electrical and computer engineering department

Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentThe University of Alabama in Huntsville

Volume 4 Spring/Summer 2000

Dr. Reza Adhami

C H A I R’ SCORNER

Dr. Gregory NordinSelected to ReceiveUAH FoundationResearch & CreativeAchievement Award

On behalf of the ECE faculty and staff, I would like to congratulate themembers of the graduating class of 2000 for successfully completing theirdegree in either electrical, computer, or optical engineering. Theseindividuals spent a good amount of their precious time in this department tolearn and consequently to earn a degree. These graduates are well equipped toenter the real world and contribute to their society in different fields. Theystudied a field that has changed the way we do business, banking, learning,teaching, etc. The department has provided them with a solid foundation,enabling them to enter the real world. They will learn through their jobs andgraduate work.

Our graduates have proven to be among the bests in the nation. This year, theCollege of Engineering presented six alumni awards to six outstandingindividuals. Three of these people were from ECE. You will see a summaryof their biography in this issue of the Real Time. A few years ago, theseindividuals graduated from UAH in electrical engineering from the ECEDepartment. My message to you graduates is: Set no limit to what you cando in your life and what you can contribute to your society. Don’t be afraidof failing, because it is almost impossible to reach your goals without failing.Once again congratulations to all of you, and please stay in touch with thisdepartment.

Dr. Gregory Nordin has been selected to receive the UAH Foundation Researchand Creative Achievement Award for Applied Research/Technology.

The purpose of this award is to recognize faculty and professional research staffmembers who have received national and international recognition in their fields,to stimulate research and creative achievement, and to emphasize that researchand creative activities are integral to the mission of UAH. These awards areopen to any faculty member, professional research staff member or professionalresearch team who has achieved international recognition as a result of theirscholarly contributions.

“My family and I have been in Huntsville 7 and 1/2 years. We moved after livingin the Los Angeles area. By comparison, being in Huntsville has been awonderful change--no smog or traffic (relative to Los Angeles), great schools,and it's beautifully green here. For a father-son activity, my 13-year old sonand I like to go dirt bike riding (off-road motorcycles on trails out in the woods).Favorite activity: time with my family. Greatest asset: my wonderful wife.” Greg Nordin

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Von Braun Research Hall was Dedicated in May 2000; Wernher von Braun Visited the ECE Dept. 35 years Ago

Dr. Werner von Braun being briefed by Dr. C. D. Johnson (ECE) on his MinimaxControl Technique for load-relief control of the Saturn V Launch Vehicle (1965).

From the left: Dr. Rudolph Hermann (Director of Research Institute), AdministrativeAssistant to Dr. von Braun, Dr. Wernher von Braun, Dr. Joe Dowdle (Director ofEngineering), and Dr. Ned Audeh in his ECE Microwave Lab (1965).

UAH’s Research Institute was named the “von Braun Research Hall” at a dedication ceremony on Saturday, May 13, 2000. It was Dr Wernher von Braun whoconvinced the Alabama state legislature in 1961 to fund the UAH Research Institute that the ECE Dept. once called home. In 1950 Dr. von Braun came toHuntsville with a team of more than 100 German scientists who were going to revive the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal as a missile development center. At thededication ceremony UAH President Frank Franz remarked, “Dr. von Braun and his team of engineers and scientists created an extraordinary success that changedour world forever. They changed the course of history and dramatically changed our perceptions of science, of the world in which we live, and our understanding ofthe universe.”

Introducing

Dr. Laurie JoinerAssistant Professor

Introducing

Dr. Tom MartinAssistant Professor

Dr. Laurie Joiner was hired in August 1998 as an Assistant Professor ofElectrical Engineering. She received her Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees inElectrical Engineering from Clemson University in 1998, 1994, and 1992,respectively. Her primary areas of research interest are in communications,specifically error control codes and wireless communication systems.

While at Clemson, Dr. Joiner was a research assistant on a funded researchinitiative for the Army. This project involved developing communicationtechniques for a mobile radio network for the battlefield. For this project shedeveloped efficient soft-decision decoding algorithms for decoding Reed-Solomon codes. Dr. Joiner also participated in a project funded by NASAcalled MacTaC (Macintosh Telemetry and Command) System. This systemwas a Macintosh based telemetry system, designed to provide a low-costsystem to process satellite data. The system provides frame synchronization,Reed-Solomon decoding, and basic data formatting for satellite data.

In her free time, Dr. Joiner enjoys being outside. She enjoys playing tennis,hiking in the mountains, and whitewater kayaking.

Dr. Tom Martin joined the ECE Department Faculty in August 1999 as anAssistant Professor.

Dr. Martin has been working in the field of mobile computing and VLSIsystems for over 10 years. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in1999 and his BSEE from the University of Cincinnati in 1992. Between 1992and 1999, he learned that grad school is not just a job, it's an indenture.

At Carnegie Mellon University, he was a member of the Wearable ComputingLaboratory and contributed to the designs of several generations of wearablecomputers, including the Navigator 1, the first CMU wearable computer to usespeech recognition for input and the Mach operating system. He is currentlystudying system-level approaches to power management in mobile computers.His primary focus is power-performance trade-offs and the effects of non-idealbattery and performance behavior.

In his spare time, he likes to play ultimate frisbee, read, and bicycle. He andhis wife, Karen, are expecting their first child in June.

UAH First in IEEE Robotic Car Student Competition

"It was awesome the way the UAH car outperformed the competitors in the semifinal andfinal rounds of the competition. They walkedaway with first place. Congratulations to theteam for a job well done." James Anderson,head of the Huntsville IEEE Section.

The UAH ECE team took first place at the April 8th IEEE SoutheastCon2000 Hardware Competition in Nashville, TN. Nineteen schools werepresent for the competition. The UAH robot won every rounddecisively.

The UAH team’s “Phoenix” (left) won against team cars from nineteenother southeast colleges and universities, winning every round andachieving the highest single score, and the highest cumulative score.

www.eb.uah.edu/~robot

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UAH Foundation AwardDr. Greg Nordin has made strong contributions to research in the field ofoptoelectronics since he came to UAH in 1992. Dr. Nordin is well known forhis research on diffractive optical elements, which show great promise ashighly efficient elements and allow stacking, thus enabling real-time infraredimaging polarimetry. Dr. Nordin has also contributed to the theoretical andempirical understanding of real-time holographic 3-D displays and volumeholographic optical memories. He is a recipient of an NSF CareerDevelopment Award and is recognized as both as skilled team player and aleader through his involvement in multi-disciplinary research efforts such asthe ICVision 3-D display project and the current EPSCoR award, “IntegratedResearch Environment for Intermeshed Optoelectronics.” Dr. Nordin serves asadvisor and mentor to a large number of graduate students.

Dr. Nordin’s Current Professional Activities:• Using nano and microfabrication techniques to fabricate diffractive optical

elements (DOE's) to control light on a very small scale for a variety ofapplications.

• Developing rigorous design and analysis tools for such diffractive opticalelements.

• Working on integrating DOE's with other technologies such as infraredfocal plane arrays, VLSI electronics, and microelectromechanical systems(MEMS).

• Supervising 13 graduate students, six of which are PhD students thatshould graduate in the next 4-5 months.

• Working with local companies: CSC/Nichols and MEMS-Optical.• Principle Investigator of a 3-year NSF EPSCoR award involving 10

faculty at UAH and others at Auburn and A&M doing interdisciplinaryoptoelectronics research

• Technical Associate Director of LICOS (Dean Aunon, Director).For a recent publications list turn to page 10

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Introducing

Dr. Emil JovanovAssistant Professor

Graduate Student NewsGraduate Students on the 1999 Fall Dean's List:Jared D. Cress, Thomas M. Dietrich, Seunghyun Kim, Rodney DaleLee, Brandon D. McMahan, Timothy G. Mester, GuoLin Peng, John W.Sudduth, Jr. Yi Sun

1999 Calendar Year Dean's List:Rodney Dale Lee, Timothy G. Mester, GuoLin Peng, Yi SunThese students have worked very hard and maintained a 3.85 GPA.

Dr. Emil Jovanov has been at UAH since August 1998 as a VisitingAssistant Professor. In August 1999, Dr. Jovanov became an AssistantProfessor. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and Dipl.Ing. degrees inelectrical engineering from Belgrade University in 1994, 1988, and1984, respectively. He had been working as a Research Scientist at theMihajlo Pupin Institute in Belgrade from 1984 till 1998. Since 1994 hehas been an assistant professor at School of Electrical Engineering,University of Belgrade. His primary research interests includecomputer architecture, multimedia, and biomedical signal processing.

Dr. Jovanov developed a number of application specific computersystems including a database accelerator, real time video interpolator,virtual reality visualization/sonification environments, etc. He was aproject leader for Professional Driving Simulator project. Recently hisgroup developed several environments for biomedical signal analysis inreal-time or telemedical environments.

He enjoys playing tennis, skiing, and basketball.

Passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exams:Joseph Arul, Mark Stedham, Mohamed Aborizka, Diana Hecht

Spring 2000 Commencement[ECE Department]

Doctors of PhilosophyMs. Angelia Bukeley, Esam El-din Gad ,Ms. AmyKransteuber, Guolin Peng, Christian H. Tournes, Qing Zhang

Masters of Science

Christina Eliza Arrington, Jack G. Atkinson, Mark Alan Bailey,Jared Daniel Cress, Walter Derrel Davis, Stefanie Elise Dodd,Patrick Carl Dowdy, Kenneth Goggans, Steven James Heinrich,Scot Lee Holder, Mark Anthony Horton, Ying Jiang, KennethW. Kaufmann, Dean Robert Kraft,

Bits and Bites Day 2000

Students and faculty (above) enjoy a pizza lunch and a demonstration of the Phoenixrobotic car that won first place in the IEEE competition just days before.

Students line up to sign up with Nortel at Bits and Bites Day 2000.

Robert Lee Lehman, Fenglei Li, Daniel Lin, Sin Ming Loo,Rodney Brian Loyd, Jason Perry Lyon, Albert Lane Martin,James Richard Mason, Peter Martin Meenen II, John KevinO'Neal, Cheol-jun Park, Brian K. Perkins, Sonya Butler Read,Arash Riahi Samani, Kyu Kun Shin, John N. Spitzmiller,Zackrey L. Whaley, Bryan M. Wheelock, Derrick Williams,Chien-chi Yang

Bachelors of Science

Uday Chandra Annambhotla, Allison L. Arp, Joseph Ary, RamiMohamed Babiker, Anthony Paul Baehner, Scott G. Baker,Laurestina LaMeek Bankhead, Anthony Seth Barnes, Stephen E.Beard, Jennifer Lynn Bicknell, Patricia L. Briscoe, DonyesoBrown, Robert Drue Burrough, Xia Cao, James Z. Carter,Christopher Lee Centamore, Kevin Dah-Wei Chan, HowardDonald Steve Chin, Keith M. Cochran, Jr., Kenneth L. Collier, Jr.,Dustin Trent Copeland, Robert C. Crow, Anthony S. Dauma,Brent E. Deason, Denny Dharmawan, Tham Duong, BradlyWayne Evans, Tommy J. Ferster, Carys Finkle, April LaShandraFreeman, Srilatha Garikipati, David Paul Gould, Jason ScottGurley, Hugh Hartwig, Blake Haynes, Donald Todd Henderson,Stanley D. Hendrix, Matthew Van Hester, Seth Vinson Hester,LaVon Heyward, Richard Farley Hodge, Steven Sean Hodges,Rodney M. Hornsby, Cheng Chien Huang, Heather L. Hudson,David W. Hutto, William Carlos Jones III, Nathan J. Keller, PeterS. Kerr, Chong M. Kim, Christopher M. Kirkland, GiridharanKrishnarajah, Daniel W. Lambert, Matthew W. LeMay, EdwardGu Lei, Joshua Michael Lindley, Rikki Long, Patricia LynnMalloy, Charles A. Mandy III, Jennifer Tenneill Manning, TonyaS. Montgomery, Mark Motowski, Uriel Myrtil, Edward M.Myszka III, Taeho Oh, Dhaval K. Oza, Susan Hope Parker,William Scott Pate, Nimesh Patel, Catherine Loretta Perreault,Janet Laura Reynolds, Frances A. Rolf, Elfianita Rusman, JamesE. Saare II, Ronald James Seal, Jr., Nadeem Shahzad, David LeeSimpson, Jr., David Patrick Smith, Diane Stewart, RajendranSubramaniam, John P. Szelich, Reed Benjamin Thornton, EmiSiew Sieng Toh, Dane Robinson Walther, Daniel A. Weatherford,Patrick S. White, Ed Wilcox


EE100 Student Project Competition

Three students recently received awards from the ECE Department Chair, Dr.Reza Adhami, for their EE 100 projects. These projects were judged by the EE100 instructors to be the best projects on display at the annual ECE Bits andBites Day, which was held on April 12.

First place winner Tammie Pacumbaba, shown above receiving her trophy fromDr. Adhami, ECE Department Chair. Her project, "Sound Activated Strobe,"combines a microphone with a xenon strobe light to provide a sound activatedlight show. A standard 110 volt wall socket coupled with an array of amplifiersand capacitors provides the 4000 volts necessary for the strobe operation. Themicrophone along with a variable filter and digital circuitry triggers the strobe.The circuit will pick up any pressure wave in the range of audible frequencies,but the variable filter allows the user to adjust the sensitivity of the circuit sothat the strobe will be triggered only when the sound is above some desiredvolume. This is the type of device that is typically seen at concerts or dancefloor light shows.

Second place when to Donald Smith for his project "Fiber Optics Voice Link."Fiber optics is the transmission of messages or information by light pulsesalong fibers constructed of glass or plastic. This technology can be utilized inmany industrial and commercial applications and has several advantages overconventional cables.Donald's project is an example of how fiber optic technology and conventionalelectronics can be utilized to send sound from a transmitter to a remote receiver.The transmitter converts sound from a microphone to an electrical signal, whichis then converted to a light signal for transmission through a fiber optic mediumto a remote receiver. The receiver accepts the light signal and converts it backto an electrical signal that is then converted to sound. This is similar to how atelephone system distributes data from one source to another.

Nhan Huu Nguyen received the third place award for his project, "InfraredMotion Detector." This battery-operated project employs an infrared sensoralong with amplifiers, filters and a tone generator to detect motion within acone angle of 56 degrees and up to 20 feet in range. If an object moves withinthe detection region, the infrared sensor sends a signal through the filter, whichis then amplified and sent to the tone generator. The resulting audio signalinforms you that the detector has seen motion. This type of device is often usedat entrances to retail shops in order to let the store clerk know when a newcustomer enters. The project could also be slightly modified to act as anoutdoor motion activated security light by simply replacing the tone generatorwith an electrical switch to enable an outdoor floodlight.

EE 100, Concepts in Digital Signals and Systems, teaches the students the needfor mathematics and providing them with electrical and computer engineeringconcepts. Students are introduced to basic elements of electrical and computerengineering by using software applications such as Electronic Workbench andMATLAB. They learn how to derive basic laws in electrical and computerengineering subjects. The students also get hands-on experience throughcompleting a project.

Those students who take EE 100 during the Spring semester have theopportunity to display their projects at the ECE Bits and Bites day. This eventis planned each year primarily to give prospective engineering studentsinformation on the three undergraduate programs offered by the Department:Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Optical Engineering. Itprovides the opportunity to get to know the ECE Department and its faculty andprograms better.

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Robotic Car Project – IEEE Southeast Champions“The students put in a lot of time and effort into their project and have done atremendous job,” according to this year's course instructor Dr. John Piccirillo.“It was an exciting competition and I was proud to be associated with theseyoung men and to represent UAH at the event. In the last three years, UAH hasachieved first and second place standings. This says a lot about the quality ofthe UAH engineering programs.”

Every year, the ECE Department offers a senior design course, EE 412 – IEEECar Project, in which students design, build, test, and compete an entry for theSoutheastCon Student Hardware Competition. Although the competitionchallenge is completely different each year, it always involves a small,computer-controlled robot. These autonomous vehicles must complete theirassigned task within a few minutes.

This year the competition challenged undergraduate students to make use ofseveral fields within electrical engineering to design a vehicle capable ofdetecting cylindrical receptacles which are marked with light-emitting diodesand current-carrying coils. The vehicle must navigate to and deposit balls intothe receptacles. The matches take place in an octagonal arena. Two vehiclescompete against each other and the clock in the same arena to score points.

There are many people and organizations that contributed significantly to thesuccess of the UAH team. ADTRAN Inc. and the Huntsville Section of theIEEE both made generous contributions for the purchase of various roboticparts and tools. The ECE Department, UAH IEEE Student Branch, and UAHStudent Government all provided vital services and additional funding. Dr.Reza Adhami, Department Chair, Dr. William Cohen, IEEE car projectcourse pioneer, Dr. Charles Corsetti, student

Front Row (left to right) Jaime Woods, Jolan Clackley (boy), Casey Jones, Dr.Piccirillo, Steven Hodges, Tim Lindsey, Richard Marcy. Back Row (left to right) DaveEverett (visitor), Dave Patterson, Steve Pitts, Mike Clackley, Joe Caldwell, LeeHicklen, Jim Saare, Robert Burrough. Not Present William Santosa.

adviser, and Mr. Dennis Hite, ECE laboratory manager, provided much usefulinsight, advice and assistance.

Sponsorship is important to the continued success of the ECE Department’sgrowing robotics program. Potential sponsors are encouraged to contact Dr.John Piccirillo, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama inHuntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, (256) 890-6032, [email protected]. Forfurther details visit:

www.eb.uah.edu/~robotECE Dept., UAH 4 Real Time

Order of the Engineer – Alumni Awards 2000Marcus J. Bendickson

Dr. Marcus J. Bendickson received the Distinguished Engineer Award for his outstanding contributions inElectrical Engineering.

Dr. Marcus J. Bendickson received his Ph.D. from UAH in Electrical Engineering in 1980. He also holds aMasters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a Bachelors of ScienceDegree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Dr. Bendickson has over 25 years of engineering experience as well as more than 20 years in supervisory andmanagement positions. As Chief Executive Officer for Dynetics, he is responsible for the performance of morethan 500 employees in 6 locations across the United States. Dynetics generates more than $72,000,000 in salesannually. Under Dr. Bendickson’s leadership service and product quality have improved significantly, launchingthe company on a strong growth path that has resulted in an annualized revenue increase in excess of 20% overthe past nine years.

In the more technical phase of Dr. Bendickson’s career he specialized in radio frequency sensor systemsincluding ground based and missile borne seeker systems. Analysis, modeling, simulation, and performanceinvestigation are all words found frequently in his technical resume. He has worked on a number of missileweapon systems, seekers, radar systems, and related technology. He is an expert in modeling and simulation oftarget signatures, ground and environmental clutter effects, and electronic countermeasures and counter-countermeasure techniques. Prior to joining Dynetics, he managed the radar bulk filtering branch at TeledyneBrown Engineering and worked in a signal and communications research laboratory for long haulcommunications at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dr. Bendickson has also made significant contributions to UAH and our community. He is a member of the UAHCollege of Engineering Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Huntsville-MadisonCounty Chamber of Commerce and serves on the City Advisory Board of Colonial Bank. He is a clear exampleof an excellent engineer with great leadership and sound vision.

Derrick T. CopelandMr. Derrick T. Copeland received the Distinguished Young Engineer Award for his outstanding contribution inelectrical engineering.

Mr. Derrick Copeland received his BSE in Electrical Engineering from UAH in 1987 and his MSE in ElectricalEngineering from UAH in 1992. Mr. Copeland’s professional experience in engineering extends from hisundergraduate days when he was a Co-op employee at SRS Technologies in Huntsville, to the classroom andonward to Chief Executive Officer. He has worked as an engineer at Nichols Research Corporation, Intergraph, andSENTAR Corporation. Mr. Copeland is a founder and the current Chief Executive Officer of Applied Data Trend,Inc. Applied Data Trend was started in 1994 and now has over 50 employees. Mr. Copeland has served UAH byteaching classes as a part-time instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Mr. Copeland is a member of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and a member ofInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is the author/co-author of more than forty conference papersand technical reports. He has contributed toward engineering achievement, leadership, and service to the professionand society. He is a clear example of an excellent engineer with great leadership.

Francis C. Wessling IIIMr. Francis C. Wessling III received the Distinguished Young Engineer Award for his outstanding contribution inElectrical and Computer Engineering.

Mr. Frank Wessling received his BSE in Electrical Engineering from UAH in 1988 and his MSE ElectricalEngineering from UAH in 1994. Mr. Wessling has worked with BDM and, since 1990, Boeing/ McDonnellDouglas.

Mr. Wessling is currently the Acting Manager for Integration Implementation of the National Missile DefenseProgram and Lead System Integrator at Boeing. The National Missile Defense Program is being designed todefend the continental United States from ballistic missile attack. Mr. Wessling plays a pivotal role in thismonumental development laboring to assure that all the pieces of the defense system will work together asexpected.

Among Mr. Wessling’s achievements are: three patents, including one on an apparatus for voice communicationover local area networks and another on body integral electronics packaging; and the first Pentium Class wearablecomputer system. This wearable system was developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) and resulted in the addition of almost $10,000,000 to his employer’s Maintenance and Repair SupportSystem contract.

In 1998, Mr. Wessling went on a special assignment as a Boeing Loaned Executive to the United Way. Hisefforts helped the United Way raise over $5,000,000. He informed many people in industries and businessesaround Huntsville about the value of and the need for the United Way. According to the United Way campaignmanager Mr. Wessling’s appeals touched hundreds of lives. He still volunteers for the United Way.

Mr. Wessling has contributed toward engineering achievement, leadership, and service to the community. He is aclear example of an excellent engineer with a great heart.



Laboratory News from Dennis Hite, ECE Lab ManagerIn the spring of 2000 the Concepts in Digital Signals and Systems course(EE100) began being offered as a web based course. In the past the coursewas taught only in the Multi Media (MM) Classroom shown below.

With the addition of a new Pentium III file server (shown below) in theMultimedia Development Lab (EB105/107) students now have the optionof taking the course using their Internet connection from home or work. Ofcourse the students who elect to take the web-based course still have accessto the MM classroom and Electronics Project Lab for their course work. Sofar the course has been a success and I look forward to seeing more webbased courses offered by the ECE department.

A new addition to the department is the Real-Time Systems/Digital SignalProcessing Lab (shown below). The lab began operation in the fall of 1999with 6 new dual boot NT/Linux Pentium II systems. The main focus of thelab is in developing parallel processing and Real Time systems.

In addition to the Pentium II systems, facilities include a heterogeneousparallel processor consisting of VME 68xx boards (below), and VME

Power-PC 750 boards. Some of the available software is WindRiver’sVxWorks and I-logic’s Rhapsody UML synthesis system.

Recently some improvements to the Rapid Prototyping Lab (RPL) (below)have been made. These improvements include 10 new Altera Boardsmounted with an extended breadboard interface. In addition, Dr. Wells, JimLewis, and Dr. Gaede have implemented the professional version of theAltera Max+Plus II software. The professional version opens up manypossibilities for future class and laboratory enhancements.

Four dedicated workstations have been added to the RPL lab (below) fortesting MOSIS Tinychips used in the undergraduate VLSI courses. Usingthe Mentor Graphics tool suite, teams of students design custom VLSIintegrated circuits, which are then submitted to MOSIS for fabrication.While the integrated circuits are being fabricated, the student teams developsoftware for testing them. To accomplish this students use VHDL, AlteraFPGA's, and custom prototyping boards connected to the new workstations.

Other upgrades occurred in the Microcomputer computer Lab (below) inEB106. Ten new Pentium II systems equipped with GUI software (Cross


Assembler, C Cross Compiler and Simulator) for embedded systems. Alongwith the new PCs, the lab has been equipped with several oscilloscopes.

Some of you may have noticed that the Electronics Labs (EB225 shownbelow, and EB227) have been updated. The new updates include 24Pentium II systems, 24 new analog/digital trainers, 2 EMUP chipprogrammers, and the addition of the professional version of AlteraMax+Plus II software in EB227. Lab Manual revisions for the coursesEE201, EE301, and EE305 are in process and completion is near. Specialthanks to Dr. Wells and the GTA’S for their contributions to this task.

Over the last 6 months the EE100 soldering room (EB144, shown below)has been converted to the Electronics Project Lab. It is well equipped withsoldering stations, oscilloscopes, Multimeters, signal generators,prototyping boards and the equipment list is growing. This room is a greatplace for assembling, testing, and trouble shooting projects. Currently,EE100, EE412, and EE494 students are utilizing the lab. If for any reasonother students need access to this room stop by and see me.

In the makings is the new ECE Communications Lab (below) located inEB273. According to Dr. Stensby, hands on laboratory experiments will befeatured to teach the practical aspects of modern communication systems.Experiments will be offered that reinforces the concepts of spectral

analysis, analog filter design, modulation/demodulation techniques,analog/digital communication methods, and phase-locked loop applications.

Dr. Joiner will also be teaching courses in the Communications Lab(below). She will concentrate on digital signal transmissions/modulationtechniques, automatic repeat request protocols, and multiple accessprotocols. In addition, students will be introduced to OPNET, acommunications network simulation software package.

Look for upgrades to occur in the COE Computer Labs. Thanks to JasonWinningham and Dr. Adhami funding has been acquired to add 24 SunrayUnix systems in EB246 and several new computers in EB228.

The department plans to continue improving the CPE197 course. There isnow a help station in EB 220 that is staffed several hours a week forstudents to get help with their assignments. I would like to extend a specialthanks to Dr. Gaede, Terry Palmer, Bob Adams and Alireza Moshtaghi whoare going beyond the call of duty to help organize and improve the coursefor the students.

I hope that all of you have noticed the changes going on in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories. Moreimportantly, I hope that the changes being made are benefitingthe students.

My assistants and I attempt to check equipment and software inthe labs periodically. However, what works today may nottomorrow, or even 5 minutes from now in the PC world.

My goals are to keep the labs updated and operational. I believethe students at UAH deserve the best equipment we canprovide and should not have to struggle with broken equipmentor a messed up PC. In order to keep the labs operational I mustbe informed when problems arise.

So please report any and all problems, no matter how small,that you encounter in EB106, 109, 144, 205, 225, 226, 227,229, 247 and EB248 directly to me. You can reach me inEB222, email me at [email protected] or phone me at 890-6520.

-Dennis Hite

FALL 2000 ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSE LISTCourse Credit

Hrs.Short Title Course Credit

Hrs.Short Title

Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering

EE100 3 Concepts in Digital Signals and Sys EE506 3 Communication TheoryEE201 1 Digital Logic Lab EE509 3 MicrocomputersEE202 3 Intro to Digital Logic Design EE510 3 Selected Topics: Advanced ControlEE300 3 Electrical Circuit Analysis I EE516 3 Digital ElectronicsEE301 1 Circuits and Measurements Lab EE527 3 Electromagnetic WavesEE302 3 Design Digital Computers EE528 3 Analy & Comp Methods Elec Engr I

EE534 3 Optical Fiber CommunicationsEE305 1 Electronic Devices and Design Lab I EE541 3 Optics IEE307 3 Electricity and Magnetism EE542 3 Physical OpticsEE310 3 Solid State FundamentalsEE313 3 Electrical Circuit analysis IIEE315 3 Intro Electronic Analysis & Design EE607 3 Robotic Systems ControlEE382 3 Analytical Methods for Continuous-Time Systems EE609 3 Electromagnetic Field TheoryEE383 3 Analyt Meth for Multivariable & Discrete-Time Sys EE610 3 Selected Topics: Coding TheoryEE384 1 Digital Signal Processing Laboratory EE612 3 Graduate Design ProjectEE410 3 Selected Topics: Advanced Control EE616 3 Microelectronic Devices/Integrated CircuitsEE411 3 Electric Power System EE619 3 Intro Radar SystemsEE412 3 Sr. Design Project Electrical Engineering EE648 3 Digital Signal ProcessingEE414 3 Analog & Digital Filter Design EE654 3 Optical TestingEE420 3 Random Signals & Noise EE691 1 Graduate Seminar IEE422 3 Advanced Logic Design EE697 3 Master’s Project for Plan IIEE424 3 Intro Data Communications Networks EE699 3 Master’s ThesisEE425 3 Intro to Control and Robotic Systems EE701 3 Advanced Linear Control TheoryEE426 3 Communications Theory EE704 3 Nonlinear Control SystemsEE429 3 Microcomputers EE706 3 Kalman Filter Tech Con & Signal ProcessingEE436 3 Digital Electronics EE710 3 Selected Topics in EEEE447 3 Electromagnetic Waves EE749 3 Neural Networks & Their ApplicationsEE448 3 Analytical and Computational Methods Elec Engr I EE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation

EE451 3 OptoelectronicsEE452 3 Optical Systems Design

EE453 3 Laser SystemsEE454 3 Optical Fiber Communications Computer EngineeringEE461 3 Optical System DesignEE492 3 VLSI Design I CPE197 3 Computer Methods in EngineeringEE494 3 EE Design Projects CPE203 3 Fundamentals of Software EngrEE500 3 Random Signals & Noise CPE302 3 Design Digital ComputersEE502 3 Advanced Logic Design CPE422 3 Advanced Logic DesignEE504 3 Intro Data Communication Networks CPE427 3 Computer Engr Design IEE505 3 Intro Control/Robotic Systems CPE429 3 Microcomputers

CPE433 3 Advanced Computer DesignCPE452 3 Real Time & Embedded Systems

CPE492 3 VLSI Design IOptical Engineering CPE502 3 Advanced Logic Circuits

CPE513 3 Advanced Tech in Computer DesignOPE441 3 Optical Systems Design CPE532 3 Real Time & Embedded SystemsOPE451 3 Optoelectronics CPE542 3 Parallel ProcessingOPE453 3 Laser Systems CPE610 3 ST: Translation SystemsOPE454 3 Optical Fiber Communications CPE610 3 ST: Computer SecurityOPE459 3 Optical Engineering Design CPE699 3 Master’s Thesis

CPE749 3 Neural Networks & Their ApplicationCPE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation


Publications, Presentations and AwardsCONTROL

Yuri Shtessel, Assoc. Professor

Journal Articles

"Multiple Time Scale Flight Control Using Re-configurable SlidingModes," AIAA Journal on Guidance, Y. Shtessel, J. Buffington, and S.Banda, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 22, No. 6, PP. 8370-883, (1999).

Y. Shtessel, C. Hall, and M. Jackson, "Reusable Launch VehicleControl in Multiple Time Scale Sliding Modes," AIAA Journal onGuidance, Control, and Dynamics, (2000) - accepted.

I. A. Shkolnikov and Y. B. Shtessel, "Nonminimum Phase Tracking inMIMO Systems with Square Input-Output Dynamics via DynamicSliding Manifold," Journal of The Franklin Institute, (2000) –accepted.

Conference Papers

"Tracking MIMO Nonlinear NonminimumPhase Systems Using Dynamic Sliding Manifolds," I. Shkolnikov andY. Shtessel, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and ControlConference, Portland, OR, August 9-11, paper # AIAA 99-4088,(1999).

"Tailless Aircraft Flight Control Using Multiple Time Scale Re-configurable Sliding Modes," Y. Shtessel, J. Buffington, and S. Banda,Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference,Portland, OR, August 9-11, paper # AIAA 99-4136, (1999).

"Satellite Attitude Control via Magnetorquers Using Scaled SlidingModes," P. Wang and Y. B. Shtessel, Proceedings of IFAC WorldCongress, Beijing, July, (1999).

"Nonminimum Phase Output Tracking via Sliding Mode Control: StableSystem Center Technique," I. Shkolnikov and Y. Shtessel, Proceedingsof the 7th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation,Haifa, Israel, June 28-30, (1999).

"Chattering-free Sliding Mode Control with Unmodeled Dynamics," D.Krupp and Y. Shtessel, Proceedings of American Control Conference,San Diego, CA, June 2-4, (1999).

"Sliding Mode Control in a Two Axis Gimbal System," B. J. Smith, W.J. Schrenk, W. B. Gass, and Y. B. Shtessel,Proceedings of IEEEAerospace Conference, March 6-13, Snowmass, CO, (1999).

Contracts AwardedIPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) Contract “Reusable LaunchVehicle Control in Sliding Modes” NASA, Marshall Flight SpaceCenter, Huntsville, AL, 08/15/99-08/14/00.

Contract "Sliding Mode Control Design," U.S. Army Strategic MissileDefense Command, Huntsville, AL, 05/07/99-03/31/00.

Contract "Sliding Mode Controller Design for Advanced Interceptors,"U.S. Army Strategic Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL,12/22/99-09/30/00.

Grant “Development of Virtual Control and Dynamic SystemsLaboratory”, 01/10/00 – 01/09/02, NSF, (PI: Dr. Hampton, Co-PIs: Dr.Shtessel, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Frederick, Mr. Middleton).

HonorsRecipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal for outstandingcontribution to control theory, 2000.

ELECTROMAGNETICSNagendra Singh, Professor

Journal ArticlesSingh, N., Field patterns of Alfven wave resonance cones, J. Geophys.Res. 104, p. 6999-7009, 1999.

Singh, N., and W. C. Leung, Nonlinear features of electrostatic ioncyclotron instability driven by counterstreaming ion beams in equatorialouter plasmasphere, in press, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 28,547-558, 1999.

Gatlin, T., and N. Singh, Nonlinear frequency response of a movinggrating with an applied field in BSO, Optics Letters, 24, #22, 1593-95,1999.

Singh, N., Electron holes as a common feature of plasma waves driven bya double layer, in press, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2000.

Conference Papers

“Consequences of Parallel Electric Fields Applied to a Plasma withDensity Cavities,” N. Singh, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 1999.

“Evolution of a Plasma to the Harris Equilibrium,” Saikat Saha and N.Singh, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 13-17, 1999.

“Evolution of Electron-beam Generated Waves Resulting in TransverseIon Heating and Filamentation of Plasma Density,” S. M. Loo, N. Singh,and B. E. Wells, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 1999.

“Simulation of Current Collection by the Tethered Satellite in the TSS-1RMission,” N. Singh and W. C. Leung, XXVIth Gen. Assembly of the Int.Union of Radio Science, Toronto, Canada, August 19-21, 1999.

“Case Study: A Portable Parallel Particle-in-cell Code simulation,” SinMing Loo, B. Earl Wells, Nagendra Singh, and Edith P. Huang,Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and DistributedProcessing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA' 98), Las Vegas,Nevada, July 13-16, 1999.

Research GrantNagendra Singh (PI) “Minimagnetosphere plasma propulsion”December 1999 – December 2000.

Invited Guest Editor: IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, Special Issue onSpace Weather, 2000.

ELECTRON DEVICES

Fat Duen Ho, Professor

Journal Article“Integrating Partial Polarization into a Metal- Ferroelectric-SemiconductorField Effect Transistor Model,” Todd C. McLeod and Fat Duen Ho,Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 27, 1999, pp. 1137-1145.

Conference Papers

“A Drain Current Data Capture System for Metal- Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors,” Mark Bailey and Fat Duen Ho,12th International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics, Aachen,Germany, March 2000.

“I-V Characteristics of a Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor,” T. C.McLeod and Fat Duen Ho, 12th International Symposium on IntegratedFerroelectrics, Aachen, Germany, March 2000.

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Publications, Presentations and AwardsHARDWARE & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Rhonda Kay Gaede, Assistant Professor

Journal Articles

J. Rodgers, Rhonda Kay Gaede , and Jeffrey H. Kulick, “IN-Tune: An In-SituNon-Invasive Performance Tuning Tool for Multi-threaded Linux on SymmetricMultiprocessing Pentium Workstations”, Software – Practice and Experience,Volume 29(9), July, 1999, pp. 775-792.

Conference Papers

D. L. Hecht, K. M. Kavi, R. K Gaede , C. Katsinis, “Fault-Tolerance UsingCache-Coherent Distributed Shared Memory Systems”, Proceedeings of the1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, andNetworks (I-SPAN’99), June 23-25, 1999, Freemantle, Western Australia, pp.100 - 105.

David W. Hyde, Rhonda Kay Gaede , “Enhancing the Undergraduate VLSIDesign Experience Using FPGA-Based Rapid Prototyping”, Proceedings of theMentor Graphics International Users Group Meeting, September 27 – October 1,1999, Portland, Oregon.

Rhonda Gaede , Fenglei Li, David Hyde and Dashen Shen, “Amorphous SiliconPhotodetector for Optical Interconnections”, Proceedings of the 18th

International Conference on Amorphous and Microcrystalline Semiconductors,August 22-27, 1999, Snowbird, Utah.

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Krishna Kavi, Professor andEminent Scholar of Computer Engineering

Journal Articles

"Scheduled dataflow architecture: A synchronous execution paradigm fordataflow", K. M. Kavi. H.S. Kim and A.R. Hurson, IASTED Journal ofComputers and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Oct. 1999), pp 114-124.

"File allocation algorithms to minimize data transmission time for real-timeapplications in distributed computing systems", P.Y. Chang, D. J. Chen and K.M. Kavi, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, (Institute ofInformation Science, Taipei, Taiwan), Dec. 1999

Refereed Conference Papers

M. Rezaei and K.M. Kavi. "A new implementation for well known memorymanagement policies", Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon 2000 Conference,April 7-9, 2000, Nashville, TN.

R. Giorgi, K.M. Kavi and J. Arul. "Exploiting Thread Level Parallelism in aNew Decoupled Non-Blocking Multithreaded Architecture ", Proceedings of thejoint 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics(SCI'2000) and the 6th International Conference on InformationSystems A

Conference Papers

"A simplified multithreaded architecture to overcome memory latencies", H.S.Kim, K.M. Kavi and A.R. Hurson, Proceedings of the 12th ISCA Parallel andDistributed Computing Systems Conference (PDCS-99), Published by theInternational Society of Computers and Their Applications, Ft. Lauderdale, FL,Aug. 18-20, 1999, pp 231-236.

"Interactive teaching practices in small class sizes while cutting into the highcost of education", A.R. Hurson and K.M. Kavi, Proceedings of the InternationalConference on Engineering Education, Ostrava, Czech, August 10 - 12, 1999.

"Implementation Of Recovery Blocks On Cache-Coherent Distributed SharedMemory Systems", D. Hecht, K.M. Kavi, R. Gaede and C. Katsinis, Proceedingsof the 1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms andNetworks (I-SPAN-99), Fremantle, Western Australia, June 23-25, 1999., pp100-105.

"A decoupled scheduled dataflow multithreaded architecture", K.M. Kavi, H.-S.Kim, J. Arul and A.R. Hurson, Proceedings of the 1999 InternationalSymposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN-99),Fremantle, Western Australia, June 23-25, 1999, pp 138-143.

Invited TalksScheduled Dataflow: A synchronous execution paradigm for dataflow, Dept.of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Monash University, Caulfield,Victoria, Australia, June 21, 1999; University of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia, June 28, 1999; University of New Castle, New Castle, Australia,July 1, 1999.

Book ChapterK.M. Kavi, H. -S. Kim, B. Lee and Ali Hurson. "Distributed SharedMemory Systems: A survey", to appear in Advances in Computers, Vol. 48,(Edited by M. Zerkowitz), Academic Press, 2000.

Other ContributionsABET Visitor

Chair, Workshops and Tutorials, 2000 Conference on Parallel Architecturesand Compiler Technologies (Oct. 2000, Philadelphia, PA).

Thomas Martin, Assistant Professor

Thomas L. Martin and Daniel P. Sieworek, "The Impact of Battery Capacityand Memory Bandwidth on CPU Speed-Setting: A Case Study,"Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Low Power Electronicsand Design, San Diego, CA, pp. 200-205, Aug 16-17, 1999,

Thomas L. Martin and Daniel P. Sieworek, "Non-ideal Battery Properties andLow Power Operation in Wearable Computers," to appear in the Proceedingsof the 1999 International Symposium on Wearable Computing.

OPTICSGregory Nordin, Associate Professor

Journal Article

G. P. Nordin and P. C. Deguzman, "Broadband Form BirefringentQuarter-Wave Plate for the Mid-Infrared Wavelength Region", OpticsExpress, 5(8), pp. 163-168 (1999).

Conference Papers

G. P. Nordin, J. T. Meier, P. C. Deguzman, and M. W. Jones, "DiffractiveOptical Element for Stokes Vector Measurement With a Focal Plane Array",SPIE Annual Meeting, July, 1999 (Proceedings Vol. 3754).

D. M. Chambers, G. P. Nordin, and M. J. Kavaya, "Stratified VolumeDiffractive Optical Elements as Low-Mass Coherent Lidar Scanners,"presented at the 10th Coherent Laser Radar Technology and ApplicationsConference 28 June - 2 July 1999, Mount Hood, Oregon.

"Rigorous Electromagnetic Analysis and the Limits of Scalar Design of FiniteAperture Diffractive Phase Optical Elements," S. D. Mellin and G. P. Nordin,EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics (European Optical SocietyTopical Meetings Digest Series: Volume 22, 1999), p. 34.

G. P. Nordin, P. C. Deguzman, J. T. Meier, J. Jiang, and M. W. Jones, "Arrayof Stacked Subwavelength Gratings for Polarization Analysis," EOS TopicalMeeting on Diffractive Optics (European Optical Society Topical MeetingsDigest Series: Volume 22, 1999), p. 221.

D. M. Chambers and G. P. Nordin, "Fabrication of stratified volumediffractive optical elements," EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics(European Optical Society Topical Meetings Digest Series: Volume 22,1999), p. 50.

Research Grant

Polarimetric Micro-Optics, Nichols Research Corporation, Inc., June 1, 1999- June 30, 2000. Principal Investigator: G. P. Nordin.

Finite Difference Time Domain Software Program Development, MEMS-Optical, February 18, 2000 - May 31, 2001. Principal Investigator: G. P.Nordin.

Special Contribution: On May 19, 1999 Dr. Nordin was an invited exhibitorat the 5th Annual CNSF Exhibition and Reception for congressmen and theirstaffs which showcased research and education projects supported by theNational Science Foundation. This event was held in the Rayburn HouseOffice Building in Washington, DC and was sponsored by the Coalition forNational Science Funding.


Publications, Presentations and AwardsHonorsRecipient of UAH Foundation Research and Creative Achievement Award.

David Pollock, Associate Research Professor

Journal Articles

Pollock D. B., R. U. Datla, Traceable to SI Units, Conference forCharacterization and Calibration for Remote Sensing, Utah State University,International Journal of Remote Sensing, in publication, 2000.

Pollock D. B., T. L. Murdock, R. U. Datla, A. Thompson, RadiometricStandards in Space, The Next Step, NEWRAD99, Metrologia, in publication,2000.

Conference Papers

Layton E., T. L. Murdock, D. B. Pollock, A. Thurgood, R. Russell, J. Mill,Results Of The Minimization Of Calibration Error Process Using MultipleSources For The MSX IR Radiometer, Conference for Characterization andCalibration for Remote Sensing, Utah State University, November 1999.

Pollock D. B., T. L. Murdock, R. U. Datla, A. Thompson, RadiometricStandards in Space, The Next Step, NEWRAD99, Madrid, Spain.

Pollock D. B., Technology Transfer Metrology Standards, Midcourse SpaceExperiment Technical Interchange with the Defense Science, London,England, June 1999.

Pollock D. B. and A. Thompson, Remote Sensing Accuracy Current State ofthe Art, a Technical Interchange with the National Physical Laboratories,London, England, June 1999.

Current Research Projects

Calibration Standards in Space; Radiometric Standards in Space traced to theInternational System of Units; Radiometric Transfer Standards for theNational Institute of Standards and Technology; The Certification of largevolumes of radiometric and goniometric data traced to the InternationalSystem of Units.

Dashen Shen, Associate Professor

Journal Articles

“Amorphous Silicon Photodetector for Optical Interconnections”,Rhonda Gaede, Fenglei Li, David Hyde and Dashen Shen, J. Non-crystalline Solids, to be published, 2000.

"Numerical Calculation of Gate Line Delay in Very Large ActiveMatrix Liquid Crystal Display with Via Holes", Qing Zhang and D.S.Shen, IEEE Tran Circuits and Systems, Vol 46, p. 435, 1999

Conference Papers

“Amorphous Silicon Devices and Applications,” Dashen Shen and Yuehui Yu,(invited), IUMRS99, June 1999.

“Amorphous Silicon Photodetector for Optical Interconnections”, RhondaGaede, Fenglei Li , David Hyde and Dashen Shen, ICAMS 18, Utah, August1999.

SIGNAL PROCESSING / COMMUNICATIONS

Reza Adhami, Professor and Chair

Conference Paper“Real Time Holter Monitoring of Biomedical Signals,” E. Jovanov, P.Gelabert, R. Adhami, B. Wheelock, R. Adams, DSP Technology andEducation Conference DSPS'99, August 4-6, 1999, Houston, Texas.

Journal Articles“Modeling and Simulation of Computerized Tomography Systems,” BrianSmith and Reza Adhami, Journal of SIMULATION, accepted for publicationin June 2000.

“Mammographic Lesion Shape Recognition Via the Discrete WaveletTransform,” L. M. Bruce and R.R. Adhami IEEE Transactions on MedicalImaging, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1170-1177, 1999.

Emil Jovanov, Assistant Professor

Conference Papers"Multi Modal Presentation in Virtual Telemedical Environments", E. Jovanov,D. Starcevic, A. Marsh, Z. Obrenovic, V. Radivojevic, A. Samardzic, HighPerformance Computing Conference HPCN'99, Amsterdam, April 1999.

"Tactical Audio and Acoustic Rendering in Biomedical Applications", E.Jovanov, K. Wagner, V. Radivojevic, D. Starcevic, M. Quinn, D. Karron, IEEETransactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 3, No. 2, June1999, pp. 109-118.

"Real Time Holter Monitoring of Biomedical Signals", E. Jovanov, P. Gelabert,R. Adhami, B. Wheelock, R. Adams, DSP Technology and EducationConference DSPS'99, August 4-6, 1999, Houston, Texas.

SOLID STATE

Timothy Boykin, Assoc. Professor

Journal Articles

Timothy B. Boykin, “Exact representation of exp(iqr) in the empiricaltight-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,” AppliedPhysics Letters 75, 1302 (1999).

J. G. Menchero and Timothy B. Boykin, “Impurity states insemiconductors calculated via tight-binding: a parameter sensitivitystudy,” Physical Review B 59, 8137 (1999).

Timothy B. Boykin, Roger K. Lake, Gerhard Klimeck, and MukundSwaminathan, “Interface effects in tunneling models with identical realand complex dispersions,” Physical Review B 59, 7316 (1999).

Timothy B. Boykin, Lisa J. Gamble, Gerhard Klimeck, and R. ChrisBowen, “Valence-band warping in tight-binding models,” PhysicalReview B 59, 7301 (1999).

Timothy B. Boykin, “A More Physical Formulation of the Self-Inductance for Spatially Distributed Circuits,” American Journal ofPhysics 67, 320 (1999).

Conference Papers

Timothy B. Boykin, Lisa J. Gamble, Gerhard Klimeck, and R. ChrisBowen, “Valence-band warping in tight-binding models and its effect onheterostructure electronic states,” given at the 1999 March Meeting of theAmerican Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, 20-26 March, 1999.

Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, and Timothy B. Boykin, “Tight-binding sp3 s* parameters from genetic algorithms,” given at the 1999March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, 20-26March, 1999.Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, and Timothy B. Boykin,"Development of a 3-D Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool (NEMO-3D),"given at Surfaces and Interfaces in Mesoscopic Devices, Maui, HI, 5-10December, 1999.

Book ChapterTimothy B. Boykin, "Tailoring Empirical Tight-Binding Models forSemiconductor Heterostructure Calculations," in L. M. Gaggero-Sagerand S. Vlaev, eds., Some Contemporary Problems of Condensed MatterPhysics, (NOVA Science Publishers, approx. publication date: secondhalf of 2000).

Current Research Projects:Properties of tight-binding models, calculation of optical propertieswithin the tight-binding framework.

Invited Article for Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCOsponsored), Quantum mechanical description of solids.


We celebrated the graduation of the firstMaster's students from our new ADTRANTechnical Development Program (TDP) inElectrical and Computer Engineering onMay 11. Seven students graduated fromTDP in Spring/Summer 2000. This wasnot simply a worthy achievement for theseindividual students, but it is a milestonefor a unique partnership between UAHand ADTRAN, and a tribute to a new kindof alliance between academia andindustry.

The TDP is a two-year program thatintegrates engineering design workexperience with university graduate study.TDP participants are full time employeesat ADTRAN while active in the program.Participants receive paid, 50% releasedtime from work during academic termswhen taking nine semester hours. Bothinternal and external candidates may applyto the program (e.g., current employees,new graduates, and experienced non-employees). TDP participants are selectedusing the normal evaluation and selectionprocess utilized by ADTRAN. From the left: Brian Perkins, Zack Whaley, Jason Lyon, Jared Cress, Stefanie Dodd, Tim Mester, Jay Atkinson.

Jay Atkinson received his undergraduate degree from UAH in May of1997. Jay began working for ADTRAN in March of 1994 as a co-op. In1998, he began working for ADTRAN full time and became a TDPparticipant. Jay received his MSE in Electrical Engineering in May2000. He is a member of the IEEE organization.

Stefanie Dodd received her undergraduate degree from UAB inDecember of 1996. Stefanie began working for ADTRAN in January of1998 and began the TDP in the fall of 1998. She is a member of theIEEE organization. Stefanie received her MSE in Electrical Engineeringin May 2000.

Jason Lyon received his undergraduate degree from Brigham YoungUniversity in June of 1997. Jason began working for ADTRAN in Julyof 1997 and began the TDP in the fall of 1998. Jayson received his MSEin Electrical Engineering in May 2000.

Brian Perkins received his undergraduate degree from Mississippi StateUniversity in December of 1996. Brian began working for ADTRAN inJanuary of 1997 and began the TDP in the fall of 1998. Brian received

his MSE in Electrical Engineering in May 2000.

Tim Mester received his undergraduate degree from TennesseeTechnological University in the spring of 1998. Tim began workingfor ADTRAN in the spring of 1998 and began the TDP in the fall of1998. Tim Mester was awarded the UAH Electrical EngineeringGraduate Student of the Year. He is in the IEEE organization. Tim isexpected to receive his MSE in Electrical Engineering in Auguts2000.

Zack Whaley received his undergraduate degree from the Universityof Alabama in May of 1998. He began working for ADTRAN in Julyof 1998 and began the TDP in the fall of 1998. Zack received his MSEin Electrical Engineering in May 2000.

Jared Cress received his undergraduate degree from the University ofAlabama in May of 1998 and began working for ADTRAN upongraduation. He began the TDP in the fall of 1998. Jared received hisMSE in Electrical Engineering in May 2000.

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