What's Going On
E-Week. March 26 - April 4, 2008.
Senior Design and Co-op Poster Fair. On Friday, April 18, 2008, from 1-3pm, ECE undergraduate students will be presenting their Senior Design Projects and Co-op experience posters. Refreshments will be served to the participants following the presentations at 3pm.
IEEE presents the ECE Deptment End of the Year Dinner on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 7pm. Reservations can be made through Angela in 345 Benedum.
Summer courses begin on May 5 for full term classes, May 12 for 12-week and 6-week-1 classes. Most ECE classes are 12 week classes. Please check your schedule for start and end dates of your registered classes.
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ECE graduate student Michael Buric has been awarded an SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering. This $2500 scholarship is awarded to promising optical science and engineering students who are recognized as future leaders in the photonics field in the United States. SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
A team of seniors (in alphabetical order: John Bennewitz (MEMS), José Bernardo (MEMS), Michael Chrin (ECE), and Adam Wick (MEMS)) have successfully competed in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP). This represents the first time that University of Pittsburgh has been selected for this program. They will get to fly their experiment in the famous "vomit comet" this summer in order to test their hypotheses in a simulated zero gravity condition. The team did an extraordinary job of identifying a pertinent problem, researching relevant background information, designing the test rig, and conceiving the experimental design. Their efforts culminated with the creation of a 68-page proposal, which was reminiscent of a masters thesis. More information about their project can be found here.
Graduate students Zsolt Poole and Di Xu's research work is highlighted as the cover story of the December 17, 2007 issue of Applied Physics letters. Zsolt and Di's paper titled "Holographic fabrication of three-dimensional orthorhombic and tetragonal photonic crystal templates using a diffractive optical element" demonstrates a novel method to construct three-dimensional nanostructrues using a single optical element. Both students work with Dr. Kevin Chen.
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