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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am delighted to inform you that Larry Henschen has been appointed the 2004 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence by the Provost for a three-year term for his contributions in developing and teaching the ECE 230, 346, and 347 courses, teaching the Engineering Design and Communications (EDC) courses for many years, for serving as the Graduate Program Director of the ECE department and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School, and for being an outstanding advisor and mentor to many students.

These awards have been established to recognize individual faculty members who have consistently demonstrated outstanding performance in classroom teaching or who have developed significant innovations that have also influenced the methods and teaching effectiveness of other faculty. McCormick Professorships are appointed for three-year terms. At any given time, ten people hold McCormick Professorships. Each recipient of a McCormick Professorship receives a salary supplement during his or her tenure in the position; holders of the Professorship also receive an annual research grant. Each holder of a McCormick appointment is designated a Fellow of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. Faculty members are nominated for the McCormick award by the department chairmen and the Dean of the school in which they have their principal appointments. More information on the award and a list of current and previous recipients are at:

http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/awards/mccormick/index.html

This brings the total number of Charles Deering McCormick Professorships of Teaching Excellence in our department to four. Alan Sahakian received the award in 1999, Allen Taflove in 2000, and Alvin Bayliss in 1995. This shows that the ECE department has some of the most outstanding teachers in the engineering school and the university.

I wish to thank Steve Carr and John Birge for supporting Larry's nomination. I also wish to recognize the students who wrote strong letters of reference in support of Larry. Finally I wish to thank Nancy Singer who compiled an excellent nomination package.

Please join me in congratulating Larry on this outstanding recognition.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

UPCOMING EVENTS

MITP Open House -- Monday, April 19, 6-8 p.m. -- Tech Room L482

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, April 19, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jiuan-Her Chang
"Diffraction Models for Accurate RF Propagation Predictions in Urban Environments"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), A. Sahakian, and M. Epstein

TRAVEL

Hai Zhou will travel to Phoenix, AZ, April 18-21, to attend ISPD 04 (International Symposium on Physical Design). His student, Debjit Sinha, will present a paper entitled "Optimal Gate Sizing for Coupling Noise Reduction."

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