DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of November 15 - 19, 1999

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

One of the initiatives started last year and being continued this year is the ECE Department's closer involvement with the future placement of our undergraduate students. We have mailed out our ECE Resume Booklet to many companies in the last two weeks. While many of the graduating B.S. students will be taking up positions in industry, we would like to place some of our seniors in graduate school at various universities including Northwestern. In view of that, we have also mailed out our ECE Resume Booklet to graduate program directors at many universities in case they wish to contact some of our students for graduate school.

The ECE department is organizing a Graduate School Orientation for all electrical engineering and computer engineering seniors and juniors on Wednesday, Nov. 17, from 11 am-12 noon in the ECE conference room (L324) to discuss:

  1. What is graduate school and what are its benefits?
  2. How financial aid works in the form of fellowships, teaching assistantships, research assistantships.
  3. What are our expectations from students in terms of GPAs, projects, letters, GREs?
  4. How does one apply to grad school?
  5. What exams you need to take (GRE, etc.)?
  6. What are the top grad schools in EE and CompE in the country?
  7. What are your employment prospects with an M.S., with a Ph.D.? What are salaries like?
Members of the ECE Graduate Commmittee consisting of faculty and graduate students will be present to answer any questions you may have. We hope that this initiative will help the students to make an informed decision about going to graduate school and we hope that some of them will consider applying to Northwestern. This would then impact another departmental initiative of improving our ability to attract better graduate students into this department.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

NO CPDC Seminar this week

VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 17
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
PLACE: L324 (ECE Conference Room)
TITLE: New Developments in the VLSI CAD Area
SPEAKER: Ankur Srivastava, ECE graduate Student

Database Seminar
DATE: Thursday, November 18
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Searching from Distributed Text Sources
SPEAKER: Clement Yu (Professor of EECS, UIC)

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, November 17: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room B211
Pretlow Lee Stevenson, III
"Option C"
Committee Members: C. Kannewurf (chairman), L. Henschen, and N. Newman

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Prith Banerjee has been appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems effective January 1, 2000.

Professor Peter Scheuermann chaired the 1999 Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX99) that took place on November 8, 1999, in Evanston.

TRAVEL

Majid Sarrafzadeh gave an invited talk in the 6th International Conference on CAD, Seoul, Korea (based on a joint work with Maogang Wang), October 25-27, 1999.

He also gave a full-day tutorial entitled "Modern Physical Design," in ICCAD, November 11, 1999, in San Jose CA.

Prem Kumar traveled to San Francisco, November 8-11, for the annual Meeting of IEEE/LEOS, and presented three papers with students and postdocs.

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