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I wish to welcome everyone back to school after the Spring Break. We hope that the Spring quarter will be as busy and wonderful for all of us as the Fall and Winter quarters.
The Spring quarter has started off with some excellent news for our ECE department. We just received word that our proposal to Hewlett-Packard Corporation for eight core lab equipment setups for the EE labs has been funded. The equipment is worth about $100,000. Prof. Alan Sahakian, Director of Instructional Labs, along with members of the lab committee had put together a proposal to Hewlett-Packard along with Dr. Mort Rahimi and Gary Greenburg from Academic Technologies to acquire 8 sets of HP VEE based lab equipment consisting of digital oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power supplies, etc. for the undergraduate circuits labs in the renovated ECE labs. We are in the process of ordering seven more setups as a matching purchase to bring the total to 16 (including the development setup which we already have). This should take care of the B02, B41, B42, C06 and C53 labs. During the Winter quarter, several of our own undergraduates participated in the development of some new lab projects for these courses using the new equipment as part of their C99 design projects.
We will now turn our attention to other lab equipment needs for other courses in the ECE department.
I would like to thank Professor Alan Sahakian, members of the lab committee, Tom Anderson (the member of the ECE Advisory Board from HP), and Hewlett-Packard Corporation for making this happen.
We plan to showcase the new lab equipment during our ECE Open House scheduled for Friday May 21.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, Mar 31
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: On Properly Budgeting Your Free Time
SPEAKER: Prof. Sarrafzadeh
Tuesday, March 30: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Hui-Jean Liu
"Optimal and Heuristic Algorithms for VLSI Routing"
Committee Members: M. Sarrafzadeh (chairman), J. Nocedal, and L. Henschen
Wednesday, March 31: M.S. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Shunliang Wang
"Parameterization in VLSI Design"
Committee Members: M. Sarrafzadeh (chairman), V. Taylor, and S. Hauck
Prof. Prem Kumar has received an equipment award for $225,000 from AFOSR for his proposal, ``Instrumentation to Characterize Cache-Memory Buffers and Regenerators for Optically-Digital Communication and Processing at the Quantum Limit,'' for a new laser system.
Prof. Randy Freeman traveled to U.C. Santa Barbara, March 23-28, to give an invited lecture entitled, "On the passivity of haptic displays of nonlinear virtual environments."
Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to Phoenix, AZ, March 15-22, to present papers at the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, and attend several board meetings.
Prof. Alan Sahakian visited Stanford and San Francisco, CA, March 24 - 28, to attend IEEE EMBS AdCom/ExCom/PubCom meeting as past VP-Publications.
Prof. Valerie Taylor traveled to Los Angeles, CA, March 23-27, to attend the HPDC program committee meeting and a Grace Hopper Planning meeting.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .