Sepideh Kianbakht wins first place in SWE WE Local Collegiate Competition
Congratulations to Sepideh Kianbakht – a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering – for first place in SWE WE Local Collegiate Competition.
Sepideh Kianbakht awarded Rudd Mayer Fellowship by WRISE
Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) awarded Sepideh Kianbakht with the Rudd Mayer Fellowship.
Graduate student Daniel Gaydos receives IEEE MTT-S 2019 Graduate Fellowship Award
Daniel Gaydos received the prestigious 2019 IEEE graduate fellowship award from the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for his research proposal “Adaptive Wireless Communication Systems Using Software-Defined Radio Arrays.” Daniel is a first-year master’s degree student in the EE department and is advised by Prof. Payam Nayeri.Undergraduate Madison Le wins third place in student paper competition at ACES 2019 annual conference
Madison Le’s paper “Error Analysis of Subgridding when Modeling Multiscale Structures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method” won third place in the 2019 ACES student paper competition.
A poster outlining the paper can be viewed in the hallway outside the EE department office BB310C.
Dr. Peter J. Aaen starts as Electrical Engineering Department head July 1
Peter Aaen
Dr. Peter Aaen received both the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science and the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1995 and 1997 respectively. In 2005, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.
Peter Aaen has held engineering management positions in industry before joining the University of Surrey. In 2013, he was awarded the position of Reader – equivalent to Full Professor – in Microwave Semiconductor Device Modelling. In 2016, Peter Aaen was appointed the Director of the South of England branch of the National Physical Laboratory.
Starting July 1st, Dr. Peter H. Aaen will start as the Department Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines.
Elsherbeni, Hadi contribute to book published by Springer
Atef Elsherbeni
Mohammed Hadi
EE Professors Atef Elsherbeni and Mohammed Hadi have contributed with Chapter 7 of the book “Computational Photonic Sensors”, by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, that Springer has published in 2018. Chapter 7 “FDTD in Cartesian and Spherical Grids” was written by Mohammed Hadi, Atef Elsherbeni, Ravi Bolimuntha, and Melinda Piket-May. Congratulations on this publication!
Salman Mohagheghi receives award from Daniels Fund Fellowship
Salman Mohagheghi
EE Associate Professor Salman Mohagheghi has been awarded $5,000 from the Daniels Fund Fellowship to work on incorporating social and environmental ethics into the design of energy systems. The goal is to develop course projects and homework assignments for power systems courses, where the students are exposed to ethical dilemmas in which social and/or environmental concerns contradict efficient engineering designs. Congratulations!
Wakin, Tang receive NSF and DARPA awards
Michael Wakin
Gongguo Tang
EE Professors Gongguo Tang and Mike Wakin received NSF and DARPA award for a 4-year project, which will total $753,000.
They also were awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA Sponsor an 18-month project for $1,2 Million.
Congratulations to Mike and Gongguo!
Olivia Cordova, Senior in EE, receives Martin Luther King Jr. Recognition Award
Three Colorado School of Mines community members received Martin Luther King Jr. Recognition Awards at a luncheon on January 17 for their appreciation for diversity and understanding its value on campus. Recipients are chosen based on nominations by peers that highlight their efforts to develop innovative programs or policies that enhance diversity on campus, demonstrate a commitment to a philosophy of inclusion by initiating interactions between people of different backgrounds and their efforts to contribute to fostering understanding and respect for diversity within the campus community.
Here’s Cordova’s nomination:
“Olivia is an inspiring individual in many ways beyond her work with the Society of Women Engineers. Through her role as an RA for the Nucleus Scholars group, Olivia often participates in presentations to share her experiences as a first-generation college student, educating the Mines community on the benefits diversifying our campus and reaching out to this underrepresented group as well as shedding light on the unique needs of first-generation college students.”
In 2024, the year of our 150th anniversary, we will celebrate Colorado School of Mines’ past, present and possibilities. By celebrating and supporting the Campaign for MINES@150 you will help elevate Mines to be an accessible, top-of-mind and first-choice for students, faculty, staff, recruiters and other external partners. When you give, you are ensuring Mines becomes even more distinctive and highly sought-after by future students, alumni, industry, and government partners over the next 150 years. We look forward to celebrating Mines’ sesquicentennial with you and recognizing the key role you play in making the MINES@150 vision a reality through your investments of time, talent and treasure.
Mines Newsroom
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Department of Energy creates ambitious program to reduce carbon emissions by 50 to 52 percent by the end of the decade, secure a 100 percent clean electrical grid by 2035 and reach a net-zero carbon e … - Electrical engineering researchers work to find the energy balance
At Mines, researchers are developing control systems that expand the scope of renewable and hybrid energy technologies, including fuel cells and wind turbines. - Kathryn Johnson named Fryrear Chair for Innovation and Excellence
Endowed by Mines alum Ben Fryrear ‘62, the chair recognizes and supports highly accomplished Mines faculty members working to further the vision and mission of the university. - Mines professors contribute to roadmap for successful wind energy projects
What is exciting about our roadmap is that it considers community acceptance and sustainable development from the very first stages of design, rather than after a project has been fully planned,” said … - Faculty Awards honor 9 Mines professors for teaching, research, mentorship
The Office of Academic Affairs at Colorado School of Mines is proud to announce the winners of the 2021-2022 Faculty Awards for excellence in teaching, research and mentorship. - Jordan Weber: "I know that the electrical engineering education I’ll get from Mines is one of the best in the world, and even though it might be one of the hardest things I do, it will set me up for success."
Why did you choose to come to Mines? What have you enjoyed most about being here? I came to Mines because I knew it was the best place for me at this point in my life. I visited campus for a science c …