Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Spring / Summer 2001

Dr. Reza Adhami

CHAIR’ S CORNER

Dr. Timothy Boykin Selected to Receive UAH Foundation Research & Creative Achievement Award

Three ECE Alumni were honored this year at the Order of the Engineer ceremonies. You can read about them on page 3. The University of Alabama in Huntsville has recently initiated a proposal to offer a new program, Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE), as a new degree program through the College of Engineering (Engineering Track) and the College of Science (Computer Science Track). For information regarding the computer science track, contact the Department of Computer Science. This program is expected to be offered in the Spring of 2002. The Master of Science in Software Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department unconditional admission requirements are:

A Bachelor’s degree from ABET or CSAB approved programs with a minimum of 3.0 out of 4.0 scale, GRE Score of 1700, and TOEFL score of 600 (for international students). For conditional admission, contact the ECE Department.

Prerequisites: Programming in C, C++ or Java Data Structures, Discrete Structures

Algorithm Design and Analysis Operating Systems Computer Architecture Program Structure: 33 credit hours A Sample Program of Study for MSSE, Engineering Track, can be found on page 5.

Dr. Timothy Boykin has been selected to receive the UAH Foundation Research and Creative Achievement Award for Applied Research/Technology. The purpose of this award is to recognize faculty and professional research staff members who have received national and international recognition in their fields, to stimulate research and creative achievement, and to emphasize that research and creative activities are integral to the mission of UAH. These awards are open to any faculty member, professional research staff member or professional research team who has achieved international recognition as a result of their scholarly contributions. “UAH has afforded me the opportunity to contribute to the field of nano-structure modeling over the past eight and one-half years. During that time I have been fortunate to work with many talented colleagues, here at UAH and elsewhere, on a wide range of problems in both research and pedagogy. I thank these colleagues, too numerous to mention, for their collaborations and I would like to express my gratitude to the UAH Foundation for this Award.” Tim Boykin Dr. Timothy Boykin has made many important contributions to research in the field of nano-structure/nano-device modeling over the past decade. These contributions include the first numerically-stable multi-band tight-binding treatment of nano-devices with one-dimensional confinement; methods for properly taking into account the incompleteness in any tight-binding model; and numerically-stable boundary conditions for tight-binding models. Dr. Boykin is well known for his research on full-bandstructure modeling of nanodevices such as resonant-tunneling diodes and quantum wells. Dr. Boykin’s Current Professional Activities: • Tight-binding models for strained systems, including strained quantum dots. • Properties of nano-structure models. • Modeling optical interactions in nano-structures within the tight-binding

framework. • Continuing collaborations in the above areas with colleagues at JPL and UC-

Riverside. For a recent publications list turn to page 11.

Dr. Rhonda Gaede Honored by UAH College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Each year the College of Engineering recognizes the outstanding achievements of both junior and senior faculty members in the areas of teaching, research and service. This year Dr. Rhonda Gaede was honored at the Alabama Society of Professional Engineering Week Banquet for the College of Engineering's Outstanding Junior Faculty Member. Dr. Rhonda Kay Gaede was hired in September 1992 as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In 1994, she joined the tenure track as an Assistant Professor, earning tenure and being promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2000. She received her BSEE degree in 1981 from Southern Methodist University and her MSEE and PhD degrees in 1986 and 1988, respectively from The University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of interest are computer architecture, hardware description languages, performance monitoring, and optical interconnects.

Commencement 2000-2001, ECE Graduates Doctors of Philosophy Maha Saad Elnaggar Field: Computer Engineering Dissertation: Analysis and Simulation of an Integrated Optical Receiver Advisor: Dr. Rhonda Kay Gaede Lisa Gamble Blackwell Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Characterization of the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals Using Frequency Resolved Optical Gating Advisor: Dr. Richard Fork John Wayne Brooks Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: The Detection of Buried Non-Metallic Anti-Personnel Land Mines Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami Tony Franklin Gatlin Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Modeling of the Nonlinear Response of Photorefractive Crystals Advisor: Dr. Nagendra Singh Abdel Monem Ali Ahmed Saleh Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Multiscale Ridge Filter Fingerprint Identification System Advisor: Dr. Reza Adhami Mark Anthony Stedham Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: A Numerical Investigation of Pulse and Beam Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Media Using the Full Adaptive Wavelet Transform (FAWT) Advisor: Dr. Partha Banerjee Luis C. Trevino Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Theory and Application of a Micro-Clustering Tool for Exploratory Data Analysis in Pattern Recognition Systems Advisor: Dr. William A. Porter Ming Hsiung Weng Field: Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Design and Optimization of Deep Sub-Micron BiCMOS Circuits Advisor: Dr. Fat Duen Ho

Masters of Science

Masters with Thesis Matthew David Bender (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Nagendra Singh Barry Kent Daniel (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. John Stensby Aimee R. Dorman (Electrical), Thesis Advisor: Dr. Gregory Nordin William D. Garrett (Computer) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rhonda Kay Gaede Shuaib Ahmed Hanief (Computer) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Krishna Kavi Robert A. Hillman (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. B. Earl Wells Offa Shivers McCollum III (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. John Stensby Timothy G. Mester (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Laurie L. Joiner Alireza Moshtaghi (Computer) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Krishna Kavi Vijay Pandiarajan (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Laurie L. Joiner Andrew Brian Phillips (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Fat Duen Ho Saikat Saha (Electrical) Thesis Advisor: Dr. Nagendra Singh

Non-Thesis Masters Jason Ryan Amos (Electrical), Scott C. Bailey (Electrical), Sathishkumar Balasubramanian (Electrical), Vidhyacharan Bhaskar (Electrical), Cyril H. Bryan (Electrical), Bradley William Butler (Electrical), Kim Wang Chan (Electrical), Chia Chi Chiang (Electrical), David Lee Cockrell (Computer), Steven B. Conrad (Computer), Raymond Edward Daniels III (Electrical), Quintin D. Davenport (Electrical), Grant David Degenhardt (Electrical), Chun Dong (Computer), Armaghan Ebrahimi (Computer), Toby Harlan Flynn (Electrical), Brian Keith Jones (Electrical), Rodney Dale Lee (Electrical), Ren Mao (Mechanical), Jeffrey H. McClure (Electrical), Brandon Douglas McMahan (Electrical), Maziar P. Nezhad (Electrical), Ha Hai Nguyen (Electrical)., Lawrence C. Pollard (Electrical), Ramanan Rajagopalan (Electrical), Michael Durante Sandifer (Electrical), Todd Hardwick Sims (Electrical), Choon Wah Tan (Electrical), Tonya Renee Thorne (Computer), Antonios Valkanas (Electrical), Jon Thomas Zakrzewski (Electrical)

Bachelors o Science f Fahd Abidi (Electrical) Sparkle Le'Cole Ambrose (Electrical) Steven John Anacker (Optical) Uday Chandra Annambhoda (Computer) Joseph Randall Ary (Electrical) Scott Goodman Baker (Computer) Majed Batais (Electrical) Stephen Eric Beard (Electrical) Bryan Carl Black (Electrical) William Blake Burden (Computer) Robert D. Burrough (Computer) Adam Wayne Cabler (Computer) Cheryl Beckman Campbell (Electrical) Lori Alyn Campbell (Electrical) Corey Dwayne Carter (Electrical) Cindy Chen (Computer) Howard Donald Steve Chin (Electrical) Charles Michael Clackley (Electrical) Samuel G. Clayton (Electrical) Robert H. Collier III (Electrical) Amir F. Contractor (Electrical) Christopher Michael Cornelius (Electrical) Jennifer R. Davis (Electrical) Alexander M. Efimenko (Electrical) Ashley Neal Elledge (Electrical) Tommy Joseph Ferster (Electrical James Ernest Gomez (Computer)

Jason Scott Gurley (Computer) Christopher Allan Heine (Optical) Stanley David Hendrix (Electrical) Lee Eric Hicklen (Electrical) James Preston Hodge, Jr. (Electrical) Steven Sean Hodges (Computer) Tabitha Michelle Ivey (Electrical) Dreamlyn Shana Johnson (Electrical) Gregory Johnson (Electrical) Scott Johnston (Electrical) Karla Renae Key (Electrical) Eric G. King (Electrical) Neel K. Lakhani (Computer) Tunothy Wayne Lindsey (Electrical) Basel Ali Mahafzah (Computer) Charles Albert Mandy III (Electrical) John Graham McCord (Electrical) William Michael Milling (Electrical/Optical) Shrife M. Mohamed (Electrical) Jayson Todd Morris (Electrical) Mark Stanley Motowski (Computer) Raymond Craig Myers (Electrical) Gordon M. Neeley (Electrical) Yeow Chye Ng (Computer) Taeho Oh (Electrical) Geoffrey David Oltmans (Electrical) Luther Robert Palmer (Electrical)

Raymond David Patterson (Electrical) Stephen Michael Pitts (Electrical) Brent Christopher Priddy (Electrical) Chadwick Anthony Reaves (Electrical) Crystal Renee Rhodes (Optical) James Carlos Romine III (Electrical) James E. Saare II (Electrical) William Darmawan Santosa (Electrical) Lisa Seabrook (Electrical) Ronald William Seagrave (Electrical) Ronald James Seal, Jr. (Computer) Aravind Tiruvaiyar Seshagiri (Computer) Minhaz Hayder Siddiqui (Computer) David Patrick Smith (Computer) Jackson Andrew Southard, Jr. (Electrical) Mary Anne Stadtlander (Electrical) Donald A. Sturgeon (Electrical) Julian Dale Swann (Electrical) Elizabeth Anne Tanner (Optical) Edgar David Taylor, Jr. (Computer) Larry Wayne Thomas (Electrical) Thomas James Thrasher (Electrical) Emi Siew Sieng Toh (Electrical) Dane Robinson Walther (Computer) Benjamin Skyler Wells (Computer) Gehrig Louis Woods (Computer) Jamie Michael Woods (Electrical) Ri On Yi (Electrical)

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Order of the Engineer – Alumni Awards 2001

Kelly Grider Dr. Kelly Grider received the Distinguished Engineer Award for his outstanding contributions in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Grider has a unique place in the history of UAH. He has the unique distinction of being the first student to earn the Master of Science in Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from UAH and the first student to complete all of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering in Huntsville. Dr. Grider received the Master of Science in Engineering from UAH in 1965, and the Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Alabama in 1972. Being first always establishes new levels of expectation. It opens new doors for the individual and for those who follow. Dr. Grider paved the way for graduate engineering at UAH. While working on his graduate degrees at UAH, Dr. Grider maintained his full-time engineering position at the U. S. Army Missile Command where he quickly advanced through the managerial ranks. In 1973, Dr. Grider was promoted to the newly created position of Director of the Advanced Simulation Center, a major new Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation Facility at the U.S. Army Missile Command. He held this position for 13 years and in 1982 he was promoted into the Senior Executive Service. In 1986, Dr. Grider became the Director of the Systems Simulation and Development Directorate, where he supervised the efforts of approximately 300 engineers and scientists. This is Dr. Grider’s second UAH alumni award. In 1999 he received the UAH Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Lewis N. Graham

Mr. Lewis N. Graham received the Distinguished Young Engineer Award for his outstanding contributions in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Graham received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of West Florida. Subsequently, he received his Master of Science in Engineering in Electrical Engineering from UAH in 1994. Mr. Graham was instrumental in the formation of Z/I Imaging. Z/I Imaging is a joint venture owned by Intergraph Corporation and Carl Zeiss. Mr. Graham led all negotiations, managed the formation agreements, and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Z/I Imaging since it’s formation in October of 1998. Mr. Graham has led Z/I Imaging from start-up to earnings of $43M in the first fiscal year and an operating profit of $10M with the top market share in the Earth Imaging business. Mr. Graham is currently leading the development of the world’s first large format digital camera used in mapping/engineering applications set to ship in early 2001. Before the formation of Z/I Imaging, Mr. Graham worked for the Intergraph Corporation as Manager of Federal Imaging Systems, Manager of Commercial Imaging Systems, and Executive Vice President of Mapping and Civil Engineering. While serving in the United States Navy, he was a Physics instructor at the United States Naval Nuclear Power School. Mr. Graham is a clear example of an excellent engineer with great leadership.

Gurmej S. Sandhu Dr. Gurmej S. Sandhu received the Distinguished Engineer Award for his outstanding contributions in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sandhu received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University in 1968, his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1969, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from UAH in 1979. Dr. Sandhu is highly respected in the Huntsville industrial community. Dr. Sandhu is currently Chief Executive Officer of Sigmatech, Inc., which he founded in 1986, and President of the Sigma Interactive Division. Last year Sigmatech generated more than $13M in annual sales and employs more than 150 people worldwide. Sigma Interactive Division is a new venture led by Dr. Sandhu that produces high-end CBT and WBT products for commercial distribution. Sigmatech, with headquarters in Huntsville, has eight offices in the United States and India. Prior to starting Sigmatech, Dr. Sandhu was Senior Vice President and Manager of the System Division of Simulation Technologies, Inc. There he was responsible for the development of models of the radar environment and reducing them to efficient real-time algorithms. Going backward in time, Dr. Sandhu joined Boeing Aerospace Company in Huntsville in 1980 where he was the principal engineer for the development of RF target modeling. Prior to that he worked General Research as a program manager to develop six degrees of freedom simulation for the AMRAAM missile system. His group developed and verified missile-borne radar signal simulation models. Dr. Sandhu began his career at Teledyne Brown Engineering as a project leader in the analysis of the missile defense program.

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Dr. Fat Duen Ho 20-Year Service Award Recipient

Dr. Dashen Shen 10-Year Service Award Recipient

Professor Fat Duen Ho received a 20-year Service Award at the Spring 2001 awards luncheon. Fat Duen Ho received his Ph.D. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 1976. He joined the Department of Electrical Sciences and Systems Engineering at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1976. From 1977 to 1980 he was at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. At present, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has been doing research in the areas of microelectronic devices, circuits, and materials. His present research interests focus on microelectronic device modeling for integrated circuit design, nonvolatile semiconductor memories, metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor field effect transistors, and RF (radio frequency) MOSFET modeling for wireless communications. Dr. Ho was awarded NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowships in 1985, 1986, and 1987. Dr. Ho has introduced and taught the graduate and undergraduate courses in Device Modeling for Integrated Circuit Design, Microelectronic Devices and Integrated Circuits, VLSI Devices, VLSI Circuits, Laser Electronics, CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits Design, and Solid State Fundamentals. He enjoys teaching, research, and supervising good graduate students to write their dissertations/theses. His hobbies are walking and reading.

Professor Dashen Shen received a 10-year Service Award at the Spring 2001 awards luncheon. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1988, Professor Shen spent three years as a staff scientist in the R&D group of a high technology company in Denver, Colorado. He joined the ECE Department at UAH in 1991 where he has taught 9 different courses in the department. He has extensive research experience in thin film semi-conductor devices and materials, and flat panel displays. Dr. Shen has been PI or key personnel in 11 funded research projects and published more than 80 research papers. His work was cited in many journals. His research experience includes: amorphous silicon and polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors, integrated amorphous silicon image sensors, high efficiency amorphous silicon single junction solar cells, high efficiency a-Si/a-Si tandem solar cells, and high-deposition-rate amorphous silicon solar cells. Some of his amorphous silicon solar cells hold record high efficiencies in their categories in the USA. His current research interests include thin film materials such as amorphous silicon and polycrystalline silicon, SiN, SiO2 and a-C:H (diamond-like coating); devices such as thin film transistors, imaging sensors, solar cells and hybrid devices of amorphous silicon and crystalline silicon. Dr. Shen is directing a research project on new concepts on active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) fabrication with DARPA support.

Class of 2001 ADTRAN TDP Graduates

Pictured above at the ADTRAN graduation ceremony (left to right): Reza Adhami (UAH Chair of ECE), Frank Franz (UAH President), Jeff McClure (ADTRAN TDP graduate), J.T. Zakrzewski (ADTRAN TDP graduate), Dale Lee (ADTRAN TDP graduate), Dr. Jerry Moore (ADTRAN Vice President Emeritus), Howard Thraikill (ADTRAN President), and George Aunon (UAH Dean of Engineering).

We celebrated the graduation of the second Master's students from our new ADTRAN Technical Development Program (TDP) in Electrical and Computer Engineering on June 12, 2001. Three students graduated from TDP in Spring/Summer 2001. This was not simply a worthy achievement for these individual students, but it is a milestone for a unique partnership between UAH and ADTRAN, and a tribute to a new kind of alliance between academia and industry. The TDP is a two-year program that integrates engineering design work experience with university graduate study. TDP participants are full time employees at ADTRAN while active in the program. Participants receive paid, 50% released time from work during academic terms when taking nine semester hours. Both internal and external candidates may apply to the program (e.g., current employees, new graduates, and experienced non-employees). TDP participants are selected using the normal evaluation and selection process utilized by ADTRAN.

Jeff McClure received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa in May 1998. Jeff began working for ADTRAN directly after receiving his degree in May 1998. Jeff received his MSE degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2001 J.T. Zakrzewski received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla in December 1998. J.T. began working for ADTRAN in January 1999 when he became a full time TDP participant. J.T. received his MSE degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2001. Dale Lee received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in August 1997. Dale began working for ADTRAN in December 1996. Dale received his MSE degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2001.

Congratulations ADTRAN Graduates!

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Dr. Alex Poularikas 15-Year Service Award Recipient

IEEE Huntsville Section Honors Dr. Reza Adhami At the 50th Anniversary of Engineer's Week Banquet, held at the Von Braun Center South Hall on Friday, February 23, 2001, the banquet's master of ceremonies, and later IEEE Huntsville Section Chairman, Eric Grigorian, presented awards to five honorees on behalf of the Section.

Professor Alexander Poularikas received a 15-Year Service Award at the 2001 UAH Service Award luncheon. Dr. Poularikas joined the UAH ECE Department in the fall of 1985. He served as ECE Chair in the first four years. He has been involved for many years in research related to space applications. He was a Faculty Fellow at NASA for two consecutive times, doing research on wave propagation in random media, radio-wave scintillations due to ionosphere, and the effect of ionosphere on the accuracy of satellite orbit defamation. Dr. Poularikas has also been involved in image science, image detection through random media; specifically, he was involved in aero-optics research of hypervelocity vehicles. At present he is involved in random digital signal processing, spectral estimation and adaptive filtering for signal processing and system identification. Dr. Poularikas has authored eight books listed below. The book Signals and Systems has been adopted by more than 45 universities in the United States and abroad. Electromagnetics with S. Seely, 790 p., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1979. Electrical Engineering: Introduction and Concepts with S. Seely, 850 p., Matrix Publishers, Beverton, Oregon, 1982. Workbook with S. Seely, 120 p., Matrix Publishers, Beverton, Oregon, 1982. Signals and Systems, with S. Seely, 970 p., Brooks/Cole, Inc., Boston, MA, 1985, Four printings. Elements of Signal Analysis, with S. Seely, 512 p., PWS-KENT, Boston, A., 1987, 1988. Signals and Systems with S. Seely, 1012 p., PWS-KENT, Boston, MA, Second Edition, 1992. Signals and Systems with S. Seely, 1012 p., corrected edition, Krieger Publ. Co., Melbourne, FL, 1995. Transforms and Applications Handbook, Editor, CRC Press, 1995. The Handbook of Formulas and Tables for Signal Processing, CRC Press, 1998. ___________________________________________ ECE Chair’s Corner (continued)

Sample Program of Study for MSSE Engineering Track

Software Engineering Core: CS 650, the Software Engineering Process + 3 courses approved by an ECE Faculty in Computer Engineering Program. Computer Engineering Core Courses, 4 courses, 12 credit hours. ECE Department Capstone Courses ( three one-hour courses) CM 601, Communication for Engineers EE 691, Graduate Seminars I EE 692, Graduate Seminars II CPE or CS Software Studio (2 Courses)

For More Information Please Contact ECE Department: Phone: (256) 824-6224 Fax: (256) 824-6803

Email: eceinfo@ece.uah.edu

Dr. Reza Adhami was honored as Outstanding Educator of the Year. He has been Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UAH since 1998. His background includes progressively more responsible teaching positions at UAH since 1985, as well as 20 years of research experience in the areas of digital signal processing, digital image processing, speech recognition, pattern recognition, and data/image compression. Furthermore, Dr. Adhami has been a prolific author with seven published technical articles or equivalent during 2000 alone, mostly in the area of wavelet analysis. Moreover, Dr. Adhami is a recipient of the Maurice Simpson Award for excellence in technical publication from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and numerous other awards.

IEEE Huntsville Section Chairman, Eric Grigorian, presents the "Outstanding Educator" award to Dr. Reza Adhami.

The "Outstanding Educator" award is given annually by the

IEEE Huntsville Section to a member who, in the opinion of the Section Executive Committee, has made outstanding contributions to the field of education. While the award could be made to an educator at any level (K-University) in fact, it has always gone to ECE faculty connected with UAH or A&M Universities as they usually are members of their professional society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Membership is a requirement for the recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Educator Award. Dr. Adhami’s nomination was unanimous, and was based on a combination of his many years of teaching at the University level leading to his current position of Department Chair and his distinguished research and publication record.

Furthermore, there were many professional societies and UAH engineering organizations, which participated in the E-Week awards banquet, including pillars of the community. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions gave an introductory speech. Also, Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer was in attendance for the entire ceremony, following her brief remarks. The UAH IEEE Student Branch and their Faculty Advisor, Dr. Laurie Joiner attended to participate in the banquet ceremony and to congratulate Dr. Adhami. Interestingly enough, the IEEE Huntsville Section Chairman, Eric Grigorian, shown in the above photo presenting the award to Dr. Adhami, is a UAH alumnus and was the Student Branch Chairman in 1983-84. Eric was also the President of the Engineering Student Council at the time, a group that is currently in the initial stages of being re-established by the College of Engineering.

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The AUVSI Pathfinder Branch is shown presenting a certificate and funding grant to sponsor a UAH entry in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. From left to right are Dr. Reza Adhami, professor and chair of the ECE department, Dr. John Piccirillo, ECE faculty advisor for the project, Ms. Mary Lou Cole, President of the AUVSI Pathfinder Chapter, and Ms. Tracy Edmonds, AUSVI Pathfinder Chapter secretary.

MARVIN Enters the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

A group of students from Electrical and Computer Engineering have pooled their efforts to design and build a robotic vehicle (MARVIN) to enter the Intelligent Ground Competition (IGVC). This competition is an annual event sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and co-sponsored by the US Department of Transportation, FORD Motor Co., the Society for Automotive Engineers, the Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, United Defense, General Dynamics, Oakland University, and Fanuc Robotics (the competition rules are posted at: www.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/PROF_AUVSI/rules01.html ).

The IGVC consists of four separate events, the autonomous challenge

competition, the vehicle design competition, the navigation challenge, and the follow-the-leader competition. The Autonomous challenge is the premier event and the one the UAH team is working towards. The team is very fortunate to be sponsored by Huntsville’s Pathfinder branch of the AUVSI. The photo shows the presentation of a participation certificate and a check to sponsor the project, which has been deposited in an UAH Foundation account.

The objective of the autonomous challenge is to build an autonomous unmanned ground robotic vehicle to negotiate around an outdoor obstacle course defined by white lane markers painted on a grassy field, under a prescribed time limit while staying within the 5 mph speed limit, and avoiding obstacles on the track. The track has different obstacles and backgrounds along the sinuous course of travel, which is between 300 and 600 feet long. Vehicles are normally between three and nine feet in length.

The UAH IGVC team has spent considerable time planning a vehicle

and has purchased the majority of the components for the initial research platform. This includes a mobile base, a surveillance camera for a vision system, Polaroid ultrasonic sensors for obstacle avoidance, an on-board computer system, and a remote control for emergency stops. The team has been given a state-of-the-art electronic compass by PNI Corporation. Yet to be procured are a laser scanner for path planning, and auxiliary lane detectors.

The team has named their entry MARVIN for Mobile Autonomous

Robotic Vehicle with Intelligent Navigation, and formed an UAH student organization, MARS – Mobile Autonomous Robotic Society.

The plan is to proceed in three stages. The first year has been devoted to

designing and building a research platform to test the sensor systems and the course navigation strategy. The team plans to enter the next competition to be held in Orlando, Florida, in July 2002. In early June of this year the team will be traveling to Oakland University in Rochester, MI to observe the competition (and the competitors). Now that the design and major components are in hand, expect to see this robotic vehicle roaming over an outdoor test track at UAH this summer.

IEEE CAR PROJECT In the Spring 2001 semester, an ECE student team designed and build a mobile robot for the annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Southeast Conference Student Hardware Competition, also know at UAH as the IEEE Car Project. Last year's robot, Phoenix, won first place at the competition in Nashville. This year's robot, WHIZard traveled to Clemson but experience programming problems and didn't do nearly as well. Students prepared for the contest by enrolling in a specal section of EE 412 - Senior Design Project, which is being offered again in the Fall 2001 semester. The playing field for the Spring 2001 competition was four by ten feet, and two teams competed to pickup 15 steel balls with a five minute period. This was a challenging assignment with lots of room for intricate strategy (complete rules and playing filed description are available at www.ece.clemson.edu/secon/rules.htm). Next year's contest is a departure from the last few years, and teams will compete in a robotic version of the game of pong. Rules and playing field description are online at http://www.ee.sc.edu/orgs/Secon2002/

SoutheastCon 2001 Student Hardware Competition Playing Field.

Building an entry for the contest would not be possible

without the generous support of outside donors, and, as in past years, this year’s entry benefited from the support of the IEEE Huntsville Section. A grant was presented to the department for development of the UAH entry.

Representatives of the IEEE Huntsville Section present a grant for the support of a UAH entry in the IEEE Student Hardware Competition. Shown from left to right are Dr. Eric Grigorian, President of the IEEE Huntsville Section; Dr. Laurie Joiner, ECE Assistant Professor and IEEE UAH Student Branch advisor; Keith Jadus, ECE student and IEEE Huntsville Section Treasurer; Dr. John Piccirillo, EE 412 Instructor; and Dr. Reza Adhami, Professor and Chair of ECE.

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Laboratory News…

Dennis Hite, ECE Lab Manager

Integrated Biometrics Lab Biometrics are measured human physical and behavioral characteristics that can be used for the purpose of personal identification (associating an identity with a person). Using biometrics, positive personal identification can be provided without reliance on items that can be lost, forged, forgotten, or stolen. Common biometrics includes fingerprints, hand geometry, facial features, speech pattern, iris characteristics, retinal features, etc.

I hope everyone is having a good semester. Just as a reminder, if there are any equipment or software problems in the Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Rapid Prototyping, Real-Time Systems, Communications, Microcomputer, ADTRAN or Multimedia labs please report them as soon as possible to your instructor or me. The sooner we know about problems the quicker we can correct them. The department has ordered several new Oscilloscopes and Digital Multimeters. By the summer 2001 term, the equipment upgrades to the Electronics Laboratories, EB225/EB227, will be completed. Each station will be equipped with a Pentium II workstation, Digital/Analog trainer, Instek 8135 Digital Multimeter, and a BK Precision 2125B 30 MHz oscilloscope. Several of the retired Tektronix 60Mhz oscilloscopes will be placed in the Rapid Prototyping and Microcomputer laboratories. At the beginning of the spring 2001 semester 10 Pentium III workstations were purchased for the Real Time Systems Laboratory (EB247 shown below).

The computers were purchased with specific hardware and 19” monitors making them suitable for running the newest version of the Linux and Windows 2000 operating systems. This should be good news for the students enrolled in the Operating Systems and Real Time and Embedded Systems courses, as there are more stations available to complete lab assignments.

______________________________ Users of Engineering computer systems should know about the support web site at http://support.eng.uah.edu. Among the resources available are: - an online help request - the online account request - online documentation for several software packages - the Frequently Asked Questions page ("the FAQ") - lab hours

- support news

http://support.eng.uah.edu

Researchers in the new Integrated Biometrics Lab (right to left): Peter Meenen, Paul Cox, and Mark Horton. Items associated with personal identification that can be lost, forged, forgotten, or stolen include keys, ATM cards, credit cards, debit cards, drivers licenses, PINs, safe combinations, passwords, signatures, etc. An identification system which uses biometrics offers accurate personal identification and the added luxury of not having to keep up with cards and tokens or relying on recollection of PINs, passwords, or combinations. Of all the biometrics, fingerprint based personal identification (PI) is the most mature, proven, and accepted technology. It’s not surprising then that fingerprint based PI is the most active area of biometric research and development. This is due (at least in part) to several factors: (a) fingerprints are the primary means of identification used by Governments and law enforcement agencies the world over, and (b) finger-scan technology has matured becoming relatively inexpensive, easy to integrate, manage, and use. Moreover, finger-scan (often called live-scan) technology’s replacement of the messy ink-and-roll fingerprint acquisition procedure has reduced the criminal stigma associated with fingerprints. A fingerprint is the pattern of ridges and valleys on the surface of the finger. The two primary template matching technologies used in fingerprint based PI are minutia matching (minutia are local ridge discontinuities) and global matching (correlation of global ridge patterns). In addition to these, there are some promising techniques purported to incorporate the best discriminative features of both. Fingerprints have traditionally been classified according to their global ridge patterns using the Henry System. Well over one hundred years old, the primary Henry System ridge pattern classifications include: the left loop, the right loop, the arch, the tented arch, and the whorl. If a fingerprint based PI system is operating in “identification mode” (as with most law enforcement and forensics applications), the template database can be sub-divided into ridge pattern classifications to help reduce the identification time. For example, if a live-scan fingerprint is classified as an arch, it would reduce the identification time if only the arch portion of the template database were searched. This is especially important when dealing with huge databases (like the FBI’s) containing millions of fingerprints. The Integrated Biometrics Laboratory at UAH is established to develop modern fingerprint identification systems to replace the current identification systems such as passwords, credit cards, budges, keys, etc. In addition, the lab is involved in other types of biometrics including facial features and speech recognition.

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FALL 2001 ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSE LIST Course

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Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering EE100 3 Concepts in Digital Signals and Sys EE506 3 Communication Theory EE201 1 Digital Logic Design Lab EE510 3 ST: Communication Engineering Lab EE202 3 Intro to Digital Logic Design EE516 3 Digital Electronics EE300 3 Electrical Circuit Analysis I EE521 3 Microcomputers EE301 1 Electronic Measurement Lab EE522 3 Advanced Logic Design EE305 1 Electronic Devices and Design Lab I EE527 3 Electromagnetic Waves EE307 3 Electricity and Magnetism EE528 3 Analy & Comp Methods Elec Engr I EE310 3 Solid State Fundamentals EE532 3 Optical Systems Design EE313 3 Electrical Circuit Analysis II EE534 3 Optical Fiber Communications EE315 3 Intro Electronic Analysis & Design EE541 3 Optics I EE321 3 Computer Organization EE542 3 Physical Optics EE382 3 Analytical Methods for Continuous-Time Systems EE548 3 Intro to Computer Networks EE383 3 Analyt Meth for Multivariable & Discrete-Time Sys EE607 3 Robotic Systems Control EE384 1 Digital Signal Processing Laboratory EE609 3 Electromagnetic Field Theory EE410 3 ST: Communication Engineering Lab EE610 3 Selected Topics: ECE EE411 3 Electric Power System EE612 3 Graduate Design Project EE412 3 Sr. Design Project: IEEE Car Project EE616 3 Microelectronic Devices/Integrated Circuits EE414 3 Analog & Digital Filter Design EE619 3 Intro Radar Systems EE420 3 Random Signals & Noise EE648 3 Digital Signal Processing EE421 3 Microcomputers EE654 3 Optical Testing EE422 3 Advanced Logic Design EE691 1 Graduate Seminar I EE424 3 Intro Data Communications Networks EE697 3 Master’s Project for Plan II EE425 3 Intro to Control and Robotic Systems EE699 3 Master’s Thesis EE426 3 Communication Theory EE701 3 Advanced Linear Control Theory EE427 3 VLSI Design I EE704 3 Nonlinear Control Systems EE436 3 Digital Electronics EE706 3 Kalman Filter Tech Con & Signal Processing EE447 3 Electromagnetic Waves EE710 3 Selected Topics in ECE EE448 3 Analytical and Computational Methods Elec Engr I EE744 3 Coding Theory & Spread Spectrum EE451 3 Optoelectronics EE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation EE452 3 Optical Systems Design EE453 3 Laser Systems Computer Engineering EE454 3 Optical Fiber Communications EE461 3 Optical System Design CPE112 3 Intro Comp Prog for Engineers EE468 3 Intro to Computer Networks I CPE212 3 Fundamentals of Software Engr EE494 3 EE Design Projects CPE321 3 Computer Organization EE500 3 Random Signals & Noise CPE412 3 Intro to Parallel Programming EE504 3 Intro Data Communication Networks CPE421 3 Microcomputers EE505 3 Intro to Control and Robotic Systems CPE422 3 Advanced Logic Design CPE427 3 VLSI Design I CPE431 3 Intro Computer Architecture CPE438 3 Real Time & Embedded Systems Optical Engineering CPE448 3 Intro to Computer Networks CPE495 3 Computer Engineering Design OPE441 3 Optical System Design CPE512 3 Intro to Parallel Programming OPE451 3 Optoelectronics CPE513 3 Adv Tech in Computer Design OPE453 3 Laser Systems CPE521 3 Microcomputers OPE454 3 Optical Fiber Communications CPE522 3 Advanced Logic Design OPE459 3 Optical Engineering Design CPE527 3 VLSI Design I CPE531 3 Intro to Computer Architecture CPE538 3 Real Time & Embedded Systems CPE548 3 Intro to Computer Networks Please see an academic advisor before CPE621 3 Advanced Microcomputer Techniques you register for ECE classes. CPE631 3 Adv Comp Systems Architecture CPE690 3 ST: Computer Security For information call: (256) 824-6316 CPE699 3 Master’s Thesis Or inquire via email: eceinfo@ece.uah.edu CPE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation ECE Dept., UAH 8 Real Time

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ELECTROMAGNETICS Nagendra Singh, Professor Journal Articles Singh, N., Electron holes as a common feature of plasma waves driven by a double layer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 927, 2000. Singh, N., W. C. Leung, and G. M. Singh, Enhanced current collection by a spacecraft, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20,935, 2000. Singh, N., S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, and C. Deverapalli, Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2469, 2000. Singh, N., Cross-current instability generated by pick-up ions in the environment of a large spacecraft in low Earth orbit, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, 28 (Special Issue on Space Weather), 2085, Dec. 2000. Singh, N., S. M. Loo, and B. Earl Wells, Electron hole as an antenna radiating plasma waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, l371, 2001a. Singh, N., S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, and G. S. Lahkina, Evolution of electron beam generated waves resulting into transverse ion heating and filamentation of the plasma, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2001b. Singh, N., S. M. Loo, and B. Earl Wells, Electron hole structure depending on plasma magnetization, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2001c. Singh, N. W. C. Leung, T. E. Moore, and P. D. Craven, Numerical model of the plasma sheath generated by the Plasma Source Instrument aboard the Polar satellite, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2001. Conference Papers Cross-scale Couplings in the Auroral Return Current Region, Nagendra Singh, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2000. Effects of Electron Magnetization on the Structure of Stability of Electron Holes, N. Singh, Loo, Wells, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2000. Effects of Electron Magnetization on the Structure of Stability of Electron Holes, S. M. Loo, N. Singh, and B. E. Wells, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2000.

ELECTRON DEVICES Fat Duen Ho, Professor Journal Articles Mark A. Bailey and Fat Duen Ho, “An Empirical Ferroelectric Capacitor Model Utilizing a Dual Curve-fit Technique,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 29, pp. 273-282, 2000. Mark A. Bailey and Fat Duen Ho, “An Drain Current Data Capture System for Metal-Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 32, pp. 21-32, 2001. T. C MacLeod and Fat Duen Ho, “I-V Characteristics of a Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 34, pp.21-16. 2001. Conference Papers T. C MacLeod and Fat Duen Ho, presented “Electronic model of a Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor,” at the 13th International Symposium for Integrated Ferroelectrics, Colorado Springs, March 2001.

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HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Krishna Kavi, Professor and Eminent Scholar of Computer Engineering Journal Articles K.M. Kavi, J. Arul and R. Giorgi. "Performance evaluation of scheduled dataflow: A decoupled multithreaded architecture," Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Computers. K.M. Kavi, J. Arul and R. Giorgi. "Execution and cache performance of the Scheduled Dataflow Architecture," Accepted for publication in the Journal of Universal Computer Science, Special Issue on Multithreaded and Chip Multiprocessors. Oct. 2000, pp 948-967, Vol. 6, No. 10. P.Y. Chang, D.J. Chen and K.M. Kavi. "Multimedia file allocation under virtual circuit using multipath routing," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Sept. 2000, pp 971-977, Vol. 49, No. 9. Conference Papers M. Aborizka and K.M. Kavi. "Learning technologies with flight data recorders," Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2000), Hong Kong, Dec. 11-14, 2000. K.M. Kavi, M. Rezaei and R. Cytron. "An efficient memory management technique that improves localities," Proc. International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2000), Cochin, India, Dec. 14-16, 2000, pp 87-94. K.M. Kavi, J. Arul and S. Hanief. "Cache Performance of Scheduled Dataflow Architecture," Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2000), Hong Kong, Dec. 11-14, 2000, pp 110-123. Presentations Architecture and Systems Research at UAH, Department of Computer Science, The University of North Texas, Feb. 15, 2001. Evaluation of Scheduled Dataflow Architecture, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Florida, February 8, 2001. Agent based software systems: Systems level issues (Instructors: K.M. Kavi and David Levine), Half Day tutorial at the 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2000), Hong Kong, Dec. 11, 2000. Agent based software systems: Systems level issues (Instructors: K.M. Kavi and David Levine), Half Day tutorial at the International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2000), Cochin, India, Dec. 14, 2000. Grant NSF-ITR (Small Scale). Intelligent software systems for object-oriented programs PI: Krishna Kavi (Jointly with Ron Cytron of Washington University), Period: Nov. 1, 2000 - Oct. 31, 2003. Thomas Martin, Assistant Professor Conference Papers E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, T. Martin, P. Gelabert, “Issues in DSP Based ECG Monitoring Device,” 19th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research HSEMB 2001, Houston, Texas, February 8-9, 2001, pp. 128. E. Jovanov, J. Price, D. Raskovic, K. Kavi, T. Martin, R. Adhami, “Wireless Personal Area Networks in Telemedical Environment,” Third IEEE EMBS Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine – Workshop of the International Telemedical Information Society ITAB-ITIS 2000, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000, pp. 22-27.

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Publications, Presentations and Awards T. Martin, E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, “Issues in Wearable Computing for Medical Monitoring Applications: A Case Study of a Wearable ECG Monitoring Device,” Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Atlanta, October 2000. E. Jovanov, T. Martin, D. Raskovic, S. Hanief, “Environment for Energy Profiling of DSP Applications”, International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology ICSPAT 2000, Dallas, October 16-19, 2000.

OPTICS Gregory Nordin, Associate Professor Journal Article J. Jiang and G. P. Nordin, "A Rigorous Unidirectional Method for Designing Finite Aperture Diffractive Optical Elements", Optics Express 7(6), pp. 737-742 (2000),

http://www.opticsexpress.org/oearchive/source/23164.htm. M. A. Jensen and G. P. Nordin, "Finite-Aperture Wire Grid Polarizers", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17(12), pp. 2191-2198 (2000). H. Shah, D. Smith, Jr., J. Ballato, S. Foulger, P. Deguzman, and G. Nordin, "Direct Generation of Optical Diffractive Elements in Perfluorocyclobutane (PFCB) Polymers by Soft Lithography," IEEE Photonics Tech. Let. 12(12), 1650 (2000). Conference Papers G. P. Nordin, P. Deguzman, J. Jiang, and J. T. Meier, "Polarization sensitive diffractive optics for integration with infrared photodetector arrays," in Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2000), pp. 88-90 (Invited Paper). J. Jiang, and G. P. Nordin, "A rigorous unidirectional method for designing finite aperture diffractive optical elements," in Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2000), pp. 13-15. D. Chambers, S. Kim, and G. P. Nordin, "Fabrication and evaluation of two-layer stratified volume diffractive optical elements," Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2000), postdeadline paper. J. Jiang, and G. P. Nordin, "A rigorous design algorithm for finite aperture diffractive optical elements," in OSA Annual Meeting and Exhibit 2000 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2000), p. 113. D. Chambers, S. Kim, and G. P. Nordin, "Fabrication and evaluation of stratified volume diffractive optical elements with three grating layers," in OSA Annual Meeting and Exhibit 2000 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2000), p. 113. Yi Sun, S. T. Kowel, and G. P. Nordin, "Circular Geometry Liquid Crystal Adaptive Lens With Fresnel Lens Phase Profile," in Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Flat Panel Displays, Ranganathan Shashidhar, Bruce Gnade, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3955, pp. 120-131 (2000). SIGNAL PROCESSING / COMMUNICATIONS

Reza Adhami, Professor and Chair Conference Papers E. Jovanov, J. Price, D. Raskovic, K. Kavi, T. Martin, R. Adhami, “Wireless Personal Area Networks in Telemedical Environment”, Third IEEE EMBS Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine – Workshop of the International Telemedical Information Society ITAB- ITIS 2000, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000, pp. 22-27.

Dr. Laurie Joiner, Assistant Professor Conference Papers McClure, J. H., and L. L. Joiner “Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes Using the Fano Sequential Algorithm,” Proc. IEEE Southeastcon ’01, March 2001, pp. 131-135. Pandiarajan, V., T. L. Martin, and L. L. Joiner. “Recommendations on a New Cellular Encryption Standard Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography,” Proc. IEEE Southeastcon ’01, March 2001, pp. 136-142. Joiner L. L., and J. J. Komo. “Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes Using the Extended Erasure Magnitude Matrix,” Proc. MILCOM 2000, October, 2000. Mester, T. and L. Joiner. “Quick Simulation of Concatenated Coding Systems,” Proc. ISITA 2000, November, 2000. Joiner, L.L. and J.J. Komo. “Nonbinary Shortened Cyclic Codes,” Proc. ISITA 2000, November, 2000. Emil Jovanov, Assistant Professor Conference Papers E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, J. Price, A. Moore, J. Chapman, A. Krishnamurthy, "Patient Monitoring Using Personal Area Networks of Wireless Intelligent Sensors," 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 2001, Copper Mountain, Colorado. E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, R. Hormigo, "Thermistor-Based Breathing Sesor for Circadian Rhythm Evaluation," 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 2001, Copper Mountain, Colorado. E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, K. Kavi, “Hierarchical Signal Processing,” 19th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research HSEMB 2001, Houston, Texas, February 8-9, 2001, pp. 109. E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, T. Martin, P. Gelabert, “Issues in DSP Based ECG Monitoring Device,” 19th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research HSEMB 2001, Houston, Texas, February 8-9, 2001, pp. 128. E. Jovanov, J. Price, D. Raskovic, K. Kavi, T. Martin, R. Adhami, “Wireless Personal Area Networks in Telemedical Environment”, Third IEEE EMBS Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine – Workshop of the International Telemedical Information Society ITAB-ITIS 2000, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000, pp. 22-27. Z. Obrenovic, D. Starcevic, E. Jovanov, V. Radivojevic, “An Implementation of Real-time Monitoring and Analysis in Telemedicine”, Third IEEE EMBS Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine – Workshop of the International Telemedical Information Society ITAB-IT IS 2000, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000, pp. 74-78. T. Martin, E. Jovanov, D. Raskovic, “Issues in Wearable Computing for Medical Monitoring Applications: A Case Study of a Wearable ECG Monitoring Device,” Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Atlanta, October 2000. E. Jovanov, P. Gelabert, B. Wheelock, R. Adhami, P. Smith, “Real Time Portable Heart Monitoring Using Low Power DSP”, International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology ICSPAT 2000, Dallas, October 16-19, 2000. E. Jovanov, T. Martin, D. Raskovic, S. Hanief, “Environment for Energy Profiling of DSP Applications”, International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology ICSPAT 2000, Dallas, October 16-19, 2000.

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Publications, Presentations and Awards Dr. Emil Jovanov (continued) Research Grants University of Alabama in Huntsville (2001); Principal Investigator: Emil Jovanov; Title: Distributed Processing in a Wireless Network of Intelligent Sensors University of Alabama in Huntsville (2000); Principal Investigator: Emil Jovanov; Title: Development of Microcontroller-based Testbed Environment for Microcomputer Laboratory (CPE429, EE 429/509) Invited Talks “Portable Telemedical Monitoring Using Wireless Sensors on the Edge of the Internet (WISE),” The City College of the City University of New York, New York, March 2001. “Hierarchical Digital Signal Processing using Wireless Intelligent Sensors,” Computer Information Technology at Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, February 2001.

SOLID STATE Timothy Boykin, Associate Professor Journal Articles Timothy B. Boykin, R. Chris Bowen, and Gerhard Klimeck, “Electromagnetic coupling and gauge invariance in the empirical tight-binding method,” Physical Review B (in press). Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, and Timothy B. Boykin, “Off zone-center or indirect bandgap-like hole transport in heterostructures,” Physical Review B (in press). Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, and Timothy B. Boykin, “Strong wavevector dependence of hole transport in heterostructures,” Superlattices and Microstructures 29, 187 (2001). Timothy B. Boykin, “Tight-binding-like expressions for the continuous-space electromagnetic coupling Hamiltonian,” American Journal of Physics (in press). Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, Timothy B. Boykin, and Thomas A. Cwik, “sp3s* tight-binding parameters for transport simulations in compound semiconductors,” Superlattices and Microstructures 27, 519 (2000). Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, Timothy B. Boykin, Carlos Salazar-Lazaro, Thomas A. Cwik, and Adrian Stoica, “Tight-binding models for Si quantum devices and parameter fitting using genetic algorithms,” Superlattices and Microstructures 27, 77 (2000). Timothy B. Boykin, “An alternative view of the continuity equation in quantum mechanics,” American Journal of Physics 68, 665 (2000). Timothy B. Boykin, “Exact representation of exp(iqr) in the empirical tight-binding method and its application to electromagnetic interactions,” Physical Review B 60, 15 810 (1999). Timothy B. Boykin, R. Chris Bowen, Gerhard Klimeck, and Kevin L. Lear, “Resonant-tunneling diodes with emitter prewells,” Applied Physics Letters 75, 1302 (1999). J.G. Menchero and Timothy B. Boykin, “Impurity states in semiconductors calculated via tight-binding: a parameter sensitivity study,” Physical Review B 59, 8137 (1999). Timothy B. Boykin, Roger K. Lake, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mukund Swaminathan, “Interface effects in tunneling models with identical real and complex dispersions,” Physical Review B 59, 7316 (1999).

Timothy B. Boykin, Lisa J. Gamble, Gerhard Klimeck, and R. Chris Bowen, “Valence-band warping in tight-binding models,” Physical Review B 59, 7301 (1999). Timothy B. Boykin, “A more physical formulation of the self-inductance for spatially distributed circuits,” American Journal of Physics 67, 320 (1999).

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Amateur Radio Club Reorganizing at UAH An effort to reorganize the Amateur Radio Club is being undertaken by Dr. John Stensby, Joel Booth, and Janice Rock (pictured below).

According to the group, for over 25 years, there has been an Amateur Radio Club at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. For the past few years, the club has been inactive. We want to remedy this situation. If you are interested in talking to people all over the world via Ham Radio, understanding many of the concepts of Electrical Engineering through "hands on" activities, becoming a Storm Spotter for the National Weather Service, or just having fun, join us as we create a new, active, amateur radio club at the university. Contact Joel Booth (AF4LW@aol.com) or Janice Rock (Rockjanice@aol.com) for more information.

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News for Eta Kappa Nu ECE Department is looking for some good men and women! Dr. Gaede, the faculty advisor for Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering honor society, has membership certificates for the following individuals in her office. Craig Anderson Adkins, Thomas P. Beck, Susan C. Beddingfield, Marcy L. Bunn, Chung Lai Edwin Chan, Julie Li-Lin Chen, Steve Conklin, Cretia J. Dailey, Brent E. Deason, Jason Elmore, William Benjamin, Gilmore, James H. Gullett, Jerri Susan Homan, Suzanne B. Haraway, Kelly Helser, Po Cheng Heng, Jeffrey A. Hensley, Ardith Huey, Donald Hutto, Elizabeth Hvizda, Robert E. Jennings, Tacoma Scott Kapustka, Sheila Jo Lane, Paul Shannon Lovvorn, Susan Machnica, Vanessa McElveen, Regina Moore, Patrick Hill Oduor, Bobby Joe Patterson, William S. Pearce, Jennifer L. Pearson, Daniel C. Pitts, Kimberly D. Pratt, Joan Barnett Presson, Jeremy Richard, Marcia J. Richmond, Tommy H. Shelton, Sheree E. Smith, Robert Stroud, Cory Teague, Steven W. Vest, Joel Glen Vinson, Kerri Wales, Patrick B. Waye, Jr., John Chris Wesley, James Douglas Wilson, Bobby Gene Woodruff, Jr., Jacob Yarbrough Please contact Dr. Gaede if you can help her get the certificates to these deserving students. She can be reached by phone (256) 824-6573 or email gaede@ece.uah.edu

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UAH IEEE Student-Chapter News

The UAH-IEEE Student Branch with Dr. Reza Adhami at the 50th Anniversary of Engineers’ Week Awards Banquet on Feb 23, 2001. Dr. Adhami received the Outstanding Educator Award by unanimous vote of the IEEE Huntsville Section Executive Committee. First row: Tina Ellson, UAH-IEEE Student Branch Chairperson; Dr. Reza Adhami, Professor and ECE Chairman; Dr. Laurie Joiner, Assistant Professor and Student Branch Faculty Advisor. Second row: David Corredor, PR/Correspondence Secretary for Faculty; Jhen Krishnamurthy, Staff Correspondence Secretary; and Ande Boyer, Executive Secretary.

The Student Branch participated in the 50th Anniversary of Engineers’ Week Banquet in which they witnessed their own Department Chairman receive the Outstanding Educator Award by the IEEE Huntsville Section Executive Committee. This event is one of the UAH IEEE Student Branch’s various activities which offer student members opportunities to interact with peers, industry leaders, and other professionals including faculty from both UAH and A&M universities.

National Engineer’s Week (better known as E-Week) is commemorated annually during the week of February 18 - 24. The IEEE Student Branch at UAH commemorated the event on February 20th of this year. In conjunction with this event, the student organization also participated in the 50th Anniversary of E-Week’s debut of the legacy program, “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” with guest speaker, Lisa Williams, the President and Founder of 3D Research. All UAH students and area home-schooled students were invited to attend.

In a related article pertaining to Dr. Adhami’s honorary award, the Section Chairman, Eric Grigorian, shown in the photo (on page 5) presenting the award, is a UAH alumnus and was the Student Branch Chairman in 1983-84. Moreover, during Eric’s term in 1983-84, the Student Branch made the IEEE Car Project into a class project. In the same year, the IEEE SouthEastCon changed the rules of the competition to require a robot with a spinning wheel that must shoot at a target to obtain the maximum score. In 1981, prior to the rule change, the UAH IEEE Student Branch won first place, submitting a car powered by solar panels. Last spring of 2000, the EE 412 class won first place in the annual competition, a first for this class.

The EE 412 class is an elective senior design class taught by Dr. John Piccirillo. For more information about the class, please contact Dr. Piccirillo. The students of EE 412 are not required to become IEEE members. IEEE Student Branch has supported and sponsored the annual IEEE Car Project Competition at SouthEastCon since 1981. For more information about the EEE SouthEastCon, please go to I

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You may contact President and Programs Committee Chairperson, Tina Ellson at hootina@yahoo.com or the Faculty Advisor, Dr. Laurie Joiner at ljoiner@ebs330.eb.uah.edu. If interested in joining IEEE Student Branch, students may visit www.ieee.org/join. At the recent elections of officers for the academic year 2001-02, Ande Boyer was elected as Chairman, David Corredor as Vice-Chairman, Jhen Krishnamurthy as Treasurer, and Jeremy Nuckols (not pictured) as Executive Secretary. Tina Ellson and Misty Pearson (not pictured) will remain active in the IEEE Student Branch Committees and activities, as well as lending support to the new officers. The Student Branch would like to extend to all engineering and computer science students an invitation to participate in their events. Moreover, there is a call for ECE and CS students to participate in the IEEE sponsored Paper and Software competitions, the two areas in which UAH has yet to compete. For more information about the competition and the cash prizes, please visit the above website of the IEEE SouthEastCon. Once again, the Student Branch is inviting all engineering and computer science students to attend upcoming activities.

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