C. Dean Alford, EE 76, and C. Meade Sutterfield, EE 72, hosted the fourth-annual Electrical and Computer Engineering awards program on April 28 and honored students, staff and faculty who have "shown exceptional dedication to their profession and studies."

Sutterfield announced that next year the awards will be named for Roger P. Webb who recently retired as the Steve W. Chaddick school chair and for his vast contributions to ECE and Georgia Tech spanning more than 40 years.

"When Roger announced that he was going to retire, all of the members of the advisory board felt strongly that he should be honored in a prominent and lasting way, so we asked him what he would like us to do to honor his accomplishments," Sutterfield said. "After some reflection, Roger asked that we endow the ECE awards, a program he had started several years ago. This honor is well deserved."

Recipients of the 2005 ECE awards are: R. Reeve Ingle, Outstanding Sophomore Award; G. Wallace Tennille, Junior Scholar Award; George Cadena, Undergraduate Research Award; Benjamin Alexander Johnson, Senior Co-op Award; Michael Rivera, Outstanding Service to Georgia’s Community Award; Anita Chow, Faculty Award; Irene Chow, Electrical Engineering Senior Award; Vikram Raj, Computer Engineering Senior Award; Justin Kloos, Senior Scholar Award; Jinyu Li and Mohanned Sinnokrot, Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver awards; Joseph Lee, Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award; Omid Momtahan and Hossein Pishro-Nik, Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award; James Steinberg and Christine Sun, Hats Off Performance awards for staff; Thomas Champion, Research Spotlight Award; Ramzy Obaid, Academic Spotlight Award; W. Alan Doolittle and Magnus Egerstedt, Junior Faculty Member Award; Gregory D. Durgin and Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards and Arthur Koblasz; Ian F. Akyildiz, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.