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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Each year, the ECE department prepares a RESUME BOOKLET which lists the resumes of our graduating students. We send this booklet to various companies to help our students find jobs after graduation. We also send it to other universities to help our students consider graduate school (MS or Ph.D) at those universities.

This year's resume booklet listed ONE-page resumes of all our graduating B.S. students in electrical engineering and computer engineering, ONE-page resumes of our graduating M.S. students in electrical and computer engineering, and TWO-page resumes of our graduating Ph.D. students. We have listed all students who are planning to graduate between Sep. 1, 2003 and Aug. 31, 2004 for this booklet. We prepared the Resume Booklet in two forms: (1) hardcopy and (2) electronic.

During the winter break, the resume booklet was mailed to the top 25 ECE departments across the country, to 50 companies, and to our ECE Advisory Board members.

I want to thank Kathie Heidenfelder for doing an outstanding job in collecting all the resumes from our students, compiling the resume booklet, and mailing the booklet to various companies and universities.

I wish the graduating students the best of luck in finding jobs this year.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Selim Shahriar was mentioned in several articles in December: "Holographic Recording and Storage," in Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Horizons, December 2003; and in the NY Times. TRAVEL

Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited Talk, "The Route to High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Quantum Cascade Lasers at Room Temperature," at the International Workshop on Quantum Cascade Lasers, Sevilla, Spain, January 4-8, 2004.

CFS NEWS

2003-12-21 Wilkinson Suns Upgraded

Sixteen of the Wilkinson Sun workstations have been replaced with newer, faster hardware. You will be able to easily distinguish the new Sun Blade 1500s as they are tower models and have a flamboyant red streak across their cases. Specs on the new machines: 512MB of memory, 80GB disks, Sun UltraSPARC III processors. They should prove to run Mentor Graphics this quarter much better than the Ultra 5s they replaced. They'll also run rings around the existing Blade 100s still in the lab. Enjoy!

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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