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Electrical Engineering professor Dr. Devarajan won the first Graduate Dean's Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring at ACES 2009. Alumni and students nominated him for the award.
Samir Iqbal, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a multi-year, early career award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation to develop new approaches to the electronic detection of proteins. Dr. Iqbal will receive $400,000 over a five-year period.
Dr. Wei-Jen Lee has assumed the role of Project Manager for the IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Hazards. Dr. P.K. Sen, Dr. Ravel Ammerman and Dr. Tammy L. Gammon remain involved as members of the project management team.
Michael Vasilyev, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been identified by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as one of 39 rising stars in university microsystems research to receive a Young Faculty Award. Subject to negotiation, each will receive a grant of approximately $150,000 to be used to further develop and validate their research idea during the next 12 to 18 months. Dr. Vasilyev will work on the project “Coherent Nonlinear-Optical Image Processing in Plasmonic Metamaterial.” The winners were selected through a three-stage, competitive process. DARPA initially received brief abstracts from 277 young faculty applicants from universities all over the country.
It is a small, small world that continues to shrink. There is a relatively new and narrow field in engineering research called nanoelectromechanical systems. And thanks in part to a husband and wife research team, the University of Texas at Arlington is garnering world recognition in this field
Graduate students in the University of Texas at Arlington’s Colleges of Engineering and Science have combined their talents to create a wireless, integrated sensor-and-stimulator system to alleviate acute pain. Their system is unique in that it will do this automatically and as only as needed.
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A crib-mounted monitor to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. A system to identify the locations of firefighters inside a burning building. A wireless acid reflux monitor. A “smart” hospital blanket that monitors a patient’s life signs.