Prabhakar Pathak,
professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering and the
ElectroScience Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2013
Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society. He was specifically recognized for
“introducing and establishing the Uniform Theory of Diffraction
(UTD) as a computational tool in Electromagnetics (EM) and for
innovative solutions to EM antenna/scattering problems.”
Ashok Krishnamurthy, associate professor of electrical and
computer engineering, has retired after 26 years of service to
The Ohio State University. He has been named deputy director of
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mobile video viewing is a broken process, says Hesham El Gamal, professor of electrical
and computer engineering at The Ohio State University, one that
his new Ohio State spinoff company, inmobly, aims to fix. By launching a
series of apps, starting with the recently launched free Android
app, PAUL, inmobly aims to tackle network congestion and deliver
a better user experience.
Len Brillson,
professor of electrical and computer engineering, and physics,
was recently named a 2013 Fellow of the Materials Research
Society. He was honored for “seminal contributions to the
understanding and control of semiconductor interfaces, their
metallurgical reactions, native point defects, and electronic
properties.”
Robots that fight fires, cars that drive themselves, clothes that
prevent illness the stuff of science fiction novels? Or, are they
closer than we think? Ohio State electrical and computer
engineering researchers were among the experts interviewed for
Life in 2030, a one-hour special radio show from
the Engineers of the New Millennium.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in the Department of
Defense (DOD) has awarded Lei (Raymond)
Cao, assistant professor of nuclear engineering, and
Yuan F. Zheng,
professor of electrical and computer engineering, a $450,000
three-year grant to fund their collaborative research on
radiation sensitivity of critical radiation-hardened robotic
components.
Fueled by the increasing popularity of online services—from
online banking to video sharing—and cloud computing, the number
and size of computer data centers continues to grow. As the
number of data centers increases, so does the amount of energy
needed to power them. In addition to high electricity bills and
significant environmental implications, increased power
consumption may lead to system failures caused by power capacity
overload or overheating.
Echoic flow, or the time to collision between a sensor and a
detected object, could have future applications in a variety of
areas, from autonomous navigation, to aircraft landing aids, to
prosthetics to enable blind people.
