DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of May 7 - 11, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I would like to remind everyone that Fall Quarter Preregistration Advising begins this week, from Thursday, May 10, through Wednesday, May 16. Students should sign up with their new advisors for 2001-2002.

The 2001-02 ECE Undergraduate Advisors are listed below:

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Freshman      Sophomore		Junior		Senior

Freeman	      Sahakian(A-G)	Phillips(A-G)	Haddad(A-D)
Katsaggelos   Shahriar(H-M)	Plonus(H-P)	Honig(E-L)
	      Yuen(N-Z)		Taflove(R-Z)	Razeghi(M-Z)


COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Freshman     Sophomore	        Junior		Senior

Henschen     Nocedal(A-J)	Choudhary(A-H)	Ismail(A-H)
Pappas	     Taylor(K-R)	Berry(J-N)	Scheuermann(J-P)
	     Banerjee(S-Z)	Wu(P-Z)		Lin(Q-Z)

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

On Saturday, April 28, Lynn Borowitz and Michael Englert attended the IEEE Chicago Section student awards luncheon with Alan Sahakian. Lynn was awarded a Student Leadership Award and Michael was awarded a Scholarship Award.

TRAVEL

Professor Prith Banerjee is traveling to Boston, MA, May 7, to visit Mathworks Corporation.

Professor Prem Kumar is traveling to Baltimore, MD, May 9-10, to attend CLEO/QELS 2001 -- Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, to present an invited paper and three contributed papers with students, and to chair a session.

Professor Jorge Nocedal is traveling to New York, NY, May 5-7, to attend a meeting at Columbia University to Plan IMA Optimization Year (2003).

OLD NEWS

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