in electrical engineering advised by Lucy Pao, who won a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue research at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) next year. His research is on Measuring Wind Evolution for Wind Turbine Control using Light Detection and Ranging. (2013-05-17)
- Congratulations to Prof. Dejan Filipovic who received a three-year award for "Low-Profile HF Antennas for Vehicles on the Move" from the DOD Navy ONR in the amount of $907K. (2013-05-14)
- Congratulations to Research Professor Nikolay Zabotin who received an award from the DOD Navy ONR for $804K. This three-year grant is for "Tracing Acoustic-Gravity Waves from the Ocean into the Ionsophere through Windows of Transparency in the Air-Sea Interface." Co-PIs are Profs. Oleg Godin (CIRES) and Terence Bullett (CIRES). (2013-05-14)
- Congratulations to Courtesy Professor Jeffrey Thayer (AES) who served on a congressional briefing panel in Washington, D.C. addressing "Space Technology Policy: Exploring Options." The panel was co-hosted by the American Chemical Society's Science & Congress Project and the American Geophysical Union. The briefing was hosted by Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). (2013-05-14)
- Congratulations to Professor Emeritus W. Thomas Cathey, Jr., who has been selected to receive the 2013 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize of the Optical Society (OSA). Prof. Cathey is being honored for seminal contributions to the field of computational optical imaging and its commercial application. (2013-04-02)
- Company of the Year, LineRate Systems of Louisville, Colo., is developing technologies around software-defined networking, a computer networking approach that allows network behavior to be governed by high-level software programming rather than by the low-level configurations of the network's devices, making networks easier to configure, manage, troubleshoot and debug. The company was acquired by F5 Networks in February 2013. (2013-04-02)
- The University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (TTO) inducted Professor Emeritus Tom Cathey of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering into the Pinnacles of Inventorship, an “all-stars” group recognizing continuous commitment to best practices in technology transfer. Cathey was a co-founder of CU startup CDM Optics, which was acquired by OmniVision in 2005. (2013-04-02)
- Congratulations to Prof. Zoya Popovic who received the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society 2013 Distinguished Educator Award! (2013-02-28)
- Congratulations to Prof. Robert McLeod who received the 2013 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in Optoelectronics! (2013-02-27)
- Nora Van Leuvan, the Assistant to the Chairs, received the College's Employee Recognition Award. Congratulations, Nora! (2013-01-17)
- Congratulations to Pam Aguila who received the college's Commitment to Excellence Award! This award is given semi-annually to staff who are celebrating a 5-year milestone of employment and have earned the highest performance rating in each of the last three years. (2013-01-09)
- Please welcome Joanie Weisman to the ECEE Department! Joanie is our new Accounting Technician II. (2013-01-09)
- Congratulations to Prof. Dragan Maksimovic who has been selected to receive the Charles Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award for 2012! (2012-12-30)
- Congratulations to undergraduate Savannah Schilling whose ICDL-EpiRob 2012 Program submission, "Interactions in the Development of Skilled Word Learning in Neural Networks and Toddlers", has received a Paper of Excellence award! This award recognizes submissions that combine solid research with excellent presentation, worthy of journal-quality publication, and is only awarded to the top 20% of overall submissions to ECDL-EpiRob this year. (2012-11-06)
- Congratulations to Prof. Milos Popovic for being chosen as a Fellow of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation! Only 16 awards were made nationally across all of science and engineering. This is the first time anyone in ECEE has received this recognition. This award provides $875k in unrestricted funding over 5 years. (2012-10-16)
- Pam Wheeler, the ECEE Office Manager, celebrated her 25 year anniversary with CU and the ECEE Department on September 14, 2012. Congratulations, Pam! (2012-09-20)
- Congratulations to Profs. Jeremy Siek (ECEE) and Evan Chang (CS) for a $250K NSF grant on improving reflection technology in programming systems! (2012-09-14)
- Congratulations to Profs. Robert McLeod and Christopher Bowman who have been awarded a GAANN in Functional Materials! This award provides $660K over three years to the ECEE and CBE departments. (2012-09-06)
- Congratulations to Prof. Nikolaus Correll who was awarded NASA's inaugural "Universities Go to Space" grant. He was one of ten researchers nationwide to receive this grant. Prof. Correll has a joint appointment with the ECEE and CS departments. (2012-08-27)
- Congratulations to Prof. David Meyer. Prof. Meyer is the recipient of the Dean's Award for Professional Progress! (2012-08-17)
- Due to a very successful year, the ECEE Department has increased grant funding to $17.3 million. Congratulations to ECEE's faculty, staff, and students! (2012-08-17)
- Congratulations to Prof. Wounjhang Park who just received the Provost Faculty Achievement Award! (2012-07-10)
- Congratulations to Prof. Nikolaus Correll who received an NSF CAREER Award for "Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors". Prof. Correll has a joint appointment with the ECEE and CS departments. (2012-06-12)
- Congratulations to Pam Wheeler! She was selected to receive the College of Engineering and Applied Science Employee Recognition Award for May. (2012-06-08)
