In 2023, the College of Engineering received a generous donation that includes new electrical testing and measurement equipment for its electrical engineering fundamentals teaching laboratory in Dearborn Hall.
Valued at $84,000, the equipment was donated by Keysight Technologies. The company, based in Santa Clara, California, is a worldwide leader in the development and production of electronics testing and measurement equipment and software.
**Update, August 2024: The Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub has received $500,000 from the Economic Development Association to continue its work**
Wei-Che Hsu, who recently earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, won first place in the Division of Laser Science poster competition.
Hsu presented his research at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, the top conference in photonics co-organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physics Society.
Mostafa Essawy, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, was one of just 26 students worldwide to receive a 2023-2024 predoctoral achievement award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.
The award is granted annually to promising Ph.D. students based on their academic records and the quality of their publications.
February 29 marked a major milestone for the Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub, or CorMic, as the consortium submitted their proposal to the U.S. Economic Development Administration to be considered for up to $70 million in funding as part of the Biden Administration’s Tech Hub Program. As one of the 31 Tech Hubs designated by the Biden Administration in October, CorMic has positioned itself to become a global leader in microfluidics over the next decade.
Doctoral students Jacob Dawes and Debbie Chou, under the guidance of Associate Professor Matt Johnston (left), test a setup to measure small particles as they pass through a microfluidic flow cell. These beads serve as cell surrogates, but the target application is for cell counting — or flow cytometry — a commonly used tool in bio labs and for medical tests. The goal is to develop a smaller, much more integrated cell counting system using custom integrated circuits.
Zahir Alsulaimawi, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, received a best paper and presentation award at the Sixth International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Alsulaimawi, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State, researches ways to make machine learning models smarter without compromising people’s privacy.
Xiangqi Zhu received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2013 and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2017. Since 2017, she has been working as a researcher with the Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA. She is joining EECS as an assistant professor in December 2023.