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Last week was very eventful for the ECE department. On Thursday, we had our annual ECE awards reception and presentations. The following awards were presented to our students and faculty:
Tulaya Limpiti was selected to receive the best Elecrical Engineering senior award. Yevgeniy Vorobeychik was selected to receive the best Computer Engineering senior award. Also, he, together with Michael Englert, were the recipients of the William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence awarded by the International Engineering Consortium.
Graduate student Jin Zhang received the best Teaching Assistant award for the second year in a row.
Two Ph.D. graduates received the best Ph.D. dissertation award for 2001-02:
Weimin Xiao, "Large System Performance of Linear Interference Suppression for DS-CDMA" Advisor: Michael Honig.
Steven Slivken, "Quantum Cascade Lasers Grown by Gas-Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy" Advisor: Manijeh Razeghi.
Last but not least, Professor Randy Berry received the Best Teacher award in ECE.
In addition to the ECE awards, congratulations are in order to ECE Graduate Student Jason Ng, who won the Young Investigator Competition at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Conference in Minneapolis on June 2 with his paper: "Accelerometer-based Body Position Sensing For Ambulatory ECG Monitoring," co-authored with Alan V. Sahakian and Steven Swiryn.
Congratulations to all award winners!
On Friday, our faculty visited Motorola to present research results of the Motorola Center for Communications. In addition, during the afternoon Motorola hosted a poster session presented by our undergraduate students who received research funding under the Motorola Foundation Grant to the ECE department and by our graduate students who were supported by the Center. I wish to thank all the students and faculty involved for their participation and for the excellent posters they presented.
A week ago we received word that Dr. Robert Dick, with his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the area of VLSI design, has accepted our offer of a faculty position at the assistant professor level. He will join us on February 1, 2003.
This week is finals week of the Spring quarter. Our best wishes for success to all our students.
Finally, a reminder to our faculty that on Monday at 1:30 there is a McCormick School faculty meeting.
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
Professor Yehea Ismail is travelling to New Orleans from June 10-15 to attend the Design Automation Conference and receive an award.
Professor Prem Kumar will be attending the NATO-ASI Conference on Quantum Communication and Information Technologies in Ankara, Turkey, from June 2-June 14. He will be lecturing on the topic of Fiber-optic Quantum Communications.
-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .