Leah Espenhahn presents her talk titled “Interactive Lecturing in a Mixed Undergraduate/Graduate Semiconductor Innovations Course” at ASEE’s 2026 Annual Conference and Exposition.
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Anik Presents TI-QCL Optimization Work at CS MANTECH
Anik Mazumder presents his poster titled “Design Optimization for Carrier Injection and Optical Mode Profile in Mid-Infrared Transistor Injected-Quantum Cascade Lasers” at CS MANTECH 2026.
Kevin Presents Single-Mode VCSEL Array Work at CS MANTECH 2025
Kevin Pikul presents his talk titled “Single-Mode, Polarization Stable 2D-VCSEL Arrays via Elliptical Disorder-Defined Apertures” at CS MANTECH 2025.
Emily Presents Long-Wavelength VCSEL Work at CS MANTECH 2025
Emily Becher presents work titled “Design of Novel Long-Wavelength VCSEL Structure with Voltage-Controllable Phase-Matching Layer for Standing Wave Tuning” at CS MANTECH 2025. The first author is Kevin Pikul, who Emily is helping by presenting this work she co-authored as he has another presentation tomorrow.
Robert Presents QCL Work at CS MANTECH 2025
Robert Kaufman presents his talk titled, “Impurity-Induced Disordering of InGaAs/InAlAs Superlattices by Zinc Diffusion for Electrical Confinement in Quantum Cascade Lasers” at CS MANTECH 2025 with accompanying manuscript available online.
Congratulations Robert Kaufman & Kevin Pikul
Robert Kaufman and Kevin Pikul have earned their Doctor of Philosophies (Ph.D.) and are leaving the group to head to industry. Robert Kaufman will be joining SpaceX in Redmond, WA and Kevin Pikul will join Coherent Corp. in Sherman, TX. We are sad to see them go, but look forward to what they will accomplish!
Leah Receives Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Leah Espenhahn was chosen to receive the Harold L. Olesen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Students for the 2024-2025 academic year, which is based on teaching service performed during the Spring 2025 semester. She was nominated for this award by her students in ECE 498 SI. A committee of faculty made the final decision. This award is given to recognize an outstanding effort in undergraduate teaching. The award indicates that she performed her duties as a teaching assistant with commitment and enthusiasm.
Prof. John Dallesasse honored with Gregory E. Stillman Professorship
Named professorships are the highest honor for faculty. Prof. Dallesasse is honored to receive the Gregory E. Stillman Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Leah Presents Researcher Identity Work at IEEE’s Frontiers in Education 2024 Conference
Leah presented her work done with the Historically Underrepresented Genders in ECE Initiative, a GIANT-funded program (Grant # GIANT2022-02), at the 2024 FIE conference in Washington, DC.
Kevin Presents Polarization-Control Research at CS MANTECH 2024
At the 2024 CS MANTECH conference, Kevin presents his work on using anti-phase coatings to achieve high-power, single-mode, single-polarization performance in VCSELs.
