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In the last newsletter, I announced that Motorola Foundation has given us a cash gift of $500,000 over five years for supporting various ECE departmental initiatives.
In this newsletter I am pleased to announce the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program for the year 2000. During the 1999-2000 year, we will fund ten research projects at a total funding level of $50,000. As part of this program, we will be able to provide stipends for ten undergrad students in the ECE department (five in electrical engineering, five in computer engineering). Each selected student will receive a stipend of $1250 for each quarter they do undergraduate research as part of an ECE C99 project (not counting design competition) with any ECE faculty member. The faculty advisor supervising the project will receive 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 member will get $2500 over two quarters. We would like to support ten students with ten advisors during the Winter and Spring 2000 quarters. We especially encourage participation from women and minority students. Sometime in the first week of June 2000, 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. The topic of research can be on any field of electrical and computer engineering, and need not be related to Motorola's immediate needs. Students can sign up for C99 course credit while doing the research or can do research independent of C99.
A committee consisting of Prof. Alok Choudhary (Director of Alumni and Industrial Relations), Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos (Director of Motorola Center for Telecom Research), and Prith Banerjee (Chairman) has been appointed to review all proposals. Faculty members are requested to send proposals electronically to Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.nwu.edu) by Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Monday, January 10: M.S. Final Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Room L324
Harsha S. Nagesh
"High Performance Subspace Clustering for Massive Data Sets"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, and
P. Scheuermann
Tuesday, January 11: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Room L324
Weimin Xiao
"Reduced-Rank Linear Interference Suppression for DS-CDMA"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), A. Haddad, A. Katsaggelos, and
C. Lee
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