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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am pleased to announce the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program for the year 2003-2004. During the year, we will fund about 10 research projects at a total funding level of $25,000. As you know, five years ago the Motorola Foundation donated a cash grant to the ECE department to support undergraduate research.

As part of this program we will be able to provide stipends for 10 undergrad students in the ECE department (five in electrical engineering, five 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. In case the project takes two quarters, each student can get a total stipend of $2500 over two quarters. Students can take this over the Winter 2004 and Spring 2004 quarters.

Sometime in the first week of June 2004, each student and faculty will be asked to visit Motorola in Schaumburg and present a half-day 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 are due electronically to Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.northwestern.edu) on Monday, November 17, and should use the following format.

TITLE OF PROJECT:
NAME OF FACULTY ADVISOR:
BRIEF ONE PAGE RESUME OF STUDENT: Include major, year of study, GPA, courses taken, etc.
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: At most one page describing the goals of the project, problem to be solved, and approach.
LIST QUARTERS YOU WILL TAKE 399:

Since students are signing up for courses next week, this may be a good time to sign up for an ECE 399 course.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

DATE: Thursday, November 13, 2003
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Next Web Interfaces
SPEAKER: John Turek, Department Group Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

TRAVEL

Robert Dick is traveling to the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in San Jose, CA, November 10-12.

Yehea Ismail is also traveling to San Jose, CA, November 10-13, for the ICCAD meeting, where he is presenting a paper.

Regarding Professor Razeghi's travel:
Invited Talk, "High Power AlGaN-Based Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition," Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 26-29, 2003.
Session Chair, "Cascaded Lasers I," Frontiers in Optics Laser Science XIX Conference, Optical Society of America (OSA), Tucson, AZ, October 7-9, 2003.
Invited Talk, "High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers at the Center for Quantum Devices," Frontiers in Optics Laser Science XIX Conference, Optical Society of America (OSA), Tucson, AZ, October 7-9, 2003.
Late News, "High Power Deep UV AlGaN Light-Emitting Diodes," Frontiers in Optics Laser Science XIX Conference, Optical Society of America (OSA), Tucson, AZ, October 7-9, 2003.

OTHER NEWS

I am happy to announce that Montakan Thajchayapong, (Ploy), has joined the ECE department effective 10/27/03 as our User Services Rep. working part time along with Jill Wright. Ploy most recently received her Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering here at Northwestern University. You may reach Ploy via email at ploy@ece.northwestern.edu, or by phone at 1-7132. Her office is located in Room L454.

Please welcome Ploy to ECE.

-Deneen Bryce

CFS NEWS

Computing Facilities Website Redesigned

The department Computing Facilities website

Of particular interest are: a news section (on the homepage), a listing of installed software (FAQ/software.html), updated and augmented FAQs (FAQs.html), standardized look, and better navigational tools.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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