fall/winter 2002 · 2 wavelinks fall/winter 2002 kudos for ece ece faculty and staff members...

❖ ECE’s New Head❖ The Quest for Peace

in the Middle East❖ HKN is Wired to Win

❖ The Campaign forPurdue ECE

Fall/Winter 2002

Departmental Notes2. Kudos for ECE4. New Faculty Members Bring Diverse Research, Experience

Features10. Purdue Appoints New ECE Head14. HKN: Wired to Win18. ECE Alumnus Negotiates for Peace in the Middle East22. The Campaign for Purdue ECE

Gifts26. ECE Honor Roll 2001-200228. ECE Seniors Raise Top Pledges at Purdue30. One Hundred-Year Family Legacy Inspires Gift to Purdue33. Professor Holds Giving Record35. ECE Researching Methods to Optimize the Internet

Alumni39. ECE Alumni Recognized as Old Masters40. Fenwick’s Fervor43. Alumni Notes44. ECE Student Wins Emmy Award45. Beering Receives Engineering Service Award47. Alums Offer Mirror Image Perspectives on Communications Industry

Reflections48. NASA Establishes Institute for

Nanoelectronics and Computing at Purdue48. Guest Editorial by Meyya Meyyappan

The following was inadvertently omitted from the spring/summer 2002 issue ofWavelinks: Fritz Friedlaender is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He alsoinitiated a program with the University of Ruhr-Bochum for education andexchange of students.

On the Cover:

Stop the Presses

Mark J. T. Smith, aprofessor of electrical

and computer engineeringand former executiveassistant to the presidentat the Georgia Institute ofTechnology, will take thehelm of ECE as the newhead on January 1, 2003(page 10).

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Kudos for ECEECE faculty and staff members receive honors,awards, and distinctions for their achievements.

Connie Boss was elected chair of the Clericaland Service Staff Advisory Committee (CSSAC) forthe 2002–2003 session. The CSSAC is a Universitycommittee founded in 1965 to provide an effectivemeans of communication between the clerical andservice staff and the University administration, andto champion the general welfare and workingconditions of its constituents.

Supriyo Datta and Mark Lundstrom receivedthe 2001 Technical Excellence Award from theSemiconductor Research Corporation at its Board ofDirector’s meeting in November 2002 for their“consistent contributions in the area of devicephysics and simulation of nano scale MOSFETs.”The SRC plans and manages a program of basicand applied university research on behalf of itsparticipating members.

Supriyo Datta and Mark Lundstrom also wereco-recipients of the 2002 IEEE Cledo BrunettiAward. Established in 1975 by the IEEE Board ofDirectors, the award is presented for outstandingcontributions in the field of miniaturization in theelectronic arts. The award will be presented duringthe 2002 IEEE International Electron DevicesMeeting in December.

Ed Delp received one of only six Nokia Fellow-ships from the Nokia Foundation for his work inmultimedia systems, video compression, and security.The award allowed him to travel to Finland andvisit the Nokia Research Laboratories and theTampere International Center for Signal Processingat the Tampere University in Tampere, Finland.

Delp was in good company when he received anhonorary doctoral degree from the Tampere Univer-sity of Technology in Finland; Paavo Lipponen,Finland’s prime minister, received the same honor.Delp was a visiting professor at the Finnishuniversity’s Tampere International Center for SignalProcessing. The citation stated Delp’s honorarydegree was issued “in recognition of your scientificwork in the field of signal and image processing and

your merits in the development of multimediasystems and the secure data communications theyrequire. You have also been engaged in long-termcooperation with our university and forwarded itsactivities within the international research commu-nity.”

Delp gave the plenary address at the Interna-tional Workshop on Digital and ComputationalVideo held in Clearwater, Florida on November 14-15, 2002. His talk was entitled: “Digital Cinema: IsThis Just Another Video Application?”

David Ebert was named editor-in-chief of theIEEE Transactions on Visualization and ComputerGraphics for a two-year appointment beginning inJanuary 2003.

Les Geddes was chosen for the AmericanCollege of Clinical Engineering Devteq Award. TheDevteq Award is given annually in recognition ofsignificant work in the area of safety as it relates tohealth care. His work has provided basic knowledgeof ventricular fibrillation, impedance measure-ments, electric shock, and electrosurgery.

Leah Jamieson received the Indiana Women &Hi Tech Leading Light Award in the Science,Technology, or Engineering Educator category. Theaward recognizes women’s achievements in scienceand technology and acknowledges women whodemonstrated expertise, professionalism, leadership,service, courage and tenacity in pursuing theirchosen career. Sue Ream, President, Board ofDirectors, Women & Hi Tech, said, “Women & HiTech consider it a great honor to present awards towomen like you who have demonstrated excellencein their careers in which technology has had animpact. Your achievements and accomplishmentswill very likely inspire other girls and women to settheir sights high in choosing and succeeding intechnology related careers. Truly, this is a way tohighlight the mission of our group: ‘ValuingWomen’s Achievements in a Technology DrivenWorld’.”

Jamieson was one of three keynote speakers atthe Institute for Women and Technology’s 4th annual

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computingconference. Jamieson spoke on “Engineering Com-munity, Passion and Balance.” The conference,inspired by the legacy of U.S. Navy Adm. GraceHopper, took place October 9-12, 2002 atVancouver, British Columbia, and is the world’slargest gathering of women in computing.

Kaushik Roy was invited to serve as a visitingprofessor at Nanyang Technological University inSingapore and will teach one month each year therefor the next three years.

Michael Zoltowski was selected to be a 2003Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Process-ing Society. There are six Distinguished Lecturerschosen each year to represent the Society by givinglectures on their research around the world. TheSociety’s Distinguished Lecturer program providesmeans for individuals who are well-known educa-tors and authors in the fields of signal processing tolecture at chapter meetings.

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the game in his new home. He also enjoys basket-ball and appreciates Indiana’s enthusiasm for it. Asfor traveling, he says, “My goal is to visit all 50states in the U.S.” He’s about a third of the way there.

He’s also eager to learn more about his new placeof residence. “I want to see how things are done inthe warm Midwestern way,” he says.

For now, his energies are focused on his new post.“It’s been a long-cherished dream of mine to

teach, to talk to young minds,” he says. “They arechallenging me, and I am challenging them as weboth travel on a voyage of discovery. That’s justwhat I have wanted.”

Bagchi came to the U.S. from India, where ahigh school experience creating a geographicaldiscovery system prompted his interest in computers.

“It seemed extremely cool to me. It was instantgratification. You could dive in and immediatelyrun it and know if you succeeded or failed,” he saysof the 1990 class software project that included a

Saurabh Bagchi: Writer,Sportsman, TravelerA creative writer, serious badminton player andavid traveler describe Saurabh Bagchi. He came toPurdue this fall from New York, where he workedthe last year and a half at the IBM T. J. WatsonResearch Center.

“My passion is reading and writing,” he says,and his goal is to publish a collection of his shortstories. Many of them center on displaced people asthey adapt to new cultures. In the stories, he says,his characters “slowly realize that very few thingsare absolute good or absolute bad, but are a func-tion of the local culture.” Writing a novel, too, issomething he may tackle one day.

For sport, Bagchi is a serious contender on thebadminton court and he hopes to spark interest in

New Faculty Members BringDiverse Research, ExperienceBy Kathy Mayer

With avocations ranging from photography to being a Dad, hailing from homelands as near as Indianaand as far as Iran, and with equally diverse research interests—from wearable computers to novel devices forhigh-frequency applications—six new faculty members bring their experiences to ECE this year. Thefollowing is a brief summary of backgrounds, educations, and research interests for each new faculty member;complete curriculum vitae are available on the ECE Web site at www.purdue.edu/ECE.


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New faculty membersare (left to right)Yung-Hsiang Lu,Saurabh Baghi,William Chappell,Saeed Mohammadi,and Samuel Midkiff.Not pictured: MithunaThottethodi.

graphical interface so users could learn about hisIndian state, West Bengal. “I could really let myimagination go. Computer science is typically notseen as an imaginative field, but this project showedme that in this field I could really be as imaginativeas I liked.”

He earned a bachelor’s in computer science andengineering from the Indian Institute of Technologyat Kharagpur, then headed to the University ofIllinois at Urbana/Champaign, where he earned amaster’s in 1998 and a PhD in 2000.

His research interests are in building depend-able, heterogeneous large-scale distributed systemsand using them to disseminate information.

He’s especially appreciative of the academicenvironment. “As a professor, I can take a com-pletely new thought and translate it into action and

William Chappell: Continuinga Family TraditionEven though Chappell earned his bachelor’s,master’s and PhD in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Michigan, black and gold are the colors

a prototype and a product. Even though it’s acliché, I feel ‘the sky is limit.’ And the freedom of anacademic institution is something I’ve come to valuegreatly.”

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Yung-Hsiang Lu: Random,Voracious ReaderSo enchanted is he with books and their potentialofferings, Yung-Hsiang Lu says, “Sometimes I go toa library and walk through the bookshelves, pickingout books and seeing what I get.” Reading was afavorite pastime growing up in Taiwan, too. So wastinkering. “My dad is an electrical technician andengineer, and when I was about three or four, Istarted getting experience with wires, screwdrivers,meters, oscilloscopes and those kinds of things,” Lurecalls. “I guess my dad gave me the experience notto fear this area. And my sister who is three yearsolder is an engineer, too.”

Another childhood interest that he continuestoday is sports. “I was a pretty good soccer playerand a fan. Since high school, I’ve developed aninterest in jogging and swimming, and sometimes Ienjoy tennis, badminton and bicycling.” For morepassive entertainment, he turns to classical music.He plays the piano “just a little,” preferring insteadto listen to recordings and sometimes going toconcerts.

worn at family reunions on his mother’s side of thefamily. Boilermakers in the family include his grand-father, William Johnson, most of his aunts and uncles,and, soon, the last of seven first cousins. His parentswent to IU, which at least put the whole family inthe Big Ten.

With his PhD completed this year, Chappell’sarrival in October at Purdue is sort of a homecom-ing, because his parents grew up outside TerreHaute, Indiana.

“I’m very excited to be part of Purdue’s tradi-tion,” he says. “For me, Purdue is a school thatdoes research and maintains its focus on education.That’s what drew me to Purdue—its balance ofboth—leading the world in research and givingundergraduates and graduates a great grasp ofconcepts. That’s the type of balance I look forwardto finding.”

He’ll spend from October to January setting up awireless circuit/electromagnetics lab with fellownewcomer, Saeed Mohammadi, whom he’s beenworking with at the University of Michigan. The labis an important adjunct to lecture, Chappell notes.He begins teaching in January.

“I’m a big believer in these laboratories. Inelectromagnetics, things are very theoretical, butwhen you are in a lab studying, you can see tangibleresults, and it really brings the concepts home,” he says.“And that excites students. They see the use of someof the theory that will obviously still be taught.”

An early hands-on experience that broughttheory to life for Chappell came during his highschool years, when his shop class built and drove anelectric car, winning Michigan’s statewide competi-tion. “The fact that it actually would run wasexciting, and also being able to drive something weput together from scratch.” The white one-seater,just a couple of inches off the ground, traveled at 70mph, running about two hours.

“Up to that point, I knew I was interested inscience, but I didn’t grow up taking things apart,and I wasn’t a gadget junky. But that really got meexcited. The car project was self-motivating.”

Spending his childhood playing soccer andbasketball and his college years rooting for the

University of Michigan hoopsters and competing inlong-distance races, William Chappell’s hobby canbe summed up in one word: sports.

“My main outlet is playing sports and going tosporting events,” he says. “I’m a bit of a sportsjunky.”

He turned his sleep schedule around to watchnighttime broadcasts of last summer’s soccer WorldCup. Basketball, too, is a favorite. “I like the speedand the quick decision-making, and watchingincredibly athletic people doing fairly amazingthings on the court.”


Samuel Midkiff: Model RocketCo-pilot with SonsWith a decade of industry experience and threeyoung sons, Samuel Midkiff is grounded in real-lifepracticality.

He’s been at the IBM Research Center in NewYork for the past 10 years, and he’s the father of

Lu graduated second in his class from NationalTaiwan University a decade ago, earning abachelor’s in electrical engineering. He then came tothe U.S., earning his master’s in 1996 and PhD in2002, both at Stanford University and both inelectrical engineering. He began teaching this fall atPurdue.

“I think education is very important,” he says.“During my own studies, I have had many goodteachers, so I want to be a good teacher.” Hebelieves teaching students to think critically is key,as is questioning. “I will emphasize hands-onexperience to examine carefully the relationshipbetween theory and practice.”

Another goal, he says, “I want to create technol-ogy to improve life. It’s important to improvesociety, to improve human life, and to make thingsaccessible for all people.” His research focuses onthree areas for designing energy-efficient systems—characterizing power consumption by studying theinteraction between subsystems, such as processors,memory and IO devices; building systems thatexploit different energy-performance options; andinvestigating alternative power sources, such assolar, vibration, thermal and hybrid energy.

Lu has an Indiana winter ahead as a new oppor-tunity, too. “I’ve experienced snow a few days, inCalifornia when I went skiing and once at a confer-ence in Michigan,” he says. But never an ice storm.

Danny, 9; Jack, 6; and Nathan, 3. He lets loose byflying model rockets and airplanes with his kids.“We fly those rubber-band powered things,” helaughs, most of them store-bought. “I do makesome, but not too often.”

When he hit campus this fall, it was with greatenthusiasm for a new way of living and work.Purdue was appealing not only for the opportuni-ties, but the location, he says. His wife’s family is inChicago; his, in Kentucky.

He’s looking forward to being able to do longer-term research than he could in industry, he says. “Ihope to get a good research program going incompilers and looking at ways to make compilersand tools easier to develop and easier for program-mers to use.”

Midkiff’s style is one of solving problems andcreating new ideas. “One of the things that makesme interested in computers and doing research istrying to figure things out and understand things.”

The first time he used a computer, Midkiff was acollege sophomore majoring in political science. “Iused punch cards. I took a computer course just forthe fun of it and ended up enjoying computerscience a lot, so I switched over.” He earned hisbachelor’s in 1982 from the University of Kentucky,then went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for his master’s, earned in 1986, andPhD, earned in 1992.

What he brings to academe from industry is anunderstanding that more than simply developingtechnology, you must make something that will sell.“It can’t just be something interesting, but it mustbe something useful, and sufficiently useful so thatit’s worth putting up the money, going throughtraining and switching the way they’re doing things.”

Another lesson he learned on the job is thatmanagers and marketers are useful. “In gradschool, I figured they were a necessary evil. Now, Ihave a better opinion of them,” he says.

“I hope to be a good teacher,” Midkiff says. Theclassroom atmosphere he’s striving to achieve is onethat’s energetic, interesting and spiced with a littlehumor. “I hope my students learn a lot and leavewell-qualified for the profession.”



Mithuna Thottethodi:Nature PhotographerMithuna Thottethodi owns eight cameras, and thatshould pretty well tell you how he enjoys spendinghis spare time. Rather than zooming in, he backs upfor wide-angle shots, capturing grand nature scenessuch as the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone NationalPark and the Grand Tetons.

As for those young sons, Midkiff says, “I hopethey’re better teenagers than I was. I really enjoyhaving three boys. They try my patience sometimes,but they surprise me with their cleverness and senseof humor, too.”

Saeed Mohammadi:A New Father“I hope I can learn as fast as she does,” SaeedMohammadi says of his two-year-old daughter,Raha, and his passion for spending time with her.“These days I play with my child when I have freetime. She likes to be outside, so I take her swim-ming and to the playground.”

Watching her learn can be amazing, he says.“She distinguishes two languages perfectly. At homeshe speaks Persian and at daycare she speaksEnglish. An interesting thing about her is that whenshe’s with the two of us, she speaks Persian. Whenthere are three or four people around, she realizesshe needs to speak a language everybody under-stands.”

His dream is a simple one—“To be very good atwhat I do. And everybody wants to be a goodperson. Same thing here.”

His interest in electrical engineering was moreevolutionary than life-long, Mohammadi says. “Iwasn’t one of those kids who invented a computerat age five. I was drawn to a trend at that time—ifyou could, you would go into electrical engineering.In Iran, you have to take an exam to enter college,and to get in you have to be really good. The bestchoice in science at that time was electrical engi-neering.”

He graduated from Iran University of Scienceand Technology, where Professor G.R. Lahijiinspired him in a class on electronic circuits and

solid state physics. “I hope to embrace some of hisstyle,” Mohammadi says. “The way he taught wasvery interesting. When he was ending a session, hewould provide a question that nobody knew theanswer to, so everyone would be curious, wonder-ing, ‘What is this?’ The next session, he wouldrepeat the question and then answer it. That wouldkeep everybody interested.”

Mohammadi then headed for Canada to earn hismaster’s at the University of Waterloo, then theUniversity of Michigan, where he earned his PhD in1999. He’s been doing postdoctoral work theresince.

This fall, he’s at Purdue, continuing his workwith William Chappell, who also came to Purduefrom Michigan this year. They’re setting up awireless circuit/electromagnetics lab. “We have beenworking on a project together, and we will continuethat at Purdue,” Mohammadi says.

He’d also like to focus on researching noveldevices for RF/optoelectronic applications; integra-tion and packaging; and Si-based MMICs usingadvanced Si processes.

One of his hopes is to encourage undergraduatesto stay on for graduate studies. “I want to bring anenthusiasm so they will stay at Purdue. There are alot of good students who go out of state. This is oneof my first goals.”


His favorite spot so far for photographingnature: Glacier National Park, because of the scaleof the canyons and the mountains.

“I like to visit national parks and beautifulplaces,” he says. And he preserves their grandeur onfilm, most in color but some in black-and-white.“I’m pretty serous about my photography,” heacknowledges.

It’s a hobby he started as a child in India. “Myfather is a good photographer. He made me read alot of books and learn the theory before he let mehandle the camera,” Thottethodi recalls.

Photography would not be his profession, how-ever. Thottethodi earned a bachelor’s in computerscience and engineering at the Indian Institute ofTechnology in 1996, and then came to Duke Uni-versity for his PhD, which he’ll finish this year. Hecomes to Purdue in January, 2003.

“Teaching and research, I enjoy it all,” he says.“Teaching is an important tool in the whole aca-demic tool bag. I like to get students to ask the rightquestions rather than get the right answers straightaway. It has a snowball effect. When students arefinding out things themselves, they get what youteach, and they will go out and learn more on theirown.”

In the teaching arena, he’s especially interestedin updating existing courses and developing newcourses at Purdue.

Thottethodi says his research interests are broad,primarily in the area of computer architecture,including processor, memory subsystem and inter-connection architectures. Currently, he’s focusing onhigh-performance interconnection networks andcommunication infrastructure for distributedarchitectures.

He knows firsthand the value of supplementinglecture with hands-on applications. “Most of mytinkering grew out of what I read. Reading caughtmy imagination, and I started tinkering with stuff.”

That led him to his career, and, he says, “I’mbetter at science and technology than humanitiesand literature.”

No one person is responsible for his careerchoice, he says. Instead, he was blessed with manygood influences.

“My classmates were a group of fine people Istudied with, played with and grew up with, andI’ve stayed in touch with many. And my parentshad a very strong influence,” he says. Both wereacademics in India, in the field of sociology.

“I had a very good set of teachers throughout myeducation,” he adds. An older sister also is anengineer, and he credits his wife, Seema Shankar,with great support, too.


Purdue Appoints New ECE HeadLeah Jamieson, Ransburg Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering, is serving as interimhead until Smith arrives on campus.

Smith comes to the University and the School atan opportune time. A five-year strategic plan is in

place (see our spring/summer 2002issue) and in September 2002,Purdue announced an unprec-edented one billion dollar capitalcampaign. “I was struck by thisadministration’s enterprising visionand its commitment to focus strate-gically on cross-disciplinary collabo-ration. This, in concert with Purdue’srenowned faculty and outstandingstudent body, makes joining theSchool of Electrical and ComputerEngineering extremely exciting forme.” As executive assistant to GeorgiaTech president Wayne Clough for

Mark J. T. Smith, a professor of electrical andcomputer engineering and former executiveassistant to the president at the Georgia

Institute of Technology, will take the helm of ECEas the new head on January 1, 2003.

“Dr. Smith was our top candi-date, and he will bring some freshideas to Purdue,” says Linda P. B.Katehi, the John A. EdwardsonDean of Engineering at Purdueand ECE professor. “He is aleading researcher in the field ofsignal processing, and his teachingrecord is outstanding.”

The position was vacated byKent Fuchs who left Purdue inJuly 2002 to become dean ofengineering at Cornell University.

“Being a leader in the newtechnological workplacerequires not only soundengineering skills andcreativity, but the ability towork in teams and tointeract in a multicultural,multidisciplinaryenvironment.”—Mark J. T. Smith

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four years, Smith was a prominent figure on cam-pus and interacted with all the Institute’s constitu-encies, including the alumni and athletic associa-tions, the Georgia Tech Foundation, the deans, thefaculty, and the students.

“I was fortunate to have had the recent experi-ence of being a part of Georgia Tech’s senior admin-istration during a time of unprecedented growth inresearch programs, educational initiatives, buildingconstruction, international outreach, and commer-cialization activities.

“Some of the initiatives were extremely ambi-tious for a school the size of Georgia Tech, like the$180 million Technology Square project, theestablishment of a logistics institute in Singapore,and the creation of more than 50 endowed chairpositions for eminent faculty scholars.”

The past six years has been a dynamic time inGeorgia Tech’s history. A $300 million capitalcampaign had just begun when Smith joined thepresident’s office—a campaign that raised $700million, more than doubling the original goal.

ECE plans to raise $125 million, an objectivewhich Smith plans to meet. “Purdue is exception-ally well positioned to make quantum strides overthe next five years. I look forward to working withthe ECE faculty, staff, and alums to move theSchool into the spotlight of preeminence.”

Smith calls ECE’s strategic plan an “excellentroadmap” and already has plans for actively engag-ing the alumni. “Over the next five years ECEintends to increase its faculty size by approximately40 percent, construct new state-of-the-art facilities,and build its endowment for scholarships, profes-sorships, research, and curriculum innovation,” hesays.

Smith is the first AfricanAmerican to head a PurdueSchool of Engineering.During his time servingin the Office of thePresident, Georgia

“I was struck by this administration’s enterprising vision and its commitment to focusstrategically on cross-disciplinary collaboration. This, in concert with Purdue’s renowned

faculty and outstanding student body, makes joining the School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering extremely exciting for me.”—Mark J. T. Smith



Tech became the nation’s top producer of AfricanAmerican engineers at the BS, MS, and PhD levels.Smith led the formation of a university coalition,EMERGE (Empowering Minority Engineers/Scientists to Reach for Graduate Education), thatencourages minority students to pursue graduatedegrees in engineering and science.

“Being a leader in the new technological work-place requires not only sound engineering skills andcreativity, but the ability to work in teams and tointeract in a multicultural, multidisciplinary envi-ronment,” Smith says.

Diversity and learning innovation are both majorpillars of the ECE strategic plan. Purdue is thebirthplace of the National Society of Black Engi-neers, home to strong minority engineering andwomen in engineering programs, and home to adiverse international student body. “These areimportant attributes that will allow us to furtherenrich the educational experience offered to all ofour students.”

Smith grew up in Queens, New York. In 1974, heentered MIT as a freshman, initially consideringbiomedical engineering as a major. In his sopho-more year, his interests switched to digital signalprocessing, which remained his area of concentra-tion throughout his educational career.

After obtaining a bachelor of science degree inelectrical engineering and computer science at MITin 1978, Smith earned the master’s and doctoraldegrees in electrical engineering from the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology in 1979 and 1984, respectively.

As an undergraduate, Smith competed on the

MIT varsity fencing team and later on several U.S.National Teams. He became U.S. National Cham-pion in 1981 and 1983, and earned a spot on the1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic Teams.

The first year he made the Olympics was theyear that the U.S. boycotted to protest the SovietUnion’s invasion of Afghanistan. “I was training inEurope when I first heard that President Carter wasnot going to let us compete. The boycott was aheart-breaker. Fortunately, I was young enough atthe time and was able to make the team again in1984.” Twelve years later in 1996, the OlympicGames were held in Atlanta. As a former Olympian,Smith was one of the last ten runners to carry theOlympic torch to the stadium for the openingceremony.

Smith joined the faculty at Georgia Tech inDecember 1984 where he soon became a popularlecturer and an accomplished researcher in signalprocessing. He has co-authored more than 190peer-reviewed papers, four of which have received“best paper” awards from the Signal ProcessingSociety of the IEEE. He has been an IEEE SignalProcessing Society Distinguished Lecturer and isFellow of the IEEE. Two of his students havereceived Sigma Xi Research Awards for their theses.Smith also has received two teaching awards fromGeorgia Tech.

Co-author of four textbooks, Smith says one ofhis most memorable career milestones was when hefinished his first book, Introduction to DigitalSignal Processing: A Computer Laboratory Text-


book. “The concept of a text with inte-grated software is commonplace today, butback then, in the days of DOS and 5 ”floppies, it was new and cutting-edge,” hesays.

In 1991, Smith moved with his family tothe Lorraine region of France to teach atGeorgia Tech’s new campus in the city ofMetz. “That move was particularly excitingfor us,” he says of his two tours of dutyteaching students from all over Europe andthe U.S. “We lived within walking distancefrom campus, which was a pleasant changefrom the 25 minute commute to office inAtlanta.

Smith’s family includes wife, Cynthia,and three children—Stephen, 16, Kevin,14, and Jennifer, 11.

Mark J. T. Smith at a Glance

Most Recent Position• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and

former Executive Assistant to the President of the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology

• Acted as the president’s chief liaison, served as a link tonumerous constituencies on and off campus, and carriedout actions on behalf of the president

• Taught at Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France,1991 and 1993

Education• PhD (EE) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1984• MS (EE) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979• BS (EE and CS) Massachusetts Institute

of Technology, 1978

Research Interests• Image and video processing, telemedicine, object

detection and recognition, and data compression fortransmission and storage

Distinctions• Chairman, Digital Signal Processing Technical

Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1993-1995• Member, NSF Advisory Board for Microelectronic

Information Processing Systems, 1991-1993• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Board of Governors, 1995–1997• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Signal Processing Society,

1997–1998• Georgia Tech Outstanding Teacher Award, 1988• IEEE 1989 Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award• 1992 IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Award• Fellow of the IEEE• Co-author of four textbooks• Author of 190 peer-reviewed publications

Hobbies• Oil painting, swimming, fencing• Two-time U.S. National Champion in Fencing,

1981, 1983• Member of the U.S. Olympic Team, 1980, 1984

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fundraising for those outside the college and assistwith tutoring.”

With a tradition of action, Purdue’s HKN iswired to win.

Besides a hefty calendar of regular activities, anadded project likely helped land the latest award,says senior Amanda Doyle, fall 2002 HKN presi-dent. “We took a lab that was basically falling apartand turned it into a very nice facility.”

Michael Powell (BSECE ’99), a former presidentnow completing his PhD at Purdue, says, “Ten to12 years ago, the lab had little equipment. Now, it’sbeen entirely renovated and has digital oscillo-scopes, a logic analyzer and four full lab stations.Everything’s brand new, all donated by Tektronix.”

Another contributing factor to the repeat wins iscontinuity, Powell says. “Old presidents stick aroundand provide informal advice to current officers.”

Thomas Talavage (BSCEE ’92, MSEE ’93),former member from ’91–’93 and one of the group’sfaculty advisors, agrees that’s important. “Memberscome in as juniors, and many remain active throughtheir doctorate. Many put in six to seven years, andthat loyalty has been truly key to the success of theorganization.”

“We move and progress together,” Doyle says ofthe group’s members. “We know where we want togo.” This academic year, they’ll continue twice-a-month supper socials, regular industry programs,daily lounge operations and on-going communityservice. They’re also planning a renovation of thelounge (estimated completion in the fall of 2003)and hope to beef-up their tutoring program. “Tutor-ing for sophomore-level classes is a great way tohelp younger students, so we want to see it reallytake off,” Doyle says.

Reaping Individual RewardsThe payback for HKN involvement will be life-

long, alumni promise.“I was a member at Purdue in 1948 and the

HKN credential was very helpful on a resumethen,” recalls Victor Green (BSEE ’49), now retiredfrom Hughes Aircraft. “When I knew working

Purdue ECE’s award-winning Eta Kappa NuBeta Chapter takes Greater Lafayette by storm.By Kathy Mayer

They’ve eaten at Lafayette’s South StreetSmokehouse, picnicked at West Lafayette’s HappyHollow Park and played miniature golf together.That’s their fun side.

They’ve hosted speakers from Microsoft, GPSSystems, GE Med Systems and dozens more. That’stheir link to industry.

They’ve served up donuts, bagels, coffee andjuice in the Electrical Engineering Lounge. That’show they fund their activities.

And they’ve cleaned streets and puppy cages,raised money for a soup kitchen and homelessshelter, shared their talents with a children’s sciencemuseum and tutored fellow ECE students. That’show they contribute to their community.

Meet the 100-plus members of Purdue’s EtaKappa Nu (HKN) Beta Chapter, the nationalelectrical and computer engineering honor society.From these activities and more, they’ve madefriends, learned about industry, mastered leadershipskills and given of themselves.

Landing ‘Most Active’ AwardThey’ve also won awards—most notably and

recently, the HKN Outstanding Chapter ActivitiesAward—for the 18th time in 19 years. And for thisyear’s award, they competed against 206 otherHKN chapters to bring home the trophy.

“Purdue’s HKN chapter epitomizes what amember of HKN stands for—excellence in academicperformance and excellence in service to others,”says Alan Lefkow, chair of the national committeethat once again named the Boilermaker chapter“most active.”

“They have an unusually large program ofactivities for their fellow students, the school andthe community,” Lefkow says. “And they raisemoney to give scholarships, participate in

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cohorts who were HKN, there was a bit of a com-mon bond based on that.”

Michael Sears (BSEE and MSEE ’69), nowsenior vice president and chief financial officer ofThe Boeing Company, says, he, too, experienced thebenefits first-hand as a Boilermaker. “My days asan HKN member at Purdue are an integral part ofwho I am and what I have achieved. We’re all acombination of our intellect and experiences. AndHKN, with its emphasis on scholastic, as well aspersonal and professional development, provides agreat foundation to build on.”

That’s good news for Doyle, who says she hopes

HKN will give her “a foot in the door” when she’son a job interview and finds someone who was amember during college.

“Membership can pay big networking dividendsbeyond that simple opportunity to get to knowothers in your class,” Talavage says. “Everyone hasdifferent strengths and weaknesses. HKN is madeup of people who can help you, and people can seekyou out as a resource. No longer are others justpeople occupying a desk in the classroom. Theybecome your friends.”

Purdue ECE’s Eta Kappa Nu Beta Chapter won the 2002 HKN Outstanding Chapter Activities Award for the 18th time in 19years. In addition to activities that benefit the Purdue academic community, HKN members perform numerous volunteer

services for local off-campus community groups, including Columbian Park Zoo, West Lafayette Parks Department, Habitat forHumanity, Tippecanoe County Humane Society, Lafayette Urban Ministry, Salvation Army, St. Anne’s Soup Kitchen, and

Greater Lafayette’s Annual Clean Sweep in April. HKN volunteers (left to right) James Sherman, Linoy Alex, Tim Gerke, andAmanda Doyle pose outside another local recipient of HKN support: Imagination Station.

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About 200 undergraduate students are invited tojoin each semester. “Eligibility is entirely academic-based,” Talavage says. Students in the upper 25percent of the junior class and upper one-third ofthe senior class receive invitations.

The chapter is organized into about a dozencommittees, from resume book to lab, homework,community service and other projects.

Listening When Industry TalksAbout twice a month, members meet representa-

tives from industry, who come to campus to speak.“They talk about the company and their

projects, to give us a chance to see what the realworld is like,” Doyle says. “They’re well attended.We have a good following with them. And mostcompanies are willing to send someone out. It’s agreat way for them to meet people as well.”

Taking a BreakSharing a meal at a local restaurant or spending

time together at a social takes a high priority for thegroup. Those events, generally on a Friday, aredubbed “TG’s,” a shortened acronym for the“Thank goodness it’s Friday” adage.

“We’re very work-oriented, so social events forceus to get out and do things, which can be a goodbreak,” Powell says.

“The undergraduate curriculum is pretty de-manding and the majority of students who go intoECE are focused on their studies, so these dinnersare a good opportunity for them to get out and meetpeople and to interact,” Talavage says. Professorsand other campus friends often attend, too.

HKN chips in $3 toward each member’s expenses,too. “It’s a good way to have some fun and encour-age people to get out,” Doyle says.

The group also prepares a student resume bookeach year and hosts pledge banquets and spring andfall picnics.

Doing For OthersWhen it’s time to help the community, HKN

members literally hit the streets—volunteering, forexample, in Greater Lafayette’s Annual CleanSweep in April. You’ll also spot HKN membershelping out at the Halloween Boo at the Zoo partyfor kids, planting trees for the West Lafayette ParksDepartment, lending some muscle to Habitat forHumanity’s home construction program, andimproving Imagination Station, a hands-on scienceand space center for children in Lafayette.

The Tippecanoe County Humane Society isanother benefactor of their contributions of time,with members helping clean and care for animalsand their temporary homes at the local shelter.

Financially, they give their support via Loungeprofits to Lafayette Urban Ministry and the Salva-tion Army, two local homeless shelters; and to St.Anne’s Soup Kitchen, which feeds residents in need.Their lounge profits for these causes are boosted bythe annual Turkey of the Year Award, given to theSchool’s professor who collects the most money invotes and earns the dubious honor of dressing up asturkey for a day.

“Purdue students are the lifeblood of our home-less shelter and our work helping families withemergency needs,” Joe Micon of Lafayette UrbanMinistry says of the HKN contributions. “Wecouldn’t do what we do without their gifts of time,talent and treasure.”

These community activities are vital, not only tothe agencies that benefit, but also to the students,Talavage believes. “Social service is encouragedbecause one of the important things about HKN is abelief that we need to give back. Just being anhonor society is not of any great benefit. Justrewarding ourselves doesn’t serve much purpose.One of the big, key points of HKN is that we wantto avoid that sort of attitude. So it’s important thatour members go out and serve the local communityand our academic community.”

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Running the LoungeOperating the Lounge in the Electrical Engineer-

ing building serves two purposes: money for activi-ties and a food and caffeine source for all studentsin the building. Started in the mid 1960s, today’sstudents believe, for years the offerings were coffeeand donuts. They’ve recently been expanded toinclude gourmet coffee, bagels, cookies, chips andeven frozen lunches that can be heated in Loungemicrowave ovens.

The Lounge is staffed 10 hours a day Mondaythrough Friday by two HKN members, honorablydubbed “POD” for “person on duty.” Every HKNmember must volunteer one hour a week in theLounge.

Alumni are invited to stop when visiting campus.It’s a chance to re-live that sugar-and-caffeinecocktail of your college days and to meet some oftoday’s active, high-achieving members of Purdue’saward-winning HKN chapter.

Check out HKN’s Web site at http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~hknweb/HKN/.

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By Emil Venere

M arwan Muasher just may be the mostpolitically influential alumnus in the historyof Purdue University. One moment he’s

jetting off to Tokyo to discuss economic and foreignpolicy issues and the next he’s trekking to Washing-ton to meet with President George W. Bush.

As Jordan’s foreign minister, he is that nation’sequivalent to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.“You can imagine what kind of life he’s leadingnow,” says his former thesis advisor, DavidLandgrebe, professor emeritus of electrical and

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Marwan Muasher, Jordanian Minister ofForeign Affairs, developed his world-

renowned diplomacy while organizingevents that united American and Arabian

students at Purdue.

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(right) as he arrives at thePentagon on April 5, 2002.

Muasher and Wolfowitzmet to discuss a range ofregional security issues.


Peace in the Middle Eastcomputer engineering. “But he’s still the mosthumble person you’d ever want to know.

“He’s a very unusual guy.”Muasher earned doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s

degrees in electrical and computer engineering fromPurdue in 1981, 1978 and 1977, respectively.Although his specialty is remote sensing, he workedin the field for only a short time before embarkingon a political career. However, Muasher said hisengineering training has been critical to his successin politics.

“A Purdue education provides you with a down-to-earth approach to solving problems,” he says. “Ihave always felt that Purdue gave me a very solideducational preparation.”

Muasher has been a major figure in talks thissummer aimed at mediating peace in the MiddleEast. While temperatures hovered near 90 degreesin Washington, the relentless July sun wasn’t theonly source of heat inside the beltway. The world ofinternational diplomacy simmered amid the high-tension buzz of Middle Eastern affairs, as delegatesfrom three key Arab countries met with PresidentBush and Secretary of State Powell.

Their mission: to begin the process of planning aPalestinian state, even as a new suicide attack in TelAviv claimed the lives of three Israelis and conflictin the region showed little sign of abating.

Powell, joined by his counterparts from Jordan,Egypt and Saudi Arabia, faced a crowd of reportersoutside the State Department on July 18 to updatejournalists about the progress of talks. Muasher roseto the occasion, proclaiming that his people hadreason for optimism. Talks with American officialshad improved prospects for peace in the Middle East,he said, because Washington was now committed toa timeline for establishing a Palestinian state withinthree years—by mid-2005. The four men thenended their news conference, striding away asreporters barked a few final unanswered questions.

It was just another day in the life of Muasher.The 46-year-old Jordanian has been involved in

the peace process for more than a decade. He wasJordan’s spokesman during the groundbreaking

Madrid peace conference in 1991, has met withYasser Arafat countless times and was hand-pickedby Jordan’s late King Hussein to be his nation’s firstambassador to Israel in 1995. He has won severalprestigious awards for public service, including theDiplomat of the Year Award from the Los AngelesWorld Affairs Council in 2000.

Muasher says his interests in diplomacy can betraced to his days at Purdue. “I was interested inexposing Arab culture to the United States and justbuilding bridges between Americans and Arabs ingeneral,” says Muasher, who headed the Organiza-tion of Arab Students at Purdue. “We used to dosuch things as organize an annual Arab Night, inwhich we had a big dinner in theNorth Ballroom. We had fashion showsand plays and different activities tohighlight Arab culture.”

Landgrebe says that Muasher wasnot the typical engineering student.“He was a good student,” Landgrebesays. “But you could already see thathe was more than just a technical guy.He just fit in wherever he needed to fitin. He invited my wife and I to theArab students’ meetings. He was up onthe stage dancing Arabic dances. Hewas very gregarious, but yet quietmannered.”

Muasher spent six years at Purdue,coming here in 1976 to complete hisbachelor’s degree, which he had begunat the American University of Beirut,and leaving in 1982 after earning hisPhD. No one could have anticipatedhis political future by the title of hisdoctoral thesis: Multistage Classifica-tion of Multispectral Earth Observa-tional Data.

“It’s just a very unusual situation,”Landgrebe says. “Here’s aguy with three degrees in electricalengineering, and yet he’s on the worldscene now as a top diplomat.”

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Shortly after returning to Jordan, Muasherstarted cultivating his political career. “I worked fora while in remote sensing and research, but I alwayshad a liking to public service and public work,”says Muasher, who comes from a prominent Chris-tian family in Salt, located about 20 kilometersfrom Jordan’s capital, Amman. “I started a politicalcolumn in a daily newspaper, The Jordan Times,just on the side while I was working in engineering.I did that for eight years, and that sort of providedan opening for me to jump into diplomacy.

“There was a cabinet change inJordan and the prime minister askedme to become his press secretarybecause of my writing, even though Iwas not a professional journalist.”

Muasher quickly ascended thepolitical ladder. From 1991–1994,he was director of the Jordan Infor-mation Bureau, the information armof the Jordanian Embassy in Wash-ington. Shortly after his arrival inWashington, Iraq invaded Kuwaitand Muasher found himself in theunenviable position of describingJordan’s position—a position thatdid not endorse the Gulf War.

Also in 1991, Muasher waschosen to be Jordan’s spokesman for the high-levelpeace talks in Madrid. “That led to my beinginvolved in the peace process until we signed apeace treaty with Israel in 1994,” he says.

Muasher then was named Jordan’s first ambassa-dor to Israel, followed by his appointment to theJordanian cabinet as minister of information. Oneyear later, he was Jordan’s ambassador to theUnited States in Washington, where he remained forfive years until he was named minister of foreignaffairs as part of a 27-member government swornin Jan. 14, 2002.

Muasher is essentially Jordan’s top diplomat, aposition he says he relishes despite its daunting de-mands. He does, however, acknowledge the stressfulnature of his job, especially considering his integral

role in efforts to mediate peace between the Israelisand Palestinians.

“It’s a challenging job because you have a chanceto have a say in policy and work towards peace,”says Muasher, who lives in Amman with his wifeLynn and two children, 12-year-old Omar and 9-year-old Hana. “I enjoy public service,” he says. “You feel asense of mission because it’s not just a job, and thatgives you motivation to withstand the pressure.”

Regardless of his high station in life, Landgrebesaid, Muasher hasn’t lost one of hismost endearing traits: humility. “He’s a very modest guy,”Landgrebe says of Muasher, who washonored with an Outstanding Elec-trical Engineer award in 1999, thesame year he received an honorarydoctoral degree from Purdue. “WhileI was advising him, I would occa-sionally ask him ‘What do your folksdo back in Jordan?’ He would say,‘Oh, they have some businesses.’” It turned out that the business hevaguely alluded to was a majorcorporation, the Jordan SulfurChemicals Co., and that his familyalso had significant ties to Jordan’s

power structure: two relatives were members of thenation’s National Assembly, and a cousin was in theJordanian Senate.

Upon hearing that Landgrebe was retiring earlierthis summer, a busy Muasher made it a point tocorrespond with his former mentor. “He met withArafat on a Saturday, and I got the message backfrom him on Sunday,” Landgrebe says. “That’s justthe kind of guy he is.

“I joke with him when I tell him that I’m sure hewill be king before long. But he’s still very much aBoilermaker. He wants his kids to see Purdueballgames, and he follows his alma mater.”

Muasher has been praised by internationaljournalists for being unusually plain-spoken andaccessible to the media, even during times of

“A Purdue educationprovides you with a

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preparation.”—Marwan Muasher

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military conflict in the MiddleEast. In 1995, shortly afterbecoming Jordan’s Ambassadorto Israel, a feature article in theJerusalem Post made the follow-ing observation: “Ask peopletheir views of the new ambassa-dor, and they refer to his profes-sionalism, civility and accessibil-ity. He is considered a consum-mate gentleman.”

Landgrebe says he has beenimpressed by Muasher’s abilityto set people at ease. “He cameback to Purdue about four yearsago and gave a seminar in theStewart Center touching onJordan’s viewpoints on how toachieve peace in the MiddleEast,” Landgrebe recalls. “In thecrowd there were representativesfrom the Jewish community.

“He delivered his talk andthen took questions. After themeeting we had a reception forhim in the Union and he invitedmembers of the Jewish commu-nity to join him. By the end ofthe night, we were all standingaround with punch and cookies,laughing and joking with oneanother.

“He was so smooth. It wasjust classic Marwan.”

(Above) President George W. Bush,Secretary of State Colin Powell, andNational Security Advisor Dr. Condoleeza Ricemeet with Foreign Ministers (from left)Marwan Jamil Muasher of Jordan, PrinceSaud Al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia and AhmedMaher El Sayed of Egypt in the Oval OfficeThursday, July 18, 2002.

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By Ruth Foster with Korina Wilbert

Alumni returning to campus for homecomingcelebrations this fall were witness to a watershedmoment in the history of the University. PresidentMartin C. Jischke announced the official publiclaunch of an unprecedented $1.3 billion dollar capitalcampaign to support the University’s strategic planto reach preeminence in its broad strategic areas oflearning, discovery, and engagement. The new construction and renovation plans devel-oped by the Schools of Engineering alone representthe largest single investment evermade in new facilities in anyengineering program in the nation.

ECE’s lionshare is $128 million,the largest share to be raised by anydepartment on campus, and one-tenth of the University’s overall goal.The School has already raised over$53 million, most of which wasearmarked for the NanotechnologyCenter.

Purdue ECE ranks as one of thetop ECE programs in the nation.U.S. News and World Report rankedECE’s graduate program ninth. In aseparate ranking category, corporaterecruiters rated Purdue engineering sixth in thenation.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t room at the top.“ECE wants to lead, not follow,” says LeahJamieson, Ransburg Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering and interim head. “We intendto have a program that ranks in the top five electricaland computer engineering programs in the nation.”

Purdue ECE alumni and faculty are testaments tothe first rate education available from ECE. An ECEfaculty member was credited with being the firstman in history to broadcast speech by wireless

telephony. An ECE alumnus built the first all-electronictelevision receiver. The first exercise responsivepacemaker was developed under the direction of anECE faculty member. Contemporary ECE facultyand alumni are pioneers in parallel data processing,high speed optical detectors, and multi-spectraldata processing.

In short, if you’ve ever listened to a radio, watchedTV, or used a computer, you can thank a PurdueECE faculty member or alumnus for helping tomake it possible.

“Graduating from Purdue is whereit all started for me,” says Jack Shaw(BS ’62, HDR ’98), President andCEO of Hughes Electronics Corpora-tion. “My years at Purdue preparedme well for the world that I had toexist in. Purdue not only gave me agreat academic education, but prob-ably, more importantly, I was taughthow to solve problems and deal withpeople in situations that I had notexperienced before.”

Shaw has traveled to over 65countries and says that Purdue’sreputation is known the world over.“In each of these countries around theworld, even those that seem prettymuch out of the way, Purdue is recog-

nized as an outstanding educational institution.”To maintain that reputation, ECE has a strategic

plan in place to increase faculty size; increaseendowments for scholarships, professorships,research, and curriculum innovation; and build newstate-of-the-art facilities to provide students andfaculty with the high quality environment they need.

It’s a tall order and the School has called on itsmost powerful constituency for help: the alumni. TheECE Campaign Advisory Committee, spearheadedby Margarita Contreni, the School’s director of devel-opment, has been formed to help guide the campaign.

The Campaign for Purdue ECE

ECE faculty,staff, alumni,and friendspartner tolead ECE topreeminence.


$35.5 million1) Improve our infrastructure toaccommodate growth in studentenrollments, faculty size, andnew curriculum and researchinitiatives:— New ECE Building— EE Building renovation— MSEE Building renovation— Equipment

$16.9 million2) Support our students so thatthey have every opportunity tosucceed:— Undergraduate scholarships— Graduate fellowships

$8.2 million3) Support our faculty, the heartof our University:— Professorships— Start-up packages

$6.7 million4) Enhance instructionalprograms:— Curriculum development— Career planning

$4.7 million5) Take advantage of opportuni-ties to seed new projects andnew ideas:— Venture fund

ECE Campaign GoalsNext Five Years

Shaw has joined up with other distinguishedalumni to participate in the committee. “I considerit a great honor to be a part of a campaign that willhelp expand on the already outstanding reputationof ECE at Purdue.”

Contreni and the committee will be looking forways to increase the rate of giving. “The alumni arepotentially the greatest strength of public universi-ties, and the growth of alumni support is central tothe success of this campaign. Every donation fromalumni and from our corporate and foundationpartners is crucial to achieve our vision for discov-ery, learning, and engagement.”

ECE facilities goals are the first priority from atime perspective because they will enable the Schoolto expand the number of faculty and research andeducational programs. Undergraduate enrollmentshave grown by over 30 percent in the past fiveyears, and research expenditures have doubled.ECE’s success in teaching and research has createdsignificant problems in providing quality space forlaboratories and offices for staff and faculty. Fac-ulty members have developed innovative instruc-tional labs that cannot be implemented, and theyhave obtained major research grants for whichexperimental laboratory space cannot be provided.Curriculum has changed and is highly design-intensive, with major laboratory projects requiringflexible space for group work.

Space allocated to ECE’s teaching and researchprogram is approximately half that of its topcompetitors on a per-faculty and per-student basis.Per researcher, ECE’s space is among the lowest inPurdue’s Schools of Engineering.

There has never been a better time for a capitalcampaign of this magnitude.

ECE has earmarked $35.5 million for construc-tion of a new learning and discovery facility and toremodel the EE and MSEE buildings. The newfacility will replace Duncan Annex, a windowlessbrick box that was originally constructed in 1941

for high voltage experiments. The newbuilding will provide space for ECEresearch in computer engineering,computer vision, robotics, and artifi-cial intelligence. It will provide spacefor meeting facilities for students andoffice space for 100 graduate researchand teaching assistants who arecurrently housed in ENAD.

EE and MSEE will also be reno-vated. The original section of the EEbuilding was constructed in 1924,with wings and additions added in1926, 1932, and 1940.

“Students need a place to study,”says Robert Pierret, Assistant Head forFacilities, Planning, and Staff andECE professor. “Buildings alone willnot establish preeminence, but toremain at the forefront of inventionand discovery, researchers must havethe facilities that can house theirlaboratories and students and accom-modate the changing requirements ofa dynamic field.”

ECE’s highest priority is facultyand student support. ECE plans toincrease its endowment by at least $25million to enable the School to con-tinue to recruit and retain world-classfaculty and students.

The School currently has 67 facultymembers and plans to recruit at least20-30 additional faculty membersover the next five years. Endowedprofessorships will provide a competi-tive advantage in recruiting the bestfaculty and in providing the resourcesfor them to succeed. The additionalprofessors will reduce the student-to-faculty ratio and facilitate branchingout in new areas of research. The




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increased interaction between students and facultywill help create an environment of intellectualexcitement and enthusiasm for discovery andscholarship and allow students to partake more inresearch projects as undergraduates, better equip-ping them for situations and problems encounteredoutside the textbook.

Endowment funds will also provide increasedopportunities for students in the form of fellowships,scholarships, and undergraduate research. “We areaggressively and actively recruiting the best gradu-ate students in the country and in the world,” saysAndrew Weiner, Scifres Distinguished Professor ofElectrical and Computer Engineering and directorof ECE graduate admissions. Weiner also serves onthe School’s Faculty Development Committee.“Funding that allows us to offer fellowships to topstudents is extremely important to our graduaterecruiting efforts.”

An additional $14.5 million campaign goal willbe directed to instructional programs, curriculumdevelopment, and career planning for students.

Tom Engibous (BSEE ’75, MSEE ’76, HDR ’97),Chairman, President, and CEO of Texas Instru-ments Inc., is one of the many alumni who havejoined ECE’s campaign, and like Shaw is a memberof the Campaign Advisory Committee. “My time atPurdue was a turning point,” says Engibous. “It washere that I began to understand just how big animpact technology has on the world. I want otheryoung men and women to have opportunity for thatsame kind of discovery.”

ECE’s campaign goals and strategic plans arebold and unprecedented, but achievable, accordingto Contreni. Support from alumni and friends willhelp ensure that objectives are met, one by one. Theresult will be a School with unlimited opportunityfor learning, discovery, and engagement, wherefaculty and students fulfill their potential andmaintain the legacy of a world-renowned institution.

ECE alumni and faculty will providethe leadership and oversight of ourcampaign initiative. The followingindividuals have volunteered to serveeither on the University’s campaignsteering committee or on our Schoolcampaign steering committee, whichis still under development.

AlumniGordon M. Binder, BSEE ’57Los Angeles, CAMichael J. Birck, BSEE ’60, HDR ’95Hinsdale, ILEugene A. Cernan, BSEE ’56, HDR ’70Houston, TXThomas J. Engibous, BSEE ’75,MSEE ’76, HDR ’97Melissa, TXFrank S. Greene, Jr. , MSEE ’62Sunnyvale, CAJack Kelble, BSEE ’65El Segundo, CAMichael M. Sears, BSEE ’69,MSEE ’69, HDR ’02Lake Forest, ILDonald R. Scifres, BSEE ’68, HDR ’01Los Altos, CAJack A. Shaw, BS ’62, HDR ’98Orland, INThomas J. Sheehan, BSEE ’64,MSEE ’65Kokomo, INPatrick S. Wang, BSEE ’72, MSEE ’72Repulse Bay, Hong Kong

FacultyJan AllebachRashid BashirLeah JamiesonDavid LandgrebeMark LundstromCatherine RosenbergMark SmithAndrew Weiner

The Campaign continued


Billion Dollar Campaigns in Higher EducationInstitution Campaign End Date $ Goal $ Amount Raised

Cornell University 1995 1.3 B 1.5 BMassachusetts Institute of Technology 2004 1.5 B 1.27 BOhio State University 2000 1.0 B 1.23 BPennsylvania State University System 2003 1.0 B 1.02 B*Princeton University 2000 900 M 1.14 BStanford University 2000 1.0 B 639 M*University of California at Berkeley 2000 1.1 B 1.44 BUniversity of Illinois System 2000 1.5 B 1.52 BUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1997 1.0 B 1.4 BUniversity of Southern California 2002 2.0 B 1.89 B*University of Texas at Austin 2004 1.0 B 972.9 M*Washington University 2004 1.3 B 1.11 B*Yale University 1997 1.5 B 1.7 B

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Fredric AmtMD. AmyeenCharles & Maudie AndersonChester AndersonDavid & Tami AndersonRobert AndersonJames & Geraldine AnglinLanny AnglinKarol & John AntrimTodd AnzevenoWallace ArakawaScott ArboledaRichard ArendMax ArensEric ArmstrongJames ArmstrongCalvin & Margaret ArnoldNeil AstrikeClayton AtkinsJames AtkinsonDavid AtwoodRonald & Sandy AuRichard AuchterlonieKhurram AwanJames & Sally Baas

IndividualsJohn AbbeyMichael AbrahamValentin AbramzonMichael &

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Salmina AlamLarry AlberRalph &

Eleanor Albon, Jr.Eldon & Donna AldredThomas AlexanderBrian & Nancy AllainCraig AllenH. Clyde & Ivy AllenJohn AllenMark & Valerie AllenWilliam & Sandra AllenJames & Lisa AlredHisham AltalibJason Ambler

Ernesto BarajasWayne & Patricia BardenJoseph & Mary BarnsteadPeter BaronMark BaroneChad BarrPaul BarrDavid & Phoebe BartaDouglas & Debra BartlettRobert & Martha BartlettWilliam BartolSteven BassRobert BassettKenneth BassingerWilliam BatalisJohn BatchelorJames BatesWayne BatesCharles & Dita BatteauPeter & Connie BattertonJames BauerleDaniel BauermeisterRobert BaughDouglas BaumgartnerAudrey Baur

Richard Baxter, Jr.Okan BaysanJack BealRobert & Virginia BealeFred BeamerErnest BeaneAnthony BeasleyGregory &

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ECE Honor Roll 2001–2002An Investment in our SchoolI would like to thank each and every individual, company, and foundation for their support of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering duringfiscal year 2001–2002. More than 2,470 donors contributed gifts and pledges totaling almost $37 million. This represents an increase of 12 percent in thenumber of donors and 110 percent in the amount of support!

Hundreds of alumni and corporate partners also sponsored research projects, provided speakers for seminars, and counseled our student organizations.Because of this level of investment, ECE is among the top programs in the nation.

We, your friends and colleagues, thank you.


Richard BellDiane & Clement BelusarJohn BenckensteinClark BendallEric BenedictGerald BenitzPaul BenkeserJohn BennerBarry & Susan BentleyJeremy & Jessica BentleyCharles BergRobert BergBrant BergdollJohn BergerDavid BergeronPhilip BergmannMatthew BerkemeierJack & Carol BerlierChristian BernadotteLeland & Marilyn BerningMichael BernsteinBertus Berry, Jr.Richard & Judith BerryRoland BertkaMark BettingerSteven BeuermanCharles BezzinaDavid BickelBruce BicknellLarry & Donna BiehlNihat & Kathleen BilgutayMichael BillingsleyJohn BilliterCharles BinzelPatrick & Nancy BirckWilliam BirkemeierKenneth & Diane BirtWilliam &

Constance Birthright IIMark BishopDavid & Clara BjorndahlJohn BlackMichael BlackTheodore BlackGeorge & Patricia BlackburnSharmila &

Douglas BlackburnJohn & Pamela BlackfordDavid BlairJames BlakeJohn BlakeRandel Blake-CamposJames BlanchardMary & Jeffrey BlaschakBernard & Katherine BlattTerrence Blevins

John & Rosalie BlocherRobert &

Mary Ellen BlohmBenjamin Blood, Jr.David & Sheila BloodgoodJames &

Patricia BloomfieldThomas BlowerSheldon BlueColin & Kelly BluishAndrew & Mary BobeckDavid BoddyCharles BodieLuka BodrozicRobert & Denise BoehnleinJoe BoersmaRand BoettgerJames BogardS. Locke BogartWarren BogertFrank Bohac, Jr.William & Renee BohlerRobert & Maria BoilesThomas Boldrick IIIDonald BolleEugene &

Pearl BollenbachBryan & Kathie BonahoomArthur & Carolyn BondHarold & Pauline BondRobert BoneArthur BonneauTom BonsettRichard BooherThomas BootsThomas BoquistAlan & Marilyn BorkenPaul & Sara BorzcikLinda BossermanDarrel &

Kimberly Bourne IIIHarry & Sandra BourquinDouglas & Betty BoveePeter BovenziShane & Kristina BowenBrian BowmanJames BoydJohn BoyeKevin BoyleWilliam BoyneMathew BoytimStanley & Judy BozarthDavid BrandelFrederick BrandelKeith BrandstetterHenry Brandt

Charles & Susan BransonWilliam BrayThomas BredfeldtDavid BreedingFloyd BreedlovePaul BreidenbachJames BreslinTony BrewerFrederick & Mary BriedJohn BrigdenPenny BrightJames & Carmen BriningErnest & Wanda BrinkleyCharles &

Kathleen BrinkmanJack BrinserTed BrinsonRobert BristolClarence BriziusEttore BrizzolaraRobert BrobstRichard & Jill BrockRobert & Mary BrodineRobert BrodnerRyan & Melissa BrookhartHarold & Joan BrooksJeffery BrooksPhilip BrooksVernon Brooks, Jr.Norval BroomePaul BroshekCharles & Mary BrownCraig & Norene BrownDavid BrownDonald & Janice BrownMarvin & Vivian BrownMichael BrownWilliam BrownH. Russell &

Helen BrownleeChristopher BrozenickWayne BrozynskiLarry BruehlerJoe & Lois BrumbaughThomas Brumett, Jr.Daniel BrunnerPhilip & Barbara BrunnerThomas BrunsSidney & Greta BrysonJohn BubikJames BuckhornJohn & Linda BuckmanTimothy BucknerRobert Bullions IIIEric BullisJoe & Mary Bullivant

Edward BultmanThomas BundyC. Robert BurgThomas BurgerWilliam &

Danielle BurkettVirgil BurkhardtJ. Robert &

B. Anne BurnettJames &

Katherine BurnettWalter & Laura BurrinAlan BursteinJames BurtRobert & Patricia BushSarah ButlerWalter & Sylvia ButtonRobert & Patricia BuzardDaniel ByronBernard Byrum, Jr.James CaddellKhiem CaiBrian CakeMalcolm CalhounFrank CallaghanRobert & Joyce CallanEarl CalvinRobert & Ann Camp, Jr.C. Richard CampbellChristopher CampbellRussell CampbellThomas CampbellGaylord & Jerry CannonNorbert &

Florence CappelJohn & Peggy CarlPhilip Carl, Jr.Francis CarlsonN. Kenneth CarlsonRichard CarlsonWilliam CarlsonJason CarneyRobert & Janet CarpenterRussel CarpenterRandy CarrDennis & Janice CarterDamian CarverIvan Carwell, Jr.Quentin & Jan CassenKent CastleDaniel CastleberryCharles CastrovinceJoni CaverlyScott & Tina CechovicAntai CenDonald Cerefin

Jeffrey &Dana Chamberlain

Eric ChamberlinDavid & Mary ChambersRichard & Mary ChanceDouglas ChandlerHector ChaoJohn & Mary ChapmanThomas ChapmanDavid & Kimberly CharlesTom Chase, Jr.John & Margaret ChasteenRodrick ChattRobert & Carolyn ChattinRichard & Bernice ChaversRamalingam &

Vishnu ChellappaCe ChenChi & Wanda ChenDavid & Jacqueline ChenFang-Shang ChenPing ChenThomas & Sophia ChenWilliam & Jane CheneyKuang-Sheng ChengPao ChinYun-Leei & Shirley ChiouRichard & A. ChisholmWayne ChismLeonard &

Virginia ChmielewiczRussell ChorpenningDonald ChrismanEarl ChristensenRoy & Anne-Marie ChristianGregory ChristisonOllie & Nancy ChristopherKyo ChungPaul & Edythe ClarkRoy ClarkStanley & Barbara ClarkThomas H. ClarkThomas R. & Barbara ClarkJoseph ClarkeBrad ClarksonRaymond &

Marjorie ClawsonThomas &

Melinda ClaytonTroy & Lisa ClearJon & Jill CleggWilliam &

Dorothy Cleveland, Jr.Stephen ClevengerRalph CoanJames Cobb, Jr.


Alan CocchettoShawn CoheeHerbert & Elizabeth CohenGareth CokinosEarl ColeRonald ColemanJerry CollinsRandy CollinsBrian ConcannonFreddie & Judith CongerSean ConleyWilliam Conner, Jr.Thomas &

Pamela ConquestDale & Anita Conrad

Mark & Tracy ConroyMargarita &

John ContreniKenneth & Jean CookL. Rex CookRoy Cook IIIJames CoomesWilliam CoonsGary CooperWilliam CorbettKenneth CoreyThomas CornellCarleton Cory, Jr.Robert &

Yolanda Costabile

John CostakisCarey & Gail CostantiniJohn CostasPeter & Joan CosteAndrew CostelloJoseph &

Elizabeth CostelloVaughn CotmanMichael CourtneyMichael CowanRichard CoxEdwin CrabillLarry & Judy CracraftCharles CramDennis Crampton

Stephen &Kimberly Crawford

David CrepsDwight CrimDuane & Robbie CripeHarley CromRonald & Victoria CroweLance CroxallMerrill CrullTimothy CrullJeffrey CubelRoger CummingsStewart &

Geraldine CumminsStephen Cunnagin

John &Marian Cunningham, Jr.

Steven CuppyFloyd CurranJames & Constance CurryRobert Curry, Sr.Ira Cushing IIIAlva &

Elizabeth CushmanJeffery & Julie CusickJack CussenJeffrey CusterRobert CyrJames Czenkusch

ECE SeniorsRaise Top Pledges

at PurdueECE is proud to recognize the

ECE Senior Class Pledge ProgramCommittee for raising the mostpledges of any school on campusduring the Senior Face Off, SeniorPledge Program. The program is anannual university-wide effort to encourage seniors to give back to schools, departments, and organizations. The committeegarnered a pledge rate of 16 percent from the ECE senior class, with pledges totaling $10,285. By comparison, the overalluniversity participation rate was 11.4 percent with 440 gifts totaling more than $50,000 in pledges.

ECE’s winning committee comprised seniors Kartik Aiyer, Reshma Mehta, and Amy Claypool; Gbile Adewunmiserved as chair. At the outset, they set a simple goal; raise as much money as possible to fund a scholarship for students. Tothat end they hung posters, distributed pledge cards to seniors, hosted popcorn days in the HKN lounge and MSEE atrium,and spoke at a senior seminar and faculty meeting about the program. For earning the highest total pledged, the groupreceived bragging rights, a certificate, a traveling pledge trophy engraved with their names, and the satisfaction of helpingfellow students earn their degrees.

This year’s recipient of the 2002 Senior Class Scholarship is Tarun Shivlani, a junior in ECE and secretary of IEEEat Purdue.

ECE seniors (left to right)Jeff Uram and Brad Kussy,

shown here with Senior ClassPledge Program Committee membersGbile Adewunmi and Amy Claypool,

helped make ECE’s pledgedrive a success.


Leonard &Helen Czenkusch

Mack DailyWilliam & Leah DaisyDanny DaltonLewis DanielJay & Jameson DanielsenVernon DanielsenJohn Darden IIMrinal DasWalter Datwyler, Jr.Charles DavidsonWillard & Cheryl DavidsonDavid DaviesHarold & Eleanor DavisPaul DavisWilbur &

Beverly Davis, Jr.Michael DawsonStephen Dawson, Sr.Michael DayRonald & Elizabeth DaySamuel DeCamp, Jr.Roy DeerJohn & Kathy DeFordDavid DeganRichard DeiberGregory DeiningerEdmond & Madelyn DeissWillis & Etta DeissingerWilliam DemainEric & DeAnna DemareeJason DemasRajiv DemblaBrian DeMeyerDonald DeMeyerJames DempseyMartin DempseyJohn & Jean DenningDaniel DeschnowDavid DetchmendyPhilip & Carlyn DetweilerRobert DeutschEarl DevlinJames DeWittAmit DhirStephen & Susan DibbertMarcus DieterleFred DietrichHarold DietrichJoseph &

Dorothea DiGirolamoDavid DillonGeorge &

Dorothy DimtsiosAbid & Anila Din

Weiying & Junxiao DingRichard DinsmoreBrian & Lilliana DipertKevin DishunCharles & Gail DixonGilbert Dodson, Jr.David DohlerRobert &

Priscilla DonaheyKevin & Jane DonahueKevin DonleyWilliam DonleyRichard DonnellJoseph &

Michelle DonohueKerry DooleyC. James &

Judith DorrenbacherJames & Beverly DotyKenneth &

Ruth DoversbergerKenneth &

Corinne DowellWilliam DowlinElwood DowneyThomas &

Stephanie DowneyMark & Tammy DowningRichard & Pamela DoyleBruce & Paula DrakeRobert DravenstottRebecca DreasherWilliam DrechslerSteven DreyerDavid & Barbara DriesSol DubinGeorge DuBoisJohn DuffBarbara &

Duncan DuffnerEverett & Alice Dukes, Jr.David & Mariel DuminJames DunbarChristopher &

Linda DuncombeJames & Marilyn DundasThomas & Helen DunganPeter DunhamKirk & Karen DunkelbergerGregory DunnJohn Dunn, Jr.Philip DunnHoward & Esther DurbinVictor &

Elizabeth DuvanenkoJohn Duxbury

Steven & Jill DyerWilliam &

Susannah DysonDaryl DziobaChristina EakmanGlenn & Nancy EarlScott & Janice EarlyCathryn &

Eric EasterbrookJack EasterbrookPrentiss Eastham, Jr.Bruce EastmondJohn EatonDavid & Alice EbertTodd EberwineKevin EbyMichael EckhartRobert EdelmanJohn EdenboroughRichard EggersVictoria Eigel-Danielson &

Timothy DanielsonPaul EikenbaryCarl EilersJames & Rhonda EitsertWilliam EldonMonty EldridgeRoger & Marilyn EleyBarry ElliottDavid & Linda EllisBobby EllisonWilliam & Janet ElseaJoel EmerGerald EmgePaul & Mary EmlerJohn & Joan EngelWilliam EnigkAnthony EnriettoBrian EnyartBarry & Patricia EpsteinJames & Janis ErbWayne ErxlebenLarry & JoAnn EslingerCharles &

Barbara EssencyJoseph EssmanJeffrey & Sharon EstermanAdrian EttlingerDavid EvansTyler EvansVirgil EveleighRichard FachtmannWillard FadnerJerry & Carol FahnJoe Fahrbach

David FallinTimothy FarlerTraci FarrNancy FarrellKeith FarsonMichael FaulhaberRobert FeagleyJohn & Jodi FeddemaFred FeickLeo & Jean FeldhakeErik & Toby FeldmanJames FelliCharles FeltnerWilliam FennesseyJeffrey FenterThomas FentonAngela & Robert FergusonJohn FerrellThomas FieldJohn & Barbara FillionRichard FindleySamuel FinebergLonald FinkJohn FinoClark FischbachKevin FischbachAlbert FischerAnnika FischerRobert FishDavid C. & Jan FisherDavid S. & Sandra FisherJeffrey & Edith FisherJohn FisherWilliam FisherMichael & Jean FitchRobert FitzpatrickGerald & Tamera FleckStephanne FlintGeorge FlorekJack FloryDonald FlowersScott FlowersPatrick FlynnJohn L. & Ellen Ford, Jr.John R. & Mary Ford, Jr.Steven FordWilfred FordonDonald ForemanSamuel & Jean ForemanJohn ForestalRichard ForkertRobert & Mary Foster, Jr.Dennis FoulkeJames & Martha FoxMaxwell & Sonia Fox

Ronald FoxScott FoxEugene FoxmanThomas FraleyRobert & Dianne FranceJerry & Gayle FranklinBernard FranzBarbara FraserJoe FrazierKelly FrazierDennis FreemanStephen Freeman IIILawrence &

Donna FreiburgerPhilip &

Albertina FreibergerRobert FrenchDean FreschlyDonald & Deborah FreyScott & Marie FriedmanDaniel FrielKelly & Douglas FrietchenThomas FroeschleDaniel FryeW. Kent & Linda FuchsScott & Beverly FudgeThomas FuhrmanEugene FujiiGen & Cindy FukunagaMatthew & Malinda FultzAllen FurfineEric & Sharon FurgasonBrett FurunessMichael FyeFrederick &

Paula GabbardMark & Lori GabrekRaymond GageAlan GaleJames & Mae GaleAnthony GalliDavid GambrelChristine GarciaSamuel GardinerC. Thad GardnerBruce GarlickStephen GarstangMarcia & Keith GarvensStephen & Kathy GatesJimmy GattisKevin GehrkeJacob GeorgeSteven & Dawn GerdtRita GerencherTimothy GerkeDonald Germann


Joseph & Mary GerwelsAnthony GesweinJames & Dorothy GettyDavid GeyerAlbert GiambalvoBruce GiameiCharles & Lucy GibbsPaul GieroskyRobert GiffordNicholas GihlMarcus GilbertChristopher GilchristJohn & Martha GilkeyDavid GillRobert GilleskieWilliam & Angela GillilandRichard & Judith GillmanGirard GilpinMichael GinigerScott Gisler

Charles GlennRussell & Ellen GlennPatrick & Tracy GlotzbachMark & Monica GloudemansKeith GloverMark & Deborah GoberLewis Goble, Jr.Thomas & Linda GoeddelEdward GoldWilliam GoldrickMargaret & Scott GomerEdwin Gonter, Jr.Jose GonzalezDonald GoodmanRobert GoodmanPeter GoodmannPaul GoodwinTodd & Jean GoosmanJohn GormanMelvin Goss

William & Christel GotschallJames GotshallLarrie GouldGerald & Marina GovertMindy GraberJoseph GrabinskiJoseph & Leslie GrabowskiJames GraffyCarrie GrandinettiCharles GrannisDavid GrantRichard GrantnerLowell & Jean GrayVictor GreenBarton GreeneJohn GreeneRichard & Marianne GreeneKatherine &

Douglas GreenhillMarvin Greer

James GreggPaul & Maryln GreggJohn & Susan GrelakDouglas GremauxFrederic GriffinDonald GriffithGlenn & Phyllis GriffithJimm GrimmPaul GrinerRobert & Heidi GrissmanJohn & Kathleen GroomsRalph & Judy GroseJay & Yuki GrossmanRobert GrossmanTimothy GrossmanTimothy GrotjohnKenneth & Vivian GudanVictor & Lois GuessTen-Huei & Shu-Jane GuoChhote Gupta

Rohit GuptaJeffery GustusRichard GutterAnthony HaagNathan HaasDennis Hackett, Sr.Gavin HadleyMary & Keith HadleyEdward Hagelgans, Jr.John HagueJohn Hahn II &

Donna AndersonKarl HaigesJerry HainesHarold HallStanley HallW. Michael HallHubert HalladayJill & Peter Hallenbeck

One Hundred-Year Family Legacy Inspires Gift to ECEIn 1901, Alfred F. Welch graduated from Purdue with a degree in electrical engineering. Over one hundred years later his daughter-in-law, RosellaWelch, established an annual scholarship in honor of Alfred and all the Welch descendents who have followed in his footsteps to Purdue, some 15–

20 in all.“Stan always told me that we should give back,” says Rosella, widow of Stan Welch (one of

Alfred’s sons). “He felt that he had so much and that each of us should share with other peoplewhat we were given.”

Stan Welch, like his father and brothers, graduated from Purdue with a degree in electrical andcomputer engineering. Throughout his prolific 40-year career with General Electric, he earnedscores of patents for his work with microwave and self-cleaning ovens and gave generously of histime to community service. He was fond of mentoring emerging engineers and young people,encouraging them always to get an education.

“Stan felt that an education was the most important tool for better opportunities in life,” saysRosella. “Not only at the beginning of your life, but in later life as well. The main thing he toldthe children was that if they had an education, they would have a better life.” Stan and Rosella’sthree children followed their parent’s advice; a daughter, Susan, is a Purdue alumna.

The first A. F. Welch Memorial Awards were distributed for the 2002–2003 academic year.Forty-nine students received scholarships ranging between $500 and $2,000.

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Thomas & Sandra HalleyMark HalterPaul Halter IIIPaul HamannF. Terry HambrechtDonald & Rita HamerlaBruce HammonArthur HammondRonald &

Barbara HammondJames HanafeeErin HandgenLeon & Leon HandtDonald & Helen HankinsRonald HarberCharles & Nancy HardenRussell & R. Harding, Jr.Scott HargravesKurt & Lisa HarkerBenjamin Harkness IIEric HarmonDavid HarmsLynne & Jerry HarmsJames HarperMatthew HarrisWilliam & Bertha HarrisJ. Steven & Marilyn

HarrisonDaniel HarshbargerWilliam HartJulie HartmusSteve HasaraStephen HaschinDonald HaselwoodClint HashibaLawrence HaskinRonald & Joanne HasselMaurice HassfurtherJoseph HassinkKenneth HauersleyPaul & L. Sharlene HaugeEdward &

Robin Haugland, Jr.William & Beverly HauguelJohn HausmanMark HaydenDan & Megan Hayes IIIDaniel HayesJames & Dixie HayesKeith HayseMary HaytPeter & Brenda HazenDavid & Beth HearnChristopher & Mary HedgesRobert HeerenRichard Heil

Alan & Gloria HeimlichDonald & Lois HeirmanWilliam & Dorothy HeissJohn & Sandra HeitzRichard HelblingPaul HellerJohn & Sarah HemdalWarren & Ardis HendryxShante HenryJohn HensleyJohn & Joline HentschelPaul HeppnerPhilip & Barbara HerbRandy & Denise HeringGregory & Trudy HermanIrvin & Dolores HermanJoseph HerringMark HersheyJames HessPhillip HessRicky HessMerno HesselberthEugene & Karin Hibbs, Jr.Patrick HickmanJohn HicksKenneth HicksLoren & Lorna HicksThomas HigbieBret & Julie HildebranEric HildebrandtLouis & Rita HildingerRobert HillDavid & Beverly HiltyFredrick &

Dorothy HimebrookHerbert Hinstorff, Jr.John HirnWilliam & Patricia HirschRobert & S. HitchJames & Barbara HittleDouglas HoJames HobbsJohn HochGary HochbergN. Mark HodappDaniel HodgeLester HoffmanMark HoffmeyerGerald & Nellie HofmockelStephen HogleRoger HollenbeckJoe HollerRhonda &

Curtis HollingsworthJohn HolmLowell Holmes, Jr.

Timothy & April HolmesArthur HolubDavid HooperMartin &

Patricia Hoover, Jr.Robert &

Hanna Hopkins, Jr.Stephen HopkinsPhillip & Lynn HoppesDonald HornerCharles & Kelly HornsbyRobert &

Darlene HostetlerWayne & Nelma HostetlerTimothy HouselDanny HouserEdward &

Willrene HowardJane HowellJohn HowellRobert & Amy HubbardNancy & Todd HubingFrank HublerCharles &

Leonore HuckleberryCheryl & Jeffrey HudsonHugh HudsonLincoln HudsonMichael HuemmerRobert HueyLloyd & Merilace HuffSteven HughesDaniel HugheyDonald &

Suzanne HuizingaAndra & Michael HumesRobert & Barbara HumesSteven HunkerEugene HuntJohn & RoseMary HuntBrian HurnJessica & Carl HusterRobert & Nancy HustonMichael & Patricia HuttFrederick Hybart, Jr.Jerry HylandMichael &

Delonna HylandJoe IcermanLeroy IchidaJohn ImbodenGregory IovinoFoo-Wah IpBerkley IsaacJoseph IvanyoPaul & Elizabeth Jachim

Edgar & Mary JacobiHugh JaegerBurton & Dorothy JaffeCharles &

Carol Jakowatz, Jr.Rajiv JaluriaJames JamisonGerard &

Patricia JanowskiScott JansaLeslie & Eva JarrettMark JarvisCharles JayJames JeffersTheodore & Carol JelkeWilliam & Suzann JenkinsJerry JenningsBrian JennisonJoseph JensenJohn JentzPatrick & Elaine JerrellDonald JohanningsmeierRobert & Barbara JohnsBrian JohnsonBruce & Beverly JohnsonCarl & Margot JohnsonDean JohnsonGordon JohnsonJerome JohnsonMajor &

Elizabeth JohnsonRex JohnsonRobert & Ann JohnsonRonald JohnsonSteven JohnsonRobert & Patricia JohoskiPaul JollyBilly JonesDebra JonesDennis JonesCurtis & Lucille JonesGrover Jones, Jr.James JonesJane & Steven JonesRobert JonesChristopher JonkmanWilliam & Billie JontzCharles Jordan IIJames JordanJoseph & Jeanette JordanLeslie JordanNeal & Vaida JordanRichard & Joan JordanJames JozwiakRichard & Nora JudayPaul & Amy Juodawlkis

Frank &Mildred Justin Trust

Richard KafkaJames & Diane KahanStephen KaiserThomas & Phyllis KaleUday KamathLarry KaneInchul & Sunae KangTodd KanningLawrence KaplanGregory & Susan KapraunMaurice KarlThomas KarrmannRudolph & Gracia KatherRalph &

Louella KatterhenryJoseph KatzJim & Sylvia KatzmanNorman KautskyMostafa & Carol KavehKenneth KawakamiCarl KawauchiJames & Ruth KeatingCharles KeelingCharles & Judy KeenanGeorge Kellam IIIGregory KellerLora & Kevin KellerRaymond &

Gwendolyn KellerTroy KelleyCharles KellumRalph & Mitzi KellumPatrick KellyThomas KelschRobert KelseyCharles KelsoThomas & Joan KendallWilliam & Marie KennedyMichael KennyMichael KentJohn & Cristina KerekesK. James KerinRussel &

Barbara KerkmanRichard & Jennifer KerrEvan & Connie KesslerJohn KettlewellDolli KettronRichard & Stephanie KiddEric KieferAlan KiehnSteven KielTakuya KikuchiTimothy Killen


Douglas KimberLewis KimberlyRodney KindlerKeith & Laura KinerkGordon KingRobert &

Apryll KingsburyRobert & Elaine KingsleyEdwin KinneBruce KinneyDavid KinsellGeorge KirchnerDavid KirkpatrickKirk & Annie KirlinKevin Kirsch, Jr.Eric KirtcheffRobert KiserGerald & Jeanette KisselJohn KlaasenCharles KlasingMartin &

Katherine Klausmeier-BrownJames KleberDavid & Ann KlineLee KloseJohn KlotzDavid KluehRichard KluesnerDaniel KlugiewiczDavid KnappDonald & Jennifer KnebelAllan KniesMichael & Lisa KnieserBrian KnutsonG. Richard KocimRobert & Anne Koehl, Jr.Thomas KoehlerEdward & Ruth KoenigStephen &

Beverly KoepperJames & Sheila KohlKevin KohlsJohn KokindaVenkat KolaguntaRobert KolarJeffrey KomodaRudolf & Karen KonegenSusan & Daniel KonicekVirgil KoningMelvin KonsoerPaul & Joanna Koo, Jr.Warren KoontzDavid & Diane KoppLeslie KornbergWilliam & Gina Kornrumpf

John KostyalCharles KovachRichard KovenerJohn &

Catherine Kozik, Jr.James KrammesCarlton KranzKenneth &

Elizabeth KrauseWilliam & Linda KrauseBruce & Leslie KrawczykRonald KrisherGayathri &

Kripa KrishnamurthyRichard B. KrugerRichard P. KrugerJohn KrullPatricia KruseRichard KrzyzkowskiEdward &

Georgene KubackiJoan KubiakCatherine KuckKeith & Christine KudlacJames KuehnJames & Sandi KuehneEdward & Ellen KuhnGerald & Linda KuhnKristen KukralRamesh KumarJames & Laura KunkelSteven & Holly KunkleWilliam & Marilyn KunzAaron KunzeAelred KurtenbachRichard KurtzRichard KurzJohn KuschewskiMark & Pamela KushigianAlexander &

Isadora KuskoMark KwasnyRichard & Erin KwolekJohn KyleCarl KyonoEdward LaClareBarry LadaJames LaflenTimothy LaflinJames LafuseIndrajit LahiriY. Harry & Alice LamKenneth LamPeter LamMichael Lambert

Paul LambertDonald &

Suzanne LambkaCharles LammonsDavid & Ann LandgrebeMichael LaneHoward & Grace LangleyKenneth &

Jennifer LannanNorman & Judith LantzDonald &

Kathleen LarnardBruce LarsonMax LarueGlen & Janet LashbrookTeri LasleyFrank LatorrePeter LaubensteinTimothy LaudScott LauerRichard LauxSteven LauxPatrick LawsonSamuel Lawson, Jr.Jerry LaylJean LaytonLarry LeachDaniel LeairdJerry LeboWade LedbetterCharles LeeChuan LeeChun-Sing & Pei-Ling LeeRobert & Joyce LeeRonald LeeDavid & Jody LeesKim Fong LeiGary LeibovichThomas LeimkuhlerJames Leisring, Jr.John LemmerAndrew LennieGregory LenockerLawrence LentzJohn LernerDavid LeRoyRobert LessmanLawrence LeszczynskiIrving LevinGeorge LevyChristopher LewisDuane LewisJames &

Kamaliah Lewis IIIMark & Cathie Lewis

Ming LiRobert LiJennifer LightChun-Shin &

Chueh-Ying LinEugene LinPen-Min & Louise LinWilliam &

Dorothy LindseyJerold LipsonChung LiuYi LiuZheng LiuFu-Chang & Mei-Ven LoRobert &

Christine Lockhart, Jr.Jan LoischDavid LongfellowRichard Longley, Jr.Donald LottSusan & Jonathan LotzKatherine &

Matthew LowrieCurtis LowryMartin & Jill LoyShan & Ningwen LuAlfred LucasCharles LucasRobert LuceWilliam LuebckeRichard & Carol LuebkeDavid & Shelley LuettgenRoland &

Victoria LuetzelschwabJames LuisiHenry & Betty Lum, Jr.James & Janet Lumpp, Jr.Mark & Mary LundstromThomas LupferFrederick &

Margaret Lynch, Jr.Margaret LyonsJohn MacDonald, Jr.William MaciejewskiEldon MackTheodore MacklinRichard MacMillanLaird & Helen MacomberThomas &

Pamela MadisonGrant MagartC. William MagerJames MagroBernard MaguireRaied Malhas

Eugene MaloneyAndrew ManceDavid & Rose ManesRobert & Virginia MangusGregory &

Susan MansfieldWei-Cheng MaoMichelle MaranowskiHoward MaravillaDaniel MarchokNick MarinoMark & Cheryl MarisCurtis MarkerRoger & Mary MarkleyMorton MarksStephen MarksLawrence &

Barbara MarquessGlen MarquisJeffrey MarrahSteven MarrsJames Marsh, Jr.Clay MarshallJoseph &

Mary Marshall, Jr.Richard &

Susan Marshall, Jr.Thomas &

Berit Marshall, Jr.Charles MartinGary & Kathy MartinGregory MartinJ. Orville &

Theresa MartinRobert A. MartinRobert D. MartinWilliam MartinMelvin MasatsuguJamie MasonAdolph & Cheryl MassaPaul MastBill MastellerRobert MastenDaniel & Jill MatchetteJohn & Mary MathewsPhillip MathuraLaszlo MatraiClifford &

Joanna Matthews, Jr.Gregory MatthewsBrooks & Jennifer MatticeChristopher &

Enid MattimiroAlan Matula


William &Barbara Maughmer

Raymond & Camille MaulGlenn MaxwellWilliam MaxwellSusan MayerRobert & Mary MayhanMichael MazzucchiMax &

Marguerite McAhronDennis & Ellen McBrideThomas McCafferty

George &Patricia McCammon

John McCammonCharles &

Beverly McCauleyPhilip McChesneyMary McClellanKevin & Diana McClureNathan McComasDennis &

Barbara McCradyMichael & Donna McCuen

James McCullaghRichard McDanelMichael &

Sharon McDanielPaul McDermottPhillip McDonaldJohn & Jo-Ann McDonaldAnthony McDowellThomas &

Deborah McDowellJohn & Marjorie McElroyPaul & Christina McEnroe

Professor Holds Giving RecordPhilip Swain, ECE professor, holds the record in ECE forthe longest consistent giving to the School. For more than22 consecutive years he has made personal gifts thathave helped fund equipment, student projects, facultystart-up support, and many other initiatives. “I give toPurdue, and specifically to ECE,” says Swain, “to returna small measure of the tremendous benefits the Schoolhas provided my family during the 39 years I’ve beenhere. My two daughters and I have received outstandingeducations and professional preparation, in each case afoundation for the success we have achieved in life.”

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Thomas &Christine McGree

Kevin McGrewJohn & Tonya McGueWalter McIndooEllis McKinleyMichael &

Maria McLennanJohn & Mary McMillenGeorge McMurtryRay McNealJohn & Susan McNettRobert McNewFrederick &

Phyllis McNultyJerry McQuearyMurl McRae, Jr.Stephen &

Judith McWilliamsJohn MeierdierksStephen MeinersDaniel & Brenda MelkeyDale & Carrie MellenMichael &

Marilyn MellochRalph MenickKeith & Claudia MerrillRalph MerrillJoseph & Susan MessinaMichael & Jane MessmerRichard MetzgerDaniel & Bonnie MeyerDavid & Suzanne MeyerBradley & Debra MeyerCurt MeyersJames MeyersonCharles & Martha MichaelMiguel MicianoLewis Middaugh, Jr.James & Nancy MielkeM. Richard MiglioreAndrew &

Susan Mihalik, Jr.Matthew & Jenny MilesAlvin MillerCarl & Judith Miller, Jr.Jerrald MillerJohn & Carol MillerLeo MillerLeonard MillerMichael & Nancy MillerPaul MillerRobert & Charlotte MillerTheodore Miller

James & Janice MilliganR. Jeffrey & Joann MillsSonia MillsP. June & Suewon MinAlan & Eugenia MindlinJack & Helen MinerMarsha MinickRobert &

Marcia Minniti, Jr.Richard MitchellEdward MittmanDwight MixHarrison MiyahiraBijan MobasseriDaniel & Donna MockDenis MockenhauptJuan MoczoKyosuke &

Atsuko MoizumiEugene &

Beverly MolitorisJeremiah & Mary MollMark MomotMichele &

Andrew MomotiukWilliam MonetteLloyd & Ruth MoneyRobert & Maureen MongerDan MonnierWilliam & Marcia MonroeAnthony MontaltoJose MontemayorCarla & Dominic MontoyaSeungbin MoonAdriene MooreDerek MooreKevin MooreRyan MooreElizabeth &

Jeffry MooreheadWells & Helen MooreheadAngela MootsTracy MoreenJames MorikawaDerrick MorinJoseph Morone, Jr.Edwin Morris, Jr.Robert MorrisOrace & Carolyn MorrisonDonald MorrowDonald MortelDavid & Rebecca MortonWilliam & Rosa MowDaniel MowryMary Moyars-JohnsonRonald Muckley


Keith Mueller Michael &Karen MuellerPaul MuellerJack MuiLeo MulcahyPhillip MulletRonald MulletSanford MulletDouglas MummaCharles MurachGerald MuraidaJay MurdockFrank MurphyJeffrey & Tanya MurphyTimothy MurphyBrent MyersCharles Myers IVDoyle & Marcella MyersJohn MyersPaul & Deborah MyersRichard MyersRobert & Patricia MyersWilliam & Elaine MyersWilbur & Sabrina MyrickJason NaglichCurtis NakayamaWilliam & Donna NashWayne & Renee NationPaul NauertRobert &

Jennifer Naville IITimothy NaylorStuart NealCynthia & Robert NealonRobert NearingCarol NeelyDan NeidlingerCharles & Olive NelsonJames NelsonKyle NelsonLoren Nelson, Jr.Norman & Paula NelsonVictor NelsonChristine NeubauerMichael NeuhalfenKarl NewbyHeather & Charles NewlinRobert & Sandra NewmanBeverly Newport FundWilliam NewportLawrence NeznanskiHuong NguyenPatrick NicholsKevin NickelsEdward NietersGerald Niimi

Norman NitschkeAmy & Barry NoahTami &

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ECE Researching Methods to Optimize the Internet

New research in optical networking is under way at ECE thanks to a grant from Cisco Systems, Inc. The unrestricted gift

to Andy Weiner, Scifres Distinguished Professor in Electrical andComputer Engineering, will be used to explore novel solutions tolimitations in optical fiber transmissions.

The dramatic growth in Internet traffic is driving the research.“Bandwidth is increasing; the amount of data that flows across theInternet is increasing,” says Graham Holmes, senior manager ofacademic research and technology initiatives at Cisco, Systems, Inc.“So, new methods to enable more information to travel across thesefiber links in ways that are fast, reliable, and economical are verycritical to the industry.”

Over the past several years, optical fiber transmission capabilitieshave expanded due to increased bit rate per channel and parallelchannels on many different optical wavelengths. But, as transmissionbandwidth increases, various impairments in the channel occur.“Chromatic dispersion” is one such impairment. Optical frequencycomponents propagate at slightly different velocities, eventuallyleading to spreading of optical bits and unacceptable intersymbolinterference.

Chromatic dispersion especially hampers the transmission ofoptical signals at high bit rates and over long-distances. This is anissue that affects companies making optical fiber transmission equip-ment and networking companies that are developing routers andswitches.

In order to support continued advances in lightwave communica-tions to higher bit rates per channel as well as greater numbers ofwavelengths, advanced dispersion compensators will be needed. That’swhere ECE researchers step in. Weiner and his group are trying todevelop dispersion compensation systems that are fully program-mable, which would be much more flexible than the fixed compensa-tors used in current practice. If successful, this would help open the

door for opticalnetworks to carrymore and more data.

“All research wefund is based uponthe merits of theidea, the merits ofwhat the investigatorwants to explore,and the potential for impact,” says Holmes. “We’re most interested inresearch that’s going to promote and further the industry, as opposedto Cisco specifically.”

Cisco Systems, Inc. has been a strong supporter of Purdue andECE. In the past year, Cisco has given gifts of computer equipmentand funds to support scholarships, awards, and sponsored research atECE. Other Purdue groups receiving support from Cisco Systems,Inc. include CERIAS, the School of Technology, and the KrannertSchool of Management.

Cisco has good reason to believe in Purdue. At the West Coastcompany, there are over 100 Purdue alums on staff, so the companyexperiences firsthand the value of a Purdue education. “There’s astrong internal constituency of people with an engineering back-ground from Purdue,” says Holmes. “The strength of Purdue engi-neers that we’ve had has really elevated the stature of Purdue andhow we’ve judged Purdue’s contribution to Cisco.”

Cisco Systems, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California, offersnetworking solutions for the Internet. Cisco’s Internet Protocol-based(IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and mostcorporate, education, and government networks around the world.Cisco provides products to transport data, voice, and video withinbuildings, across campuses, and around the world.

An erbium-doped fiber optical amplifier in use in theUltrafast Optics and Fiber Communications Laboratory.

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ECE Alumni Recognized as Old Masters

Intrepid. After leaving duty, he earned an MBAfrom Harvard in 1962 and joined Amgen, a bio-technology company. At Amgen, Binder rosethrough the ranks, eventually becoming chairmanof the board in 1990. Under Binder’s leadership,Amgen became the world’s largest and most suc-cessful biotechnology company and one of the stockmarket’s top 100 companies. Binder received theNational Medal of Technology by Vice PresidentGore in 1994. Most recently, he founded a venturecapital company, Coastview Capital, LLC, in 2001.

To the Purdue community, an Old Master is anexceptional person who has made significantcontributions to his or her field. Since 1950, over500 Old Masters have traveled to Purdue to sharetheir experiences and observations with students asthey prepare to graduate and begin their owncareers. For more information about the Old Mas-ters program and public events, contact HeatherWebb at 494-1235 or visit the Old Masters Web siteat http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~omcc/.

Purdue University Old MasterPaul McEnroe (right) andMargarita Contreni (left), ECE’sdirector of development, at“La Purisima,” McEnroe’sranch in the Santa Ynez Valley,California.

Two ECE alumni, Gordon Binder and PaulMcEnroe, were honored as Purdue University OldMasters in a fall 2002 ceremony on campus.

McEnroe (MSEE ’60), enjoyed a prolific 23-yearcareer at IBM. Most notably, he is credited withleading a team of engineers in the development ofthe “Universal Product Code,” commonly called thebar code. Today McEnroe manages his 1,000-plusacre horse and cattle ranch, “La Purisima,” in theSanta Ynez Valley in California. McEnroe developedwhat became a lifelong passion for horses as helearned to ride in the Purdue Saddle Club. Recentlyhe delighted Margarita Contreni, ECE’s director ofdevelopment, with a tour of his ranch.

“I think engineers particularly and everybody ingeneral has a responsibility in their career to seehow what they are doing is going to effect mankindand society,” McEnroe says. “You have to ask,‘When I finish my career, am I going to look backand be proud of what I have done?’ You can buildinteresting boxes and devices and tools, but whathas it done for society?”

Binder earned a BSEE in 1957 through theNaval ROTC program and served as a SurfaceWarfare Officer on board the aircraft career USS

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the other an industrial psychologist. The family canclaim three engineers in all, including Fenwick’sfather, also a Purdue electrical engineering alumnus.

Fenwick went on to earn his MSEE and PhD in1959 and 1963, respectively, from Stanford Univer-sity. He was offered scholarships to attend graduateschool at both Stanford and MIT, and he creditsPurdue for making this possible. “I got in becausePurdue’s not some Podunk school,” he says.

While reminiscing about Purdue, Fenwick recallshis electrical machines class. “It shows how thingshave changed,” he says. “You’d be in lab and youcould make a mistake—like blowing a -inchcopper rod in two—and it’d be a major blast. Itwould scare you half to death. Now, with transmit-ters and integrated circuits, they’re so small, youdon’t even know when you’ve broken them.”

At Stanford, Fenwick explored the potentialapplication of precise synthesized waveforms inlinear sweeps for sounding in the radio spectrumwhile working in Stanford’s Radioscience Labora-tory as a research associate. After completing hisPhD dissertation “Round-the-World HF Propaga-tion” in 1963, Fenwick perfected his ChirpsounderHF (high frequency) sounding technique in 1964.In part, due to his long interest in radio, Fenwickdeveloped yet another technique that enabledsimultaneous use Voice of America and Radio FreeEurope broadcast transmitters as radar to deter-mine their coverage areas. It was this technique thatled Fenwick to found his first company, along withG.H. Barry, in 1966.

Barry Research Corporation, later renamed BRCommunications, made unique ionosphere sound-ing equipment and modems for the military/diplomatic communications market. Much of BRCommunications success was based on theFenwick’s Chirpsounder HF sounding techniqueand time-diversity modem. All four of the U.S.military systems adopted BR’s HF Tactical Fre-quency Management System (TFMS), as did allthree of the U.K. military services. In addition,

From identical triplet to communicationsinnovator to California mayor, ECEalumnus Robert B. Fenwick succeeds asan individualist.

By Ruth Foster

From his birth as an identical triplet, ECEalumnus Robert B. Fenwick’s life has been

anything but conventional. In a prolific career thathas spanned the globe, Fenwick (BSEE ’58)founded two companies, earned patents on commu-nications equipment designs, and created the “ondemand” video system. And when he noticed thatthings weren’t as good as they could be in hishometown of Los Altos Hills, California, he decidedto run for mayor, too. He was elected to the citycouncil with the largest plurality in the small town’shistory.

“Engineers aren’t fundamentally suited forpolitics,” says Fenwick with a hint of wry humor inhis voice. “We’re used to quantitative data where wecan calculate answers. I prefer engineering. It’smuch harder to be a city council member. I’m usedto being my own boss. I’m not used to compromis-ing. But I wanted something done.”

Fenwick is accustomed to getting the job done.From Purdue’s Cary Quadrangle to Norwegianmountaintops to the Sudanese desert, Fenwick hastaken his Purdue education to all corners of theworld and revolutionized communications in a waythat touches all our lives.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 13, 1936,Fenwick attended Purdue along with his brothersfrom 1956 through 1958. The triplets were allawarded scholarships and housed together in a suitein Cary Quad. “Probably not such a good idea toput us all together,” says Fenwick, “but we didOK.” Fenwick graduated first in his class in 1958.One of Fenwick’s brothers also became an engineer,

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ECE alumnus Robert B. Fenwick (right) and Jan (left),his wife of 41 years, recently hosted a gala affair to welcomeLinda P. B. Katehi (center), Purdue’s new dean of engineering,

to Purdue alumni in the area. The party was held at theFenwicks’ home in Los Altos Hills, California, a spacious

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When you host a large event, you meet interesting people,”says Fenwick. “It’s something my wife and I like to do.” A few ofthe over 80 guests who attended the event at the Fenwicks’ home

are shown here. “They drove from all over to come,” Fenwick says,“and they had a good time.” Fenwick is the mayor of Los Altos

Hills, a small town in the San Francisco Bay area with apopulation of around 8,000.

through NATO and individual orders, systemswere delivered to fourteen other countries.

Fenwick served as chairman and presidentof the company from 1974 until 1985, and heremained as chairman until the company wassold in 1988. Fenwick says that developingequipment for this company was one of themost satisfying things he has ever done. “It’sunique,” he says simply. “It’s still in use today,and it’s not been improved on.”

The development of communicationsequipment doesn’t usually entail taking off ofaircraft carriers in the middle of the AtlanticOcean, but as Fenwick points out, “it has to betested. They have to see if it works if they aregoing to buy it.” Consequently, Fenwick hasflown around the world in countless situationsmost of us couldn’t even begin to fathom,experienced operations in all military services,



and lived in military bases in Guam and throughoutSoutheast Asia. “You have to be involved in proof ofconcept,” says Fenwick.

He got sick only once, with all this aerial maneu-vering, but he still recalls the excitement. “It waswith the Marines,” says Fenwick, “when we weredropped by helicopter on amountain in Norway. We werein the peaks. But have you everhad a CH53 hovering right overyour head? The noise and windare unbelievable. It’s justbeating you at a couple hun-dred miles per hour.”

Only once, in all of his trips,was Fenwick’s behavior—in hiswords—insane. “I had this repin France, and he said to go toKhartoum, in Sudan. It was thecraziest thing I had ever donein my life. There weren’t evenpaved streets. The whole ideaof doing business there wasinsane.” Fenwick is quiet for amoment, and then says, “I sawthe U.S. ambassador playingpolo, but really I just saw a lotof desert.”

Despite all of his business trips, it was not in ahotel room that Fenwick thought up his innovativevideo system that made possible in-room movies ondemand and led to the creation of his secondcompany. Fenwick was at home and wanted towatch 60 Minutes at his convenience.

“I thought, why do I have to watch this when thebroadcasters say? Why not on demand?” saysFenwick. “I’m oriented to things that are doable,and when I looked at it, I realized that video ondemand was doable, but it was impractical to get itinto a home. With hotels, the distance was closerand all the TVs were identical, and I could get themunder a common control. I could create a systemthat would provide a wide selection of moviechoices at the convenience of the viewer, rather thanthat of the broadcaster.”

Fenwick knew little about the entertainmentindustry, hotels, or television when he initiatedresearch of on demand video, but in 1986 Fenwickfounded On Command Video Corporation. In justthree years after exploring possibilities, developinga system, and obtaining two patents, the first

system was operating in ahotel. Guests could now haveinstant access to pay-per-viewmovies without conforming toa predetermined schedule. Fenwick’s approachcoupled an audio/data/videoswitching device with theexisting television system inhotels. On Command Videoutilizes a real-time, on-screenmenu and does not require aset-top box. Guests can choosebetween 40–80 titles andenjoy, within seconds, themovie of their choice. But, itdidn’t stop there. Electronicguests services now go wellbeyond the movies; theyinclude folio review, roomservice ordering, messaging,

guest checkout, and even Internet access. Thesystem’s flexible architecture is compatible withcable, satellite services, and other broadcast andinformation services. It interfaces fully with mostproperty management systems, and is installed inprestigious guest properties, including theFairmont, Hyatt, Hilton, and Marriott hotels.

Fenwick opened up new vistas—communicationsequipment has been revolutionized and movies ondemand are a commonplace convenience for hotelguests. But, despite his groundbreaking inventions,Fenwick is the first to point out that he still cannotwatch 60 Minutes on demand. “It’s been seventeenyears since I thought this up,” Fenwick says, “andit’s still not in the home.” Perhaps one day, in partdue to Fenwick and all of those like him who haveextended the boundaries of what has been done,watching any television show on demand at homewill become, in Fenwick’s words, “doable.”

“You haveto be

involvedin proof

of concept.”—Robert B. Fenwick


1938Lester K. Schoon (BSEE ’38) isretired and makes his home inCrown Point, Indiana. He spent fiveyears in the U.S. Army throughoutWorld War II as Major, Corps ofEngineers, 40 years with the U.S.Steel Corporation and 18 months inMadrid, Spain, with the U.S. SteelEngineers and Consultants.

1941Robert K. Duncan (BSEE ’41) isretired and resides in Saint Mary’s,Ohio.

1948Charles A. Huffman (BSEE ’48)resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,where he is retired and writing hislife’s story.

1949David J. Ross (BSEE ’49) retiredDecember 21, 2001 as CEO ofRoss, Esme, Fessler, & PattersonEngineers, Inc. and enjoys travel-ing, golfing, and taking classes atUniversity of Central Florida.

Peter Safran (BSEE ’49) retired inMarch 2001 after 33 years withWestinghouse in Newark, a realestate developer for 2.5 years, andanother 12 years for St. Clare’sHospital in Denville, New Jersey.

Alumni Notes1952Charles M. Hill, Jr. (BSEE ’52)retired following 40 years of servicewith GE and makes his home inErie, Pennsylvania.

1953John R. Allen (BSEE ’53) owns J.R. Allen Associates and resides inLake Elsinore, California.

1956H. Paul Scherer (BSEE ’56)retired in 1994 from NASAGoddard Space Flight Center, andfrom Lockheed Martin Astronauticsin 2002. He is the owner of Diversi-fied Home Repair Service LLC inArvada, Colorado.

1957Fred W. Gothman (BSEE ‘57)retired in 1992 from Exelon Corp.after 37 years. He enjoys teachingpart time at the College of DuPagein architectural technology and theIllinois Institute of Technologywhere he is also slated to receive hisMA in architecture in December2003.

Georges A. Fosselard (MSEE ’57)is retired and makes his home inSoignies, Belgium.

1959David R. Matthews (BSEE ’59) ispresident of Professional Manage-ment Solutions, L.L.C. He is semi-retired after over 30 years inmanagement-level posts, includingsenior vice president of McNamee,Porter & Seeley, Inc. His holds ninepatents in lasers and electro-optics.He has contributed to a book andbeen published in many nationalperiodicals. He sat on multipleboards of directors, nationalcommittees, and blue ribbon panels.He is listed in Who’s-Who ofAmerica, is a Rotary InternationalPaul Harris Fellow and ACECFellow, and has received numeroushonors for his work.

1961Kenneth E. Larabee (BSEE ’61)retired in 2000 from SeagateTechnology and lives inBloomington, Minnesota.

1962Paul G. Goodwin (BSEE ’62) ofBradenton, Florida, retired fromLockheed Martin Missiles andSpace. He enjoys playing histrombone in an 18-piece jazz band.

1963Donald P. Olsen (BSEE ’63, MS’64, PhD ’69) is with The Aero-space Corporation as SeniorEngineering Specialist in LosAngeles, California.



ECE Graduate Student WinsEmmy AwardLauren Christopher, a PhD student in ECE, was part of a teamof engineers from Thomson that received a technical Emmyaward from the National Academy of Television Arts andSciences. The award reads: “The 2002 Scientific and Techno-logical Emmy Award to Thomson for: Development of theconsumer digital set top box for satellite and/or cable and fordevelopment and/or commercialization of the 16:9 aspectratio.” Lauren is working for ECE professor Ed Delp andexpects to graduate in the spring of 2002.

1966Jack R. Brooks (BSEE ’66) andfamily make their home in FortWorth, Texas, where Jack enjoystraining horses and family travel.He is retired from both the U.S.Navy and General DynamicsCorporation.

1972Ronald A. Cope (MSEE ’72) wasnamed Vice President of Operationsat SyChip, Inc., in Plano, Texas.

Arun Malhotra (MSEE ’72, PhD’74) joined Solid State Photonix asVice President of Engineering andresides in Sunnyvale, California.

1964Edward J. Brown (BSEE ’64)enjoys retirement with his wife,Mary Rose, in Columbia, SouthCarolina.

Robert Pugh (BSEE ’64) of MITLincoln Laboratories is a systemsengineer residing in Bedford,Massachusetts, and spends his sparetime in outdoor activities.

1965Jack R. Kelble (BSEE ’65) wasnamed president of Space &Airborne Systems at Raytheon in ElSegundo, California.

1973Michael T. Eckhart (BSEE ’73) isPresident of the Solarbank Programat Solar International Management,Inc. in Washington D.C. He alsoserves as Chairman of the AmericanCouncil for Renewable Energy.

1974Keith J.Mueller (BSEE ’74) joinedApache Design Solutions Inc. asvice president of worldwide salesand marketing.

Ralph J. Mullins (BSEE ’74)resides in Saratoga, California, andis employed with Cisco Systems asDirector, Systems Test, WirelessNetworking Business Unit.

Robert W. Wilson (BSEE ’74) is apatent examiner with the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office inArlington, Virginia.

Alumni Notes


1976Zia A. Yamayee (MSEE ’76, PhD’78) serves as the Dean of Engineer-ing, University of Portland.

1980Jan Mackulak (BSEE ’80) is aSoftware Process Consultant withParadigm. In 2001, she retired after22 years at Motorola’s GovernmentGroup. She and husband, Jerry,have lived in Scottsdale for the past23 years. Jan often speaks atschools on the importance ofeducation and engineering.

1981Charles Bess (BSEE ’81) is withEDS, in Solutions Consulting inPlano, Texas. Charles was namedEDS Fellow in 2002 and completedhis MBA in 2000.

Stephen S. Schwartz (BSEE ’81,MSEE ’82, PhD ’85) was namedpresident, chief executive officer,and a member of the board ofdirectors of Asyst Technologies,Inc., in Fremont, California.

1982Timothy J. Dixon (BSEE ’82) wasappointed vice president of market-ing of Atrica, Inc., in Santa Clara,California.

1985David R. Beering (BSCEE ’85,MSEE ’87) received the 2002Purdue Engineering AlumniAssociation Service Award forexceptional service and loyalty toPurdue University, the Schools ofEngineering, and the engineeringprofession.

W. Keith Skinner (BSEE ’85)joined Born Information Services asa Network Consultant inMinnetonka, Minnesota.

Keith Swedo (BSEE ‘85) is withthe Indianapolis law firm, Maginot,Moore and Bowman as a PatentAttorney.

1986David W. Zabrowski (BSEE ’86)was appointed to the Board ofDirectors of VantageMed Corpora-tion in Rancho Cordova, California.

1987Todd Nelson Frech (BSCEE ’87,MSEE ’92) resides in Chicago,Illinois, and is a partner withAccenture. He currently is onassignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. InOctober 2001, Todd was marriedand recently welcomed a newdaughter, Maria Marcella, born inJuly 2002.

Beering ReceivesEngineeringService Award

David R. Beering (BSCEE’85, MSEE ’87), principal ofInfinite Global Infrastructures,L.L.C., received the 2002Purdue Engineering AlumniAssociation Service Award forexceptional service and loyaltyto Purdue and the Schools ofEngineering. David is thepresident of the Alumni Foun-dation Board of Directors andhas served on the board for thepast three years. Previously, heserved for three years as theChicago representative to theAlumni Association Board ofDirectors, and he served aspresident of the Purdue Club ofChicago during the past tenyears. David is personallyresponsible for engagingthousands of alumni in the lifeof the University.



Alumni Notes1988Kenneth Reid (BSCEE ’88) isAssociate Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering Technologyat Indiana University – PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (IUPUI).

1990Kevin Boyle (BSCEE ’90) is withElite Information Systems asDevelopment Manager in theEncompass Division, Los Angeles,California.

1991Bill Bray, M.D. (BSEE ’91) serveswith the U.S. Air Force at TyndallAir Force Base in Florida as a flightsurgeon in the First Fighter Squad-ron beginning active duty in July2000. In January 2002, he waspromoted to Major.

1993Yi-Feng James Chen (BSEE ’93,MSE ’95) is Senior Project Engineerwith Ground Systems Analysis &Design of Boeing Satellite Systems,Inc. responsible for the Boeingsatellite emulator. While at Quan-tum IATL as Engineer ProjectManager, he lead the team whichdeveloped and manufactured the“first in industry” Ethernet NDMP-based DLT tape network storagesolution.

1994F. Edward Funke, Jr. (BSEE ’44)retired as Senior Technical Special-ist at North American Rockwell(formerly Boeing Aircraft).

Shirielle D. Williams (BSCEE’94) serves as the Second VicePresident of RPS Systems – World-wide Operations and Technology,The Northern Trust Company ofChicago, Illinois. She currently isworking toward her MBA at theLake Forest Graduate School ofManagement.

1995Charlotte (Carpenter) Loseke(MSEE ’95) married Keith Losekein April, 1999 and is employed withTRW as a Staff Engineer inRedondo Beach, California.

1997Robert K. Fahler (BSEE ’97) iswith Paradyne Networks as anASIC Design Engineering inAlpharetta, Georgia.

1999Jeremy Bules (BSEE ’99) joinedCrown International Mobile Teamin Elkhart, Indiana designing theA6000GTi car audio amplifier forJBL Car Audio.

2000Jennifer Glassley (BSEE ’00) iswith the Electronic Design Center ofWhirlpool Europe located in Italywhere she is gaining experience inEuropean hardware designs.

In MemoriamWe regret, we have recentlylearned of the passing of the

following alumni:

Max W. Abram (BSEE ’40)of Lyons, IN.

Cyril J. Blasing (BSEE ’31)of Las Vegas, NV.

J. William Bowman (BSEE ’35)of Tampa, FL.

Harley D. Crom (BSEE ’47)of Norton, OH.

Howard B. Irvin (PhD ’49) ofBartlesville, OK.

Tatsuya Ishihara (MS ’53)of Yokohama, Japan.

Raymond E. Meyer (BSEE ’35)of Bluffton, IN.

Arthur E. Peltosalo (BSEE ’43)of Gibson Island, MD

Scott C. Richmond (BSEE ’73)of San Diego, CA.

Wesley B. Taylor (BSEE ’34)of Erlanger, KY.


Alums Offer Mirror Image Perspectiveson Communications Industry

Robert W. Lucky (BSEE ’57, PhD ’61), vice president of Telcordia Technolo-gies, Inc. in Red Bank, New Jersey, and recipient of an honorary doctoratefrom Purdue in 1988, chaired a special panel at the International Confer-ence on Communications in New York City at the end of April 2002. Thepanel was featured as the “50th Consortium” to take a retrospective look atthe history of the IEEE Communications Society on its 50th anniversary.

William C. Lindsey (MS ’59, PhD ’62), professor of electrical and computer engineeringat the University of Southern California, was honored as a keynote speaker at IEEEGlobeCom in November 2002 in Taiwan. The theme of the event was “The World Con-verges”. Lindsey spoke about what we can expect to see regarding developments in commu-nications during the next 50 years.

“It is noteworthy that two Purdue alumni were honored at two key IEEE events,” saysLindsey. “One looking at the past fifty years, the other looking toward the future.” Ironi-cally, Lucky and Lindsey were former Purdue Engineering dean John Hancock’s first andsecond doctoral students.

Current news aboutECE is always availableat our Web site:www.Purdue.edu/ECE


Guest Editorialby Meyya Meyyappan

Imagine a spacecraft bound for Mars or Europaloaded with astronauts with boundless enthusi-

asm and excitement. The spacecraft needs to rely onHouston for control or instructions. It takes 20minutes for the signal to travel to Houston andanother 20 minutes for commands to reach thespacecraft. What about an autonomous, ‘thinking’spacecraft? All decisions would be made locally!This is a concept that would make many politiciansin Washington proud. But this would requireenormous amounts of computing power; somethinglike petaflop computing, which is about 106 timesgreater than the giga-level we have today. Well, notquite enough! That level of computing power mustbe available on a laptop computer. Why? It costs$100,000 to lift a pound of material to Mars. So, wecan’t afford to hook up a bunch of heavy-dutygigaflop computers and attempt to carry a ton ofcomputers onboard.

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NASA Establishes Institute for Nanoelectronics andComputing at Purdue

In June 2002, NASA selected Purdue to lead a new insti-tute for “nanoelectronics and computing” to developinnovative, high-performance technologies and prototypes.Initially, the research will support NASA’s space missions,particularly development of more compact, powerfulcomputers for autonomous spacecrafts, but there is long-term potential for commercial applications. In our guestcolumn, Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, a pioneer in nanotechnol-ogy from the NASA Ames Research Center, reflects on thenew institute and the future of nanotechnology researchfor NASA, military, and commercial systems.

Dean Linda P. B. KatehiInterim Head Leah JamiesonHead (January 2003) Mark J. T. SmithDirector of Development Margarita ContreniCorporate Relations Manager Amy NoahManaging Editor Korina Wilbert (BA ’89)Graphic Designer Rod HeckamanAlumni Notes Jill Comer

Wavelinks Advisory CommitteeFaculty: Jan P. Allebach

Rashid BashirDavid A. LandgrebeMark S. Lundstrom

Catherine P. RosenbergAndrew M. Weiner

Alumni: Soren M. Burkhart (BSCEE ’94)Donald E. Knebel (BSEE ’68)

John E. Layden III (BSEE ’63)

About our Contributing Writers:Sally Bond is a freelance writer based in West Lafayette, Indiana.Ruth Foster is a freelance writer based in Lafayette, Indiana.Kathy Mayer has operated a writing business in downtown Lafayette,Indiana, since 1987 and has been published in more than 50periodicals.Emil Venere is a science writer at the Purdue University NewsService.Articles herein may be reprinted by non-profit organizations withoutpermission. Appropriate credit would be appreciated.

Wavelinks is published two times a year by the Purdue UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering for alumni, faculty,

students, and friends. We welcome your comments. Correspondencemay be sent to:

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Strategic SupportI liked your strategic plan and wish you good luck with its implementation. Icertainly expect to support it as well as I can.

This coming year, I have agreed to head up a committee for Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)called the “Expansion Committee”. HKN has been losing its position in manyschools. We plan to get things going again with support from National which hasbeen missing in the past few years. Who is your faculty advisor for HKN? I wouldlike to contact him by e-mail if possible so his address would be appreciated. ThePurdue chapter is one of the most active and could supply some good ideas for thiscommittee . . .

Victor Green, BSEE ’49, MSEE ’53

Editor’s Note: Tom Talavage (BSCEE ’92, MSEE ’93) is one of HKN’s facultyadvisors and a former member. Check out our feature story this month on Purdue’saward-winning HKN Beta Chapter (page 14).

Alumni NotesThis . . . concerns a note that I saw in the spring/summer 2002 Wavelinks AlumniNotes. Under the 1942 listing was a note about Merle E. Ward, BSEE ’42. MerleWard was a senior at Mulberry High School, which is some 17 miles east ofLafayette, when I was a 7th grade student. Our school was small and there wereabout 100 plus students in the upper six grades. All six upper grades sat in a bigassembly room with the 7th graders on the window side of the room and the seniorson the opposite side which contained the small library and access to the exteriorhallway. Merle sat in the row of desks beside the library and I on the window side ofthe room. I had sisters in the 9th and 11th grade so had information sources all overthe assembly room. My eldest sister told me at some time during the school year thatMerle was going to Purdue to study electrical engineering. Incidentally, Merle wasblonde haired and a handsome young man, according to my 11th grade sister.

I had long been interested in science and arithmetic. When I learned that he wasgoing to Purdue to study electrical engineering I decided at that time that I, too,would go to Purdue and study electrical engineering. Merle graduated from highschool and went on to Purdue. I had not heard anything about Merle since thattime, some 64 years ago, until the notice in the Alumni Notes. I had not forgottenhim, as he was the primary reason why I studied what I did. I graduated in thePurdue February Class of 1948 with a BSEE in electrical engineering . . .

Lee E. Fickle, BSEE ’48

Purdue Days Across America January 17 Tucson, AZPurdue Days Across America January 18 Phoenix, AZPurdue Days in Indiana January 21 Jasper County, Rensselaer, INPurdue Days Across America February 1 Dallas, TXPurdue Days Across America February 8 Naples, FLPurdue Days in Indiana February 18 Whitley County, Columbia City, INPurdue Days Across America February 22 Ft. Wayne, INPurdue Days Across America March 6–9 Los Angeles and San Jose, CAPurdue Days in Indiana March 28 Scott County, Scottsburg, INPurdue Days Across America April 12 Indianapolis, INECE Distinguished EngineeringAwards Ceremony April 25 Dinner, Elliot Hall of Music StageGala Weekend April 27 MSEE AtriumPurdue Days Across America May 9 Dearborn, MIMay Graduation May 17 & 18 MSEE Atrium

ECE Events for 2003

Purdue University School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

URETI At a Glance

Title: University Research Engineering andTechnology Institute (URETI) forNanoelectronics and Computing

Sponsors: National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration and the U.S. Department ofDefense

Twofold Mission: (1) Explore novel elec-tronic approaches for computing, data storage,and memory for more compact and powerfulcomputers. (2) Train the next generation ofscientists and engineers in nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology: An emerging science inwhich new materials and tiny structures arebuilt atom-by-atom, or molecule-by-molecule.

Future Home: Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnol-ogy Center in Discovery Park (scheduledcompletion in early 2005)

Director: Supriyo Datta, Purdue UniversityThomas Duncan Distinguished Professor ofElectrical and Computer Engineering

Multidisciplinary Team: Faculty from thePurdue Schools of Electrical and Computer,Chemical, and Biomedical Engineering;Chemistry; Materials Science; Physics; andPharmacy. Also, faculty from Cornell, North-western, and Yale Universities and the Univer-sities of Florida and California at San Diego

Grant: $3 million annually

Duration: Five to ten years, beginning inAugust 2002

Is anything like this possible with the state-of-the-art systems today? No. What about the nextgenerations of chips ten years down the road?Probably not. We need new, unconventional innova-tions in electronics and computing that can helpNASA with its future missions.

This was the motivation behind thenanoelectronics and computing topic of the NASAURETI (University Research Engineering andTechnology Institute) solicitation, a competitive bidfor proposal, open to all U.S. universities. Thewinner would receive $3 million per year for fiveyears, plus an optional three more years. Withmatching funds from industry, the yearly researchbudget would be substantially higher. We receivedproposals from institutions all across the country, inthe tens. A peer-review panel and NASA sourceselection picked the winner. It is a team led byPurdue. Congratulations! The team consists of thewho’s who in nanoelectronics, computing, sensors,and nanotechnology in general: Supriyo Datta,Mark Lundstrom, Mark Ratner (Northwestern),Mark Reed (Yale), Paul McEven (Cornell)…adream team indeed!

This consortium has proposed to investigatemolecular electronics, nanowire transistors, fault-tolerant architectures, adaptive systems, ultradensememory, and integrated sensors—all critical areasfor the development of future NASA, military, andcommercial systems.

What is also encouraging is the commitmentfrom the Purdue administration in terms of cost-sharing, infrastructures, and facilities. Purdue’scommitment, supported by the state of Indiana, tofoster interdisciplinary research in nanoscale scienceand technology and to be at the forefront of higher-learning institutions is commendable.

Congratulations again. We at NASA are lookingforward to working with you in paving the way fora new generation of space missions.

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Aworld without wires is the mantra of an interdisciplinaryCenter for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA) atPurdue University that should be launched officially at the

beginning of 2003. More than 80 faculty members from 11 schoolsand departments will collaborate with industry for research andeducation into wireless systems and applications. Watch for an in-depth look at the Center in the next issue of Wavelinks. Meanwhile,check out their Web site at http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~cath/cwsa.html.

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