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Badri Roysam,
University of Houston
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Dear ECEDHA Members, Industry Partners, and Colleagues,
Summer is finally here. The grades are submitted. The students have gone home. It is the perfect time for faculty reinvention. It is fair to state that the most successful faculty members are constantly reinventing and redefining themselves. On the other hand, faculty members who remain wedded to a subject area are at risk.
In this issue of the ECE Source, we explore some known best practices for Department Chairs to stimulate and foster faculty reinvention. Importantly, we welcome your thoughts and shared experiences.
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A Celebration of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego
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Last month, the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
(ECE) in the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering hosted ECE Day - a day dedicated to celebrating the spirit of the ECE community and bringing awareness to all it offers students, faculty and alumni.
"Our ECE community came together to make this year's events incredibly successful
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"Each year the dozens of students, volunteers, staff, and others work very hard to create a fun and engaging environment for all who participate."
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Larry Pileggi Named as ECE Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University
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Larry Pileggi,
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Larry Pileggi, Tanoto Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), with a start date of March 1, 2019.
Larry completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 1989, and after six years on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, he returned to Carnegie Mellon as a faculty member. In 2001, he was the founding director of the Center for Silicon Systems Implementation (CSSI) and served as the director until 2007. From 2009 to 2013 he was the director of the multi-university Center for Circuit and System Solutions (C2S2) that was funded by the MARCO/DARPA Focus Center Research Program. Larry's research has been primarily focused on all aspects of digital and analog integrated circuit design, including CAD and design methodologies, but more recently he has also been working on modeling, simulation and optimization of electric power systems.
He and his students have received many various awards for their research work and have founded four companies and participated in several others.
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Pamela Cosman Honored at ECEDHA 2019
The award is given in recognition of proactive efforts to increase cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity within the ECE student body and among ECE faculty, that go well above and beyond the normal institutional recruiting practices.
Within the community, Dr. Cosman serves on the Internal Advisory Board of the CREATE STEM Success Initiative. This multi-year initiative connects UCSD researchers with regional K-12 educators. Programs include teacher training, leveraging the Supercomputer Center to boost computer science education in underserved schools, and studying math pipeline leaks. Additionally, Dr. Cosman wrote a children's book, The Secret Code Menace, aimed at making engineering accessible and attractive to girls.
Dr. Cosman goes above and beyond to ensure diversity is at the forefront, which has positively impacted the field of ECE and its future.
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Automotive Research User Handbook:
Prototypes and Testbeds to Validate the Transportation Solutions of Tomorrow
Within the next 10 years, we will see remarkable change in the automotive industry. From improved engine efficiency to autonomous vehicles to electrification, innovation will begin in academic institutions around the world. NI solutions integrate hardware and software to help automotive scientists and engineers take accurate measurements, perform hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, and rapidly prototype new ideas.
This book includes a select set of examples curated to show how researchers and industrial partners are delivering on the innovation needed to change the world of transportation. Researchers are investigating the novel and the innovative, and we are proud to partner with them to make their work possible. To learn more about how NI partners with academic researchers, visit
ni.com/research.
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ECE Insights
ECE Insights offer in-depth interviews with leading industry executives.
Featured ECE Insights:
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Andy Bell
Head of Marketing, Academic
National Instruments
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March 18-21, 2020
ECEDHA Annual Conference & ECE
xpo
Renaissance SeaWorld - Orlando, FL
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On Demand Webinar
Sponsored by Keysight Technologies
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On Demand Webinar
A Case Study on Connected Maintenance Reliability
Sponsored by Fluke Corporation
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On Demand Webinar
Rethinking Electronics Fundamentals
Sponsored by National Instruments
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On Demand Webinar
In partnership with Tailfin Marketing
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Finalize Your 2018-2019 Membership Today!
- The opportunity to participate in the ECEDHA Annual Survey, a valuable tool in benchmarking your organization in lab and office space, faculty and department head salaries, research budgets, student retention, graduation rates, and much more.
- The opportunity to attend the 2019 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo
- Complimentary job posting service via the ECEDHA website
- Complimentary registration for ECEDHA's ECE Webinars
Looking for your membership packet?
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ECEDHA Member and Partner News
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Rising Stars 2019
We invite your most promising early-career women in electrical engineering and computer science to apply to attend Rising Stars in EECS 2019 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for female graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers. Launched at MIT in 2012, the annual event has since been hosted at UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and Illinois.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2019
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ASEE Chair's Conclave
ASEE is offering a one-day Chair's Conclave in conjunction with the ASEE Annual Conference.
Hear from expert speakers on topics including leadership skills, department culture, lifelong learning as a chair, knowing your strengths as a leader, conducting faculty evaluations, and more!
Designed by chairs, for chairs, the Chairs Conclave is an exclusive forum for engineering and engineering technology department chairs to exchange ideas and experiences, talk through challenges, and build working relationships.
Meeting Dates: June 16, 2019
Location: Tampa, Florida
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International Workshop on Thin-Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (TFE3S)
Present your research to the global thin-film research community at the 3
rd international workshop on TFE3S. You'll join fellow experts and researchers from our organizing/sponsor institutions and many other top scholars from around the world.
The workshop is organized by the Center of Excellence for Thin-film Research and Surface Engineering (CETRASE), University of Dayton, in cooperation with the University of Iceland and The Pennsylvania State University.
Location: University of Iceland, Reykjavik
Dates: June 24-26, 2019
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Franklin Institute Awards: Call for Nominations in Neural Networks for Machine Learning
The Franklin Institute seeks nominations for the 2020 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
Individuals are encouraged to submit nominations for those who have made significant contributions to the development of neural networks for machine learning-hardware or software systems designed as networks of artificial neurons that can be given raw data and trained to automatically discover abstract features that are relevant to detection, classification, or translation, resulting in desired outputs.
Deadline: May 31, 2019
Prize: $250,000 USD
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