ECE News

Fall 2009

• Richard Campbell was recently issued 4 patents in the High Frequency Measurements field:
  • United States Patent no. 7,609,077 October 27, 2009 Differential Signal Probe with integral balun
    Inventors: Richard Campbell, Eric W. Strid, Mike Andrews
  • United States Patent no. 7,449,899 November 11, 2008 Probe for High Frequency Signals
    Inventors: Richard L. Campbell, Michael Andrews, Lynh Bui
  • United States Patent no. 7,443,186 October 28, 2008 On-wafer test structures for Differential Signals
    Inventors: Eric Strid, Richard Campbell
  • United States Patent no. 7,403,028 July 22, 2008 Test structure and probe for differential signals
    Inventor: Richard Campbell
• Dr. Teuscher gave an invited tutorial on Emerging Technologies at the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009).

Summer 2009

• Supported by Intel Corporation, twenty Vietnamese undergraduate students have started their transition to PSU by attending summer programs in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Beginning this Fall, the students will complete their last two years of their Bachelor degrees in either Electrical or Computer Engineering at Portland State University. Please see the Business Journal for more information.
• Four summer interns joined Dr. Teuscher's lab this summer. The students are working on projects in the area of self-assembling nanoscale interconnects, biomolecular computing, self-assembling systems, and agent-based optimization methods for new computing architectures. The mission of Teuscher's lab is to study, rethink, model, and design the implementation of computations in living and non-living systems.
  
  Dr. Teuscher is also organizing the 2009 Summer Intern Seminar Series for interns in the ECE and CS department. For more information, click here.

From left to right: Lillian Olney, incoming PSU student in CS/ECE/biomedical informatics; Nolan Hergert, undergraduate student in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University; Erica Hose, Saturday Academy ASE intern, Centennial High School; Jonathan Aherne, Saturday Academy ASE intern, West Linn High School.

• Summer Interns Author Research Paper
  College summer intern Nolan Hergert (Carnegie Mellon University), Saturday Academy ASE high school summer intern Jonathan Aherne (West Linn High School), and PSU grad students Neha Parashar and Mrugesh Mote co-authored a paper entitled "Wire Cost and Comunication Analysis of Self-Assembled Interconnect Models for Networks-on-Chip." The paper investigates design trade-offs for self-assembled non-classical network topologies within a network-on-chip (NoC) simulation framework. The paper will be presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc'09) to be held in conjunction with the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-42) in New York, NY, USA. The research is lead by Dr. Christof Teuscher, who's research group (http://teuscher-lab.ece.pdx.edu) investigates future and emerging computing architectures and machines.

Spring 2009

• Professor XiangFu Zong, the President of the Shanghai Institute of Information Science and Technology visited the PSU campus from April 1 - 3, 2009. The Institute is the education partner of PSU in Shanghai.

Pictured from left: Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, ECE Chair; XiangFu Zong, President of the Shanghai Institute of Information Science and Technology; Prof. Judy Reed of IELS; MCECS Dean Dick Knight; Wuchi Feng, CS Chair; and Marcia Fischer, MCECS Assistant Dean.

• Click here to view our 2008-2009 gradutes and award winners, graduate pictures and photos from our Spring 2009 Graduation Ceremony.
• Dr. Teuscher recently became a full member of the Sigma Xi scientific research society and a researcher at the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI).
• The ECE Senior Capstone Team of Amra Ljucevic, Emily Smith and Stephen Zhuo won third place in the Engineering and Physics category of the Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium which took place at PSU on April 3, 2009. The title of their poster was "Exploring the World of Ocean Acoustics by Real Time Data Gathering and Transmission". This research is sponsored by The Nature Conservancy with the objective being to design an underwater acoustic recording device for monitoring sounds around coral reefs (and other marine protected areas). Since fish and other marine life make a variety of sounds these acoustic recordings are an important diagnostic tool for determining the health of these ecosystems.  The recording device is built around the Google G1 phone and the goal is to record, save, and wirelessly transmit acoustic data, GPS position and photographs. The team is advised by Associate Professor Dr. Martin Siderius. Click here to view their poster.
• Dr. Dan Hammerstrom jointly ran a workshop with Intel on March 2-3 titled, "Technology Maturity for Massively Parallel Adaptive Computing - A Workshop to Chart Architectural Readiness of Real-World Applications," at Portland State University.  It was funded by Intel, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.
• Branimir Pejcinovic has been invited to give a talk on "Applications and Recent Developments in THz Research" at the MEET conference in Croatia, May 25-29, 2009.
• Christof Teuscher was invited to join the program committee of the 2009 Spatial Computing Workshop and of the International Workshop on Natural Computing (IWNC), 2009. He was also nominated as financial chair of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, Nanoarch 2009.
• Two ECE professors were honored by President Wim Wiewel in a ceremony on March 10th for their multiple years of service. Marek Perkowski has been at PSU for 25 years and Richard Tymerski has been here for 20. Thanks for all of your hard work!
• Christof Teuscher has been invited to give a tutorial on emerging technologies at the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), which will be held in San Francisco, Jul 29 - Aug 1, 2009, in conjunction with the Design Automation Conference (DAC-2009).

Winter 2009

• Dr. Dan Hammerstrom has been appointed an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.
• Dr. Marek Perkowski is one of six PSU professors to be awarded the 2008 Excellence in Community-based Research award. The award is giving to faculty members or teams who use their research to aid in the growth of the community. Dr. Perkowski's award is based on his ongoing work with a group of 12-15 year olds in the subjects of intelligent robotics and quantum computing. Many of the students have presented papers at international conferences and have received numerous awards, including Yale Fan who was awarded a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellow Laureate Project.
• ECE Professor and Chair Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske has been elected to serve on the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Board of Governors for the period of 2008-2010.
• In December, 2008, Dr. Dan Hammerstrom co-organized a workshop NIPS (Neural Information Processing Conference) with a group from CMU on "Parallel Implementations of Learning Algorithms: What Have You Done For Me Lately?"
  
• At the 2008 Congress on Evolutionary Computation in June, Christopher Jorgensen, Professor Garrison Greenwood, and Peyman Arefi, won the Best Overall Paper award for "Intrinsic Fault Recovery for Aging Effects in Embedded Systems." A $250 honorarium was attached to the award.
• Ph.D. candidate Jorge Quijano has been awarded a Graduate Traineeship Award by the Office of Naval Research to support his ongoing research on Ocean Bottom Scattering at mid-frequencies. Read more.

Fall 2008

• Dr. Robert Daasch and his students Liwei Ning and Amit Nahar have received the 2008 Technical Excellence Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). They will receive a $5000 award for their work titled "Outlier Screening for Reduced Burn-In."
• 21 ECE students made the Dean and President's list for Fall 2008. Click here to view the list
• Dr. Richard Campbell has been awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for NTR no. 45494: "On-Wafer Measurement of the World's First Submillimeter-wave Silicon CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) at 324 GHz." The award represents Dr. Campbell's work with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• Dr. Marek Perkowski is one of six PSU professors to be awarded the 2008 Excellence in Community-based Research award. The award is giving to faculty members or teams who use their research to aid in the growth of the community. Dr. Perkowski's award is based on his ongoing work with a group of 12-15 year olds in the subjects of intelligent robotics and quantum computing. Many of the students have presented papers at international conferences and have received numerous awards, including Yale Fan who was awarded a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellow Laureate Project.
• ECE Professor and Chair Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske has been elected to serve on the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Board of Governors for the period of 2008-2010.

Summer 2008

• The ECE department held its second annual departmental graduation and awards ceremony on June 13th. Dr. Branimir Pejcinovic was the master of ceremony and Frank Goovaerts, Director of Engineering at Tektronix, was the keynote speaker. Click here to see the graduates and award winners.

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