ECE News and Publications

On June 30, College of Engineering Dean Ilesanmi Adesida announced the selection of ECE ILLINOIS Professor Andreas Cangellaris as department head for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE Professor Narendra Ahuja was recently honored with the T. A. Stewart-Dyer and F. Trevithick Prize for his work on the use of computer vision for railroad engineering.

Murali Venkatesan and Nicholas Watkins have developed a portable AIDS diagnostic platform that can be used to diagnose AIDS quickly and accurately. The device analyzes the number of CD-4 cells in a patient’s blood sample.

Next summer, ECE junior Sumit Dutta will have the unique opportunity to work as an intern for NASA. Dutta is a recipient of a 2009 NASA Aeronautics Scholarship, one of only 25 students to receive such an honor this year nationwide.

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.