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May 9, 2007

ECE Students Win "Meeting of the Minds" Awards

More than 400 Carnegie Mellon students exhibited their projects at this spring's 12th annual "Meeting of the Minds" undergraduate research symposium, including more than 70 students from the ECE Department. Several ECE students won awards at the event's competitions, which were sponsored by corporations, departments, honor societies, and individuals. The symposium is organized by Carnegie Mellon's Undergraduate Research Office.

May 4, 2007

Tonguz Co-chairs MOVE Workshop at INFOCOM

ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz is organizing the Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE) workshop with General Motors (GM) at INFOCOM in Anchorage, Alaska, May 6-12. Varsha Sadekar, GM program manager, is co-chairing MOVE with Tonguz. In addition to GM, other car manufacturers including Toyota, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler will participate.

May 3, 2007

Students Find Recording Studio to be Interdisciplinary Hub

"Check. One, two...check," echoes the voice of Carnegie Mellon vocal student Anna Vogelzang. While this may be a typical day in the university's recording studio, this is not your typical microphone. It was custom-built by engineering student Eric Boulanger—who studied top-quality microphones on the market with the eventual aim of making something that out performed them all. Photographed (left to right): Anna Vogelzang, Eric Boulanger, and Ali Spagnola.

April 10, 2007

ECE Graduate Students Awarded Trip to AMD Austin

ECE graduate students James Esper (right) and Sherif Morcos (left) won first place and a trip to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) in Austin, Texas, for their final project in Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design last fall. ECE Professor Shawn Blanton taught the course, in which students examine the theory and practice of fault analysis, test generation, and design for testability for digital integrated circuits (ICs) and systems.

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.