ECEE Archives - Page 16 of 18

Remembering George Karady, a power electronics leader

June 27, 2018

The highly respected educator, researcher and electrical engineering expert left a lasting impact on his colleagues, students, friends, family and the world.

Energy

Photo shows an electrical engineering graduate's mortarboard decorated as a breadboard.

Electrical engineering alumni credit Fulton Schools experience for PE exam success

June 22, 2018

Using what they learned at ASU, two graduates recently took a major step toward Professional Engineer licensure: passing the PE exam.

Education

Photo of four people standing. Caption: Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Emeritus Professor David Ferry pictured (from left) with his wife, Darleen, and daughters Linda Parkis and Lara Ferry at a recent reception honoring Professor Ferry for his 35 years of teaching and research at Arizona State University. A gift to ASU from David and Darleen Ferry will fund a professorship to support advanced electrical engineering research at the university. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Academic rigor, research excellence define professor’s legacy

June 5, 2018

The David and Darleen Ferry Professorship adds to 35 years of contributions to engineering education and research that David Ferry has made to Arizona State University

Photo of Steve Phillips and Zhengshan “Jason” Yu holding a plaque. Caption: Zhengshan “Jason” Yu receives the Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Director Steve Phillips at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Spring 2018 Gold Convocation Ceremony at Wells Fargo Arena, May 9, 2018. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student’s research shows great potential for solar power

May 11, 2018

Zhengshan “Jason” Yu won the 2018 Fulton Schools Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for research leading to record-breaking efficiency of tandem solar cells.

image of a group of students in graduation attire with "Celebrating outstanding graduates" overlaid

Meet the Fulton Schools’ outstanding graduates of Spring 2018

May 7, 2018

At the end of each spring and fall semester, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering takes time to recognize some of the graduating class for their outstanding commitments to both academics and the Fulton Schools at large.

Image of books stacked on shelves with an opening in the middle leading outdoors to a tree-lined path. Caption: Photo courtesy of Pixabay

Essential Reading: Illuminating books to learn from and live by

May 2, 2018

Fulton Schools faculty and staff members recommend books to help students light their paths through the challenges of college days and the years beyond.

Photo of two men in a lab with one holding a lightbulb. Caption: Yuji Zhao (left), an electrical engineering professor in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and Houqiang Fu (right), a doctoral student in Zhao’s research group, hold an LED light bulb. Zhao and Fu are authors on a paper recently published in a leading photonics journal highlighting the theoretical limits and future directions for light-emitting diode technology. Photo courtesy of Yuji Zhao

ASU Bisgrove Scholar illuminates the future of LED lighting

April 27, 2018

Light-emitting diode research by Yuji Zhao outlines the theoretical limits of efficiency and expands LED use to wireless communications and medical applications.

Health

ASU engineers jump into national effort to advance AI computing

April 18, 2018

Three electrical engineering professors in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering will be joining leading faculty from the nation’s top engineering schools in prestigious new research centers that will lay the foundation for technological innovation in the next decade.

Microelectronics

Photo of three people with Stephen Hawking. Caption: Famous physicist Stephen Hawking (foreground), disabled by neuromuscular disease, depended on scientists and engineers who developed the technologies that enabled him to overcome the loss of speech. Speech synthesis and acoustics experts who helped him included (from left behind Hawking) ASU alum Michael Deisher, the late Edward Brucket and Corine Bickley, pictured here in 2005. Photograph courtesy of Michael Deisher.

Giving voice to genius: Helping Hawking speak

April 12, 2018

Skills that an Intel engineer first developed as an ASU graduate student helped to give science luminary Stephen Hawking vital communication tools.

Photo of three girls around a pink pool with foli boats. Caption: At GEAR Day, Girl Scout Juniors planned, designed and built boats made of aluminum foil with the help of members from ASU’s Society of Women Engineers. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Inspiring the next generation of female engineers at ASU

April 4, 2018

Nearly 100 Girl Scouts learned what it’s like being an engineer from students in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at GEAR Day.

Five people pose for a photo in the Meteor Studio. Caption: Assistant professor Robert LiKamWa and his students from the Arizona State University Meteor Studio impressed the mobile computing systems international research community at the Association for Computing Machinery’s HotMobile ‘18 conference workshop, taking home a Best Poster award and getting valuable feedback on their research. From left to right: Electrical engineering graduate student Sridhar Gunnam, computer science graduate student Siddhant Prakash, Assistant Professor Robert LiKamWa, computer engineering doctoral student Jinhan Hu and computer engineering (electrical engineering) graduate student Venkatesh Kodukula.

ASU Meteor Studio makes big impact at mobile computing research conference

March 26, 2018

Students from the ASU Meteor Studio impressed the mobile computing systems international research community at the ACM HotMobile ‘18, taking home a Best Poster award.

Global

A close up of a pair of hands, one holding a pen-like tool and the other a small device. Caption: Laser Components DG’s photodetector manufacturing, assembly and testing involve performing highly precise, intricate and meticulously controlled procedures on small, delicate components and devices. Equally complex research and development operations are done by two of the company’s employees who work at ASU’s NanoFab facility. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

NanoFab helping businesses navigate the nanotech world

March 16, 2018

A longtime partnership with Laser Components DG is among many successful industry collaborations that make NanoFab a go-to resource for high-tech companies.

Microelectronics

Portrait of Jennifer Blain Christen in her lab

Jennifer Blain Christen stimulates nerves and young minds

February 2, 2018

Jennifer Blain Christen is entering an entirely new field of medicine — electroceutical. This field treats diseases with the direct electrical stimulation of specific nerves, triggering self-treatment within the body, generally with the use of electrodes.

Health

ASU biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, electrical engineering undergraduate student John Patterson and computer engineering graduate student Sami Mian pitch the Hoolest earbud at the ASU Innovation Open semifinal round.

Hoolest lends an ear to stress relief

January 30, 2018

Hoolest Performance Technologies, a student startup led by biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, seeks to create an earbud device that reduces the effects of performance anxiety, stress and nervousness. They will compete for $100,000 in funding at the ASU Innovation Open final round on February 2.

EntrepreneurshipHealth

Photo of two men standing next to each other. Caption: Yuji Zhao (left) poses with U.S. Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Zhao was one of a select few invited to meet with members of Congress to talk about advances in technology for space applications during the November 29 NASA Tech Day event. Photo courtesy of Yuji Zhao

ASU engineer showcases NASA research to Congress on Capitol Hill

January 16, 2018

Yuji Zhao was among the distinguished few invited by NASA to present their research to U.S. Congress members on Capitol Hill, where he described using gallium nitride for high-temperature solar cells and photovoltaics

Solar

New tipping point prediction model offers insights to diminishing bee colonies

January 10, 2018

Global

Photo of Sebastian Husein holding a trophy in a lab. Caption: Sebastian Husein became the second consecutive student from Mariana Bertoni's group to bring home the Lynn Preston Trophy after winning the NSF's Perfect Pitch competition. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

QESST student wins NSF’s Perfect Pitch Competition

December 20, 2017

Sebastian Husein, a scholar in QESST, won the National Science Foundation’s Perfect Pitch competition at the biennial meeting. This marks the second straight time that a QESST student from Assistant Professor Mariana Bertoni’s group has won.

EnergySolar

Photo of Ho-Toi Wai holding a plaque next to Kyle Squires

High-caliber contributors: Dissertation Award winners ready to make big impacts

December 15, 2017

Bing Si and Hoi-To Wai were each awarded the 2017 Dean's Dissertation Award at convocation. The Dean’s Dissertation Award recognizes graduating doctoral students who excel as researchers and leaders.