http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ This is an RSS feed of news stories from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. en-us Copyright 2012, ECE Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:29 EDT 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ Third-year Ph.D. student Da-Cheng Juan has been awarded a U.S. Corporate Intel Fellowship, a highly competitive and prestigious award reserved for Ph.D. candidates pursuing leading-edge research in fields related to Intel's business and research interests at select universities. The fellowship includes full tuition for one year, a stipend and travel budget, and an Intel technical liaison to serve as a mentor. Students who earn an Intel Fellowship are also prioritized for internships and hiring with the company. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/05/dacheng_juan_awarded/ Tue, 08 May 2012 15:28:00 EDT The Data Storage Systems Center, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the IEEE Magnetics Society's Pittsburgh Chapter, hosted a special seminar this month featuring IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Masahiro Yamaguchi. IEEE Distinguished Lecturers are engineering professionals who lead their fields in new technical developments that shape the global community. For the IEEE Magnetics Society, specifically, the distinguished lecturer exhibits excellence in the field of magnetics — not only in research, but also in developing the applied or technical aspects of the field — and outstanding communication skills. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/dssc_ece_host/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:40:00 EDT ECE Professor Radu Marculescu, Ph.D. alumnus Umit Ogras (currently with Intel Corporation) and post-doc Paul Bogdan have earned the 2011 Donald O. Peterson Best Paper Award for their paper, "An Analytical Approach for Network-on-Chip Performance Analysis." The award, sponsored by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, recognizes the best paper published in Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/researchers_earn_best/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:41:00 EDT University Professor of ECE Mark Kryder has received the California Institute of Technology's 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award for his lifelong contributions to perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The award is the highest honor the institute bestows. Since its inception in 1966, Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award has been presented to outstanding alumni in the sciences, engineering, business and the arts for a particular achievement or series of achievements. Kryder, who joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1978 and founded the university's Magnetics Technology and Data Storage Systems Centers in 1983 and 1990, respectively, earned both his master's degree and Ph.D. from Caltech. He will accept the award at a ceremony on Saturday, May 19, during Caltech's 75th annual Seminar Day. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/kryder_receives_distinguished/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:30:00 EDT The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) selected Hsun-Hsien Chang, a bioinformatics scientist at the Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, as February's CHAVI Young-Investigator-of-the-Month. The award recognizes outstanding young investigators who have made significant contributions to the CHAVI mission — to solve major problems in HIV vaccine development and design — and who have been nominated by their mentors for their exceptional leadership and valuable research. Chang earned his Ph.D. in ECE with advisor José M. F. Moura in 2007. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/alum_wins_younginvestigatorofthemonth/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:19:00 EDT Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the University of Porto's Business School (EGP-UPBS) in Porto, Portugal, will offer a new dual-degree graduate program in engineering and business this fall. The two-year program will give participants the opportunity to study one year in Portugal at the University of Porto and another year in the U.S. at Carnegie Mellon. Students will be required to meet academic requirements from both universities to receive a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA ("The Magellan MBA") from EGP-UPBS. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/ece_forms_partnership/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:41:00 EDT Tanoto Professor of ECE Larry Pileggi has received the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for his paper, "PRIMA: Passive Reduced-Order Interconnect Macromodeling Algorithm." The award, presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, honors a person or persons for outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidence by a paper published at least 10 years before the award's presentation. The award is based on the impact of the contribution. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/04/pileggi_receives_acmieee/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:16:00 EDT Second-year Ph.D. student Vanessa Chen has received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, a highly competitive award that honors exceptional students who display an interest in solving problems important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in the sciences and engineering. Recipients are selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM and their academic progress to date, in the form of publications and faculty endorsements. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/03/chen_earns_ibm/ Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:13:00 EDT Remote island communities from the Azores to Nome, Alaska, could experience drastic reductions in the cost of electricity and CO2 emissions by using new smart energy grid technology developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG). Already, ECE Professor Marija Ilic and about a dozen EESG researchers and their collaborators in Portugal have developed a real-world database for electric power grids of Flores and San Miguel, two of nine volcanic islands that sit in the middle of the North Atlantic some 900 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. Using this database, the team has modeled and assessed the potential for residential and commercial electricity users to participate in a load-management program needed to make the most out of inexpensive, clean wind energy. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/03/ilic_leads_team/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:43:00 EDT The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science a $3.5 million grant for the next two years to conduct research and implement technologies for improving the safety and efficiency of transportation. Through this new University Transportation Center (UTC), CMU and Penn will explore cutting-edge technologies that could influence everything from the safety of vehicles and roads to the analysis of traffic flow. The consortium will also establish a workforce development program to train graduate students in modern transportation-related technologies and policymaking. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/02/cmu_penn_engineering/ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:44:00 EST Four ECE Professors will take home honors when the College of Engineering hosts its Faculty Awards ceremony next month. Assistant Professor Onur Mutlu will receive the George Tallman Ladd Research Award, and Erik Ydstie, a professor of chemical engineering with a courtesy appointment in the ECE Department, earned the college's Philip L. Dowd Fellowship. The Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award will be presented to Professor James Hoburg, and University Professor of ECE Mark Kryder will receive the Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/02/ece_faculty_earn/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST ECE Professor Radu Marculescu has been named the new editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends® in Electronic Design Automation (FnTEDA), effective Jan. 1. Marculescu succeeds founding editor-in-chief, Professor Sharad Malik from Princeton University. In his role as editor-in-chief, Marculescu will contribute to the selection of the editorial board, coordinate the paper-review process and shape the long-term publication strategy of the journal. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/02/radu_marculescu_named/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:00 EST ECE students made headlines across the country last week when more than 120 tinkerers and gadgeters participated in the department's Build18 initiative, a week of building and speed hacking for students, by students. Now in its third year, the engineering festival encourages groups of students to innovate and create solutions to problems they choose themselves, free from the pressure of tests, exams and formal project reviews. ECE students run the event, coordinating everything from the project applications to finding corporate sponsors. The department kicks in lab space, equipment and conference rooms. The result? A weeklong hackfest that gives students a chance to find their inner entrepreneurs. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/01/in_the_news/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:00 EST Succeeding in innovation and invention, of course, means identifying the customers' needs and satisfying them. Not everything works the first time. But whether 120 Carnegie Mellon engineering students are being playful with a new mind-controlled toy car or deadly earnest in promoting bicycle safety, their energy and ingenuity will be on display from 3 to 5 p.m., Jan. 20 in Hamerschlag Hall at the third annual Build18 Project Showcase. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/01/ece_students_host/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:43:00 EST ECE Professor Diana Marculescu has been named a distinguished scientist for her significant impact on the computing field by the Association for Computing Machinery. "This is a great honor for me from my peers, as less than 10 percent of ACM members ever attain this accolade," Marculescu said. A pioneer in energy-aware computing, Marculescu is developing novel power management techniques to improve the performance delivered per unit of energy consumed for computer hardware and software. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/12/diana_marculescu_named/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:50:00 EST George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Raj Rajkumar has been named an IEEE fellow, class of 2012. He earned the distinction "for contributions to predictable real-time systems and operating systems," according to IEEE. IEEE bestows its "fellow' grade upon researchers with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. It is the highest grade of membership, and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and important career achievement. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/12/rajkumar_named_ieee/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:32:00 EST A team of ECE and computer science students led by ECE Assistant Professor David Brumley are using their competitive skills to rack up global victories as members of CMU's Capture the Flag team. Capture the Flag (CTF) is a computer security war game in which each participating team or individual competes to find a key source of information by solving a litany of challenges. Since late October, the CMU CTF team has won two prestigious contests. On Oct. 24, they won the SecuInside CTF contest in South Korea, winning $30,000. In early November, they entered two teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York (NYU-Poly) CSAW contest and took first and second place, netting another $1,750. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/11/ece_cs_students/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:23:00 EST Carnegie Mellon will extend its global reach to China, as the first private institution to offer graduate engineering degree programs with Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). Carnegie Mellon and SYSU will establish a joint Institute of Engineering in Guangzhou, China, initially offering master's and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering, beginning in 2013. SYSU is located in southern China in Guangzhou along the Pearl River Delta, an important economic and technology hub of the Asia-Pacific region. "We are pleased to partner with Sun Yat-sen University, which has a long history as one of China's finest institutions," said CMU President Jared L. Cohon. "Working with SYSU, we hope to usher in a new era of engineering education in China. We look forward to bringing CMU's innovative style, technological expertise and creative problem-solving to the region." (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/11/cmu_partners_with/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:00 EST ECE Professor Radu Marculescu delivered a keynote talk at the 19th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC) in Hong Kong earlier this month. His talk, "Design and Optimization of Thousand-Core Systems," explored fundamental issues related to the design, evaluation and hardware prototyping of scalable power and temperature management algorithms for next-generation, massively parallel multicore systems. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/marculescu_delivers_keynote/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:04:00 EDT ECE Professor Virgil Gligor received the Outstanding Innovation Award for computer privacy and security expertise Oct. 18 at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Chicago. "I'm extremely honored to receive this award as I continue to focus on how to design and implement trustworthy computing systems," said Gligor, co-director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. "It is an honor to be recognized by my peers." (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/gligor_recognized_for/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:22:00 EDT