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June 16, 2008

ECE alumnus gives ISCAS 2008 keynote talk

ECE alumnus John Cohn gave the keynote talk at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '08) held May 18-21 in Seattle, Washington. His keynote, "Kids these days -- How we can inspire the next generation of Engineers and Scientists" highlighted his passionate efforts over the past 15 years to make engineering fun for nearly 50,000 kids.

April 24, 2008

ECE Alumnus Promoted to Senior Principal Research Engineer

ECE alumnus Ram K. Krishnamurthy (Ph.D. 1998) has recently been promoted to Senior Principal Research Engineer at Intel Corporation's Corporate Technology Group in Hillsboro, OR. As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, Krishnamurthy was advised by Professor Rick Carley.

December 19, 2007

DRS Technologies Awards ECE Projects

DRS Technologies, Inc. sponsored a Best Project Award competition for Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design, taught by David Casasent (pictured left), George Westinghouse Professor of ECE, and Associate Teaching Professor of ECE Tom Sullivan. DRS employees Jeff Silvey (M.S. 1998; B.S. 1996; pictured right) and Patrick Mitrik from the company's Washington Operations traveled to campus to watch the final oral reports and demonstrations.

AMD Sponsors ECE Course Contests

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) engineers Spence Oliver (M.S. 2000) and Ari Shtulman visited campus from Austin, TX, to present awards to the winners of a final project course contest for Integrated Circuit Design Project. Shtulman also gave awards to the winners for Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design. AMD sponsors the annual competitions. Pictured: Hong Tuck Liew receives the Exceptional Design Award on behalf of his team from Oliver. View project photos.

November 7, 2007

Marculescu and Hu Selected for DATE Book

A paper written by Associate Professor of ECE Radu Marculescu and his former graduate student Jingcao Hu (Ph.D. 2005) was selected for a book featuring the most influential work over 10 years of the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. The research, entitled "Exploiting the Routing Flexibility for Energy-Performance Aware Mapping of Regular NoC Architectures" was selected for 2003; only three papers were chosen from each year.