News
Mar 02, 2023
Jornet Receives Best Demo Award at ACM HotMobile 2023
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Demo Award at the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile) for the work titled “Adversarial Aerial Metasurfaces,” with electrical engineering student Sherif Badran, PhD’26, and collaborators at Rice and Brown Universities.
Mar 02, 2023
Enhancing Communication and Sensing at Terahertz Frequencies with Programmable Electromagnetic Surfaces
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet (PI), Assistant Professor Cristian Casella, Assistant Professor Ben Davaji, and Associate Research Scientist for the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Vitaly Petrov were awarded a $500,000 AFOSR grant titled “Programmable Electromagnetic Surfaces Based on Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Films and Graphene for Terahertz Communications and Sensing.”
Mar 01, 2023
Celebrating National Engineers Week 2023
The College of Engineering celebrated National Engineers Week with events including a ‘Break the Mold’ Fireside Chat with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd; Cookies with the Dean event, which included snacks, photo and video booths, COE swag and a lot of COE pride; Breakout sessions with Shini Somara with select students and faculty showing our progressive engineering program, research, and community; and an Engineering for Everyone Expo hosted by the Center for STEM Education.
Feb 16, 2023
Landherr Receives AIChE Grant to Create Comic Learning Tool
Chemical Engineering Distinguished Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr has received a $3.5K grant from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Foundation to create a comic learning tool for high school seniors and first-year college engineering students.
Feb 16, 2023
2023 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Siddharth Simon, E’24, and Madeline Szoo, E’25, were nominated for the 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Feb 16, 2023
Engineers Week Fireside Chat: Break the Mold! with an Award-Winning Commentator and Dean Abowd
Engineers Week featured event with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd: Fireside Chat – Break the Mold! Think Beyond Technology to Make an Impact in Unimaginable Ways. Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30 pm for both student (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) engineers and non-engineers. Open to the public. Offered on campus or livestream.
Feb 15, 2023
Lehman Elected President of IEEE Power Electronics Society
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was elected president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society for 2023-2024.
Feb 15, 2023
ECE Co-op Expo
ECE Co-op Faculty hosted the ECE Co-op Expo, which brought together 29 employers and 189 undergraduate and graduate students seeking their next co-op position.