President Jonathan Holloway has announced that Associate Professor Chung-Tse Michael Wu  has been selected to receive a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence as one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members. This award is bestowed in recognition of Michael's  outstanding scholarly accomplishments in his years at Rutgers, as documented in the evaluation that has led to his recent promotion to Associate Professor. The fellowship carries with it a grant of $1000 from the Trustees to assist his academic efforts in the coming year. The award will be presented to Michael at a reception to be held at the President’s Tent located on College Avenue Campus on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

This is a wonderful recognition of Michael's scholarly achievements. It is also a matter of great pride for the ECE department and the second such recognition of a young faculty member's scholarhsip in ECE in the past two years. Dr. Anand Sarwate was a recipient of this honor in 2020.

We are happy to announce that the Board of Governors has approved Dr. Waheed Bajwa’s  promotion to Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2022.  Congratulations on this well deserved accomplishment Waheed!

We look forward to your continued success!

Recently, the Rutgers IEEE VEXU robotics team competed in Fairmont, West Virginia, and Salisbury, Maryland. The team earned both the Judges’ Award as well as the Design Award for excellent performance both in the competitions and in the design process. After becoming a finalist in the Salisbury competition and earning 2nd place in the Skills Competition, the team earned a spot in the 2022 VEXU World Championship held in Dallas, Texas.