Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Congratulations to Dave Brown ‘10, who is the recipient of a NASA-funded summer internship at Lockheed Martin’s Systems Integration facility in Owego, NY. The internship is with Project Blue Horizon, a Lockheed Martin/Cornell near-space flight program that carries high technology payloads to the edge of space at altitudes of 60,000-100,000 feet+.
Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering recently were ranked in the top three of Forbes’ list of “Most Lucrative College Majors.” For more information, click here.
Planning for a new laboratory focussing on research at the interface of electrical engineering and music is underway. The laboratory will be located in the Peter Irving Wold Science and Engineering Center and is being designed from the ground up by the architectural acoustics consultants, Walters Storyk Design Group, and the architectural firm, EYP. The laboratory will include a professional recording studio, and will enable research in speech acoustics, musical acoustics, audio engineering and signal processing, music visualization and sonification and other related topics.
On Nov. 21, 2008 Helen Hanson attended the Awards Program of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Chicago, IL. An article which she co-authored, “On the Structure of Phoneme Categories in Listeners With Cochlear Implants” was selected by the Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research as an outstanding article of 2007 and the winner of the 2007 Editors Award for the Hearing Section. Luminaries in attendance included Dame Julie Andrews and Senator John Glenn. Hanson received a plaque, but did not get to participate in a Sound-of-Music backstage sing-a-long with Dame Julie.
Helen Hanson organized and chaired a special session at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held Nov. 10-14, 2008, in Miami, Florida. The session was titled ”A Quantal Transition: Ken Stevens in ‘Retirement’”. It honored Prof. Kenneth N. Stevens upon his retirement from the EECS Dept. at MIT. Twelve papers were given during the session, including one by Hanson, entitled “Physical Principles Behind Quantal Relations.”
Karen St. Germain, will present a talk on her experiences as an electrical engineer working in the area of remote sensing since graduating from Union in 1987. The talk will be in Olin 115 at 9:55 am on Oct. 28. Her career path has included remote sensing for hurricanes, oceans and ice, and studies of environmental climate change such as the monitoring of Greenland’s ice shelf. Her work has taken her on adventures ranging from measuring sea surface height in the South Pacific to working on a German icebreaker in the Antarctic. Dr. St. Germain currently works with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), the next generation operational weather and environment satellite system. She is responsible for the scientific integrity of the data processing algorithms, pre- and post-launch sensor calibration, and the data product validation for the sensors and the operational earth, atmosphere and space environmental data products.
Dear ECE students,
Jim Hedrick, Michael Rudko, the organizers.
Shane Cotter, working with ECE students Tomas Sadilek and Jaromir Horejsi, recently had a paper accepted to the IEEE DSP Workshop 2009, a workshop organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The paper, ‘Facial Expression Recognition using Hybrid Discriminant Analysis,’ will be presented in January. Tomas and Jaromir are exchange students from the Czech Republic attending Union College for the year.
Steve Boddorff ‘08 and David Harwood ‘08 have just accepted a job offers at GE Energy in Schenectady, where they will be working on wind energy. Steve and David join recent ECE alums, Ben Bunes ‘08 and Dan Fishman ‘07, who have also been hired by GE Energy.
Palma Catravas (ECE Dept.) and Kathleen LoGiudice (Biology Dept.) received a Semifinalist award in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Journal, Science, for a scanning electron microsope (SEM) image. Another of their SEM images has appeared in the Photo Gallery of the October, 2008 issue of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America and on the National Geographic website as part of the “Daily Dozen.” Their images are currently on display in the Nott Memorial as part of an art exhibit focussing on the intersection of art and science, “Dynamic Equilibrium.” For more information, click here.
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