2014 ESL Awards Luncheon
The Annual ESL Awards Luncheon was held on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center. The awards luncheon gives ESL students, faculty and staff an opportunity to gather before the holidays and be acknowledged for their accomplishments and rewarded for their hard work. This year's award committee included Dr. Robert Burkholder, Dr. Asimina Kiourti and Dr. Teh-Hong Lee. The committee received 5 dissertations and 28 papers to select the Best Dissertation and Best Paper award.
This year's Best Dissertation Award went to Dr. Elias Alwan for his dissertation titled "Ultra-Wideband On-Site-Coding-Receiver for Digital Beamforming Applications".
The Best Paper Award went to the authors of "Non-Contact Probes for On-Wafer Characterization of Sub-Millimeter-Wave Devices and Integrated Circuits" which was published on the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (vol.62, no.11, pp.2791) on November 2014. The paper was written by Mr. Cosan Caglayan, and co-authored by Dr. Georgios Trichopoulos and Dr. Kubilay Sertel.
Along with ESL and ECE Faculty, Staff and Students, the attendees included Faculty Emeritus Robert Garbacz, Roger Rudduck and Al Rundle along with Associate Dean for Research, Randy Moses, and Scott Osbourne, the Director of Research Operations at the College of Engineering.
Please visit our Photo Library to browse through the photos shot during the event.
