Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD

Congratulations Graduates! Your hard work has paid off and it’s now time to celebrate your achievements! No matter where life takes you, remember, all roads lead back to Maryland! We can’t wait to celebrate with you! GO TERPS!

Alumnus Chance Glenn to Receive the EarthLight Foundation and New Worlds Institute’s “Permission to Dream Award.” Award ⁠
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According to the press announcement, Glenn is being recognized for his “long and important work supporting STEM education and workforce development, as well as for inspiring and enabling new generations to reach for the stars.” ⁠
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The award is being given for both his personal example, his work in university systems and his creation of the MorningBird Foundation which is ‘focused on promoting science, technology, engineering, math, (STEM) to underserved and underrepresented populations.’⁠
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Read more at the news link in our bio.⁠
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Be sure to stop back tomorrow for an Instagram with junior Computer Engineering student Valeria Jovel ( – she/her/hers)! ⁠
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She'll be sharing some of her story and experiences .⁠
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Computer engineering students Mia NdousseFetter and Mary Redpath were selected among 200 applicants to participate in Break Through Tech DC at UMD's 2022 Sprinternship™ program. Mia has been placed with University of Maryland Dining, and Mary is with Goodshuffle.

Dana Wiggins (computer engineering, '20) has co-founded a marketplace mobile application called Seize The App, a startup that connects people to photo takers at picturesque spots. Her team plans to launch Seize this Spring. Learn more: http://go.umd.edu/seize

Alumna Dana Wiggins’ Startup Seize Named to Techstars Seattle’s 13th Cohort Seize The App, lanuching this Spring, is a marketplace mobile application that connects people to phototakers at picturesque spots.

Next Tuesday, Michael Kaczmarek, Vice President of Product Management at Neustar, will discuss the Domain Name System (DNS), the value of this data, and the considerations that have come into play when leveraging it to develop new products and services. The event will be held on Zoom and all are welcome to attend: https://ece.umd.edu/event/16812/ieee-leadership-seminar-privacy-considerations-when-developing-and-launching-products

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has selected Craig Lawrence, Johannes Thorsteinsson, Kemal Sonmez, and Heather Zheng as 2021 Distinguished Alumni for their leadership and meritorious contributions to the field of engineering, their humanitarian efforts, and the application of their engineering education to other disciplines. https://ece.umd.edu/news/story/ece-names-2021-distinguished-alumni

Meet some of the Maryland engineers at the forefront of disaster resilience in the face of a changing climate: eng.umd.edu/disaster-pending

The ECE Department is now accepting applications for Spring Undergraduate Teaching Fellows (UTFs). UTFs lead labs and/or discussion sections for many 100-and 200-level ENEE courses. The deadline to apply is December 13th, 2021. Link to apply: http://TER.PS/UTF22.

Tomorrow (Nov. 5) University of Maryland Prof. William Regli will discuss the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS): the University of Maryland's center for interdisciplinary and applied research across social science and in service to the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The event will be held in room 1110 of the Kim Engineering Building.

We are looking forward to ECE Alumnus Sanjay Varma's UMD IEEE Leadership Seminar this Thursday, October 21. He will be discussing his work in biological imaging, structural biology, and experimental plasma physics, and about his current role at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - NRL. All are welcome to attend: https://go.umd.edu/varma.

Congratulations to Professor Wu on this well-deserved position! https://ece.umd.edu/news/story/min-wu-elected-president-of-ieee-signal-processing-society

Min Wu Elected President of IEEE Signal Processing Society Wu will begin serving as IEEE SPS President on January 1, 2024.

The Fall ECE is just three days away, and the list of companies is still growing! All ECE students are encouraged to attend the fair. It will be held in the Kim Engineering Building and Clark Hall. Students will have the chance to network with representatives from a variety of companies. Dress professionally and bring copies of your resume.
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Welcome to the Clark School, Dean Graham!

When an innovator wanted to engineer a more advanced and equitable society, he chose a research and education powerhouse with global impact, and came to Maryland. Welcome, Samuel Graham, Jr., Dean of Maryland Engineering.

Read more: go.umd.edu/welcome-dean

The ECE community mourns the loss of ECE Alumnus John William Fritz '17, who passed away in June 2020 at just 25 years old due to complications of a rare heart condition. John’s family and friends are “Rocking on for John” by participating in The Greater Maryland Heart Walk this Oct. Read more about John and the Walk here: https://go.umd.edu/jfritz

Congratulations to ECE Professor and Quantum Technology Center (QTC) Associate Director Edo Waks on his team's Phase 2 Convergence Accelerator award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The team is developing hardware to transform the internet into a internet, which is essential for connecting a rapidly expanding network of quantum computers. Other team members include UMD Physics Professor and QTC Fellow Norbert Linke, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Executive Director and UMD Division of IT Assistant Vice President/CTO Tripti Sinha, MIT Professor Dirk Englund, and University of Arizona Professor Saikat Guha. https://go.umd.edu/ptwo

Northrop Grumman Corporation Mission Systems is hosting a 2021 Radar Seminar Series and Student Challenge on Multiple Maritime Target Optical Tracking. Both opportunities are open to all current A. James Clark School of Engineering undergraduate students. Visit https://mtech.umd.edu/ng/activities.html to register.

Maryland Engineering is ranked #12 among the country’s public engineering schools in U.S. News and World Report's 2022 rankings of Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. We also rose to #21 from #22 in the overall rankings.

Read about the rankings: https://go.umd.edu/usn22

Congratulations to ECE Professors Edo Waks, Ronald Walsworth, and Mohammad Hafezi for leading UMD's efforts in the new Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

A $25M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD). IMOD will develop new classes of the optoelectronic materials, devices, and systems that generate, sense, and control light and are important to modern information-technology society.

Learn more: https://go.umd.edu/imod

Today, UMD welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to A. James Clark Hall to tour our state-of-the-art Advanced Fabrication Lab and deliver remarks on the importance of investing in infrastructure. Tune in at 2pm for the live stream: state.gov

The Banas Family gives A. James Clark School of Engineering Keystone Program $25K in honor of their daughter, Casey (computer engineering, '21). The gift will modernize the Program's first and second-year makerspaces and will support their undergraduate teaching fellow program. https://ece.umd.edu/news/story/banas-family-provides-support-for-future-engineers-in-the-keystone-program

https://ece.umd.edu/news/story/ece-alumnus-vishal-patel-wins-2021-early-career-award

ECE Alumnus Vishal Patel Wins 2021 Early CAREER Award Patel is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.

Welcome to UMD, Dr. Samuel Graham, Jr.!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Samuel Graham, Jr. will serve as the new dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering beginning in October! Dr. Graham will join us from Georgia Tech, where he serves as professor and Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Read more: go.umd.edu/graham

Exciting news! UMD, UMBC, and ARL announce $68M cooperative agreement led by UMD researchers, including ECE Distinguished University Professor Dinesh Manocha and ECE Affiliate Professor Derek Paley.

Accelerating AI and autonomy in complex environments: University of Maryland; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory announce $68M cooperative agreement led by UMD engineers.

Read more: https://go.umd.edu/arlai

Computer engineering senior Neehar Peri has been selected as one of Maryland's 'Undergraduate Researchers of the Year' for 2021. He was nominated by Department of Computer Science, UMD Asst. Prof. John Dickerson. https://ece.umd.edu/news/story/neehar-peri-named-a-maryland-undergraduate-researcher-of-the-year

Neehar Peri named a Maryland 'Undergraduate Researcher of the Year' This fall, Neehar will be attending Carnegie Mellon University to pursue his PhD in Robotics.

-- Researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMD demonstrate that photons in a vacuum can have orbital angular momentum vectors pointing sideways - a development that negates the expectation that OAM vectors can only point forward or backward.

Posted in - http://ow.ly/SnKg50EyHE1

Current ECE students: Apply to be an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow! The opportunity is restricted to ECE Undergraduate Students, and the deadline is May 5th, 2021. Link: http://ter.ps/UTF21.

At last night's Innovate Maryland event, President Pines announced the University of Maryland's new business development arm to nurture quantum-focused startups — the Quantum Startup Foundry.

Read more: https://go.umd.edu/qsf21

From clean energy and better batteries to advances in human health and human–computer interaction, the Clark School's 2021 Invention of the Year award nominees span the range of engineering research and entrepreneurship. Four of UMD's nine nominees are led by or include Clark School researchers. Winners will be announced at tonight's Innovate Maryland event.

Learn more and RSVP: https://go.umd.edu/iyim