Student Honors The USF College of Engineering Heart of Gold Scholarship Awards Luncheon was held October 4, 2013. The department of Electrical Engineering is proud to announce a number of graduate and undergraduate students from the department were honored. Michael Brandow Myra & Mack D. Cooley Scholarship Leandro Carvajal Honewell Hispanic Scholarship Sufyan Dawoodjee Franz Mantini Endowed Scholarship Tahsin Ekram Tom A. Tiedemann Scholarship Jason Entenmann Mozelle Beverly Scholarhsip John Llera Expressway Award Scholarship Valerie McManus Michelle Homans Austin Engineering Scholarship
Doctoral Student Abhishek Dey Finalist at IEEE Electrical engineering doctoral student Abhishek Dey was a finalist (top 15) among 141 student papers submitted for competition in IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium held July 9, 2013 in Orlando. His paper is titled “Wideband Frequency Tunable Liquid Metal Monopole Antenna.” This is the most prestigious annual student paper competition held in the research fields of electromagnetics and antennas. He was awarded a $1250 travel grant by the symposium committee as the student paper competition finalist. Abhishek’s advisor is electrical engineering Assistant Professor Gokhan Mumcu. Mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Rasim Guldiken is coauthor of the awarded work.
Research Day 2013 Poster Winners Abhishek Dey, Maysam Nezafati, Timothy Palomo, and Saumya Sharma, all Electrical Engineering Doctoral students, were winners at the 2013 Research Day Poster Competition. The event was open to all undergraduate and graduate students working with engineering faculty and College research centers for poster presentations. The top student exhibitors received travel awards to present at professional meetings.
William Mitchell College of Engineering Memorial Scholarship Justin Parker Stefan G. Czerkas Memorial Scholarship John Stratton Allan R. Gondeck Endowed Scholarship Houman Yaghoubi Allan R. Gondeck Endowed Scholarship
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