The Vanderbilt Electrical and Computer Engineering Department celebrated its second annual ECE Day and recognized curriculum innovations, student achievements and opened with a poster session and luncheon. The event concluded with a keynote presentation by Jonathan Pellish, Microelectronics Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, on “Nuclear Physics to CHIPS and Science: Endless Curiosity and Ingenuity,” and a reception.
The one-day event was created to bring together alumni, faculty, students and staff to celebrate the department’s achievements. View an ECE Day photo album here.
- Evelyn Marx earned the Best Undergraduate Poster award for her work on “Development of a Certification Framework for a Microelectronics Workforce Development Program.”
- Yubo Fan lead the graduate student awards for Best Poster with “Temporal Bone CT Synthesis for MR-only Cochlear Implant Preoperative Planning.”
- Aravind Krishnan receive Best Poster–Runner Up for his paper “CT Reconstruction Kernel Conversion using Generative Adversarial Networks.”
- Cassandra Nunez received the department’s inaugural Outstanding TA Award. Nunez received exemplary feedback from her students and her faculty mentors.
- Abigale Plunk was recognized for her winning ECE Day t-shirt design.
Four faculty members presented overviews of research breakthroughs:
- Mona Ebrish, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented on Heterogenous Integration in the Age of Emerging Materials
- Jack Noble, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, discussed “Engineering for Surgery: How the fundamentals of ECE can transform clinical interventions”
- Jonathan Sprinkle, Professor of Computer Science, reviewed “Model-Based Design for Autonomous Vehicles”
- Brian Sierawski, Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented “Enabling Microelectronics for Extreme Environments”
Contact: Brenda Ellis, brenda.ellis@vanderbilt.edu