Tian Xia and Jeff Frolik, both associate professors of electrical engineering in the UVM’s School of Engineering recently received awards by the Green Mountain Section of IEEE.

 

Tian Xia

The IEEE Green Mountain Section recognized Tian Xia with “Leadership Award” for, “Seminal Improvements to the State-Of-The-Art of Circuit Design and Test Technology.” Dr. Tian Xia received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island. He worked in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in summers of 2002 and 2003. He joined the University of Vermont as an assistant professor in 2003.  His research focuses on mixed signal VLSI circuit design and test. He is a senior member of IEEE- Computer Society, and IEEE- Solid State Circuits Society. Specifically, Dr. Xia focuses on research in mixed signal circuit design and testing, and adaptive multifunctional VLSI circuits, and reconfigurable computing.

For more information visit: http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~xiat/

Jeff Frolik

The IEEE Green Mountain Section recognized Jeff Frolik with the “2011 IEEE Faculty of the Year Award.” The citation of the award recognizes Dr. Frolik “for seminal improvements to multi-disciplinary engineering education” and for further contributing “to the advancement of the engineering profession.”

Dr. Frolik received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan in 1995.  He came to UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences in 2002. In addition to his technical research related to environmental sensor networks and wireless communications, he has been the principal investigator on engineering education grants awarded by NSF and Hewlett Packard.  The results of these educational efforts have been disseminated in over twenty journal articles and conference proceedings.

For more information visit: http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~jfrolik/