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Retirement – No longer the final frontier

Retirees are the envy of the workforce, spending their “golden years” filled with leisurely activities like golfing, dining out and socializing with their peers. It’s what most of us picture when we think of retirement. But that lifestyle isn’t for everyone and Mirabella at ASU, a premier retirement community on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, is…

Bertoni and Blain Christen named Fulton Entrepreneurial Professors

Mariana Bertoni and Jennifer Blain Christen share several accomplishments in common. They both are associate professors in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, one of the six Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. They each are co-founders of technology startups extending from their research at ASU. And now the two are receiving high-profile support from…

Collaboration leads to an energy boost in solar cells

Researchers from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at ASU are joining forces with their colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop advanced, more efficient solar panels. The team led by UIUC includes ECEE’s Zachary Holman, Zhengshan (Jason) Yu and William Weigand. The band of electrical engineers developed a technique that layers gallium arsenide phosphide…

Power scholarship recipient announced

For the second year in a row, the prestigious IEEE PES G. Ray Ekenstam Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to an Arizona State University electrical engineering student. Congratulations, U.S. Air Force veteran Isaac Forest for receiving the 2020 acclaim.  “I am honored to be selected for the G. Ray Ekenstam Memorial Scholarship,” Forest says. “Thank you to…

A gem of an idea

Assistant Professor Chao Wang and his research team have developed a new platform utilizing sapphire-supported nanopore membranes for biomolecular sensing.  fullcircle.asu.edu/research/using-sapphire-for-biosensing-a-new-way-to-shape-the-gemstone/

Mapping the past from space

NASA’s high-powered satellite telescope SPHEREx, equipped with dilemma/survey planning software built by Arizona State University researchers, will help unlock the mysteries of the universe. On a crisp, clear night, we may find ourselves gazing up at the sky. As we stand in our present, we sometimes forget that we are reveling in the sky’s past….

A five-year journey to Tempe

by Theresa Cordon | Jun 14, 2021 | News Online student David “Wade” Eickbusch graduated this past May with his MS in electrical engineering. A nontraditional student, Eickbusch approached his degree one class per semester while working full-time. Today Eickbusch celebrated his graduation with a surprise trip to campus organized by his proud wife, Celia Eickbush.  Eickbusch received his undergraduate…

An electrified career honored 

Professor Chaitali Chakrabarti has been influencing the future generations of electrical engineers for more than 30 years. Starting in 1990, Chakrabarti brought her talents and passion for algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing and communication systems, low-power embedded system design, reliable and energy-efficient in-memory computing and secure edge computing to what is now known as the School of Electrical,…

The DOD names student Albert Reed to the prestigious NDSEG program

Albert Reed, an electrical engineering PhD candidate, was recently selected to join the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship program.  Reed received the award to recognize his academic excellence in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) achievements. The program, developed in 1989 at Congress’s direction and sponsored by the Army, Navy, and Air Force,…

Pratte recognized for her outstanding collaboration

Senior Academic Success Advising Coordinator, Lynn Pratte, wins the inaugural Outstanding Collaboration award from the Graduate College. https://news.asu.edu/20210623-asu-graduate-college-announces-first-ever-staff-awards-excellence-winners