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The
paper co-authored by Drs.
Athina Petropulu, Xueshi Yang (Athina's former Ph.D. student),
Olivier Cappé, Eric Moulines and Jean-Christophe Pesquet entitled
"Long-Range Dependence and Heavy-Tail Modeling for Teletraffic
Data," has been selected to receive the 2005 Signal Processing
Magazine Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
The awards ceremony will be held at ICASSP 2006.
Crossbow,
the most prominent company selling sensor networks equipment has
noted on their
website, that the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
of Drexel University offers a course in wireless sensor networks.
The course is ECEC-490 and is taught by Dr.
Jaudelice de Oliveira. Drexel University is finds itself among
good company listed as the 13th university to create such a course
along with 21 prominent universities that offer similar courses:
Harvard University, University of Southern California, University
of Washington, Rochester Institute Of Technology, Boston University,
Arizona State University, Portland State University, Queens University,
Nanjing University, Kuwait University, University of Virginia,
Stanford University, Drexel University, North
Carolina State University, University of California, Davis, Sabanci
University, Southern Polytechnic University, University of Iowa,
University of Delaware, Arizona State University, State University
of New York, University of Nebraska.
Congratulations to the ECE faculty and staff members were recognized with key awards at the College of Engineering 2006 Engineer of the Year Banquet held on Friday night, February 24, 2006 at the Union League of Philadelphia. Below is a list of the award recipients from our Department:
FACULTY
AWARDS:
Outstanding
Research Award, Dr. Moshe Kam
Outstanding
Service Award, Dr.
Oleh Tretiak
Outstanding
COE Students FIRST Award, Dr.
Kevin Scoles
STAFF
AWARDS:
Outstanding
Technical Staff Award, Scott
Currie
Outstanding
Service Award, Wayne
Hill
Dr.
Moshe Kam, Robert G. Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering; Dr.
William Regli, associate professor of computer science; and
Ben Gollotti, senior associate vice president of public safety,
were featured in a Daily Pennsylvanian story on February 2, 2006
about DragonForce, advanced wireless security technology developed
by Drexel and Drakontas LLC. Click
here to read the StoryLink - The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Dr.
Peter Herczfeld, Lester A. Kraus Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2006 Microwave
Pioneer Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
(MTT-S). This award is given in recognition of a major, lasting
contribution, through publication in an archival journal, in the
field of interest of the MTT-S, at least twenty years prior to
the year of the award. Peter's citation reads: "For pioneering
work in microwave photonics." The award consists of a recognition
plaque and an honorarium of $2,500. The award will be conferred
at the annual Society Awards Banquet to be held during the International
Microwave Symposium the week of June 10 - 16, 2006 in San Francisco,
CA.
Dr.
Arye Rosen,
along with colleagues Andre Vander Vorst and Youji Kotsuka
recently had their book, "RF/Microwave Interaction with Biological
Tissues," published by the IEEE Press and Wiley-Interscience.
The book examines the biological effects of RF/microwaves and
their medical applications. It discusses new developments in therapeutic
applications in such areas as cardiology, urology, surgery, ophthamology
and oncology. It also presents developing applications in such
areas as cancer detection and organ imaging.
Dr.
Dagmar Niebur received $151K of funding for, "STTR Phase
II: Electric Power System Management," from Techno Sciences,
Inc.
The
paper co-authored by Drs.
Athina Petropulu, Xueshi Yang (Athina's former Ph.D. student),
Olivier Cappé, Eric Moulines and Jean-Christophe Pesquet entitled
"Long-Range Dependence and Heavy-Tail Modeling for Teletraffic
Data," has been selected to receive the 2005 Signal Processing
Magazine Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
The Awards Ceremony will be held at ICASSP 2006. The paper appeared
in the May 2002 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
and was part of the special issue on Signal Processing for Networking
that Athina co-organized.
Dr.
Bruce Katz
recently had his book, "Digital Design: From Gates to Intelligent
Machines," published by Da Vinci Engineering Press. The book is
a comprehensive introduction to the science and art of designing
digital circuits.
Dr.
Moshe Kam, the Robert Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, was elected by the IEEE Assembly to serve a second
term as IEEE Vice President for Educational Activities and Chair
of the Educational Activities Board (EAB). In this capacity, he
will continue to serve as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors
and Executive Committee through 2006. The EAB develops educational
programs to help ensure the technological literacy of pre-university
students, provides accreditation services to colleges and universities,
develops continuing-education products and services for technology
professionals worldwide, and helps to educate the public about
the engineering profession.
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