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We welcome talented high-school students participating in the Hi-GEAR camp program at the U. The College of Engineering invites students for diverse activities related to research. In the solar car assembly/operation session, students grouped to develop their solar car models. We were amazed to see the optimized solar car design showing an outstanding speed!

This activity is supported by the ECE Department and the College of Engineering. We also acknowledge the external funding agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy under the DE-FOA-0002064 program award number DE-EE0008985 and the National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER 5850323, NSF ECCS 1711885).

The College of Engineering hosts an in-person Convocation Ceremony on Friday, May 7th at Rice Eccles Stadium for the graduating Class of 2021 and Class of 2020.

We congratulate our  our team members (MS: Kaden Powell, MS: Dean Collette)! They deserve it. It was wonderful to see our former team member (BS: Dinorah Segovia).

In the convocation, Dr. Brown (Dean of COE) recognized the NSF CAREER awardees on the stage. Dr. Yoon was one of the recipients.

GradSWE (Graduate Society of Women in Engineering) has been running a series of virtual panel discussions on topics based on the input we got from graduate students in a needs assessment focus group. Our goal is to build a community of women engineers and learn from each other while promoting professional development.

The fifth and final panel of the Spring 2021 Professional Development and Mentorship series is planned for 9^th of April  on the topic of technical reading and writing. We want to focus on reading literature with purpose, strategies for organizing information, including them in our writing, organizing our article, etc.. Panelists will field questions from the attendees on these topics after introductory remarks.

Panelists

• Dr. Heather Holmes (Chemical Engineering)
• Dr. Jessica Kramer (Biomedical Engineering)
• Dr. Eliane S. Wiese (School of Computing)
• Dr. Heayoung Yoon (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Date: April 13th, Tuesday, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (MT)

Zoom Meeting ID: 986 1910 5996
https://utah.zoom.us/j/98619105996

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.

Here is some more information. Dr. Cynthia Furse (ECE, U. Utah) gave a presentation on Zoom (PDF file; 2021 0331 Women Inventors).

Yu-Lin and Kaden have submitted a M&M paper (https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2021/). This project focuses on the e-beam interactions with multilayered perovskite devices. Good job, Yu-Lin and Kaden. We thank our wonderful collaborators, Dr. Chongwen Li and Prof. Yanfa Yan at the University of Toledo.

Dr. Yoon’s proposal entitled, “CAREER: Optoelectronic Local Probes Measuring Microstructural Degradation and Recovery Under Accelerated Environmental Stressors”, has been selected for a prestigious NSF CAREER award. She will receive about $590,000 next five years (see more information on the ECE website; here). We are excited about this new project!

Kaden and Yu-Lin have submitted two papers (CdTe, Perovskite PVs) to the 63th Electronic Materials Conference (https://www.mrs.org/63rd-emc). Thank you for continuing dedication to the projects. Great achievements!

Welcome back, students!

We continue our online classes in Spring 2021. Dr. Yoon teaches a junior-level core course (ECE 3200: Introduction to Semiconductor Device Physics) in IVC (Interactive Video Class). The class materials are provided via Zoom meetings, recorded lectures, and online video clips (https://utah.instructure.com). We will also perform online simulations. TA (Mr. Shaun McKellar) and Dr. Yoon are fully supporting students in their learning in this challenging time. We will go through it together.

Video (Moore’s Law): https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/moores-law-technology.html