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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter May 12-16, 2003 |
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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN The ECE Department is going through an internal audit this year. This is a routine operation done by the university across various departments and colleges. The objectives of such an audit are to evaluate the adequacy of internal controls, the safeguarding of assets, the efficient use of resources, and the integrity of financial information. The audit is expected to last about three months. The audit will be led by Darlene Peterson. Our ECE department contact will be Deneen Marie Bryce. As part of this audit, faculty, staff and students may be contacted for information and to answer questions. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. I also want to remind everyone that we are having our next ECE Department Advisory Board Meeting on Friday, May 16, from 8:30AM to 6PM. During this meeting the Advisory Board (consisting of members from various companies and universities) will give us feedback on the directions of the department. A list of the Advisory Board members appears on the department web page. The Board will meet with our faculty, our graduate students, undergraduate students, department chairman, and the Dean to get an idea of where the department is headed, and suggest ways to improve the department.
-Prith Banerjee SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS
Special Seminar Bill Tetzlaff of IBM, Almaden and T. J. Watson Center and a member of the ECE Advisory Board, is giving a special talk on the Ph.D. job search process on Thursday, May 15, at 2:00 p.m. in L211. The talk is aimed at Ph.D. students who are one or two years away from graduation. He would also like to meet with students in a preliminary recruiting capacity after the talk. Students might want to bring copies of their resumes. EXAMINATIONS
Monday, May 12, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Monday, May 12, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Monday, May 12, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 15, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m. TRAVEL Professor Carl Kannewurf attended the MRS Spring meeting in San Francisco, April 21-25. Professor Chung-Chieh Lee traveled to NSF on Wednesday, May 7, to attend an ITR program panel meeting. Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited Talk entitled, "Passivation of Type II InAs/GaSb Superlattice Photodiodes," New Horizons in Coatings and Thin Films, at the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, CA, April 28-May 1, 2003. OTHER NEWS Photos of our ECE International Pot Luck event can be found here: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~jwright/potluck/ipl2003.htm -Jill Wright
Excerpt from: 28 April 2003 INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION DIGEST The Spring 2003 issue of The Bent of Tau Beta Pi contains a major article by Frank Splitt: Systematic Engineering Education Reform: A Grand Challenge The author states that a new paradigm is needed for engineering education, one that yields renaissance-engineer graduates equipped with the tools to face an unpredictable future with confidence. Splitt lists several barriers to changes needed in engineering education, including academic resistance to change and to ABET oversight, lack of recognition for educators, and lack of forceful industry input. He describes how several key organizations: ABET, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Science Foundation, can lead to implementation of the new paradigm that he describes for engineering education. See http://www.tbp.org/
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