Zach Vander Missen, phD student in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won 1st place in the student paper competition at the 2020/2021 IEEE WAMICON conference.

Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is recognizing the efforts of undergraduate students who help out in all facets of departmental life, with annual ECE Undergrad Excellence Awards.

A Purdue ECE professor has been named a University Faculty Scholar (UFS). Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu is among six faculty members university-wide to be recognized for their outstanding performance.

For the second straight year, Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been chosen to receive a Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA). The QFA supports key professors and their research through a $75,000 charitable donation to their university.

A company led by a Purdue ECE alumnus has been chosen to conduct research for DARPA’s Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program. Steven Cuppy (BSEE ’85, MSEE ’86) is a principal of Indiana Microelectronics, LLC, in West Lafayette. A start-up building on cutting-edge research in applied electromagnetics and advanced packaging materials, Indiana Microelectronics designs and produces tunable microwave filters for co-site interference and jamming mitigation.

Santokh S. Badesha, Adjunct Professor for Innovation for Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named an Honorary Member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). This is the highest honor awarded by the society to one person each year.

Two professors from Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have received a $1.5-million, three-year grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The project involving Christopher Brinton, assistant professor of ECE, and David J. Love, the Nick Trbovich Professor of ECE, is titled “Network-Aware Distributed Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion for Spectrum System Intelligence.” Brinton is the PI on the project, which also includes collaborators at the University of Kansas.

Four professors from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are recipients of 2021 Faculty Excellence Awards from Purdue University’s College of Engineering. The awards recognize, encourage and promote outstanding contributions of faculty within the College and Purdue.

Generous financial and entrepreneurial support from Intel and from College of Engineering alumni is powering a College-led initiative to develop and bring to market robotic and related technologies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and potentially other diseases.

Since launching in September 2020, the Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) hasn’t let the COVID-19 pandemic hamper its goals.