ECE News
Exciting things are always happening in the Electrical & Computer engineering department at the University of Utah. Browse current and past news articles below.
November 18, 2024
National Cancer Institute Grant Unites ECE and Cancer Research
November 5, 2024
Heayoung Yoon Awarded 1U4U Seed Grant
October 29, 2024
The 2024 ECE Chair’s List Luncheon
October 16, 2024
Celebrating 10 Years of the Utah Asia Campus
September 23, 2024
Bridging Continents and Code: Utah Asia Campus’s First ECE Graduate
September 13, 2024
Benjamin Sanchez Terrones Receives HCI Engineering Award
September 10, 2024
U Machine Learning Research Translates Color Camera Images Into Infrared
July 11, 2024
Kai Fu Receives HCI Engineering Award
June 3, 2024
New light-filtering lenses to combat migraine
April 11, 2024
ECE Professors Receive SETO OPTIMA Funding
March 13, 2024
ECE Professor Mingyue Ji Receives Competitive NSF Award
January 11, 2024
Bringing Back IEEE Eta Kappa Nu
January 3, 2024
Hanseup Kim Named ECE Department Chair
November 14, 2023
Jacob George Named University of Utah’s 2023 Innovator of the Year
August 31, 2023
The Legacy of John Warnock
July 7, 2023
Sanchez Terrones Awarded for work with Tongue Cancer Patients
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez Terrones has been awarded…
June 26, 2023
ECE and Architectural Studies Team win 2nd Place at Wilkes Center Student Innovation Prize
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. candidate Xiang Huo and teammate Samantha Eddy, an…
June 9, 2023
New General Education Course: Your SmartPhone – How it Works and How it is Changing the World
Have you ever wondered why there is a cell phone dead spot at the end of your driveway? Or perhaps, been curious about…
June 5, 2023
Engineering Ph.D. Student’s ‘Artificial Muscles’ Win Wilkes Center Student Innovation Prize
University of Utah biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Nicholas Witham has earned first place — and $20,000 — in the…
May 4, 2023
2023 John and Marcia Price College of Engineering Awards
The University of Utah electrical and computer engineering department would like to congratulate this year’s recipients…
April 26, 2023
Solzbacher Elected WECEDHA Chair
University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering professor and chair Florian Solzbacher has been nominated and…
April 12, 2023
Trio of ECE Students Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships
In a rare and remarkable achievement, three University of Utah electrical and computer engineering students have been…
April 10, 2023
ECE Research Assistant Aaron Wang, a High School Senior, earns Utah General Sterling Scholarship
Aaron Wang, a senior at Skyline High School and research assistant in the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab, has been awarded the…
March 23, 2023
ECE USMART TEAM WINS SECOND PLACE AT CLIMATE HACKATHON
In the recent 24-hour climate hackathon held by the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy, three University of…
February 24, 2023
University of Utah joins Utah State University-based ASPIRE Center
The University of Utah has officially joined the Utah State University-based Advancing Sustainability through Powered…
February 23, 2023
Shock to the System
In this high-tech era, wearable devices such as smartwatches have proven to be invaluable companions for the health…
February 21, 2023
Rapid Silicon, co-founded by ECE Professor, Receives $30M in Funding
Semiconductor company Rapid Silicon, which was co-founded by University of Utah electrical and computer engineering…
February 16, 2023
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ANNOUNCES NEW UTAH FAB
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced Wednesday, Feb. 14, plans to build its next 300-millimeter semiconductor…
February 8, 2023
Menon elected as 2023 SPIE Fellow
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering USTAR associate professor Rajesh Menon has been recognized as a…
January 31, 2023
Sanchez Terrones develops real-time stress monitoring device
Modern lifestyles are triggering stress at higher rates for longer periods of time than ever before seen.…
January 30, 2023
Zhou Receives NSF Career Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Yi Zhou has received the National Science…
January 25, 2023
ECE Professors Advance System Design Automation
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professors Weilu Gao and Cunxi Yu were recently…
January 20, 2023
ECE Team wins Final Phase of DOE Competition in Clean Sweep
The HydroFlex technology, developed by a team of electrical and computer engineering researchers at the University of…
January 11, 2023
RETHINKING PHOTOVOLTAIC RESEARCH
In a world where renewables are the future of energy generation, researchers around the world are constantly chasing…
January 10, 2023
COE RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT, NEW NAME
For 128 years, the University of Utah’s College of Engineering has been the state’s premier research and educational…
January 5, 2023
ECE Alumni Receives Young Researcher Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. graduate Arkka Bhattacharyya recently won the Young…
December 15, 2022
ECE Faculty Team awarded $400K NSF Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professors Rong-Rong Chen and Mingyue Ji have received…
December 8, 2022
Solzbacher Named NAI Fellow
University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Florian Solzbacher has been named one of the newest…
November 11, 2022
Jacob George featured on Brown Journal of World Affairs Podcast
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George was recently featured on the…
November 10, 2022
ECE Faculty Research Team Awarded $750K NSF Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professors Mingyue Ji, Rong-Rong Chen, and Cunxi Yu, along with…
October 28, 2022
ECE PhD Student wins 2nd place in ACM Competition
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student Dian-Lun Lin won second place in the graduate…
October 25, 2022
ECE Student awarded $160k fellowship from NIH
University of Utah electrical engineering Md-Ph.D. student Michael Adkins has been awarded a $160,000 two-year…
October 18, 2022
HydroFlex Team Garners Second Prize
A team of electrical and computer engineering researchers at the University of Utah, including associate professor…
October 17, 2022
Huang Receives $298,814 NSF Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a one-year…
October 13, 2022
ECE Student Published in Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student Jichao Fan recently co-authored a paper,…
October 10, 2022
U-EPIC Energy Center
In a world in transition away from fossil fuels, the need for reliable and affordable renewable energy is clear. But…
October 6, 2022
ECE Team Receives Honorable Mention at ITC India
A paper published by a team of University of Utah electrical and computer engineering researchers led by professor…
September 21, 2022
Sanchez Terrones featured in IEEE Pulse Magazine
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez-Terrones recently had his…
September 19, 2022
Gao Receives Multi-Institute NSF Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Weilu Gao has joined a multi-institute, $1.5…
September 8, 2022
Tabib-Azar on Advances in Quantum Computers and Information Sciences
The quantum computing market has seen exponential growth over the past several years and has a projected year-over-year…
September 6, 2022
ECE Student wins 1st Place at Podium Competition
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student Connor Olsen was recently awarded first place in a…
September 1, 2022
ECE Groups Advance AI Computations with Light
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. students Ruiyang Chen (left) and Yingjie Li (right),…
August 30, 2022
Huang Receives SIGDA Meritorious Service Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has been awarded the 2022…
August 26, 2022
Reaching Out to Students in Crisis
For many students, the college experience can be unbearably stressful. Academic pressure, separation from the family…
August 25, 2022
George Receives $200k Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George has received a $200,000 grant…
August 24, 2022
2022 COE Teaching and Staff Awards
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the University of Utah College of Engineering Teaching and Staff Awards.…
August 22, 2022
Lab Safety Day 2022
At the University of Utah’s College of Engineering, lab safety is a priority. To increase awareness of university…
August 17, 2022
ECE Students Attend Design Automation Conference
Three University of Utah electrical and computer engineering students attended The Design Automation Conference (DAC)…
August 15, 2022
ECE Student Selected for Future Nobel Laureate Program
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering graduate research assistant Alex Farley is one of only 10…
August 8, 2022
ECE STUDENT WINS OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering student Adwait Deshpande received the “Outstanding Student…
August 5, 2022
ECE Team Receives DOE Hydropower Award
While being one of the oldest ways of generating electric power, hydropower units are still one of the most important…
August 4, 2022
ANNUAL VISIT FROM UTAH ASIA CAMPUS STUDENTS
On Sunday, July 17, the University of Utah’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomed 12 freshman and…
July 26, 2022
Huang Receives $488,675 NSF Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a highly competitive three-year…
June 2, 2022
TA Applications Are Open
We are now accepting applications for Teaching Assistants for the Spring 2022 semester. Applications will be open to…
May 13, 2022
Huang Receives Prestigious Humboldt Fellowship
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, Tsung-Wei Huang, has been awarded the Humboldt Research…
May 10, 2022
Reanimation System Helps Stroke Patient Recovery
Roughly 80% of stroke patients experience hemiparesis, a condition that causes weakness on one side of the body and can…
April 30, 2022
Students and Faculty Celebrated at Senior Banquet
On Wednesday, April 28th, the department of electrical and computer engineering hosted its annual Senior Banquet at the…
April 26, 2022
POWERING UP A COMMUNITY
In the Kayenta Chapter of the Navajo Nation in Arizona, there are 24 households that have never enjoyed stable…
April 19, 2022
Faculty Nominated for Career Impact Awards
Each year the Career and Professional Development Center at the University of Utah celebrates faculty, staff, alumni,…
April 14, 2022
ECE Partners with the U’s MD-PhD Program
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is excited to announce that it has joined the University of…
April 11, 2022
Gao and Yu Published in Nature Computational Science
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professors Weilu Gao and Cunxi Yu recently published a paper in Nature…
April 1, 2022
George Featured in The Superposition and Mind Matters News
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor and director of the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab, Jacob George, was…
March 25, 2022
Technical Open House and Awards Banquet
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah is hosting a Technical Open House for…
March 24, 2022
Students Win JUMP into STEM Final Competition
A group of University of Utah-led students, including electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. candidates Xiang Huo…
March 9, 2022
Furse Joins Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Cynthia Furse was selected to serve on the Editorial…
March 7, 2022
ECE Celebrates Highest Number of NSF CAREER Award Recipients
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that four ECE faculty members have received…
March 2, 2022
ECE Student Recognized by UROP
Electrical and computer engineering student Bryce Cheek was recognized alongside mechanical engineering student Kian…
February 4, 2022
Patients Speak Again with Help of Neural Prostheses
Patients who suffer from neuromuscular diseases such as locked-in syndrome or muscular dystrophy have difficulty…
January 24, 2022
ECE Team Develops Worlds Thinnest Camera
To produce an image, a camera relies on a lens to redirect light onto a sensor that converts the light into digital…
January 6, 2022
ECE Group Awarded Best Paper at 2021 IEEE GLOBECOM
Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Ph.D. graduate Nicholas Woolsey, Associate Professor Rong-Rong Chen and…
December 23, 2021
Can We Control a Robotic Hand with Our Mind?
In the United States alone, 1.6 million individuals, nearly one in every 200 people, suffer from limb loss. The…
December 20, 2021
Students Address Resiliency in Remote Communities
A team of University of Utah lead students, passionate about leveraging their engineering knowledge to support the…
December 17, 2021
Student Project Showcase
As the semester comes to a close, classrooms throughout the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrate…
December 10, 2021
ECE Mourns the Passing of Professor Emeritus Carl Durney
With deep sadness, we share the news of the passing of University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor…
December 7, 2021
Solzbacher Named IEEE Fellow
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor and department chair Florian Solzbacher has been named…
December 7, 2021
Stringfellow Named NAI Fellow
Electrical and computer engineering Distinguished Professor Gerald Stringfellow, a former dean of the U’s College of…
December 2, 2021
GEORGE NAMED ONE OF “30 UNDER 30”
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George, director of the Utah…
December 1, 2021
Diagnosing Breast Cancer
Mammograms are a safe, effective way to detect the presence of breast cancer in women. But doctors recommend most…
November 18, 2021
ECE Program at U Asia Campus Off to Strong Start
Fatemeh Koohestan Mahalian, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) assistant professor at the University of Utah…
November 17, 2021
ECE Faculty Listed Among Top 2% of Scientists
Stanford University recently released an updated list of the top two percent most-cited scientists in various…
November 16, 2021
Engineering Day 2021
Hundreds of high school students from Utah and around the country attended the annual College of Engineering…
October 28, 2021
Undergrad Researcher Receives $5000 Scholarship
Electrical and computer engineering undergraduate researcher Miranda Cardenas has received a $5,000 scholarship from…
October 20, 2021
Alumni Creates Interactive Halloween Display
After a year that saw many events go on hold, children and adults alike are looking forward to a Halloween season that…
October 7, 2021
U Faculty Join $3.5 Million DOE Project
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professors Mingxi Liu, Mingyue Ji, Armin Tajalli and civil and…
September 28, 2021
George Awarded Ascender Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George has received a $96,500 Ascender Grant from the…
September 20, 2021
George Awarded Facebook Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from…
September 13, 2021
Exploring Undergraduate Research
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Cynthia Furse was recently a guest on the academic…
August 31, 2021
MEET ECE’S NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
The University of Utah Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome two new tenure track…
August 25, 2021
2021 COE Teaching and Staff Awards
Congratulations to this year’s winners of the University of Utah College of Engineering Teaching and Staff Awards,…
August 25, 2021
Sanchez Develops Ultra-realistic Simulations
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez has partnered with Medtech company, ImpediMed,…
August 20, 2021
NEW UPGRADE FOR CADE LAB
The Computer Aided Design and Engineering Lab (CADE) in the Warnock Engineering Building, a bank of high-end Linux…
August 16, 2021
Huang Receives Open-Source Software Development Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a $10,000 grant from the nonprofit…
August 12, 2021
Students Awarded for Poster on Solar Cell Research
Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant, Yu-Lin Hsu, was recently awarded for…
August 4, 2021
Utah Asia Campus Students Visit SLC
On Sunday, July 17, the electrical and computer engineering department welcomed sophomore students Donggi Lee, Eojin…
July 30, 2021
Huang Receives $403,114 NSF Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a three-year, $403,114 grant from…
July 28, 2021
Sanchez’s Lab to Develop Wearable Device
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez recently accepted a research contract with…
July 17, 2021
ECE Student Bikes Continental Divide
Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, Evan Benoit, a graduate research assistant in the Electromagnetics…
July 15, 2021
Yoon Appointed to University Research Committee
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Heayoung Yoon was recently appointed to the University…
June 21, 2021
ECE Students Awarded for Senior Projects
On Friday, April 30th the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a virtual event to honor graduating…
May 28, 2021
Huo Awarded Best Student Paper
Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant, Xiang Huo, was recently awarded…
May 26, 2021
BLACKROCK GETS NEW FUNDING
Salt Lake City-based neuroscience company, Blackrock Microsystems, whose core brain-computer interface (BCI) technology…
May 24, 2021
George Awarded NVIDIA Jetson Nano Grant
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George was recently awarded the NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB…
May 19, 2021
Solzbacher Joins National Team to Create Implantable Device
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor and department chair Florian Solzbacher recently…
May 14, 2021
ECE Student Awarded Best Paper
Electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant in the Ardakani Research Lab,…
May 12, 2021
SANCHEZ AWARDED FRIENDS OF FSH RESEARCH GRANT
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez’s technology to check and…
May 10, 2021
Convocation Ceremony Class of 2021
On Friday, May 7, the College of Engineering hosted an in-person Convocation Ceremony at the Rice Eccles Stadium to…
May 5, 2021
Tsung-Wei Huang Receives Best Paper Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang was recently awarded Best…
April 30, 2021
ECE Faculty Launch Open Source Foundation
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon and research…
April 27, 2021
ECE STUDENT FEATURED IN STUDENT INNOVATION @ THE U
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. students Avishan Bagherinezhad and Alejandro Palomino have…
April 14, 2021
Senior Projects Day and Senior Send-Off
The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah is hosting an Open House for…
April 2, 2021
NOBEL RECIPIENT FEATURED IN JUDD DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
This year’s University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering Department’s Frontiers in Engineering Innovation:…
March 24, 2021
Gao to Present Latest Publication at Conference
In a recent edition of Advanced Photonics Research, University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant…
March 19, 2021
NATEGH LAB RECEIVES $2 MILLION RO1 GRANT
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering department assistant professor Neda Nategh was recently awarded…
March 5, 2021
JACOB GEORGE RECEIVES NIH AWARD
The University of Utah electrical and computer engineering department’s new assistant professor Jacob George has…
March 3, 2021
NOBEL RECIPIENT TO GIVE LECTURE
Shuji Nakamura helped illuminate the world. Thanks to the Nobel Laureate, his invention of the first bright gallium…
February 26, 2021
Palmer Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
Congratulations to University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor (lecturer) John Palmer,…
February 24, 2021
ECE STUDENT AWARDED NIST STUDENT AWARD
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering student Prashanth Gopalan has been selected as the winner of the…
February 23, 2021
ECE FACULTY RECEIVE NSF CAREER AWARDS
University of Utah Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Heayoung Yoon has received a…
February 19, 2021
YU RECEIVES NSF CAREER AWARD
University of Utah Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Cunxi Yu has received a…
February 2, 2021
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND ENGINEERS
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Benjamin Sanchez is bringing a revolutionary…
February 1, 2021
CYNTHIA FURSE SELECTED AS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER OF IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION SOCIETY
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Cynthia Furse has been selected as one of the new…
January 27, 2021
ECE Department Announces Expansion to Asia Campus
As 'Untact' has become the new normal due to the coronavirus pandemic, the four industries: artificial intelligence…
January 27, 2021
2021 Utah Power & Energy Career Expo
The third annual Utah Power & Energy Career Expo is bringing students the full networking experience from the comfort…
January 14, 2021
ENGINEERING TEAM RECEIVES DOE GRANT
An engineering team from the University of Utah has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to…
January 8, 2021
COVID TEST NAMED FINALIST
A portable rapid COVID-19 test being developed by University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor…
December 23, 2020
OPENFPGA PROJECT AWARDED
The paper “OpenFPGA: Towards Automated Prototyping for Versatile FPGAs,” was awarded Best Contribution from among 25…
December 23, 2020
ECE POSTDOC GETS FACULTY POSITION
After two and a half years of training at the University of Utah postdoctoral researcher, Kyeong Heon Kim joins…
December 21, 2020
TURNING A MINI HOME LAB INTO AN AWARD-WINNING PAPER
With the continuation of COVID-19 and the determination to continue his work Research Assistant Professor Mohamed El…
December 11, 2020
OLIVIA THU LAM CHOSEN FOR RESEARCH ON CAPITOL HILL
In an event showcasing the importance of undergraduate research and the work of Utah’s top research universities once a…
December 4, 2020
FLAT LENS ONE OF YEAR’S TOP TECH
One of the biggest complaints with cellphones today is the ugly camera lens bump that protrudes from the back of the…
November 30, 2020
MEET ECE’S NEW FACULTY
The University of Utah's ECE program has some of the best faculty in the world, but how much do you know about them?
November 18, 2020
Two open lecturing faculty positions at Utah Asia Campus
We have posted two lecturing faculty positions for the Utah Asia Campus.
November 17, 2020
“OPTICS RESEARCH IN INDUSTRY: A VAST FIELD OF OPPORTUNITIES” WITH DR. JOSE DOMINGUEZ-CABALLERO
Optics research in industry is sometimes perceived as being limited to a few sets of areas such as lens design and…
November 17, 2020
Talking 9 to 5 – Women and Men in the Workplace
It’s no secret; men and women are different (shocking, we know) and as a result, communicate differently. This can…
November 16, 2020
VIRTUAL GRADUATE OPEN HOUSE
The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah is hosting a Virtual Open House for…
November 11, 2020
“Display Technology Overview” with Kunjal Parikh
"My talk will provide an overview of various kinds of display technologies, including fundamental building blocks in…
November 9, 2020
H.E THOMAS PRESIDENTIAL ENDOWED DEAN’S CHAIR
Congratulations to University of Utah College of Engineering Dean Richard B. Brown, who has been installed as the…
October 30, 2020
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COUNSELING SERVICES
The College of Engineering Mental Health Counselor is offering a confidential, safe, and non-judgmental space to…
October 27, 2020
Armin Tajalli Starts Cutting-Edge 5G Integrated Transceiver Circuit Research
ECE Assistant Professor Armin Tajalli has started a new industry-funded research project to develop and implement a…
October 21, 2020
PIERRE-EMMANUEL GAILLARDON WINS WORLDWIDE OUTSTANDING NEW FACULTY AWARD
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Academics and Strategic Initiatives in the…
October 13, 2020
It’s the Jetsons ‐ Flying Cars & Drone Delivery Regulatory Landscape
Flying cars and drone delivery are technologically imminent. Regulations around the use of autonomous air vehicles span…
October 9, 2020
ECE Assistant Professor Improves Safety of Industrial Workers with NSF Award
In 2018, more than 100 industrial workers died on the job each week, according to the United States Department of…
September 30, 2020
ECE STUDENT DIAN-LUN LIN RECEIVES CHAMPION AWARD
ECE graduate student Dian-Lun Lin has received the Champion Award in the prestigious MIT/Amazon Graph Challenge...
September 30, 2020
Masood Parvania Featured by KUER
ECE's Masood Parvania has been featured in a new article by KUER discussing the hurdles power companies face in extreme…
September 29, 2020
ANALYZING COVID-19 WITH GOOGLE STREET VIEW
Graduate students took a sample of 18,000 Google Street View images from cities such as Chicago and Salt Lake City and…
September 16, 2020
ECE’s Outstanding TA
Graduate student and teaching assistant, Fatima Koohestan Mahalian, has been awarded this year's College of Engineering…
September 2, 2020
Cunxi Yu Receives Over $1M From NSF
ECE Assistant Professor Cunxi Yu had been granted nearly $1.13 million to develop multidisciplinary research across…
August 14, 2020
Parvania Receives U Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor Masood Parvania is one of four faculty…
July 22, 2020
JORGENSEN FAMILY DONATION FOR ECE LAB
Thanks to the generosity of the David G. and Annette T. Jorgensen Family Foundation as well as the support of…
June 17, 2020
SOCIAL DISPARITIES IN AIR POLLUTION
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon took part in a new study utilizing a…
June 15, 2020
THE AWARD THAT BROUGHT A WIFE TO TEARS
As more than four years apart from his wife comes to an end, Roohallah Khatami defends his Ph.D. dissertation,…
May 8, 2020
COVID-19 Sensor
ECE professor Massood Tabib-Azar is developing a fast, reusable test for COVID-19 that works with cellphones.
April 22, 2020
COE RESEARCH INTO COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The University of Utah’s College of Engineering is dedicated to researching solutions to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus…
April 20, 2020
MEET THE GERALD & BARBARA STRINGFELLOW AND GREG & DEBRA TRESEDER FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Gearing up for their doctorates in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Utah, Shaila Collins is the…
April 10, 2020
Best in the West
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering senior Jacob Collins was awarded the Institute of Electrical and…
February 28, 2020
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDED $1,000 TO TRANSFORM NANOSTRUCTURES
University of Utah senior Dinorah Segovia is putting her love of math, engineering and the community together. “I…
February 28, 2020
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
The University of Utah and the College of Engineering would like to thank the more than 340 donors who participated in…
January 24, 2020
POWER AND ENERGY CAREER EXPO
Connecting students with recruiters and industry professionals, the Utah Smart Energy Lab at the University of Utah…
January 22, 2020
I Am Human
ECE professor and department chair Florian Solzbacher joined filmmakers for a panel discussion following a screening of…
January 10, 2020
Furse Cover Story on Pony Express
ECE professor Cynthia Furse combined her love of horse riding and engineering to write a cover story for IEEE Antennas…
January 7, 2020
ECE Student to Present at MEMS 2020
ECE undergraduate student Sang Truong was selected to present his research at MEMS 2020, the 33rd IEEE International…
November 24, 2019
Yoon Receives Two Awards for Solar Cell Research
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Heayoung Yoon was recently selected to receive two $250,000…
October 24, 2019
Gaillardon to Receive CEDA Award
ECE associate professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon will receive the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award on…
October 8, 2019
Thin to Win
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering researchers have developed a new kind of optical lens that is…
September 30, 2019
Open Faculty Positions in ECE
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah seeks applications to fill multiple…
September 23, 2019
Mars Rover Lecture
Luis Velasco, NASA senior mechanical engineer for the Mars 2020 project, will be speaking on campus September 28.
August 29, 2019
Battle for Glory
Two College of Engineering graduate students battle for supremacy on the Discovery Channel robotics competition,…
July 30, 2019
ECE Student Wins Best Paper
ECE doctoral student Sourangsu Banerji was recently awarded one of three Best Paper awards in Imaging Systems and…
May 30, 2019
TA Application Open
The Fall 2019 ECE TA application will be open starting June 10th until Sunday, June 23rd at 11:59 p.m.
May 15, 2019
"You’ve got to have more engineers"
A story from Forbes explains Utah's success story in tech, thanks in part to the college feeding new engineers to the…
May 14, 2019
Reed Appointed to National Science Board
Daniel A. Reed, senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the U, has been selected to serve on the National Science…
May 9, 2019
Furse Receives Teaching Award
Professor Cynthia Furse was honored with the Distinguished Teaching Award during the 150th annual University of Utah…
May 1, 2019
2019 COE Convocation
Click here for information on this week's College of Engineering convocation, including parking, the schedule and…
April 19, 2019
ECE Distinguished Alumnus
Randal Sylvester, division chief technologist for L3 Technologies, Communications Systems West, was awarded electrical…
April 15, 2019
Solzbacher Students Win Bench to Bedside
Two University of Utah engineering students under electrical and computer engineering chair Florian Solzbacher are part…
April 12, 2019
Florian Solzbacher Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Sarang Joshi and Florian Solzbacher have each been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for…
April 3, 2019
Enhancing Power Supply Resilience to First Responders
Masood Parvania has received a three-year, $4.4 million research award to advance solar energy’s role in strengthening…
March 22, 2019
Restoring hearing loss
Electrical and computer engineering chair Florian Solzbacher is part of an international team developing new technology…
March 1, 2019
ECE Alum Honored with U Distinguished Alumni Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering alum Robert J. Grow received the U’s Distinguished Alumni……
February 22, 2019
Power and Energy Career Expo
The Utah Smart Energy Lab at the University of Utah's College of Engineering held its first ever Utah Power and Energy…
February 1, 2019
Protecting the Field of Dreams
U engineers received a $2.2-million grant to design and build small chemical sensors that can “sniff” out when a plant…
December 4, 2018
Full of Energy
Engineers have received a $1.88 million grant to research gallium oxide in the use of high-power systems.
September 26, 2018
Clear the Air
Engineers have conducted a study on the effects of heating and air conditioning systems cleaning air in the home.
September 5, 2018
Power Engineering Program Featured in IEEE Magazine
The ECE Power Engineering Program is Featured in the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine.
August 24, 2018
Picture This: Camera with No Lens
University of Utah electrical and computer engineers have discovered a way to create an optics-less camera.
August 24, 2018
John Bolke Wins Outstanding Staff Award
Congratulations to ECE's graduate coordinator John Bolke who won a College of Engineering Outstanding Staff Award!
July 31, 2018
ECE Assistant Professor is Remaking Electronics
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon was awarded close to $2 million for projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
May 22, 2018
Power to the People
Masood Parvania is building a laboratory to develop technology that would help communities get their power back online…
May 11, 2018
Brown Receives Rosenblatt Prize
COE Dean Richard B. Brown was honored with the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the U’s highest faculty accolade.
April 13, 2018
David Schurig and more COE Faculty Honored
The Career & Professional Development Center at the U honored ECE associate professor David Schurig with a Career…
April 11, 2018
Pershing Returns to the College of Engineering
David W. Pershing returns to the College of Engineering after six years as U president.
February 28, 2018
Parvania Receives Educator of the Year Award
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Masood Parvania received the 2018 Engineering Educator of the…
January 22, 2018
Ruth V. Watkins Named New U President
Ruth V. Watkins, senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the U, was named the 16th president of the University of…
January 11, 2018
Gaillardon Receives NSF CAREER Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon has received the…
December 4, 2017
Yuanrui Sang Receives Best Paper Award
Yuanrui Sang, a second-year Ph.D. student received the best paper award at the 2017 North American Power Symposium…
November 6, 2017
Lightning-fast Communications
A mineral discovered in Russia in the 1830s known as a perovskite holds a key to the next step in ultra-high-speed…
October 26, 2017
Gaillardon Wins Research Award
ECE Assistant Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon was recently awarded the 2016 Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Research…
October 26, 2017
Tom Becnel Nabs Prize in “TechTalks” Contest
Tom Becnel, a University of Utah electrical and computer engineering graduate, won a $200 prize in the “TechTalks”…
October 12, 2017
Chip translates thoughts into actions
ECE Professor Florian Solzbacher is part of a team developing a chip that will help paralyzed people translate their…
September 11, 2017
Lunch with an Engineer
The College of Engineering's "Lunch with an Engineer" series begins September 12. Darrol Fairbanks will be presenting…
August 23, 2017
2017 COE Staff/Teacher Awards
The COE teaching and service awards were handed out on August 18th. Congratulations to ECE accountant Bob Knudsen for…
August 16, 2017
ECE Engineers Receive Solar Technology Grant
University of Utah engineers have received an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a monitoring…
August 9, 2017
Parvania Awarded DOE Grant
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Masood Parvania has received a $449,891…
July 19, 2017
Holograms Taken to New Dimension
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and his team have discovered a way to create…
July 17, 2017
College Launches New Entrepreneurship Certificate
The College of Engineering has developed a new Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate to give engineering students…
June 16, 2017
Ken Muir Receives Alumnus Award
Ken W. Muir, a University of Utah alum and vice president of sales and business development for Micro Focus Software,…
May 5, 2017
Alec Down Wins Excellence in Advising Award
Congratulations to Alec Down, electrical and computer engineering’s undergraduate academic advisor, who is this year’s…
March 22, 2017
Piece of Mind
University of Utah engineers can take pictures of a mouse's brain with a surgical needle and laser light, a less…
March 13, 2017
Lawmakers Fund Engineering Initiative
The Utah Technology Council, joined by Utah’s high tech industry and the state’s eight engineering and computer science…
March 10, 2017
PhD Student Receives Competitive Grant
Konstantinos Oikonomou, a second-year PhD student at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)…
March 3, 2017
Utah's Need for Engineers
Utah’s tech sector continues to grow, and engineering colleges around the state are doing everything they can to meet…
February 28, 2017
ECE Online Master's Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering's online master's program is now taking applications for the fall 2017 semester.
January 31, 2017
Support for International Community
The University of Utah strongly supports the international members of our community and values their many contributions…
January 26, 2017
I Can See Clearly Now
A team led by ECE prof. Carlos Mastrangelo & doctoral student Nazmul Hasan developed "smart glasses" that automatically…
January 9, 2017
Cynthia Furse To Receive Governor's Medal
Cynthia Furse, associate vice president for research at the University of Utah and professor of electrical and computer…
January 4, 2017
ECE Faculty at CES 2017
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professors Carlos Mastrangelo and Cynthia Furse as well as…
January 3, 2017
High-Tech Hidden Messages From Everyday Products
Scientists at the University of Utah found that they could hide QR codes by using small rods printed with varying…
December 21, 2016
Jorgensen to Receive Distinguished Alumni Award
ECE Alumnus David Jorgensen will receive the University of Utah’s annual Distinguished Alumni Award during the…
December 8, 2016
Printing Hidden Images
Electrical and computer engineering professor Ajay Nahata and his team have devised a way to use printers to print…
November 30, 2016
Rebecca Novy Selected for Award
We are pleased to announce that ECE student Rebecca Novy has been selected to receive an award from the IEEE PES…
November 10, 2016
Now You See It, Now You Don't
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and his team have developed a…
October 27, 2016
A Complete Waste of Energy
Massood Tabib-Azar has come up with a way to produce microscopic electronic switches for appliances and devices that…
October 14, 2016
ECE Faculty Receive BRAIN Awards
Three faculty members from the University of Utah’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received grants from…
October 13, 2016
Harley gets Air Force Award
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research announced it is awarding more than $359,000 to University of Utah…
September 28, 2016
Open Faculty Positions in ECE
The Department seeks applications to fill multiple tenure-track positions at all levels. Candidates in all areas of…
September 2, 2016
Peng Wang Wins Innovation in Technology Competition
Peng Wang, a Ph.D. student in the ECE Department working with Prof. Rajesh Menon, will represent the University of Utah…
August 26, 2016
Nominations for EE Undergrad SAC
We are asking for nominations of EE undergraduate students willing to serve on the Undergraduate Student Advisory…
August 26, 2016
New Course: Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship
Gianluca Lazzi is teaching a new course named "Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship.” This is the first of the…
August 5, 2016
ECE Welcomes New Faculty
We would like to welcome two new faculty members who will strengthen the reputation and breadth of knowledge of our…
July 26, 2016
More Power To You
ECE assistant professor Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez has discovered that interfacing two particular oxide-based materials…
July 21, 2016
Lighting the Way
ECE Distinguished Professor Gerald Stringfellow has been awarded a top research prize for his work in the process for…
June 30, 2016
Legendary ECE Grad, Simon Ramo, Passes
University of Utah electrical engineering graduate and aerospace pioneer, Simon Ramo, passed away June 27.
June 28, 2016
Cynthia Furse Receives Pioneers of Progress Award
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering professor Cynthia Furse is this year’s recipient of the Days of…
June 16, 2016
Lighting the Way to Better Semiconductors
University of Utah associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Mike Scarpulla is researching a better…
June 10, 2016
Recipient of Leadership Award and College Convocation Speaker
Congratulations to Daniel Khoury for receiving the leadership award and speaking at the 2016 college convocation!
May 23, 2016
U Robot Team Wins Award
The Utah Mining Robotic Mining Project won the Innovation Award as well as third place overall in this year's NASA…
March 14, 2016
From the Navy to the U
Cory Boren qualified for the GI Bill that gives him a full-ride scholarship to earn his undergraduate degree in…
February 12, 2016
Flat, Ultrathin Camera Lens
Electrical and computer engineering professor Rajesh Menon and his team have created a new flat, thin camera lens that…
February 10, 2016
Faculty Honored by Career Services
Five faculty members from the University of Utah’s College of Engineering will be recognized by the university’s Career…
January 19, 2016
Engineering Club Rush
The newest Engineering Club Rush will be Jan. 21 in the WEB Catmull Gallery from noon to 3 p.m. More than 10 clubs will…
December 18, 2015
Arn Stolp Receives Professor Recognition Award
Arn Stolp, associate instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah, was…
December 17, 2015
Dean Brown Receives Prestigious Honors
Richard B. Brown, dean of the University of Utah’s College of Engineering, received two prestigious honors on the same…
October 29, 2015
Bright Idea for Lowlight Photography
University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Rajesh Menon has developed a new camera color filter…
October 14, 2015
Craig M. Jorgensen Student Lounge and Study Room
Thanks to the generous contribution of University of Utah engineering alumnus Brett Helm, electrical and computer…
September 29, 2015
Engineers Team Up For Pediatric Asthma Database
University of Utah College of Engineering faculty have teamed up with the colleges of nursing, mines and sciences, and…
September 18, 2015
ECE Welcomes New Faculty
The University of Utah’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering would like to welcome three new faculty…
September 18, 2015
Cynthia Furse Keynote on “Flipping” Classrooms
ECE professor Cynthia Furse delivers a keynote at an education conference on how to “flip” the classroom to give…
June 17, 2015
The Fall 2015 ECE TA Application is Now Live
It may be accessed at https://www.ece.utah.edu/TA. The application deadline is 11:59 pm on Tuesday, June 23, 2015.
June 9, 2015
Congratulations to Professor Hanseup Kim for Receiving an NSF Grant
The grant is for the project “A Bubble Gas Sensor for Quantitative Chemical Analysis.” The award of 368 K is for 3…
May 20, 2015
Computing At the Speed of Light
University of Utah engineers have developed a new beamsplitter for silicon photonics that could lead to computers…
May 12, 2015
Engineering Class of 2015 Video
Click for a video of the entire 2015 College of Engineering convocation, held Friday, May 8 at the Jon M. Huntsman…
April 23, 2015
“Transparent Conducting Oxide Active Plasmonics and Metasurfaces: Ultrasmall and Ultrathin Optics”
Monday, April 27th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 By Dr. Howard (Ho Wai) Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Thomas J.…
April 21, 2015
Meet an Inventor Night
U engineering graduate and inventor, Ross Mann, will be speaking about his passion for designing coin-operated machines…
April 17, 2015
“Nano-Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices”
Friday, April 24th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 By Dr. Heayoung Yoon, Research Associate, Center for…
April 10, 2015
“Light Extraction and Nanomaterials for III-Nitride Based White Light-Emitting Diodes”
Monday, April 20th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Peifen Zhu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of…
April 9, 2015
"Evolution of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Imaging for NDE Applications"
Friday, April 17th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Reza Zoughi, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in…
April 9, 2015
“Room Temperature Magnetometer Arrays for Brain Imaging in Behaving Animals and Humans”
Monday, April 13, 2015 from 3:05 - 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Massood Tabib-Azar, USTAR Professor, Electrical and…
April 9, 2015
U Student Receives Prestigious Fulbright Award
University of Utah graduate research assistant Precious Cantu was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to study in…
April 2, 2015
“Big Data Computational Imaging: Designing Instruments and Algorithms for Gigapixel Cameras and Real-time Millimeter-wave Radar”
Fri. April 10th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 By Dr. Daniel Marks, Associate Research Professor, Electrical…
March 30, 2015
“Networks, Networks, and Power System Blackouts”
Monday, April 6th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Hyde M. Merrill; retired independent consulting engineer…
March 30, 2015
"Nanosystems Design and Tools"
Mon. March 30th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Research Associate, Laboratory…
February 27, 2015
U Engineers Develop Filter for Next-Gen Terahertz Spectrum
University of Utah engineers have discovered a new approach for designing filters capable of separating different…
February 21, 2015
"Transparency and Data-Driven Operation in Smart Grids"
Friday, March 13th 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Reza Arghandeh, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of…
February 20, 2015
"Analysis of Sub-synchronous Resonance in Wind Farms Interfaced with Series Compensated Transmission Lines"
Mon. March 9th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Hossein Ali Mohammadpour, Postdoctoral Fellow, University…
February 17, 2015
"Sustainability as Principle, Practice, Driver and Culture"
Friday, March 6th, 2015 from 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. in SMBB 2650 By Dr. Linda P.B. Katehi, Chancellor of University of…
February 17, 2015
“Efficient and Resilient Operation of Modernized Distribution Grids”
Monday, March 2, 2015 at 3:05 p.m. in WEB 1230
February 12, 2015
Survey: Demand for Utah Engineers Skyrocketing
His company is having a hard time finding enough engineers to fill job openings because IM Flash is growing so rapidly.
February 10, 2015
“Deploying Distributed Flexibility for Power System Security Enhancement”
Fri. Feb. 27th, 2015 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. WEB 1230 Warnock Engineering Building University of Utah Dr. Masood Parvania,…
February 10, 2015
“Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials for Neural Interrogation”
Mon. Feb. 23, 2015; 3:05 – 3:55 p.m. SMBB 2650 Dr. Polina Anikeeva, Career Development Professor, Department of…
February 9, 2015
"Security-Aware Design for Real-Time Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems"
Friday, February 20 at 3:05 pm in WEB 1230 Chung-Wei Lin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical…
February 9, 2015
"Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design"
Friday, February 13 at 3:05 in WEB 1230 Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran is a PhD Candidate in the Electrical and Computer…
February 9, 2015
Utah Team Gets $1.4M for Bionic Hand Research
University of Utah researchers have received $1.4 million to further develop an implantable neural interface that will…
February 3, 2015
“See the Forest and the Trees: Innovations in Cyber-Physical Systems”
Monday, February 9, 2015 at 3:05 p.m. in WEB 1230
January 16, 2015
“High-Power Wind Energy Conversion Systems”
Friday, January 30, 2015 at 3:05 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Venkata Yaramasu, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of…
January 7, 2015
Former Engineering Professor, Robert J. Huber, passes.
Robert J. Huber clearly loved two things: molding young minds as a University of Utah electrical engineering professor…
January 7, 2015
"Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People with Disabilities"
Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3:05 pm in WEB 1230 Maysam Ghovanloo, Ph.D., from the GT-Bionics Lab in the School of…
January 1, 2015
“Macro Impacts with Micro Technologies: Toward Distributed Environmental Monitoring via Pervasive Electronics”
Monday, January 12, 2015 at 3:05 p.m. in WEB 1230 Dr. Hanseup Kim, USTAR Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer…
December 23, 2014
Cynthia Furse Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
December 22, 2014
Former ECE Lab Supervisor, Sherman Glen Holmes, passes.
He is survived by his sweetheart Carolyn and their children.
November 20, 2014
"Bionic Night at The Leonardo November 21"
October 20, 2014
Record Crowd at Engineering Day 2014
October 9, 2014
COMS 2014 Coming to Salt Lake City
October 7, 2014
U Engineers Come Up with Bright Ideas for Solar Panels
October 2, 2014
Engineering Day at the University of Utah
October 1, 2014
Faculty Openings
September 12, 2014
U of U IEEE Student Chapter Wins Awards
August 15, 2014
Team Designs New 3D Microscope for Your Brain
January 23, 2014