UNM ECE Prof. Meeko Oishi Receives CAREER Award

Meeko Oishi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received a highly sought-after National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. [more]

Professors Hayat, Mammoli and Ghani win $1.05M grant from DTRA to Support Smart Grid Research

Professors Majeed Hayat, Andrea Mammoli and Nasir Ghani have recently received a three-year $1.05 million grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to support basic research on understanding cascading failures in modern power grids. [more]

Professors Ghani and Hayat receive $ 1.05 million DTRA fundamental research grant on cyber-infrastructure disaster recovery

UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Nasir Ghani (Associate Chair, ECE) and Majeed Hayat (Associate Director, UNM Center for High Technology Materials) have received a three-year $1.05 million multi-institution Fundamental Research grant from the DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to support their work on cyber-infrastructure disaster recovery. [more]

Dr. Thomas Atwood appointed new Air Force ORS technical director

Dr. Thomas Atwood, who received his PhD in Electrical Engineering (advised by Prof. Christodoulou) from the ECE department at UNM has been appointed the technical director of the Air Force Operationally Responsive Space office. The ORS Technical Director serves as the principal scientific/technical advisor to the ORS Director and helps manage the day-to-day technical activities of the 40-person ORS Office, including joint service military and civilian personnel, liaison officers, and support contractors. Guides in-house core ORS technology programs and resources and coordinates ORS efforts with related S&T efforts across the community. Congrats to Dr. Atwood! [more]

ECE Student Joshua Trujillo Selected For Prestigious Honeywell FM&T Technical Fellowship Program

ECE student Joshua Trujillo was recently selected for the prestigious Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) Technical Fellowship Program. The Technical Fellowship Program at Honeywell allows employees to earn a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in a science or engineering discipline identified as a technical gap, while enabling employees to meet their educational development needs. [more]

Prof. Lester named IEEE and SPIE fellow. Prof. Calhoun named IEEE and AAAS fellow

Congratulations to Professors Lester and Calhoun on being named IEEE/SPIE and IEEE/AAAS fellows respectively! More details on their prestigious achievement can be found on the school of engineering website [more]

[Calhoun named 2013 fellow to both aaas and ieee]






[Lester named 2013 fellow to both ieee and spie]