Funding Highlights
The University of Utah’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is deeply grateful to the alumni, corporate partners, institutions and friends whose generous support has sustained us in the past.
ECE Celebrates Highest Number of NSF CAREER Award Recipients
March 7, 2022
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that four ECE faculty members have received the 2022 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. This is the highest number of CAREER awards obtained in a single year by the department.
U Faculty Join $3.5 Million DOE Project
October 7, 2021
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professors Mingxi Liu, Mingyue Ji, Armin Tajalli and civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Terry Yang are co-principal investigators on a $3.5 million project that will develop a visual-based technology system to substantially reduces the cost of cooperative driving automation (CDA).
George Awarded Ascender Grant
September 28, 2021
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Jacob George has received a $96,500 Ascender Grant from the University of Utah PIVOT Center to develop his lab’s latest technology that detects hand motions based on electrical signals from the wrist for commercial use. The fast-paced project will last 80 days and enable his lab to turn the technology into a sleek, wearable device resembling a smartwatch.
Huang Receives Open-Source Software Development Grant
August 16, 2021
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a $10,000 grant from the nonprofit NumFocus to develop his programming system Taskflow. Taskflow is a general-purpose parallel and heterogeneous task programming system that enables users to write parallel programs with high performance and productivity.
Huang Receives $403,114 NSF Grant
July 30, 2021
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Tsung-Wei Huang has received a three-year, $403,114 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a novel computing system that will address the challenges of designing, implementing, and deploying parallel algorithms on heterogeneous nodes.
NATEGH LAB RECEIVES $2 MILLION RO1 GRANT
March 19, 2021
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering department assistant professor Neda Nategh was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health Grant for her research on deciphering the neural code of dynamic vision. The $2 million NIH National Eye Institute grant will fund research in Nategh’s lab for at least the next five years.
Cunxi Yu Receives Over $1M From NSF
September 2, 2020
ECE Assistant Professor Cunxi Yu had been granted nearly $1.13 million to develop multidisciplinary research across formal methods and deep learning.
JORGENSEN FAMILY DONATION FOR ECE LAB
July 22, 2020
Thanks to the generosity of the David G. and Annette T. Jorgensen Family Foundation as well as the support of additional donors, the University of Utah Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will have a new state-of-the-art undergraduate lab to enhance student learning.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDED $1,000 TO TRANSFORM NANOSTRUCTURES
February 28, 2020
University of Utah senior Dinorah Segovia is putting her love of math, engineering and the community together. “I actually didn’t really like that there wasn’t enough math in healthcare and so now electrical engineering is a great option to help people in a different way,” she said.
Solzbacher Students Win Bench to Bedside
April 15, 2019
Two University of Utah engineering students under electrical and computer engineering chair Florian Solzbacher are part of a team that has won this year’s Bench to Bedside Competition.
ECE Assistant Professor is Remaking Electronics
July 31, 2018
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon was awarded close to $2 million for projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s new Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) “Page 3” programs.
Power to the People
May 22, 2018
Masood Parvania is building a laboratory to develop technology that would help communities get their power back online faster in an outage.
Gaillardon Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 11, 2018
University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon has received the NSF CAREER Award.
Gaillardon Wins Research Award
October 26, 2017
ECE Assistant Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon was recently awarded the 2016 Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Research Award.
Tom Becnel Nabs Prize in “TechTalks” Contest
October 26, 2017
Tom Becnel, a University of Utah electrical and computer engineering graduate, won a $200 prize in the “TechTalks” contest sponsored by IM Flash.
ECE Engineers Receive Solar Technology Grant
August 16, 2017
University of Utah engineers have received an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a monitoring system for solar panels that can automatically locate damaged panels, wiring, or connections in a large solar farm while the panels are live.