This page contains news related to the ECE department for the current week. Specifically, it includes information about seminars, exams, travel, research grants, professional news, and personal news.
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This week is Spring Break. I hope all the faculty, students, and staff will have some break from their classes and work.
In this column, I would also like to recognize the best teachers in the ECE department during the Fall quarter 2000, based on student evaluations (CTEC scores).
The list below shows the various courses, the faculty who taught each course, the enrollment, and the CTEC score received on a scale of 6.0.
As in the past, I am recognizing all the faculty who have scored 5.0 or higher with a personal letter of thanks. I am also recognizing those faculty who have scored close to 5.0 and have excellent student comments in lower division courses that are very difficult to teach. These courses are marked with a " * ".
COURSE PROFESSOR ENROLLMENT CTEC SCORE 202 Sahakian 70 4.6 * 203 Wu 55 3.9 205 Lin 46 3.8 222 Katsaggelos 24 5.1 * 223 Razeghi 20 4.7 * 224 Taflove 42 5.6 * 225 Wu 14 3.9 230 Scheuermann 36 2.5 270 Plonus 15 4.6 * 333 Berry 40 4.4 347 Henschen 16 4.5 358 Banerjee 50 5.5 * 359 Pappas 41 4.0 361 Choudhary 52 4.2 378 Lee 23 5.2 * 379 Kumar 14 4.4 381 Jelen 20 4.9 * 397 Ismail 15 5.3 * 410 Butz 22 3.5
Please join me in congratulating our excellent teachers in the department.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Prof. Larry Henschen participated in a panel review of proposals at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, on March 13.
Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos gave a Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto on March 7 entitled, "Rate-Distortion Techniques in Video Compression and Communications."
Prof. Prem Kumar traveled to Boston, MA, March 10-12, to attend a MIT/NWU Collaboration Meeting.
Prof. Prem Kumar is traveling to Anaheim, CA, March 18-22, 2001, to attend the Optical Fiber Communication and Conference and Exhibit OFC 2001. He is presenting three papers which have been co-authored with his students and postdoc, Anjali Agarwal, Yikai Su, Paul Voss, and Lijun Wang.
Prof. Mary Phillips is traveling to Anaheim, CA, March 19-26, to attend the Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2001, and present a paper entitled, "Crosstalk in an eight-wavelength WDM analog lightwave system: measurement and analysis."
-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .