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In this week's newsletter I wish to update everyone about our department's initiatives with regard to graduate student recruiting. First of all, we have requested names and addresses of undergraduate seniors from other universities who have expressed interest in graduate studies. In return, we have also sent our colleagues at those schools copies of our ECE Resume Booklet so that they can identify prospective graduate students from our undergraduate student body.
A second initiative that we have undertaken this week is to use the services of the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations), which administers the standardized tests that universities use to select graduate students. Using their online database search engine, it is possible to narrow our search to students from various geographical regions (e.g., the midwest), students with certain GPA ranges, and students with preferences for going to graduate schools in certain areas, etc. We have obtained such a list of graduate students in the U.S. We are in the process of sending those prospective students information about our department, our graduate study brochure, and a graduate application form. We are using the same technology that telemarketers use to sell products to us at home! We hope to increase the visibility of our graduate program among prospective graduate students in the country. We will report results of this effort at the end of the year.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Monday, November 29: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Malay Haldar
"A Library Based MATLAB Compiler and Runtime System for Adaptive
Heterogeneous Platforms"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, and N. Shenoy
Monday, November 29: M.S. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room M416
Anshuman Nayak
"Design and Characterization of MATLAB Functions on a Distributed and
Heterogeneous System"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), A. Choudhary, and N. Shenoy
Monday, November 29: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Rapeepat Ratasuk
"Adaptive Multiuser Demodulation for Wireless Multiple Access
Communications"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), C. Lee, A. Katsaggelos, and
T. Pappas
Wednesday, December 1: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Abhishek Ranjan
"An Algorithmic Floorplan Predictor"
Committee Members: M. Sarrafzadeh (chairman), P. Banerjee, A. Moshovos
Prof. Nate Newman has received continuation of a grant from the Office of Naval Research for the development of methods to synthesize III-N semiconductors. This fiscal year's award is for $116,000. The total award is $467,202 for 11/1998-3/2002.
Michael Honig has been re-elected to serve another three-year term on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Nate Newman is traveling to Boston, MA, Nov. 27-Dec. 2, to attend the Material Research Society Fall meeting. He is chairing a session and is the organizer for the symposium entitled: Substrate engineering: paving the way to epitaxy.
Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Mexico City, Nov 23-27 to visit ITAM to continue collaboration with Prof. J.L. Morales.
Bruce Wessels attended a workshop on "Self assembly and nanoelectronics" sponsored by SRC, NASA and DARPA, in Mountain View, CA, Nov. 15-17.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .