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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

We value good teaching by our faculty in the ECE department. Each quarter, I recognize some of our best teachers.

One of the metrics to identify our good teachers is the CTEC score provided by the student evaluations. I am pleased to distribute the CTEC results for the Spring 2003 quarter. One of the things that should be noted is that not all courses are easy to teach, especially if they are introductory undergraduate classes with large class sizes. However, these are some general trends in teaching in our department.

As in the past, I am recognizing all the faculty who have scored 5.0 or higher (marked with an asterisk) with a personal letter of thanks.

Course #     Professor             Enrollment       CTEC Score

202           Plonus                  53                   3.1
203           C. Wu                   41                   3.9
205           Lin                     11                   2.2
221           Kumar                   28                   5.4*
223           Kim                     25                   3.2
224           Shahriar                14                   4.2
230           Henschen                62                   5.0*
270           Plonus                  35                   3.2
302           Haddad                  42                   4.7
303           Dick                    31                   5.0*
328           Orban                   27                   3.9
333           Lee                     25                   4.4
346           Henschen                27                   5.2*
353           Sahakian                29                   5.7*
374           Freeman                 16                   5.7*
380           Honig                   23                   5.1*
381           Lane                    11                   2.9
383           Phillips                12                   5.6*
386           Taflove                 14                   5.8*
392           Ismail                  11                   5.0*
397           Jones                   31                   3.5
398           Butz                     5                   4.7
406           Phillips                12                   5.2*
421           Pappas                   6                   5.5*
426           Lee                     11                   5.5
510           Y. Wu                    7                   5.6*
EDC106        Taflove                 14                   5.0

Prith Banerjee
Walter Murphy Professor and Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, September 29, 2003
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Quantum computing and memory with optically excited spins in solids"
SPEAKER: Philip Hemmer, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

Communication and Networking Seminar
DATE: Monday, September 29, 2003
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Throughput and Delay Optimal Resource Allocation in Multi-User Fading Channels
SPEAKER: Professor Edmund Yeh, Yale University

Motorola Distinguished Lecture
DATE: Tuesday, September 30, 2003
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech - Lecture Room 4
TITLE: High-Level Specifications: Lessons From Industry
SPEAKER: Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research

TRAVEL

Professor Chi-Haur Wu is traveling to Washington, DC, September 29-October 1,to attend the NASA Smart Medical Systems Review Panel.

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