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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.

August 1, 2007

ECE Students Win Grants for Undergraduate Research

Seven ECE student projects won Small Undergraduate Research Fellowships/Grants (SURF/SURG) from Carnegie Mellon's Undergraduate Research Office (URO). The grants will be for the fall semester, while the fellowships are for this summer. Thirty projects were funded this year across many majors. The winners will participate in a seminar series, including discussions of ethics in research, and will present their projects at the campus-wide "Meeting of the Minds" undergraduate research symposium on May 7 at Carnegie Mellon's University Center.

July 23, 2007

ECE Researchers Win Two Best Paper Awards

ECE researchers won two best paper awards at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Minneapolis. ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher (center) and Tsuhan Chen (left), won the best paper award in the workshop on semantic learning applications in multimedia (SLAM). Chen, Professor and Associate Department Head of ECE, co-directs the Industrial Technology Research Institute Lab at Carnegie Mellon (ITRI Lab@CMU). Additionally, ECE graduate student Devi Parikh (right) and Chen won a best paper award in the beyond patches workshop.

July 9, 2007

ECE Graduate Student Leaders Elected

ECE's Engineering Graduate Student Organization (EGO) has elected new officers for the year with (clockwise from top left) Srinivas Chellappa as president, Kyle Anderson as vice president and fall picnic chair, Nicole Saulnier as secretary, and Adam Pennington as treasurer. Additionally, Stacey Ivol has joined the team as vice president for the winter party.

ECE Students Win NDSEG Fellowships

ECE students John Reinke and Nicholas O'Donoughue were selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, which will cover their tuition and stipends over three years. Alumnus Daniel Weller (B.S. 2006) also qualified for the honor and will use his fellowship at MIT, where he is a graduate student in electrical engineering. Students at or near the beginning of doctoral study in science or engineering compete nationally for the awards, which are funded by the Department of Defense (DoD).