February 2, 2005
Riskin quoted on “Women in Science and Engineering”
Eve Riskin was quoted extensively in a sidebar to the article “Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Science and Engineering” in JOM: The Member Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. In “Beat the Clock: Biological vs. Tenure”, Riskin discusses some of the challenges facing women faculty. The full article (and sidebar) can be…
January 2, 2005
EE undergraduate awarded Goldwater Scholarship
EE’s own Jason Parker has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This prestigious nationwide program is designed to “provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.” Congratulations, Jason! More information can be found in this press release…
January 1, 2005
EEK wins CASE award
The Department of Electrical Engineering’s EEK 2004 Magazine has received a CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District VIII “Bronze Award” in the “Publications-Alumni Audiences” category. District VIII includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavet, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories of Canada. EEK2004 is also being entered in the…
December 30, 2004
Professors Meldrum, Ostendorf named IEEE Fellows
Two of our faculty have been honored as IEEE Fellows for 2005. The total number of IEEE Fellows in our department now stands at 23! If you are interested in learning more about this distinguished program, read the IEEE Fellow Program History page at ieee.org. IEEE FELLOWS ELECTED AS OF JANUARY 2005 Seattle Section Prof….
November 30, 2004
UWEE Alumnus named 2005 IEEE Fellow
Dr. Donald Wunsch, the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Nov. 21 for his “contributions to hardware implementations, reinforcement and unsupervised learning.” Dr. Wunsch received his Ph.D. from UW Electrical Engineering in…
September 30, 2004
Meldrum on cover of Genome Technology
Professor Deirdre Meldrum is on the cover of the most recent issue of Genome Technology, in recognition of her status as director of the up-and-coming CEGS (Center of Excellence in Genomic Science) Microscale Life Sciences Center. A PDF version of the article is available here. (Size: 1.1MB)
August 30, 2004
Department wins more undergrad seats, TAs
Our Department has won a competition for 40 undergraduate seats which will bring some new resources to the Department. The most visible of these resources is 14 new TA positions, which will increase our TA allocation up from 33 to 47 slots! These TA positions will be extremely helpful in improving the support of our…
July 30, 2004
Melissa Meyer wins poster contest
Melissa Meyer recently grabbed a share of first prize for her entry at the CEDAR 2004 Student Poster Contest in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Melissa’s poster was entitled “A Two Year Summary of Field-Aligned Irregularity Observations at Sub-Auroral Latitude”. It was one of 79 entries from the national and international upper-atmospheric physics community. Congratulations Melissa!
May 30, 2004
Costas Boulis Awarded ‘Best Student Paper’
EE grad student Costas Boulis was selected for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2004 European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. This is a highly selective conference with only 17% of all submissions being accepted, so this is quite an honor. Congratulations to Costas!
April 30, 2004
Jandhyala wins UW squash tournament
Vikram Jandhyala, an A-division squash player, has won the 2004 UW intramural squash tournament. See this page on the UW team’s squash site for the harrowing play-by-play! Vikram is also the top player in the UW league (when he gets time to play matches) and an active player in the Seattle squash league, one of…
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