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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Now that the first week of classes is behind us, I do hope that all major problems with schedules, TAs, and classrooms have been taken care of. We had a very nice graduate students' reception last Thursday. Those who missed it, please see Judy or Kathie about the student information form that needs to be filled out annually.

I am pleased to announce the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program for the year 2004-2005. This year the Motorola grant provides funding at a reduced level. We therefore can fund 12 projects at a stipend of $1,000 per quarter for two quarters per project. The purpose of this program is to encourage more undergraduates to do research with our faculty. The topic of research can be in any field of electrical and computer engineering, and need not be related to Motorola's immediate needs.

As part of this program, we will be able to provide stipends for 12 undergrad students in the ECE department. Each selected student will receive a stipend of $1,000 for each quarter they do undergraduate research as part of an ECE 399 project (not counting design competition) with any ECE faculty member. The funding is limited to two quarters (Winter and Spring quarters).

Sometime in the first week of June 2005, each student and faculty member will be asked to visit Motorola in Schaumburg and participate in a half-day poster session describing the results of the research. It will be an opportunity to interact with Motorola engineers at that site.

The deadline for the proposals is Friday, October 15, 2004, to be submitted to nancy@ece.northwestern.edu; decisions will be made by October 22, 2004.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINARS

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series

DATE: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar
SPEAKER: David C. Munson, Jr., Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

AWARDS/HONORS

ECE graduate student Simona Petrutiu received an award for achieving the top scores in the 2004 Computers in Cardiology Challenge: Predicting Spontaneous Termination of Atrial Fibrillation. The award was presented on Wednesday, September 22, at the plenary session of the conference.

TRAVEL

Alan Sahakian traveled to the IEEE Computers in Cardiology conference in Chicago which he co-organized on September 19-22. He chaired the Wednesday plenary session and his students presented the following papers:

Jason Ng: A Vectorcardiographic Approace to Understanding the 12-Lead ECG of Atrial Flutter

Simona Petrutiu: Fibrillatory Wave Analysis of the Surface ECG to Predict Termination of Atrial Fibrillation: The 2004 Computers in Cardiology/PhysioNet Challenge

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