Posted October 12, 2011 Atlanta, GA
Students from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) who have received prestigious fellowships were honored at a breakfast hosted by Georgia Tech College of Engineering Dean Gary S. May on September 29 at the Wardlaw Center Gordy Room. Students from other schools within the College were also recognized for the fellowships that they have earned.
The following ECE students were honored at this event; fellowship names and student advisors are also listed.
Jordan Greenlee, ARCS Fellowship and NDSEG Fellowship, Advisor: W. Alan Doolittle
Urenna Onyewuchi, Corning Fellowship, Advisor: Emmanouil M. Tentzeris
Abner Ayala Acevedo; GEM Fellowship, Goizueta Fellowship, and President's Fellowship; Advisor: Bonnie Heck Ferri
Yancy Jose Diaz-Mercado, GEM Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck Ferri
Carlos Solis, GEM Fellowship, Advisor: Gabriel Rincon-Mora
Ivan Walker, GEM Fellowship
Shaloo Rakheja, Intel Fellowship, Advisor: Azad Naeemi
Hyung Suk Yang, Intel Fellowship, Advisors: Muhannad Bakir and James D. Meindl
Trang Thai, Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Advisor: James D. Meindl
Chris Coen, NASA Space Tech Research Fellowship, Advisor: John D. Cressler
Jessica Falcone, NSF Fellowship, Advisor: Pamela T. Bhatti
George Barisich, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Paul G. Steffes
Chia-Chen Chou, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck Ferri
Michelle Collins, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Daniel Dykes, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Margaret Garvan, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Michael Giardino, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
David Jensen, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Alexander Melhorn, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Colin Pardue, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Stephanie Parker, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Stephanie Rosenthal, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Clifton Thomas, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
James Thomas, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
William Wahby, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Leilei Xiong, President's Fellowship, Advisor: Bonnie Heck-Ferri
Greg Droge, SMART Fellowship, Advisor: Magnus Egerstedt
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
