Professor Sanjay Rao has been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant for his project "CAREER: Towards Automated and Assurable Enterprise Network Migration" in the amount of $80,000 per year for five years.

Professor Dimitrios Peroulis has won the 2010 Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award. The award recognizes the role of college professors in educating and motivating future electrical and computer engineers.

A new approach developed by Professor Jason Clark could lead to miniature insectlike robots using solid-state "muscles" that would have significantly better dexterity than previous microscale robots.

The Beta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu has received the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2008-2009. The award is a mark of great distinction for college chapters, which are judged on their activities of service to others.

Frank Greene, a technology pioneer and 1999 OECE award recipient, died December 26 in Mountain View, California at the age of 71. He completed his master's degree at Purdue in 1962.

Professor Babak Ziaie and his researchers have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells, and miniature speakers.

Professor Vladimir Shalaev has won the 2010 Willis E. Lamb Award for his pioneering studies of optical metamaterials and plasmonic nanostructures. The award honors Willis E. Lamb, Jr., famous laser scientist and 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics.

The 2009 ECE & ECN Service Recognition Luncheon was held December 18 at the Trails in Lafayette. Staff were recognized for their service and gifts were given by spinning the "ECE Wheel of Fortune". Gifts were donated by ECE supervisors.

Professor Mark Lundstrom is the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Aldert van der Ziel Award. The award recognizes "a distinguished career in education and research."

"Super Tetris" extends the popular Tetris game by adding pieces of 5, 6, or 7 squares. Groups of students pass qualification, group elimination, semifinals, and the final match. They learn how to create graphical user interfaces, use TCP sockets to communicate, and develop strategies to win.