Radio Broadcast: Joseph Shaw Speaks About Avoiding Light Pollution

ECE Professor Joe Shaw was the guest on Yellowstone Public Radio's weekly 30 minute feature broadcast, "RealTime with George Cole", on March 17, 2008. Prof. Shaw spoke about the need to be vigilant in protecting the dark night sky--especially here in "Big Sky" country. He also described several of the optics-related research projects going on here at MSU.

Miss the broadcast? No problem: it is available for streaming here: WMA format; MP3 format

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg Tours Optical Instrumentation Lab

MSU ECE graduate students Amin Nehrir, Seth Humphries, and Charlie Keith explained their experimental research work on optical instrumentation for CO₂ sequestration monitoring to Congressman Denny Rehberg and his staff during the Congressman's visit to campus on August 31, 2007. Congressman Rehberg was accompanied by Vice-President for Research Tom McCoy and Associate Vice-President Lee Spangler.

MSU President Gamble Visits Bee Lidar Experiment

Associate Vice-President Lee Spangler, Vice-President for Research Tom McCoy, and MSU President Geoff Gamble paid a visit to the bee detection and tracking lidar experiment site on August 22, 2007. Several ECE faculty, staff, and students participated in the tour, including Tia Sharpe, David Hoffman, Charlie Keith, Kevin Repasky, and Amin Nehrir.

FY2007 ECE Research Expenditures top $2.8M

The ECE external research grants and contracts enterprise generated a record $2,784,970 in actual expenditures during the 2006-2007 fiscal year (ending June 2007). The official total did not include special projects expenditures in ECE from external support directed through the Office of the Vice President for Research, which added approximately an additional $1.5 million in ECE-related expenditures.

The FY07 total research expenditure for the entire College of Engineering was reported to be $15,435,614. Montana State University's campus-wide FY07 research total was $102,116,323.

ECE Faculty Receive MBRCT Funding for FY2008-2009

ECE professors Hongwei Gao, Bruce McLeod and Kevin Repasky have each received funding from the Montana Board of Research & Commercialization Technology for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Prof. Gao is working with local company ILX Lightwave on a project entitled "Zero Voltage Switching Research" ($159,673). Prof. McLeod's project is entitled "A Proposal to Develop a Non-Invasive Clinical Device that is Effective in Clearing Persistent Infections in Prosthetic Knee Implants" ($146,484), and Prof. Repasky's project is "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Deployment of Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometers for Noxious Weed Mapping and Carbon Sequestration Site Monitoring" ($136,890).

ECE Authors Win 2007 IEEE Energy Development and Power Generation Prize Paper Award!

The 2007 prize paper award for the IEEE Power Engineering Society Energy Development and Power Generation (EDPG) Technical Committee is "Dynamic Models and Model Validation for PEM Fuel Cells Using Electrical Circuits," by former MSU PhD student Caisheng Wang, Associate Professor Steven R. Shaw, and Professor M. Hashem Nehrir. The award was made at the 2007 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 25-29 June, 2007, in Tampa, Florida.