Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Diane Rover was recognized as a finalist for the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) award in the Diversity Champion category on Thursday. The TAI awards recognize and celebrate women who are leaders in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Rover has been an …Continue reading “Professor named finalist for Technology Association of Iowa award”
Iowa State University’s Magnetic Research Group is investigating topological electromagnetic sensors, a subject related to the recent Nobel Prize for physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. The Nobel Prize was awarded half to David J. Thouless at the University of Washington, Seattle, and half to F. Duncan M. …Continue reading “Iowa State project advances topological phases of matter”
Current Iowa State University Computer Engineering Ph.D. student Ben Holland is always willing to take on a cybersecurity challenge. Holland has participated in Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity (APAC) and Space/Time Analysis for Cybersecurity (STAC), the two largest grants Iowa State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has received in the last several years. He was …Continue reading “Holland continues success in cybersecurity”
Dr. Manimaran Govindarasu, Mehl Professor, has assumed the role of interim chair of the ECpE Department. Former Department Chair Dr. David C. Jiles left in August for a Jefferson Science Fellowship at the U.S. Department of State. Govindarasu said Jiles did an excellent job leading the ECpE Department and hopes to continue what Jiles started. …Continue reading “Govindarasu takes over as interim department chair”
Students, staff and faculty have been making the most of the new Brayton Conference Room since the beginning of the school year. The room was opened this past summer and is available for anyone in ECpE to use. It includes an overhead projector, smart boards and air-conditioning. The conference room is named after distinguished alum …Continue reading “Coover Hall opens new conference room”
Namrata Vaswani was promoted to full professor in the ECpE department. Her research interests lie at the intersection of data science and machine learning for high dimensional problems and signal and information processing. Her recent research has focused on developing provably accurate online algorithms for various high-dimensional structured data recovery problems, such as online robust …Continue reading “Vaswani, Tirthapura promoted to professors”
James McCalley, London Professor of Power Systems Engineering, has received the title of Anson Marston Distinguished Professor. McCalley currently has a large research team focused on designing high capacity interregional DC transmission between the US Eastern Interconnection (EI) and the US Western Interconnection (WI), to facilitate the use of wind energy (having its best resources …Continue reading “McCalley receives Anson Marston Distinguished Professor title”
*Article was originally published in the Houston Chronicle Lee Ott, 73, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, the 1st of June 2016. He was born the 13th of October 1942, in Kinross, Iowa, to Joseph and Mary Ott. Lee grew up on farms in rural Iowa, spending most of his life on a farm in …Continue reading “Honored ECpE alumnus passes away”
Steven Specker (PhD 1970) has been selected for a Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award by Iowa State University College of Engineering. This citation recognizes alumni known for their professional competence and creativity. Sandbulte professor and Chair of the ECpE Department Awards committee, Ian Dobson sent in the nomination for Steven Specker. In Specker’s …Continue reading “ECpE alumnus wins PACE award”
Iowa State University was recently recognized as one of the “Highly Regarded CyberSecurity Programs” on Online Engineering Programs’ blog. The list is comprised of five outstanding professors and universities in online cybersecurity programs. Iowa State was commended for its online master of science degree in information assurance, focusing largely on cybersecurity. This degree is offered …Continue reading “University recognized as one of the “Highly Regarded CyberSecurity Programs””
Professor Namrata Vaswani and her student, Wei Lu won the prestigious Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society for their paper “Modified-CS: Modifying Compressive Sensing for Problems with Partially Known Support, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 9, September, 2010.” Lu was Vaswani’s Ph.D. student when this work was done; he graduated in 2011 …Continue reading “Professor wins Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society”
*Co-authored by Prof. Biswas Akshit Peer, an ECpE PhD student and Ames Lab student associate, has been awarded a 2016 Travel Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. The scholarship application involves evaluation based on student’s research and participation in various …Continue reading “PhD student awarded SPIE Travel Scholarship”
Associate professor, Jaeyoun Kim’s article, ‘Microrobotic tentacles with spiral bending capability based on shape-engineered elastomeric microtubes’, placed as one of the top 100 read Scientific Reports articles in 2015, out of almost 11,000 papers published. Kim’s article discusses a new, direct peeling-based technique for building long and thin, highly deformable microtubes and a semi-analytical …Continue reading “Professor’s article in top 100 Scientific Reports”
∗Article co-authored by Joe Boldrey On April 12th, the ISU Magnetics Research Group (MRG) collaborated with the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) to give a series of presentations designed to inspire grade school students to follow a path into the STEM fields. The outreach program was funded by a grant from the American Physical Society …Continue reading “Presentations inspire students to follow STEM careers”
ECpE PhD student, Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, recently received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award in the fundamental science and technology category. The IBM Fellowship award is an internationally competitive award given to excellent Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in various areas of study. …Continue reading “Ph.D. student receives IBM Fellowship award”