Dear Colleagues: Here are some recent highlights of activities and awards in our Dept. Enjoy! Dave
On Sept. 12-13, 2005, Prof. Deirdre Meldrum will participate in the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This council advises the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH, and the NHGRI, in particular Francis Collins, the Director of NHGRI. The meeting in September will focus on the future of the sequencing centers. http://www.genome.gov/10000905
In November Professor Meldrum will be a member of Planning Committee for The National Academies Keck Future Initiative Futures Conference on "The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease."
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/keck/Keck_Futures_Conferences.html
Thank you again, Deedee, for representing EE in the community.
Prof. Jeff Bilmes was recently notified that his proposal to the Office of Naval Research titled “Human-Like Speech Processing” has been funded for three years for a total of $2,999,678. Co-investigators are Prof. Katrin Kirchoff from EE, Profs. S. Narayanan and D. Byrd from USC and Profs. D. Jurafsky and C. Manning from Stanford University. Congratulations Jeff and Katrin on this impressive award!!
Babak Parviz and Lih Lin recently had a project titled “Self-Assembled Molecular Photoresist for Fabrication of MEMS and NEMS” funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations Babak and Lih!
Prof. Lih Lin was recently awarded an NIH grant for a project period of two years. First year funding is $197,033 and second year funding is $179,285.
Prof. Lin recently received a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) award in an amount of $20,852 for one year. The project title is "Design, modeling, and fabrication of a quantum dot nanophotonic waveguide."
Nice job, Lih!
Prof. Bruce Darling also recently received a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) award in an amount of $18,961 for one year. The project title is "Thermoelectric effects in thin film transition metal oxides."
Only 35 of 124 submitted RRF proposals were funded.
Nice job, Bruce and Lih!
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded two new basic research grants to people in our department to investigate technologies that will help with the problem of improvised explosive devices:
Maya Gupta will be the PI of the grant on “Similarity-based statistical learning for IED prediction and detection” with Co-PI John Miyamoto in UW Psychology department.
Professors Kuga and Ishimaru were also awarded a grant from this program.
Congratulations Maya, Yasuo and Akira!
Profs. Sumit Roy and David Allstot have received a one-year grant of $53,000 from the NSF CDADIC Center for an exploratory project titled: “A CMOS Alamouti Diversity Transmitter.”
Good work.
Prof. Deedee Meldrum is PI on a grant from the National Institute of Health titled “High-Throughput, Capillary-Based Protein Crystallography.” An amount of $347,854 has been awarded for the final year of the three-year research program. Co-investigators on the project include Profs. Holl, Riskin, and Shapiro from EE, Prof. Ladner from CSE, and Profs. Hol and de Soto from BioChem.
Nice job, folks!
Prof. David Allstot has been appointed as the Boeing-Egtvedt Chair Professor in the College of Engineering for a second five-year term beginning July 1, 2005 and ending June 30, 2010.
University of Washington Electrical Engineering students Alanson Sample, David Seater, and Dan Yager won the first prize for their poster presentation at the IEEE 2005 Power Engineering Society General Meeting held in San Francisco, CA. Their poster titled “Mobile Monitoring of Underground Cable Systems” describes their research on using autonomous robotics to monitor and estimate the remaining service life of underground power distribution cables. Their participation in the PES General Meeting came as a result of winning third place in Electric Energy Industrial Consortium’s (EEIC) annual poster contest held in February. Project advisor is Prof. Alexander Mamishev.
Alanson Sample is going to start his graduate studies in UW EE program in September 2005, partially supported by the Grainger Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Dan Yager is spending his summer interning at Honeywell working on collision avoidance systems and plans to return to his research project in the Fall 2005. David Seater has since graduated with BSEE and is now working for Motorola on product testing and validation.
Congratulations Alanson, Dan, David and Prof. Mamishev. Great job!
Congratulations to the following students who received Scholarships for the 2005-2006 academic year:
Timothy La Fond received the Donald C. Whithworth Endowed Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
WeiCheng Ma received the Wayne C. and Grace M. Stanley Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Genna Ivanov received the Wayne C. and Grace M. Stanley Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Semir Halilovic received the Wayne C. and Grace M. Stanley Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Tian Xia received the Patricia Lynch and Theodora and Eugene Russell Memorial Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Walker Robb received the Patricia Lynch and Theodora and Eugene Russell Memorial Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Philip Zhag received an Engineering Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship in the amount of $2,828.
Brian Ma received the Clayton E. and Helen N. Danner Endowed Scholarship in the amount of $2,828.
Jenny Bui Received the Arthur and Linda Peterson Scholarship for 3 Quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Daniel Yeager received the Donald C. Withworth Endowed Scholarship for 3 quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Mei Liu received a Howard W. Wahl Endowed Scholarship for 3 quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Walt Wyman received the Donald C. Withworth Endowed Scholarship for 3 quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Apurva Mishra was selected to receive the Max E. Gellert Fellowship by the College of Engineering for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Jeffrey Cole was selected to receive the Henry L. Gray Fellowship by the College of Engineering for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Sara Henderson was selected to receive the Boeing Company Fellowship by the College of Engineering for the amount of $5,000.
Philip Roan was selected to receive the Dean’s Endowed Fellowship by the College of Engineering for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Steffanie Beauchamp received the Kaiser Aluminum Scholarship for 3 quarters of resident undergraduate tuition.
Rohit Gupta was selected to receive the Engineering General Fellowship by the College of Engineering for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Daniel Larrocha received the Kaiser Aluminum fellowship for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Parvan Vaswani received the Edward R. O’Brien Memorial Scholarship for 3 quarters of resident graduate tuition.
Diana Cheng received the NSF/CSEM Success in Engineering and Math Scholarship for the amount of $3,125.
Leonard Tracy received the NSF/CSEM Success in Engineering and Math Scholarship for the amount of $3,125.
Paul Beck received the NSF/CSEM Success in Engineering and Math Scholarship for the amount of $3,125.
Ruly Parikesit received the NSF/CSEM Success in Engineering and Math Scholarship for the amount of $3,125.
Jenny Bui received the NSF/CSEM Success in Engineering and Math Scholarship for the amount of $3,125.
GREAT JOB!!! WAY TO GO!!!!
FYI:
The link below takes you to the Boston College law library guest site. If you click on “Understanding Citations” and listen to the narrative you will hear Robyn Hagle who did an internship at BC. Robyn worked in our advising group before recently deciding to return to grad school.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/library/research/researchguides/quest/
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We recently received notice of the death of Professor Paul M. Frank, a colleague known to many in the Electrical Engineering faculty. Paul Frank came to the department as a Visiting Professor in the 1975 academic year. He was then at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. A high school classmate of Paul’s, Gerhard Kriechbaum, had immigrated to the Seattle and had done his graduate work with Endrik Noges as his advisor. It was through this connection that Professor Frank was invited to join our faculty as a Visiting Professor in 1975.
During his year in Seattle Professor Frank, along with his wife and children, made many friends among the EE faculty. After returning to Karlsruhe Paul Frank continued to correspond with his colleagues in Seattle and over the years several of our faculty members spent sabbatical leaves in Germany as Guest Professors in Karlsruhe and later in Duisburg at his invitation. He made short visits to Seattle over the years to attend conferences and to confer on joint writing projects, and members of our faculty made many short visits to Duisburg to confer with Paul Frank and his colleagues at the University of Duisburg.
Our association with Paul Frank during the past thirty years added a significant dimension to the collegial atmosphere that our EE faculty has enjoyed.
(written by Emeritus Professor Robert N. Clark)