DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of April 29 - May 3, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The news for the coming week is rather dull, as it is a routine week, with several MS and PhD final exams in anticipation of June graduation.

I hope the staff responsible for generating this ecenews will find some uplifting words of wisdom for the benefit of all.

I have one announcement: it is time to nominate faculty, teaching assistants, and students for the annual ECE awards. These are: Best Teacher, Best TA, Best Dissertation, and Best Senior in each of our two programs.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Thursday, May 2, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 2058
TITLE: "Photonics to Spintronics: Materials and Devices"
SPEAKER: Dr. Bruce Wessels, Materials Science and Engineering Department Northwestern University

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, April 30, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Anna Lei Chen
"A Dissipation Approach to Performance Analysis for Nonlinear Systems"
Committee Members: R. Freeman (chairman), A. Haddad, and A. Katsaggelos

Tuesday, April 30, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room B211
Zhiling Lan
"Dynamic Load Balancing for Parallel and Distributed Systems"
Committee Members: F. Taylor (chairman), L. Henschen, C.-H. Wu, and A. Choudhary

Thursday, May 2, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room A230
Reto Duss
"Stability, Estimation and Adaptation of a Control Theory Based Microscopy Traffic Flow Model"
Committee Members: R. Freeman (chairman), A. Haddad, and T. Ziliaskopoulos

TRAVEL

Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to Portland, OR, April 24-29, to attend the NSF Site Visit for an ITR grant.

WORDS OF WISDOM

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep."
--Yiddish proverb

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
--Franklin P. Jones

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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