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In this issue, I would like to update you all on the annual report that we generated last week for the 1997-98 year (Sep. 1, 1997 to Aug. 31, 1998). I want to thank the outgoing Chairman Abe Haddad, and all the faculty and the staff for producing this report for the Dean and the President. Prof. Taflove (Director of ECE Publicity) is in the process of generating a version of the annual report for general distribution within a month so you can all see it. In this issue I would like to mention a few highlights of the annual report.
Our total student undergraduate enrollment was 200 in 1997-98 (compared to 188 in 1996-97). Our graduate student enrollment was 171 (compared to 125 in 1996-97).
We graduated 31 B.S. degrees in electrical engineering (compared to 25 in 1996-97), 16 B.S. degrees in computer engineering (compared to 16 in 1996-97), 27 M.S. degrees in ECE (compared to 33 in 1996-97), and 17 Ph.D. degrees in ECE (compared to 21 in 1996-97).
Our sponsored research expenditures directly administered through the ECE department was $5.1 million (compared to $4.2 million in 1996-97). In addition, the department faculty affiliated with various centers such as the Center for Quantum Devices, the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing, the Optimization Center, and the Materials Research Center brought in an additional $4.0 million. A total research budget of $9.1 million for 32 faculty in the ECE department for 1997-98 comes to an average research funding of $300,000 per faculty member which is comparable to the top ECE departments in the country such as MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Illinois. We hope to continue to be successful in bringing more research funding to our department in the future. This is very healthy for sustaining a strong graduate research and education program. This will also impact the quality of our undergraduate education as we will strive to involve our undergraduates in our research more in the future.
Prith Banerjee
Chairman
OPTIMIZATION & DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, November 18
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
TITLE: Performance Prediction and Scheduling for Metacomputing System
SPEAKER: Jennifer Schopf, CS Dept., Northwestern University
PLACE: M228
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, November 18
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
TITLE: Adaptive Computing for NASA Applications
SPEAKER: Mark L. Chang, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Hauck)
PLACE: L324
Wednesday, November 18: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Marcel Strebel
"Modelling and Nonlinear Control of Heating, Ventilation, and Air
Conditioning Systems"
Committee Members: R. Freeman (chairman), A. Haddad, and A. Katsaggelos
Regional Meeting of OSA Student Chapters
The date for the meeting of OSA student chapters, announced as November 14 in last week's news, is changed to November 21 due to a number of member's requests.
The final date for the meeting is Saturday, November 21, 1998, from 11am-6pm, in Tech Room M345.
Watch our Web site http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~kumarp/nuosa/osa_events.html for updates. For more information, contact Michael Vasilyev, principal organizer, at vasilyev@ece.nwu.edu
Professor Abe Haddad traveled to New Brunswick, NJ, Nov 11 - Nov 15, to attend a meeting of the IEEE Technical Meetings Committee.
Professor Michael Honig will travel to Denver, CO, Nov. 18-20, to attend an NSF Workshop on Achieving T3 Wireless Access.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .