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ECE Faculty members receive COE awards
Four faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently received College of Engineering awards.
Karen Butler-Purry received the E.D. Brockett Professorship Award, Jean Francois Chamberland received a TEES Select Young Faculty Award, John Eknoyan received a TEES Faculty Fellow Award and Christi Madsen received a TEES Faculty Fellow Award.
Butler-Purry, (left) professor and associate department head, joined the department in 1994. She received a B.S. degree from Southern University, Baton Rouge in 1985, a M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree from Howard University in 1994, all in electrical engineering. In 1988-1989, Butler was a Member of Technical Staff at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Culver City, California. She was a recipient of a 1996 Faculty Early Career Award and a 1999 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
Other honors include being named recipient of the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mentor Award and receiving a Shell Oil Company Faculty Fellow from the Dwight Look College of Engineering. She is also a 1998-99 Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Power Engineering Society, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Louisiana Engineering Society. She is a registered professional engineer in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Her research focuses on the areas of computer and intelligent systems applications in power distribution automation, and modeling and simulation of vehicles and power systems.
Chamberland, (left center) an assistant professor, joined the department in 2005. He received his B.Eng. degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1998, his M.S. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in electrical engineering in 2004. His research interests are in the area of communication and control theory and the efficient design of wireless sensor networks in the context of decentralized detection.
Honors include winning a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Eknoyan, (right center) a professor in the department, joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1975. He received his BS and MS from Texas A&M in 1969 and 1970 respectively, and he received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975. He has served as chairman of the Graduate Advisory Committee for 30 students, and as a member of the Graduate Advisory Committee for more than 80 students and has been a member and chair of various committees at the department and college level numerous times.
Eknoyan has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technology, he has been a member of the IEEE-Solid Circuit Council and also served as a member of the R&D Committee of the IEEE-United States Activities Board. He also chaired the Semiconductor Devices and Processing Committee of the IEEE Electronic Components Conference (IEEE-ECC) five times, and prior to that had served as a member of the Technical Program Committee for that conference for three consecutive years.
Eknoyan has participated in a number of University-Industry-Government cooperative programs and has held appointments in that capacity at Bell Telephone Laboratories, the Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory and the Optical Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory.
Madsen, (right) professor and group leader for the Solid State Electronics, Photonics and Nano-Engineering area, joined the department in 2005. Previously she was a Distinguished Member of the technical staff in the Integrated Photonics Research Department at Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories.
Madsen received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 1996, her M.S. from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1987 and her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, all in electrical engineering.
Her research interests are in Photonic signal processing using Integrated optics, Fiber-optic intrusion sensor/perimeter monitor, Optical filters (synthesis, analysis and adaptive filters), Microwave photonics, Polarization optics, Optical ring resonators and Dispersion and high-speed optical signals.
She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and an IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer 2004-2005. She also has been named a Shell Fellow by the College of Engineering.
"The faculty fellows program recognizes the significant contributions faculty members have made to the Texas A&M engineering program," said Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, vice chancellor and dean of engineering. "The faculty members recognized exemplify the highest ideals: dedication to the role of educator, advancing scholarly discovery and research, and contributing service to the profession and society we serve."