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September 17, 2009

Morgan to Receive Outstanding Educator Award

M. Granger Morgan, Engineering and Public Policy Department Head and Professor of ECE, was selected to receive the 2009 Outstanding Educator Award by the Society for Risk Analysis.

The award will be presented during the SRA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2009.

Kovacevic Paper Among Most Downloaded

A paper co-authored by professor of biomedical engineering and ECE Jelena Kovacevic, P. Vandewalle, and M. Vetterli was one of the top 100 most downloaded on IEEE Xplore in the six month period from November 2008 to April 2009, even though it as published at the end of the cycle.

The paper, titled "What, why and how of reproducible research in signal processing," was published in the May 2009 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

September 9, 2009

Alumnus Voronenko wins Kauffman Entrepreneur Fellowship

ECE alumnus Yevgen Voronenko (Ph.D. 2008) has been selected as a Kauffman Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Fellow. Voronenko is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Spiral Group.

Voronenko's research contributions include the complete automation of the development of performance libraries for certain critical signal processing functions in the context of Spiral. He won a best dissertation award for this work last year.

Dean Randal E. Bryant Receives Kaufman Award For Seminal Work on Electronic Design Automation

Randal E. Bryant, University Professor and dean of School of Computer Science and Professor of ECE will receive this year's Phil Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) for his impact on theory and practice on Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

The award recognizes Bryant's seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification --- the use of mathematical techniques to prove that a hardware or software design functions as intended.

August 31, 2009

Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Engineering Society

Pradeep K. Khosla received a lifetime achievement award August 31 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the 2009 Engineering Technical Conference in San Diego.

Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, founding director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and Dowd University Professor of ECE is being recognized for his significant impact on the use of computers in engineering practice and education from the Computer and Information in Engineering Division of ASME.