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May 2, 2008 — Sudradjat Named GTF of the Year at Boston University

Faisal Sudradjat, UNO alumnus, has been named Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF) of the year for 2007-2008 by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Boston University. Sudradjat was scheduled to receive the award at an appreciation luncheon held May 2nd.

Each year at the end of the spring semester, the BU ECE Department holds ECE Day, a full-day event designed to bring together ECE students, faculty, alumni, industry representatives, and other students to celebrate the accomplishments of the Department's seniors design project teams, present graduate student posters, and honor the exceptional work of a GTF and the outstanding teaching record of a faculty member.

April 19, 2008 — Student and Faculty Awards

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UNO Electrical Engineering students Brandon Fouts and Barry Muldrey won third place in the IEEE Region 5 Circuit Design Contest.  The Circuit Design Contest took take place at a laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Missouri - Kansas City on Saturday April 19, 2008 from 8:30 am until about 4:00 pm, in conjunction with the IEEE Region 5 Conference and Meetings.

Dr. Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at UNO, received the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Educator Award on April 19, 2008. She was also recognized as finalist for the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Student Branch Counselor.

Stephen D. Bourg, graduate of the UNO Electrical Engineering program, in his current position of Chair of the New Orleans Section of the IEEE, received the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Small Section Award. Steve and many other individuals, several of them with strong ties to UNO-EE, are members of the Executive Committee of the New Orleans Section of the IEEE.

March 2008 — Dr. Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois has accepted the position of Secretary of Region 5 of the IEEE; her term as Executive Committee member of Region 5 expires in January 2010.

A non-profit organization, IEEE is a leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E). IEEE is organized into 324 local sections in 10 geographic regions worldwide. Region 5 is the "Southwestern U.S." region, including Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and parts of New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and Illinois.

February 2008 — Jacqueline Babin Morris Named Young Engineer of the Year 2007

IEEE's Houston Section named Jacqueline B. Morris "Young Engineer of theYear 2007" at their annual dinner February 18. Jackie graduated from the UNO EE department in December 2005 with a 3.6 GPA.

Before graduation from UNO in 2005, Jacqueline completed two electrical engineering co-op terms with Lyondell Chemical Company at their Lake Charles facility. Upon graduation she began her career at Lyondell Chemical as an Associate Engineer in the Maintenance and Reliability group at the Channelview, TX facility. For the past two years, Jacqueline has worked on a range of power projects including substations, transformers, UPS’s, motors, cable and switchgear. She hopes to rotate into a project manager role in the spring to see a different aspect of engineering and to develop the different traits associated with being a project manager.

Jacqueline has served as the Houston IEEE GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Chair and previously held the position of IEEE Regional Student Representative before graduating.

January 25, 2008 — Faculty Activities and Awards

Dr. Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, is the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom 2008 (Global Telecommunications) conference.   Globecom is a premiere IEEE conference in the area of communications and networking; this year it will be held in New Orleans, from November 30 through December 4, 2008, and is chaired by Richard Miller from AT&T.  The technical program she co-chairs will consist of 11 Technical Symposia -with over 1000 papers presented-, a Design and Developer's forum, workshops, and tutorials.

Dr. Meikang Qiu, Assistant Professor of EE is the Program Vice-Chair for the 10th IEEE Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (ICCSE 08), to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil,   July 16-18, 2008.  He also serves as the Publicity Chair for the fifth IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing (SEC 2008), Beijing, China, October 6-9, 2008.

Drs. Abdul Alsamman, Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, Huimin Chen, Vesselin Jilkov, and X. Rong Li received major funds for six research projects from the U.S. Navy SPAWAR Systems through the Information and Systems Technology Research Center. Each of the projects involves active collaboration with local industrial partners.

Dr. X. Rong Li served as the General Chair for the 2007 International Colloquium on Information Fusion (http://icif2007.xjtu.edu.cn/), held in Xian, China, August 22-25, 2007.  More than 200 people attended the conference.