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George Riley

In Loving Memory of George Riley

It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, George Riley, died on June 20, 2018 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.

Fei Wang (left) and Shaojie (Kyle) Xu at the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Competition.

Wang, Xu Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

ECE Ph.D. students Fei Wang and Shaojie (Kyle) Xu have been chosen for the 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.

Edward J. Coyle presented with award at SUNY Industry Conference and Showcase

Coyle Tapped for SUNY-Industry Conference Award

ECE Professor Edward J. Coyle received the “Advancing Civic Engagement and Socially Beneficial Science and Engineering” Award at the SUNY-Industry Conference and Showcase: Science and Engineering for Social Good.

Pranav Gupta

Gupta Receives Best Paper Award at Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop

ECE Ph.D. student Pranav Gupta received a Best Paper Award at the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems 2018 Workshop, held June 3-7 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Zhu Invited to Rising Stars Workshop

ECE Postdoctoral Research Fellow Yiying Zhu has been invited to attend the 2018 Rising Stars Workshop, hosted by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been an assistant professor in ECE since 2007.

Mukhopadhyay Appointed as Pettit Professor

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship, effective May 1, 2018.

To teach the importance of hand washing, Tech students put “glo germ” lotion on a beach ball and let a group of Vietnamese children pass around the ball. By touching the ball, the children got invisible gel or “germs” on their hands, which they could only see under the black flashlight. After the children washed the germs from their hands, Tech students used the black light to show them what clean hands look like.

Students Volunteer Globally for Summer Break

Tech students recently worked on international service projects including: treating children in a mobile clinic in Vietnam, building a clinic in Belize, and conducting an energy and clean water needs assessment in Kenya.

Georgia Tech Wins Top Honors at Formula Hybrid Competition

Georgia Tech’s HyTech Racing team recently won first place at the Formula Hybrid competition.

Asif Khan in the Lab

Ferroelectricity’s Mystery Sister may do Twice the Work for Less

In their recent work published as an Editor’s Pick in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters, they show how these mystery materials—antiferroelectrics—can be fine-tuned by doping...

Thomas E. Michaels

In Loving Memory of Tom Michaels

It is with much sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Thomas E. Michaels, died on May 31, 2018.

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