ECE Archival News
Winter 2007
Dr. Richard Campbell has been awarded the 2006 Bill Orr Technical Writing Award. The recognition was awarded by the ARRL Foundation Board of Directors on recommendation of QST - the official Journal for amateur radio. Dr. Campbell was recognized for two articles which appeared in QST during 2006, "The MicroR2 - An Easy to Build 'Single Signal' SSB or CW Receiver," and "The MicroT2 - A Compact Single-Band SSB Transmitter." In the February, 2008 issue of QST Journal, ARRL Technical Editor Joel Hallas writes, "Presentation of this award to Rick Campbell, KK7B, is most appropriate. His 2006 contributions of the Micro R2 and T2 articles follow numerous other articles in QST over the past two decades. His projects, covering HF through microwaves, have all been interesting and competent designs, and all were designed with the home constructor in mind."
Fall 2007
Dr. Marek Perkowski, Robotics and Quantum Computing professor, has been awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award for Engineering from Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research honorary. Each science department from the university nominated two faculty members for the award and Dr. Perkowski was chosen based on his history of publications and external research. A $500 award and plaque was presented to all winners on October 25.
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Dr. James McNames is part of a team that recently received a patent for "Pattern detection for integrated circuit substrates." The team included members from both University and industry - a rarity for this type of patent.
United States Patent 7,277,813
Whitefield, et al. October 2, 2007
Summer 2007
Yale Fan, a 15 year old sophomore from Beaverton's Catlin Gabel School, won a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellow Laureate Project. His project was titled, "Applications of Multi-Valued Quantum Algorithms" and was guided by ECE professor, Dr. Marek Perkowski. Read more on Yale and his award, here. Yale's other awards in 2007 include Third Place Grand Award in Computer Science from Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair and Winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Award.
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Two students from the Biomedical Microdevices & Nanotechnology Lab (BMN) won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division Awards of Excellence held in Boise, Idaho. Both students placed in the Material Science category. Ravikiran K. Reddy, "Ravi," won first place for his paper titled, "Nanomonitors: Electrical Immunoassay." Vinu Venkatraman received third place with his "Iridium Oxide Nanowire Monitors for Protein Detection" paper. Both work under the guidance of former ECE professor Dr. Shalini Prasad.
Dr. Garrison Greenwood, ECE Associate Professor, co-authored the book Introduction to Evolvable Hardware: A Practical Guide for Designing Self-Adaptive Systems which was recently published by Wiley-IEEE Press.
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 Dr. Lisa Zurk has received the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is given to researchers who are at the beginning of their careers to honor the great achievements they have made in their field. Dr. Zurk was nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) whom she received a five-year, $400,000 NSF Early Career Award for her proposal, "Electromagnetic Scattering and Propagation in Random Media at Terahertz Frequencies."
The Presidential Awards are intended to recognize and nurture some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century.
Dr. Zurk received the award on November 2nd in Washington, D.C. She is shown above with her award in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House.
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