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May 13, 2009

ECE Announces Graduate Fellowships

ECE is proud to announce a number of graduate fellowship awards within our community: A total of 14 graduate students have received fellowships honoring alumni, parents, former faculty and local corporations. Fellowships include: Frank J. Marshall, Lamme/Westinghouse, Leo Finzi, Nicholas Minnici, Ann and Martin McGuinn, Hsu Chang, and Goel.

May 11, 2009

DRS-Signal Solutions Funds Master's Fellowships

Umpei Kurokawa and William Wong who will graduate next week with Master of Science degrees, were partially funded this year with a fellowship from DRS-Signal Solutions.

The company is providing these fellowships as part of its effort to recruit top notch M. S. degree recipients with an interest in communication systems, signal processing, embedded systems or analog/microwave circuit radio design.

May 5, 2009

Grad Student Dan Morris Wins SRC Fellowship

ECE graduate student Dan Morris has been awarded a fellowship by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Global Research Consortium (GRC).

GRC Fellows are encouraged to conduct research leading to novel, high-payoff solutions for the technology challenges faced by the semiconductor industry at and beyond the time horizons of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Morris' research demonstrates IC design methodologies that exploit extremely regular patterning techniques capable of sub-32nm manufacturing. These methodologies reduce the cost...

May 4, 2009

ECE Grad Student Wins Three External Scholarships

First year ECE grad student Joel Harley has received all three of the fellowships for which he applied: a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship. Because he can only hold one external fellowship concurrently...

Ryan Johnson Wins Prestigious IBM Graduate Fellowship

Congratulations to Ryan Johnson who has received an IBM Fellowship for 2009-10. Johnson's research addresses the challenges which multicore computing presents for high-performance database management systems. He currently works on techniques to accelerate transaction processing workloads, which underlie the e-commerce, banking and telecom industries.

IBM's Ph.D. Fellowship Award is an intensely competitive program...