Six ECE graduate students were selected for their outstanding research work in a variety of disciplines.

Wu is working on advanced metasurfaces, which could help next-generation wireless communication, commercial and military radar systems, imaging, and antenna systems.

The College of Engineering recognized Pierce with the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for his support and commitment to the U-M student chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

The College of Engineering honors ECE PhD candidate Tianlin Wang for his excellent research in remote sensing as well as his leadership and service to the community.

ECE PhD student Brian Raeker was awarded a Towner Prize for Outstanding Engineering GSIs.

Sarabandi is an internationally-renowned researcher in the areas of applied electromagnetics and remote sensing.

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

The intensive workshop brings together outstanding women who are graduate students or postdocs interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

Predicting future disasters is an important goal of those participating in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, U-M ECE takes a look back – and a look forward – to how our professors, students, and alums have made their mark on the field.

Second Prize overall went to doctoral student Xiuzhang Cai for his radar target classification research applicable to autonomous vehicles.

Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

Huang won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics for her work developing better electromagnetic models that calculate microwave interactions with tree and vegetation cover.

EECS-ECE PhD student Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi is working to make smartphones faster and smaller through his research in the field of RF devices.

EECS-ECE PhD student Navid Barani received the IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award for his work modeling how bacteria use electromagnetic waves to communicate, which could lead to medical breakthroughs.

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

This device, the size of a match head, can bend light inside a crystal to generate synchrotron radiation in a lab.

Grbic is a world leader in the development of metamaterials and metasurfaces.

From blowing up microwaves to inspiring a new generation of microwave engineers, Professor Franklin shares her research, insights, and thoughts on the future of women in engineering.

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi reviews a University focused on collaboration

Eric Michielssen has discovered a new way to rapidly analyze electromagnetic phenomena, and it’s catching on.

An award-winning modeling method will help us better understand our natural environment

The satellite mission to collect global data of surface soil moisture can help weather forecasting around the world.

His research included transportation systems, digital communications, position location, and microwave and fiber optics.

The group brought together experts in radar and remote sensing, integrated circuits, imaging, navigation, power, communications, and nano-fabrication.

Compared to conventional methods of wireless power, which require a specific distance and alignment, Prof. Mortazawi’s version operates over a range of distances and orientations without a drop in power.

Michael Benson reelected as student governor for HKN, the national honor society for electrical and computer engineers.

Thomas B. A. Senior, professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, passed away peacefully November 24, 2017, at the age of 89.

Kamal Sarabandi has expanded radar capabilities in applications ranging from low earth orbit to thousands of feet underground.

The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

Dr. Valdis Liepa retires after nearly 50 years as a faculty member in the Radiation Laboratory.

Professor Senior has played key roles in URSI over the past 50 years

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

Dean England of U-M Dearborn has been particularly good in helping women faculty and students achieve success.

Franklin believes the best research results are achieved from a diversity of backgrounds, something she learned as a graduate student at Michigan and fosters in her own research group at Minnesota.

The AAAS seeks to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

Behdad has tackled some of the toughest problems in antenna research. But for his applications, they need to be very small – small enough to be used to treat cancer.

Armin’s research is focused on the development of a sub-millimeter-wave radar system for the next generation of navigation and imaging sensors.

Choi has developed a new technique for testing these antennas based on very-near-field measurements and a newly-developed, high-precision formula to compute the antenna’s radiation fields.

Mohammad has developed a new way to remotely measure the thickness of ice and snow with a technology he calls wideband autocorrelation radiometry (WiBAR).

This edition includes two additional chapters, new concepts throughout the book, and additional problem sets.

Amr is investigating both the unique advantages and the performance limitations of radar systems operating at 240 GHz in typical outdoor environments.

The Stephen S. Attwood award is the highest honor awarded to a faculty member by the College of Engineering. Prof. Sarabandi has shaped the field of radar remote sensing for more than twenty years.

Prof. Grbic specializes in the broad fields of electromagnetics and optics, with interests ranging from fundamental electromagnetic theory to microwave circuits.

Eric is an international leader in the field of computational electromagnetics and specializes in the development of fast-solution methods and optimization algorithms.

KACST will provide manpower and will collaborate with Michigan faculty and students on their projects.

Along with alumni, there were current and former faculty members, current students, friends, and colleagues, including several program managers, in attendance.

Mr. Bell is investigating the potential of electrodynamic tether propulsion technology to enhance the capabilities of an emerging class of smartphone-sized satellites.

The tether could be used to deorbit out-of-use spacecraft, push spacecraft from low Earth orbit into higher orbits, or even push spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit altogether.

Prof. Kushner is an internationally renowned expert in the area of low-temperature plasma simulation.

The SMAP mission is NASA’s most ambitious sensing project yet for measuring global soil moisture levels.

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Faculty and staff alike will miss his cheerful and gentle presence.

This award is in recognition of being an outstanding educator, mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.

Their technique utilizes backscatter analysis to construct “perfectly transmitting” wavefronts.

Sarabandi’s lectures and presentations are known for being extremely clear and reflecting the highest research standards.

Berry’s paper addresses important limitations such as low output power and poor power efficiency.

Starting this year, an award will be presented to a faculty member from each division – both CS and ECE.

The Henry Russel Lectureship is considered the University’s highest honor for a senior faculty member.

The technology could potentially identify a hidden weapon from a distance in less than a second.

With the support of the Grainger Foundation, Jarrahi will explore genetic therapy methods to treat diseases.

PPPL is a U.S. Department of Energy funded research center established for collaborative work in fusion energy research.

The award will support Berry’s doctoral research in the area of plasmonic photoconductive antennas for high power terahertz generation.

The method can be useful in the design of low-profile antennas integrated into body panels of vehicles.

Yang’s research is focused on designing plasmonic nano-structures to enhance efficiency of conventional photoconductive terahertz emitters.

The proposed emitter incorporates plasmonic photoconductors to more efficiently convert power from incident laser light into terahertz radiation.

The primary advance shown in this research as compared to earlier work is the successful use of a 3-D potential force field.

The bulk of Chen’s current research centers on the detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference with microwave radiometers.

The researchers have optimized an optical resonator to take an infrared signal from relatively cheap telecommunication-compatible lasers and boost it to an ultraviolet beam.

The applications Dagefu’s research include wireless channel characterization, radar through-wall imaging, and distributed sensor networks.

Duan’s research has important applications in global climate change studies and weather forecasting.

The goal of the research is to develop an alternative method to x-ray imaging that is safer and uses nothing stronger than radio frequency waves.

Berry is designing an emitter to operate as a light-weight, local oscillator for a terahertz spectroscopy system suitable for use in space.

Gbric’s research program spans basic science and advanced technology development, with applications in antenna design and metamaterials.

This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated significant achievements in scholarly research; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in service activities.

In her research Jarrahi will investigate, for the first time, the use of Ge as a promising candidate to tackle the thermal breakdown problem of photomixers.

Oh’s research focuses on designing highly miniaturized planar antennas with vertical polarization and high radiation efficiency.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Kushner was recognized “for contributions to modeling and understanding of plasmas, especially those used in thin film etching, deposition and surface modification.”

Sarabandi’s research encompasses a range of topics in the area of applied electromagnetics, and has been principal investigator on NASA projects related to remote sensing.

Moghaddam will oversee the design and fabrication of the AirMOSS instrument, a high-powered, low-frequency radar that NASA/JPL collaborators will build for the project.

SMAP is a satellite mission for mapping surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states for the purpose of scientific advances and societal benefits.

Professor Grbic is a world-class researcher in the field of electromagnetics and microwave circuits, and has won numerous awards for his work. Congratulations!

The Fellowship will support Patel’s research on the theory and development of textured electromagnetic surfaces.

The award acknowledges Jarrahi’s efforts to develop a new generation of compact high power terahertz sources.

The Awards recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

The research that will be conducted at the center could lead to more efficient solar cells, finer-featured microchips and new medical tools.

Kushner’s research area is low temperature plasmas, and their fundamental properties and technological applications.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Senior has made contributions to electromagnetic and acoustic scattering and to the development of analytic and numerical techniques.

Thiel’s detection method allows the analysis of human backscattering within a realistic building environment.

For his research, Benson plans to utilize SAR in order to estimate variable vegetated parameters and monitor the planet’s crustal movement.

Gomez is investigating a new technique that is receiving widespread attention for treating depression, Alzheimer’s, and other brain conditions.

The program recognizes graduate students who show promise in pursuing a degree in microwave engineering — only six fellowships are awarded worldwide.

The scholarship is designed to encourage future leaders and key technical contributors.

This professorship recognizes all the excellent work Sarabandi does on applied electromagnetics, in the classroom, and for the department.

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federal research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to national security.

“All science and engineering is a physical experience,” said England. “It’s an adventure.”