JUNE 5: New Research Lab Dedication
Project’s Move to UT Dallas Intended to Improve Software Engineering Education
Jonsson School Communications Team Wins CASE Awards for Print Design
At the recent CASE District IV conference, the Jonsson School picked up a gold award for the 1000 Weeks Timeline brochure and a silver for the Fearless Engineering campaign. Copies of the 1000 Weeks brochure are available at the front desk of the dean's office (ECS N. 3.7).
ENGINEERNG WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
• Tellabs' CEO Krish Prabhu talk
• 2nd Annual IEEE@UTD EXPOnential
UT Dallas team heads to Tokyo for international programming competition
A team of computer-science students from UT Dallas’ Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science is going to the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
The UTD team survived regional competition last Fall against some 6,100 teams representing 1,756 universities worldwide. It will face off in Tokyo March 12-16 against the 87 other teams that emerged from the regional contests. Students on the winning team will receive various scholarships and awards.
Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the competition gives collegiate programmers the opportunity to hone their problem-solving skills using increasingly popular open standards, such as Linux and Eclipse.
The UT Dallas team includes Michelle Berger, Matthew Dempsky, and Jack Lindamood. Ivor Page, associate professor of computer science and the team’s coach, will accompany the students to the finals. In Tokyo, three-student teams will use their programming skills and mental endurance to solve at least eight complex, real-world problems under a five-hour deadline. Typical problems range from developing a routing program that ensures secure online transactions to designing a global positioning system navigation program.
To win, a team must correctly solve the most problems in the shortest time. Working under judges’ close scrutiny, teammates will rank the problems’ difficulty, deduce requirements, design tests, and build software that solves each problem. Some problems require only precision while others require an understanding of advanced algorithms. Still others are so difficult that they will yield only to the cleverest problem-solvers.
For more information, contact Dr. Ivor Page at ivor@utdallas.edu.
Please check out our upcoming Spring 2007 Distinguished Lecture Series
UT Dallas names Dr. Bruce Gnade VP for Research, Economic Development
U.T. Dallas Adds Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering
Mark your calendars for the upcoming Nanomedicine Symposium 2006 to be held on the UTD campus in the Conference Center Auditorium, December 11.
The Nanomedicine Symposium is the finale of the UT-DFW Initiative for Biological Sciences & Engineering, better known as the UT Metroplex Days
There are some pretty exciting activities and accomplishments occuring at the Jonsson School. Please visit our site often to find out what's going on. Be sure to check out the Distinguished Lecture Series page for the latest lecture season.
UTD Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team
Places 5th in U.S. Navy Competition
Congratulations are in order for UTD's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Team that participated in the 9th annual U.S. Navy AUV competition held August 5-6 at the Navy's SPAWAR facility in San Diego. Out of 22 international teams, UTD finished 5th, ahead of past champions MIT and Cornell. This marks a milestone for the UTD team in only its third year of competition.
Special recognition goes out to team captains Wes Clow and Eric Sumner, and team mentor/advisor Andrew Cilia, for this achievement. It is a tribute to the knowledge, skills, creativity and perseverance of some of our best and brightest students, and a testament to the value of the AUV senior-design project as a real-world engineering training ground.
AUGUST 1, 2006 , 11:30 - 1 p.m.
TI Auditorium, EC South 2.102 (Directions)
MTBC Nanotechnology Focus Group Meeting
Guest Speaker: Tim Driscoll, Ph.D., VP of Global Operations – Authentix
Title: The Application of Nano-Technology in the Fight Against Fraud
For more information, please visit the nanotechDFW Web site.
JULY 10, 2006, 11a.m.
Seminar: TI Auditorium, EC South 2.102 (Directions)
“Mice and Men Under Stress”
Dr. James Meyerhoff, Division of Psychiatry & Neuroscience,
Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland
HIGH IMPACT PAPER
A paper co-authored by UTD Electrical Engineering Professor Bob Wallace was recently recognized by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as a high impact paper published in the Journal of Applied Physics – Applied Physics Reviews. According to the Science Citation Index, it has now received more than 1180 citations in the literature.
Click the link to view an abstract or read the paper: http://www.aip.org/anniversary/pubs_research.html
FIRST PLACE
The UTD chapter of IEEE's Web site has received the First Place Award in the Region 5 Web site contest, and has also been entered into the IEEE Web site contest. The site was designed by Jonsson School student, Nicole Halper, a sophmore electrical engineering student.
JUNE 5-JULY 28, 2006
Jonsson School Summer Program
The Jonsson School is hosting a special 8-week summer session that will include an "Experience" class, small sections, top instructors, residential communities, mentoring and tutoring. For more information, please contact Simeon Ntafos.
JUNE 26-28, 2006
Neuroengineering Now Conference
The University of Texas at Dallas is launching an initiative in the field of Neuroengineering by hosting a conference highlighting the work of internationally recognized leaders in this emerging and exciting field.
MAY 31, 2006
Visiting Scholar: Dr. Yale E. Cohen, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth
Representations of Abstract Categorical Information
MAY 1, 2006
Senior Design Day
Some of our senior design teams presented their final projects, including a robotic cat and an underwater robot.
APRIL 28, 2006
Materials Science & Engineering Seminar
Dr. Manuel Quevedo-Lopez, Texas Instruments Assignee at International SEMATECH, gave a talk titled: High-k/Metal Gate Stacks Scaling for High Performance MOS Devices.
APRIL 20-22, 2006
The Third Annual Jonsson School Forum
The Jonsson School Forum, the Metroplex's premier showcase for university-based engineering and computer science research, was held April 20-22.
RECENT PRESS RELEASES
UTD's Jonsson School Receives $1.5 Million from Texas Instruments to Establish Chair, Graduate Fellowships
The gift will allow the creation of two permanent endowments for the Jonsson School-the Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair and the Texas Instruments Diversity Graduate Fellowship Endowment-and is a natural outgrowth of TI's existing relationship with UTD and demonstrates their desire to see the university continue building upon its goal of becoming one of the top 50 engineering schools in the country.
UTD Professor Awarded $1.3-Million NIH Contract to Build PDA Interface for Hearing Impaired"
Dr. Philip Loizou, Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded a three-year contract to build an interface that will enable PDAs to transmit sounds to an implant worn in the inner ear of deaf individuals.
UTD Professor, Student Receive Design Award at IEEE Conference
In the third time in as many months, Dr. Poras Balsara has been recognized at an international conference when-along with his Ph.D. student Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian-received second place for a paper that provides precise time interval measurement solutions that have applications in wireless transceivers, particle time-of-flight measurements, radar, and range finding.
U. T. Dallas to Offer Graduate Degree in Materials Science and Engineering
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has given UTD the authority to offer two new graduate degree programs, one leading to a Ph.D. degree and the other to an M.S. degree, in the promising multidisciplinary fields of Materials Science and Engineering.
