Fellowships

John Bardeen Fellowship in ECE

Established 2000

Description:

The John Bardeen Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering was set up to honor the memory of Professor John Bardeen.  Professor Bardeen had a unique influence on the technical and scientific life of our time.  He, with Walter Brattain, identified minority carrier injection in semiconductors and invented the transistor, which won them the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.  This event started a revolution in electronics and computer technology that is unparalleled and that continues to grow.  No other invention of our time has had such a profound effect on society.  John Bardeen had an equally profound influence on contemporary physics with the creation of the BCS theory of superconductivity, and its far-reaching influence on superconductivity itself and on various related problems.  For this discovery he was the co-recipient of a second Nobel Prize in physics in 1972.

Criteria:

The awardees are selected using the following criteria:

  • The recipient must be a first-year graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Preference shall be given to a student that received his/her undergraduate degree from UIUC.
  • The fellowship must be given to a student who will be doing research in an area of semiconductors or superconductors.

Applications:

Nominations will be requested from the faculty during the Fall semester.  Faculty nominations for a student must consist of a letter of recommendation from the research advisor and the nominee’s vita.  These can be e-mailed to Kara MacGregor (kmacgreg@illinois.edu) during the application period.

Selection Process:

The ECE Fellowship committee will make the selection based on the applications submitted by the deadline.

Past Recipients of the Award:

School Year Recipient
2009-2010  
2008-2009 Rohan Bambery
Vincent Dorgan
2007-2008 Justin Koepke
2006-2007 William Snodgrass
2005-2006  
2004-2005 Antonios Giannopoulos
2003-2004  
2002-2003 Valentin Dimitrov
2001-2002 Richard Chan

Kara MacGregor

For More Information Contact:

Kara MacGregor
kmacgreg@illinois.edu
153 Everitt Laboratory, MC-702
(217) 333-9706