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Russ Messenger successfully defends Master's work. Congratulations Russ!
November 17, 2021
Russ Messenger successfully and skillfully defended his Master's degree work entitled "Terahertz diffuse reflectors and their effects on group delay dispersion and communication performance." Russ' work revealed important results on how certain reflectors cause inter-symbol interference in terahertz wireless channels, thus reducing achievable data rate.
UTOL gets three more publications in terahertz wireless communications
November 11, 2021
Karl Strecker, Russ Messenger, and Zobaer Islam are first authors on four recently accepted publications in the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) , IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, and the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society. See our publication page!
UTOL awarded NSF funding for REU students
July 20, 2021
In conjunction with our MRI instrument program NSF has awarded UTOL with funding for two Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) students. We have already hired Matthew Otto from Electrical & Computer Engineering. One more slot to fill!
UTOL awarded DURIP funding
June 24, 2021
In partnership with Drs. Emrah Turgut (OSU Physics) and Sabit Ekin (ECE), UTOL just received funding for a continuous-wave terahertz characterization system based on photomixed lasers. The Toptica Photonics brand instrument permits coherent field measurements over the impressive range of <0.05 THz all the way to 2.7 THz and will enable a new class of measurements in artificial materials (metamaterials), THz communication, and spin dynamics in emergent magnetic materials.
Ethan Abele receives summer NASA internship at Goddard Space Flight Center
June 1, 2021
Ethan Abele will be spending the summer and fall of 2021 working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) scientists to determine the orbit dynamics of multiple CubeSats in upcoming NASA missions and their impact on wireless communication and networking. His experience will further bolster the partnership between GSFC and the TWISTER LunarCom Project.
Karl Strecker receives the 2021 ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Award
May 12, 2021
Karl's research focuses on the phenomenon of group velocity dispersion (GVD) in broadband terahertz signals, the foundation for future 6G wireless communication. The rise of terahertz communications will soon require that GVD be addressed, though this concern is still nascent and widely unknown. OSU's Ultrafast Terahertz and Optoelectronic Laboratory is the first group to tackle it experimentally.
In the past two and a half years, Karl has been responsible for the design and fabrication of GVD measurement systems, the design and testing of a GVD-controlling devices, and the theoretical limitations of communication system performance due to GVD, all highly unique contributions to the field. Karl's output and outreach both have been consistently exceptional, leading to several manuscripts, a patent pending and the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award in 2020.
ECE Senior Maxwell Lewis Receives Prestigious IEEE PES Scholarship
April 2020
The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) named ECE student Maxwell Lewis a PES scholar. With such recognition, Mr. Lewis received a $2,000 check as part of the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative. One hundred and thirty-five students were selected from 78 U.S., Puerto Rican and Canadian universities for the 2019- 2020 academic year. This initiative recognizes undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical and computer engineering, are high achievers with strong GPA’s and distinctive extracurricular commitments, and are committed to exploring the power and energy field. ECE is proud of Maxwell. Congratulations!
ECE Graduate Student, Karl Strecker, Receives the Prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
March 30, 2020
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that Mr. Karl Strecker received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the sustainability and vitality of science and engineering talent in the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution). Moreover, opportunities for international research and professional development are available. Fellows have full freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education they choose. Mr. Strecker received his BSEE from OSU in spring 2018 and has chosen to continue his graduate studies in the ECE department under the guidance of Prof. John O’Hara, ECE assistant professor. He and Professor O’Hara are researching next generation, advanced communication technologies that utilize THz electromagnetic waves. The school offers its wholehearted congratulations to Karl!