Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Recipients are selected by colleagues and a panel of senior and distinguished professors for their accelerated path toward academic distinction.

The student team from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers is once again national champions after winning the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Saturday (April 12) in Columbus, Ohio. The ECE students are Adam Bahrainwala and Ben Hilker.

He was selected from a group of 30 nominees in a wide variety of disciplines. The goal of the award program is to recognize Purdue University graduate faculty for their outstanding mentoring of graduate students on campus.

The paper is titled "Nanotextured Superhydrophobic Electrodes enable Detection of Attomolar-scale DNA Concentration within a Droplet by Non-Faradaic Impedance Spectroscopy". She is advised by Professor Ashraful Alam.

Two ECE faculty were promoted to Associate Professor, Niklas Elmqvist and Brent Jesiek. The promotions are effective with the 2014-2015 academic year.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. Stephen is advised by Professor David Love.

The Seng-Liang Wang Hall, a $38 million Purdue University building on Northwestern Avenue, will open in August.

The selection committee commended Saad on his high-quality proposal titled "Linear (Optimal) Complexity Direct Volume Integral Equation Solvers for Large-Scale Electromagnetic Analysis." He is advised by Professor Dan Jiao.