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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Last Friday was the deadline for submission of proposals for the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research program. Since the number of proposals received was small, the deadline is being extended to Wednesday, October 20, 2004.

Last Wednesday (October 13) was General Motors day at the McCormick School. As part of the activities, ECE faculty were visited by Alan Taub of GM Research to discuss students recruiting and potential involvement in research in electronics control and embedded systems.

On Friday we bid farewell to Nancy Singer (the ECE Chair Secretary). Nancy is joining UIC as Assistant to the Dean of Engineering. Our best wishes to Nancy for her new position. She shall be missed.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINARS

DATE: Thursday, October 21, 2004
TIME: 12:00 noon
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Electrical Interconnect Challenges for Microprocessor Systems in the next Decade"
SPEAKER: Howard Heck, Intel

TRAVEL

Professor Yehea Ismail traveled to Pittsburgh on Tuesday and Wednesday October 12-13, to attend the SRC review meeting and present there.

Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Sunnyvale and Stanford, CA, October 14-18, to visit Synopsys to discuss simulation-based optimization and visit Stanford University to discuss collaboration on financial optimization problems.

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