Newsletter: October 2018

IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news, research and announcements from August through October 2018. View the full newsletter at the link below:

IEE Quarterly Newsletter: October 2018

Institute and Faculty News

• UCSB faculty receive Department of Energy research grants
• College of Engineering Dean Rod Alferness receives the Optical Society's highest award
• California to move to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045

Recent Research Findings

• Professor Chris Van de Walle's group elucidates recombination mechanisms in hybrid perovskites

Upcoming Events

• Seminar on 10/25 with Assistant Professor Loai Salem: "Miniaturized Power Conversion Circuits for New Frontiers in IoT and Beyond"

2018-19 IEE Fellowship Recipients

Szilagyi Energy Breakthrough Fellowship
Pavel Shapturenka, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering
"Scalable Nanopattering for Strain Engineering & Light Extraction in Nitride LEDs/Displays"

Excellence In Research Fellowship
Mohammad Mahmoodi, Graduate Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of novel ways to perform extremely low-energy computations and design of new low-power data security and authentication solutions for edge devices.

Holbrook Foundation Fellowship
Noelle Collins | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Area: Electronics & Photonics
 
Victoria Christensen | Materials
Research Area: Production & Storage
 
Sharon Levy | Computer Science
Research Area: Computing
 
Ryan Anderson | Materials
Research Area: Lighting

Ke-Chu Lee | Mechanical Engineering
Research Area: Sustainability​