Source: Tandon.edu PayScale once again ranked NYU Tandon’s graduates among those with the highest salary potential in the country: Fourth among engineering schools, tied for eighth place among all colleges in the United States and first among all New York City institutions. The survey includes graduates with baccalaureate degrees only, and measures their mid-career salaries – $117,000 …

NYU WIRELESS researcher, Felix Gutierrez, recently received a core component of his Ph.D. research: Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) fabricated with on-chip antennas.  Using IBM’s 45nm Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology, Felix designed an 180 GHz RFIC with a phased 4-element patch antenna array to test semiconductor capabilities at millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequencies.  While CMOS technology …

Source : NYU.edu Tapping into the human brain to understand its functions in daily life — as well as its malfunctions in illness — has long been a challenge for researchers. Mapping brain activity requires unwieldy, invasive arrays of electrodes and sensors that can damage tissue while only reading activity in a limited area. Jonathan …

The US Department of Education has awarded Graduate Awards in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowships to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Tandon School of Engineering to support three Ph.D. students in Electrical and Computer Engineering for 2012-2015. It is envisioned that these fellowship awardees will become leaders in their areas of …

Source: NYU.edu Tandontechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Tandon) and NYU Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport, a leading researcher in wireless communication engineering, has been chosen the 2012 recipient of the William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society.  The prestigious award is presented annually …

Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/ New York University is the latest institution to open a wireless health research center, though NYU is calling its effort the “first academic research center combining the exploration of advanced wireless technologies, computing and medical applications.” NYU last week unveiled NYU WIRELESS, bringing together engineering, computer science and medical faculty and students from the main …

Tapping the collective power of wireless devices to boost cell phone signals. Elza Erkip, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is developing a technology that enables mobiles to forward one another’s signals to the receiver. By combining the power of surrounding smartphones, laptops, and other wireless devices, this technology would help the average …