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Santhosh Karnik

Karnik Wins SampTA Best Student Paper Award

ECE Ph.D. student Santhosh Karnik received the Best Student Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA), held July 8-12, 2019 in Bordeaux, France.

Mohammad Sadegh Eslampanah Sendi

Sendi Tapped for Bobby Jones BME Award

Mohammad Sadegh Eslampanah Sendi has been named the recipient of the Bobby Jones BME Award, which is presented each year to a biomedical engineering graduate student for exceptional research accomplishments as identified by the faculty.

A micro-bristle-bot is shown next to a U.S. penny for size comparison. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Tiny Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World’s Smallest Ant

The size of an ant, the micro-bristle-bot moves by harnessing vibration.

Alumni Spotlight: Aleksander Szlam

Alumnus Aleksander (Alek) Szlam (BSEE ‘74, MSEE ’80) has a life story that would make a great Hollywood screen play—part coming to America, part love story, part rags to riches.

Magnus Egerstedt

Egerstedt Chosen for ACC Best Paper Award

ECE Professor and School Chair Magnus Egerstedt received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), held July 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Abdallah Ougazzaden (right) with Metz Mayor Dominique Gros

Ougazzaden Awarded with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

ECE Professor and GTL Director Abdallah Ougazzaden was awarded with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor on June 28 at the Metz City Hall in Metz, France.

Mengxue Hou

Hou Selected for MTS/IEEE OCEANS Best Poster Award

ECE Ph.D. student Mengxue Hou received one of the three Best Poster Awards in the Student Poster Competition of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, the flagship international conference on Ocean Engineering and Technologies.