• Fuja Named IEEE Fellow • Graduate Student Receives Indiana Governor's Award Fuja Named IEEE Fellow Thomas E. Fuja, professor of electrical engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The world’s largest technical professional society, the IEEE is composed of more than 320,000 members who focus on advancing the theory and practice of electrical, electronics, and computer engineering. Fuja is the 11th faculty member to receive this honor. His work addresses coding for wireless applications and the interface between source coding (compression) and channel coding (error control). He joined the University in 1998. Fuja received bachelor’s degrees in electrical and in computer engineering in 1981 from the University of Michigan. From Cornell University he received a master’s degree in 1983 and a doctorate in 1987, both in electrical engineering. [back to top] Graduate Student Receives Indiana Governor's Award Dane Wheeler, a Ph.D. candidate and Semiconductor Research Corporation fellow working under the direction of Alan C. Seabaugh, professor of electrical engineering, and Douglas C. Hall, associate professor of electrical engineering, has received the 2004 Indiana Governor’s Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders. Wheeler received his bachelor’s degree from the University in 2003. As an undergraduate he won first-place in the Intel Student Research Contest and received the award for Best Undergraduate Plan from the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Notre Dame. As a high school student, Wheeler co-developed a software package called mightybrain.com, which enables teachers to record and distribute grades and relevant information to students and parents. The program is currently in use at a large local school system, the Penn-Harris-Madison Corporation, in Mishawaka, Ind. [back to top]