05/06/2021
Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, the Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics and pillar of the SEAS community for nearly 50 years, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2021, at the age of 75, after a brief illness.
Ma was an internationally recognized pioneer for his contributions to semiconductor science and technology - in particular, breakthroughs in advanced gate dielectrics, which paved the path for high-k dielectrics and extended the scaling of CMOS technology. His research also generated fundamental and lasting impacts on many other applied physics fields, notably ferroelectrics and ionizing radiation sciences. Ma was also an inspiring mentor, nurturing countless students, many of whom went on to become some of the most prominent and groundbreaking leaders in the semiconductor industry.
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Magda El-Shenawee, professor of electrical engineering, will serve on the Antennas and Propagation Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
LIGO and Virgo to Receive IEEE Milestone Plaques February 01, 2021
On February 3, 2021, the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will host an online event to bestow its Milestone award to the gravitational-wave observatories of LIGO and Virgo. The IEEE Milestone awards recognize technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity found in unique products, services, seminal papers and patents, according to the IEEE website. More than 160 IEEE Milestones have been awarded to a range of projects, including historical breakthroughs such as Benjamin Franklin s work on electricity and the electrical telegraph.
LIGO and Virgo are being honored for their gravitational-wave antennas, which made the first direct detections of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time that were predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.
Though you can’t see them, radio waves are all around you all the time, carrying information. For most people, some of those radio waves are Wi-Fi signals. Wi-Fi is the catchy name an industry alliance came up with to market devices that transmit large amounts of data over short distances using radio waves. The letters don’t stand for anything.
Wi-Fi, like broadcast radio and cellular telephone signals, is based on scientific discoveries dating back to the late 19th century. When electrons moving through a wire are made to alternate directions periodically, something magical happens. Electrons in another wire, located at a distance, start to move up and down in sync, as though they were telepathically connected.