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A team of UCF researchers in collaboration with Duke Energy has won an inaugural Department of Energy competition designed to illuminate new ways of processing data in the energy sector. The Sun Team – consisting of two electrical and computer engineering department faculty, Wei Sun and Qun Zhou Sun, statistics department faculty member Hsin-Hsiung Huang,…

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is seeking one undergraduate student who will be assisting the UCF cleanroom staff for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters in operation and maintenance of the equipment as a Texas Instruments (TI) Undergraduate Scholar. The applicant is expected to have a desire to work in the semiconductor…

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UCF is now accepting applications for the inaugural “AMD Graduate Research Fellowship”. This fellowship is made possible by the generous financial support from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc. with the objective of promoting advanced research and education in Generative Artificial Intelligence for use in the design of…

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UCF is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 “AMD Undergraduate Research Fellowship”. This scholarship is made possible by the generous financial support from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc. with the objective of promoting research and education in the general areas of computer architecture, artificial intelligence, high…

Meet computer engineering student and UCF Society of Women Engineers president Jordan Threlfall Engineering was a natural fit for Jordan Threlfall, a Clermont, Fla. native who has always had a passion for math and science. She says she chose computer engineering for its versatility. “As we shift to a more digital age, computer engineering provides…

Raj Mittra, a courtesy professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Radio Science Award by the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (USNI-URSI). The inaugural award is a prestigious honor that recognizes the overall impact of a researcher’s career in the field of radio…

Ronald DeMara, Pegasus Professor at the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The distinction, one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community, recognizes outstanding efforts to advance science and its applications. “AAAS is proud to elevate these standout…

Inaugural AMD undergraduate research fellows John Gierlach and Chase Szafranski High-performance computing giant AMD has partnered with the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to offer an exciting new opportunity for its students: undergraduate research fellowships. The inaugural AMD research fellowships were awarded to John Gierlach, a computer engineering major, and Chase Szafranski, an…

Congratulations to assistant professor Kenle Chen! He has received an NSF CAREER award for his research, Non-Reciprocally-Coupled Load-Modulation Platform for Next-Generation High-Power Magnetic-Less Fully-Directional Radio Front Ends. The project aims to establish the theoretical foundation and practical design methodologies for high-power magnetic-less fully-directional RF front-ends based on NRC-LM.

Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards. The Luminary Awards are designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields, as well as illuminate a path of discovery for those who will…