Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has been selected as a recipient of the Cadence Design Systems University Software program. The package supports teaching and research applications. Several engineering professors are utilizing the software in their research and classes, including: professor R. Jacob Baker for design of SiGe…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Pushkin Kachroo (Electrical and Computer Engineering), along with two past doctoral students, Orie Berezan, who earned a doctoral degree from the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration and is now a faculty member at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and…

Undergraduate and graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering program participated in the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing held in Las Vegas Dec. 14-16. Students who were part of presenting four papers included: Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi (PhD), B. Morris: ” Vision-based Vehicle Counting with High…

R. Jacob Baker (Electrical and Computer Engineering) traveled to Ireland to deliver a lecture series for the Microelectronics Industry Design Association (MIDAS) of Ireland. This was his third time taking part in the MIDAS undergraduate integrated circuit design festival, which was held at Dublin City University and attended by university students…

Jacob Baker (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was one of the speakers in the Tour on Integrated Circuits. He is one of only 18 speakers worldwide in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Solid State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer Program. In September, he delivered two lectures, "Low-Power, High-Bandwidth, and Ultra-…

R. Jacob Baker (Electrical and Computer Engineering) has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to the design of memory integrated circuits, which have resulted in more than 100 U.S. patents on billions of dollars' worth of memory chips that are used by millions…