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I would like to inform everyone of a plan to hold an ECE Open House/Research Fair for the ECE department on Friday, May 21, 1999. This is the day before the McCormick Undergraduate Design Competition (Saturday, May 22). During this Open House we will showcase our ECE labs for our undergraduate students so that they can see what is happening in the department. As you know, the labs are going through some major renovations, and we are planning to show them off, including the new wireless communication lab that we are planning.
The Research Fair will consist of an all-day Poster Session in which all graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) who are doing theses during the 1998-99 year will present poster papers (consisting of 6-8 pages) describing the research they are doing at a level that most of us in ECE can understand. The purpose of this poster session will be to make other graduate students and faculty members aware of the research they are doing. Undergrads in the department will be able to ask questions of the grad students about their research, and staff members can see what research we all do.
We are planning to invite the President, the Provost, the Dean, ECE faculty members from other universities, and people from various companies (who are either recruiters or members of the ECE Advisory Board) to this event.
This event will be sponsored by Motorola Corporation. More details will be provided later.
Please mark your calendars for this important date. It will be an occasion for celebration for the ECE department. Food and drinks will be provided throughout the day.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
Date: Tuesday, Jan 19
Time: 4pm-5pm
Place: L324 (Tech)
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Andreas Moshovos
OPTIMIZATION & DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR
DATE: Friday, January 22
TIME: 10:30-11:30
PLACE: M228
TITLE: Nonlinear branch-and-bound on a metacomping platform.
SPEAKER: Jean-Pierre Goux, NU / Argonne National Labs.
Tuesday, January 19: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 4:30 p.m.
Room E133
Seoijin Park
"Integrated All Optical Switches for Optical Communications"
Committee Members: S. Ho (chairman), N. Newman, M. Plonus, P. Kumar
We just learned that one of our ECE alums, Shiuh Yuan Chen, who graduated from Northwestern's ECE department in 1998 with a dual B.S. degree in EE and CompE, was the recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Award for 1998. The winner of this national award was Jeff Ross of Northeastern University. There were three Honorable Mentions: Shiuh Yuan Chen from Northwestern, Ashwin Ganesan from Marquette University, and Wende Okamura from University of Hawaii. Congratulations to Shiuh Yuan on this great achievement.
Alan V. Sahakian traveled to Newark, NJ, Jan 15-17, to attend an IEEE/EMBS Executive Committee meeting as VP for Publications and Technical Activities.
Majid Sarrafzadeh is traveling to San Jose, CA, Jan 21-Jan 22 to do some consulting with a start-up company in Silicon Valley.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .