University of Delaware Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

08/07/2023

Rising junior Christina Carroll will be teeing off in the upcoming Women's Amateur Championship. Way to go Christina!! ⛳


Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UD

2022 USA Curtis Cup stalwart and USC rising junior Amari Avery is one of 29 Californians in the field at Bel-Air Country Club. (USGA/James Gilbert)

07/27/2023

Prof. Nektarios Tsoutsos received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop new ways to protect data! 🎖 🎉

Prof. Tsoutsos' CAREER award will also help support several educational activities including coordinating in-person cybersecurity-themed outreach events including summer camps and competitions for underserved communities. Building off the success of events like the Embedded Security Challenge and Capture the Flag events, these activities will be further strengthened by UD’s tight-knit community of cybersecurity faculty, staff and students.

UD Engineering's Nektarios Tsoutsos received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop new ways to protect data

05/18/2023

Special thanks to our 2023 ECE Alumni award winners for their inspiring word, achievements and contributions to ECE. We hope you enjoyed touring the department and most importantly attending our annual ECE Reading Day picnic!

Distinguished Achievement: Hedley Davis, Domatic Inc - EE 1981
The award is the most prestigious honor bestowed upon alumni of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Individuals receiving this award have distinguished themselves through notable significant contributions in engineering research, practice, education, or business.

Entrepreneurial Innovations: Jennifer R. Davis, Esq. IP & Innovation - CPEG-BCPE Spring 2005
The award is conferred upon Electrical and Computer Engineering alumni who have created an innovative business, developed a new product, brought to market a new venture, or expanded an existing business. Honorees recognized by this award exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit central to the ECE discipline.

Outstanding Service: Thomas Clupper, W.L. Gore & Associates - EE-MEE 1991
The award acknowledges alumni who, through dedication and exemplary volunteer service, illustrate broad leadership in support of the aims and objectives of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Honorees recognized by this award have set a strong example to their fellow alumni through their exceptional contributions to scholarship, teaching, or other improvements to the faculty and students of the ECE department.

Recent Graduate: Theo Fleck, W.L. Gore & Associate - CPEG-BCPE Spring 2020
The Recent Alumni Achievement Award recognizes Electrical and Computer Engineering Department alumni that have graduated within the past fifteen years and have excelled in their chosen profession. Awardees exhibit outstanding technical achievement, entrepreneurship, or leadership, with achievements that distinguish them among their fellow recent graduates.

05/16/2023

Researchers at UD ECE are collaborating with
NVIDIA to accelerate a new form of cryptography that aims to protect user privacy in cloud computing. 🖥️

Read more about it here --->

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic method that guarantees the privacy and security of user data during computation. FHE algorithms can perform unlimited arithmetic computations directly on encrypted data without decrypting it. Thus, even when processed by untrusted systems, confid...

05/16/2023

Congratulations Dun Mao on a succesful Ph.D. Defense!

Dun worked on a few topics related to silicon optoelectronic devices. Silicon photonics technology has tremendous applications for optical transceivers in data centers, and also has great potential for future optical communication in outer space. There are demands for high speed optoelectronic devices. And how reliable the silicon devices could be after staying in the space environment is unknown. He combined some low-dimensional materials with silicon to demonstrate high speed optoelectronic devices. Also he evaluated the performance reliability of silicon devices against space radiation effects. Dun is advised by Prof. Tingyi Gu.

05/16/2023

Congratulations Ellen Gupta on a sucessful Ph.D. Defense!

Ellen's research explores hybrid manufacturing methods, focusing on additive manufacturing (AM), to develop complex electromagnetic systems. Hybrid AM shows promising results in bridging different manufacturing techniques due to AM’s flexibility with materials and scalability that pair well with other manufacturing approaches. AM is utilized in this research, which focuses on the design and development of integrated RF and photonic devices and surveys the reality of using hybrid manufacturing techniques. Ellen is advised by Prof. Mark Mirotznik

05/09/2023

Don't forget to attend our 2023 ECE Alumni Awards at Mitchell Hall Wednesday, May 17 at 2pm!

Distinguished Achievement: Hedley Davis, Domatic Inc - EE 1981

Entrepreneurial Innovations: Jennifer R. Davis, Esq. IP & Innovation - CPEG-BCPE Spring 2005

Outstanding Service: Thomas Clupper, W.L. Gore & Associates - EE-MEE 1991

Recent Graduate: Theo Fleck, W.L. Gore & Associate - CPEG-BCPE Spring 2020

05/03/2023

Kicking off Research Day at 1:30pm TODAY, Evans Hall! Showcasing departmental research from , , , and !

05/03/2023

The Power of One Day, a world of difference! During I Heart UD Giving Day support an area at UD close to your heart.

Help support Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UD at the University of Delaware

Donate to WECE here---> https://lnkd.in/eNShQ9r6

To maximize the impact of your donations, please consider donating between 2:00pm to 3:00pm (EDT) on May 3. The university has several power hour challenges to award $5K matching funds to the project with the highest number of donations during the specified hours. Every donor count, no matter the amount (even as little as $5), makes a difference in our ability to serve our community.

05/01/2023

Make a gift of any amount to Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UD at the University of Delaware for I Heart UD Giving Day on May 3 and you’ll provide resourses for group activities and educational events. Your donation will make a lasting impact at UD!

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03/29/2023

In Memoriam: Dr. Chase Cotton

Engineering professor remembered for his unique research perspective, student advocacy and mentoring

03/24/2023

Save the Date! ECE Distinguished Lecture Series Presented in collaboration with the UD Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, Wednesday, April 19 3:30pm Mitchell Hall

Dr. Tanya Das, Senior Associate Director of Energy Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center

In 2011, Tanya graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and little awareness of American politics. A decade later, after getting her PhD in ECE and working on energy policy in the U.S. Congress, she found herself appointed by President Biden to lead the implementatio of his Administration’s agenda at the Office of Science, the $7 billion basic science arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. She now works at a nonprofit think tank called the Bipartisan Policy Center, helping to influence federal energy and climate policy to advance the interest of both political parties in the spirit of “the Delaware Way”. In this talk she will share her views on what science policy means, the roles of different organizations in the federal policy ecosystem, and our nation’s progress towards addressing climate change.

03/24/2023

Antoinette Kellam is an amazing example of perseverance and resolve! 🤩🤩

03/21/2023

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform our ECE community of the passing of our beloved friend and colleague Dr. Chase Cotton.

Throughout his fifteen years at University of Delaware, Dr. Cotton was instrumental in expanding the department’s education and training opportunities in the field of cybersecurity. His dedication to his students was unmatched and his absence will be felt deeply throughout our ECE community.

Please keep Dr. Cotton’s family in your thoughts. If you have a memory, message or photograph that you would like to share with the UD community, please add to the webpage below.
https://www.ece.udel.edu/in-memoriam-chase-cotton/

Services will be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home
121 W. Park Place, Newark, DE
Viewing: 10 a.m.
Services: 11 a.m.
https://spicermullikin.com/dr-charles-chase-cotton/

03/17/2023

WTF (Wednesday Tech Forum) RECAP!! Aaron Spock started his first company in high school, manufacturing and selling custom LED boxes for music enthusiasts, in conjunction with a clothing brand that utilized a local prison reform program. With his wide interests in business and fashion, he grew his clothing brand into a full-time endeavor while also selling sneakers on the side.

He began studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware and interned with Delmarva Power, NAVSEA Navy, and Mag Aerospace during summers. He accepted a position at Lockheed Martin, where he rose to a Level 2 software position in only a year. Currently, he is developing a verification company utilizing patent-pending blockchain technology to track the ownership of limited edition sneakers to the initial point of authentication. Kickd is able to create an immutable record of the authentication process, ensuring that the sneakers' authenticity can be verified at any time.

His company, Kickd, has attracted the interest of Nike, as well as large Philadelphia-based boutique sneaker stores.

03/10/2023

WTF (Wednesday Tech Forum) hosted Jeb Bartle! Jeb is a 1976 EE alumni, Double Del and owner of a small manufacturer rep company!!

NEXT WEEK WTF hosts Aaron Spock! You don't want to miss this one! Aaron studidd Electrical Engineering UD and interned with Delmarva Power, NAVSEA Navy, and Mag Aerospace during summers. He accepted a position at Lockheed Martin, where he rose to a Level 2 software position in only a year.

03/03/2023

Congratulations Karelia Pena-Pena on a sucessful PhD Defense!

The proposed research leverage hypergraphs and their high-order tensor representations to develop novel theories and algorithms that enable processing data by considering its underlying higher-order relationships. Higher-order relationships are widespread in many complex systems, such as multiple neurons firing simultaneously and people interacting in small groups of more than two people. Hence, the applications range from embedding images into QR codes to classification and denoising in a myriad of fields. Karelia's committee chair and advisor is Prof. Gonzalo Arce

03/03/2023

WTF (Wednesday Tech Forum) was all about fashion and how its related to science!! Dr. Martha L. Hall is the Director of Innovation of Health Sciences , holds a secondary appointment in ECE and is the founder of Dr. Martha Hall Designs and FashionableScience.com, which are dedicated to promoting and creating adaptive apparel, wearable technology, and other innovative solutions to empower populations with special needs.

She is a globally recognized expert in user-centered function design, as well as an experienced fashion designer and accomplished university scientist and researcher. She has focused her entire career on creating solutions that meet the fashion, self-expression, and physical needs of individuals with all abilities and body types.

Dr. Hall holds a Ph.D. in Biomechanics and Movement Science, is trained in kinesiology, human development and coding for wearable electronics, and biomechanical analysis. She also holds multiple patents covering a wide spectrum of applications, industries, and use cases.