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We will begin classes for the new year on Sept. 23rd. Everyone - students, faculty, and staff - is going to be very busy next week. I want to welcome the new undergraduate and graduate students to this department and wish them luck with their academic pursuits.
Since we have had some of our faculty leave our department in the past few months to pursue other career opportunities, and we were not able to replace all of them, we have had a strain on our ability to offer all the courses in all the quarters that we had hoped for. We have updated the schedule of courses on the web site (http://www.ece.nwu.edu). Please look at the site for details so you can plan when to take various courses. While we understand that the cancellation of courses creates severe disruptions of student career planning, we are sometimes forced to do that. Thanks a lot for your support.
The good news is that we plan to hire two new faculty next year, one in the area of digital signal processing, and another in the area of networking and optical systems. We also hired one faculty (Chris Jelen) this year who will start teaching next Fall. With three new faculty on board in Fall 1999, our teaching situation for next year will be greatly improved.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that the contest for the design of the NEW ECE Web page is still on. Look at the current web page for more details. All entries are due Oct. 1, 1998. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to enter. There is a cash reward of $500 for the best design.
Have a great week!
There are no seminars scheduled this week.
Tuesday, Sept. 22:
M.S. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m., Room B211
Philippe Canal
"Finding Paths Among Obstacles in Two Layers Interconnection Model"
Committee Members: Prof. D.T. Lee (Chairman), Prof. C.H. Wu, and Prof. L.
Henschen
Tuesday, Sept. 22:
Friday, Sept. 25:
Prof. D.T. Lee received a research grant for $219,272.00 from the National
Science Foundation for a project entitled "Geometric Algorithm Design and
Visualization" for the period 9/1/98 - 8/31/01.
Alan Sahakian traveled to Cleveland, OH from Sept. 13 -16 to attend
the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference and present a paper
entitled: "A simultaneous multichannel monophasic action potential
electrode array for epicardial repolarization mapping".
Valerie Taylor will travel to Denver, CO Sept. 19-20 to participate in
the CRA-W (CRA committee on the status of women) meeting.
Valerie Taylor will travel to San Francisco, CA Sept. 24-28 to:
Please join us in congratulating Nancy Singer who has recently been
promoted from a part-time Secretary 1 to a full time Secretary II working
as the Department Chairman's Secretary.
Don't miss the first GECES event of the school year--our annual Welcome
Back Picnic!
GECES
Thursday, September 24, 11am-1pm
There will be a social/meeting for all new graduate students to meet
with the ECE faculty and staff for orientation to the department.
Attendance is required for new grad students, but the atmosphere will
be informal. Faculty and staff members will be introduced, and there
will be information sheets to be filled out by the students. There
will be plenty of time to ask questions and to meet individual faculty
members. Light refreshments will be served.
Larry Henschen
Upcoming Birthday wishes:
You can look at news from previous weeks in
Old News .
M.S. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m., Room L324
Yang Chao
"On a Web-Based Telemanipulation and Monitoring System"
Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m., Room L324
Young Kun Park
"Eigenvalue Method for Accurate Numerical Vector Calculation of Optical
Fiber Dispersion"
Committee Members: Prof. M. Marhic (Chairman), Prof. M. Epstein, Prof. M.
Plonus, and Prof. A. Taflove
RESEARCH GRANTS
TRAVEL
- Give a presentation at NASA Ames on Sept. 24 OTHER NEWS
When: Tuesday, September 22, from noon-2pm
Where: At Observatory Point, on the Lakefill. (across from the
soccer/lacrosse fields, just east of SPAC, where the observatory used
to be)
What: We'll have the usual food, games, volleyball, and music.
Catch up on everyone's summer vacation and help welcome the new grad
students and staff to NU! All ECE faculty, staff, and grad students
are invited. Hope to see you there!
Graduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Students Society
Room L324 - ECE Conference Room
Graduate Director
PERSONAL NEWS
Pred Bundalo - Sept. 20
Carol Surma - Sept. 22
Chris Gilmore - Sept. 24
OLD NEWS
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