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

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.

2000-2001Stephen Collins
2001-2002Shouribrata Chatterjee
2002-2003Alberto-Lopez Toledo
2003-2004Robert Schell
2004-2005Ari Klein
2007-2008 Xiaoping Liu

 

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
2000-2001Di Zhong
2001-2002Hari Sundaram
2002-2003Petar Mocilovic
2003-2004Ana Radovanovic
2004-2005Glen Cowan
2006-2007Kai Yang 
2007-2008 Jian Tan 

Millman Award (Outstanding TA)

2000-2001 Glen Cowan
2000-2001Lai-Tee Cheok
2001-2002 Sumit Chopra
2001-2002 Rita Wouhaybi
2002-2003David Schwartz
2002-2003Sambarta Bhattacharjee
2007-2008 Eric Zavesky 
2007-2008 Wei Jiang 

Award (Undergraduate)

Armstrong Memorial Award

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.

2000-2001Pooya Lalehzari
2001-2002Nathalia Napitupulu
2002-2003Amar Doshi
2003-2004Ari Klein
2004-2005Guy Sivan
2005-2006William McLaughlin
2006-2007Justin Foster
 
Computer Engineering Award of Excellence
2000-2001Idrayana Rustandi
2001-2002Andrew Howard
2002-2003Meena George
2003-2004Boris Mark
2004-2005Bogdan Caprita
2005-2006David Lau
2006-2007Oren Sivan
 
Everitt Student Award
2000-2001Andreas Constantinides
2000-2001Songyot Nakariyakul
2001-2002Ping Hsin Lee
2001-2002Sambarta Bhattacharjee
2002-2003Jonah Paul Tower
2002-2003Wei Kei
2003-2004Scott Arfin
2003-2004Ting-Hsiang Wu
2004-2005Joshua Rubin
2004-2005David Klaver
2005-2006William Wong
2005-2006Rosanna Ohba
2006-2007Suman Ravuri
2006-2007Hua Gao