Resonance Alumni and Friends News

Summer 2009

• Advocate for Electrical and Computer Engineering
• News Briefs
• Planning for a new ECE building

Planning has begun on a new building for ECE ILLINOIS. View the Building Campaign site for more details.

• New plasma transistor could create sharper displays
• Photonic crystal biosensors detect protein-DNA interactions
• Step right up, let the computer look at your face and tell you your age
• Carbon nanotube avalanche process nearly doubles current
• Jain elected to the National Academy of Engineering
• ECE ranks high on U.S. News & World Report annual survey
• Scientists prove graphene’s edge structure affects electronic properties
• ECE Faculty News
• It is with great sadness that ECE ILLINOIS notes the death of three of our faculty members.
• Shanbhag and Rosenbaum spend sabbaticals in Taiwan
• Students design an out-of-this-world class project
• Suchko revels in robotics
• ECE student wins gaming gold
• Illinois opens research center in Singapore

Watch a brief video about the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore

• New murals adorn the Fab Lab
• 2009 Solar Decathlon house under way
• Symposium celebrates Holonyak’s 80th birthday

See photos and view streaming video of the Holonyak Symposium presentations.

• Honoring a mentor
• Donor Honor Roll
• Weber's plasma display honored by IEEE
• Lending a hand to ECE
• 2008 Distinguised Alumni Awards
• Alumni Board welcomes new members
• Identity in the UK
• ECE alumnus Dirk Meyer named AMD chief executive officer
• Alumni Class Notes

View the Alumni at work and play.



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• For George Swenson, retirement is for the birds
• Campus Roundup