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Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Department News - Oct. 17, 2021

A Note from the Chair

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When the fall 2021 semester began eight weeks ago, we were all cautiously optimistic that things would feel a bit more “normal.” Thanks to the steps CU Boulder has taken to keep our community safe, we’ve had a great semester so far. It’s wonderful to see faculty, staff and students back on campus, taking advantage of all of the in-person opportunities to learn and build relationships.

We have begun extending those in-person opportunities to our alumni as well. If you haven’t had a chance to visit us yet, we hope to see you at the Homecoming tailgate or one of our other alumni events, listed below. As someone who started at CU Boulder during the pandemic, I certainly look forward to meeting more of you very soon!

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Department welcomes five new faculty members for fall 2021

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Includes four researchers in quantum engineering, power electronics and data science, as well as a new instructor for the CU-CMU partnership program.

Faculty & Research News

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STROBE nano-imaging center receives five-year, $22 million renewal from NSF

The STROBE nano-imaging center — for which Rafael Piestun serves as co-principal investigator — has received a five-year, $22 million renewal from the NSF. ECEE-affiliated faculty members Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn are also part of the center's leadership team. A nano-scale discovery by the center that could help prevent overheating in electronics was featured recently in CU Boulder Today. 

Graphic showing how a time lens can distinguish between two photons arriving at a detector close together. (Credit: Optica)

New quantum 'stopwatch' can improve imaging technologies

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Electrical engineering researchers at CU Boulder have designed one of the most precise stopwatches yet — one that can count single photons. The group published its results this week in the journal Optica.
Xudong Chen

Xudong Chen recognized as national leader in field of automatic control

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Assistant professor recognized with the Donald P. Eckman Award, one of the most prestigious honors in the engineering discipline-spanning field of automatic control.
This scanning electron microscope image shows the distinct bow tie shape of an optical rectenna. (Credit: Moddel lab)

Scientists debut world’s most efficient 'optical rectennas,' devices that harvest power from heat

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Working rectennas could, theoretically, harvest the heat coming from factory smokestacks or bakery ovens that would otherwise go to waste.

Upcoming Events

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CMU-CU Boulder Engineering Partnership Programs Virtual Alumni Event 
Thursday, Nov. 4, 5-6 p.m. MT

CU Engineering Homecoming Tailgate
Saturday, Nov. 6, time TBD 

Deadline to submit Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award and Recent Alumni Award nominations
Monday, Nov. 15

Houston Network Event with Acting Dean Keith Molenaar 
Thursday, Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m. CT

 

Alumni News

Callie Higgins with her hybrid atomic force microscope 3D printer.

Alumna a finalist for federal Service to America Medal

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Callie Higgins (MElEngr'14, PhD'17) is a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Matanya Horowitz

CU alum creates AI robots to sort recyclables

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Matanya Horowitz (ApMath, CompSci, Econ, ElCompEngr’10; MElEngr’10) is the founder of AMP Robotics. His vision? Use artificial intelligence to elevate the recycling industry.

Class Notes

Alpesh Bhobe (PhDElEngr’03) is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society for 2020-21. Bhobe is the director of hardware engineering at Cisco.    

At the 20th Annual APEX Awards ceremony in February, Dan Mackin (ElCompEngr'08) — CEO of cybersecurity and technology advisory company Rule4 — was awarded the Colorado Technology Association’s CEO of the Year. 

As chief technology officer and VP of products for an information management company in Norway, Jorgen Solberg (ElEngr'98) was constantly stuck in unproductive meetings. As a remedy, he founded Decisions, a meeting management software, which is now built into MicrosoftTeams and Office 365. The rapidly growing company has won several Microsoft App Awards. He lives in Oslo, Norway. 

Phillip DeLeon (MElEngr'92; PhD’95) celebrated his 25th year as an electrical engineering professor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Currently, he serves as associate vice president for research. 

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