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June 12, 2006

ECE Alumnus & Winner of Intel Achievement Award Promoted

ECE alumnus Ram Krishnamurthy (Ph.D. 1998) was promoted last year to Principal Research Engineer at Intel's Corporate Technology Group. In 2004, his team won an Intel Achievement Award, the company's highest honor for personal or team accomplishments, for their research on novel high-performance execution core arithmetic circuit technologies. As a graduate student, Krishnamurthy was advised by Rick Carley, ST Microelectronics Professor of ECE, as part of a Semiconductor Research Corporation supported research contract.

March 6, 2006

ECE Alumnus to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor

ECE alumnus James D. Meindl has been named the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor for his "pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks." His many accomplishments include research into solving the key problems of the physical limits of gigascale silicon technology integration and on-chip interconnections, and his development of novel low-power integrated circuits and sensors for a portable electronic reading aid for the blind.

February 20, 2006

Charap Chosen for Outstanding Research Award

Stanley Charap, an emeritus professor of ECE, was chosen for the College of Engineering's Outstanding Research Award. The honor recognizes an exceptional research contribution that has enhanced the college's reputation in a global or national context and received significant praise from experts in the field. Charap was nominated for his micromagnetic modeling research in the late 1990s proving if hard disk drive scaling continued at the current rate, the industry had only about five years before area storage density would hit the superparamagnetic limit, becoming thermally unstable.

February 15, 2006

National Academy of Engineering Elects ECE Alumnus

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected ECE alumnus Bob Colwell (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1985) "for contributions to turning novel computer architecture concepts into viable, cutting-edge commercial processors." Colwell was Intel's chief IA32 microprocessor architect from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Architecture group through the Intel Pentium Pro (P6) and Pentium 4 projects. Membership in the NAE is one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can achieve.

January 28, 2006

Remembering Judith Resnik

ECE remembers alumna Judith Resnik, who died 20 years ago as a mission specialist in the space shuttle Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986. Resnik received two degrees in electrical engineering: a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon in 1970 and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1977. She was selected for NASA's first group of women astronauts and became the second American woman in orbit on the Discovery flight. One of seven astronauts who died on the Challenger, Resnik was 36 years old and had spent more than 144 hours in space.