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Awards

The School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), within the College of Engineering at OU, is proud to celebrate its excellent students and nationally recognized faculty.  Several recent award-winning examples are noted below.  Within ECE, students regularly engage in a variety of hands-on projects as part of their curriculum with professors who are engaged in cutting edge research.   

Recent Student Awards

Brian Veale,  John Antonio, and Monte Tull, "Configuration Steering for a Reconfigurable Superscalar Processor", United States Patent No. 7,757,069, July 13, 2010.

Gregory E. MacDonald and James J. Sluss, Jr., "Method for polarization-based intrusion monitoring in fiberoptic links," United States Patent No. 7,903,977, March 8, 2011.

2012 Student Research and Performance Day at OU:  ECE student
Fanxing Kong received the 2nd place award in the Engineering A category. 

Matt Gately, Rami Akkari, and Nick LaSorte each received the Robert Hughes Centennial Fellowship Award in May, 2010.  This award is for $5000/year during their graduate studies.

Brad Pirtle selected to receive a prestigious $10,000 award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, fall 2011

Zachary Dunn, “HF Oblique Incident Sounding for Calibration of an Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTHR) System,” AISES National Conference. Technical poster session. November, 2011. Minneapolis, MN.  This paper received the 1st Place Award in the Graduate Research Poster Contest, and the student received a check for $1000.00

Heather Hollen Jones selected to receive a prestigious $10,000 award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, fall 2010.

Recent Professor Awards

Dr. John Jiang won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Analysis and Measures of Risks in Modern Electric Energy Portfolio and Its Impacts on Power System Reliability:  Measures, Algorithms and Applications.”

Dr. Lei Ding won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Large-Scale Computational Neuroimaging of Brain Electrical Activity.”

Dr. Chad Davis was recognized with the 2011 Provost’s Outstanding Academic Advising Award

Dr. Sesh Commuri was recognized with the 2011 Vice President for Research Award for Outstanding Research Impact

Dr. Tian Yu was named the Gerald Tuma Presidential Professor, 2012.

Dr. Bob Palmer, an Adjunct Professor in ECE, was awarded the VPR Award for Outstanding Research Engagement, 2012

Dr. Pramode Verma, Anjan Ghosh, James Sluss, Samuel Cheng, Mark Martens, Robert Huck, Shanshan Chen, and Anil Kaul, “Remote cervical dilation monitoring system and method,” United States Patent No. 8,100,840, January 24, 2012.