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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter September 22-26, 2003 |
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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN As we begin the new academic year, we are pleased to restart the weekly electronic newsletter for our students, faculty, staff, and visitors beginning this week. I would like to welcome our freshman undergraduate class of electrical engineering and computer engineering students and our incoming class of M.S. and Ph.D students. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our two new faculty members who joined the ECE department on September 1, 2003. Dr. Gokhan Memik and Dr. Seda Memik have joined us as Assistant Professors in the computer engineering area after completing their Ph.D.s from UCLA earlier this year. I would also like to share some good news with all of you. The latest rankings of the US News and World Report for 2004 for undergraduate programs was announced in August. I am pleased to report that our Electrical Enginering Program is ranked 20th in the country, and our Computer Engineering Program is ranked 17th. The McCormick School of Engineering is ranked 13th, and Northwestern University is ranked 11th. Best wishes.
-Prith Banerjee SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
Communication and Networking Seminar EXAMINATIONS (since July 15, 2003)
Tuesday, July 15, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination
Thursday, August 28, 2003: M.S. Final Examination
Friday, September 19, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination
Tuesday, September 23, 2003: M.S. Final Examination
Friday, September 26, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Friday, September 26, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 a.m. TRAVEL Professor Prith Banerjee traveled to San Jose, CA, Aug. 20-21, to attend a Board Meeting of AccelChip and Technical Advisory Board Meeting of Calypto Design Systems. Professor Banerjee traveled to Rome, Italy and London, England, July 8-16, to visit the University of Rome, Rome, Italy and Imperial College, London, England, and to give invited talks at both places. Professor Abe Haddad traveled to Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Cambridge (UK) for the following purposes: 1. Attend the IFAC SYSID and the IFAC series of meetings as member of the IFAC Executive Board and Chair of the IFAC Awards Committee -- August 27 to 30 in Rotterdam; and 2. Attend and chair a session at the European Control Conference in Cambridge on September 1 to 4. Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Orlando FL, Sept. 7-9, for the SPIE International Symposium, ITCom 2003, Information Technologies and Communications. He presented the following paper: Devices for optical fiber quantum communications (Invited Paper), P. Kumar, X. Li, P. L. Voss, J. E. Sharping, and J. Chen. He chaired the following session: Quantum Communication Devices II. He also gave a seminar at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Professor Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Vancouver Canada, Sept. 21-23, to present a Distinguished Speaker Seminar at the University of British Columbia entitled, "The New Faces of Nonlinear Optimization." Professor Nocedal traveled to Boston, MA, Sept. 18-19, to visit the Mathworks, Inc. and present a seminar entitled "The future of Optimization Software." Professor Nocedal traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 15-23, to attend the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. Professor Chi-Haur Wu traveled to Washington, DC, Sept. 16-17, to attend an NSF review panel of SBIR/STTR Phase I for Misc. Sensors. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS I am delighted to inform everyone that Professor Prem Kumar has been appointed the SBC Professor of Information Technology in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science for the three-year period Sep. 1, 2003 to Aug. 31, 2006. The appointment was announced by Dean John Birge. It is subject to approval by the Board of Trustees of the University. The SBC Chair (formerly known as the Ameritech Chair) is given to a full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Information Technology for a three-year term. Previous SBC/Ameritech Chair holders in our department include Professors Michael Honig and Aggelos Katsaggelos. Please join me in congratulating Prem on this award in recognition of his contributions to the field of quantum optical systems. -Prith Banerjee There is a mention/quote from Aggelos Katsaggelos in the 9/11/2003 NY Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/technology/circuits/11next.html OTHER NEWS
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Prof. Katsaggelos was its
Editor-in-Chief from Jan 1997 to Dec. 2002) is ranked 2nd in the most
recent ISI list, among all electrical/electronic engineering journals
covered by ISI, sorted according to the impact factor (ISI ranking has
a lag of two years). This represents the best ever ranking for the
Magazine. The first in the ISI list is IEEE Networks and the 3rd is
the IEEE Communications Magazine.
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