FACULTY
Our faculty members have been recognized by a string of professional-recognition awards in Engineering and Applied Science.
These include
National Academy of Engineering - 2
NSF Career Awardees – 9
IEEE Fellows – 7
APS Fellows – 5
OSA Fellows – 3
Guggenheim Fellowship – 2
Humboldt Fellowship – 1
Fulbright – 1
Great Teacher Award – 3
STUDENTS
In addition to our faculty awards the electrical engineering department is proud of the achievements of our graduates and undergraduate students, many of these achievements are in the form of awards given each year. We list below the most recent winners of department awards.
| Award (graduate) |
| Armstrong Memorial Award |
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Awarded to one outstanding candidate for the M.S. to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of communications and electronics. |
| 2000-2001 | Stephen Collins |
| 2001-2002 | Shouribrata Chatterjee |
| 2002-2003 | Alberto-Lopez Toledo |
| 2003-2004 | Robert Schell |
| 2004-2005 | Ari Klein |
| 2007-2008 | Xiaoping Liu |
| 2008-2009 | Larry Ning-Nai Chen |
| Jury Award |
| Established in 1991 for outstanding achievement by a graduate student in the areas of system communication or signal processing. |
| 1999-2000 | Nagendra Krishnapura |
| 2000-2001 | Di Zhong |
| 2001-2002 | Hari Sundaram |
| 2002-2003 | Petar Mocilovic |
| 2003-2004 | Ana Radovanovic |
| 2004-2005 | Glen Cowan |
| 2006-2007 | Kai Yang |
| 2007-2008 | Jian Tan |
| 2008-2009 | Frank Zhang |
| Millman Award (Outstanding TA) |
| 2000-2001 | Glen Cowan |
| 2000-2001 | Lai-Tee Cheok |
| 2001-2002 | Sumit Chopra |
| 2001-2002 | Rita Wouhaybi |
| 2002-2003 | David Schwartz |
| 2002-2003 | Sambarta Bhattacharjee |
| 2007-2008 | Eric Zavesky |
| 2007-2008 | Wei Jiang |
| 2008-2009 | Jared Roseman |
| 2008-2009 | Vincent Lee |
| Award (Undergraduate) |
| Armstrong Memorial Award |
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Awarded to one outstanding B.S. student to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of communications and electronics. |
| 2000-2001 | Pooya Lalehzari |
| 2001-2002 | Nathalia Napitupulu |
| 2002-2003 | Amar Doshi |
| 2003-2004 | Ari Klein |
| 2004-2005 | Guy Sivan |
| 2005-2006 | William McLaughlin |
| 2006-2007 | Justin Foster |
| 2007-2008 | Frank Zovko |
| 2008-2009 | Lennon Lee |
| Computer Engineering Award of Excellence | |
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Awarded each year by vote of the Computer Engineering faculty to an outstanding senior in the Computer Engineering program. |
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| 2000-2001 | Idrayana Rustandi |
| 2001-2002 | Andrew Howard |
| 2002-2003 | Meena George |
| 2003-2004 | Boris Mark |
| 2004-2005 | Bogdan Caprita |
| 2005-2006 | David Lau |
| 2006-2007 | Oren Sivan |
| 2007-2008 | Stephen Robinson |
| 2008-2009 | Peter Tsonev |
| Everitt Student Award | |
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Given to two students who rank in the top 10 percent of their department, have an active interest in telecommunications, and are active in a professional organization. Sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium. |
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| 2000-2001 | Andreas Constantinides |
| 2000-2001 | Songyot Nakariyakul |
| 2001-2002 | Ping Hsin Lee |
| 2001-2002 | Sambarta Bhattacharjee |
| 2002-2003 | Jonah Paul Tower |
| 2002-2003 | Wei Kei |
| 2003-2004 | Scott Arfin |
| 2003-2004 | Ting-Hsiang Wu |
| 2004-2005 | Joshua Rubin |
| 2004-2005 | David Klaver |
| 2005-2006 | William Wong |
| 2005-2006 | Rosanna Ohba |
| 2006-2007 | Suman Ravuri |
| 2006-2007 | Hua Gao |
| 2007-2008 | Steven Callendar |
| 2008-2009 | Robert Chen |
| 2008-2009 | Nimit Mehta |
| Department Research Award | |
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Awarded by the faculty of Electrical Engineering to one outstanding graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding passion and accomplishment in research. |
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| 2008-2009 | Matthias Bahlke |
| Department Service Award | |
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Awarded by the faculty of Electrical Engineering to one outstanding graduating senior who has made significant contributions to the department and community at large. |
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| 2008-2009 | Sammuel Subbarao |