News from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Laleh Najafizadeh has received the Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Students' Professor of the Year Award! 

Rutgers SOE students selected only one professor from each department who best exemplified the SOE mission of “Education, Research, and Service” in the 2024-2025 academic year for the EGC Students' Professor of the Year Award. The award is decided based on student nominations and voting for each department.

We are very proud of Laleh receiving this award voted by the students. Congratulations to Laleh on this well-deserved award!

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Dr. Shirin Jalali, Dr. Hang Liu, and Dr. Jorge Ortiz on their well-deserved tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. This important milestone is a reflection of their outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and service.

We are proud to celebrate their success and grateful for their dedication to excellence, which strengthens not only the ECE Department but also the School of Engineering and Rutgers University as a whole.

We look forward to their continued contributions and leadership in shaping the future of our department and inspiring our students and colleagues alike. Please join us in congratulating Shirin, Hang, and Jorge on this significant accomplishment!

A paper was just published based on the 2024 Capstone project titled "Radar-Based Vital Sign Monitoring with Automated Beam Steering".  Capstone team S24-48 consisting of Daniel Gore, Daniel Petronchak, Felipe Valencia, Gavin Young, Nithish Warren, led by their advisor Prof. Athina Petropulu, developed a remote sensing using radar for vital sign monitoring of newborn infants.

Click on the headline above for more information including a link to the published paper.

We had a very successful ECE Capstone EXPO yesterday with 53 teams presenting their capstone projects. A panel of 45 judges from industry and academia joined us to select the top projects. In addition, three award in the categories of best in research, best in impact and best in commercialization were given and the three teams with the highest combined score in these categories were awarded the 1st, 2nd and 3^rd place Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards.

For more information including a list of the winning projects, please click on the headline above.

Each year these awards honor members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service.

This year Anand D. Sarwate has been awarded the Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award.

Michael Schleppy, a PhD student in Distinguished Professor Emina Soljanin's group, was offered an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is highly prestigious, and this year, it was even more competitive because of the steep cuts in the NSF GRFP budget.

“Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) is a much broader major than I ever expected it to be. There are so many different fields that ECE is a part of and so many disciplines within this major.”– Aaron Clarion

Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) major Michael Gibbons is currently an intern for the NJ Transit’s electric traction department, where he updates single line diagrams for electricians renovating electrical sites. He is the president of A’s for All, or A4A, an organization he co-founded with sports management major Hailen Arp, that is dedicated to modifying and designing toys for disabled children, and serves as its president.

Aayan chose his major for its vast array of applications. ECE students can work on the cutting edge of technology, and the professors are always willing to talk with you and share their research.