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In this second newsletter of the year I would like to describe two things, the new undergraduate curriculum and some new information about maintaining student lists electronically for the department.
As many of you know, the new undergraduate curricula for electrical engineering and computer engineering have been approved and have been designed to be effective for students entering in Fall 2000, but are available to students who entered the program in Fall 1999 or earlier. The new undergraduate manual for 1999-2000 that has been prepared over the summer describes on page 59 the exact mechanism for how students from the old curricula can change over to the new curricula. During 1999-2000, we will be offering six of the courses in pilot form: ECE 202 and ECE 222 in Winter 2000, and ECE 203, ECE 221, ECE 223, ECE 224 in Spring 2000 in pilot form. This year, our main goal will be to evaluate how the new courses are working along with the new curricula, and to make suitable changes to the courses in order to continually improve them over the years.
In the last few weeks, we have updated the email lists for all our undergraduate and graduate students in the department to be consistent with the office of undergraduate and graduate records for the Fall 1999 quarter. The department web page under the category of "Students" lists the students in various categories, e.g., computer engineering sophomores, who can be reached by sending email to co-sophomores@ece.nwu.edu; and second year graduate students can be reached by sending email to grad-students-2@ece.nwu.edu. Students are encouraged to visit the listing on the web and bring to our attention any errors by sending email to Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.nwu.edu) who maintains these lists of students and email aliases. These lists are being used to send important directed emails to certain groups of students, e.g., for job opportunities, etc.
Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, September 27
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
LOCATION: L324 (ECE conference room)
SPEAKER: Prof. Todd Austin, Univ. of Michigan
TITLE: DIVA: A Dynamic Approach to Microprocessor Verification
Optimization Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, September 28
TIME: 11:00-12:00
LOCATION: L324
SPEAKER: Robert Fourer, IEMS Dept., Northwestern
TITLE: Implications of constraint logic programming for the design of
mathematical programming systems
VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, September 29
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
PLACE: L324
SPEAKER: Victor Kim, ECE graduate student
TITLE: Parallelization of Physically Knowledgeable Logic Synthesis
There are no exams scheduled this week.
Dhruva Ranjan Chakrabarti, an ECE graduate student, is the recipient of the Dissertation Year Henderson Fellowship for the Winter and Spring 2000 quarters. Dhruva was one of eight students to receive the prestigious fellowship from the McCormick School this year, and the only one from the ECE department.
Kathie Cerveny received the Northwestern University Service Recognition Award this month in recognition of her preparation of the ECE graduate student database.
Prem Kumar is traveling to Santa Clara, CA, and Seattle, WA, Sept. 27 - Oct.3 to chair a session on Quantum State Tomography and present an invited and a contributed paper at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America. He will also visit Dr. Kutz at the Univ of Washington, Seattle, on possibilities of collaborative work.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .