Annual Report 2014-2015 Report Annual
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering P.O. Box 875706 Tempe, AZ 85287-5706 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ARIZONA STATE ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 Visit ecee.engineering.asu.edu School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering for more information about Arizona State University, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering or the Annual Report 2014-2015 School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. ECEE 2014-2015 Annual Report Cover-v4-toPRINT.indd 1 11/2/15 5:37 PM IRA A. FULTON SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering P.O. Box 875706 Tempe, AZ 85287-5706 For more information about ASU, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, or the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE), please visit us online at: ecee.engineering.asu.edu Annual Report 2014-2015 This publication is written, designed and produced by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for distribution to selected alumni, industry partners and colleagues worldwide. Contributing writers powering the future Sharon Keeler Joe Kullman The School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State Judy Nichols University is leading cutting-edge research in the areas of photovoltaics, Rose Serago Melissa Wenzel power systems, integrated circuit design, semiconductor electronics, signal processing and more. Our technologies are integral to many of the systems and devices that we depend on every day. We are home to ASU’s first Photography Engineering Research Center, QESST, a center focused on solar energy Jessica Hochreiter Hayden Taylor solutions to the terawatt electricity challenge for the world. We seek to transform devices and systems to be faster, more reliable, more mobile, more resilient and more efficient. Be a part of Electrical Engineering Support Stay in Touch Volunteer © 2015 Arizona State University. All rights reserved. The sunburst logo is a We are also looking for ways to ensure that there are knowledgeable registered trademark, and the Arizona State University word mark is a trademark Donations support senior projects, student and Keep up to date on news about Fulton Engineering Join us at E2, homecoming and other events of Arizona State University. All other brands, product names, company names, and innovative engineers prepared to take on the challenges of serving a trademarks and service marks used herein are the property of their respective faculty research, and improving the educational and ECEE at our news site, Full Circle (fullcircle. throughout the year. You will reconnect with owners. Information in this document is for informational purposes only and is highly connected and powered world. With the online delivery or our highly subject to change without notice. tools and opportunities we offer our students. asu.edu). Do you have your own news to add to the engineering alumni, learn about new research regarded ABET-accredited electrical engineering program, we are building To make a donation of any amount, please call ECEE section of Full Circle? Share your news with initiatives and meet our outstanding engineering the knowledge workforce for Arizona and beyond that is ready to meet these challenges. David Wahls at 480-727-0827, or mail your gift us at [email protected]. students. to Cynthia Moayedpardazi, P.O. Box 875706, Like us on Facebook (School of Electrical, Computer We invite you to connect with us and learn more about the many ways that Tempe, AZ 85287-5706. Please make checks and Energy Engineering at ASU) to connect with we are engineering a difference. payable to “Arizona State University” with “Electrical students and other alumni in ECEE. Engineering” noted in the memo line. ECEE 2014-2015 Annual Report Cover-v4-toPRINT.indd 2 11/2/15 5:37 PM national research prominence 12 QESST: First NSF ERC in ASU’s history NSF I/UCRCs: Four led by ECEE faculty exceptional Nanofab: State-of-the-art semiconductor fabrication entrepreneurship year in review $31M in external sponsored project expenditures 36 02 Kozicki named National Academy QESST Engineering Research Center of Inventors fellow Message from the director Technology advances earn international, and Innovative medical device modeling software Sponsored research expenditures state innovation awards sparks tech startup ECEE enrollment Young engineering faculty rapidly building a track Online engineering student starts venture, record of innovation and high performance begins entrepreneurial fellowship Connection One accomplished PSERC Power One IC faculty 05 SenSIP 11 new faculty hires in past two years ASU LightWorks education 23 IEEE fellows ASU NanoFab innovation 40 20 young investigator or CAREER awards since 1995 QESST First ABET-accredited engineering program Christiana Honsberg receives double honors offered completely online for professional achievement 100% increase in student enrollment in 5 years Reisslein receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel outstanding Research Award Web-delivered education is a huge hit for students undergraduate electrical engineering program as Karady receives IEEE Power Engineering Society 27 enrollment surges Distinguished Individual Service Award Undergraduate research ignited Sisson’s Meldrum inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows passion for engineering Promising research draws science foundation’s ASU engineering graduate refused to be statistic, support for ASU engineer powered up her career Achievements earn Bliss, Zhang IEEE Fellow status HKN Epsilon Beta recognized for achievements New faculty: Targeted hiring grows faculty, Spring 2015 Outstanding ASU Graduate faculty expertise deepens expertise Spring 2015 Outstanding ASU Undergraduate 43 Research, adjunct and affiliated faculty ASU graduates its first undergraduate MasterCard Faculty directory and profiles Foundation Scholar Faculty and staff recognition ASU student satellite group keeping aims for space Doctoral graduates ECEE.ENGINEERING.ASU.EDU Continued strength The School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Ibrahima Diop, from Senegal, was the first undergraduate MasterCard Foundation Engineering (ECEE) continues to strengthen its Scholar to graduate from ASU. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical reputation by growing its research and education engineering. The MasterCard Scholars program educates and prepares young delivery enterprise. Our faculty, staff and students have people from Africa to lead change in their communities. Diop hopes to improve the enabled us to grow our externally funded sponsored power system in his country so that people have affordable and reliable electricity. project expenditures to an all-time record high of Enrollment in our academic programs continues to grow with more than 2,700 $31.8M in the fiscal year ending June 2015. The fiscal enrolled in fall 2015. This includes an all-time high enrollment of more than 336 year awards total an even more impressive $33M, while doctoral students, an average of nearly five doctoral students per tenured or tenure- proposals exceeded $150M. Evidence of our reputation track faculty member. Our graduate programs remain highly recognized with our in research includes a proposal yield exceeding 20 electrical engineering graduate program ranked 27 by U.S. News and World Report. percent — awards exceeded 20 percent of proposals. Stephen M. Phillips Our bachelor’s program was the first ABET accredited, undergraduate engineering The National Science Foundation has continued funding program in the country available 100 percent online. The demand among students for the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) Engineering who cannot come to campus is strong with enrollment growing from 100 in fall Research Center, an NSF/Department of Energy Engineering Research Center 2013, the first semester the degree was offered, to 800 in fall 2015. Students where ASU scientists are focused on the generation and distribution of photovoltaic benefitting from online delivery include more than 200 military veterans and many solar energy. The NSF also awarded CAREER awards to assistant professors working professionals. Andrew Ninh, a junior pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Pavan Turaga and Oliver Kosut. Turaga received the award in support of his electrical engineering online, developed an emerging health informatics startup research underlying the qualities of human movement. Kosut’s award will be used to company known as DocBot, which enables physicians to make fast, well-informed investigate and provide new techniques to bolster the resilience of communication decisions about patient care. He was accepted into Singularity University’s Startup networks in the presence of potentially damaging attacks. Associate Professor Lab Accelerator Program which includes $100,000 in seed funding and a 10-week Daniel Bliss and Professor Yong-Hang Zhang were selected as fellows of IEEE and experience at their campus in Silicon Valley. Professor Michael Kozicki was named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. As always, these achievements are thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our We continue to expand our faculty, hiring 11 new faculty members in the past two dedicated faculty, staff, alumni and volunteers and to the excellent students that our years to support our growing enrollment and to strengthen key research areas such programs attract. as photovoltaics, power systems, power electronics, communications, networks, nanotechnology, photonics, integrated circuits, renewable energy