Heather Johnston, Junior, has received a Sclumberger Scholarship for the 2005-06 academic year. Johnston is pursuing a specialization in signals (control, communication, and signal processing) and has interest in microeconomics. An Elec 241 assistant, she interned the past two summers with Motorola's mobile devices division.

Gareth Middleton, Senior, and Daniel Wu, Junior, have received $1,000 awards from the Rice Engineering Alumni Association.  Each year, senior and junior engineering students independently compete for merit awards offered by the REA. To enter the competition, students must complete an application that includes a 300-word essay. The student's written essay, campus activities, honors and awards and cumulative GPA are judged by the REA Awards Committee.

Brian Johnston wins the Best Senior Project in Electrical and Computer Engineering Award

Brian Johnston received a $250 award for The Best Senior Project in ECE. Nominations were submitted by faculty, and the chairman of the department.

Venkat Chandrasekaran wins James S. Waters Award for Creativity

Venkat Chandrasekaran, ECE senior, has won $1,000 for his creative research in Optimal Surflet-based Algorithms for Compression of High-dimensional Data. The James S. Waters Creativity Award is awarded annually to an engineering undergraduate in recognition of unusual creativity in independent work. Engineering departments are asked to submit nominations for the award and a committee of chairs or representatives from each of the engineering departments selects a recipient. This year, there were four nominations and the committee selected two awards (one in BIOE, one in ECE).