John Poate, emeritus senior vice president, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. The 2015 Fellows account for more than 5,300 issued U.S. patents, bringing the collective patents held by all NAI Fellows to more than 20,000.

A journal paper co-authored by Associate Professor Michael Wakin (EECS), "Signal Processing With Compressive Measurements” has been selected as the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Two EECS faculty members have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow:

• Tracy Camp, with the citation "for contributions to wireless networking." (Tracy is now one of only seven women in the networking/communication field that are both ACM and IEEE Fellows)
• Marcelo Simoes, with the citation "for applications of artificial intelligence in control of power electronics systems."

IEEE Fellow is a significant honor as only 0.1 percent of the world-wide membership is elevated to Fellow annually.

Professor Murray Hitzman (GE) has been awarded the 2016 Haddon Forrester King Medal, one of the Australian Academy of Science’s prestigious career awards for life-long achievement and outstanding contribution to science.

Assistant Professor Emmanuel De Moor has been selected to receive the 2016 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in recognition of his significant accomplishments in support of the manufacturing industries.

Three Division of Student Life professionals presented at the NASPA IV-W annual conference held in Beaver Creek earlier this month.

Associate Professor Steffen Rebennack (EB) was recently awarded the INFORMS ENRE “Young Researcher Prize of 2015". The ENRE Young Researcher Prize is awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper on the application of OR/MS to an important problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.