Awards

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:

• EEE 5405 Microelectronic Fabrication Technologies

2. Any two of the following:

• EEE 5354L Semiconductor Device Fabrication Laboratory
• EEL 5225 Principles of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Transducers
• EEE 6465 Design of MEMS Transducers
• EEE 6460 Advanced Microsystem Technology 
• BME 5580 Microfluidics and BioMEMS

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.

Congratulations to Keisha Castillo-Torres and Nicolas Garraud for winning the SPIE ‘Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XIII’ Conference Best Paper Award for their paper titled ‘Investigation of magnetic microdiscs for bacterial pathogen detection’.  Dr. Arnold and Dr. Eric McLamore (ABE Dept.) are co-authors.

Casey Barnard was selected for the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Attribute of a Gator Engineer Award for the 2016-2017 academic year.  Specifically, Casey won the award in the area of Leadship based on his service within IMG, MAE, COE and NRF.  In addition his activities within IMG, he currently serves on MAE Graduate Student Council, chairs the COE Graduate Student Council, and serves on the NRF Users Advisory Committee. 

Prof. David Arnold has been selected by the University of Florida Research Foundation as one of the 34 UFRF Professors for 2016-2019. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!

For more information, please visit  UF News.

Brett Freidkes has been selected to receive a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.  His proposed research is titled, A MEMS-Based Three-Dimensional Surface Force Sensing System for Fluid Dynamic Applications". 

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:

• EEE 5405 Microelectronic Fabrication Technologies

2. Any two of the following:

• EEE 5354L Semiconductor Device Fabrication Laboratory
• EEL 5225 Principles of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Transducers
• EEE 6465 Design of MEMS Transducers
• EEE 6460 Advanced Microsystem Technology 
• BME 5580 Microfluidics and BioMEMS

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)

Arian Rahimi, current IMG member, has been awarded an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for 2016. This fellowship is the highest honor IEEE MTT-S gives to top graduate students recognizing their research activities and promise in the area of microwave engineering. The title of his research proposal is: “Nanotechnology-Inspired Multi-Layer Conductors for High Performance Microwave Passive Components” under supervision of Dr. Y.K. Yoon.

He will be presented with the award during the Student Awards Luncheon at the 2016 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), San Francisco, CA which will be held May 22-27, 2016. The fellowship includes the financial assistance to the graduate student as well as the travel support to attend the IMS 2016 conference.

Congratulations to Tiffany Reagan on being awarded a Linda Hudson Scholarship by the Committee of 200 (C200).