Fall 2005
Spring 2006

Advisory Board Meets with Students and Faculty
Our Electrical and Computer Engineering External Advisory Committee Meets with Faculty and Students to provide a professional and industrial perspective from outside of academe. Photos and List of members

Capstone Design Experience in Engineering

ECE Senior Design Teams

December 2005

ECE Student Crowned as 2005 Homecoming Queen

Archita Sivakumar, Electrical Engineering, sponsored by Delta Upsilon

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Students win Annual Hockey meet 7-6 in regulation, but Paul "Big Hurt" Bergstrom ties the score in the overtime shootout.

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Brian Davis Receives Distinguished Teaching Award

Assistant Professor Brian Davis is one the 2005 recipients of Michigan Tech's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Capstone Design Experience in Engineering April 2005
University Expo 2005 1st Place Winner ECE Team #4
'Wireless Clamping PressureSensor,' Donald Secor, Advisor, John Deere, Sponsor
Spring 2005 ECE Senior Design Teams

ECE Faculty/Staff Vs Student Hockey Game

Student Team wins 10-9

Michigan Tech's ECE Senior Design Teams and WCE Enterprise Program Featured in the Bechtel Globe

See the article here

Michigan Tech has received a $2.8 million gift from the estate of Robert M. Anderson, a native of Negaunee. The gift has been added to an endowed scholarship fund that now totals more than $4 million. Anderson earned a degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Tech in 1943. He had a distinguished career in research and development with General Electric. He was a prolific inventor, receiving 31 patents during his 35 years with the company.

Milan Lathia receives the 2004 Michigan Tech Fund Merit Award
Lathia has a double major in computer engineering and computer science. He has volunteered as an orientation team leader for three years, co-founded the Homeland Security Enterprise, served as a math tutor and has developed web sites and done system administration for university departments. The West Bengal, India, native is also a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and writes a weekly e-mail newsletter to Michigan Tech parents. See the MTU News Story

ECE Senior Awards Banquet

Senior Graduation Reception

Industrial Advice for ECE Department
Our Electrical and Computer Engineering External Advisory Committee Meets with Faculty and Students to provide a professional and industrial perspective from outside of academe.

ECE Graduate Reception Photo Gallery Class of 2004
Michigan Tech Board of Control member Dave Brule and ECE faculty meet with grads and families at the Department's 2004 Reception. Candid Photo Gallery

ECE Senior Design Teams Win the Most Top Awards At Expo 2004
ECE Senior Awards Banquet

ECE Teams Photo slide show

Capstone Design Experience in Engineering

ECE Senior Design Teams

December 2004

Tech receives big check from GM
GM Managed Partnership Check ($175,000) was presented to MichiganTech Univ. on May 2.

Provost's Award for Scholarship
Senior Laura Cooper, who maintains a 4.0 GPA in electrical engineering, was this year's recipient of the Provost's Award for Scholarship and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Scholar Award. She has a long list of academic involvements, a few of which are the Blue Marble Security Enterprise, Unmanned Air Vehicle Team, IEEE Power Engineering Society and the Alpha Society, and she has recently been selected as the 2004 Woman of Promise in electrical and computer engineering.

Rockwell Collins Supports Michigan Tech ECE Design Programs
John Koskela, a 1966 Electrical Engineering graduate, recently visited Michigan Tech to present a $15,000 check for support of projects within ECE's Senior Design program and two ECE-hosted Enterprises: the Wireless Communication Enterprise and Blue Marble Security.   More details

Alumnus Brings Insights from Industry
Dave House '65 has over 35 years of experience in the high technology and communications industries. He recently visited Michigan Tech to share his experiences with faculty and students.
Dave House's visit

ECE Hockey Game Photo Gallery
Many action photos of the 2003 Hockey Game between Faculty and Students

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Alumni Meet with Grads
Dave Brule (BS EE '72) Michigan Tech Board of Control Chair and President M.J. Electric, and Kanwal Rekhi (MS EE '69) president and CEO of Ensim Corporation visited with ECE grads and parents at the ECE graduation reception. Read about the dedication of the new Center for Integrated Learning and Information Technology

See the Circuit --- 2003 ECE Department Newsletter: View as Web Version (html) or as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file (5 Mb)

Report of the 2003 Undergraduate Expo
Expo 2003 was held in the Rozsa Center Lobby. Creating the
Future: Exploration and Entrepreneurship @ Michigan Tech
See the Report of the 2003 Undergraduate Expo and ECE winners
ECE Senior Design Team Photos Spring 2003
More ECE Senior Design Team Photos Winter 2003

College's Industrial Advisory Board
Members of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board shown at left met with members of the Wireless Communications Enterprise in their offices at the Electric Energy Resources Center. Good contacts with industry help the programs to prepare students for their careers.

Research Award
Timothy Schulz, has received a $50,000 grant from the United States Department of Defense, Air Force, for his project, "An Investigation of Multi-Channel LADAR Processing."

Professor Warren Perger teams with Washington State and MIT on major ONR grant
Warren Perger is collaborating with researchers at Washington State Univeristy and MIT in an Office of Naval Research grant to understand how deformations in crystals ultimately lead to the initiation of a shock and, consequently, a detonation. Researchers at Washington State are performing IR, Raman, and optical absorption studies of energetic crystals, MIT is performing femto-second resolution experiments of the shock to detonation transition, and Professor Perger is computing theoretical predictions for these phenomena.

Prof. Brian Davis receives NSF Career Award
Prof. Brian Davis received a 2001 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on Memory Controller Interconnect and Policy Determination. NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program encourages the integration of education and research. This program emphasizes the importance the Foundation places on the early development of academic careers dedicated to stimulating the discovery process in which the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning.

Prof. Michael Roggemann elected SPIE Fellow
Professor Michael Roggeman has been elected to the grade of Fellow by SPIE. SPIE Fellows are distinguished individuals who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in optics and optoelectronic. Professor Roggemann is also a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Professors Michael Roggemann and Timothy Schulz team with UCLA, Georgia Tech, and AFIT on major AFOSR grant
Dramatic improvements in laser power and wave front control technology for space surveillance and laser anti-satellite and anti-ballistic missile weapons has given rise to DoD interest in extensions and alternative uses of this technology in a Air Force Office of Scientific Research project. Of particular interest are directed energy weapons, such as lasers, which can also operate in a "look-down, shoot-down" mode to inflict damage on enemy targets. The agility and speed with which laser weapons can be retargeted and delivered, combined with potential pinpoint accuracy and low collateral damage arising directly from the weapon makes laser weapons highly desirable. However, considerable fundamental scientific work must be conducted to bring these weapons to the battlefield. The major technological barrier which must be resolved to bring these weapons to maturity is the ability to deliver energy to the target through the atmosphere in all scenarios of interest, including high altitude Airborne Laser (ABL), low altitude tactical battlefield scenarios, and marine scenarios. It is extremely important to realize that conquering the high energy laser beam control problem requires a multidisciplinary approach and a deep understanding of the physical effects present.

Michigan Technological University, in collaboration with the UCLA and Georgia Tech have just won a major Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to conduct this research. This three year program with two option years is aimed at finding solutions to the technological problems associated with controlling laser beams in these challenging situations.

PhD student Melissa Trombley receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
PhD student Melissa Trombley has received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship to perform research in the field of Micro-Electromechanical Systems, primarily focused in the area of inertial sensors, where she is developing (currently secret) microsystem fabrication technologies to further the integration of mechanical and electrical components. Melissa's PhD advisor is Prof. Paul Bergstrom.