http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/ News about what happens in ECE ILLINOIS Fri 14 Jun 2013 00:00 CST 5 SELECT top 20 keyPost, datePost, strTitle, strAuthor, strDescription FROM blog.dbo.posts WHERE keyBlog = 1 AND blnApproved = 1 AND blnActive = 1 ORDER BY datePost DESC http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2529 ECE alumnus, Frederic Nearing, donates $500,000 for building campaign. Jonathan Damery, ECE ILLINOIS Fri 14 Jun 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2527 ECE alumnus John H. Bruning honored with the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service by Engineering at Illinois. Mark Pajor, ECE ILLINOIS Tue 11 Jun 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2361 ECE ILLINOIS faculty and alumni are working to revolutionize video communication and collaboration via Personify, a company founded in 2009 that has since launched Personify Live. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 10 Jun 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2383 IEEE and the Audio Engineering Society (AES) joined forces to provide students with the opportunity to build their own guitar pedal, and amplify their resumes. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 10 Jun 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2442 ECE Professor Kent Choquette is now a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Choquette's research has been used in the Internet, to provide the physical infrastructure for applications such as Facebook and Google and downloading movies. Jamal Collier, ECE ILLINOIS Thu 30 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2504 A record number of ECE students have been offered NSF Graduate Research Fellowships this year. Jonathan Damery, ECE ILLINOIS Thu 30 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2503 ECE PhD student Navid Aghasadeghi uses control theory to help advance prosthetic limbs for lower-limb amputees. Katie Carr, Coordinated Science Laboratory Wed 29 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2501 Led by ECE Professor Brian Cunningham, a team of researchers has developed a cradle and app that converts an iPhone into a portable and inexpensive biosensor. Liz Ahlberg, U of I News Bureau Tue 28 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2487 Pilawa receives Google Faculty Research Award to develop a new structure for data center power delivery. Jonathan Damery, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 20 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2474 Three ECE ILLINOIS faculty are part of a multi-institutional team that will design, build, and operate NASA's next heliophysics satellite mission, the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON). Rick Kubetz, Engineering at Illinois Tue 7 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2402 ECE Professor Michael C. Loui was awarded the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, presented by the Graduate College, on Tuesday, April 23. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 6 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2458 ECE Assistant Professor Sayan Mitra recently received a grant from Samsung's Global Research Outreach Program to look into the problem of debugging mobile-cloud applications. Elise King, Coordinated Science Lab Mon 6 May 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2446 Four ECE students recently attended the Science, Engineering, and Technology Congressional Visits Day (SETCVD), an annual two-day event that brings scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, and technology executives to Washington D.C. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 29 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2455 ECE alumni Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on May 1 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 29 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2445 When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy. Liz Ahlberg, U of I News Bureau Wed 24 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2440 ECE Assistant Professor Gang Logan Liu and his research team of graduate and undergraduate students have developed MoboSens, a low-cost, smartphone-based sensor that allows users to test water quality. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 22 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2428 ECE ILLINOIS is pleased to announce the establishment of the Andrew T. Yang Research Award, made possible by a $1 million donation from alumnus Andrew T. Yang. Brad Petersen and Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Wed 17 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2427 ECE Professor Milton Feng has been awarded the 2013 R.W. Wood Prize by the Optical Society (OSA) for his contribution to the invention and realization of the transistor laser, which delivers both an electrical signal and a coherent laser output simultaneously, providing the basis for a revolutionary new higher speed electronic-photonic integrated circuit. Jamal Collier, ECE ILLINOIS Mon 15 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2425 Kevin Wang of Microsoft would like to see every high school student in America have the chance to take a computer science course and is doing his part to make that happen through the founding of the Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. Elizabeth Innes, I-STEM Education Initiative Mon 15 Apr 2013 00:00 CST http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2421 The College of Engineering hosted an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the development of the Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE) on March 26. CARE, located on the fourth floor in the Grainger Engineering Library, offers resources, services, and expertise to support students in achieving their academic and professional goals. Gabrielle Irvin, ECE ILLINOIS Fri 12 Apr 2013 00:00 CST