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I am pleased to report that after months of working together very closely, we have finally received some of the latest, state-of-the-art equipment from Motorola Corporation to establish a "Motorola Sponsored Lab in Wireless Communication" in the ECE department. As part of this donation, we received a 450 MHz UHF base station (model GR1225) and eight portable radios (model P1225).
The equipment was installed on Friday, March 12, by Motorola engineers Bob Loving, Bethany Dick, and Glenn Peterson, and coordinated by Kathy Pappas from Motorola. The equipment is already up and running. Making this wireless lab work involved acquiring licenses from the FCC to operate in these frequencies. I am told that Kathy Pappas had to work very hard to get the licenses from Washington, DC, in a short amount of time.
This equipment donation happened thanks to some very hard work from two of our ECE faculty, Allen Taflove and Alan Sahakian, and thanks to tremendous support from Executive Vice President Dr. Bob Barnett, Kathy Pappas, and Frances Laidlaw from Motorola. We plan to have an official ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the event to coincide with the ECE Open House on Friday, May 21.
The equipment will be used by a section of 16 students in Freshman Engineering Design and Communications in the Spring quarter 1999 (starting in two weeks) to be taught by Prof. Allen Taflove. This will hopefully get the freshmen students in McCormick excited about the field of electrical engineering.
More details on this may be obtained from Prof. Taflove (taflove@ece.nwu.edu).
Thanks to all those who made this happen. Great job.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Monday, Mar. 15
TIME: 11:00 - 12:00 (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME)
PLACE: Tech, Room A230
TITLE: Persistent Holographic Recording in Lithium Niobate Crystals
SPEAKER: Ali Adibi, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institute of Technology
There are no exams scheduled this week.
Prof. Nate Newman has received a research grant from NASA to study the "Optimization of AlGaN for Electron Emissive Devices". The grant award is $15,000 for this year (1/25/99 to 1/24/00).
Prof. Seng-Tiong Ho has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Prof. Carl Kannewurf traveled to East Lansing, MI, Mar. 9-10, to attend DARPA and ONR program reviews at Michigan State.
Prof. Nate Newman traveled to Miami, FL, Mar. 11-13, to attend a meeting of the Advisory Board of the AFOSR-funded Future Science and Technology Center for Space Cryoelectronics.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .