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In this newsletter, I am pleased to inform you all of some funding we have received from the university administration to support the various new departmental initiatives and the renovation of the labs and the curriculum. We have received $300,000 from the President and Provost to fund these new initiatives over the next several years. This is in addition to the $100,000 that we received from the Dean to fund some of these activities. Now that the funds are in place, we should be able to move forward on the execution of the mission plans outlined for the department.
Using part of these funds, we have already ordered various new furniture for our instructional labs to be delivered in December 1998. We have also ordered some lab equipment for some courses and plan to order more as soon as the Labs Committee comes up with a clear plan for acquisition of new equipment for the labs.
The undergraduate electrical engineering and computer engineering committees are working hard on revising the EE and CE curricula in the department to make it more relevant and exciting to the students. I will share more details about these plans in future newsletters.
Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Optimization & Distributed Environments Seminar
DATE: Wednesday November 11
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: M228
TITLE: Topics in Shape design & Optimization
SPEAKER: David E. Keyes, NASA Langley.
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Wed. Nov. 11
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: "RaPiD - Reconfigurable Pipelined Datapath", University of Washington
SPEAKER: Katherine Nelson, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Hauck)
Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Fri., Nov. 13
TIME: 11-12 pm
PLACE: L324
SPEAKER: Dr. Rakesh Krishnaiyer
TITLE: TBA
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
MOTOROLA PRESENTATION -- November 9, 6:00 p.m. -- Tech LR4
Topics will include:
Karen Ballinger
IEEE Student Chapter
NU Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America (OSA) will host a regional meeting of OSA student chapters on Saturday, November 14, 1998, at Tech Rm M345, from 11am to 6pm.
Everyone working or interested in the field of optics is welcome to attend.
We will be visited by the OSA Chapter of Purdue University and, possibly, by representatives from other schools. The purpose of the meeting is to make us familiar with what other optics groups are doing and promote our own research achievements, as well as provide an informal athmosphere for sharing student and professional experiences. This is the second meeting in the series; the first one was held at Purdue three years ago.
The tentative program includes a number of 5-10 min. talks about projects pursued in different research groups, poster boards in the hallway for more detailed description of the projects, tour of Northwestern lab facilities, sharing student chapter experiences (e.g. educational outreach, collaboration), etc.
Pizza and refreshments will be served.
Watch the NU-OSA events page 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
This event is sponsored by OSA and Department of ECE.
Professor Prith Banerjee is traveling to San Jose, CA, Nov. 10-11, to attend the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD98) and present two papers.
Professor Scott Hauck is traveling to San Jose, CA, Nov. 8-9, to attend a Program Committee meeting for the Int'l Symposium on FPGAs 1999, and for a visit at QUICKTURN.
Professor Nate Newman is traveling to Tempe, AZ, Nov. 9-10, where he was invited by the ASU Physics Dept. to give a Solid-State Seminar.
Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Seattle, WA, Oct 25, Oct 28, for an INFORMS MEETING, and presented the paper, "Fast and Reliable Interior Point Methods."
Professor Alan Sahakian traveled to Washington, DC, Nov. 2 -4, to serve on the NSF Bioengineering CAREER proposal review panel.
Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to Orlando, FL, Nov. 9-15, where she will chair the session, "Invited Talks on Computer Architecture," moderate the panel, "Exotic Applications of Today as Future Drivers for Architectures of Tomorrow," and give a demo on "Finite Element Application running on a Distributed System."
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .