Alumni News Archive
Summer 2006, Volume XXXI
- Electrical engineer named provost
- Adesida named College of Engineering dean
- Department head’s message
- From the Alumni Association board president
- Hidden structure revealed in characteristics of transistor laser
- Illinois researchers produce two most important scientific papers
- Two faculty members receive endowed professorships
- Science decodes Mona Lisa’s smile
- Eight faculty named IEEE Fellows
- Perfecting new musical instrument an ongoing process
- New theory explains electronic and thermal behavior of nanotubes
- Trusted ILLIAC will transform large-scale computing
- Adesida, Katehi named to NAE
- Holonyak Jr., ECE alumni inducted into Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
- Research leads to reduced power usage in laptop computers
- Kanti Jain returns to ECE
- A “transporting” career
- Professor Leon Frizzell retires
- Broadband innovator Dyson dies
- Faculty news
- Abracadabra … apparata!
- Control course originators jog their memories
- Illinois Eta Kappa Nu chapter receives outstanding chapter award
- A different kind of jam session
- “Look, Ma, no pilot!”
- A hands-on experience
- Advanced Projects Lab
- ECE remains a top-ranked department
- Petersen named assistant director of communications
- The Hassebrock Distinguished Lecture: Trusting Edison
- College of Engineering Connects Alumni through Exclusive Online Community
- New ECE Alumni Board member: Erica Hausfeld
- New ECE Alumni Board member: Ebrahim Andideh
- Distinguished alumnus honored with medal
- Featured alumni careers
- Alumni class notes
- Recipients of the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Awards
- Robert Janowiak, advocate for engineering education, dies
- DONORS: January 2005 through April 2006
- Upcoming Events
Winter 2005-2006, Volume XL
- Jack Kilby, 1923–2005
Cancer claims Nobel laureate, ECE alumnus - Department head’s message
- Flexible tactile sensors could help robots work better
- Room-temperature transistor laser is a step closer to commercialization
- ECE professor heads up genome project
- Teaching computers to talk
- An ECE star
Swenson pioneered radio astronomy at Illinois, and a lot more - Two ECE faculty members receive endowed chairs
- Adesida leads Illinois researchers as part of nanomedicine team
- Professor William R. Perkins retires
- ECE welcomes six new faculty members
- Oscar Gaddy, Illinois Alumnus and professor, dies
- Faculty news
- ECE 110: Introducing freshmen to the profession
- ECE seeks input for accreditation process
- Katsinas, Hill join ECE staff
- Alumni Association Board president’s message
- ECE Alumni Board new member: Dirk Meyer
- ECE Alumni Board new member: Denise Turic
- ECE Alumni Board new member: Christopher George
- ECE Alumni Board new member: Kevin Warren
- Mary Wood Celebrates 80th birthday with ECE
- Undergraduate research benefits from an alumni-supported fund
- Alumnus finds big clue in bird navigation riddle
- Featured alumni careers
Ubell: A patent success - Engineering Twins
- Read My Lips: ECE Alum Boosts Computers’ Ability to Hear
- Danner: Handyman’s career takes a turn for the better
- Google: A High Impact Career
- Leaving ECE
- ECE celebrates alumni achievement at banquet
- College service award goes to ECE alum
- Huang wins Okawa Prize
Spring 2005, Volume XXXIX
- New Illinois institute focuses expertise on "trust"
- Symposium brings MRI into focus
- Professor's work may fix many of life's glitches
- A century later, HKN still nurtures leadership
- The Vermilion River Observatory: Two decades of radio astronomy in ECE
- Etched in stone: Tucker's theory transforms radio astronomy
- Sparking a power electronics revolution
- TV or not TV? If that is the question, Mitch Altman may have the answer
- Connexions shares educational materials globally
- Bardeen Quadrangle and Garden dedicated
- EM course is gateway to many career paths
- Former head Trick retires
- Faculty News
- Department Head's Message
- ECE welcomes new faculty members
- Fab Lab course pioneer Anner dies
- Early woman graduate fondly recalls student days
- Alumni Association Board president's message
- Sterling credits ECE faculty for shaping her career
- Distinguished alumni honored at banquet
- Alumni Class Notes
- Proud alumnus shared good fortune with new generation
- ECE alumni to lead two National Academies
- ECE alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Farewell reception for Kushner
Summer 2004, Volume XXXVIII
- LED inventors & innovators win 2002 National Medal of Technology
- Department head's message
- Etching holes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers creates better beam
- New light-emitting transistor could revolutionize electronics industry
- Jack Ingram: power forward and power engineering
- ECE professor is wafer “matchmaker” Heterostructures bond, but coolly
- Student team wins second place in Future Energy Challenge
- A supreme Illinois invention: Frequency independent antennas
- Holonyak wins coveted prize for invention
- College sponsors cyber security forum
- Coleman invested as first Intel Alumni Endowed Chair
- Hwu invested as first Sanders–AMD endowed chair
- ECE faculty honored with professorships
- Engineers receive prestigious university alumni awards
- Alumnus develops life-saving technology
- Floyd Dunn: finding sound uses for sound
- Power systems faculty member Pai retires
- Faculty News
- Albright's best and brightest: An ECE 353 legacy
- From Ohm's law to patent law
- Alumni Association Board president's message
- Nichols: Managing Intel's North American computer labs
- Bruning: Sculpting his company's success in precision optics
- Alumni class notes
- Network administrator Cicone retires
- Parsons retires from counseling office
- HKN Centennial Conference at UIUC
- Alumni to receive awards at September banquet