The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has started a new student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

ACM is a worldwide professional society for workers in the computing field. Students who participate in a student chapter have the opportunity to participate in industry networking through such avenues as professional lectures and conferences. The professional society also offers an international collegiate programming contest. The group also provides resources that allow students to develop speaker series, recruiting opportunities, and dissemination of technical information in the computing field.

Yan Wan is the recipient of 2007 College of Engineering and Architecture Graduate Student Excellence Award.

While her strong interest in multidisciplinary research, mentorship of new students and excellent writing ability were factors that caught the eye of her mentors, it was the level of Yan Wan’s accomplishments for which she was selected for the $5,000 award.

“She’s really extraordinary in terms of her work effort and the results of those efforts,” Professor Sandip Roy, her advisor, said. “She has published in important journals and presented at significant conferences. Her work compares favorably to that of students in top-tier programs.”

10/26/07

PULLMAN, Wash − A Washington State University semiconductor research center has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV) to help develop nanoscale electronics for a new era of advanced satellite technology.

Faculty and students in the Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC), headquartered at Washington State University, will spend the next year on research to develop nanoscale circuits for defense and intelligent systems. It is also anticipated that the funding will lead to advancing the next generation of consumer electronics.

Pullman, Wash. — The Linux Users Group at Washington State University have been interviewed by radio and television stations around the Pacific Northwest, and have appeared live on CNN’s morning program on Monday, October 1, 2007. The story has appeared in both Canada and Australia.

The media frenzy centers around a “Nerd Auction”  originally planned by the group, in an effort to challenge the stereotypical image of computer science majors as “computer nerds.” 

The idea grew exponentially, and proceeds will be used to create an endowed scholarship for women in computer science at WSU.  They never expected this much publicity, and they never expected to raise enough money to create an endowment.

Pullman, WA  – Washington State University, a top-ranked research and teaching university, has added another endowed professorship to its nationally ranked School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  This gift further accelerates its momentum in academic leadership.

Students participating in a new National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer will be eating, drinking and sleeping their research. Literally.

The students in engineering and computer science will be working to build a "smart'' apartment that some of them will actually live in as part of their research projects relating to the development of "smart'' environments. The two-bedroom apartment will be in the Steptoe Buildings in Pullman, Wash.

A group of researchers in the Washington State University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, including professors Behrooz Shirazi and Diane Cook, recently received the three-year grant for the development of the program to promote the participation of undergraduates in research projects.

Washington State University has been selected as one of 40 colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant, designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.

Awarded to the WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the grant will provide an award package of HP products and a faculty stipend valued at more than $69,000.

Grant projects through this program will impact more than 4,000 students during the 2006-07 academic year. Each of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless Tablet PC technology to enhance learning in engineering, math, science, computer science or business courses.

Mike Turi, 21, a senior in Computer Engineering, recently received an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research proposal, Low-Power, High-Performance, Reliable Memories for Nanotechnology Reconfigurable Hardware. Turi is a member of the WSU High-Performance Computer Systems research team, led by Dr. José Delgado-Frias, that is currently performing research on a novel medium-grained reconfigurable hardware for digital signal processing.

Although he was not awarded the NSF fellowship this year, he plans to resubmit a revised proposal next year and will continue his research. A native of Boise, Idaho, Turi will begin work on his Masters in Computer Engineering at WSU this fall.

"It was a good experience to learn how to do research," Turi said. "Hopefully, it'll give me a jump start into my Master's level research."