Marwan Krunz, a professor in the UA department of electrical and computer engineering, continues to amass awards and lead research in communications technology and networking. Most recently, the Communication
s Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, named Krunz a 2013-2014 distinguished lecturer.
“I am humbled by the company I am in: some of the world’s most accomplished researchers in communications technology,” said Krunz of the prestigious and highly competitive honor.
The two-year appointment recognizes renowned authorities in their fields and funds worldwide travel for speaking engagements. Krunz’s research emphasis is on optimal resource allocation, adaptive control, and distributed protocol design. Among his planned speaking topics is dynamic spectrum access, or DSA, models to remedy the lack of available wireless spectrum.
“This is an opportunity to share with more schools what we are doing here at the UA in a more formalized way,” said Krunz.
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They have shown the world it can be done. Now researchers are working through the challenges created by a camera that generates images so big the equivalent of 500 high-definition displays would be needed to view a single image in its entirety.
A multidisciplinary team of 40 researchers from Duke University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California--San Diego, as well as a number of industry partners working daily for three years built a camera that can take gigantic pictures with five times as much detail as a person with perfect 20/20 vision can see. The camera could revolutionize space surveillance, image security, microscopic surgery, and video broadcasting, among other areas.
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Jonathan Sprinkle, Susan Lysecky and their research team have developed a heating and cooling thermostat that enables homeowners to decide temperatures based on their budgets. The cost-limited thermostat means no surprises when the electric bill lands in the mailbox, at least not for energy used to cool and heat a home, which typically accounts for more than half of a homeowner’s utility bill, according to the U.S Department of Energy.
“Most people just set their thermostat temperature in the desired range then get a bill at the end of the month with no understanding of how they correlate,” said Sprinkle, adding that here in Tucson, where summertime sees most days above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it is not uncommon for homeowners to pay $250 to $300 or more a month for electricity. Sprinkle, an assistant professor, was a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt University and postdoctoral researcher at the... Read Complete Article
One thing engineering students discover when the entrepreneurial spirit moves them is that they need to get out of the lab and into the world to find out what people really want. So says University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering doctoral candidate Xiao Qin.
“I’ve learned to ask questions like, ‘How am I going to make a product people will use in their daily lives?’” said Xiao, whose National Science Foundation and Startup Weekend Tucson teams both recently won first-place awards.
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Grad Student’s Research Goes to Space, Ends with Top Honor
The return of his rare-earth-metal-doped optical fibers aboard the historic last mission of the space shuttle Endeavour marks the end of Brian Fox’s long doctoral journey and the beginning of what is likely to be a promising career, says his mentor Kelly Simmons-Potter, a professor in the UA department of electrical and computer engineering.
After sending his research into space then waiting 18 long months, launch delay after launch delay, for its return, the accomplished scholar can now count himself among the few students ever to win the highly competitive Outstanding Paper Award from the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technologies Conference. See story.
JPEG2000 Leader Finalist in Governor’s Innovation Awards
Fans of 3D movies have ECE Regents Professor Michael Marcellin to thank, in large part, for the increased availability of high-quality 3D digital cinema. Marcellin is credited with playing a key role in the development of JPEG2000, the new standard of image compression that already is gaining wide acceptance not only in digital cinema but also in applications such as medical imaging and GIS/remote sensing.
In recognition of his major contributions to the technology, Marcellin recently was selected as a finalist for the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards. This short video produced by the Arizona Technology Council summarizes Marcellin’s work with JPEG2000.
