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May 23, 2008

ECE Faculty Speak at Michigan 50-year Anniversary

ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar and Daniel P. Sieworek, along with former ECE faculty member John P. Shen, were featured speakers at the UM CSE@50 Symposium, which celebrated the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the University of Michigan Computer Science department. All three are alumni of the University of Michigan.

May 20, 2008

Ilic Speaks on Network Systems Engineering and "The Energy-Environment Dream"

ECE Professor Marija Ilic recently gave two invited talks on the West Coast at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Titled "The Key Role of Network Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream," Professor Ilic's talks concerned the challenge of transforming today's passive electric power grids into active enablers of efficient and reliable utilization of emerging energy resources.

May 13, 2008

Turning Gestures into Speech

Four ECE students have invented a sensor-equipped glove that can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone. Called HandTalk, the project was developed this spring as part of the Embedded Systems Design capstone course taught by Professor Priya Narasimhan. ECE seniors Bhargav Bhat, Jorge Meza and Hemant Sikaria, and an ECE graduate student, Wesley Jin, ran with the idea, resulting in a practical research prototype.

April 25, 2008

C2S2 Circuits Center Review Draw Over 100 Attendees

The FCRP Center for Circuit & System Solutions (C2S2), headed by ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar, held its 2008 annual review April 17-18 in Pittsburgh. The review drew over 130 attendees from across U.S. universities, industrial and government sponsors. C2S2 is a consortium of 19 U.S. schools, 50 faculty and roughly 100 students, sponsored by the U.S. semiconductor industry and Department of Defense (DOD). Carnegie Mellon is the lead university for the C2S2 center.

AsSadhan selected as a King Abdullah Scholar

ECE graduate student Basil AsSadhan was selected as a King Abdullah Scholar with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. An award ceremony was held on April 5th in Washington, DC to award AsSadhan and 16 other PhD students in the U.S. and Europe. AsSadhan is an advisee of ECE Professor José Moura.