2009
July
 ECE graduate student Xiaochun Yu is a recipient of the prestigious Bertucci Fellowship. Created through the generosity of John and Claire Bertucci, this highly competitive fellowship was established to provide merit fellowships to graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees in the College of Engineering.
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May
 Students Yen-Tzu Lin (right) and Xiaochun Yu (left) at the 2009 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA. Both Iris and Xiaochun presented well-attended papers.
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May
 ECE graduate student Xiaochun Yu is a recipient of a prestigious Intel Fellowship. The highly competitive program awards only 40 fellowships annually to Ph.D. candidates at select universities who are doing leading edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests.
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April
 ECE graduate student Matthew Beckler is a recipient of a Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship.
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March
 ECE graduate student Yen-Tzu Lin has received a fellowship from NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a high-performance processor that generates interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. The Nvidia news release can be found here.
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January
 Professor Blanton speaks at the ASTAR Graduate Scholarship Workshop in Singapore.
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January
 Professor Blanton is elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to testing of microelectromechanical systems and integrated circuits. The university news release can be found here.
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2008
December
 ECE graduate students Peter Milder and Peter Klemperer won first place with a cash prize in a contest sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) for their final project in Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design in the Fall of 2008. Picture from right to left: Peter Milder, Kate Killfoile (AMD judge and 2005 CMU alumnus), and Peter Klemperer.
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November
 Student Jeff Nelson presents his research at the 2008 Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Technology Conference (TECHCON) in Austin, TX.
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October
 Students Yen-Tzu Lin (left) and Xiaochun Yu (right) at the 2008 International Test Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Both Yen-Tzu and Xiaochun presented well-attended papers.
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September
 Shawn Blanton, Director of CSSI, speaks at the 25th Anniversary of CSSI.
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March
 Student Yen-Tzu Lin presents her research at the 2008 Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) conference in Munich, Germany.
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January
Professor Shawn Blanton is named Director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation. The official Carnegie Mellon announcement can be found here.
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2007
November
 Jason Brown and Shawn Blanton publish book chapter. Chapter 4: “A Built-In Self Test and Diagnosis Strategy for Chemically-Assembled Electronic Nanotechnology,” Emerging Technologies: Test, Defect Tolerance, and Reliability, Springer Publishing.
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October
 Osei Poku gives paper presentation at the 2007 International Test Conference, Santa Clara, CA.
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October
Shawn Blanton named Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
He was one only 57 recipients worldwide to achieve Senior Member status in 2007.
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2006
December
 ECE graduate students James Esper (right) and Sherif Morcos (left) won first place and a trip to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) in Austin, Texas, for their final project in Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design in the Fall 2006.
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September
 Jeff Neslon received the Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship.
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July
 Shawn Blanton was awarded a 2006 Emerald Award for outstanding leadership in recruiting and mentoring minorities for advanced degrees in science and technology.
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April
 Jeff Nelson is awarded an SRC-IBM fellowship.
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March
 CMU@NSBE: Carnegie Mellon sponsors a variety of events at the 2006 NSBE convention held in Pittsburgh.
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2005
2004
April
 Student Jason Brown wins best talk at the IEEE International Test Synthesis Workshop for his presentation: “Testing the NanoFabric”.
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2003
September
Shawn Blanton elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE. |
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2000
 September
Students Kumar Dwarakanath, Noppanunt Utamaphethai and Rao Desineni win Best-in-Session awards at the 2000 Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Technology Conference (TECHCON). See the ECE news story here. |
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 September
Student Rao Desineni wins Top-16 award at the 2000 Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Technology Conference (TECHCON). See the ECE news story here.
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September
 Shawn Blanton is invited participant of the NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering. The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together, through three-day meetings, a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academe, and government labs to discuss pioneering technical work and leading edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors.
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1997
 September
Shawn Blanton is awarded the Career Award from the National Science Foundation for the development of a testing methodology for microelectromechanical systems.
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Student Jeff Nelson presents his research at the 2005