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.
Research is the cornerstone to ECE’s success. Bright and hardworking graduate research assistants are one of the most important factors to ensure that the School of ECE remains a leader in the research community. This award will be given to the GRA who has demonstrated particular excellence in performing his or her duties. The GRA who receives this award must have been employed as a GRA for at least one semester during the previous three semesters prior to the award ceremony. Nominators are expected to submit a résumé from the GRA, plus at least two reference letters, for their nominees. This award consists of a $1,000 check and a plaque.
- 2002: Rangarajan Tallam (known as the Outstanding ECE Ph.D. Thesis Award)
- 2003: Aziz Umit Batur
- 2004: Majid Fozunbal
- 2005: Omid Momtahan and Hossein Pishro-Nik
- 2006: Bing Dang, Babak Momeni, and Siavash Pourkamali
- 2007: Mehmet Can Vuran and Chao Ray Hsieh
- 2008: Majid Badieirostami, Zhensheng Jia
- 2009: Joshua Griffin, Wei Zhang
- 2010: Suk Choi, Aravind Kailas
- 2011: Erman Ayday, Xueliang Huo
- 2012: Shaloo Rakheja, Mashhour Solh
- 2013: Han Lun Yap, Qi Zhou
- 2014: Ahmad Beirami and Lu Lu
- 2015: Adam Charles and Zhixuan Xia
- 2016: Song Hu and Nelson Lourenco
- 2017: Prashant Nair, Dogancan Temel
- 2018: Sean Rodrigues, Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh
- 2019: Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Hakki Mert Torun
- 2020: Mohammad Taghinejad, Siddharth Varughese
- 2021: Yu-Ching Liao, Siddharth Ravichandran
- 2022: Sajjad Abodollahramezni, Santhosh Karnik, Mohit Prabhushankar, AND Mohammad S. E. Sendi
- 2023: Anni Lu, Ahmad Mustafa, Zishen Wan, Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar
- 2024: Piyush Kumar, Justin Zhang