ECE Students/Alumni in the News
 FIRST Robotics Competitions
Twenty six ECE students, staff, and faculty participated as volunteer judges and technical crew for the annual Montana FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics State Championships on January 23-24, 2009. 150 high school students and 330 middle school students from across the state competed in this year's event on the MSU campus.
We particularly appreciate the 11 ECE students who joined the Montana IEEE Section PACE Project, "Technical Outreach to Middle School Students 2008." The ECE students advised three teams from Monforton School and Chief Joseph Middle School since last fall. All three teams successfully participated in the FIRST Lego League Tournament on January 24!
Student Satellite Project Nears Launch Into Space
Students working for the MSU Space Science and Engineering Lab (SSEL) were recently notified that their satellite design has been recommended for launch into space aboard a NASA rocket in 2009. The satellite design is the product of many years of student work, including numerous team members from the ECE Department. Way to go, team!
The miniature (4"x4"x4") MSU satellite, Explorer–1 Prime, will hitch a ride in a specially design external mounting fixture attached to the outside of a large rocket delivering a commercial satellite into orbit. The launch is likely to be in mid-June from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Read more about the mission:
MSU News Service Article.
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Pat Lokken, a May 2008 MSU BSEE graduate, works in the MSU Space Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSU Photo by Kelly Gorham)
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EE Alumnus Receives IEEE Spectrum Award
Montana State University EE alumnus Keith Bayern (BSEE 1981) was named the winner of IEEE Spectrum magazine's recent contest
for making the best possible clock with generally available components that cost no more than US $100 (IEEE Spectrum magazine, July 2008 issue, p. 23). Keith (below left) is a senior principal digital and analog engineer with SAIC, and the uncle of BSCpE 2008 and current MSU graduate student Ray Weber (below right). Ray is pictured with the clock he built using his uncle's prototype kit--all 194 discrete transistors and 2700 solder joints! For more information about the clock kit, see Keith's web site: www.transistorclock.com. Congratulations, Keith!
Keith Bayern (MSU BSEE 1981)
photo credit: Brian Smale, IEEE Spectrum |
Ray Weber (MSU BSCpE 2008) |
Spring 2008: IEEE Picnic and ECE Blowout Party
  
Spring 2008: Design Fair, May 1, 2008
 
The Spring 2008 Engineering Design Fair held in SUB Ballroom A featured 38 student projects from ECE, ME, IE, MET, and the multidisciplinary design course, ENGR 310. The open house culminates many, many hours of work by the student teams.
ECE Team Zigbot (Colin Shirley, Josh Smith, Clint Gramza, and Monther Abusultan)
 ECE Alumnus Mark D. Myers, 1960-2008
The ECE Department was saddened to learn of the passing of 2007 BSEE graduate Mark Myers. He was being treated for metastatic renal cell cancer at the time of his death. Our heartfelt condolences to Mark's family and friends.
The obituary from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle 20080620.
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ECE Presidential Scholars
The Presidential Scholarships are Montana State University's most prestigious freshman awards, recognizing superior academic achievement and impeccable personal qualities. The awards provide a generous annual stipend and tuition waiver. Scholars who maintain the required academic standards can renew their awards for four years. Up to twenty new Presidential Scholarships are awarded across campus each year. The annual Presidential Scholarship application deadline is typically in mid-January.
The ECE Department is pleased to recognize our current group of nine Presidential Scholars: |
| Ryan Cyr |
Nicole Lerner |
Danica Patrick |
| Erwin Dunbar |
Patrick Menge |
Michael Schwager |
| Patrick Kujawa |
Eric Moog |
Andrew Shull |
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