Electrical Engineering Department News

On an episode of BBC World News Horizons focusing on ways engineering and medicine work together to tackle illness and disease, Ada Poon and her team discuss their groundbreaking research in this area.

As the site of some of the most important technological advancements in the last few decades, Nanomanufacturing is a popular course in Stanford’s School of Engineering.

EE Postdoc Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez, former EE postdoc Ernest Kurniawan and Andrea Goldsmith, the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering, recently received the Globecom 2013 Communication Theory Symposium best paper award.

Andrea Goldsmith, along with former EE PhD student Syed Ali Jafar, former EE postdoc Ivana Maric, and Sudhir Srinivasa, recently received the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award.

Scientists have created a heat-resistant thermal emitter, an element used in specialized solar cells, that could significantly improve the efficiency of the cells.

The world’s first and only radio sundial has been erected in memory of Ron Bracewell, a professor of electrical engineering and a pioneer in radio astronomy.

Professor Emeritus Stephen Harris was recently elected as an Honorary Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Jelena Vuckovic has been awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University in Munich, Germany.

Andrea Montanari and Philip Levis have each won the 2013 Okawa Foundation Research Grant.

Assistant Professor of EE and CS Sachin Katti recently won the 2013 SIGCOMM Rising Star Award.