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Expanding
Your Horizons
(EYH) An all day conference that will feature hands on activities, networking and career panels. Expanding Your Horizons is designed to provide young women grades 4th through 9th an opportunity to explore math, science and engineering careers.
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information
Engineering Trees located at Harris Corporation Partnership Atrium For information
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Dean Selection
On Track Name Change
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Construction
to Start Engineering III
by: Wayne Weinberg 
Rendering of Engineering III Bids have been opened for the construction of the Colleges new building Engineering III. The four story 100,000 square foot building will be the home of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Computer Science. Engineering III will provide specialized classrooms, 30 research labs for faculty and graduate students, two specialized research caves for virtual and augmented reality, an auditorium, and offices for faculty and staff. There will also be dedicated areas for advising and registering students. In planning, the building is designed to be attractive for university-industry interaction research partnerships with the community. Construction is scheduled to start in very early 2004 and be finished by mid 2005. Engineering III will be located between CREOL and Engineering I. |
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Minority
Engineering & Computer Science Programs Hosts Teacher’s Workshop Minority
Engineering & Computer Science Programs Office hosted its annual SECME
teacher’s in-service workshop. SECME’s goal is to increase the pool of
historically under-represented, and under-served students to help create
a diverse and globally competitive workforce. The Minority Engineering
& Computer Science Programs Office supports them in this goal. |
New
Research Institute at KSC The University of Central Florida will help lead a new space research institute at Kennedy Space Center, giving the university’s researchers a more prominent role in helping NASA make space travel safer and less costly. click here for complete story Helping
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Alumni Chapter Raises Thousands for Scholarships by: Wayne Weinberg Under the leadership of event Chair Patty Therrien of TEI Engineers and Planners, the College’s Alumni Chapter raised nearly $26,000 for the Chapter's student scholarship endowment. The money was raised at the Chapter’s annual High Tech event held in the Engineering II Harris Corporation Partnership Atrium. More than 150 people attended. The College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Alumni Chapter are grateful to the following sponsors for their generous support: |
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FACULTY KUDOS Hosni
Represents the US in Japan Dr.
Sury Citings Dr. "Sury" Suryanarayana, associate professor Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) was honored by President Hitt for his contributions in material science research, his record number of citations (over 2100) recognized by ISI, and his recent appointment as Chairman to the Nanotechnology Task Force in American Society for Materials (ASM). |
Visit from the Top The Chairman & CEO of Melbourne based Harris Corporation Howard Lance and Harris' VP Human Resources and Corporate Relations Nick Heldreth visited with Interim Dean Dr. Louis Chow. They toured Engineering II's Harris Corporation Computer Laboratory and Harris Corporation Partnership Atrium. Since the 4,500 square foot lab opened 28 months ago, nearly one million engineering and computer science students have logged on-more than the population of Orange County. More than one million have walked through the 11,200 square foot Atrium since it opened 28 months ago.
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National
Champions A Civil and
Environmental Engineering student team has captured the national environmental
design competition at the Water Environment
Federation meeting in Los Angeles. The winning design was entitled
“Biosolids Treatment and Disposal Alternatives for Altamonte Springs,
Florida.” Marie Romah, Michelle Hanson, Brenda Keenan, and Mimi Perez-Falcon
represented the College after winning the state competition and beating
the University of Florida. Civil and Environmental Interim Department
Chair Dr. Debra Reinhart
coached the team.
Computer Science Team Continues to Dominate UCF computer science programming team will advance to the world championship round to be held in Prague in March after dominating the annual Southeast Regional Programming contest. Held at Emory Riddle University in Daytona Beach, our teams placed 1st, 3rd, 6th, 11th and 34th among 84 teams from 5 states. This is the 22nd year the computer science team has finished in the top three. No other university or college has done that. Also unprecedented is that UCF has won this contest as many times as the remaining 84 teams combined. Good luck to Casey Thurston, Raymond Ho and Scott Vogelpohl. Computer science associate professor Dr. Ali Orooji coached the teams.
Computer Science Finalist Among the Best Ankur Datta is one of the finalists for the 2004 Outstanding Undergraduate Award sponsored by Computing Research Association. This award program recognizes students who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research nationwide. Other finalists were from Princeton University, University of Rochester, Columbia University, Brown University, UC San Diego. Thuc Vu/Carnegie Mellon University is the 2004 Male Awardee.
Yuan Liu, electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate will present his paper (Blind Source Separation for Frequency Dependent Channels) at the 46th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Cairo, Egypt. His paper, is among the ten finalist that will be presented and published by the conference. Dr. Wasfy Mikhael is Liu's advisor. Good Luck Yuan! |
UCF
Team in "Jeopardy"
Fathy Abdalla presented his Ph.D reseach at the Florida Institute of Transportation Engineers (FSITE) meeting. The theme of the meeting was "Safety, Reliability & Security of our Transportation System". His work deals with how Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) as well as other factors impact route choice in the transportation network. This has significant implications on the highway/street network performance. He developed new modeling methodology of route choice under ATIS. He received the second place for this presentation representing UCF. So far Abdalla and his adviser, Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Aty, professor CEE have published 3 journals and 2 conference papers out of his Ph.D research. They will be presenting some of this work this month at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington DC. SWE Student Chapter Attend National Conference A delegation of UCF women engineering and computer science students attended the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Over 3,000 female students/professionals representing engineering and the sciences were in attendance. This annual conference entitled "Supporting the World Through Engineering" focused on aspects of engineering that improve the quality of life. Programs throughout the event highlighted engineering's contributions to education, the environment and business enterprise. There were opportunities to network; attend personal development classes; participate in career development workshops and SWE meetings; interview at the career fair which hosted over 85 corporations; listen to professional women and discuss ways to attract and retain women in the engineering fields. For
more on SWE UCF Chapter click here
New Student Organization Congratulations to the newly established American Vacuum Society Student Chapter. Drs. Coffey and Seal are co-advisers of this group. |
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is In Giving.... Every year the College of Engineering and Computer Science staff associates select a charitable organization. This year's fundraisers include: (1) Bake sales for the Orlando Sentinel Family Fund Holiday Campaign, which raised $270.83 (2) "Adopt an Angel/Adopt a Child" program from the Charlee's Angels organization. Staff members "adopted" a child and purchased gifts for them from their wish list. More than 25 children came to the Harris Corporation Partnership Atrium to join the staff for cookies, juice and to open their gifts. (3) Staff associates donated canned goods to Destiny Community Assistance Center at their Annual Staff Appreciation Party. Thank you CECS staff associates for your goodwill and service to the community. |
Employee
of the Semester
Michelle receives award from Dr. Jamal Nayfeh
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From a very
grateful college we thank our valued contributors for their gifts from
January 1, 2003 to December 27, 2003.
Mr. Vincent
Amico
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To
make a gift or receive further information, please contact:
Jeff Snow, Major Gifts Officer College of Engineering & Computer Science jnsnow@mail.ucf.edu or 407-823-5883 or Wayne Weinberg, Director of Development College of Engineering & Computer Science wweinber@mail.ucf.edu or 407.823.6742 |
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"From
Promise to Prominence: Celebrating 40 Years"
Significant
progress is being made in the selection of the next dean of the College
of Engineering and Computer Science. Thirty-six people have applied for
the position. The search committee has completed six telephone interviews.
They plan to conduct candidate interviews on campus in late January or
early February. According to search committee chair Tom Keon, Dean of
the College of Business Administration, “we hope to have the entire search
completed by the end of March.” The committee will select a candidate
who has a very strong academic background; leadership experience at a
major Ph.D granting college; ability to build relationships within the
university and with business, industry and alumni; and is a fund raiser.
With
a $210,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, UCF researchers
are studying different learning techniques to understand how to best train
people to pick out guns, knives and other threatening objects as they
pass through airport X-ray machines. 
