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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

In this newsletter, I am pleased to distribute the CTEC results for the Fall 2002 quarter.

As in the past, I am recognizing all the faculty who have scored 5.0 or higher with a personal letter of thanks. I am also recognizing those faculty members who have scored close to 5.0 and have excellent student comments in lower division courses that can be very difficult to teach. These courses are marked with an *.

COURSE          PROFESSOR       ENROLLMENT      CTEC SCORE
202             Pappas          59              3.6
203             C. H. Wu        51              4.0
205             Lin             23              3.2
222             Katsaggelos     21              5.4 *
223             Razeghi         31              4.9 *
224             Taflove         25              4.9 *
225             C. H. Wu        13              4.1
230             Y. Wu           55              4.4
302             Plonus          25              3.6
303             Jones           19              2.0
307             Honig           20              4.9 *
333             Berry           35              5.4 *
357             Zhou            13              5.4 *
358             Banerjee        32              5.5 *
359             Pappas          35              4.0
361             Jones           32              3.9
379             Phillips        22              5.6 *
397             Ismail          12              5.9 *
401             Lane             5              5.2 *
404             Shahriar         9              5.4 *
410             Butz            12              4.8

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Monday, February 24
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "From Shannon to TCP: Solving Nonlinear Problems in Communication Networks Using Geometric Programming and Dualities"
SPEAKER: Mung Chiang, Ph.D. Candidate in E.E., Stanford University

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, February 24
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech A230
TITLE: "All-Optical Signal Processing for All-Photonic Packet and Burst Networks"
SPEAKER: Daniel J. Blumenthal, Associate Director, Center for Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology (MOST), Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, February 26
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Michael J. Neely, Ph.D. Candidate in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Thursday, February 27
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Patrick Crowley, Ph.D. Candidate, Univ. of Washington

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Friday, February 28
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: P. Douglas Yoder, Member of Technical Staff, Agere Systems

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Friday, February 28
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Kati Compton, Ph.D. Candidate, ECE, Northwestern University

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, February 25, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jay E. Sharping
"Fiber-Based Entangled Photon-Pair Generation"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), S. Shahriar, and M. Phillips

Wednesday, February 26, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 3:30 p.m.
Room L324
Yakun Sun
"Reduced-Rank Equalization"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), R. Berry, and A. Haddad

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Manijeh Razeghi has been elected as Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) for "pioneering work in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques and the substantial contributions made to academia".

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