EE Graduate Student Receives Outstanding Student Paper Award

The Electrical Engineering Department congratulates EE graduate Ph.D. student candidate Mr. Abdelnasser Eldek. Abdelnasser's student paper presentation "Wideband Slot Antennas for Radar Applications" was selected as Outstanding Student Paper at the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference held in Huntsville, Alabama last May. He received a cash award of $100 for his outstanding contribution and presentation. Coauthors of the paper were EE faculty member Atef Z. Elsherbeni, EE emeritus faculty member Charles E. Smith, and Dean of the School of Engineering Kai-Fong Lee.

Abdelnasser Eldek received an honor B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, in 1993 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1999. He was a research assistant with the Electronic Research Institute, in Cairo, Egypt, from 1995 to 1997, and from 1997 to 1999 he was a Master student at Eindhoven University of Technology with the cooperation of Philips Center For Technology, Eindhoven. From 1999 to 2000 he was assistant teacher in the Industrial Education College, Beni Suif, Egypt. Abdelnasser joined the EE department at the University of Mississippi on January 2001 to pursue his Ph.D. Degree and since then he has contributed to 4 refereed Journal papers and 12 conference presentations.