Professor David Ebert has been appointed the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He performs research in novel visualization techniques; visual analytics; volume rendering; information visualization; perceptually based visualization; illustrative visualization; mobile graphics and visualization; and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data.

Professors Joerg Appenzeller, Anand Raghunathan, Timothy Sands, and Vladimir Shalaev have been elevated to IEEE Fellows effective January 1, 2010.

The IEEE Board of Directors has appointed Professor Lee to the 2010 Fellow Committee. The term is from January 1 - December 31, 2010.

The ECE Ambassador program was launched last fall to provide a core group of students who could interact with prospective students, families, alumni, and industry visitors.

Professor Peide Ye, leading other Purdue researchers, is making progress in developing a new type of transistor that enables engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips.

The new center, called Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments, or VACCINE, is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and headed by ECE Professor David Ebert

Professors Charles Bouman, James Cooper, Saeed Mohammadi, and Kaushik Roy were issued patents during the 2008-09 fiscal year.

Leslie Geddes, a Purdue University distinguished professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, died on Sunday (Oct. 25). He was 88. The Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, Geddes created innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators and ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants.

Forty-nine of the nation's brightest young engineering researchers and educators have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's symposium. It will be held November 15-18, 2009 in Herndon, Virginia.

His poster is titled "Designing Coded Feedback for Network
Coding Based Opportunistic Routing" and was co-authored with Prof. Chih-Chun Wang and Prof. Y. Charlie Hu