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August 3, 2007

ECE Student Wins AREMA Educational Foundation Scholarship

ECE junior Boris Lipchin won the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) Educational Foundation Freeman Scholarship, donated by alumnus Belknap Freeman (B.S. 1940), an AREMA member and professional engineer (P.E.). One ECE student each year is selected for the $10,000 award based on their resume, transcript, and interest in railway engineering and the goal of ultimately obtaining a professional engineering license.

July 2, 2007

Graduate Student Fellowship Established in Memory of Alumna

ECE remembers alumna Margarida Jacome (Ph.D. 1993), who passed away on May 25 after battling cancer for several months. Margarida was an ECE Professor at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin. The ECE Departments at both Carnegie Mellon and UT Austin have established a joint graduate student fellowship in her name. Contributions may be made out to "The University of Texas," marked "For Margarida," and mailed to:

Anthony P. Ambler
Chairman, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0803
ENS Room 236
Austin, TX 78712-0240

June 8, 2007

ECE Faculty Win Awards at DAC

Several ECE faculty members won awards at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) this month in San Diego. Rob Rutenbar won the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award, Randal Bryant received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, and Donald Thomas won an ACM/SIGDA Distinguished Service Award. Radu and Diana Marculescu's work was nominated for a Best Paper Award; the research was co-authored with ECE graduate students Umit Ogras and Puru Choudhary.

May 29, 2007

ECE Ph.D. Graduate Wins Chinese Government Award

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate James Ma won the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. Ma was the only student chosen from Carnegie Mellon. Awardees are selected based on academic and research achievements, after at least three rounds of judging by invited experts from their fields. In the photo, Ma (left) receives his award from Biwei Liu, Consul General of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York City.

April 2, 2007

ECE Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

ECE graduate student Michael Kasick (pictured), senior Felix Duvallet, and alumnus Daniel Weller (B.S. 2006) have been awarded three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. Senior Veronica Yusz, who received an honorable mention, will continue as a graduate student in ECE next fall. Weller is now a graduate student in electrical engineering at MIT, where he will use his fellowship. Duvallet plans to apply his award toward graduate study at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.