ECE News

Michigan State University Dean Leo C. Kempel’s last day as dean in the College of Engineering will be Sept. 30, 2024, after more than a decade.

Michigan State University College of Engineering recently celebrated the end of the Research Experience for Teachers (RET), a summer program supported by the National Science Foundation for middle, high school and college educators.

MSU College of Engineering Dean Leo Kempel was awarded the 2024 ECE Alumni Distinguished Educator Award by Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M). Kempel received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from U-M.

Michigan State University’s Xiaobo Tan was elected to be the next Editor-in-Chief for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers / American Society of Mechanical Engineers (IEEE/ASME) Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH).

Michigan State University researchers are tackling a problem no one has ever solved: How do you stop an invasive fish from entering a river without entirely blocking all fish? 

John Papapolymerou will be recommended to the Michigan State University Board of Trustees to serve as the interim dean of MSU’s College of Engineering, effective Oct. 1, 2024. Pending board approval, he will succeed Leo Kempel, who has served as dean since 2014.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering hosts various summer camps for K-12 students every year. A new one began its pilot run in 2024, the Quantum Motor City Camp.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering offered new summer camps for K-12 students in 2024. One pilot project was a Semiconductor Camp, which was run by Nelson Sepúlveda, professor and interim chair of the MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.