Electrical and Computer Engineering

News headlines

Student Interests

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.

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.

May 20, 2007

ECE Diploma Ceremony Honors Graduating Class

On May 20, ECE awarded 22 doctor of philosophy, 108 master of science, and 177 bachelor of science degrees. Of the graduates, 21 simultaneously completed both the MS and BS degrees. Among the BS candidates, 78 graduated with university honors (a Q.P.A. of 3.5 or better) and 27 with college honors, completing an intensive senior honors research project. ECE Department Head Ed Schlesinger led the ceremony, which included the presentation of eight awards.