The Student Alumni Ambassadors and the University of Illinois Alumni Association recently named their selections for the 2008 Senior 100 Honorary; ECE students Lawrence Han, Catherine Wah, and Elaine Wah were among the many honored.

Rich Templeton, chairman, president, and CEO of Texas Instruments (TI), recently spoke to students and faculty members at a lecture on campus sponsored by the ECE Department. Focusing on the topic of semiconductor innovation, Templeton discussed the potential to solve critical problems in the areas of energy, health care, power efficiency, and public safety.

ECE researchers Kyekyoon "Kevin" Kim and Hyungsoo Choi have developed a new low-temperature, catalyst-free technique for growing copper nanowires.

Professor Weng C. Chew, Y.T. Lo Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, was granted the 2008 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society “for outstanding contributions to education in the fields of electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics.”

Professor James Coleman, Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and former PhD student S. David Roh recently earned a United States patent for their research and development of the dual distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) grating semiconductor laser.