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Program Highlights

Maryland Engineering ranks #11 among public colleges in the U.S.

Electrical & Computer Engineering rank 13th (Electrical) and 12th (Computer) among public institutions.

$1.6M NSF Award Supports New Laser System

Professor Howard Milchberg and his team will lead implementation to upgrade his lab’s existing high power laser system.

Gong Awarded $1M in Grants from Two Federal Agencies

AFOSR and NSF awards to advance Gong's research exploring new physics and developing new functionalities from topological materials, two-dimensional materials and numerous artificial heterostructures out of their combinations.

Shah Receives NSF Grant to Improve Extreme Edge Devices

Project aims to develop an energy-efficient and smart extreme edge device by taking inspiration from the human brain.

Quantum News

$25 Million Commitment Will Fund New World-Class Engineering Facility at UMD

The interdisciplinary engineering building, named in honor of benefactor Stanley R. Zupnik '59, will house new space for the Quantum Technology Center.

Faculty & Department News

Abshire Part of New DARPA/SRC JUMP 2.0 Center

“CogniSense: The Center on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors” is funded for five years.

Compact Electron Accelerator Reaches New Speeds with Nothing But Light

UMD team achieves feat using two laser pulses sent through a jet of hydrogen gas.

New Wearable Sensor Modules with Edge Machine Learning for Avatar Reconstruction

Po-Yen Chen and Sahil Shah publish research in Nature Communications.

New robust and scalable computational methodology helps identify directed connectivity within the brain

‘NLGC’ can be used with magnetoencephalography to better understand the neural mechanisms behind sensory processing.

Professor Uzi Vishkin Featured in Communications of the ACM Magazine

Vishkin presented a “counterpoint” article in the September edition of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

Alumni News

Alum Ahmed Arafa wins NSF CAREER Award

Arafa will explore using Age of Information metrics for federated learning, cloud computing and remote sensing.

Alum Named President of Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology

Dr. Amr A. Adly (ECE Ph.D. ’92) to head Egypt-based research institution.

Alum Ravi Tandon appointed to named chair at University of Arizona.

The 2010 ECE Ph.D. is a specialist in wireless networks, security and ML, and was granted tenure less than a year ago.


Upcoming Alumni Events

2022 Engineering Alumni

Homecoming Tailgate


Saturday, October 22, 2022

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Ludwig Field

Engineering Terps are invited to celebrate the time-honored homecoming tradition with fellow alumni before Maryland kicks off at 3:30 p.m. against Northwestern.


RSVP by October 14.

In Brief

ECE Launches 14th Year of Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium Series

Eight speakers to be featured Fall semester.


MPT State Circle Highlights UMD Innovative Energy Technology

Eric Wachsman discusses energy storage with Maryland Public Television.

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