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In the last newsletter, I mentioned that we have recently completed the ECE Annual Research Report for the 1998-99 year (Sept. 1, 1998 to Aug. 31, 1999). Last week, I commented on two metrics of research output for the department during the year: (1) the total number of research publications, and (2) the number of M.S. and Ph.D. degrees granted. This week I want to comment on the research funding generated and spent by the department.
In terms of research expenditures, our 30 faculty members collectively spent $9.4 million during 1998-99, which is an all-time high. This includes the research grants coming directly to our department as well as those coming to centers which are associated with our department, such as the Center for Quantum Devices, the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing, the Optimization Technology Center, and the Motorola Center for Telecommunications Research. This is an increase from last year when our research expenditures were $8.6 million. To put things in context, the research expenditures last year for all of the McCormick School of Engineering were about $45 million. Our department brings in a major portion of the funding to the McCormick School (which has about 160 faculty).
Our faculty collectively wrote several research proposals to numerous funding agencies such as NSF, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, and companies such as Motorola and Intel. Of these, 79 proposals were funded at a total level of $7.9 million. Of these, 27 proposals were for new funding; the remaining were continuation grants. Again, our faculty collectively wrote a lot of research proposals.
In general I feel that our total research activity (in terms of publications and students graduated and research funding) has greatly increased. I would like to congratulate all the faculty in the department for this achievement.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Parallel and Distributed Processing Seminar
DATE: Monday November 8
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
PLACE: L324
TITLE: "pMAFIA: A High Performance Subspace Clustering Algorithm for
Massive Data Sets"
SPEAKER: Harsha Nagesh, ECE, Northwestern Univ.
VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 10
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
PLACE: L324 (ECE Conference Room)
TITLE: "A Parallel Implementation of A Fast Multipole Based 3-D
Capacitance Extraction Program on Distributed Memory Multicomputers"
SPEAKER: Yanhong Yuan, ECE graduate Student
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to San Francisco, CA, to attend the Board of Governors meeting of the IEEE Signal Processing Society on Nov. 21, 1999, as an elected member-at-large. He also participated at a meeting regarding the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, of which he is editor-in-chief.
He also traveled to Kobe, Japan, to attend the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Nov. 24-28, 1999, where he presented a short course on "Image and Video Recovery" and two invited papers, chaired a session, and attended committee meetings. At the same conference, five more papers he co-authored were presented.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .