Announcements 2005

• Dr. Jose Principe was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institte for Medical and Biological Engineering, December 8, 2005
• Robert Stengel (BSEE, 1976) receives Motorola's Patent of the Year award for 2005. 
• Drs. Eisenstadt and Fox received SRC Inventor Recognition Awards for 2005
• Discovery Channel filmed SubjuGator on October 21, 2005 for an upcoming program. To view the video of the program, click here.
• Yao Xie (one of Dr. Jian Li's graduate students) was awarded 1st Place in the Best Paper Contest at the 2005 Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers held in Pacific Grove, California, for her work on breast cancer detection 
• SubjuGator team wins first place at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego, August 3-7, 2005
• IEEE Gainesville Section to receive 2004 RAB Section Membership Growth Award for their success for Outstanding Leadership and Results in IEEE Membership Development Activities for Region 3.
• Intel Corporation to donate computer in support of Dr. Bashirullah's project on Integrated Power Converters
• The Department welcomes Dr. David Arnold to the faculty.
• Dr. Principe to receive the 2005 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Career Service Award at the 27th International Conference of the EMBS on September 2, 2005 in Shanghai, China for his outstanding contribution and achievement in the field of Biomedical Engineering
• Dr. Principe received laurea ad Honoris Causa in Ingegneria Elettronica from Universita degli Studi di Reggio Calabria Mediterranea on June 24, 2005
• Congratulations to Dr. Slatton and his wife on the birth of their son, Ryan Phillip Slatton, born on May 25th.
• 2005 Poster Session winners announced.
• Congratulations to Dr. Liuqing Yang on being named the winner of the University of Minnesota Graduate School's Best Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences and Engineering in 2005.
• Richard C. Jaeger received Distinguished Career Achievement Award at HKN Spring 2005 Banquet
• Dr. H. K. Lim, CTO of Samsung and ECE PhD graduate, to receive College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award at Spring 2005 commencement. He will be presenting a seminar on Thursday, April 28 in 239 LAR.
• Erin Patrick selected as a winner of a 2005 University Women's Club Scholarship for Graduate Students.
• Lindsi Gassi won an SRC Master's Scholarship funded by Intel. Dr. Thompson and Dr. Law are Lindsi's faculty advisors.
• ECE Undergraduate Erin Taylor is awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. Ms. Taylor was accepted to the ACIS graduate program.
• Adam Knight, Edwin Fuguen, Eric Dattoli, and Jessica McDaniel are the winners of the Sias Undergraduate Writing Contest.
• Congratulations to Dr. & Mrs. John Shea on the birth of their son -- Tucker Hennessy Shea. Tucker was born on Thursday, April 21st.
• Department unveils Sias Undergraduate Writing Contest. Essays are due January 31, 2005.