Fall 2008

Resonance is ECE ILLINOIS’ semi-annual magazine. You can download the full digital (PDF) edition or follow the headline links below to read select stories.

Fall 2008

• ECE News Briefs
• Eden travels to Israel on Fulbright Grant
• Illinois home to new Microsoft and Intel-funded parallel computing center
• Faculty publications showcase ECE Department’s research, contributions
• Copper nanowires grown by new process create long-lasting displays
• Bruce Wheeler retires
• Brunet receives Campus Award for Excellence
• Alumnus Kilby’s integrated circuit turns 50
• Remembering the chip that changed the world
• Five new faculty join ECE
• Faculty News
• Holonyak inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Indiana Jones and the incredible Continuum Fingerboard
• ECE students critical to SAE racing team
• ECE student gains popularity on YouTube

  You can view sample videos of Steve Ward's Tesla coils on YouTube:

  • Twin Musical Tesla Coils playing Mario Bros
  • Zelda played on Twin Musical Tesla coils
  • Double Musical Tesla Coils @ University of Illinois
• ECE congratulates its PhD recipients
• Jonathan Hill: Many approaches exist for supporting ECE Illinois
• Emma L. Marshall Scholarship achieves funding goal
• Donor Profile: Rod Parks
• Donor Honor Roll
• Alumni Board President’s Letter
• Alumni Leaders: Steve Sample and Dean Radin
• Alumni Class Notes

  Have important news you’d like to share? Submit it via our keep in touch form.

• Control, Thy Passion: The story of an eminent Illinois lab

  Find out more about the Decision and Control Laboratory,  as well as its personnel and the research that is under way.

• Death to the slide rule! Long live the slide rule! Emeriti turn 90
• Campus Roundup
• Iyer chosen as Vice Chancellor for Research