The ECE Student Awards Committee solicits nominations of outstanding students in six categories. In addition, seven more undergraduate awards will be chosen and given by the School of ECE and by the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, and an eighth – the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award – will be determined by the ECE Graduate Committee.
Faculty and staff members only can submit nominations via the online form. Questions can be directed to Professor Durgin.
Additional awards are given by either the Eta Kappa Nu honor society or the ECE Graduate Committee. These honors are as follows:
The Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Awards are given to the Ph.D. students who presented the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation proposals in the previous year. Proposals are nominated by the chair of the student’s proposal committee, and the winners are selected by the ECE Graduate Committee. Proposals are judged based upon the quality and originality of the proposed work, and the student’s expertise and insight on the subject matter. This award consists of a $1,000 check and a plaque.
Previous recipients:
- 2002: Souvik Dihidar, Jingnong Yang
- 2003: Ismail Baskaya, Zesheng Chen, Gavin Ho, Guanglei Liu, Ramanan Bairavasubramanian
- 2004: William Potscavage, Amanda Preyer
- 2005: Jinyu Li, Mohanned Sinnokrot
- 2006: Brian Gestner, Farasat Munir
- 2007: Qing Li, Chenchi Luo
- 2008: Jiaqi Liang, Seyed Payam Alipour Motaallem
- 2009: Elias Chavarria Reyes, Josep Miquel Jornet Montana
- 2010: Jordan Greenlee, Reza Pourabolghasem
- 2011: Sen Yang, Mahbub Alam
- 2012: Chia-Chen Chou, Xuchen Zhang
- 2013: Razi Dehghannasiri, Matthew Hale and Yiming Kong
- 2014: Afshin Abdi, Fareed Jafri
- 2015: Jonathan Sculley, Yijun Bao
- 2016: Siddharth J. Varughese, Andrew McRae
- 2017: Zheng Wang, Hao Ye
- 2018: Rui Zhang, Nujhat Tasneem
- 2020: Tianren Fan, Siddharth Varughese
- 2021: Andrew McRae, Panni Wang
- 2022: Poulami Das, Ashkan Faghiri
- 2023: Fabia Athena, Yuan-Chun Luo
The above-described version of the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award was presented for the first time in 2020, recognizing the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation proposals in the previous year. In 2018 and in years prior to that, the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Awards were made to the outstanding graduate students in ECE, as determined by scores made on the doctoral preliminary exam. No version of the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award was presented at the 2019 Roger P. Webb Awards Program.