DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of November 12 - 16, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

For this week we have just two items of interest:

The first is the announcement that our Student Resume Booklet was completed and mailed last week to key ECE department chairs and key persons from industry, including our Advisory Board members. If anyone else wishes to receive a copy of the booklet (containing resumes of our seniors and graduating graduate students), please let us know.

The second note is that it is time to conduct the mid-quarter evaluation of our classes. All faculty members received the form in their mailboxes last week, and we hope that the evaluation will provide feedback to help improve the quality of instruction in ECE.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Special Seminar
DATE: Thursday, November 15, 2001
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L250
TITLE: "Recent Trends in Robust Geometric Computing"
SPEAKER: Professor Herve Bronnimann, Polytechnic University, New York

EXAMINATIONS

Thursday, November 15, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room L324
Zhiyuan Li
"Configuration Management Techniques for Reconfigurable Computing"
Committee Members: S. Hauck (chairman), P. Banerjee, and L. Henschen

Thursday, November 15, 2001: M.S. Final Examination
Tung Huu Truong
"Option C"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), L. Henschen, and A. Haddad

TRAVEL

Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Palo Alto, November 10-13, for a visit to Weidlinger Associates to continue research collaboration with Dr. Victor Pereyra.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited talk entitled, "Low Resistivity AlxGa1-xN/GaN Superlattices for UV Emitters: Development of AlGaN Based UV LED and Lasers ( ~ 280 nm),", III-Nitride UV Emitter Coordination Meeting, DARPA Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, November 7, 2001.

CSRL NEWS

WILKINSON LAB CLEANLINESS

Last week, a major project was due involving the Mentor Graphics application. As expected, the lab was heavily used. However, the lab was left very messy with newspapers, printouts, and food items strewn all over the workstation desks.

I'd like to remind the students that this is your lab and that we all need to work together to keep it clean and tidy. Please don't leave trash on the desks; there is a recycle bin next to the laser printer.

Also, I'll remind you that the rules of the lab (posted on the walls and on the corkboard in the hall) state that no food or drinks are allowed in the lab. This is to protect the computers and furniture from accidents and spills. This rule will be strictly enforced. Anyone who is found with food or drink will have his lab priviledges suspended for a week.

NEW WILKINSON CHAIRS

Ten new chairs were installed in the Wilkinson lab last week. Sadly, over the past three years, this number of chairs was stolen. It's for that reason that you'll find the new chairs attached to the desks with security devices.

As the lab budget permits, the older chairs, some of which are in poor condition, will gradually be replaced.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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