ECE in the Media

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  1. 5 Years After Blackout, Power Grid Still in 'Dire Straits' (The Public Record)
    August 7, 2008--In an article on the 2003 power blackout in the Northeast, ECE Professor George Gross discussed the lack of investment in the power grid that continues to put reliability at risk. Go to article

  2. How does power get to your home? (Rock Island Argus)
    July 24, 2008--In the wake of massive power outages in the Quad Cities area, ECE Professor Tom Overbye answered questions about how power is generated and distributed, what causes mass power outages, and how power is restored. Go to article

  3. Turning guitar heroes into composers (The New York Times)
    July 16, 2008--Electronic musical instruments, including the Continuum Fingerboard created by ECE Lecturer Lippold Haken, are ushering in a new generation of instrumentation. Go to article

  4. Illinois named first CUDA Center of Excellence (TradingMarkets.com)
    June 30, 2008--NVIDIA Corporation announced that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named the world's first CUDA Center of Excellences. The principal investigator of this first CUDA Center of Excellence is Wen-mei Hwu, who holds the AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois. Go to article

  5. Kanti Jain speaks at SPIE Optics+Photonics 2008 plenary session (Photonics.com)
    June 25, 2008--ECE Professor Kanti Jain will speak at a plenary session of SPIE Optics+Photonics 2008, the largest optical sciences and technology meeting in North America. The topic will be excimer laser lithography and photoablation technologies for large-area micro- and nanoelectronics, displays and microsystems. The conference is held August 10-14 in San Diego. Go to article

  6. Cantilever array used to measure cells (Chemical & Engineering News)
    June 18, 2008--ECE Professor Rashid Bashir and colleagues have developed a new array of microfabricated silicon cantilevers that enable researchers to track the growth of cells. Go to article