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ECE 2012 Annual Report


ECE 2012 Annual Report Cover

The 2012 Annual Report is now online! This year's publication celebrates 25 years of the Bradley Endowment.

ECE Tutorials Available


ECE Tutorials

The ECE Tutorials site, with videos and links to help undergraduate students in ECE, is now online! Visit it now.

Notable ECE Alumni


Many alumni from the ECE department appear on the list of notable Virginia Tech alumni. ECE graduates have gone on to impact a variety of fields; they have served as magazine editors, CEOs of technology companies, leaders in higher education, and public servants at all levels of government.


ECE YouTube Channel


The ECE YouTube channel is now live! Check out a selection of videos highlighting student projects:


Looking to hire an ECE graduate?


The Virginia Tech Chapter of the IEEE sponsors a job board for ECE students and alumni. Employers can post positions for students to review.

ECE Email Digest


ECE Email Digest

The ECE Email digest service is now online! (VT PID required) Sign up to receive information about news, events, or research seminars in your email.

RSS feeds in Atom format are also available.

Open Source Software from the
Real-Time Systems Lab


The HyFlow™ project is developing distributed software transactional memory (or D-STM) as an alternative to lock-based distributed concurrency control.


ChronOS Real-Time Linux is a real-time Linux patch designed to provide a testbed for real-time and distributed task scheduling and resource management research.

News

Schaumont named teacher of the week

Patrick Schaumont

Virginia Tech's Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) recognizes ECE's Patrick Schaumont for bringing cutting-edge topics into the curriculum, presenting students with exciting and meaningful hands-on projects, and giving engaging and clear lectures.


ECE alum elected to ECAN Board of Directors

Jeannette Mills

ECE alum Jeannette Mills, Vice President of Customer Operations and Chief Customer Officer for Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Esophageal Cancer Action Network (ECAN). She has served on the ECE Advisory Board since 2008.


ECE's Linda White named CASE Exemplary Employee

Linda White

ECE's Linda White has received one of two annual awards from the College Association for Staff in Engineering (CASE). She received the Administrative Award for her exceptional contributions to the department.


Joseph Loring named distinguished alumnus

Joseph Loring

Joseph Loring (BSEE '47), founder of LORING, is the 2012 recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award, as well as the University’s Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award.


Jason Lai named Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week

Jason Lai

The Office of the Vice President for Research has named ECE's Jason Lai as Scholar of the Week for advancing power electronics technologies that improve the efficiency of solar and wind energy generation and of hybrid electric vehicles.

Events


Wednesday, May 16, 2012


Bioinformatics Seminar: Delineation of epigenetic landscape in human cells

10:30 AM Virginia Tech Research Center -Arlington, Room 4-024
Invited Speaker: Prof. Wei Wang, UCSD Details.
Contact: yuewang@vt.edu


Friday, May 18, 2012


Seminar Talk: Advanced-Sign-off Challenges for the Hybrid-Ecosystem Based SOC Paradigm

10:30 AM 330 Durham
Our speaker is Dr. Pranav Ashar, CTO of Real Intent, Inc. Details.
Contact: chaowang@vt.edu