KUDOS
People associated with the Department won a variety of awards
and honors. Congratulations to all of them!
Sivaprasad Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Professor Sivaprasad was recently awarded a Fulbright
fellowship for the 1997-98 academic year. This fellowship will allow him to
spend the academic year as a visiting faculty member at the Technical University
of Budapest in Hungary. The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at UNH
has for several years been involved in a successful student exchange program
with TUB, directed by Professor Rucinski of the ECE Department.
Brown and Kirk Receive Summer Fellowships
ECE Department graduate students Garry Brown and Brian Kirk were
both awarded UNH Summer Fellowships for Graduate Teaching Assistants for the
summer of 1997. The UNH Graduate School’s Student Fellowship Committee awards
these fellowships each year to outstanding TAs to allow them to pursue their
thesis research full-time during the summer.
Brown Receives CEPS Outstanding TA Award
ECE Department graduate student Garry Brown received the 1996-97
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Award. This award is given each year to an outstanding TA in CEPS based on the
votes of undergraduate students within the college.
Rucinski Appointed to EOS Faculty
Professor Rucinski was formally appointed to the faculty of the
UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space following a vote by the
EOS faculty. Professor Rucinski has actively collaborated with EOS in research
and education in recent years, particularly with the faculty of the Small
Satellite Laboratory.
LaCourse Chairs 23rd Annual IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference
Professor LaCourse chaired the 23rd Annual IEEE Northeast
Bioengineering Conference that was held at the New England Center on the UNH
campus in May. Professors Carter, Drake, Bernhard, Nahin, Chamberlin, and
Messner also participated in this conference, along with several ECE Department
students.
Milani Wins Best Paper Award
ECE Department graduate student Dino Milani won the best paper
award at the 10th Annual Conference on Small Satellites held in Logan, Utah on
September 17-19, 1996. His presentation was entitled "Design of a Low-Cost
Single-Board Computer System for Use in Low-Earth Orbit Small Satellite
Missions." The paper described a single-board computer system which is being
designed, built and tested by a team of graduate and undergraduate students at
UNH specifically to meet the demands of a new generation of small satellite
missions.
Miller, Kun and "Toddler" Appear on National TV
Professor Miller, ECE graduate student Andrew Kun (now Dr. Andrew
Kun), and their biped walking robot "Toddler" appeared in an episode of the
nationally syndicated television show Scientific American Frontiers
entitled Robots Alive! Articles discussing the UNH research on machine
learning applied to walking robots also appeared in Discover magazine and
several newspapers (as well as the 1996 edition of Signals and Noise).
Pfeiffer Receives Duncan O’Brien Scholarship
Scott Pfeiffer, an ECE Department senior, was selected to receive
the 1996-97 Duncan O’Brien Scholarship from the New England Section of the
Illumination Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).
Bernhard Receives Outstanding Teacher Award
Professor Bernhard received the 1996-97 Outstanding Teacher Award
- Electrical Engineering. The New Hampshire Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi gives
this award each year.
Canfield, Fitch, Larson, and Smith Received Awards at IEEE 23rd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference
John Canfield took 2nd place honors, George Fitch took
3rd place honors, and Kipp Larson and Wayne Smith received honorable
mentions in the Whitaker Foundation-sponsored Student Paper Competition of the
IEEE 23rd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
Brown Granted Funding from UNH's Hubbard Endowment Fund for Sustainability
Garry Brown, an ECE Department graduate student, submitted two
successful project proposals to UNH's Hubbard Endowment Fund for Sustainability.
One project involves the development of a portable demonstration of solar
electric energy conversion and utilization, while the other concerns
establishment of a "bicycle taxi" service on the UNH campus