News

May 2023

May 12, 2023
Graduation and Capstone Day photos are in the Capstone Google Photo Album. You can get there from Academics > Undergraduate  > ECE Capstone page then click on 2023 Capstone Google Photo Album,  or click this link: ECE Google Photo Album The graduation photos are at the very bottom, so scroll all the way to view them.      
May 11, 2023
ECE Assistant Professor Shirin Jalali received a new grant titled "Compressed Sensing for Coherent Imaging Systems" from the Division of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences (MCIS) of ONR. It is a collaboration between Rutgers and Columbia University. Our share is $239K. (Total award is $390K for three years.)  
May 8, 2023
ECE Professor Michael Caggiano has been voted by the Rutgers SOE Undergraduate Student Body to receive the 2022-23 Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Professor of the Year Award from within the Department of ECE. This award is annually given to one faculty member from each department in Rutgers SOE who best exemplifies the SOE mission of “Education, Research, and Service.” Michael has been an outstanding teacher in ECE covering courses in the important area of sustainable energy.  Congratulations to Michael!
May 5, 2023
Professor Emina Soljanin has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award. This award is given by the IEEE Information Theory Society to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. The selection committee was particularly impressed with the diversity of Emina's service activities, especially her mentorship of young researchers.   Congratulations to Emina!
May 1, 2023
Sahana Senthilkumar, a freshman student from the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, is set to participate in the 2023 Aresty Summer Science Program in the ECE department. Pursuing a double major in Biomathematics and Computer Science, Sahana has been selected to undertake an exciting research project that aims to investigate the propagation of emotions in fish schools.

April 2023

April 28, 2023
ECE Faculty Predrag Spasojevic has received a DURIP grant from ONR for a project entitled "Deployable Battlefield of Highly Reconfigurable Wideband RF Transmitters". This is a 2-year project and was funded at $750K.   This is the only DURIP grant awarded to a Rutgers Team in 2023: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/22/2003119888/-1/-1/1/FY23-DURIP-AWARDS.PDF  
April 27, 2023
  ECE faculty Mehdi Javanmard has been selected to receive the prestigious Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award for the academic year 2022-2023. This award is bestowed in recognition of Mehdi's outstanding teaching and scholarly accomplishments in his years at Rutgers.  The award will be presented to him and his fellow honorees at a reception to be held by President Holloway on May 10, 2023.   
April 27, 2023
We had a very successful ECE Capstone EXPO yesterday with a record number of 71 teams (274 students). A panel of 60 judges from industry and academia joined us to select the top 10 projects. In addition, three special awards (best in research, best in impact, and best in commercialization) and three Galbiati Entrepreneurial awards were selected by the judges.  
April 26, 2023
ECE Distinguished Professor Athina Petropulu received a new grant from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Dual Function Radar Communication Systems for Efficient and Secure Spectrum Utilization". This is a 3-year project and was funded at $480K.
April 25, 2023
The Board of Governors has approved Dr. Sheng Wei's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2023.   Congratulations on this well deserved accomplishment, Sheng! We look forward to your continued success and contributions to the department, SoE and the university.     

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