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.

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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

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University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering student Nahum Torres-Arenas will be spending this summer as an intern with the Dallas office of CDM, an international consulting, engineering, construction and operations firm. His position there is part of an awards program developed and conducted by CDM and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).

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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has notified University of Texas at Arlington Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Babak Fahimi that he is a recipient of the society’s Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award for 2008. The award is part of a program to stimulate contacts between younger engineering educators and practicing engineers in industry and government.

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Electrical Engineering Prof. M. Vasilyev’s Ph.D. student Pallavi G. Patki won the Best Student Presentation Award at the recent Frontiers in Optics conference.

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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.

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