Title of project: EAGER: Localization in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks: Investigation into Fusing Dempster-Shafer Theory and Support Vector Machines
Project Director: Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni
Award amount: $150,000
Duration: Feb. 1, 2013 -- Jan. 31, 2015
Title of project: CAREER: Novel Nanoelectronic Reconfigurable Synaptic Memory Devices
Award amount: $400,000
Duration: Jan 15, 2013 -- Dec 31, 2017
Presented by Dr. Ryan Baker
Topics: Educational Data Mining: A Revolution in Methods for Understanding Learners and Learning. In this talk, Dr. Ryan Baker will
discuss how the emerging Educational Data Mining community is combining data
sources with data mining methods in order to scalably use this data to make basic
discoveries about learners and learning.
Time and Date: Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, during 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Devinder Kaur
Topics: Looking to Nature to Solve Engineering Problems. The talk will focus on methods which are inspired from nature, and are self-learning and self-adapting to achieve a preset goal.
Time and Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Professor Venu G. Dasigi
Topics: Applications of Text Retrieval, Classification, and Mining. This presentation will summarize the presenter’s work on feature selection and fusion in text
information retrieval and classification, and different applications of the techniques.
Time and Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. William F. Acosta
Topics: Processing and Mining of Large-Scale Data in Modern Distributed Systems
Time and Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Professor George C. Giakos
Topics: Mueller Matric Techniques for Space Defense and Biomedical Applications
In this seminar, two paradigms related to the application of Mueller matrix analysis for characterization and discrimination of unresolved space objects, and lung cancer detection, are presented.
Time and Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Hong Wang
Topics: Parallel algorithm and its applications on FPGA, including Bioinformatics, Network Security and Real-time Object Detection areas
Time and Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Ezzatollah Salari
Topics: Image Resolution Enhancement and Robust Data Transmission
This topic includes integrated recurrent neural network (IRNN) method that uses a type of recurrent network which combines a set of multilayer neural networks with global feedback.
Time and Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Robert Green
Topics: Head in the Clouds: An Overview of Cloud Computing.This talk will include
the evolution of cloud computing, examples of common cloud computing environments, different types of cloud computing architectures and different types of cloud computing services.
Time and Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Title: Development of mobile integration with auto aftermarket eCommerce and lot traceability for automotive plants
Sponsor: Pilkington North America, Inc.
Duration: August 14, 2012 – May 14, 2013
Amount: $50,000
Abstract: Pilkington, an automotive supplier in Toledo, OH, and The University of Toledo (UT) are motivated to build and sustain fruitful engineering and computer science collaborations. Pilkington needs to enhance its eBusiness system in the Aftermarket Glass Replacement business with the development of two new systems. The first system enhancement will improve the capability of the "point of sale" integration. The second enhancement will improve the capabilities of the current B2B eCommerce system providing new, state-of-the art API for B2B application integration and integration with the point of sale system. The project will run through the end of the 2012-2013 academic year and will involve two domestic MS students as well as undergraduate students.
Presented by Dr. Weiqing Sun
Topics: Development and Deployment of Distributed IDS on Smart Grid Infrastructure.
Time and Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Thomas
Topics: Software Metrics Related to Maintainability and a Longitudinal Study of the Linux Kernel.
Time and Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Niamat
Topics: Hardware Oriented Security, Trust, and Test Using Physically Unclonable Functions.
Time and Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Prof. Manish Kumar
Topics: Control and Optimization in Complex Networked Systems: Algorithms and Applications. This talk will focus on swarm robotic systems,
viewed as a class of complex systems, comprising a large number of robots in mutual, potentially nonlinear, interaction while exhibiting emergent group behavior.
Time and Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Rashmi Jha
Topics: Resistive Random Access Memory Devices for High-Density Memory Architectures
Time and Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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Presented by Dr. Mohsin M. Jamali
Topics: Radar/IR /Acoustic Bird/Bat Monitoring System for Wind Turbine Applications and Development of Parallel Architectures for Signal Processing Applications
Time and Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, during 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
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New Graduate Student Orientation will be on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, during 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM in the SSOE Seminar Room (NI 1027).
Topics will include: faculty/staff introductions, degree requirements, registration for Fall classes, etc.
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Dr. Rashmi Jha has received an award from NSF for her project entitled, "
I-Corps: High Density Memristive Devices for Non-Volatile Memory Applications"
Award amount: $50,000
Award Start Date: 07/01/2012
Award Period: 6
months
PI: Dr. Rashmi Jha
In addition to the award money, Dr. Jha, her Ph.D.
student (Branden Long) and her mentor (Dr. D'Naie Jacobs) will be trained by a
highly qualified team of educators of national and international repute about
research commercialization. As part of this program, the team will be attending
a series of workshops at Georgia Tech this summer.
Dr. Makarand Deo has been awarded the Scientist Development Grant (SDG) of
$308,000 by the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni
(Associate Professor, EECS Department) attracted last year Dr. Makarand Deo of
the University of Michigan to join our department as a Research Assistant
Professor. Since then, Dr. Deo is being mentored and supervised by Dr.
Devabhaktuni. In addition to conducting research in the EECS Department, Dr. Deo
is actively collaborating with the Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center
(through a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Boyers and Dr. Devabhaktuni).
Title: Role of Purkinje System Anatomy and Altered Calcium Dynamics in CPVT:
A Modeling Study
Program Name: Scientist Development Grant (SDG)
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Award Amount: $308,000
Duration: 4 Years
American Heart
Association's Scientist Development Grant (SDG) is an extremely prestigious
grant award given to highly promising beginning scientists in their progress
toward independence. The recipients of SDG award are chosen through a highly
competitive selection process on National level. This is evident from the 14.4%
success rate of the Winter 2012 SDG competition.
This prestigious IBM Faculty Award is a highly competitive worldwide program
intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities
worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and
promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines
and geographies that are strategic to IBM.
Through this award, IBM will
provide Dr. Jha $40,000 for one year to perform research in collaboration with a
mentor at T.J. Watson Research Center. The title of the research is: Novel
Analog Reconfigurable Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) Devices for
Low-Power Extreme-Scale Neuromorphic Computing. This research is expected to
lead to the development of Silicon chips that can learn and adapt like a
biological brain for the next generation of computing. The award will be made
through cash payment to the UT Foundation by IBM. Dr. Jha will support a full
time Ph.D. student through this award.
Project Title: A Digital/VLSI Test and Reliable Computing Research Laboratory
Agency: NSF
Amount: The total NSF award for this NSF research grant is now $
264,167 (including UT contribution).
PI: Dr. Mohammed Niamat
Co-PIs: Dr. Mansoor Alam and Dr. Rashmi Jha
Golrokh Mirzaei, Selin A. Bastas, Jeremy Ross, Mohammad W. Majid, Mohsin. M.
Jamali , Peter V. Gorsevski, Joseph P. Frizado, Verner P. Bingman, “Behavior
Analysis of Birds/Bats Activity in the Vicinity of Wind Turbines” 6th Annual
Conference: Securing Ohio’s Energy and Economic Future, Columbus, Ohio, April
2012
Award was given to all authors
Award was given to the University of Toledo (Framed Certificate delivered to the
Dean of Engineering)
Award was given to the Bowling Green State University (Framed Certificate was
delivered to Office of Research)
Paul Savage, CEO, Nextek Power Systems
10 am – 11 am, Thursday (April 26, 2012)
SSOE Conference Room, College of Engineering
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Title: “Hands Free Voice Communications Technology Research – Phase I”
Program: Libbey Inc.
Amount: ~ $50,073 ($38,763 as the sponsor contribution)
Period: 6 months
PI: Gursel Serpen (as the sole investigator)
Title: GUI Based MIMO Radar Development, Simulation and Visualization System
Program: AFRL/DAGSI
Amount: ~ $84,409
Period: one year
PI: Mohsin
Jamali
Title: Reliability Assessment of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Switch
Agency:
DARPA
Amount: ~ $1M
Period: 01/01/12 - 12/31/14
PI: Krishna Shenai
IEEE Toledo Section, Computer Society Chapter & EECS Department present a DISTINGUISHED LECTURE by Dr. Mazin Yousif on “Cloud Computing - A Paradigm IT Changer” on Thursday, March 1, 2012; 11:30am – Reception; 12:00pm – Lecture. One CPD credit will be offered. Place: The University of Toledo College of Engineering SSOE Seminar Room, Nitschke Hall 1027. Click Here
Dr. Krishna Shenai has recently received a $1,465,668 (includes $465,668 cost match from the University) research grant from Army research Laboratory for a project entitled “Bulk Material Defects and Reliability of SiC Power Devices”. The period of project is September 22, 2011 through September 21, 2016.
Dr. Lingfeng Wang has recently received a $50,000 research grant from California Energy Commission for his one-year project entitled “Impacts of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles on Distribution Network Reliability”. The total project size is $91,596 with UT contribution.
Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (PI) and Dr. Lingfeng Wang have been awarded $88,277 (including UT contributions) by Wind Energy Corporation for the research project “Computer Aided Assessment of Renewable Energy Resources in Commercial Environments”
Dr Manimaran Govindarasu from Iowa State Univerisity has been invited to deliver a speech on Cyber-Physical Systems Security for Smart Grid. The lecture is scheduled on July 29(friday), 2011 between 10:30am and 12noon at EECS Conference room(NI 2004). For abstract of the talk and short bio of the speaker, Click Here
Dr Rashmi Jha has received the research grant from NSF on the proposal titled “BRIGE: Transition Metal Oxide Based Multifunctional Nanoelectronic Memristor Devices”. The duration of the project is between October 1,2011 and September 30,2013. The grant funded by NSF is $171,089 and the total award amount is $228,692 including UT's contribution.
A joint STTR Phase 1 proposal by Imaging Systems Technology (IST) and Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (PI) entitled Innovative Hardware Technologies for Electromagnetic Attack Rejection in Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Radars has been awarded $99,994 for a 1-year period expected to begin in Fall 2011 by The Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
A team of researchers consisting of Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (PI), Dr. Daniel Georgiev, Dr. Douglas Nims, and Dr. Hong Wang, have been awarded a 2-year $280,000 NASA SBIR Phase II Sub Contract ($476,919 including institutional contributions) for the project titled Frequency Steered Acoustic Transducer.
Dr. Daniel Georgiev (PI, 80% share), Dr. Bhaduri (Co-PI), and Dr. Gan (Co-PI), have been awarded a 2-year $110,238 Libbey grant for the project titled, "Phase-2: LED-based Illumination Optical Design and Research," starting in August 2011.
A research proposal entitled “Engineering and Fabrication of MEMS Devices” has been funded by Midwest MicroDevices (Toledo) for $40,695 including UT contribution. Investigators on this project are Dr. Rashmi Jha (PI) and Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni.
Dr. Lingfeng Wang is serving as the Guest Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for an upcoming Special Issue on “Intelligent Buildings and Home Energy Management in a Smart Grid Environment”. Click the call for papers for more details. Call for papers
Dr. Lingfeng Wang will offer a new graduate course entitled “Cyber-Physical Energy Infrastructure” in Fall, 2011. For details regarding the Cyber-Physical Energy Infrastructure Course Click Here
Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni has been appointed as the Secretary of the Energy Savings Commission by World Foundry Organization.
Dr. Daniel Georgiev has been awarded a research grant of $97,500($146,000 with UT's internal contribution) by Libbey Glass for the proposal titled "LED outdoor illumination and concentration photovoltaics optical design and research". The co-PIs on this grant are Dr. Daniel Georgiev (PI: Share 70%), Dr. Sarit Bhaduri and Dr. Yong Gan. This is the second phase of the project and the grant can support two eecs students.Phase-1 was funded an amount $30,000 in 2010.
Dr. Krishna Shenai has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
EECS 4000 - Senior Design Project Fall 2010 Click Here for flyer.
2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. Click Here for flyer.
A team of researchers consisting of Dr. Prabir Bhattacharya (UC), Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (UT), and Dr. Aihua Wood (AFIT) has been awarded a 3-year $498,688 grant by AFOSR (not including institutional contribution) for the project entitled Real-Time Combat Navigation System and Virtual Battlespace. Dr. Devabhaktuni thanks Dr. Samir Hefzy for his support with the grant application.
Prathamesh Ajgaonkar, Lingfeng Wang, and Mansoor Alam received Certificates of
Appreciation from the IEEE for their contribution to the AUTOTESTCON 2010
Technical Program. Prathamesh Ajgaonkar, an MS student, presented the paper
entitled, “Simulation Studies on ZigBee Communications for Home Automation
and Networking” in Orlando, Florida.
IEEE AUTOTESTCON is a premier
conference sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society and
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in the fields of Systems Readiness
Technology.
Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni’s NSF proposal New Methodologies for System-Level
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Analysis of Electronic Systems has been
awarded a grant of $379,997 to The University of Toledo with an effective
date 09/01/10. Including UT contributions, the grant is $454,453 over a
3-year period. This is the highest research grant in the EECS Department from
the NSF. This is Dr. Devabhaktuni’s 2nd NSF grant, since he joined UT in 2008.
The grant is co-sponsored by NSF CMMI and ECCS Divisions. EECS Department
congratulates Vijay (PI) on this prestigious accomplishment.
Dr. Min Song from Old Dominion University has delivered a seminar on Future
Research Directions in Wireless Sensor Networks
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This lounge is located at Nitschke 2066. It is meant to facilitate and improve
conversations among faculty, staff and PhD students.Click
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Dr. Krishna Shenai presented the keynote address entitled "Silicon Carbide (SiC): A Transformative Semiconductor for 21st Century Energy, Transportation, and Defense and Space Electronics," at the 2010 IEEE Dayton Section Annual Awards Banquet held at the Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH on April 17, 2010. The photo shows Dr. Shenai being presented with an award plaque by Dr. Robert L. Ewing, Director of the Center for Innovative Radar Engineering, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. Dr. Shenai is the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society and Dr. Ewing is the Chair of IEEE Dayton Section.
Dr. Daniel Georgiev is a co-author of the paper "Long term aging of selenide glasses: evidence of sub-Tg endotherms and pre-Tg exotherms", Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter, Vol. 22 (2010) #065104 together with Ping Chen and Punit Boolchand from the University of Cincinnati. This publication was selected for inclusion in the Institute of Physics' prestigious "IoP Select" web site (http://Select.iop.org). The criteria for inclusion of a publication in this special selection of already published articles are stated by IoP as: "substantial advances or significant breakthroughs", "a high degree of novelty", and "significant impact on future research".
This event hosts students who have been admitted to the EECS Department for Fall
semester 2010. It provides an opportunity for prospective students and their
parents to learn about EECS academic programs and facilities, meet faculty and
staff, participate in a Q&A session and get information on taking the next step.
A luncheon is also provided, followed by guest speakers, including Mr. Thomas
Miller, Product Development Engineer for Ford Motor Company, and other EECS
alumni.
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News: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, India, has signed an
MoU with the University of Toledo to co-operate in terms of academics and
research (e.g. faculty exchange). The MoU encourages faculty, knowledge, and
student exchange between both the parties. Given the above context, Dr. A. Kumar
(Chair, Civil Engineering) and Dr. V. Devabhaktuni (Associate Professor, EECS
Department), both from the University of Toledo, interacted with Department
Chairs, Faculty, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Students of Civil, Computer,
ECE, and Electrical Departments of NIT. Drs. Kumar and Devabhaktuni held several
meetings coordinated by the Center for Continuing Education & External
Collaboration (CCEEC) of NIT during October 14-15, 2009. One of the several
objectives is "graduate student recruitment". The meetings were attended by
150-200 faculty and students of NIT.
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Seminar: Research Presentation on “EM Applied to CAD of RF & Microwave Devices”
by Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department, University of Toledo.
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Seminar: Research Presentation on “Optimal Call Admission Control Policies in
Mobile Wireless Networks” by Dr. Mansoor Alam, Interim Chair, Professor &
Graduate Director, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
University of Toledo.
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Fall 2009 Graduate Student Orientation will be held on August 18-19, 2009. Click
here for the event details.
Dr. Krishna Shenai (Principle Investigator) has been awarded a $174,988 grant by
the NSF’s Computer Network Systems (CNS) Division for the proposal titled
II-NEW: High-Performance Scalable Computing Infrastructure. The period of
the NSF grant is August 1, 2009 through July 31, 2012. The co-PIs on this grant
are Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (EECS Dept.), Dr. Duane Hixon (MIME Dept.), Dr.
Sanjay Khare (Physics Dept.) and Kevin Czajkowski (GEPL Dept.).
The IEEE University of Toledo Student Branch has been recognized as a
recipient of the 2008 MGA Student Branch Membership Growth Award, by the
IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board (MGA), for success in member
recruitment and retainment. Each year, a Student Branch in each Region is
recognized as having achieved the highest growth rate. Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni
was instrumental in bringing this honor, by way of organizing a student
membership drive sponsored by IEEE Toledo and SSOE.
Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni has been elevated to the Senior Member grade of
IEEE effective July 28, 2009.
Dr. Shenai has been awarded a research grant for "Modeling and Design of VHF
PECVD Thin Film Deposition System" project by the Ohio Department of
Development/Xunlight Corporation. The grant is $70,000 for the duration July
2009 - Dec. 2010.
EECS graduate student Arjun Akkala won the 3rd place in A&WMA’s Student
Poster Competition for his poster titled “Artificial Neural Network Based
Modeling and Prediction of Radon Concentrations”. This award includes a
certificate and $600 check. The competition is part of the A&WMA Annual
Conference 2009. The basis for the awards is technical quality and significance
to environment. The student is working with Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni and
Dr. Ashok Kumar.
Dr. Vijay Devabhaktuni (jointly with Dr. Douglas Nims of the Department of Civil
Engineering) has been awarded a research grant on "Magnetic Sensor for
Nondestructive Evaluation" (Phase II) by the UT-UTC. The grant is $49,780 for
the duration July 2009 - Dec. 2009. Graduate students involved in Phases I & II
of this project are Bertrand Fernandes (EECS) and James Wade (CE).
University of Toledo Alumnus Tom Miller created a new technology so inexpensive
to put into production that over the next year it’s rolling out as standard
equipment on almost every vehicle Ford Motor Company builds. As the lead
engineer behind Ford Motor Company’s new feature called MyKey™, Miller enables
parents to encourage their teens to practice safer driving behavior and address
the number one cause of teen fatalities – auto accidents.
Tom Miller explained and demonstrated this industry-first innovation and the
process for developing technology like this at Ford Motor Company.
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Professor Krishna Shenai presenting (photo)
the Plenary Paper entitiled “Smart Sensing and Forecasting of Ecosystem
Dynamics” at the International EnviroEnergy 2009 Conference, held at Chandigarh,
Panjab, India from March 19-21, 2009
Second open house held on 28th Feb (Saturday), was a big event. With many
inquisitive parents and students coming in to see the university and the
facilities it was a major event
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Open House for high school graduates, who will have the opportunity to learn more
about the university and have their questions answered.
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The speaker Sung- Yeul Park, who is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Virginia Tech ,
presented us with his research work and ideas of contributing toward the
development of smart power grid.
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The talk was on Opportunities in Computer Science concerning solar energy, it
focused on reducing the cost associated with the solar electricity and thus
enabling it to become a sustainable mainstream energy. It was a very delightful
talk which was attended by the Chairman of the EECS department, along with all
the faculty member and graduate students
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The EECS Department held the dedication of the new EECS Library and EECS
Conference Room on November 5, 2008. At this befitting function, Dr. Eric
Summons, Selection Resource, inaugurated the new Library and Conference Room.
The dedication was followed by a talk on "Complex Jobs and Organizations" by Dr.
Summons. Dr. Shenai and Dr. Molyet then presented the department updates and UG
curriculum updates respectively.
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Dr. Aihua W. Wood, Professor of Mathematics at Air Force Institute of Technology
presented a seminar "Analysis and Numerical Solution for Electromagnetic Wave
Propagation" on October 24. In this talk she discussed the electromagnetic
scattering phenomena in two settings 1) Induced by cavities embedded in a
perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) ground plane and 2) By bodies of
revolution (BOV).
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Dr. Robert F. Davis, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University presented a seminar
"Initial and Subsequent Modes of Growth AIN, GaN and ZnO Semiconductor Films" on
October 15. He talked about the III- Nitrides of AIN, GaN and InN, their soild
solutions, and ZnO form in the wurtzite crystal structure. Lateral growth
techniques to reduceboth the residual stresses and the dislocation density in
GaN films were presented.
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Dr. C. J. Reddy, President of EM Software and Systems (USA) Inc presented a
seminar "Design of UHF ID Systems with the Aid of Compuataional
Electromagnetics". He talked about the application of computational
electromagnetic (CEM) tools for analyzing and optimizing complex environments
for ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID systems. Analysis of RFID tags, readers, tag
placement, tag/reader coupling and tag/reader systems in complex environments
were also addressed.
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After more than 30 years of service to the EECS department, Alan Husted
celebrated his retirement with the friends, colleagues and students on September
30. On this bitter sweet occasion Al talked about how he started work in the
department and what his future plans are.
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Students from the Lorain Campus visited the EECS Department on September 24. They
also visited the Career Fair hosted by the College of Engineering. Dr. Shenai,
EECS Department Chair, talked to the students breifly about their experiences
and expectations from the Distance Learning partnership between the EECS
department and LCCC.
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A faculty and staff meeting of the EECS Department chaired by Prof. Krishna
Shenai was held on 12 September, 2008. In this meeting, Prof. Ted Keith (MIME
Department) presented a seminar on Effective Mentoring of Graduate Students.
Prof. Dan Solarek (Chair of ET Department) talked about CSE vs. CSET
accreditation. Dr. Shenai high-lighted the changes, news and updates in the EECS
Department, and invited questions. Prof. Rick Molyet, Prof. Mansoor Alam, and
Prof. Vijay Devabhaktuni talked about the U/G Curriculum, New Graduate Program
Implementation, and Fall 2008 EECS Seminar respectively. Finally, Prof. Chris
Kiel (EECS Faculty at LCCC) introduced Alice and Media Computation. At the end
of the meeting, coffee, pizza and pop were served.
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