EE Students and Faculty Participate in 2003 Sigma Xi and Office of Research Student Poster Symposium

The 2003 Sigma Xi/Office of Research Student Poster Symposium was held from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, on Wednesday, April 2 in the Butler Auditorium of the Triplett Alumni Center. A total of 64 poster papers were presented, with 5 co-authored papers listed below were presented from 11 electrical engineering students and faculty members.

Following the Symposium at 4:00 PM, Dr. Lee Riedinger from Oak Ridge Research Laboratories made the Keynote Presentation, "Future Science Facilities in the Southeast," in the Yerby Center Auditorium, which was sponsored by Sigma Xi, the Office of Research, and the American Chemical Society. At 6:30 PM, the Sigma Xi Wine and Cheese Social was held at the Memory House with all Student Research Poster Symposium presenters invited to attend. Poster award winners were recognized, and the poster paper presented by Taninder S. Sijher, MS Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering, and co-authored by Dr. Ahmed A. Kishk, Professor of Electrical Engineering was awarded the Best Paper Award in the Engineering Sciences II Category of the Poster Symposium.

Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit membership society of nearly 75,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry research centers.

EE Papers Presented at 2003 Sigma Xi and Office of Research Symposium:

Taninder S. Sijher and Ahmed A. Kishk, "Antenna Simulation for Infinitesimal Dipoles Using Genetic Algorithms."

Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Charles E. Smith, and Kai-Fong Lee, "Rectangular Slot Antenna for Personal Wireless Communication Systems."

Edward Woo, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, and Charles E. Smith,"Strip Mode SAR Simulation for Remote Sensing Applications."

Mohamed H. Al Sharkawy, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, and Samir F. Mahmoud, "Electromagnetic Scattering from a Chiral Strip of Uniform and Non-Uniform Chirality Distribution."

Brian T, McDaniel, Charles E. Smith, Alexander B. Yakovlev, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, and Darko Kajfez, "Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Analysis Software Using Matlab and Related Toolboxes for HPIB Data Acquisition and Processing."