Announcements 2008

• The Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Sao Luis do Maranhao, Brazil, bestowed the degree of "Doutor Honoris Causa", to Dr. Jose C. Principe, for his contributions to academic excellence, neuroengineering research and its clinical impact.
• IEEE Student Chapter performs well at SoutheastCon 2008.  For more on this story, click here.
• Dr. Ken O and the engineers of Texas Instruments have crafted the world's highest frequency circuit made with a common type of semiconductor transistor, a step that could slash the price of detectors useful in medicine, environmental monitoring and military applications.  The breakthrough was presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 5, 2008. For more on this story, click here.
• The Office of Naval Research has just announced that Dr. Dapeng Wu was chosen as one of the 2008 Young Investigator award recipients for his proposal, "Delay-Assured Ad Hoc Networking,"  For more on this story, click here.
• Changzhi Li, Ph.D. student, and Gabriel Reyes, a pre-graduate student, were chose to receive the 2008 IEEE MITT-S Fellowship Award. The awards will be presented at the society's annual conference in June 2008. Bot students are under the direction of Dr. Jenshan Lin.
• IEEE Student Chapter wins second place in the IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition for Undergraduates. For more on this story, click here.  To go directly to the video, click here.
• Dr. Jenshan Lin and other researchers have built and successfully tested a pad that can charge cell phones, PDAs, laptops and other electronic devices via wireless technology. Rather than plug in the electronics to different cords and outlets, users simply place them anywhere atop the flat, thin pad, where they begin charging automatically. For more on this story, click here
• Dr. Ken O and the engineers of Texas Instruments have crafted the world's highest frequency circuit made with a common type of semiconductor transistor, a step that could slash the price of detectors useful in medicine, environmental monitoring and military applications.  The breakthrough was presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 5, 2008. For more on this story, click here.
• Retired professor Dr. Rudolf E. Kalman has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to receive the 2008 Charles Stark Draper Prize "for the development and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products, January 2, 2008.
• Dr. Clint Slatton was named a 2006 wnner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Sciences and Engineers (PECASE).  The award ceremony took place on November 1, 2007 in Washington, D.C..  This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.