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         <description>One of the downsides of a world powered by the internal combustion engine is the exhaust fumes. In fact, theyre a sign that a majority of the energy being produced is actually being wasted. But now, scientists are working on a process that would recapture some of that lost energy and convert the exhaust fumes into more energy. Which, in turn, could actually save gas, says Timothy Hogan, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University. Michigan Radios Jack Lessenberry spoke with him.</description>
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         <title>Associate VP Americas of MANCEF</title>
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         <description>Dean Aslam was elected Associate VP Americas of MANCEF (http://www.mancef.org) by NANCEF Board of Directors in August 2008. MANCEFs mission is to connect the global community engaged in the commercialization of emerging micro and nano technologies. With its presence in Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia, MANCEF's signature event, the Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems Conference, is held every year in different part of the world (COMS'08).</description>
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         <title>NSF Grant on Control of Smart Materials</title>
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         <description>Xiaobo Tan and Hassan Khalil have received an NSF grant for Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of  Smart Material-actuated Systems with Application to Nanopositioning.  </description>
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         <title>Shantanu Chakrabartty receives NSF grant for Speech Biometrics Research</title>
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         <description>Shantanu Chakrabartty has received an NSF grant titled &quot;Cooperative Learning-Unlearning Algorithms for identification of Robust Auditory Manifolds&quot; for conducting research in the area of noise robust speaker identification systems. </description>
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         <title>Ph.D. Student Wins Third Place in IEEE Competition</title>
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         <description> M. Vikram won third place in the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Student Paper Competition.  This year there were 176 contestants and 15 finalists.  Prof. Shanker Balasubramaniam is Vikram's advisor. </description>
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         <title>Dr. Xiaobo Tan and Dawn Hedgepath Advocating for NSF Funding on Capitol Hill</title>
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         <description>Dr. Tan and his Ph.D. student, Dawn Hedgepeth, together with Associate Dean Leo Kempel, attended the 14th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Exhibition and Reception on Capitol Hill on the evening of June 25, 2008. Representing MSU, Dr. Tan and Dawn presented a poster &quot;Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles and Sensors: Investigation from a Systems Perspective,&quot; that described our NSF CAREER project and its potential societal, educational, and outreach impacts. </description>
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         <title>Xiaobo Tan's Alma Mater, University of Maryland, Highlights Capitol Hill Research News</title>
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         <title>New NSF grant for Real-World Systems Program</title>
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         <description>Professors Betty Cheng (Computer Science &amp; Engineering-CSE), Philip McKinley (CSE), Charles Ofria (CSE), and Xiaobo Tan (ECE) have received a three-year, $600,000 grant from NSF for their project entitled: &quot;ORCHID: Harnessing Digital Evolution to Design High-Assurance Adaptive Systems.&quot; See the NSF web link for the full abstract.</description>
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         <description>Subir Biswas, in collaboration with University of Michigan, has received a grant from the Information Technology and Infrastructure Systems program at the National Science Foundation, for his project on Protocols for Wireless Networking and Multi-application Data Handling for Freeway Traffic Safety Applications. The grant will support research on vehicular networks and distributed vehicular grid computing for traffic safety applications.</description>
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         <title>Spring 2008 Dean's List</title>
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         <description> Congratulations to all of our student's on the Spring 2008 Dean's List! </description>
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         <title>Anil Jain Receives IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award</title>
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         <description>Anil K. Jain, University Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in computer science &amp; engineering and electrical &amp; computer engineering, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society's W. Wallace McDowell Award. He received the award on the basis of his &quot;pioneering contributions to theory, technique, and practice of pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition systems.&quot;</description>
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         <description>Anil K. Jain, University Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in computer science &amp; engineering and electrical &amp; computer engineering, has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society's W. Wallace McDowell Award. He received the award on the basis of his &quot;pioneering contributions to theory, technique, and practice of pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition systems.&quot;</description>
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         <description> Matt Mutka (CSE), Ning Xi (ECE), Percy Pierre (ECE) and Patricia Farrell (College of Education), in collaboration with Howard University, have been awarded a new grant from the NSF for their project entitled &quot;CI-TEAM Demonstration Project for Real-Time Interactive and Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure for Teaching and Training of Hands-On Nanotechnology.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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         <title>McKinley, Ofria, Cheng, Pennock, and Tan receive NSF grant</title>
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         <description>Philip McKinley, Charles Ofria, Betty Cheng, Robert Pennock (Philosophy/CSE) and Xiaobo Tan (ECE) have received a grant from the Computing Research Infrastructure program at the National Science Foundation, for their project entitled &quot;A Testbed for Evolving Adaptive and Cooperative Behavior Among Autonomous Systems.&quot; The grant will support the construction of a testbed for experimental research in digital evolution.</description>
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         <title>Spring 2008 Design Day Winners!</title>
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         <description>Check out all of our award winning Design Day students!</description>
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         <title>MSU Board of Trustees Honors Graduating Computer Engineering Senior</title>
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         <description>The board of trustees has recognized computer engineering graduating senior, Paul J. Suchyta, for achieving a perfect 4.0 grade point average. </description>
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         <title>Xiaobo Tan's Robotic Fish Making Waves</title>
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         <description> Xiaobo Tan received an award from the Office of Naval Research for his biomimetic robotic fish research. The award will be used to develop highly maneuverable robotic fish based on biological principles and biomimetic electroactive polymers.  </description>
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         <title>Electrical Engineering Junior, Donald VanderLaan, Recognized by Goldwater Foundation</title>
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         <title>Electrical Engineering Senior, Kristen Pace, Received Outstanding Senior Award</title>
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         <title>Gregory Wierzba, Recipient of the Withrow Teaching Excellence Award</title>
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         <title>Robert McGough, Recipient of the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Junior Award</title>
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         <title>Faculty Positions in Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering</title>
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         <description>Candidates for tenure-track, academic year faculty positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University are sought in multiple areas. Applications should be received by February 15, 2008 for full consideration. For more information please visit the web site.</description>
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         <title>Ning Xi, Recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Faculty Award</title>
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         <title>Rama Mukkamala Recipient of the 2008 Teacher-Scholar Award</title>
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         <title>Tongtong Li Receives NSF CAREER Award</title>
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         <title>Selin Aviyente Receives NSF CAREER Award</title>
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         <title>The Spartan Podcast with Engineering Dean, Satish Udpa</title>
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         <description> Congratulations to all of our EE and CPE undergraduate students who have been named to the fall 2007 Dean's list. The Dean's List honors all full-time undergraduates in the university who earn a 3.50 or better grade point average for the given semester. </description>
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         <description>See the &lt;i&gt;The State News&lt;/i&gt; article for the full story.</description>
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         <description>See the ECE newsletter, Networks, for the full story.</description>
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         <description> Catch up on the latest developments in ECE... </description>
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         <description>Faculty from the ECE department collaborate with COE and MSU researchers in the area of energy and automotive research. The College of Engineering's Fall 2007 issue of &lt;i&gt;Currents Research&lt;/i&gt; highlights their latest activities. &quot;MSU's College of Engineering has set a new standard in engineering research facilities with the recent opening of its world-class Energy &amp; Automotive Research Laboratories, a 29,000-square-foot complex that now houses the university's research on automobile engine efficiency, alternative energy, and emission reduction.&quot; See the pdf link for the full story.</description>
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         <description>Check out our ECE 480 Senior Design team websites!&lt;br /&gt;
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         <title>Lalita Udpa Named an IEEE Fellow</title>
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         <description>Lalita Udpa, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) in recognition of her contributions to forward and inverse electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation methodologies. </description>
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         <description>&quot;Alum-Net&quot; is the new Michigan State University College of Engineering Alumni Directory. This online service allows alumni to create and edit their profile, as well as to search for other alumni profiles. We encourage you to participate and get involved in the MSU EGR alumni community.</description>
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         <description>Faculty from the ECE department collaborate with COE and MSU researchers in the area of thermoelectrics. The College of Engineering's Fall 2007 issue of &lt;i&gt;Currents Research&lt;/i&gt; highlights their latest activities. &quot;On the Road to Success with Thermoelectric Research - In the hunt for alternative energy sources, a strong candidate is thermoelectrics, and Michigan State University is home to one of the most advanced thermoelectric power generation research groups in the world.&quot; See the pdf link for the full story. </description>
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         <description>Chakrabartty and Radha receive an NSF award for their publication, &quot;Investigation into Non-conventional Analog Decoders for Low-density Parity Check Codes.&quot; The NSF grant focuses on developing novel analog VLSI decoders by exploiting information theoretic principles inherent in conventional and un-conventional CMOS devices. See the NSF abstract link for more.</description>
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         <description>  Selin Aviyente received an NSF grant for her publication entitled, &quot;Signal Processing for Quantifying the Functional Integration in the Brain.&quot;   </description>
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         <description>Jerome Crocker (MS Elec Egr '01), a Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Engineering Consultant, received the 2007 GEM Student Leadership Award. See the College of Engineering publications page for the full story.</description>
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         <description> Congratulations to Electrical Engineering students Brian Michael Holt and Long Yi Wong for making the Summer Semester 2007 Dean's List! </description>
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         <description>Congratulations to Matthew Borton! Borton, a computer engineering junior, is the recipient of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) General Emmett Paige Scholarship.</description>
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         <title>Xiao, Mutka, and Xi Receive NSF Award</title>
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         <description> Li Xiao, Matt Mutka, and Ning Xi have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled &quot;LEAPNet: Self-adaptable All Terrain Sensor Networks.&quot; This project addresses the design, prototyping, and evaluation of hopping sensors and efficient algorithms for sensor deployment in difficult areas and rugged terrain.</description>
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         <description> Tongtong Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the faculty facilitator for an international group that developed a medical device to detect symptoms of common health problems at no cost to patients. They are finalists for the Mondialogo Award. </description>
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         <description> On the behalf of the College of Engineering, the Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering is accepting applications for the position of Academic Specialist - College Design Day Coordinator. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <description>The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) has notified Dr. Lalita Udpa that she has been selected as an ASNT Fellow, Class of 2007. Her award will be presented durng the 2007 ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12-16, 2007. Congratulations, Lalita, on receiving this prestigious award!!</description>
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         <description>  Xiaobo Tan's Smart Microsystems research was featured as part of the MSU College of Engineering Summer Magnet &amp; Related Training Institute. Tan's students, Kiyoung Kwon and Stephen Shatara, showed educators projects that Middle School students could easily work on. Shatara showed how electroactive polymers were used to create a robotic fish. Kwon demonstrated a robot model showing human emotion through voice-activation. See the full &lt;i&gt;State News&lt;/i&gt; article for </description>
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         <description>  This summer, between their studies in electrical and computer engineering courses, our Kaiserslautern study abroad group visited Berlin and Neuschwanstein Castles in the Munich area.   </description>
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         <description>Check out the latest blog posting and pictures from the MSU Formula Racing Team, and their exciting tour and interview with Jay Leno!</description>
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         <description>The &quot;2007 Tech Tour&quot; includes visits to Red Cedar Technology, founded by electrical and computer engineering faculty Erik Goodman and mechanical engineering faculty Ron Averill, and KTM Industries, founded on research by chemical and biochemical engineering faculty, Ramani Narayan,...see the &lt;i&gt;Great Lakes IT Report&lt;/i&gt; for </description>
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         <description>Tim Grotjohn has been named the next chairperson of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. See the College of Engineering Publications link for </description>
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         <description>  Congratulations to Lalita Udpa! She has been selected to receive the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellow Award!  </description>
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         <description> Niell Elvin and Shantanu Chakrabartty have received an NSF grant to develop sub-microwatt fatigure sensors for structural health monitoring. With power budget less than 1 microwatt, these sensors can significantly advance the state-of-art for self-powered infrastructure monitoring and for predicting fatigue in biomechanical implants. </description>
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         <description> From the &lt;i&gt;Lansing State Journal&lt;/i&gt; &quot;Final designs: MSU engineering students craft projects for disasters, ball games.&quot; See the following link for  </description>
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         <description>The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University invites applications for the position of the Chairperson for the department. For more information or to apply, please see the ECE Chairperson search website.</description>
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         <description> PhD candidate, Ben Jacobs, and Senior, Andrew Baczewski are currently Visiting Research Assistants at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech) in Japan as a part of an NSF International Research and Education in Engineering initiative.  Ben and Andrew are exploring tribological performance and radiation resilience of nanoscale carbon onions. See the attached pdf for  </description>
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         <description> The International Federation of Automatic Control has named Hassan Khalil, an IFAC Fellow, for his contributions to singular perturbation theory, nonlinear feedback control and control education. &quot;IFAC Fellow Awards are given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator.&quot; </description>
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         <description> Daniel J. Baker has been recognized for achieving a perfect 4.0 grade point average at the close of his last semester in attendance. Baker, of St. Paul, Minn., is an electrical engineering major in the College of Engineering. He is a 2003 graduate of Woodbury High School and a member of the Honors College. </description>
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         <description>Congratulations to Gregory Wierzba! He has been chosen to receive the Outstanding Teaching Award in the ASEE North-Central Section conference, this weekend in Charleston, West Virginia.</description>
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         <description>  (From The &lt;i&gt;State News&lt;/i&gt;) &quot;Tim Hogan, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was one of two MSU professors recommended to receive a grant to purchase equipment needed to complete a defense research project. Hogan's project is based on thermoelectrics, or the interaction of temperature and electricity in metal.&quot; See the full article  for </description>
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         <description>Congratulations to Rama Mukkamala! He has received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal: Integrated Research and Education in Cardiovascular Signal Processing for Automated and Less Invasive Monitoring of Central Hemodynamics.</description>
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         <description> Congratulations to Vanessa Mitchner! She received the Gloria Stragier Award at the Seventeenth College of Engineering Awards luncheon, March 29, 2007. The Gloria Stragier Award recognizes non-academic staff members for dedicated and creative service.  </description>
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         <description> Congratulations to Shanker Balasubramaniam! He received the Withrow Teaching Excellence Award at the Seventeenth College of Engineering Awards luncheon, March 29, 2007. The John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Teacher/Scholar/Service Award Program recognizes faculty and staff who have demonstrated excellence in instructional and scholarly activities and rendered distinguished service to the university and the student body. </description>
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         <description> Congratulations to Ed Rothwell! He received the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award at the Seventeenth College of Engineering Awards luncheon, March 29, 2007. The John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Teacher/Scholar/Service Award Program recognizes faculty and staff who have demonstrated excellence in instructional and scholarly activities and rendered distinguished service to the university and the student body. </description>
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         <description> Congratulations to Ning Xi, Heping Chen, and Guangyong Li. They have received the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2006 Best Paper Award for their paper, &quot;CAD Guided Automated Nano-Assembly Using Atomic Force Microscopy,&quot; (July 2006, pp. 208-217). </description>
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         <description> Karim Oweiss and Rong Jin (CSE) have received an NIH grant for their project, &quot;Mining Large-scale Neural Ensemble Recordings.&quot; This project aims to develop signal processing tools and machine learning algorithms for mining the spike trains that are recorded for large neural ensembles. For further details see Dr. Oweiss' website: </description>
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         <description>IEEE Spectrum February issue featuring ECE alumni Dr. Dale Joachim, the &quot;Bird Whisperer.&quot; See the full article for   </description>
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         <description>&lt;i&gt;IEEE Spectrum&lt;/i&gt; February issue featuring ECE alumni Dr. Dale Joachim, the &quot;Bird Whisperer.&quot; See the full article for  </description>
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         <description> The Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering invites resumes for the Academic Advisor position. See the linked pdf for  </description>
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         <description>   Brooks UPG latest newsletter reports winning Design Team 3 product &quot;Meter Safety Socket Tester,&quot; still keeping thousands of meter workers safe in the field. See the newsletter article for    </description>
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         <description>Congratulations to Erik Goodman! In recognition of quality teaching and substantial continuing involvement in undergraduate eduation, he will receive the MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Teaching Award at the annual Awards Convocation, February 8, 2007.</description>
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         <description>  Dean Aslam's latest research and education innovations were featured in The Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems summer 2006 issue, &lt;i&gt;&quot;WIMS World.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; See the attached article for ...  </description>
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         <description> Adjunct Professor Kunwar Rajendra, Principal Investigator, has recently been awarded a grant for a new research project with the Michigan Department of Transportation in the field of  Vehicle Infrastructure Integration, which is within the realm of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). See the attached pdf for...   </description>
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         <description>Ning Xi has been named an IEEE fellow, effective January 1, 2007, for his contributions to the field of nano-robotic manipulation and assembly. </description>
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         <description>     The Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering at Michigan State University invites nominations and applications for the position of the Chair for the department. To apply or for more information, please see the ECE chair search website.   </description>
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         <description>  &lt;b&gt;Shantanu Chakrabartty&lt;/b&gt; receives a National Science Foundation grant for developing computational biosensors by integrating CMOS and bio-electronics. This project focuses on developing a forward-error-correcting multi-array biosensor based on molecular bio-wires. Based on previous work on conductometric immunosensors they propose to build a network of molecular switches using conductive polyaniline as a transducer for detecting binding events between antigens and their target antibodies. For full abstract...</description>
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         <description> The Electrical Engineering program at MSU was ranked 42nd in the 2007 &lt;i&gt;U.S. News and World Report&lt;/i&gt; Graduate Program Rankings. </description>
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         <description>Congratulations to Elias Strangas and Fang Zheng Peng, two of the recipients for the 21st Century Jobs Fund in the College of Engineering from the state of Michigan.</description>
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         <description> Congratulations to our ECE faculty Elias Strangas, Fang Zheng Peng and Jes Asmussen, recipients of the 21st Century Jobs Fund from the state of Michigan!  </description>
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         <description>July 1st promotion and tenure actions promote three ECE faculty to full professor. Congratulations to Leo Kempel, Fang Zheng Peng and Hayder Radha. </description>
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         <description>The College of Engineering will have a new dean in place -- Satish Udpa -- this fall following unanimous approval by the university's board of trustees at its meeting on Monday, July 17. </description>
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         <description>MSU Provost Kim Wilcox is recommending the board approve the appointment of Satish Udpa...</description>
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         <description>Dean Aslam received the outstanding service award for his role as poster session chair in the Nanomedicine Conference 2006, held at the Kellogg Hotel &amp; Conference Center on April 29th. </description>
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         <description> Virginia Ayres received the Purdue University Department of Physics Outstanding Alumnus Award. Ayres will be presented with a plaque at the awards banquet on October 27, 2006. </description>
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         <description>  Check out our proud display of ECE's spring '06 Senior Design posters and the newest Graduate Research posters, along the 2200 and 2300 Engineering Building hallways!  </description>
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         <description>Michigan State University, the Fraunhofer Center for Coating and Laser Applications (CCL), and Campbell Technological Resources Incorporated signed a three-way research agreement...</description>
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         <description>The College of Engineering invites applications for multiple tenure-track, academic year, and faculty positions to complement the activities of several current faculty working in the area of Advanced Energy/Transporation Initiative, within three departments in the Engineering college: Chemical Engineering &amp; Materials Science, Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.&lt;br /&gt;
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         <description>Edward Rothwell received the Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, at the 16th Annual Engineering Awards Luncheon, March 30, 2006. </description>
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         <description>Daniel Laboy, a sophomore in computer engineering and a member of the Smart Microsystems Laboratory (SML), has won a Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Fellowship. The $2,500 award will support Daniel's research on an artificial muscle-based Tetwalker robot for future space exploration in the 2006-2007 academic year.</description>
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         <description>ECE Research News&lt;br /&gt;
Leo Kempel, director of the new High Performance Computing Center, reports very successful beginnings.</description>
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         <description>Paul R. Kucher, an ECE graduate research assistant working with Dr. Shantanu Chakrabartty in his AIM laboratory, has been awarded the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship.</description>
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         <description>Xiaobo Tan has received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal: &quot;Dexterous Biomimetic Micromanipulation Using Artificial Muscles: Modeling, Sensing, and Control.&quot; </description>
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         <description>Three ECE faculty, Shantanu Chakrabartty, Robert McGough, and Xiaobo Tan, are Fall 2005 Intramural Research Grants Program (IRGP) Recipients. </description>
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         <description>Two ECE and seven CSE students participated in the Google Workshop for Women Engineers January 20-23 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Students received an all expense paid trip from Google, explored new technology and potential career opportunities, and met with other women engineers in their field. </description>
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         <description>In recognition of dedication and success in teaching, Andrew Mason received the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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         <description>The formation of a Michigan-based Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program was announced at a press conference, Monday, January 23, 2006.</description>
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         <description>Congratulations are in order for Peixin Zhong, Andrew Mason and their team of graduate and undergraduate students they led in the SRC (Semiconductor Research Corporation)/SIA SoC Design Challenge Competition. The MSU team won third place in this competition. They will move on to Phase II of the competition in which their design will be fabricated.</description>
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         <description>The ECE department has established the Koenig Endowed Chair in Communications. The department is undergoing an expansion in the area of communications, and the Koenig Endowed Chair in Communications is targeted at an internationally renowned individual in the general area of communications. This is an academic tenured or tenure-track position at a senior rank. For full consideration, applications must be received on or before January 1, 2006.</description>
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         <description>   The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) extended well-deserved congratulations to ECE faculty, Lalita Udpa, one staff member and three graduate students from the Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory (NDEL), working on the &quot;Turbo Magneto-Optic Imaging (MOI) for Inspection of Alodine fasteners&quot; team.  The Better Way Award annually recognizes a government-industry team that has developed and applied a technology, technique, process, or policy resulting in a more sensitive, more reliable, or more cost effective process for inspecting and testing of aircraft, aircraft components, or aircraft systems.&lt;br /&gt;  </description>
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         <description>  ECE alumnus, Dale Joachim, a professor at Tulane University, is back to his MSU &quot;home&quot; for the fall semester. &lt;br /&gt;
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         <description>   The International Society for Optical Engineering has awarded the ECE department an SPIE Educational Grant in Optical Science and Engineering.   </description>
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         <description>Welcome back everyone!&lt;br /&gt;
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         <description>Research Lab news article by Dr. Rama Mukkamala. </description>
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         <description>Research news article by Dr. Xiaobo Tan.</description>
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         <description>  On June 7th, the MSU Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Satish Udpa as acting dean of the College of Engineering. (Click title for more.)    </description>
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         <description>Janie M. Fouke, dean of MSU's College of Engineering and faculty member of ECE, has been named the University of Florida's new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced UF President Bernie Machen today. Fouke will assume her new position August 15, 2005.    </description>
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         <description>With the new appointment of Satish Udpa to Acting Dean for the College of Engineering, Timothy Grotjohn was unanimously appointed to Acting Chair for the department. (Click title for more.)</description>
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         <description>  Effective immediately, Hassan Khalil has been appointed Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies of the department. &lt;/br&gt;
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         <description> Nathan Usher, fall 2004 computer engineering graduate, crosses the finish line first at the Bayshore Marathon in Traverse City, Michigan, last Saturday, June 4th. Usher was among 1,400 competitors in the 26.2 mile race, taking him only a little over 2 hours to break the finish line tape, which was also 16 minutes ahead of the second place runner. (Click title for more.) </description>
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         <description> From the Employment Policy Foundation 2005 report, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and electronics rank at the top of the &quot;Top-Paying Jobs.&quot; (Click title for more.)</description>
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         <description>   The ECE Department Advisory Committee unanimously recommended the appointment of Professor Timothy Grotjohn as Acting Chairperson. Grotjohn has assumed the roles and duties as of June 8, 2005.     </description>
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         <description>        David Skalny, EE/CpE major, is a recipient of the Board of Trustees Award and also will be the banner carrier for the College of Engineering spring convocation.      </description>
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         <description>  An agreement was signed April 19, 2005 by and between the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute (ZELRI) and Michigan State University to establish the ZELRI-MSU research Center for Power Electronics Systems. Dr. Fang Z. Peng will serve as the Director of the Center. </description>
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         <description>  On April 14th 2005, over 60 ECE graduate students proudly displayed their research posters to the department Visiting Committee.  The posters are currently hung along the 2nd floor of the Engineering Building, and will stay until the next poster day, (and combined with ECE Design Day,)
April 27, 2006.   </description>
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         <description>   Janelle Shane, ECE senior,  has been selected to receive the prestigious 2005 Goldwater Scholarship.    </description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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         <description> Jacob Kuiper, a CpE major, is a recipient of The Board of Trustees Award for spring 2005 convocation.  </description>
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         <description>  Edward Rothwell has been selected to receive the IEEE Southeast Michigan Section Outstanding Professional Award on April 6, 2005.  </description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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         <description>  The Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities will be conferring the Outstanding Faculty &amp; Staff Award on Professor Erik Goodman, this coming April.   </description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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         <description>Selin Aviyente will receive the Withrow Teaching Excellence Award at the next Engineering Awards luncheon.</description>
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         <description>Tim Grotjohn will receive the Withrow Exceptional Service Award at the next Engineering Awards luncheon.</description>
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         <title>Fang Peng to receive the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award</title>
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         <description>Fang Peng will receive the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award at the next Engineering Awards luncheon.</description>
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         <description>Joyce Foley will receive the Gloria Stragier Award for Dedicated and Creative Services at the next Engineering Awards luncheon.</description>
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         <title>Hassan Khalil to receive the 2005 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award</title>
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         <description> Hassan Khalil's paper entitled &quot;Output Feedback Sampled-Data Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems,&quot; presented at the 2004 American Control Conference, has been selected to receive the 2005 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in June at the ACC Conference. </description>
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         <title>Shirish Karande receives Excellence-in-Teaching Citation</title>
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         <description>Shirish was recognized at the Founders' Day Celebration for outstanding classroom teaching performance. </description>
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         <description>  Edward J. Rothwell, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Fang Z. Peng, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  </description>
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for contributions to the development of radar target identification, discrimination, and detection schemes.  </description>
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         <description> The SpartIEEE, which is an IEEE newsletter that will be published once a month by the MSU Student  Chapter of IEEE.  The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you informed on events around the IEEE, list important dates, and give overviews of activities that have taken place during the previous month.  Each article will by written by members of the IEEE Executive Board unless otherwise specified in the publication.  Please feel free to send comments or questions about The SpartIEEE to ieee@msu.edu. </description>
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         <description>The fall semester is off to a great start. Our research activities continue to grow and flourish as faculty members find new opportunities for exercising their enormous talents to address challenging problems in new and emerging areas. Our research
expenditures have increased more than three-fold over the past three years, reflecting the vitality of our program</description>
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         <title>Dr. Fang Z. Peng</title>
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         <description>  becomes an IEEE Fellow
effective January 2005
for contributions to multilevel power converter topology, control, and applications.  </description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title> Fall 2004 ECE Design Day Winners</title>
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         <description> 1st place - Team 4 &lt;br&gt;
Whirlpool Duet Dryer Audio Feedback Device         </description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Barbara O'Kelly and Percy Pierre were selected to receive &quot;MSU's Excellence Within Community&quot;</title>
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         <description>Award for their teamwork promoting diversity in the engineering college and the MSU community.</description>
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