Jose Varillas received the UF Health Cancer Center Research Day Predoctoral Poster Award.
Congratulations to Jose Varillas for winning the Predoctoral Poster Award at UF Health Cancer Research day for his poster "Isolation, Detection, and Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells in Microfluidic Devices for Monitoring Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Response."
Congratulations to Mayur Ghagte, Seahee Hwangbo, Camilo Vélez and Xiao Wen for winning the first edition of the IMG Awards for 2016-2017. The IMG Awards recognize outstanding achievements and contributions of student members in our organization. The research awards honor the exceptional academic impact the students have made in their field, and the service awards acknowledge the hard work the students have put into improving and maintaining the quality of IMG.
Dr. Alex Phipps, 2010 ECE PhD and IMG alumnus was selected as one of the Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development and Acquisition. Congratulations Alex!
•Dr. Alex Phipps: Selected in the Emergent Engineer Investigator category for his accomplishments in advancing wireless underwater power transfer technologies. “What we’re doing is looking to find a way for unmanned underwater vehicles to persist underwater for much greater periods of time and still be able to perform their mission without having to surface,” Phipps said.
Dr. Yoon and Dr. Moghaddam both received the Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. They are 2 recipients out of the 5 rewarded in the whole college for the 2017-2018 academic year. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!
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Congratulations to Camilo Velez and Sheng-Po Fang for winning the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year, respectively for creativity and service to the global community. Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community.
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Dr. Z. Hugh Fan from the Interdisciplinary Microsystem Group (IMG) was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for 2016. He's among the 5 newly named 2016 AAAS Fellows at the University of Florida. Dr. Fan was awarded for his distinguished establishment in Microfluidics, particularly for platform development and biomedical applications. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!
For more information, please visit AAAS and UF News.
Seahee Hwangbo, a current IMG member, has received the 2016 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Fellowship Award. The IEEE AP-S awards up to 10 PhD fellowships each year to encourage students to pursue a career in the area of Electromagnetics. The awards are intended to support students involved in project work directed by a faculty member at their institution who is a member of the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society. The title of her research is: "Millimeter-wave Wireless Interconnects for Intra-/Inter chip Communications using Through Glass Via (TGV) Disc-loaded Antennas in 3D-IC" under the supervision of Dr. Y.K. Yoon.
The award selection is based on creativity and quality of the proposed
project, discussion of the technical interests and skills of the student.
IMG has developed a new graduate certificate program in "Microsystem Technology."
Certificate Description: The Microsystem Technology certificate prepares students for the complex, interdisciplinary development of microsystem technologies such as microactuators, microsensors, microfluidic devices, micropower systems, microoptical devices, and other microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
Requirements for Admission: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a regionally accredited institution. Students must be registered in a graduate degree program in the College of Engineering and maintain a 3.0 GPA.
Requirements for Completion: Students must complete the following courses (9 credits total) with a grade of B or higher:
1. Required:
2. Any two of the following:
To register for the certificate, apply here: http://admissions.ufl.edu/start.html (scroll down to the "Certificate" section and follow the prompts). After completing the program requirements, you will earn a printed certificate, and a notation will be made on your UF transcript. For more information, email Dr. Arnold (darnold@ufl.edu)
Congratulations to Jose Varillas for winning the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) TL1 Fellowship, 2016-2017. His proposed research is titled Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells for Monitoring Cancer Treatment Response.