List of 2022 News

ECE Faculty Member Honored Among 2022 UCF Luminary Awardees

Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards. The Luminary Awards are designed to…

UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Honored for Career Achievements

To understand a university’s role in shaping the future of the world, a closer look at the 16 University of Central Florida alumni who were…

Lockheed Martin Awards Research Grant to Rickard Ewetz

Lockheed Martin Awards Research Grant to Rickard Ewetz Lockheed Martin Corporation has awarded a $150K research grant to UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering…

ECE Associate Professor Arthur Weeks Retires After 35 Years at UCF

ECE Associate Professor Arthur Weeks Retires After 35 Years at UCF Art Weeks receives an award of appreciation for his years of service to UCF,…

Marc Jean and Ashkan Farhangi Receive ECE’s Inaugural Best Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to Ashkan Farhangi! Where would we be without our graduate teaching assistants? The grads our faculty rely upon to prepare lectures, teach classes and…

Muhammad Rashed Receives David T. and Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Graduate Scholarship

Muhammad Rashed has been selected to receive the prestigious David T. and Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Graduate Scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year. The scholarship…

Dr. Reza Abdolvand Appointed as Chair of UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that professor Reza Abdolvand, Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the department. His…

ECE Research Selected as Design Automation Conference (DAC’22) Publicity Paper

From left to right: Rodolfo Valiente Romero, Kurt Wilson, Owen Burns, Megan “Miché” Moraes, Nitish Gupta, Zhishan Guo, Yaser P. Fallah, Mahdi Razzaghpour, Nicholas Gray,…

UCF Awards Five ECE Faculty with Promotions and Tenure

UCF Awards Five ECE Faculty with Promotions and Tenure Consideration for promotion and tenure takes nearly an entire academic year as faculty are evaluated on…

ECE Researcher Receives NSF CAREER Award

Brian Kim, an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty…

ECE Alumnus Receives UCF’s Highest Student Honor

Recent graduate Christopher Clifford ’21 was one of 26 students honored by UCF with the Order of Pegasus. Awarded each spring, the distinction is the…

Zhihua Qu Honored by ECEDHA

Zhihua Qu, Pegasus Professor and former chair of the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Outstanding Leadership and Service Award from…

ECE Alumni Selected for UCF’s Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards

Alumni from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering received university-level research excellence awards at the annual Founders Day Convocation. The honors are awarded to…

Rahnavard Honored by UCF for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students

Electrical and computer engineering professor Nazanin Rahnavard, Ph.D. received UCF’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students at this year’s Founders Day Honors Convocation.…

Dr. Zhishan Guo Wins Reach for the Stars Award

Assistant professor Zhishan Guo was one of five UCF faculty honored with UCF’s Reach for the Stars award. The honor recognizes early-career professionals with highly…

UCF Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Programs Rise in National Rankings

All nine eligible programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science ranked in the top 50 for public institutions, and top 75 overall. UCF…

Jun Wang and Greg Welch Elected as IEEE Fellows for Career Achievements

Two UCF professors are being honored as 2022 fellows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a prestigious national distinction. The IEEE announced…