For the 1998-99 academic year, the College of Engineering and
Computer Science Faculty Development Committee has selected outstanding faculty in the areas of research and
professional service.
A. Ardeshir Goshtasby is the winner of the 1999 Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Goshtasby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Since joining the faculty at Wright State University in 1995, Dr. Goshtasby has established a respectable research program in computer graphics and computer vision and his efforts have been published numerous times in prestigious journals. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pattern Recognition and is a guest editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding on the area of analysis of volumetric images.
Dr. Goshtasby’s research also has many practical applications in the area of medical imaging processing. Furthermore, he has also been very successful in obtaining external research funding from nationally-competitive sources, such as the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Goshtasby is a consummate "team player," who understands the importance of the application of multiple disciplines in the solving of real-life problems. To that end, he has collaborated with many faculty members inside the CSE Department, among the other ECS departments, across the university, as well individuals outside the university community. He has also actively participated in proposals and projects within the Information Technology Research Institute. Dr. Goshtasby is not afraid to cross disciplinary barriers and is eager to use his graphics expertise in numerous applications.
Not only is Dr. Goshtasby an outstanding researcher, he is also highly committed to educating his students. He has a remarkable ability to expose both his graduate and undergraduate students to and get them involved in academic research. Dr. Goshtasby is currently guiding four doctoral and 3 Master’s students; as well as assisting in the guidance of one other doctoral student and two other Master’s students.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. A. Ardeshir Goshstasby on receiving the 1999 Excellence in Research Award.
William S. McCormick is the winner of the 1999
Excellence in Professional Service Award. Dr. McCormick is a Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering.
In his 30 years of service at Wright State, Dr. McCormick was often instrumental in advancing the causes of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He exercised his leadership abilities in guiding the Electrical Engineering Communica-tions/Signal Processing/Design sequence and was a member of the Curriculum Committee. His efforts led to an effective degree path for the highly specialized world of communications and signal processing.
As the chair of the EE Department Laboratory Equipment Committee, Dr. McCormick was instrumental in coordinating, identifying, and prioritizing equipment acquisitions for 15 electrical engineering laboratories to maintain their "state-of-the-art" status. Dr. McCormick has always been ready, able, and willing to help complete administrative chores quickly and to the best of his ability.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. William McCormick on receiving the 1999 Excellence in Professional Service Award.
Each year, the Teaching Effectiveness Awards Committee requests nominations from students for faculty whom they feel have done an outstanding job of effectively communicating material and stimulating interest in their courses. The top ten nominees for the Excellence in Teaching Award were:
The recipient of the 1999 Excellence in Teaching Award is Dr. J. Mitch
Wolff, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
Dr. Wolff was nominated for the Teaching in Excellence Award by several of his students who feel their learning experience in his courses were both challenging and interesting. He consistently receives some of the highest course evaluations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from among a group of very talented, competent, and highly experienced faculty. Dr. Wolff extends his involvement with his students outside the classroom by serving as faculty advisor to student groups and by arranging tours of local industries and engineering operations for the students.
Recently, Dr. Wolff was honored with the 1999 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)–this distinguishes him as one of the nation’s top engineering educators. Dr. Wolff has been with Wright State since 1995 and teaches under-graduate fluid dynamics and thermodynamics and graduate computational fluid dynamics classes. Dr. Wolff was nominated by his peers for this prestigious honor based on his teaching approach, commitment to students’ education, and respect for his profession. Obviously, Dr. Wolff is extremely dedicated to providing a quality learning experience for his students.
In addition to his exemplary efforts in the classroom, Dr. Wolff is also a stellar researcher. He specializes in gas turbine research, which he conducts at the Compressor Aero Research Lab within the Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Dr. Wolff never hesitates to take the initiative in establishing new research relationships with external entities such as WPAFB, NASA Lewis Center, or the Ohio Aerospace Institute. He is becoming nationally known for his work in computational fluid dynamics.
Furthermore, Dr. Wolff is quick to encourage his students to become involved in his research projects and willingly shares the accolades and limelight with them. He is truly an outstanding young faculty member and a dedicated and caring individual. We look forward to observing him establish himself as a renowned educator and researcher.
Please extend your felicitations to Dr. J. Mitch Wolff as the winner of the 1999 Teaching in Excellence Award.
A new award is being offered by the Teaching
Effectiveness Awards Committee this year to recognize outstanding efforts by teaching assistants. The winner of
the first Excellence in Teaching Assistance Award is Arvind Mosur Subramania.
Arvind is a teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The students who nominated Arvind stated that his vast knowledge of the course materials enabled him to explain the subject matter clearly. Almost every nomination stressed how Arvind would "go out of his way" to be available to the students and to help them grasp some very difficult concepts. Obviously, they felt very lucky to have Arvind for a T.A.
Please offer congratulations to Arvind Mosur Subramania, winner of the 1999 Excellence in Teaching Assistance Award.
The Rehabilitation Engineering (RE) Training Program offered through the Department of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering (BIE) had eight students graduate with the M.S. degree in August 1999. One of these graduates had a job offer from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Rehabilitation Engineering Program prepares engineers to provide assistive technology RE services to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities. The RE program has received continuous funding for the past eight years from the USDE Rehabilitation Services Administration. This one-year, 60 quarter hour program has graduated a total of 44 individuals. This year, there are another seven students slated to begin the program in Fall 1999.
Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2000 class. Stipends and/or tuition fellowships are available. For more information on the Rehabilitation Engineering program, check out the web site at:
www.cs.wright.edu/bhe/rehabengr/rehabeng.html
or contact
Blair Rowley, Ph.D., PE
Department of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering
247 Russ Engineering Center
Phone: (937) 775-5073
E-mail: browley@cs.wright.edu
Dr. P. Bruce Berra, ITRI Director, was Guest Co-editor with Dr. Arif Ghafoor from Purdue University for the "Special Section on Data and Knowledge Management in Multimedia Systems," IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 868-1004, November/December 1998 (Part I) and in Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 361-447, May/June 1999 (Part I).
Dr. Berra was Guest Co-editor with Dr. Olivia Sheng from the University ofArizona for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 1999.
Dr. Berra's paper "Techniques for Increasing the Stream Capacity of a High-Performance Multimedia Server," (with D. Jadav and A. N. Choudhary) was published in IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 284-302, March/April 1999.
On June 24, Dr. Berra spokeat the Ohio Board of Regents office in Columbus to the vice presidents of research of all the Ohio state colleges and universities about ITRI.
Dr. Berra presented "Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningUsing an Electro-Optical Data Warehouse" at the 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION99) in Sunnyvale, CA, July 1999.
Dr. Berra is Chair of the Steering Committee for the Midwest Workshop on Parallel Processing. They launched their first Workshop August 11-13, 1999, at Kent State University.
Seminars
ITRI is hosting four Faculty/ Graduate Student Seminars Fall Quarter.
September 24
Dr. Guozhu Dong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
October 8
John Holt, Lexis-Nexis, CSE PhD student of Dr. Soon Chung
October 22
Yadong Li, CSE PhD student of Dr. A. A. Goshtasby
November 5
Dr. Francis Quek, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Seminars are usually held in 145 Russ from 11:00 to noon. Look for flyers with more information as the dates approach.
September 15 – Fall Quarter Classes Begin/Late Registration Fee Begins
– Welcome Week Carnival,
September 21 – Last day to register, add classes, or receive 100% refund of fees
September 22 – 70% refund of fees begins
September 30 – Last day for 70% refund of fees
October 4 – Faculty Senate, 2:30 p.m.
October 6 – Last day to drop a class without a grade
October 15 – Winter Quarter class schedules due out
October 19 – Last day for all but freshmen to drop a class with a grade of "W"
October 23 – Senior registration begins for Winter Quarter 2000
October 24 – Graduate/unclassified registration begins for Winter Quarter 2000
October 30 – Junior registration begins for Winter Quarter 2000
November 1 – Faculty Senate, 2:30 p.m.
November 6 – Sophomore registration begins for Winter Quarter 2000
November 9 – General Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m.
November 11 – Veterans Day–University Closed
November 12 – Last day for freshmen to drop a class with a grade of "W"
November 13 – Freshman registration begins for Winter Quarter 2000
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