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2023 UIC Engineering Expo show floor

Award-winning ECE teams at UIC’s Engineering Expo

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 17, 2023

Sudip Mazumder

Mazumder receives IEEE Renewable Energy Excellence Award

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 11, 2023

refrigerator with solar panels and mechanical controls

Senior design students create solar fridge for Little Village neighborhood

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 04, 2023

Inventor of the Year award recipients Michael Caffrey (left) and Igor Paprotny examine a component of their device for detecting airborne virus particles. (Photo by Ian Battaglia/UIC.)

A smoke detector for viruses?

Rob Mitchum | Posted on May 04, 2023

Pai-Yen Chen

Using quantum physics to secure wireless devices

Jacqueline Carey | Posted on April 28, 2023

Engineering Expo team develops low cost drone for infrastructure inspections

Andrea Poet | Posted on April 12, 2023

Danilo erricolo

Erricolo receives USNC-URSI Impact Award

Andre Poet | Posted on April 06, 2023

computer chip

Grant to develop sensors that mimic the brain’s ability to focus on what’s important

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 21, 2023

Sanjaya Lohani

Sanjaya Lohani wins Brookhaven seed award competition for quantum information applications

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 01, 2023

Power transmission lines

Mazumder, Shadmand working to radically improve power transmission, grid security

Andrea Poet | Posted on February 28, 2023

Bindu Mukundappa

Bindu Mukundappa awarded $10,000 ComEd scholarship

Andrea Poet | Posted on February 15, 2023

Sudip K. Mazumder

Mazumder receives patent for his work to improve EV battery charging

Andrea Poet | Posted on February 07, 2023

Ryan Corey

ECE welcomes Visiting Assistant Professor Ryan M. Corey

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 31, 2023

ECE equipment

ECE faculty members among the top 2 percent in their fields

Posted on January 13, 2023

Inna Partin Vaisband

ECE professor receives grant to get a jump on semiconductor systems research

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 09, 2023

Lina He receives IEEE award for R&D in renewable energy integration

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 06, 2023

December 2023 UIC commencement

Celebrating Fall ECE graduates

Andrea Poet | Posted on December 14, 2022

UIC students Chanel Hamilton (left) and Aaron Tillery

Fourth cohort of UIC CHANCE students named ComEd Scholars

Carlos Sadovi | Posted on December 01, 2022

ECE graduate program information sessions

Posted on November 17, 2022

Tina Alvarado receives UIC’s Award of Merit

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 11, 2022

Dieff Vital

Paper on wireless charging antenna wins Vital second place prize

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 11, 2022

Ahish Shylendra and Priyesh Shukla

ECE grad students receive paper award from CASS

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 11, 2022

Natasha Devroye

ECE professor joins new Chicago-based data science institute

Andrea Poet | Posted on September 27, 2022

Sudip Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder awarded prestigious paper award from IEEE

Andrea Poet | Posted on September 27, 2022

Sudip K Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder developing cyber-physical security framework for power engineering

Andrea Poet | Posted on September 14, 2022

Renata Revelo

New course aims to put engineering design in context

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 29, 2022

Debit Pal

Meet Assistant Professor Debjit Pal

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 17, 2022

Natasha Devroye

NSF grants $10M for collaborative data science institute in Chicago

Brian Flood | Posted on August 02, 2022

Yuzhu Ouyang, Zhilu Ye, and Minye Yang. Not pictured: Yichong Ren

Students take home second place prize for wearable heart monitor

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 01, 2022

Mohamad Merei

Mohamad Merei's road to success

Andrea Poet | Posted on June 08, 2022

Mersob Ohannessian

Mesrob Ohannessian awarded National Science Foundation CAREER grant

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 04, 2022

Team TruBalance, with their prototype

ECE Senior Design Team TruBalance speeds to best-in-category win at UIC’s Engineering Expo

Andrea Poet | Posted on April 27, 2022

Inna Partin-Vaisband

Easing the microchip shortage with a new chip design method via AI

Andrea Poet | Posted on April 27, 2022

Pai-Yen Chen

New breathable smart mask can monitor coughs

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 29, 2022

Sudip K Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder building a better onboard vehicle electronic charger

Posted on March 22, 2022

Amit Tried

Deep learning system prioritizes tasks and selectively forgets

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 18, 2022

Dominique Casey

ECE department welcomes Dominique Casey

Posted on March 08, 2022

William Troy with the Field Museum Chicago's woolly mammoth skeleton

Bringing a giant back to life

Andrea Poet | Posted on February 11, 2022

Top row: Rashid Ansari, Ahmet Enis Cetin, Pai-Yen Chen, and Danilo Erricolo. Second row: Sudip K. Mazumder, Michael Stroscio, Daniela Tuninetti, and Mohammad B. Shadmand. Third row: Daniel Graupe, James Lin, and Piergiorgio L.E. Uslenghi

ECE researchers among top 2% in their fields for career, single-year impact

Posted on February 07, 2022

Evelyn Reyes

Evelyn Reyes retires after 23-year career in the College of Engineering

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 11, 2022

Daniela Tuninetti

Daniela Tuninetti named ECE head

Kirsten Janson | Posted on December 17, 2021

Bridge to Faculty reception

Bridge to the Faculty program aims to increase opportunities for underrepresented scholars

Carlos Sadovi | Posted on November 16, 2021

networking devices

Seferoglu, Koyuncu awarded grant to improve performance of edge mobile devices

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 20, 2021

Sudip K Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder grows sponsored research with new DOE, Office of Naval Research grants

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 18, 2021

Uslenghi elected president of International Union of Radio Science

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 15, 2021

Roberto Graglia

Alumnus Roberto D. Graglia wins Harrington-Mittra Award

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 07, 2021

Milos Zefran

Miloš Žefran named interim associate dean for faculty affairs for College of Engineering

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 07, 2021

Engineering physics joins computer engineering, electrical engineering as an ABET accredited program at UIC

Posted on October 06, 2021

Ian Nodurft

Ian Nodurft joins ECE department as postdoctoral fellow

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 05, 2021

Akshat Kumar

Ice cream and the internet of things: a summer in Boston

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 30, 2021

Sabrina Jones and Jaqueline Rojas Robles

Women in Engineering Summer Program empowers high school students to pursue engineering

by Nina Dorado, UIC Today | Posted on August 17, 2021

Dieff Vital

Dieff Vital joins ECE department

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 10, 2021

Hulya Seferoglu

Hulya Seferoglu joins edge network research team at new NSF AI Institute

by Andrea Poet | Posted on July 30, 2021

Zizwe Chase

ECE welcomes Zizwe Chase

by Andrea Poet | Posted on July 23, 2021

Thomas Searles

ECE department welcomes Associate Professor Thomas Searles

by Andrea Poet | Posted on July 09, 2021

Ahmed Mohamed

Finding joy in jazz, city life, and phonons

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 06, 2021

Smart Gloves

Students aim for safer cycling with Smart Gloves

Posted on May 05, 2021

gloved fingers holding a computer chip

Zhang and Zhu's computer memory research that changed the field

Posted on April 19, 2021

Emily Hernandez

From California to the stars (and back)

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 15, 2021

four of the members of team Warm-n-Dry

Warm-n-Dry team seeks to improve the food-delivery experience

Text by Andrea Poet. Photographs by Jim Young. | Posted on April 12, 2021

warbler

An electrical engineering project for the birds

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 12, 2021

Mike Stroscio

Using nanostructures to reveal the inner working of cells

Posted on April 08, 2021

Amit Trivedi

Trivedi awarded NSF CAREER grant

by Andrea Poet | Posted on March 22, 2021

Amit Trivedi

Trivedi and Cetin hope to speed AI, machine learning with new chip design

by Andrea Poet | Posted on February 26, 2021

Interaction of the cyber physical system with power electronics

Mazumder works on coordination of power-electronics, cyber-physical systems

by Andrea Poet | Posted on February 26, 2021

symbol of the IEEE Fellows

Professor Tuninetti named IEEE Fellow

by Andrea Poet | Posted on February 15, 2021

Anna Scovill

Tech elective leads to internship for junior Anna Scovill

by Andrea Poet | Posted on February 09, 2021

Jesus Ortiz with his beloved pink calculator

Photo contest, game night make the end of the semester fun

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 15, 2020

Zoya Arshad

Senior Zoya Arshad balances classes with an internship at wireless tech firm

by Andrea Poet | Posted on November 25, 2020

the AAAS rosette

Mazumder elected an AAAS Fellow

Posted on November 24, 2020

Rashid Ansari

University Scholar Rashid Ansari

by UIC News contributor | Posted on November 11, 2020

solar panel array

Mazumder receives grant to develop cybersecurity for solar energy systems

by Andrea Poet | Posted on November 02, 2020

Patient undergoing procedure using Life Saver™ Mask Adaptor

UIC researchers develop PPE that will allow patients to keep masks on during certain medical procedures involving mouth, nose

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 06, 2020

multimeter

ECE pioneers electronic testing equipment lending library for students

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 01, 2020

graphic from a 2019-2020 scholar project

Early Research Scholars Program provides apprenticeship to CS, ECE undergrads

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 29, 2020

Mohammad B. Shadmand

Meet Assistant Professor Mohammad B. Shadmand

Posted on September 28, 2020

Vahe Caliskan

Vahe Caliskan wins Award for Excellence in Teaching

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 25, 2020

IoT

Devroye, Rao receive grant to research Physically Unclonable Functions

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 23, 2020

neural network

Trivedi, Shylendra develop a more realistic spiking neural network

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 10, 2020

New faculty, and promotions for new school year

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 17, 2020

Dental Clinic

Engineering breakthrough can mitigate COVID-19 contamination in dental clinics

by David Staudacher | Posted on August 12, 2020

Hulya Seferoğlu

Hulya Seferoglu awarded CAREER grant to research edge computing

By Andrea Poet | Posted on June 30, 2020

Sudip Mazumder

Mazumder named UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 01, 2020

Zhongyi Chen

ECE student Zhongyi Chen pivots from teaching Arduino workshops to developing tool to track COVID-19 exposure

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 22, 2020

Alvaro Sahagun

Hard work and a willingness to take chances: graduating senior Álvaro Sahagun’s success story

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 07, 2020

Schreyer Miller in clean room at Berkley

For senior Aaron Schreyer-Miller, undergraduate research key to his success at UIC

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 13, 2020

Raehan Ahmed Syed

Get to know Raehan Ahmed Syed, ECE MS 2020 student

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 13, 2020

Pai-Yen Chen

ECE Professor Pai-Yen Chen Improves Readers on Implantable Wireless Sensors

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 13, 2020

Jin Gao

ECE PhD student Jin Gao receives $5,000 Provost Graduate Research Award

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 10, 2020

data science graphic

NSF awards UIC $1.5M for new data science institute

by Natasha Wadlington | Posted on January 28, 2020

Sudip Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder receives two new grants on power electronics

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 18, 2019

Patrick Martin

Get to know electrical and computer engineering graduate Patrick Martin

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 17, 2019

Rashid Ansari

Thanks to Professor Rashid Ansari for serving seven years as head of the ECE Department

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 17, 2019

Amru Qutub

Founder of two student organizations powering up for graduation, professional career

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 06, 2019

SWEet beginnings brunch

It's a SWEet beginning to the year for women studying engineering

by Andrea Poet | Posted on November 01, 2019

Ouday Hanosh

ECE PhD student Ouday Hanosh goes back to summer camp

by Andrea Poet | Posted on November 01, 2019

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department welcomes new faculty, announces faculty promotions

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 22, 2019

Daniela Tuninetti

ECE Department names Professor Daniela Tuninetti interim department head

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 22, 2019

Daniela Tuninetti, Natasha Devroye, and Besma Smida

Professor Daniela Tuninetti receives grant to develop framework for distributed computation

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 14, 2019

Daniela Tuninetti, Natasha Devroye, and Besma Smida

Balancing delay, transmission rate, and reliability in data transmission—three UIC professors receive over $1M NSF grant to benchmark tradeoffs

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 07, 2019