Our Graduate Students

Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association (EGSA)

Purpose/mission

To create and maintain an ECEE graduate student community in the department; to provide a voice for ECEE graduate students in departmental affairs. Group leadership and event attendance is open to all graduate students, PhD and MS in any degree program at any level. 

Officers

Current ECEE graduate students can connect with one of their EGSA officers to discuss the department and program.

Outstanding Graduate Student Award Winners

Each year, ECEE’s Graduate Committee celebrates outstanding students with monetary awards to recognize excellence in research, teaching and community service. The committee also recognizes a student for Best Thesis and awards summer fellowships to outstanding students with demonstrated financial need. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors and their peers.

  • 2020 - Daniel Zalkind, “Methods for Enabling Controls Collaboration During Wind Turbine Design.” Advisor: Lucy Pao

Gold

  • 2020 - Satyaki Mukherjee, Michael Grayson, Yucheng Gao and Andrea Ashley

Silver

  • 2020 - Thomas Trantow and Daniel Martin

Bronze

  • 2020 - David Miller, Mohamed Salman, Nathan Dostart and Vivek Sankaranarayanan

Gold

  • 2020 - Gaeron Friedrichs, Alex Anderson

Bronze

  • Songyi Yen

Gold

  • 2020 - Zhe Feng
  • 2020 - Charlie Rackson, Michael Grayson, Jose Antonio Estrada, Stephanie Swartz and Zhe Feng

Student Profiles

"I was able to analyze signals and use the knowledge to help defend our country against foreign threats." - Andrea Ashley
"CU’s Tibet Himalayan research initiative let me study all aspects of my hometown from thousands of miles away." - Dak Dou
"I realized I could help places such as Malawi by contributing to the green energy movement through research." - Joshua Brown
2022 ECEE graduate continues education as a Master's student
"Several projects in my lab are in close collaboration with other research groups at CU Boulder, with NIST and with other universities." - Alex Anderson
"I wanted to continue to study controls – but I also wanted my work to have a positive environmental impact." - Michael Sinner
"A graduate degree is a license to work on the most interesting and difficult problems accessible to modern technology." - Thomas Dearing
"I love the fusion in power electronics of so many of electrical engineering’s subfields." - Kyle Goodrick