Faculty News Professor Mikko Lipasti was selected as one of three honorable mention recipients for the 1999 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer award. A single award and honorable mentions are presented annually.
Selection is based on an application and up to five letters of recommendation.
IBM-Rochester management nominated Lipasti prior to his joining the ECE faculty in computer architecture in fall 1999. The honor is awarded jointly by the Association for Computer Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture. The new edition features introductory coverage of both VHDL and Verilog hardware description languages. Professor John Booske was selected Outstanding ECE Instructor by Polygon Engineering Council for the 1999-2000 academic year. Professor Franco Cerrina and a team of UW-Madison researchers developed a new process for making gene chips, which allows scientists to analyze thousands of genes at once, quickly and inexpensively.