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IEEE STARS: Four faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering have been elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, bringing the total number of IEEE fellows in the department to 22. The new fellows are Denice D. Denton, professor and dean of the College of Engineering, for leadership in engineering education and faculty mentoring; Les E. Atlas, professor, for contributions to time-varying spectral analysis and acoustical signal processing; Yasuo Kuga, professor, for contributing to backscattering enhancement and imaging in geophysical testing; and Evan L. Goldstein, affiliate professor, for contributions to optical communications.
“This is the highest rank that a member can achieve and it recognizes outstanding and unique contributions to our field,” said Bruce Darling, professor and acting chair of the department. “Now, with these latest inclusions, roughly half of our faculty members are fellows. I think that speaks to the high quality of our programs in electrical engineering.”
PRESIDENTIAL ENCOUNTER: When English Professor Edward Alexander was invited to the White House for a Chanukah reception in December, he made the most of his brief time with the president. “While my wife Leah and I posed with the Bushes for the standard photo, I used our 30 seconds to say to him that I was grateful for his criticism (made in Britain some months ago) of the indifference of European leaders to the resurgence of anti-Semitism in their countries,” Alexander recalled. “He replied with alacrity that ‘it’s worse than indifference,’” Alexander said that although Bush had nearly 300 people to greet, he made every one “feel greeted” as well as listened to.
ROSE BOWL BIZ: Four UW master’s of business administration students snagged second place in the inaugural 2004 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition held Jan. 17 and 18 at Arizona State University. Gautham Ravi, Stuart Jamieson, Thirumalai Anandanpillai and Uday Keshavdas earned high marks for their analysis of the selected case, which examined problems faced by a multinational manufacturing company.
This inaugural academic competition is named after the Pacific-10 and Big Ten athletic conferences and has been referred to by organizers and participants as the “Rose Bowl” of college case competitions. Arizona State took first place and University of Southern California finished third. Business School faculty who coached the UW team were professors Greg Bigley, Warren Boeker, Jennifer Koski, David Risher and Dan Turner.
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