ECE News
June, 2008
The ECE department held its second annual departmental graduation and awards ceremony on June 13th. Dr. Branimir Pejcinovic was the master of ceremony and Frank Goovaerts, Director of Engineering at Tektronix, was the keynote speaker. Click here to see the graduates and award winners.
February, 2008
Dr. Richard Campbell has been awarded the 2006 Bill Orr Technical Writing Award. The recognition was awarded by the ARRL Foundation Board of Directors on recommendation of QST - the official Journal for amateur radio. Dr. Campbell was recognized for two articles which appeared in QST during 2006, "The MicroR2 - An Easy to Build 'Single Signal' SSB or CW Receiver," and "The MicroT2 - A Compact Single-Band SSB Transmitter." In the February, 2008 issue of QST Journal, ARRL Technical Editor Joel Hallas writes, "Presentation of this award to Rick Campbell, KK7B, is most appropriate. His 2006 contributions of the Micro R2 and T2 articles follow numerous other articles in QST over the past two decades. His projects, covering HF through microwaves, have all been interesting and competent designs, and all were designed with the home constructor in mind."
October, 2007
Dr. Marek Perkowski, Robotics and Quantum Computing professor, has been awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award for Engineering from Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research honorary. Each science department from the university nominated two faculty members for the award and Dr. Perkowski was chosen based on his history of publications and external research. A $500 award and plaque was presented to all winners on October 25.
Dr. James McNames is part of a team that recently received a patent for "Pattern detection for integrated circuit substrates." The team included members from both University and industry - a rarity for this type of patent.
United States Patent 7,277,813
Whitefield, et al. October 2, 2007
August, 2007
Yale Fan, a 15 year old sophomore from Beaverton's Catlin Gabel School, won a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellow Laureate Project. His project was titled, "Applications of Multi-Valued Quantum Algorithms" and was guided by ECE professor, Dr. Marek Perkowski. Read more on Yale and his award, here. Yale's other awards in 2007 include Third Place Grand Award in Computer Science from Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair and Winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Award.
June, 2007
Two students from the Biomedical Microdevices & Nanotechnology Lab (BMN) won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division Awards of Excellence held in Boise, Idaho. Both students placed in the Material Science category. Ravikiran K. Reddy, "Ravi," won first place for his paper titled, "Nanomonitors: Electrical Immunoassay." Vinu Venkatraman received third place with his "Iridium Oxide Nanowire Monitors for Protein Detection" paper. Both work under the guidance of ECE professor Dr. Shalini Prasad.
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