DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of May 14 - 18, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I wish to thank all the faculty and selected undergraduate and graduate students who have spent time over the past two weeks meeting with the Internal Program Review Committee for the ECE Department Program Review. The Internal Review Process is now complete.

We are now preparing for the External Program Review Committee visit scheduled for Wednesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 24. The visitors are:

Venky Narayanamurti, John A. & Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor and Dean, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

and

Yale Patt, Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin.

During these two days, they will be meeting with all the faculty and selected undergraduate and graduate students in the ECE department, the Dean and the Provost, and faculty and chairmen of other departments in the McCormick School. It will be a very exciting time for the department as we identify the critical issues facing our department and prepare strategic plans for improving the department over the next seven years.

Finally, I would like to thank Nancy Singer immensely for completing the most difficult task of arranging the schedules of so many people for both the Internal Reviews and the External Reviews under strict constraints.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Communications and Networking Seminar
DATE: Thursday, May 17, 2001
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Queueing Models for VoIP
SPEAKER: Philip J. Fleming, Senior Member of Technical Staff and Head, Performance Analysis Department, Motorola, Inc.

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, May 14, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room L324
David Zaretsky
"Design and Evaluation of MATLAB Library Functions on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), A. Choudhary, and Y. Ismail

Wednesday, May 16, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Andreas Schuler
"Algorithms for the Detection of Inappropriate Autonomic Responses"
Committee Members: A. Sahakian (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and T. Pappas

TRAVEL

Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to Frascati, Italy, May 12-18, to attend the ATLAS Software Conference.

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