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Because one of the primary functions of the ECE department is teaching, we value greatly those faculty that take a special interest in teaching.
In this newsletter, I am pleased to report on the Course and Teacher Evaluation Council (CTEC) scores for the ECE faculty who taught ECE courses in Fall 1999. These are the student evaluations of the faculty and the courses. While numerous metrics are considered, I am reporting below the Rating for the Instruction. Detailed CTEC scores for all categories are listed on the bulletin board outside the ECE department.
COURSE ENROLLMENT INSTRUCTOR CTEC (score out of 6.0) B01 67 Moshovos 4.8 B05 47 Lin 2.6 B30 52 Henschen 4.6 B41 44 Plonus 3.5 B42 5 Lin 4.0 B43 18 Wu 5.3 B50 19 Newman 4.4 C01 14 Plonus 3.3 C47 21 Henschen 3.9 C57 23 Sarrafzadeh 5.3 C58 32 Banerjee 5.5 C59 32 Pappas 3.8 C61 44 Choudhary 3.6 C78 23 Lee 5.4 C81 32 Jelen 4.8 C83 7 Horowicz 4.5 C84 6 Kannewurf 5.3 C98 10 Wu 5.3 D04 11 Ho 4.6 D10 16 Butz 4.1 D78 10 Honig 5.3As in the past, I have sent congratulatory letters to all faculty who have scored 5.0 or higher on the CTEC, and those faculty who have scored close to 5.0 and have received excellent student comments in B and C level courses with large enrollments that are very difficult to teach.
Please join me in congratulating our excellent teachers in the department.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Thursday, March 30: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Steven Slivken
"Ga(0.47)In(0.53)As/Al(0.48)In(0.52)As/InP Quantum Cascade Lasers
Grown by Gas-Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Jelen, C. Kannewurf,
and J. Diaz
Friday, March 31: M.S. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 4051
Markus P. Rutz
"Electron Count Simulation of QWIPs (Quantum Well Infrared
Photodetectors"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Jelen, and J. Diaz
We have just been informed that Prof. Abe Haddad will receive the IEEE Third Millenium Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE Control Society. Please join me in congratulating Abe.
Other ECE faculty members that have been chosen this year for this award include Aggelos Katsaggelos and Carl Kannewurf.
Prof. Abe Haddad traveled to Pittsburgh, March 22-24, to visit Dr. Marwan Simaan from the University of Pittsburgh and look at possible sites for the American Control Conference.
Prof. Prith Banerjee is traveling to Paris, France, March 25-30, to present a paper and attend the Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe (DATE2000).
Jay Sharping, a graduate student in the ECE department (advisor Prof. Prem Kumar), has recently been in the news (will be featured in the next issue of the NU Observer) for his efforts as President of the Northwestern University Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America (OSA), to showcase optics technology to the Evanston Chute Middle School. He and a dozen students from the OSA went to the science class of the school and excited students about the field of optics. The news article has been posted on the ECE bulletin board. The ECE department is proud of such outreach activities performed by its graduate students.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .