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October 8, 2007

DRS Signal Solutions Sponsors ECE Course Contest

DRS Signal Solutions, Inc. (DRS-SS) will sponsor the Outstanding Design Project Award competition for the Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design course this fall, taught by David Casasent, George Westinghouse Professor of ECE, and Associate Teaching Professor of ECE Tom Sullivan. ECE alumnus Jeff Silvey (M.S. 1998; B.S. 1996), a principal member of the technical staff at DRS-SS will help judge the contest and will keep up-to-date on the progress of the students. The course provides students with a design and application hardware project experience in digital communications and/or signal processing systems.

ECE Announces New Graduate Student Fellowship

ECE announces the newly endowed William J. Happel Fellowship, supported by the Lindmor Foundation in honor of Lindsay Reimers' father and Arthur Reimers' father-in-law. The fellowship will be granted for the first time during the 2008-09 academic year. Applicants should be ECE graduate students; preference will be given to Carnegie Mellon graduates who are continuing their studies at the university. William Happel is shown in his 1943 Carnegie Mellon Thistle yearbook picture.

October 2, 2007

Pileggi Wins Industrial Impact Award from GSRC

Larry Pileggi, Tanoto Professor of ECE, received the 2007 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award, which acknowledges work from the DARPA/MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC). This inaugural award is in recognition of research that is "at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact." Other Carnegie Mellon affiliated faculty and students who received this award with Pileggi were Herman Schmit, Veerbhan Kheterpal, Aneesh Koorapaty, and Kim Yaw Tong.

October 1, 2007

Blanton and Koopman Named Senior Members of ACM

ECE faculty members Shawn Blanton (left) and Philip Koopman (right) were named Senior Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They are two of only 57 recipients worldwide to achieve this status in 2007; Carnegie Mellon is the only university to have two faculty elevated to Senior Members. According to the ACM website, "the Senior Member grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and five years of continuous professional membership who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers."

DSSC Fall Review Draws Over 100 Participants

Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) hosted their fall technical review last week. The agenda featured sessions in hard disk drive (HDD) heads and media, HDD servos and channels, tribology and mechanics, and signal processing and controls. Over 100 participants attended, including industrial affiliates, faculty, staff, and students. Samsung Electronics, a new industrial affiliate, participated in the review.