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Realizing the world's first 3D cloak of invisibility, engineering professor Andrea Alú explains how the discovery of metamaterials is pushing technology beyond conventional limits, producing vastly new opportunities beyond what nature can offer. This emerging technology offers extensive applications in bioscience, energy, defense and plenty more we can only imagine from here.

Kyle Wesson, a WNCG graduate student who is co-advised by Prof. Brian Evans and Prof. Todd Humphreys, was invited to present at the National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems held in Baltimore, MD on October 25 and 26, 2012. The workshop featured daily presentations and breakout sessions for the researchers in attendance from industry, academia, and government.

Established in 2008, the Regents awards are offered annually in recognition of faculty members of the nine University of Texas System academic institutions who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction, and are the Board of Regents highest honor. Professor Humphreys is a truly special case, ASE/EM Department Chair, Professor Philip Varghese said. He joined UT a couple of years ago and has excelled in teaching and in every other respect.

WNCG had two successful promotions during the Fall 2012 semester. Professors Andrea Alu and Haris Vikalo were both promoted from Assistant Professors to Associate Professors with tenure. Al came to UTs Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009, and joined WNCG in 2012. He is also affiliated with the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is involved in research projects on electromagnetics and acoustics. Vikalo joined UTs Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007, and joined WNCG in 2009.

WNCG would like to welcome Nano Liquid Devices Inc. (NLD) as its newest industrial affiliate. NLD (http://www.nano-liquid.com) focuses on the Micro Metal Sphere technology, with the goal of delivering RF MEMS for wireless applications (tunable RF modules for mobile phones). NLD believes that their technology will advance merging cell phones and computing for the next era of cutting-edge mobile technology.

Robert W. Heath, Jr. was recently named an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014. Only five individuals are conferred with this honor each year.

Jeffrey Andrews was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was one of six new members worldwide elected this year, and will serve a three year term from 2013-2015. This distinguished position will lead to future assignments throughout his governorship. Andrews is a long-standing member of IEEE. He was also awarded the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, and most recently the 2011 Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize. His research focuses in multi-user wireless communications and ad hoc networks. Dr.

UT ECE professor Jeff Andrews has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2013. Jeff was elevated to Fellow for his contributions to cellular and ad-hoc wireless communications. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation

Kyle Wesson, a WNCG graduate student who is co-advised by Prof. Brian Evans and Prof. Todd Humphreys, was invited to present at the National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems held in Baltimore, MD on October 25 and 26, 2012. The workshop featured daily presentations and breakout sessions for the researchers in attendance from industry, academia, and government.

The Wireless Networking & Communications Group, located in the Electrical & Computer Engineering building on the UT Austin campus, is looking to build a better Internet. With video making up most of the bandwidth on the Internet today, this UT group is making the Information Superhighway more efficient.