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As many of you know, the Motorola Foundation has provided funds to pursue some new initiatives to improve the ECE department at Northwestern. One of these initiatives is to sponsor undergraduate research in the department to encourage more of our undergrads to pursue graduate school in the future.
I am pleased to announce the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program for the year 2002-03. During the 2002-03 year, we will fund 10 research projects.
As part of this program, we will be able to provide stipends for 10 undergrad students in the ECE department (5 in electrical engineering, 5 in computer engineering). Each selected student will get a stipend of $1250 for each quarter they do undergraduate research as part of an ECE 399 project (not counting design competition) with any ECE faculty member. The faculty advisor supervising the project will get a $500 unrestricted grant per quarter. It is expected that the project will take two quarters, hence each student will get a total stipend of $2500 over two quarters and each faculty will get $1000 over two quarters. Students can take this over two quarters (Winter and Spring), Sometime in the first week of June 2003, each student and faculty will be asked to visit Motorola in Schaumburg and present a half-day poster poster session describing the results of the research. It will be an opportunity to interact with Motorola engineers at that site. The topic of research can be on any field of electrical and computer engineering, and need not be related to Motorola's immediate needs.
I am appointing a committee consisting of Prof. Allen Taflove (Director of Alumni and Industrial Relations), Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos (Director of Motorola Center for Telecom Research), and myself to review all proposals. The proposals should be sent electronically to<nancy@ece.northwestern.edu> The committee will evaluate the projects by Nov. 8, 2002, and inform the students so that they can pre-register for the Winter quarter ECE 399 courses the following week.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
DATE: Tuesday, October 15, 2002
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Quantum Imaging"
SPEAKER: Dr. Luigi Lugiato, University of Insubria, Como, Italy
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