Professor Joao Hespanha selected as winner of the 2009 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize - The international prize is given each year to recognize contributions by a young researcher below the age of 41 in the broad field of systems and control. The prize, which consists of $5000 and a plaque, recognizes contributions to multidisciplinary research, innovation, and impact on both theory and real world applications. The citation reads, "For fundamental contributions to adaptive control and to the theory of switched and hybrid systems". The prize was presented to Hespanha at the Awards Ceremony of the Control Systems Society during the December meeting of the Conference on Decision and Control in Shanghai, China (January 2010)

UCSB alumnus, Tunc Doluca and his wife, Lale, establish an endowed chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering - The Dolucas have made a $500,000 gift to the campus to establish the endowed chair. The Doluca Family Chair will support the teaching and research of a distinguished scholar specializing in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, which will help strengthen pioneering research in this important field - more… (January 2010)

ECE Student, Ruben Salvador receives the Alyce Marita Whitted Memorial Award which recognizes a non-traditional student's endurance and persistence in spite of extraordinary challenges. Salvador's story "Persistence Pays Off for UCSB Grad" was featured on College of Engineering website and Central Coast News Station KCOY - more... (June 2009)

Professor B.S. Manjunath part of UCSB team chosen to establish an Information Networks Academic Research Center (INARC) by the US Army as a part of its Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA). The information networks multi-campus collaborative effort is led by the University of Illinois, and also includes IBM and City University of New York. The total effort will be funded at about $16.75 million, of which the UCSB team will receive approximately $3.6 million - more… (December 2009)

Professor Kaustav Banerjee Joins World’s Leading Scientists at the Global-COE Meeting in Japan - Banerjee was invited to join the scientists at the Global COE International Symposium in Tokyo to contemplate on the prospects of Silicon and emerging nano devices for future electronics, where he delivered a lecture titled “Carbon based active and passive devices for next-generation ICs”. The meeting, organized at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, was sponsored by various leading scientific organizations in Japan and co-sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society Japan Chapter, with technical-sponsorship provided by the IEEE Electron Device Society in co-operation with the Japan Society for Applied Physics, NEDO, and JST - more… (November 2009)

Large-Scale Camera Network Part of New Study at UCSB - The study, led by Prof. B.S. Manjunath, has a variety of goals, including documenting patterns of human movement, both inside buildings and on bicycle paths, as well as monitoring the nesting areas of snowy plovers on the beaches near campus. Other researchers involved in the project include ECE faculty members Joao Hespanha, Upamanyu Madhow, and Ken Rose; UCSB Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering faculty; and three of Manjunath's graduate students Zefeng Ni, Carter De Leo, and Thomas Kuo - more... (October 2009)

Professor Luke Theogarajan's research highlighted on the cover of the October 2009 "IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering" journal - the cover image is an engineering design of the subretinal microstimulator system and is adapted from the paper titled “Development and Implantation of a Minimally Invasive Wireless Subretinal Neurostimulator” by Douglas B. Shire, Shawn K. Kelly, Jinghua Chen, Patrick Doyle, Marcus D. Gingerich, Stuart F. Cogan, William A. Drohan, Oscar Mendoza, Luke Theogarajan, John L. Wyatt, and Joseph F. Rizzo - more... (October 2009)

Professor John Bowers awarded Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology. Bowers, a pioneering professor in the ECE Department and director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency, is the first scholar appointed to the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology. Bowers is recognized as an international leader in the development of novel optoelectronic devices for the next generation of optical network - more... (July 2009)

Professor Larry Coldren receives the 2009 IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award. Coldren was selected “for his original contributions enabling low threshold, manufacturable VCSELs.” The award is given to recognize those individuals who have made important contributions to opto-electronic device technology - more... (June 2009)

Professor Emeritus Petar Kokotovic winner of the 2009 Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award. The award is given annually to an educator in engineering or science who has made "notable contributions to the motivation and encouragement of research through education." Its purpose is to "recognize significant contributions to scientific research by an educator in engineering or science" - more... (June 2009)

New UCSB Energy Research Center Funded with $19 Million from Stimulus Act - UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced April 27th by the White House. ECE Professor John Bowers will direct the new Center on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications. The UCSB EFRC is one of 16 to be funded by President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - more... (June 2009)

Professors Luke Theogarajan and Bob York selected as "Co-Outstanding Faculty Members in ECE for 2008-09" by graduating seniors. The award is coordinated by the Engineering Student Council and is given out yearly to a faculty member in each major in the College of Engineering (June 2009)

Nanofab Manager Jack Whaley and Director Mark Rodwell featured in UCSB Engineering & Science Magazine Convergence (v. 11) article about the UCSB Nanofabrication Facility entitled "Share and Share Alike" - The university’s Nanofabrication Facility effectively links local nanotechnology companies and researchers into a chain that stretches across the country. The Nanonfab or cleanroom as it is commonly referred to represents years of collaborative development among UCSB faculty members in identifying and gathering the finest tools and fabrication processes available to create structures and devices at the nanoscale level. In addition to supporting on-campus researchers and local companies, Nanofab is also part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) - more... (August 9, 2008)

Dr. Dongwoo Hong receives a 2008 EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award for the topic "New Directions in Circuit and System Test." Hong, a former ECE student advised by Professor Tim Cheng, received his PhD in December 2007. His thesis is entitled "Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed Serial Links". The award will be presented in April at DATE 2009 in Nice, France. (February 2009)

Tsung-Ching (Jim) Huang receives Best Student Paper Award at 2008 International Symposium for Flexible Electronics and Display (ISFED). The paper entitled, "Design for Printability for Flexible Electronics: Self-Tunable Cell-Library Design," was co-authored with ECE Professor Tim Cheng. The award and $1000 prize will be presented in November at ISFED 2008 - more... (September 2008)