Order of the Engineer Ring Ceremony

The Order of the Engineer, (OOE) is an organization which promotes professionalism among engineers and graduates of accredited engineering programs.

The next induction ceremony will be held on Friday, June 11, at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Multipurpose Room. Seniors, graduate students, alumni, and faculty are encouraged to keep this date open and to register and participate.

The $10 registration fee covers the cost of membership and the ring. Registration forms have been sent to students’ home addresses and the registration deadline is May 21.

For more information about OOE or the ring ceremony, contact the College office at 775-5001.

The annual ITRI Spring Workshop was held March 11 in the School of Medicine Auditorium. Keynote speaker John Graniero, Chief Scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, presented "Research Opportunities with the Information Directorate of the AFRL." Drs. Garcia, Chung, Sudkamp, and Jean spoke about ITRI’s four major research areas.

Dan Lohmeyer, Executive Director of the IT Alliance, illustrated the Alliance’s support of information technology growth in the area. Presentations were made by industrial and academic members of the IT Alliance Research Committee on "Identifying and Meeting Industry Needs."

Spring Quarter 1999, ITRI began sponsoring a Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar Series. On April 16, Dr. Travis Doom spoke on "Formal Design Recovery for Obsolete Digital Systems." On April 30, Dr. Michael Cox presented "Inner Peregrinations: Computational Introspection and Social Empathy."

Seminars scheduled for May are:

May 14: Dr. Karen Tomko

Topic: Accelerating Applications with FPGA Devices

Location: 145 Russ Center, 11:00 a.m.

May 28: Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Topic: Pattern Recognition for the Electronic Nose

Location: 145 Russ Center, 11:00 a.m.

If you are interested in attending one of the May seminars, please contact Leona Miller, 352 Russ Center, 775-5138.

The College of Engineering and Computer Science Design Clinic Program provides our undergraduate students with real-world industry consulting experience.

Design Clinic participants receive design course and/or technical elective credit in their program of study. Participation also enhances employment opportunities upon graduation by providing relevant industry experience, faculty and industry references, technical team experience, and knowledge of positions which might be available in the companies sponsoring the student projects.

In order to participate in the program, students are required to work as part of a team for three consecutive quarters, starting in fall 1999, on an industry-sponsored project. Students will enroll for four credit hours each quarter (Fall ‘99, Winter ‘00, Spring ‘00) for a total of 12 credit hours.

Each Design Clinic team will have two advisors–one from the College faculty and one from the sponsoring company.

Participants must meet the following minimum requirements:

• 140 credit hours completed in program of study prior to the start of fall quarter or plan to graduate prior to June 2001
• Cannot be graduating before June 2000
• GPA of at least 2.5

Students wishing to participate in Design Clinic may obtain an application form in the Dean’s Office, 405 Russ.

To discover more about the Design Clinic, contact the chair of your department or Dean Brandeberry.

The spring rains have been invading the Russ Center by way of a leaky skylight. So, if it is raining,please watch your step on the Atrium stairway as that is where most of leak accumulates.

Plans are being finalized to remedy this situation by having the skylight recaulked. Hopefully, this will take place before the end of the quarter. However, it is a dangerous job which can only be done during some dry weather that isn’t very windy!

So, if you look up one day and see people outside the skylight, don’t panic, they are probably supposed to be there–unless Randy has managed to get a key to the roof!

Try to stay dry!

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