http://www.ece.ucsb.edu Department News and Announcements Copyright 2007, University of California webmaster@ece.ucsb.edu http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#ehu Hu joined the UCSB faculty in 1984 and serves as scientific director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Her research focuses on the formation of nanophotonic devices that may provide more energy-efficient lighting sources and may also facilitate new, faster computation and communications http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#krose The paper co-authored with his former students Drs. Aggarwal and Regunathan, "Efficient bit-rate scalability for weighted square error optimization in audio coding," was published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (July 2006) http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#lin The journal cover image shows a self-consistent simulation of the temperature profile of a modern silicon integrated circuit adapted from the paper titled "Cool Chips: Opportunities and Implications for Power and Thermal Management" by S-C Lin and K. Banerjee http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#hes_ieee Professor Hespanha has been named as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to stability techniques for switched and hybrid systems http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml# convergence_F07 Articles entitled "More from Less," "Which Way to the Hydrogen Highway," and "Control Freaks," are featured in the UCSB Engineering and Science Magazine Convergence. http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#scc Kart's presentation, demonstration and paper on "A Distributed e-Healthcare System Based on the Service Oriented Architecture" wins at at the IEEE Services Computing Conference http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#convergence An article entitled "Silicon and Beyond" in the award-winning UCSB Engineering and Science magazine Convergence features the research of ECE faculty members Mark Rodwell and Chris Palmstrom http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#CNSI UCSB has received a $350,000 gift from Tegal Corp. of Petaluma to establish the endowed chair http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#ECE4 This year’s project focuses on developing sensors that monitor the UCSB Lagoon in an attempt to better analyze temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and turbidity levels http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#keyt This year's event was sponsored by Google and featured final projects by ECE, CS and the Leadership in Team Engineering Program students http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#CEAward Team members Davis Brimer, Samantha Alt, Ethan Kravitz, David Fong and Daniel Popescu took home the $1000 award for their Geographic Location Audio Information System (G.L.A.I.S) at the Google sponsored event http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#teachaward The Distinguished Teaching Award acknowledges the efforts of Senate faculty members who have successfully united teaching and research. Professor Butner has been a member of the UCSB faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1981. http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#newsletter News letter sections include: Faculty Kudos, Research Highlights, Interview with ECE Alumnus Isaac Barpal, Program Highlights, Student Spotlights, and more http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#benson ECE Graduate student Bridget Benson has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#nvc CE major Davis Brimer and physics major Alex Proctor, leaders of Active Life Technologies, received $10,000 for the Most Fundable Idea and $5,000 for the Alumni Choice Award at the New Venture Competition at UCSB http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#students Fiona Dunne and Nicholas Clark win the 2006 Best Undergraduate Paper Award at the International Telemetering Conference http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#COE U.S News Ranks UC Santa Barbara Graduate Programs Among Best http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#product Has ranked the UCSB ECE Dept at number 10 and the CE Program at six in their 2005 rankings of top research universities http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#rodoplu Professor Volkan Rodoplu awarded NSF CAREER Award http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#mitra Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a 2006 Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#bowers Professor John Bowers listed on Discover magazine's Top 100 Technology Advances in 2006 http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#gossard Professor Art Gossard awarded Newcomb Cleveland Prize http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#lead Paul Gritt, ECE Department Technical Support Manager, has announced that the Shop has ordered solder and irons to support lead-free student labs http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#bowers2 UCSB's Professor John Bowers and Intel Corporation win PC Magazine's 2006 Technical Excellence Award for Best Semiconductor Technology http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#gersho Professor Allen Gersho wins the 2007 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#mitra2 Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a Foreign Fellow of INAE http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#hespanha Professor Joao Hespanha's work awarded as the 2006 George Axelby Outstanding Paper http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#princeton UCSB Engineering has been listed as the top graduate program in the The Princeton Review's list of "Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs" http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#bowers3 UCSB's Professor John Bowers and Intel Develop the World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#mishra Professor Umesh Mishra receives the IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2007 for the "Development of Gallium Nitride Electronics" http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#nakamura 2006 Millenium Technology Prize Awarded to UCSB's Professor Shuji Nakamura http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#lee Professor Hua Lee named the 2005-2006 Electrical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#butner ECE's Professor Steve Butner and CS's Professor Rich Wolski Selected by the CE Program's Graduating Seniors as Outstanding Faculty http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/news.shtml#mitra3 Professor Sanjit K. Mitra receives the 2006 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal