Enrique Mallada, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, been chosen by the National Science Foundation for its prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.
As part of the $500,000, five-year grant, he and his team will also work through the Center for Educational Outreach with students in the Women in Science and Engineering program, which brings area high school students to campus laboratories. In one project, WISE students will design and implement Arduino-based devices—”synthetic” fireflies—that can synchronize in a distributed way. In another, the high school students will work on a small power system testbed that will help illustrate some of the proposed algorithms being developed as part of Mallada’s team’s research.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
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