IV. Awards Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Awards
Premier Research Award
Stuart Yin Outstanding Research Award
Aylin Yener Faculty Promotions
Professor
Constantino Lagoa
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Aylin Yener 25 Year Award
Anna Kennedy
Iam-Choon Khoo
Jerzy Ruzyllo College of Engineering Awards
Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award
Vytas Pazemenas
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Department Activities
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Instructional Laboratory upgrades
For 2010 the Electrical Engineering Lab Committee upgraded equipment in the new Microwave Lab in room 329 EE East.
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Christopher Raspanti Memorial Digital Signal Processing Lab Dedication
This instructional lab, located in 204 EE West, was formally dedicated on May 21. Chris passed away unexpectedly in 2005 while a student at Penn State. After his death, Chris’ family established a memorial fund to purchase equipment for the lab in his memory. New computers, digital signal processing boards, function generators and software were purchased with the donations.
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Research Experience for Undergraduates
The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded program which supports active research participation by undergraduate students who come to Penn State from other universities. 2010 marks the eighth year for the program at Penn State.
The 2010 participates are listed along with their major, university, research topic, and faculty mentor.
Heather Graffius
Physics and Engineering, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Equivalence Principle Applied to Modeling of Thunderstorm Charge Configuration
Victor Pasko
Julie Georgiev
Electrical Engineering, Alfred University
Integrating Pressure Measurements into Wireless Sensor Systems
Sven Bilén
Charles Perkins
Electrical Engineering, Norfolk State University
The Characterization of RF Antennas for Beamed Power
Sven Bilén
Emmanuel Carpena
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidad de Turabo, Puerto Rico
Comparative Analysis of Silicon Cantilever and Micromachined Quartz Gravimetric Sensor
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Jonathan Ore
Electrical Engineering, Penn State
VHF/UHF Radar Meteors at Arecibo: The Usual Suspects and Some Bolides
John Mathews
Miloud Id Elhaj
Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University
Robust Video Hashing Using The Three Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform
Vishal Monga
Carnell Hunter
Electrical and Computer Engineering, VA Commonwealth University
An Inventory Size Feasibility Study for Fast Algorithm Analysis-Synthesis Based Speech Enhancement
Kenneth Jenkins and Robert Nikel
Seonwoo Lee
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Nonlinear Optical Limiting in Fiber Array with L34
Iam-Choon Khoo
Cameron Patterson
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama
Electrical Characterization of Conducting Materials at Microwave Frequencies
Mike Lanagan
James McDonald
Electrical Engineering, Penn State
Computation of Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanche Rates Using Full Energy Range Monte Carlo Models
Victor Pasko
Michael Scruggs
Physics and Engineering, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Determining Conversion Gain in A Marginal Oscillator using Numerical Solutions
Jeffrey Schiano
Matthew Chang
Electrical Engineering, Penn State
Measuring The Thermoelectric Power of Nanomaterials on A Micromachined Workbench
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Reinaldo Mulero
Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Puerto Rico
Study of The Possible Effect of The Signal Processing in The Meteor-Head Database from Jicamarca Radio Observatory
Julio Urbina
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Industrial and Professional Advisory Council (IPAC)
IPAC is a select group of Penn State alumni from industry, government agencies, and academia who advise the department on academic issues and on current trends and future directions in engineering. The group met in March on the Penn State campus and had discussions with faculty and students. A report was prepared outlining their recommendations for the department.
IPAC members are listed with their companies.
John Croteau, NXP Semiconductors
John Golombeck, Northrop Grumman
Dale Hoffman, retired U.S. Navy civilian
Forrest Hunsberger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Leslie Melaragno, Rockwell Automation
David Newman, retired
Richard Pieper, Henkels & McCoy
Thomas Roell, Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group
Douglas Schultz, Key North, LLC
Edward Singel, retired
Scott Thompson, Oberon Inc.
Joseph Trench, Lockheed Martin
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Arthur H. Waynick Memorial Lecture
David R. Smith, William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and director for the Center of Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics was the 2010 Waynick speaker on April 30. His research group studies all aspects of plasmonic structures, including plasmon nanoparticles as a platform for biological and biomedical diagnostics, as well as integrated plasmonic components as chip-scale nanophotonic devices for information processing.
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Mentoring Program
2010 was the inaugural year of the department mentoring program with a group of 85 mentor/student pairs. The program kicked off in the fall at the Society of Penn State Electrical Engineers (SPSEE) meeting in October.
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Sabbatical
Summer and Fall 2010
Kenji Uchino, Office of Naval Research Global – Asia in the Tokyo office
Spring 2010
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, sponsored by the European Union
Fall 2010
John Doherty, research collaborations with Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State
Zhiwen Liu, research collaborations with Duke University, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, Washington University, and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland
Qiming Zhang, research collaboration with University of California at Berkeley, Tsinghua University in China and Hershey Medical School
Early Career Recognition Alumni Award
SPSEE and the Department of Electrical Engineering presented the inaugural Early Career Recognition Alumni Award to Paul Mittan. Mittan received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2004 and works for Lockheed Martin. -
Retirements
Bernard (Bernie) Ropchock, stockroom equipment technician
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