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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Each year, the ECE Department recognizes our best graduating seniors in electrical engineering and computer engineering, our best Ph.D. student thesis, our best TAs, and our best Teachers. The Teaching and Awards Committee consisting of Prof. Martin Plonus (Chair), Prof. Randy Freeman, Prof. Wei-Chung Lin, and Prof. Hai Zhou selected the following award winners for the 2003-04 academic year. I wish to thank the committee members for their hard work in selecting the winners, and Deneen Bryce for preparing the award plaques that were given to the students and faculty.

The following award recipients were recognized in a ceremony on Friday, May 21, at 3PM in the ECE Conference Room.

Best Graduating Senior in Electrical Engineering based on GPAs: Alexander Bin Hu

Best Graduating Senior in Computer Engineering based on GPAs: Daniel Honbo

Best Teaching Assistant: Joe Vornehm

Honorable Mention for Best Teaching Assistant: Debjit Sinha

Best Ph.D. Thesis in the ECE Department: Jutao Jiang for his Thesis on "Infrared Focal Plane Array Based on GaInAs/InP Quantum Well," Prof. Razeghi, adviser.

Honorable mention for Best PhD Thesis: Junqing Chen for her thesis on "Perceptually-Based Texture and Color Features for Image Segmentation and Retrieval," Prof. Pappas, adviser.

Honorable mention for Best PhD Thesis: Paul L. Voss for his thesis on "Raman-Induced Performance Limits on Applications of Fiber Parametric Amplifiers," Prof. Kumar, adviser.

Best Teacher in the ECE Department: Professor Robert Dick

In addition, we gave Best Poster awards to three posters during the Friday, May 14 ECE Advisory Board meeting.

Best Poster in Solid-State/Photonics: "High-Power Quantum Cascade Lasers" by Allan Evans

Best Poster in Systems: "Traffic Shaping and Congestion Control in Access Networks" by Yishen Sun

Best Poster in Computer Engineering: "FREEDOM: Fabrication of Reconfigurable Hardware Environments from DSP Optimized Machine Codes" by Gaurav Mittal and David Zaretsky.

Following our yearly tradition, after the award ceremony the last year's Best Teacher Award winner, Prof. Yehea Ismail, presented a seminar on "How to Make Teaching Hard Material Fun."

Please join me in congratulating this year's award winners.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINARS

Computer Engineering Seminar
DATE: Monday, May 24, 2004
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Ants in the Ocean: System Design Techniques for Underwater Sensing Applications
SPEAKER: Ryan Kastner, University of California, Santa Barbara

Communications and Networking Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Revisiting TTL-based Controlled Flooding Search: Optimal and Randomized Strategies
SPEAKER: Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series
DATE: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Where Micromechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics Meet: MEMS Based on Casimir Forces
SPEAKER: Federico Capasso, Harvard University

EXAMINATIONS

Thursday, May 27, 2004: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Renyong Tang
"Toward Noiseless Amplification in Optical Communication Networks"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), M. Phillips, and W. Kath

TRAVEL

Professor Yehea Ismail is traveling to Vancouver, Canada, May 23-27, to attend an editorial board meeting and the ISCAS conference, where he has two papers. He is also giving a talk at the University of Victoria.

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