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Engineering Teams Rise to Challenge in Elevator Pitch

Six teams containing engineering students or faculty members scored prize money in the recent Executive Summary & Elevator Pitch phase of the University of Massachusetts Innovation Challenge, which handed out $10,000 to promising teams of aspiring entrepreneurs. Innovation Challenge competitors are interdisciplinary teams developing marketable business concepts while working in consultation with faculty members and external advisors. SMASH, based on a new software technique to reduce the energy consumption of battery-powered devices, nailed one of the four top prizes of $1,750 apiece. Dr. Wayne Burleson (pictured) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department was one of the faculty advisors for SMASH.

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Dean Djaferis Wins IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award

On December 14, College of Engineering Dean Ted Djaferis was recognized with a 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Member Award. This was one of two Distinguished Member Awards given in 2011 and one of only 86 that have been given out since the formation of CSS in 1954. The award was presented during the CSS Awards Ceremony at the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, held in conjunction with the 2011 European Control Conference in Orlando, Florida. 

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UMass Amherst to Host Annual IEEE Conference

The 11th edition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Annual Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Design will be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on August 19 to 21, 2012. The conference is being staged on campus thanks in large part to the efforts of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Sandip Kundu, one of the two program co-chairs and the local arrangements chair for the conference Organizing Committee. The symposium explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts in the area of VLSI.

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