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	Fuhrmann Named IEEE Fellow Dan Fuhrmann, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Fellow is the IEEE’s highest grade of membership, and only one-tenth of 1 percent of the entire membership can be awarded the honor in a given year. Fuhrmann is recognized for his longtime research contributions in statistical signal and array processing, particularly as it applies to radar. He has served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. With over 375,000 members in more than 80 countries, IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity.

	CN Rail Transportation Education Center at Michigan Tech: Opening Ceremony with Matthew Glynn, Chief Engineer, Signals and Communications, Canadian National. He is 1981 Michigan Tech ECE graduate, shown at left with Dave Reed, MTU vice president. CN Rail Transportation Education Center - On Youtube Rail Transportation Channel "University unveils CN Rail Transportation Education Center" from Daily Mining Gazette

	Computer Engineering Student Video Featured on Youtube "I remember reading King's speech, "Loving Your Enemies," in high school and I really enjoyed it," says graduate student Justin Ayers, who is pursuing his master's in computer engineering. "I wanted to revisit the speech that I had found so inspirational, and this seemed like an awesome way to respond."

	New Faculty join Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Zhou Feng and Elena Semouchkina

	2009 Annual ECE Faculty-Student Hockey Game & Party December 5, 2009

	Building a Grid that Plays Nice Wayne Weaver, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Tech, is interested in designing ways for all components in smaller electrical grids to share power. His work applies to systems as simple as a solar-powered home and as complex as a naval vessel, an industrial park or a military outpost.

	ECE 2009 Research Report Graduates and Research, Career Award Winners, Faculty Spotlight, Research Programs and Enterprise Team Updates and more. . . . Feature Articles: INTEGRATING DIVERSE DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS ESTIMATING STATISTICAL PROPERTIES NEXT GENERATION RADAR MORE COMPLEXITY, MORE INFORMATION UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING LEARNING AT THE SPEED OF CHALK ON-CHIP POWER AND THERMAL SIMULATIONS ON GPUS QUANTUM DOTS ENHANCING OPTICAL ABSORPTION IN SOLAR CELLS TRUE BLUE USING LASERS FOR MICROPROJECTORS

	Graduate Student Award Chao Zou, PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering, was awarded the Matt Wolfe Award for 2009 at the Graduate Student Award banquet

	ECE Senior Awards Banquet for Spring 2009

	Blue Marble and the Business of Engineering Glen Archer takes a hands-off approach when it comes to his students’ hands-on education. And that’s a good thing.

	Electron Transistors Turn Up the Heat by Marcia Goodrich from Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2009 Electrons can be intractable little subatomic particles, which is why researchers sometimes have to dunk them in liquid helium to make them behave. Paul Bergstrom's team is only the second research group in the world to build the device known as a single electron transistor that minds its manners at room temperature.

	ECE 2008 Research Report PDF Graduates and Research, Career Award Winners, Faculty Spotlight, Research Programs and Enterprise Team Updates

	College of Engineering Research Report featuring ECE Research: Single electron transistors, and... Questing after nanoelectronics’ Holy Grail Intelligent transportation: Making driving smarter, more cooperative, and safer Laser communications: Extending their use and range

	Entrepreneurship in Hard Times: Kanwal Rekhi, a Michigan Tech alumnus, ,advisor and supporter who became a highly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Rekhi says hard times can actually be the best of times for would-be entrepreneurs

	Campaign Chair Dave House Gives Michigan Tech $10 Million, Largest Gift in University History

	New Faculty: Shiyan Hu, David G. Voelz, and Wayne W. Weaver

	John Soyring IBM vice president for solutions and software, speaks at Rosza Center "Your Future at Michigan Tech"

	New Department Chair to begin September 1 Daniel R. Fuhrmann, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., has accepted a three-year appointment as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, beginning September 1, 2008. More .....

	Providing a 'thesis' for engineers: As the largest independent electricity transmission company in the country, ITC has served as one of Michigan Technological University's corporate sponsors of the Senior Design Program since 2005. Hometown Life Article or the PDF

	ECE 2007 Research Report Graduates and Research, Career Award Winners, Faculty Spotlight, Research Programs and Enterprise Team Updates

	Palmgren Earns GLIAC Commissioner's Award by Wes Frahm, director of marketing and athletic communications The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has selected Michigan Tech women’s tennis player Amy Palmgren for one of its inaugural Commissioner’s Awards for Academic and Athletic Excellence. The awards, sponsored by Meijer Inc., are being presented by the GLIAC for the first time to honor student-athletes who excel both in the classroom and on the fields of play. Palmgren, a senior from Holly, holds a perfect 4.00 GPA in computer engineering. The Huskies’ number one singles and number one doubles player earned a place on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team in 2007. She is a four-time All-GLIAC selection who earned Second Team All-GLIAC accolades this past fall. Palmgren has also been named an ITA Scholar-Athlete twice and to the GLIAC All-Academic Team three times.

	Nordic Skiing U.S. Nationals at Michigan Tech The Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center hosted the US Senior Nationals in January. The event featured skiers from both the US and other countries. Sophomore Jesse Lang was the top finisher for the Huskies as he finished 36th in both the 10-kilometer freestyle and the 15-kilometer classical. More about U.S. Nordic Skiing Nationals at Michigan Tech Jesse Lang has been selected as an alternate to the United States Under-23 ski team. Lang earned a spot on the team after he posted a seventh place finish in the overall competition at the US Senior Nationals hosted at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center.

	Walt Anderson to receive Board of Control Silver Medal "Michigan Tech and the Manhattan Project" featuring Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson Electrical Engineering professor emeritus Walt Anderson is flanked by Michigan Tech president Glenn Mroz and Jean Anderson, Mechanical Engineering professor emeritus at the 2007 Alumni picnic.

	New Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineers Inducted Cynthia S. Anderson '85, Teo A. Babun '72, Paul K. Goethe '49, Townsend H. Porter '68, Tim A. Williams '76 were inducted into the ECE Academy. New Academy Members Banquet Slide Show

	Jindong Tan (ECE) has received $70,000 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "CSR-EHS: Reliable Networking and Communications for Embedded Body Area Networks."

	Center for Integrated Systems in Sensing, Imaging, and Communications Microfabrication Facility "Better, Faster, Cheaper, Safer" -- A Research Center at the Center of Everything; CISSICFeatured in Michigan Tech Magazine (PDF)

	ECE Senior Awards Banquet for Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2007

	Schulz appointed Dean of Engineering Tim Schulz, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has accepted appointment as Michigan Tech’s next dean of engineering effective July 1, Provost Dave Reed has announced. Schulz came to the university in 1992 as an assistant professor and now chairs the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the department’s Dave House Professor and directs the Center for Integrated Systems in Sensing, Imaging and Communications.

	Tim Schulz, has been elected a Fellow in SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering. He was selected in part for his research in signal processing methods for sensing and imaging. Read more about Schulz elected a Fellow in SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering

	Michael Roggemann (ECE) has received $70,000, the first-year funding of a possible three-year amount totalling $210,000, from the University of Arizona for "Basic Research in Advanced Imaging and Non-Imaging Sciences." Michael Roggemann (ECE) has received $70,000, the first-year funding of a possible three-year amount totalling $210,000, from the University of Arizona for "Basic Research in Advanced Imaging and Non-Imaging Sciences." Earlier in 2006, Michael Roggemann will conduct research for the Department of the Army to explore ways to improve the communications capabilities of America's soldier: See story here

	Blue Marble Enterprise featuered in Tech Today This Enterprise team is working on eight different projects, including Voltair, a wind turbine that sits atop the Electrical Energy Resource Center and means to bring wind power to households; to AquaScan 365, a water contamination detection system that is looking at drinking water in Houghton, Hancock, Calumet and Grand Rapids; to Pathfinder, which seeks to automate lighting on the Tech Trails so they can be used for nighttime cross-country skiing, biking and running.

	IEEE Members on a Power Trip... IEEE MTU Student Chapter members took an inside view of the generation of electricity by coal in a recent trip to Presque Isle Power Plant in Marquette

	John A. Soyring, vice president of solutions and software at IBM Corporation was the Michigan Tech Fall 2006 Commencement speaker. Mr. Soyring joined IBM after graduating in 1976 from Michigan Tech with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Soyring is a member of Michigan Tech's Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy and the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. Read the Michigan Tech news story.

	Professor Chunxiao Chigan received $400,000 for a five-year project from the National Science Foundation for "CAREER: Research on Real-Time Robust and Secure Communications for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks."

	*Michigan Tech Ranked 7th Among PC Magazine's Top 20 Wired Colleges: Acccording to the PC Magazine and The Princeton Review* rankings for 2007, Michigan Tech was the only university in the state to make the list. . PC Magazine singled out the university’s Enterprise Program, specifically the Blue Marble Security Group. Through the program, teams of students provide real-world solutions to industrial and governmental sponsors. Blue Marble clients include the state of Michigan and Rockwell Collins. Michigan Tech Lucky 7 (New Window)

	New ECE Faculty in 2006 Melissa G. Meyer joins the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor. She comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Washington and Zhijun Zhao joins the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read the biographies

	Michigan Tech's ECE Senior Design Teams and Blue Marble Enterprise Program Featured in the Bechtel Globe See the article here

	Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineers New website of Photo Gallery and Biographic sketches

	Discover, Design & Deliver: Michigan Tech ECE Movie Requires high speed internet connection Real Media Streaming Video Quicktime Streaming Video Opens

	ECE 2006 Research Report Graduates and Research, Career Award Winners, Faculty Spotlight, Research Programs and Enterprise Team Updates

	IEEE Student Action IEEE Members Research Communications, Electromagnetism, Power Amplification and Radio Transmission

	Perger Investigates Bomb Basics Warren Perger is trying to find out why bombs blow up.

	Paul Bergstrom is Developing the World's Smallest Transistor Just when you thought cell phones couldn't (or shouldn't) get any smaller, Paul Bergstrom predicts that pretty soon you'll be slipping one into your wallet alongside your driver's license.

	House Foundation Endows $1 Million Professorship The House Family Foundation, established by retired president of Nortel Networks and former Intel executive Dave House ('65 EE), has donated $1 million to create an endowed professorship at Michigan Tech. Read the House Endowment Story Dave House brings his experience back to college - More Photos

	Women in Technology Award Charlotte Field ('77 EE), senior vice president of national communications engineering and operations for Comcast Cable, is the 2005 Women in Technology award winner in recognition of her significant contributions to the cable industry. See story from Women In Cable Telecommunications here

	Kanwal Rekhi (MS EE '69) president and CEO of Ensim Corporation visited with ECE grads and parents at the ECE graduation reception. About the new Library, Rekhi Hall and the CILIT Center