Kevin Tang was awarded a Young Investigator Award by Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to support his research project entitled, "Constructive Sparse Signal Recovery with Verifiable Guarantee". Read more
Photonics pioneer Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is named one of 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2010 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read more
Lipson, Cornell Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, one of 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2010 Read more
Professor Steve Wicker has been selected to serve on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board for a three year term (beginning September 2010). Read more
Ehsan Afshari, Al Molnar, and Farhan Rana have been selected as College of Engineering's outstanding teachers and will be recognized this fall as winners of the Michael Tien ('72) Excellence in Teaching Award. Read more
The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program will identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions in academia and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's program development process. Read more
"The Cornell section of the IEEE would like to congratulate Bruce Land as the Cornell professor who, over the course of the spring 2010 semester, has best exemplified the ideals and spirit of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering." Read more
Assistant Professor Al Molnar was recently honored for receipt of The Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010. Read more
ECE Professor Amit Lal received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Service through his service as Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read more
With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent, they reported. Read more
