Randy Mooney of Intel corporation was honored on September 25 as the 2008 Department Honored Alumnus. Mr. Mooney received the MS degree from BYU in 1987 and is currently an Intel Fellow and the director of I/O research in Intel's Microprocessor Technology Lab, part of Intel's Corporate Technology Group. Mr. Mooney gave a presentation to students where he recapped some of the highlights from his career and offered advice to students.

Mallory Phillips placed second in AUTOTESTCON 2008's Best Undergraduate Student Paper competition. Mallory designed a battery-free, wireless threshold accelerometer. Her paper outlines the design of the accelerometer as well as its manufacture and details about the testing performed on it. Mallory has been researching bistable switches, the basis for her accelerometer, for two years.

Professor David G. Long was awarded the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award during the annual university conference. This award is the University's most prestigious faculty award, and is given for exceptional achievements in both scholarship and teaching. As a recipient of this award, Dr. Long will deliver the 2008 Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture at the University Forum Assembly scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Marriott Center.