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Preparing students for careers in national security 23 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
The Hume Center oversees many student programs related to national security. Student opportunities include mentoring, research, scholarships, courses, special events, clubs, and study-abroad programs.
Park and Schaumont awarded grant for spectrum sharing security research 20 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Jung-Min "Jerry" Park and Patrick Schaumont have received a grant from the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program for secure spectrum sharing research. They are developing methods to defend pri...
ECE graduate student receives IEEE best paper award 20 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
Graduate researcher Jason Forsyth has been awarded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award. Advised by Tom Martin, Forsyth has designed a construction helmet that ...
ECEs designing MEMS to detect hazardous air pollutants 20 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
Masoud Agah and Leyla Nazhandali have been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that can detect hazard...
Stocking the visual toolbox 14 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Dhruv Batra is using machine learning to help humans sort through large datasets. "The computer will come up with plausible hypotheses, and the human can make intelligent decisions," says Batra. Appli...
Tapping fiber optics for biomedical imaging 14 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
ECE's Yizheng Zhu is developing fiber optic biomedical imaging tools for studying the progression of diseases in vivo. Zhu is also developing techniques for imaging nanoscale objects in three dimensio...
Welcome Luke Lester 13 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
ECE welcomes Luke Lester as our new department head. Lester comes to Virginia Tech from the University of New Mexico, where he most recently served as professor and interim department head. ECE thanks...
Roving the course 9 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Students in ECE's embedded systems course are working with a new platform: a four-wheeled autonomous rover. Students are challenged to prepare their rovers to navigate a course at high speed. The proj...
Power electronics and the world's largest machine 9 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
ECE's Rolando Burgos is leading high-power research at the Center for Power Electronics (CPES). His current projects include using power electronics to integrate renewable energy into the grid, and de...
ECE alum appointed to assistant professor at the University of Texas 6 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
Ting Gong (Ph.D. 2009) was appointed to assistant professor of molecular carcinogenesis at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Gong's research focuses on statistical analysis for genomi...
