ECE News Archive
Drexel ECE Professor Appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
At the IEEE Meeting Series in Louisville, KY held during the week of February 11, it was announced that Dr. Athina Petropulu, of the ECE department, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
The IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing is one of the most respected and cited publications in its field. It has the fourth highest impact factor in the very large group of "publications in Systems and Control," and it is considered the premier journal in its field. It covers theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques. The "signals" that the journal addresses include audio, video, speech, image, communication, geophysical, sonar, radar, medical, and musical signals. The Editor in Chief of an IEEE Transactions is the highest authority on the publication. This is a responsible and prestigious assignment reserved to individuals whose scholarship and judgment are considered the best that the sponsoring society (in this case the IEEE Signal Processing Society) can offer.
Posted on March 15, 2008.
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein Joins the Board of Directors of ABET, Representing IEEE
At the closing of the November 2007 meeting of ABET Inc. in Lake Tahoe, NV, Dr. Bruce Eisenstein, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has joined the Board of Directors of ABET as Director Representative of IEEE. The Board of Directors is the highest governing body of ABET.
ABET is a non-governmental accrediting agency for US college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. It is a federation of about 30 professional and technical societies representing these fields that had just celebrated its 75th anniversary. ABET currently accredits some 2,500 programs at over 550 colleges and universities nationwide. Over 1,500 volunteers participate annually in ABET-related activities.
Posted on February 28, 2008.
Graduate Research Fellowship Awarded
Novel Power Generation Methods Examined
Dr. Adam Fontecchio's graduate advisee, David Delaine, has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Mr. Delaine was a NSF Bridges to the Doctorate fellow in his first year of graduate study at Drexel University and completed his undergraduate degree at Northeastern University where he was a recipient of the Robert J. Bunche Scholarship. Dr. Fontecchio's and Mr. Delaine's research will explore the fundamental science and engineering of novel methods of power generation using Stirling engine configurations and radiometric phenomena to develop power-producing, micro-electromechanical systems.
Posted on January 15, 2008.
NSF Honorable Mention
Elaine Garbarine, a first-year graduate student working at the time of application with Dr. Athina Petropulu and currently being advised by Dr. Gail Rosen, received an NSF GRFP honorable mention.
Posted on January 12, 2008.
Nanotechnology
Drs. Adam Fontecchio, Gennady Friedman and Yuri Gogotsi, along with three Ph.D. students, have successfully developed a carbon nanotube-tipped probe with the possibility of transferring fluids through the carbon nanotube (CNT) into and out of the pipette, thereby bridging the gap between existing microscale technologies and nanoscale interactions. According to a recent paper published in Applied Physics Letters, (Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 103108 2007), this development will make it possible to perform injections or probe the fluid not just inside a cell but in specific regions inside the cell, maybe even specific organelles.
Posted on December 18, 2008.