DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of October 9 - 13, 2000

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

In this newsletter I am delighted to announce the recipients of the 2000-2001 year Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program. The aim of this grant is to allow our undergraduates to do research with the faculty and senior graduate students so that they get to know what research is all about.

As part of this program, we will be able to provide stipends for undergraduate students in the ECE department (in electrical engineering and in computer engineering). Each selected student will receive a stipend of $1250 for each quarter they do undergraduate research as part of an ECE 399 project (not counting design competition) with any ECE faculty member. The faculty advisor supervising the project will get a $1250 unrestricted grant. It is expected that the project will take two quarters, hence each student will get a total stipend of $2500 over two quarters and each faculty will get $2500 over two quarters. Students can take this over any two quarters (Fall, Winter and Spring), e.g. Fall and Winter, Winter and Spring, Fall and Spring, etc.

A call for proposals was sent out on September 21 to all electrical engineering and computer engineering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. All proposals were due Thursday, September 28. A committee consisting of Profs. Aggelos Katsaggelos, Allen Taflove, and Prith Banerjee met Monday Oct. 2, and selected the following proposals for funding. The projects will support five electrical engineering projects and four computer engineering projects.

  1. Ethan Schonbrun with Prem Kumar, "Raman Gain for Light Amplification in Optical Fiber" (Winter 2001 and Spring 2001 quarters)

  2. Jwalant Nanavati with Alan Sahakian, "Estimating Time Domain Response from Swept-Frequency Microwave Network Analyzer Measurement" (Fall 2000 and Winter 2001 quarters)

  3. Joseph Zambreno with Alok Choudhary, "Design and Analysis of Resource and Performance Optimizations for High-Level Synthesis in MATCH Compiler and Its Comparison to Commercial System Level Tools," (Fall 2000 and Winter 2001 quarters)

  4. Jake Brick with Aggelos Katsaggelos, "Automated Time Clock and Payroll System" (Fall 2000 and Winter 2001 quarters)

  5. Fong Keng with Prith Banerjee, "An Automated Way to Convert MATLAB Programs into Hardware" (Fall 2000 and Winter 2001 quarters)

  6. Ada Hoang with Chi-Haur Wu, "Wireless Control for Automated Applications," (Winter 2001 and Spring 2001 quarters)

  7. Derrick Fansler-Wald with Allen Taflove, "Motorola Sponsored Wireless Communications Laboratory" (Winter 2001 and Spring 2001 quarters)

  8. Ryan McClintock with Manijeh Razeghi, "Development of High-Efficiency III-Nitride Solar-Blind Photodetectors," (Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 quarters)

  9. Chirayu Amin with Peter Scheuermann, "Efficient Compression and Manipulation of Binary Images," (Winter 2001 and Spring 2001 quarters)
On Friday June 1, 2001, each student and faculty member will be asked to visit Motorola in Schaumburg and present a half-day poster session describing the results of the research. It will be an opportunity to interact with Motorola engineers at that site.

I wish to congratulate all the undergraduate students for being chosen for these awards. I am looking forward to seeing the results of this research in June 2001.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

TRAVEL

Professor Razeghi:
International Advisory Board, Session Chair, and Keynote Address, "Miniaturization: Enabling Technology for the New Millenium," at the International Conference on Solid State Crystals -- Materials Science and Application, Zakopane, Poland, October 8-11, 2000

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