Visiting student researcher in Johns Hopkins lab struck, killed by motorist in biking accident
June 20, 2017
Aaron Laciny, 20, was ‘fantastic to work with,’ and ‘extremely inquisitive and self-motivated,’ his engineering mentor says.
Tag: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Thon receives NSF EAGER grant renewable energy technology project
June 9, 2017
Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Susanna Thon received an NSF EAGER grant for her project titled “Finite-Absorption-Bandwidth Materials for Cost-Effective Multijunction Photovoltaics.” The project seeks to build a new class of flexible materials that only absorb in the infrared region of the solar spectrum while transmitting visible light by using semiconductor particles with optical properties that depend on their nano- and micro-scale structures. Specifically, the […]
ECE Team’s Manuscript Highlighted as Editor’s Pick in Optics Express
June 8, 2017
“Silicon photonic physical unclonable function,” by PhD student Brian Grubel and his team, Bryan Bosworth, Mike Kossey, Hongcheng Sun, and faculty members Amy Foster, Brint Cooper, and Mark Foster, was recently selected as an “Editor’s Pick,” by Optics Express (Vol. 25, No. 11 – 29 May 2017), a well-regarded, impactful journal that publishes original research […]
Barclay 5th Graders Build Light Escaping Robots with Help from ECE’s GSA
May 24, 2017
On May 19th, students from Barclay Elementary School came to the Homewood campus for an Outreach Visit. The visit was the result of a partnership between Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore City Public Schools, and Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering. The partnership provides the students with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) programming that focuses […]
Johns Hopkins Professor to Co-Chair International Circuits and Systems Symposium in Baltimore
May 23, 2017
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this weekend will serve as co-chair of an international conference, the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. The four-day conference is expected to draw as many as 1,200 circuits and systems research scientists, engineers, and industry partners to Baltimore over the […]
Congratulations to the William Huggins Summer Fellowship Awardees
May 18, 2017
Congratulations to Jacob Sager and Charles Thornton, who have been awarded the William Huggins’ Summer Fellowship Award for 2017! Each student will receive a $4,000 fellowship as well as $500 stipend for supplies to conduct research with two of our professors during the summer. Jacob will be working with Professor Archana Venkataraman on research to […]
ECE Students honored at 2017 Whiting School of Engineering Convocation Awards Ceremony
May 12, 2017
On Monday, May 8th, the Whiting School of Engineering recognized the following students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department: The Charles A. Conklin Award is presented to outstanding electrical and computer engineering seniors to recognize their academic achievements: Jeffrey Sham, Yeyi Yun The Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Leadership Award recognizes significant achievement […]
Design Day 2017
May 11, 2017
The Electrical and Computer Engineering department strives to cultivate an environment of forward thinking in our students. By consistently looking beyond, into the realm of possibility, the faculty and students are able to challenge themselves to solve real world problems. This year, over 30 teams are presenting projects on Design Day. The projects cover a […]
For JHU’s Engineering Design Day, students perfect their pitches and showcase their prototypes
May 8, 2017
Engineering students will present the projects they’ve spent a semester or more working on as part of Engineering Design Day—the annual year-end Whiting School of Engineering event in which students tasked with designing solutions to real-world problems display their research, devices, and prototypes.
ECE Grad Students Work with Western High School Students in Wearable Electronics Workshop
May 5, 2017
This spring, Johns Hopkins PhD students, Kate Fischl, Gaspar Tognetti, Michelle Graham, and John Rattray have worked with Western High school teacher and robotics coach, Heather Romney, and Baltimore’s Key Tech senior electrical engineer, Abbie Shoemaker, to develop and execute a workshop on wearable electronics for 10-15 students at Western High school (the oldest all-girl […]
