Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

High up in the ionosphere, plasma bubbles invisible to the naked eye wreak havoc on communication and navigation systems back on Earth. ECE Assistant Professor Jonathan Makela hopes to change that through the Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory of Ionospheric Regions (RENOIR) project.
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Chen and Hwu win IEEE SASP ’09 best paper award

ECE Assistant Professor Deming Chen and ECE Professor Wen-mei Hwu have received the best paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors 2009.

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Boppart receives NIH grant to study mechanics of cancerous cells

ECE Professor Stephen Boppart’s proposal, “Investigating Tumor Growth Dynamics Using Multimodal Contrast Agents and Optical Coherence Elastography,” was chosen to receive $1 million under the NIH Research Challenge grant program.

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Coleman explores novel semiconductor nanostructures

ECE Professor Jim Coleman is passionate about his research in the area of photonics, and he is currently exploring new and challenging possibilities in the area of nanophotonics, especially nanostructures.