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Faculty member receives IEEE 2010 Microwave Career Award

Dr. Arye Rosen, Academy Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Microwave Career Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).  This award honors an individual for a career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution in the field of microwaves.  MTT-S is one of the oldest, largest and highly respect societies of IEEE.

Dr. Rosen has been interacting with Drexel faculty and students for the past thirty-five years; he is a proud alumnus of the Electrical Engineering doctoral program and has been a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty as an Academic Professor for the past ten years.  He has been involved with the Center for Microwave-Lightwave Engineering (CMLE) for nearly three decades.  Including the current award, Dr. Rosen and his colleagues in the CMLE together have earned and received every honor possible in the field of microwaves in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.

The 2010 Microwave Career Award will be conferred at the annual Society Awards Banquet to be held during the International Microwave Symposium the week of May 23 to 28, 2010 in Anaheim, California.

Posted March 9, 2010.

Drexel awarded new NSF GK-12 Award worth $2.9M

Drs. Adam Fontecchio (PI), Eli Fromm (Co-PI) and Youngmoo Kim (Co-PI) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department along wih Dr. Anthony Lowman (Co-PI), Assistant Dean of Engineering, and Mary Jo Grdina (Co-PI) of the School of Education have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant entitled "Catalyzing STEM Education via the NAE Engineering Grand Challenges."  The budget for this five-year project, funded through the NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program, is $2,915,695.

The GK-12 grant will support the pairing of Drexel University graduate students with local high school teachers through academic fellowship to enhance the math and science education of high school students through the context of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges while concurrently illustrating the global nature of these societal issues.  The high school students and K-12 teachers will gain an appreciation for the science and mathematics concepts in an applied, real world context.  Concurrently, K-12 Fellows will become knowledgeable in pedagogy through direct application of their technical/scientific expertise in the context of the classroom setting, interaction with the teacher and mentoring students.

Posted March 5, 2010.

ECE Alumni Panel February 19

In celebration of National Engineers Week, the Electrical and Computer Engineering department will host two distinguished alumni on Friday, February 19 from 2:00-3:00pm for a panel discussion about their journey from Drexel University to their current leadership positions in industry.  The event will be held in room 302 of the Bossone Research Enterprise Center located at 3120-40 Market Street.

Melvin Garner (pictured right) graduated from Drexel in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He went on to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering from New York University as well as a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.  Mr. Garner is currently a Principal Lawyer at Darby & Darby.

Dennis Link (pictured below) graduated in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and earned his MBA in 1970 from Drexel University.  He is the President of Karden Construction Services, Inc. and serves as a member on the Drexel College of Engineering Advisory Council and as an adjunct professor in Drexel’s Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics department.

Please, join us for refreshments and this engaging talk with graduates of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. 

For more information, please contact Jessica Ward, ECE Program Manager, at jward@ece.drexel.edu or 215-895-6918.

Posted February 15, 2010.  

ECE faculty member receives Department of Energy grant

Dr. Adam Fontecchio has received a new Department of Energy STTR Phase 2 grant for $750,000 entitled "H-PDLC Tunable Filter for Hyperspectral Imaging.".  The Drexel portion of the 2 year project budget is $375,000.

Working with an industrial collaborator, Optra Inc. of Topsfield, Massachusetts, this project will develop an extremely fast spectrally tunable filter for remote surveillance applications such as airborne detection of activities associated with the production of weapons of mass destruction.  When such a tunable filter is used in concert with imaging optics and a focal plane array, the result is a high speed hyperspectral imager that enables advanced detection and identification capabilities over basic imaging systems.  A key attribute for this project is the ability to rapidly tune between the visible spectal bands to support hyperspectral imaging from a moving platform such as an aircraft.

Posted December 8, 2009.

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