We had a very successful ECE Capstone EXPO yesterday with a record number of 71 teams (274 students). A panel of 60 judges from industry and academia joined us to select the top 10 projects. In addition, three special awards (best in research, best in impact, and best in commercialization) and three Galbiati Entrepreneurial awards were selected by the judges.
News
April 2023
April 26, 2023
ECE Distinguished Professor Athina Petropulu received a new grant from the Army Research Office for a project entitled "Dual Function Radar Communication Systems for Efficient and Secure Spectrum Utilization". This is a 3-year project and was funded at $480K.
April 25, 2023
The Board of Governors has approved Dr. Sheng Wei's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2023. Congratulations on this well deserved accomplishment, Sheng!
We look forward to your continued success and contributions to the department, SoE and the university.
April 12, 2023
Dr. Athina Petropulu is part of a team that has been selected to receive the Stephen O. Rice Prize of the IEEE Communications Society for the paper, "Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3834-3862, June 2020.
The award will be presented at the Awards ceremony on 29 May at ICC 2023 in Rome, Italy.
More information on the paper can be found below.
April 5, 2023
The Rutgers University Office for Research announced March 30 it is executing an exclusive license with Steg.AI, a startup based on artificial intelligence that was developed at Rutgers and founded by double graduate Eric Wengrowski and School of Engineering professor Kristin Dana.
March 2023
March 28, 2023
ECE Assistant Professor Umer Hassan has received an Advanced Biomanufacturing (ABioM) 2023 Junior Investigator Research Award. The Research award recognizes the junior investigators who have made significant research contributions to the field and have built a successful career in advanced biomanufacturing. The Research award was presented to Dr. Hassan at Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Advanced Biomanufacturing (ABioM) special interest group’s (SIG) 2023 meeting in Hyattsville, MD.
March 23, 2023
The ECE Department at Rutgers University is the recipient of the 2023 Scholarship Award, a $5,000.00 gift from the 7x24 Exchange Metro NY Chapter, for its participation in the 2023 University Challenge Competition, a special event meant to create awareness about Datacenter/Mission Critical Industry and to inspire the next generation of talent in this area. The NY Chapter promotes the sharing of experiences and facilitates a better understanding of the design, implementation, and management issues involved in achieving high levels of uninterrupted infrastructure support.&
March 13, 2023
Electrical and computer engineering chair Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is the recent recipient of a prestigious N2Women Stars Award in Networking and Communication that honors her cutting-edge research outcomes in edge computing and mobile sensing.
March 9, 2023
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Mehdi Javanmard, an associate professor in the School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a senior member. He is one of 95 of the foremost emerging academic inventors identified by NAI’s member institutions to be welcomed to the 2023 class of senior members.
March 1, 2023
A team of 12 Rutgers Security Club students made up of eight competition members and four alternates bettered 32 teams in February’s virtual Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC) qualifiers.