Welcome From the Chair
"Set in the midst of Oregon's Silicon Forest, PSU's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department leverages the resources of high-tech industry to support a diverse teaching and research program. Our students participate in a number of innovative industry projects which reinforce high-quality classroom education and academic research. Together, faculty and students continue to explore tomorrow's emerging technologies."
- Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske
News & Noteworthy
Dr. Robert Daasch and his students Liwei Ning and Amit Nahar have received the 2008 Technical Excellence Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). They will receive a $5000 award for their work titled "Outlier Screening for Reduced Burn-In." The team will be presented with their award at the TECHCON 2008 conference in September.
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Dr. Richard Campbell has been awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for NTR no. 45494: "On-Wafer Measurement of the World's First Submillimeter-wave Silicon CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO)at 324 GHz." The award represents Dr. Campbell's work with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Dr. Marek Perkowski is one of six PSU professors to be awarded the 2008 Excellence in Community-based Research award. The award is giving to faculty members or teams who use their research to aid in the growth of the community. Dr. Perkowski's award is based on his ongoing work with a group of 12-15 year olds in the subjects of intelligent robotics and quantum computing. Many of the students have presented papers at international conferences and have received numerous awards, including Yale Fan who was awarded a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellow Laureate Project.
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ECE Professor and Chair Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske has been elected to serve on the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Board of Governors for the period of 2008-2010.
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Dr. Garrison Greenwood, ECE Associate Professor, co-authored the book Introduction to Evolvable Hardware: A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems which was recently published by Wiley-IEEE Press.
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 Dr. Lisa Zurk has received the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is given to researchers who are at the beginning of their careers to honor the great achievements they have made in their field. Dr. Zurk was nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) whom she received a five-year, $400,000 NSF Early Career Award for her proposal, "Electromagnetic Scattering and Propagation in Random Media at Terahertz Frequencies."
The Presidential Awards are intended to recognize and nurture some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century.
Dr. Zurk received the award on November 2nd in Washington, D.C. She is shown above with her award in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House.
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