ECE Announces 2026 Annual Awards with Ceremony and Reception

On Tuesday, September 8th, the ECE Department held its annual Fall Awards Ceremony and Reception. Awards were presented to students, staff and faculty by ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Dissertation Award, in recognition of recent doctoral recipients who have already made unusually significant and original contributions to their fields. 

MSAL Ph.D. student Sydney Overton, advised by Professor Reza Ghodssi, has been awarded for her Dissertation: An Ingestible Capsule for Gastrointestinal Serotonin Sensing to Investigate the Gut-Brain Axis.

More information can be found on the UMD ECE News (11 - September / 2026)