EE Department News Bytes

Spring 2005

Dr. John Daigle has received a TCCC Outstanding Service Award for long-time contributions and service to the Technical Committee on Computer Communications of the IEEE Communication Society.

Dr. Atef Elsherbeni served as the ACES Co-chair of the 2005 IEEE /ACES (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society) International Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii in April 2005.

Dr. Ahmed Kishk and Dr. Atef Elsherbeni offered a short course entitled "Antennas for wideband and phased array applications" at the 2005 IEEE /ACES International Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii in April 2005.

Dr. Ahmed Kishk offered a short course entitled "Dielectric resonator antenna, theory and design" at the 2005 IEEE /ACES International Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii in April 2005.

Faculty and graduate students from the EE department presented 7 papers at the 2005 IEEE /ACES International Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii in April 2005.

Faculty and graduate students from the EE department presented 2 papers at the 2005 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) held in New Orleans, LA in March 2005, 1 paper at the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'05) held in Cairo, Egypt in January 2005, 1 paper at the 2005 National Radio Science Meeting held in Boulder, Colorado in January 2005, and 1 paper at the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA 2004) Symposium in Atlanta in October 2004.

Dr. Mustafa Matalgah chaired technical sessions at both the 2005 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) held in New Orleans, LA in March 2005 and the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'05) held in Cairo, Egypt in January 2005.

Dr. Alexander Yakovlev is currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Physics and Engineering Division of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences.