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One of the new initiatives that we started in the ECE department last year was in the area of improved student placement. Our goal is to be involved in the placement of our students in the top ECE companies so that these students can be in leadership roles in these companies and help the ECE department in the future. In view of that, we have appointed many members of the top ECE companies to our ECE Advisory Board; they visit us every year to look at our department's activities and meet with our students. We hope that these Board members will convince the companies they work for to recruit students from Northwestern.
Last year, we also produced an ECE Resume Booklet which contained the resumes of all graduating seniors in electrical engineering and computer engineering, and all graduating M.S. and Ph.D. students in ECE. These resumes were mailed to the top 35 ECE related companies in the country, and the recruiting personnel in these companies were urged to recruit students from Northwestern. The result was that during 1998-99, our B.S. EE and CE students received offers from companies such as Anderson Consulting, Deloitte and Touche, Ernst and Young, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Plexus, Price Waterhouse, Tellabs, and Texas Instruments.
We are planning to produce an ECE Resume Booklet again this year. We have sent emails to all our electrical engineering and computer engineering seniors and M.S. and Ph.D. students who are planning to graduate during the 1999-2000 year. Each B.S. and M.S. student has been asked to provide a one-page resume, and each Ph.D. student has been asked to provide a two-page resume outlining their career objectives, education, elective courses, GPAs, computer skills, projects performed, work experiences, and other items to Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.nwu.edu) by October 18, in both hard copy and electronic form as a WORD file. We will put together the resume booklet and mail it to the top ECE companies around Nov. 1, 1999, in both hard copy form and in electronic form (since many companies last year had requested this information in electronic form). The list of companies that we plan to send the resume booklet to this year includes: AT&T, Lucent, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Honeywell, Rockwell, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Ameritech, Nortel, Cisco Systems, General Electric, GTE, Loral Space Communications, MCI/WorldCom, Qualcomm, Tellabs, 3Com, Xerox, Boeing/McDonnel Douglas, Eastman Kodak, Northrop Grumman, and Anderson Consulting.
We hope that our initiatives in this area will help improve ties between our ECE department and the top companies.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Parallel and Distributed Processing Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, October 5
TIME: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
PLACE: A230, Civil Engineering Department
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Dr. T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue University
** Please note different date, time, and place.
VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, October 6
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Combined Static Scheduling and Placement for Reconfigurable
Computing Systems
SPEAKER: Kia Bazargan, ECE graduate student
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Prith Banerjee is traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 7-8, to attend a DARPA PI Meeting and present research results on the MATCH project on MATLAB compiler for adaptive computing.
Alok Choudhary is traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 6-9, to attend a DARPA ACS PI Meeting.
Majid Sarrafzadeh is also traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Oct. 6-9.
Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to Norway where he gave the plenary talk entitled "Rate-Distortion Techniques in Image and Video Coding", at the Norwegian Signal Processing Conference, NORSIG-99, Asker, Norway, Sept. 10, 1999. He also traveled to Denmark where he gave an invited talk entitled "Context Based Optimal Shape Coding," at the 1999 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 13-15, 1999, and attended a meeting of the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .