ECE

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SUMMER 2001

Motorola Foundation Donates $1.5 Million

Establishes Professorship and Endowed Chair

he Motorola Foundation has announced a $1.5 million gift to Georgia Tech to assist students inearning graduate-level degrees in the fields of engineering and science. The endowment will be used to create the Motorola Foundation Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Motorola Foundation Professorship at Geor- gia Tech, a five-year faculty appointment. ECE will begin a nationwide search to fill the newly created chair. The School has named Georgia Tech Professor Gary S. May to fill the Motorola Foundation Professorship appointment. Dr. May, whose research areas include semiconductor process and equipment diagno- resented Motorola at a check presentation on Those present at the announcement were sis, also coordinates a program at Georgia Tech the Georgia Tech campus on April 12, 2001. (l-r) Jerry Blanton, called the Summer Undergraduate Research in Also in attendance were President Wayne Senior Vice President Engineering and Science program (SURE). Clough, Provost Jean Lou Chameau, Roger (retired) Motorola; Jean Lou Chameau, The program, sponsored by the National Webb, Dr. May, and Motorola co-op students. Provost, Georgia Science Foundation, is a ten-week summer The support of the Motorola Foundation Tech; Roberta reinforces the long-standing relationship be- Gutman, Executive research program designed to attract qualified Director, Motorola minority students from around the country to tween the College of Engineering and Motorola, Foundation; Wayne graduate programs in the fields of engineering said Dr. Chameau. In addition, this gift will Clough, President, Georgia Tech; Jim and science. help us to continue leading the nation in the Maran, Georgia Georgia Tech is one of the premier institu- education of minority students. Council, Motorola; tions for engineering and science in the United The Motorola Foundation was established and Gary May, Motorola Foundation States, and it is one of the nation s strongest in 1953 primarily to support leading universities Professor. proponents of diversity education in engineer- in the United States. Today, the Motorola ing, said Roberta Gutman, executive director Foundation provides funding to higher educa- of the Motorola Foundation. tion as well as a multitude of primary and The chairman and CEO of Motorola, Chris- secondary education programs assisting indi- topher B. Galvin, the Motorola Foundation, viduals to reach their greatest potential and to and the Motorola Georgia Council are excited become lifelong learners. Emphasis is also about continuing our relationship with Georgia placed on assisting health and human services Tech, and helping the university to continue delivery systems, primarily through support to to develop some of the strongest minds in the local United Way organizations. country, she said. Ms. Gutman, Jim Maran of the Motorola Georgia Council, and senior leadership from Motorola businesses across metro Atlanta rep- Chair s Corner Campaign Totals

he end of the year 2000 also brought about the close of the Campaign for Georgia Tech. It has $71,966,527 $711,973,834 been a privilege to be involved in this successful fundraising effort for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With an initial goal of $50 Goals: $50 $600 million we are proud to report our final grand total of $71,966,527. We are extremely grateful for the generosity of the alumni, corporate partners, faculty, Roger P. Webb and staff who enabled us to achieve such a ECE Chair tremendous accomplishment. Through the efforts of the Campaign, ECE is positioned to continue and enhance our educational $25 $300 and research programs. The monies raised support our faculty through endowed chairs and professor- MILLIONS ships, our students through undergraduate scholar- ships and graduate fellowships, and our teaching and research efforts through upgraded laboratories and equipment. Equally important is the unrestricted support of the School through outright contributions and endowments that enable us to offer strategic ECE GT programs and lectures which equip our graduates with the best education to meet the technological needs of today s workforce. Contributions by Source I have been fortunate to meet many of you through my travels and visits to alumni and corpo- Foundations/Organizations rations across the country. We plan to continue our 4% Alumni/Individual efforts to connect our alumni to campus through 25% programs and continuing education opportunities, and to focus on developing cooperative research and educational relationships with our industrial partners. Please join us as we celebrate the success of the Campaign for Georgia Tech and see firsthand Corporations 71% the impact that you have made on the School, the students, and the faculty Contributions by Purpose

Facilities and Equipment Faculty 29% 32%

Corporate Membership Student 16% Programs 7% 16% ECE News is published by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Editor: Suzy Briggs At the beginning of the Campaign, the School of Editorial Staff: Harry Vann and Jackie Nemeth ECE had nine endowments worth a total of $13.4 Designer: Diana Fouts Email: [email protected] million. At the end of the Campaign, the School had Url: http://www.ece.gatech.edu a total of 44 endowments supporting students, faculty, and general operations totaling $46 million.

2 Faculty Professorships and Chairs

Outstanding junior faculty awards and professor- School Chair ships are granted to the most promising junior faculty This endowed chair, dedicated to the incumbent school chair within members, providing a major incentive to attract a specific school, enhances the School s ability to attract leading and retain those men and women who will become educators in this position of academic administration. tomorrow s leading teachers/scholars. They provide Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in ECE (Roger P. Webb) support to encourage innovation in teaching and research, thereby nurturing the professional Faculty Chairs advancement of the named faculty member. The visibility and stature of an appointment to an endowed chair is perhaps the highest recognition accorded a university faculty member. ECE Advisory Board members, past and present, Chair holders draw highly talented students to the program, attract established the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Faculty junior and senior faculty as colleagues, stimulate innovative research, Endowment Fund in the spring of 1998 to com- and leverage external funding. memorate Dr. Paris outstanding service to Georgia Arbutus Chair in Digital Design Tech, the School of ECE, and the entire Tech John E. Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics (Glenn S. Smith) community. Linda M. Wills is the first recipient of ON Semiconductor Chair (To be complete and filled in 2005) this award. John and Marilu McCarty Chair (Ronald W. Schafer)

ON Semiconductor, the world s leading supplier GRA Chairs of analog, logic, and discrete semiconductor GRA Eminent Scholars are indistinguishable from endowed Faculty components, provided $1.5 million to endow two Chairs, with the exception that the Georgia Research Alliance provides junior professorships in the field of Analog partial funding in predetermined areas of academic endeavor to Electronics. After the first five years, the endowment encourage economic development, particularly in telecommunications, will be used to support a chair, with the funds bioengineering, and sustainable technologies. supporting a distinguished scholar s academic and Steve W. Chaddick Chair in Electro-Optics research programs. J. Stevenson Kenney was named Rhesa Screven Farmer, Jr. Chair in Embedded Systems as one of the recipients. Motorola Foundation Chair in ECE John E. Pippin Chair in Wireless Communications (Nikil Jayant) The Motorola Foundation contributed $1.5 million John E. Weitnauer, Jr. Technology Transfer Chair in to the Campaign for Georgia Tech to assist students Telecommunications (John A. Copeland) in earning graduate-level degrees in the fields of engineering and science. The endowment created The Motorola Foundation Chair in the School of ECE and The Motorola Foundation Professorship. Over the years, Georgia Power has supported key faculty from several Gary S. May has been named The Motorola schools at Georgia Tech. ECE has two Georgia Power Professors: Foundation Professor. Ajeet Rohatgi and Hans B. P ttgen. Dr. Rohatgi is an internationally recognized leader in photovoltaics and is the founding director of the Kenneth G. Byers, Jr. (BEE 66, MSEE 68) endowed first university-based DOE Center of Excellence in Photovoltaic Research a chair in microelectronics in ECE in 1986. Due to and Education. Dr. P ttgen is a professor in the area of electric power the growth of this initial endowment, the School as well as the director of the National Electric Energy Testing, Research, can now support an endowed chair, as well as and Applications Center (NEETRAC) and the president of Georgia three endowed professorships. The newly named Tech Lorraine, the European platform of Georgia Tech. Kenneth G. Byers, Jr. Professors are Ian F. Akyildiz, Kevin F. Brennan, and James H. McClellan. Duke Power Company supports Ronald G. Harley as the Duke Dr. Akyildiz s research interests include wireless, Power Company Distinguished Professor. This position serves as an satellite, and ATM networks, as well as next gener- additional mechanism for the electric utility industry to participate in ation Internet technologies; Dr. Brennan s primary the Institute s educational and research activities directed to the areas interest is semiconductor device and materials of strategic interest to Duke Power in particular and the utility industry modeling; and Dr. McClellan s work is focused on in general. Dr. Harley s areas of research interests include power computer technology applied to education, sensor system stability and control; power electronics, motor drives, and array processing and radar signal processing, and electric vehicles; and neural networks applied to power electronics software for digital signal processing. and electrical machines.

3 Foundation, Corporate, & Educational

37th Design Automation Conference Dexter Electronic Materials Division Integrated Device Technology, Inc. Procter & Gamble Fund 3Com Corporation Dickerson Vision Technologies, Inc. Integrity Communications, Inc. Prucka Engineering, Inc. 3M Digital Furnace Corporation Intel Corporation Public Service Electric & Gas Co. ABB, Inc. Digital Insight Intelligent Automation Systems Raytheon Company ABJ Integration Technologies, Inc. Digital Wireless Corporation Intellimedix, Inc. RELTEC Accusentry, Inc. Dow Chemical Company Intellisense Corporation Research Devices, Inc. Advanced Micro Devices Draper Laboratory International Paper Co. Foundation RF Micro Devices Agilent Technologies Du Pont de Nemours & Company Intersil, Inc. Robert Bosch GmbH Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Duke Energy Corporation Jacoby Development, Inc. Rockwell Automation Alcoa Foundation Duke Energy Corporation Fdtn. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Rockwell Collins Allegheny Teledyne, Inc. Eastman Kodak Company Johnson Matthey Electronics Samsung SDI Company, Ltd. AlliedSignal Foundation Eaton Corporation Kerns Truck Parts SCEEE Altera Corporation EBA Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Schlumberger Foundation, Inc. Aluminum Company of America Ebara Solar, Inc. Kobe Steel USA, Inc. Schlumberger Well Services Amdahl Corporation EEI Power Engineering Educ. Fdtn. Korea Institute of Science & Technology School of Textile and Fiber Eng. American International Group, Inc. EKC Technology, Inc. Kyocera Corporation SCI Systems, Inc. American Petroleum Products, Inc. Electric Power Research Institute Ladies Professional Golf Association Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. ASEE Electromagnetic Sciences, Inc. Lambda Technologies Semiconductor Research Corp. Amoco Foundation, Inc. Emerson & Cuming, Inc. Lanier Worldwide, Inc. Shea & Company AMP Circuits Emory University Levine Lectronics & Lectric Shell Oil Company Foundation AMP Incorporated EMS Technologies, Inc. LG Electronics Siemens AG Analog Devices Semiconductor Enron Corp. Life University Siemens Electronics Assembly Sys. Analog Devices, Inc. Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Lockheed Martin Corporation Silicon Power Company Anchor Glass Container Corporation Eta Kappa Nu Society Loctite EL Systems, Inc. Simon & Schuster Ansoft Corporation Evergeen Solar, Inc. Lord Research Corporation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Anvik Corporation Exxon Company, USA Lorraine Development Corporation Sonoscan, Inc. Appalachian Electronic Instruments ExxonMobil Corporation LSI Logic Corp. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. Archistrat Technologies Federated Department Stores Fdtn. Lucent Technologies Southern California Edison Co. Asset Recovery Corporation Federated Department Stores, Inc. Lucent Technologies, Network Syst. Southwire Company AT&T Flip Chip Technologies Lutech France Sprint Corporation AT&T Foundation Florida Power & Light Company Lutron Foundation Square D Foundation Atlanta Falcons Football Club Ford Motor Company Matsushita Communication Ind. Corp. SRC Education Alliance Atlanta Jewish Federation, Inc. Ford Motor Company/Glass Division Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Atlanta Journal Constitution Foundation For The Carolinas Matsushita Telecommunications Co. Sunbelt Power AVX Corporation FPL Group Foundation, Inc. Media4, Inc. Superior Electronics Group Axis Systems Fujitsu Limited Medtronic, Inc. Teledyne Inc. Banque Populaire de Lorr. Future Networks, Inc. Micro Substrates Corporation Tessera, Inc. Bay Networks, Inc. GE Fund Microcoating Technologies Texaco Foundation Bell Labs GenCorp Foundation Microelectronics Advanced Research Texas Instruments, Inc. BellSouth Corporation General Electric Company Microsoft Corporation Texas Utilities Company BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. General Instrument Corporation Milli Sensor System & Actuators The Coca-Cola Company BF Goodrich General Motors Corporation Mobilink Telecom, Inc. The Dow Chemical Company Fdtn. BNR, Inc. General Motors Foundation Moran, Tileston & Stone The John & Mary Franklin Foundation Bobby Dodd Charities Fdtn., Inc. GenRad, Inc. Morris Brown College The Kroger Company Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award Georgia Power Company Motorola CVD, Inc. The Lowe Group, Inc. Boeing Company Georgia Tech Athletic Association Motorola Foundation The Material Handling Education Fdtn. Boeing North America Glotech, Inc. Motorola, Inc. The Milltown Foundation Bourns Integrated Technology Div. GRESCO National Broadcasting Co., Inc. The Peachtree Roost/AOC Broadcom Corporation GTE Foundation National Instruments The Sonat Foundation, Inc. Cabletron Systems GTE Laboratories, Inc. National Semiconductor Corporation The Southern Company Cadence Design Systems, Inc. GTE Mobile Communications, Inc. National Starch & Chemical Co. The Touchdown Club of Atlanta California Community Foundation GTE Mobilenet, Inc. National Storage Industry Consortium The University of Texas at Austin Camotion, Inc. Hans-Lenze-Stiftung Aerzen NCR Corporation The Vattikuti Foundation Cascade Microtech, Inc. Harris Corporation NEC Corporation Thunderbird Technologies, Inc. Center for Remote Sensing, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company NextGen Technologies, Inc. Toshiba Charitable Gift Fund Hitachi Central Research Laboratory Nippon Hoso Kyokai TRW Space and Electronics Group Charter Bank Hitachi Telecom USA Nokia Inc. Turner Broadcasting System Inc. ChemFirst Corporation Hitachi, Ltd./Multimedia Systems Norrell Corporation TXU Electric & Gas Chevron Chemical Company HLB Gross Collins, PC Northern States Power Company Tyco Electronics Corporation ChevronTexaco Corporation Home Wireless Networks, Inc. Northern Telecom, Inc. Ultracom Communications, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. Honeywell Foundation Northern Telecom Limited Union Camp Corp. Charitable Trust Clay Elementary School Honeywell Home & Business Control Northpark 600 Associates, LLC Union Carbide Corporation College of Computing Honeywell International, Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation United Technologies Corporation ComEd Honeywell Military Avionics Division NOVA-Borealis Compounds LLC Uptronix, Inc. Community Fdtn. - Greater Atlanta HRL Laboratories, LLC Now & Again, Inc. Usenix Association Compaq Computer Corporation Hughes Aircraft Company ON Semiconductor Video Networks, Inc. Compass Technology Co., Ltd. IBM Corporation Online Comp. Library Center, Inc. Virginia Power/North Carolina Power Conexant Systems IBM International Foundation Optical Society of America Visteon Automotive Systems CONTEC Microelectronics IEEE Oscar P. Cleaver Trust Wireless Data Communication Convergence Systems, Inc. IEEE Foundation, Inc. PGA Tour, Inc. Wisconsin Power and Light Company Cooper Power Systems IEEE/ISCAS 96 Phoenix International, Inc. Xilinx, Inc. Cox Communications, Inc. Impaq Micro, Inc. Photon Dynamics Yokogawa Corporation of America Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Indium Corporation of America Pirelli Cable, Fiber Optic Division Yurie Systems, Inc. Delphi Automotive Systems Infineon Technologies Pirrelli Cable Corporation Zenith Electronics Corp. DeTeSystem Inglett & Stubbs Procter & Gamble Company

4 Individual Donors

Mr. Ernest W. Accorsi, Jr. Mr. Andrew G. Drexler Mr. Bill Knittel Mr. Jerry Rhea Mrs. Phyllis H. Adams Mr. Robert S. Duggan, Jr. Mrs. Judy L. Koontz Dr. W. T. Rhodes Mr. C. Dean Alford Ms. Jean M. Echols Harold S. Lanier Dr. Vernon T. Rhyne Mr. Antonio R. Alvarez H. Allen Ecker, Ph.D. Mr. W. Walter LaRoche III Mr. Marvin O. Richter Mr. & Mrs. William G. Anderson Mr. Thomas A. Edwards Mr. Thomas R. Lee Mr. Glen P. Robinson, Jr. Mr. William T. Andrade Mr. Everett H. Ehrhart Dr. Robert N. Lehrer Dr. George Rodrigue Professor Mario N. Armenise Phillip J. Enslen, M.D. Ms. D. H. Leib Donald A. Rolader, Attorney Mr. Gene Asher Mrs. Anna-Lise Farmer Mr. Mark Leib Mr. Guy Woodford Sackett, Jr. Ms. Sharon K. Austin Ms. Lisa Farmer Mr. Jesus Leon Ms. Deeanne A. Safford Mr. & Mrs. Antoine H. Ayoub Mr. Peter Farmer Robert G. Loewy, Ph.D. Mr. Curt Sampson Mr. Brian M. Banner R. Screven Farmer, M.D. Ms. Helen B. Loftin Mr. and Mrs. Lee W. Saperstein Mr. Tommy W. Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Lyle D. Feisel Mr. John Logue Dr. William E. Sayle, II Mr. John G. Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Saul Feldman Ms. Judith Lorier Dr. Ronald W. Schafer Samuel C. Barnett, Ph.D. Mr. Orlando J. Feorene Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Lundy Ms. Frances Scovil Dr. John R. Barry Mr. Jose M. Fernandez Mr. Kenneth E. MacKenzie Mr. David A. Sedacca Mr. Steve A. Barton Mr. Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. Mr. Lynn C. Maddox Ms. Carol Lee Shankel Mr. J. Larry Batts Ms. Bette M. Finn Dr. Fran ois J. Malassenet Mr. Glenn R. Sheeley Mr. Warren L. Batts Ms. Celia E. Finn Mr. Philip J. Malonson Mr. J. Harold Shepherd, Sr. Mr. Russell T Beason, Jr. James D. Foley, Ph.D. Mr. Louis J. Martin, II Mr. Gary W. Shertenlieb, Jr. Mr. Gregory A. Beck Mr. and Mrs. R. Rogers Fouracre Mr. Joseph E. Mayes, Jr. George J. Simitses, Ph.D Mr. Ray M. Beck Mrs. Pattie B. Frierson Mr. William Y. McCaslin, Jr. Mr. Frank W. Smith Ms. Heather S. Bellville Ltc. James W. Furlow (Ret) Mr. James D. McKinney, Jr. Mr. Henry H. Smith Mr. Richard L. Bestwick Dr. Allen K. Garrison Michael R. McQuade, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. James Allan Smith Ms. Elizabeth T. Bisher Dr. Thomas K. Gaylord Mr. Ben R. McRee Dr. Mark J. T. Smith Mr. James Furman Bisher Don P. Giddens, Ph.D. Dr. James D. Meindl Mr. Francis N. Spears Mr. Roger C. Bisher Mr. Jeffrey V. Giglio Dr. A. P. Meliopoulos Mr. Joel S. Spira Ms. Minnie Echols Black Dr. Jamie J. Goode Mr. Wayne G. Melton Mr. John C. Staton, Jr. Mr. Joseph Bordogna Mr. W. S. Griffin Dr. Russell M. Mersereau Mr. Robert L. Steed Dr. Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Mr. Bertman E. Gruters Mrs. Shirley C. Mewborn Mr. Stefan V. Stein Mr. Thomas J. Boyle Mr. Richard R. Gunter Mrs. Anne T. Minter James R. Stevenson, Ph.D. Ms. Suzy Briggs Ms. Ozgur Gurbuz Ms. Margaret M. Mitchell Ms. Dodie Stockton Mrs. Evelyn D. Browder Mr. Thomas B. Gurley Mr. M. George Mitchell, III Mr. James A. Stratigos, Jr. Mrs. Lynda D. Buescher Mr. Jerrier A. Haddad Mr. Russell H. Mitchell Dr. Kendall L. Su Dr. Rob Butera Mr. Joseph L. Hammond, Jr. Mr. A. Raymond Moore Ms. Lee G. Suddath Dr. George L. Cain Jr. Mrs. Pauline B. Hampton Mr. R. Scott Moore Mr. C. Meade Sutterfield Mr. W. Cothran Campbell Mr. James K. Harper, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Moran Mr. Peter Sypher Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Canaris Mrs. Naomi B. Harper Mr. George A. Morris, Jr. Mr. Aleksander Szlam Mr. Dennis A. Carr Mr. Albert E. Harrison Mrs. Linda M. Murray Joe L. Trantham M.D. Mr. James R. Carreker Mr. Harold W. Harrison Mr. Larry G. Nelson Mr. Hal B. Tucker Mr. R. H. Carswell, Jr. Mrs. Irene Harrower Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D. Mr. Jon Tim Tucker Mr. Victor C. Cauthen Mr. Paul R. Haugen Mr. Joseph P. North Mr. Michael T. Tuley Mr. Steve W. Chaddick Mr. Bill F. Hensley Mr. George M. Nottingham, Jr. Ms. Kristin S. Turgeon Mrs. Vickie Chambers Dr. David R. Hertling Mrs. Nancy L. Nuckols Mrs. Paul E. Turrentine Mr. Jim Clarkson Mr. Gerald N. Hill, Sr. Mr. Hugh P. Nunnally, Jr. Mr. Robert O. Usry Mr. J. Philip Cleaveland Ms. Jane P. Hill Mr. Eric J. Ochiltree Dr. George Vachtsevanos Col. Oscar P. Cleaver Ms. Brenda M. Hiskey Dr. Demetrius T. Paris Mr. Harry L. Vann Mr. David A. Cleghorn Dr. W. Timothy Holman Mrs. Elsie E. Paris Mr. Michael G. Vasilos David S. Clifton, Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Edward G. Holmes Dr. John B. Peatman Dr. Carl M. Verber Mr. Michael A. Coleman John W. Hooper, Ph.D. Ms. Maxene L. Pentecost Mr. W. Ashley Verlander Mr. William A. Coley Mr. Lawrence P. Huang Dr. Andrew F. Peterson Col. Dewey W. Waddell Mr. & Mrs. Henry T. Collinsworth Mrs. Kerry M. Hughes Mr. Claude A. Petty, Jr. Yolanda Wallace Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Connelly Dr. Mary A. Ingram Charles L. Phillips, Ph.D. Mrs. Lee Walburn Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Cook John J. Jarvis, Ph.D. Mrs. Aurelia Pinkston Ms. Susannah S. Watson Mr. Thomas A. Coonan Ms. Kristal S. Jennings Mr. William J. Pinkston Dr. Roger P. Webb Mr. William L. Cooper Mr. Alton P. Jensen Mrs. Barbara Ann Pippin Mr. John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Mr. James M. Crawford Mr. Hugh V. Johnson Dr. John E. Pippin Mrs. Constance C. Welte Mr. Ralph H. Daily Ms. Pat Johnston Mr. Thomas C. Place Dr. Thomas M. White, Jr. Mrs. Mary Kay Daly Ms. Cornelia G. Jolly Mr. Randall E. Poliner Mr. S. Dale Wilkes Mr. Edward E. David, Jr. Mr. Ezra B. Jones, III Mr. Edwin Pope Mr. Thomas M. Williams III Mr. Clayton J. Davis Dr. Edward B. Joy Mrs. Paulette R. Price Mr. Monroe J. Willner John H. Davis, Ph.D. Dr. Edward W. Kamen Mr. Ralph W. Pries Mr. Raymond Willoch Mr. Robert G. Dawson Mrs. Tommie D. Kay Mrs. Sheryl S. Prucka Ms. Denise Wilson Ms. Louise P. Day Mr. W. Joe Kelly Dr. Hans B. P ttgen Mr. LeRoy A. Woodward Mr. Howard G. Dean, Jr. Dr. Richard P. Kenan Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rand Mr. Luis M. Zuniga, Jr. Dr. Stephen L. Dickerson Mr. A. T. Kersich Mr. Edward K. Reedy Mrs. Linda L. Dobbins Mrs. Parrie Kiefer Mr. Carl J. Reith Mr. Roy L. Doyal, Jr. Mr. Eric S. King Mr. Raymond H. Reynolds Jr.

5 Students Campaign Celebratio

ADVISORY BOARD Over 60 master s and Ph.D. students in ECE will On Friday, April 20, 2001, Georgia Tech MEMBERS 2000-2001 be recipients of Texas Instruments Fellowships celebrated the success of the Capital Campaign Rodney Adkins 81, 83 in Analog In- IBM with an Institute wide celebration. The five- Antonio R. Alvarez 78, 79 tegrated Circuit Cypress Semiconductor year fundraising effort ended on December 31, C. Dean Alford* 76 Design. TI, the Allied Utility Network 2000. The Colleges and Schools throughout Michael B. Bartlett 76 leading com- Texas Instruments pany in the campus hosted activities during the lunch hour. Michael J. Buckler 71, 71 Lucent Technologies analog/mixed ECE hosted a lunch catered by the Varsity on James R. Carreker 69 Aspect Communications signal market, the front lawn of the Van Leer Building for all Steve W. Chaddick 74, 82 not only pro- CIENA Corporation alumni and corporate contributors to the Michael A. Coleman 82 vided over $2.2 million to fund the fellowships; School s fund raising effort. This was an Coleman Technologies, Inc. they provided mentoring and internships for the H. Allen Ecker 57, 59 opportunity for students, faculty and staff to Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. fellows, making the program an example of a true R.M.G. Frame meet and thank many of the donors to the NorTel partnership between industry and academia. Scott Madigan 79 Campaign. The lunch was followed by a Mini- Future Networks Michael R. McQuade 80 University , which included two sessions focused E.I. duPont de Nemours Furman Bisher, senior Shirley Mewborn 56 sports columnist for The on classroom instruction and campus tours. Southern Engineering Company Atlanta-Journal Constitu- Joe Neel 68 ON Semiconductor tion, honored his son s E. Jock Ochiltree 70 memory by establishing the Sharewave Randall E. Poliner 77 Roger C. Bisher Scholarship. Antares Capital Corporation When Roger first entered John W. Pope 69, 70 ducation Southern Company Services Georgia Tech, he studied E Richard A. Snelling Home Networks, Inc. electrical engineering. He Real world experience requires real world tools. C. Meade Sutterfield 72 soon told his father, I al- SSPCS Corporation Cadence Design Systems and Altera Corporation ready know all of that. I need to learn how to *Chair provided the tools run a business, so he switched his major to to enable ECE industrial management and graduated in 1977. students to get The Roger C. Bisher Scholarship will be award- hands-on experi- ed to a junior in electrical or mechanical engineer- ence in the class- ing who demonstrates Roger s inventive spark room. Cadence s and entrepreneurial spirit. gift of 450 sets of their electronic Jim Carreker, BEE 69, established the James R. design software was valued at over $4.4 million. Carreker Distinguished Lecture Series which took Altera donated 250 sets of software and supporting place for the first hardware with a value of $1.78 million. time on October 12, 2000. Gene Prof. Tom Barnwell looks Frantz, Texas In- over new computer systems struments Senior provided by the Hewlett- Fellow and Busi- Packard Company for use ness Development in ECE classrooms and lab- Manager for the oratories. HP provided grants Digital Signal Jean-Lou Chameau, Provost, and Carreker at the reception following of almost $3 million to bring Processing Semi- the lecture. advanced technology to the conductor Group, classroom. Their support also was the inaugural speaker and held a captive enables faculty to develop audience of students, alumni, and faculty in his new materials and methods for the delivery of discussion of Engineering a Better World with education in a high tech educational environment. DSP and Analog Technology.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AWARDS

The College of Engineering has established three awards to honor outstanding alumni.

Engineering Hall of Fame Membership for the highest honor that can be bestowed on College of Engineering alumni is reserved for indi- viduals who have made sus- tained and meritorious engi- neering and/or managerial contributions during their careers.

Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni Membership is reserved for individuals whose contribu- tions to Georgia Tech, the engineering profession and field, and/or society have brought distinction to them- selves and the Institute.

Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Membership is reserved for alumni under 40 years of age who have demonstrated out- standing professional achieve- ments.

ECE is seeking nominations for these awards. Please send names to: Dr. Hans B. P ttgen School of ECE Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 Center Support Almost 50 industrial Georgia Power, members, working in with a $4.2 million concert with Georgia Tech donation of land, and the National Science buildings, and Foundation, make the equipment, helped Packaging Research ECE launch the Center one of the largest National Electric and most successful Energy Testing, partnerships at Georgia Research, & Ap- Tech. PRC is tasked with plications Center. helping to develop the NEETRAC is cur- next generation of rently supported system-on-a-package by 19 industry microelectronics, em- members and does phasizing improvements in size, cost, reliability, pre-competitive research for the electric power and functionality. industry and its suppliers as well as member specific projects.

7 Faculty/Staff News ECE Faculty and Staff Win Top Institute and Nationwide Honors

Six faculty members and one staff employee from ECE received top Institute awards at the annual Georgia Tech Faculty/Staff Honors Moad Retires after Long Luncheon, making ECE the most honored academic unit at this year s event. Congratulations to our award winners! Phillip E. Allen, Tenure of Dedicated Outstanding Continuing Education Award; W. Russell Callen, Class Service of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award; J. Alvin Connelly, Outstanding Service Award; Joy Laskar, Outstanding Faculty Leadership Mohamed F. Moad retired on May for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants; Vijay K. Madisetti, 31, ending a full-time, 46-year as- Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor; James D. Meindl, Distinguished sociation with ECE. Thirty-eight of Professor Award; Dean Sutter, Outstanding Staff Performance Award. those years were spent teaching Robert J. Butera, Jr. received a James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st graduate and undergraduate courses Century Scientist Award for hybrid complex systems—a case study in circuits, systems, and controls using neuronal dynamics. to approximately 20,000 students. W. Russell Callen, Jr. received the El Paso Energy Award for Faculty Dr. Moad also attended Georgia Tech and earned Achievement for exceptional dedication as an educator and mentor. both his bachelor s and master s degrees in 1957 Jeffrey A. Davis received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER and his Ph.D. in 1961, all in electrical engineering. Award for interconnect dominant ULSI (ultra large-scale integrated) For a brief period, he worked for the Syrian Broad- designs: a new paradigm for 21st century IC design and education. casting Service and then returned to Georgia Tech as a faculty member in 1963, where he spent his Faramarz Fekri received a NSF CAREER Award for finite-field wavelets entire academic career. After retirement, Dr. Moad for cryptography and error control coding. A first-year assistant will teach part-time with ECE. professor in ECE, Dr. Fekri also received the Sigma Xi Outstanding The good news is that Mo will continue to Doctoral Thesis Award for his dissertation entitled Finite-field Wavelet teach. The bad news is that he won t be doing it as Transforms and Their Application to Error Control Coding. He was much, said ECE Chair Roger P. Webb. During his co-advised by Russell M. Mersereau and Ronald W. Schafer. long tenure at Georgia Tech, he has been a mainstay Thomas K. Gaylord received the honorary, professional degree in in the instructional program in circuits. Mo is best physics from the University of Missouri-Rolla at their spring 2001 characterized by his dedication to the profession, commencement exercises. Dr. Gaylord received his B.S. in physics in by his sincere interest in and caring for his students, 1965 and M.S. in electrical engineering in 1967 from the University. and his unfailing good humor. The other bad news Nan Marie Jokerst was named a Fellow of the Optical Society of is that I now move to the top of the geriatric list America (OSA) for hybrid integration of optoelectronics onto hosts of faculty. such as silicon CMOS circuits and polymers, with application to interconnections and computation. ECE now has four OSA Fellows on its current faculty. Jackson, Nowell W. Marshall Leach, Jr. was recognized as Professor of the Month by Retire from ECE Posts Lambda Sigma, the sophomore student honor society at Georgia Tech. John B. Peatman received the Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu wo longstanding staff members, Joseph F. Outstanding Teacher Award, which is decided by a majority vote of Jackson and James I. (Buddy) Nowell, have the ECE senior class. Dr. Peatman is a three-time recipient of this honor. recently retired from ECE. William E. Sayle received the 2001 American Society for Engineering Mr. Jackson (BIMgt 65, MIMgt 72) was ECE s Education ECE Meritorious Service Award for outstanding service to director for operations and assistant to the chair for the electrical and computer engineering education community, including 17 years, where he managed 75 staff members and five years as editor of The Interface newsletter. supervised operational and fiscal activities. Prior to working in ECE, he was assistant to the dean of the Paul G. Steffes received the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Government Georgia Tech College of Sciences and Liberal Studies Professor of the Year Award. and an assistant auditor in the Business Office. Linda M. Wills received a NSF CAREER Award for automated software After spending seven years at the Georgia Tech understanding for retargeting embedded image processing software Research Institute, Mr. Nowell came to ECE in 1989, for data parallel execution. where he most recently worked as a mechanical technician III, servicing the School s equipment needs in its labs, classrooms, and offices.

8 Three New Faculty Join ECE

W. Alan Doolittle May Named as ECE Associate Chair Assistant Professor BEE 89 and PhDEE 96, Georgia Institute of Technology Gary S. May (BEE 85) has been named ECE associate chair for Faculty Area: Microsystems Development and Operations, and the transition to his new duties Before joining the academic faculty began on June 1, 2001. Dr. May will replace J. Alvin Connelly, who in January 2001, Dr. Doolittle was will retire from full-time teaching and research on December 1, 2001. a research engineer in ECE from 1996-2000. His Alvin Connelly has established exemplary, standard setting faculty research interests include wide bandgap semicon- reappointment, promotion, tenure, and post-tenure processes within ductor materials and devices, microelectronic de- ECE, said ECE Chair Roger P. Webb. I have full confidence in Gary vice/circuit fabrication, and radio frequency power May s abilities to manage these and other personnel retention and electronic devices. Dr. Doolittle has pioneered the development activities effectively. development of nitride-based devices on novel A widely recognized leader in the advancement of women and substrate materials, which have facilitated ground minorities in science, engineering, and technology, Dr. May coordinates breaking material and device improvements. the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science Program (SURE) at Georgia Tech, an initiative designed to attract qualified Christiana B. Honsberg minority students into graduate school in engineering and science. Associate Professor He also chairs the national advisory board for the National Society BEE 86, MSEE 89, and PhDEE 92, of Black Engineers. University of Delaware Dr. May is internationally known for his research in computer- Areas: Electric power, microsystems, aided manufacturing of integrated circuits, and he participates in the and optics and photonics Packaging Research Center, Microelectronics Research Center, and Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, Dr. Yamacraw. He graduated with his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University Honsberg was a senior lecturer in the School of of California at Berkeley in 1987 and 1991, respectively. Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She also served as director of academic studies at the Key Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering, associate director of the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility, and associate director for Buried Contact Program at the Photovoltaics Special Research Centre. The Schlag Appointed to New Buried Contact solar cell is the most successfully commercialized new solar cell technology in the ECE Position last decade.

Linda Milor ay H. Schlag was appointed as ECE associate chair for Associate Professor Operations, effective June 1, 2001, a position that oversees ECE BS Engineering Physics 82 and facility and financial operation issues that impact almost 300 full- PhDEE 92, University of California time faculty and staff and more than 2,600 students. at Berkeley Jay will assume responsibility for ECE facility planning, which Area: Microsystems currently involves nine separate buildings and will eventually include Before joining the ECE faculty, Dr. our transitions into the Advanced Computer Technology Building and Milor was the device engineering manager at the Yamacraw Design Center, said ECE Chair Roger P. Webb. He Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Submicron Devel- will also coordinate the development of processes and software tools opment Center. She was also a lecturer and assistant that provide critical support to our research project and instructional professor at the University of Maryland at College accounting functions. Park. A recipient of several industry mentoring A member of the ECE faculty for 34 years, Dr. Schlag s research awards, Dr. Milor has published papers on yield interests are in computer applications, computer aided design, and modeling, yield enhancement, circuit performance neural networks. He received his B.S.E.E. from Duke University in prediction, analog integrated circuits testing, and 1960 and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1967, statistical modeling. respectively.

9 Alumni News

E. Calvin Johnson, BEE 47, is vice president of Ehud Weizman, MSEE 82, was appointed vice engineering for UBC, Inc. in Tampa, FL. The com- president and general manager of Sitara Networks, pany areas of emphasis include twist-Cassegrain Asia Pacific Operations in Hong Kong. antennas for threat simulation and Fourier processing of radar imagery. Steve Richeson, BEE 84, is CEO of RF Solutions, an ATDC start-up founded by Georgia Tech faculty Ervin Y. Eaker, BEE 52, received the Silver Bowl members Joy Laskar and Carl Rust. The company Award for 10,000 hours as a volunteer at The Fort designs RF integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband Lauderdale Veterans Administration Clinic. He is wireless modems. retired from Florida Power and Light, an Air Force Reservist, and a World War II veteran. Kenneth Atchinson, BEE 87, is currently an assis- tant professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in the Bruce D. Smith, BEE 52, is retired and living in Math/Computer Science Department. He is teaching New Hampshire. He skis and snowshoes in the freshman and senior level courses in computer winter, and he golfs in the summer and shoos away science, while working on his Ph.D. in computer the black flies in the spring. Mr. Smith says, My science at Kent State University. years at Tech were great years, and my co-op experience was super. Now I am enjoying the fruits James E. Dunning, MSEE 90, is an engineer with of all those labors. Motorola, Inc. in Austin, TX. William E. Lee, BEE 56, is really retired after Ajit B. Kahaduwe, BEE 91, joined Avian Commu- spending 27 years in the U.S. Army, ending his nications in Malborough, MA as a senior product military career as a Colonel. He then worked for manager. five years with a peacekeeping force in Rome, Italy Kimberly E. Newman, BEE 92, MSEE 94, PhDEE and five years with Grumman Aerospace, working 99, is an assistant professor of electrical engineering for NASA on the Space Station. Mr. Lee is now in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the selling electrical contacts to industry as a retirement Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. job through Bill Lee - Distributor, Your Contact People, Inc. in Huntsville, AL. Matthew Clark, BCmpE 95, MSEE 97, took a job with Nortel Networks in North Carolina as an ASIC Dr. Ronald Bower, BEE 63, is a board certified engineer designing ICs for Nortel s fiber optic module pulmonary/critical care/geriatric medicine specialties components business line. physician in Largo, FL. Ziaul J. Huq, MSEE 95, worked for Texas Instru- Joseph L. Braun, MD, JD, and MPH, BEE 72, is ments, Houston, TX upon graduation. He then went an assistant professor in EM MED at George Wash- to work for Cisco in Chelmsford, MA, followed by ington University. He is also teaching biotechnology, IBM s wireless division in San Diego, CA. Mr. Huq intellectual property, and health law courses. now works for Openwave Communications, and Emory McGinty, BSEE 73, is the director of engi- he has started his own company, Almaden Commu- neering for Scientific Atlanta. nications, Inc. in San Jose, CA. Mr. Huq s company implements turnkey financial network solutions. Thomas Middlebrooks, BEE 74, is the manager of electrical design for Jordan, Jones, and Goulding, Vivek Maddala, BEE 95, took a job as an analog/RF Inc. in Norcross, GA. design engineer at Tektronix in Portland, OR, after receiving his Georgia Tech degree. At the same Lt. Gen. Wijit Chairerk, MSEE 75, is the director time, he was building a career as a solo jazz and for space and technology for the Ministry of Defense pop musician, working with jazz artist Gino Vannelli in Bangkok, Thailand. on projects for Polygram Records and Paramount Pictures. In June 1997, Mr. Maddala was hired by Stanley R. Fory, BCmpE 76, is a member of the the rock band, Boston, to release the Greatest Hits technical staff for BellSouth Telecommunications album and embarked on a U.S. tour with the group. in Birmingham, AL. He now lives in San Francisco, CA, where he works

10 as an electrical engineer at Dolby Laboratories, Ravi Poddar, PhDEE 98, is working as the EDA developing new movie-related audio technologies. manager in the VLSI Division of Transmeta Corpo- He also owns a music production company and ration in Santa Clara, CA. state-of-the-art recording facility, Tadcaster Studios. Tadcaster has offices in Hollywood and San Fran- Gregory Martin, BEE 99, MS ECE 00, is a hardware cisco, where Mr. Maddala is composing music for engineer for Tektronix in Beaverton, OR. film and television. Tamara L. Tubbs, MSECE 99, has worked at Intel Dwayne Hunter, BEE 96, is a NTAC Engineer for for a year. She recently moved to New Mexico to Sprint in Atlanta, GA. assist in hiring a new software team after finishing her previous assignment of marketing Windows CE Jeong-Bong (J.-B.) Lee, PhDEE 97, received a device drivers. Ms. Tubbs is currently a software National Science Foundation CAREER Award for engineer with the position of technical testing lead, massive replication of RF/microwave MEMS passives in which she develops more in-depth programming. modules. He is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. La Shavous Ashmon, BEE 00, is a product engineer with Murata Electronics North America. Craig Scott Smith, MSECE 97, is a captain in the U.S. Army, but plans to leave this fall and possibly Antonio Gentile, PhDEE 00, recently started as return to Atlanta. an assistant professor in the Department of Auto- matics and Computer Science (DIAI) at the University Bill Worley, BEE 97, is an engineer with Plantronics of Palermo, Italy. in Chattanooga, TN. Darnell Moore, PhDEE 00, is working in the Vision Elizabeth Chase Dunbar, BEE 98, is a systems Systems Branch of Texas Instruments DSP R&D engineer with Siemens Energy and Automation in Center, developing a line of intelligent networked Alpharetta, GA. camera systems as a member of the technical staff. Tae Seon Kim, PhDEE 98, is a senior research Ye Chen, MSECE 01, is currently a senior engineer engineer with Samsung Electronics Company in for Motorola in the Wireless Access and Physical South Korea. Interface Lab in Schaumburg, IL. Clarence Lucas, MSECE 99, is a software develop- ment manager for Coremetrics in Austin, TX.

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11 Student News

Thirteen ECE students received awards and special Timothy Stoneman, Ryan Thompson, and Alex- recognition at Georgia Tech s Student Honors Day ander Yin each received an ECE Outstanding Program on April 17. They are: Melinda Agyekum Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the annual and Parina Shah, the Georgia Tech Alumni Asso- ECE Spring Picnic on April 20. ciation Student Leadership Award for International Study; Amer Hani Atrash, Paul B. Hultz, and James Hoffman won first place at the January William L. Plishker, the ECE Senior Scholar Award; 2001 National Radio Science Meeting Student Paper Philip D. Black, the Outstanding ECE Senior Award; Competition for Laboratory Measurements of the Brian Patrick Boyd, the Outstanding ECE Sopho- Microwave Opacity of Phosphine: Opacity Formalism more Award; Heather L. Jegel, the ECE Faculty and Application to the Atmospheres of the Outer Award; Chung-Tse Mar and David Richard Reid, Planets. He also received an award for the same the Henry Ford II Scholar Award; Lawrence Edward paper at the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competi- McDonald, the Robert Engineering Award; Cody tion, which was sponsored by Science Applications Rowan, the William Gilmer Perry Award; and Rajiv International Corporation. Mr. Hoffman s advisor is Saigal, the Women s Student Union Annual Make Paul G. Steffes. a Difference Award. Nathan Bushyager and Brian McGarvey received Ghassan AlRegib, Yun-Hui Fan, Wesley Gee, the Best Student Paper Award for Adaptive Numer- Shirlan Johnson, Arden Huang, Wiehan Le ical Modeling of RF Structures Requiring the Coupling Roux, Shaw Li, Chris Nee, David W. Peters, of Maxwell s, Mechanical, and Solid-State Equations at the 2001 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Conference. Their advisor is Emmanouil M. Tentz- eris.

Georgia Tech Ranked among Best Joong-Ho Kim won the Best Student Paper Award Graduate Engineering Programs in U.S. for Modeling of Irregular Shaped Power Distribution Networks Using the Transmission Matrix Method at the Ninth Topical Meeting on Electrical Perfor- Georgia Tech s College of Engineering maintained its powerful national mance of Electronic Packaging, held in October stature, placing fifth in the 2002 graduate school rankings from U.S. 2000. His advisor is Madhavan Swaminathan. News & World Report. In rating the various engineering disciplines, electrical engineering Deukhyoun Heo received the Best Student Paper tied for sixth with the California Institute of Technology, and computer Award for An Improved Deep Sub-micron MOSFET engineering ranked twelfth. Georgia Tech s biomedical/bioengineering RF Non-linear Model with New Breakdown Current Model and Drain to Substrate Nonlinear Coupling program, an initiative in which ECE faculty members are also quite at the 2000 International Microwave Symposium. active, tied for sixth with the University of Washington. His advisor is Joy Laskar.

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