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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).

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 25, 2007

ECE Student Awarded Intel Ph.D. Fellowship

ECE graduate student Sebastian Herbert was awarded a two-year Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, which will cover his tuition and fees as well as a stipend. Sebastian is studying variability-adaptive power modeling and optimization in chip multiprocessors. He will be paired with a mentor from Intel and have the opportunity to intern there. In addition, he will receive an Intel architecture-based laptop and travel costs for the Fellowship Forum at Intel in October.

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.