Archived COE News

• Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Nationally Ranked by U.S. News and World Report (3/19/2013)
  The electrical engineering graduate program is ranked nationally by U.S. News and World Report for 2014.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Member Running for President of IEEE (3/12/2013)
  Dr. Howard Michel of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of two candidates running for the position of president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  
  
• ECE's Dr. Yifei Li Awarded Large ONR Research Grant (2/12/2013)
  Dr. Yifei Li of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) received a three-year $400k research grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
  
  
• Professor John Buck Awarded Large ONR Research Grant (1/28/2013)
  Prof. John Buck of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Prof. Kathleen Wage of George Mason University were awarded a research grant from the Office of Naval Research to improve sensor arrays for sonar systems.
  
  
• New center at UMass Dartmouth to see complex problems in new ways (1/10/2013)
  Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research to be led by Dr. Sigal Gottlieb
  
  
• Electrical Engineering PhD Students Win Top Awards in Acoustics Research (12/31/2012)
  Electrical engineering PhD students, Robert Randall and David Hague, won the first and second prizes, respectively, in the student paper awards contest at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in Kansas City, Missouri in October 2012.
  
  
• UMass students win top prize at recent national meeting (12/28/2012)
  Best Student Paper Awards.
  
  
• Tonight in Fall River at the ATMC: Bielat, Kennedy debate the "American Dream" (10/10/2012)
  Fourth Congressional District Issues Debate to focus on jobs, the economy, and the future of the middle class
  
  
• UMD Professors Receive NSF Grant for Marine Renewable Energy (7/16/2012)
  UMD Professors Receive NSF Grant for Marine Renewable Energy
  
  
• College of Engineering graduate students publish paper at the NSF XSEDE12 conference (5/30/2012)
  Graduate students, Justin McKennon (ECE) and Gary Forrester (Physics) with Prof. Khanna have published a paper at the XSEDE 2012 HPC conference.
  
  
• ECE Professor Awarded Million Dollar Grant by Air Force (5/18/2012)
  Dr. Yifei Li of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was awarded a five year, one million-dollar grant by the Air Force Office of Research (AFOSR) to conduct fundamental research in Radio Frequency (RF)/Photonic integrated circuits.
  
  
• CoE Honors Convocation & Awards Ceremony (5/14/2012)
  Honors Convocation & Awards Ceremony
  
  
• Prof. Katja Holtta-Otto received Outstanding Women Award (3/7/2012)
  Outstanding Women Award
  
  
• ECE Doctoral Students Garner Top Student Paper Awards at National Conference (2/22/2012)
  Two electrical engineering students from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD) won prestigious "Best Student Paper Awards" in Engineering Acoustics recently at a national meeting of a leading acoustical science organization.
  
  
• Drs. Chalivendra and Kim receive MassCEC, MTTC award for clean energy projects (2/13/2012)
  Drs. Chalivendra and Kim receive MassCEC, MTTC award for clean energy projects
  
  
• Katja Hölttä-Otto Named 2012 NSF CAREER Award Winner (2/1/2012)
  Dr. Katja Hölttä-Otto, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UMass Dartmouth, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  
  
  
• Nima Rahbar Named 2012 NSF CAREER Award Winner (12/27/2011)
  Dr. Nima Rahbar, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Dartmouth, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to recognize young faculty in science and engineering who are effectively integrating research and teaching, and it provides a large grant to conduct research.
  
  
• Khanna publishes in a new APS journal, Physical Review X (12/12/2011)
  Physical Review X (PRX) is a new, open-access, online-only journal that boasts a rapid and high-standard peer-review process and is open to all areas of physics.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth College of Engineering programs earn accreditation renewal (11/29/2011)
  The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received its re-accreditation for its degree programs in Civil, Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc.  
  
  
• Dr. Xing and Research Collaborators Awarded NSF Reseach Grant. (10/14/2011)
  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Liudong Xing, together with her collaborators Dr.
  
  
• Raessi's Research on Using GPUs Highlighted (10/5/2011)
  Raessi's research on using GPUs highlighted.
  
  
• Regional Manufacturing Consortium Launched (10/4/2011)
  Based at UMass Dartmouth Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center, the goal is to increase degreed workforce
  
  
• Sengupta and Bhowmick Awarded NSF-MRI Grant to Acquire Nanospider® for Next Generation of Polymeric Nanofibers (9/13/2011)
  Sengupta and Bhowmick Awarded NSF-MRI Grant to Acquire Nanospider® for Next Generation of Polymeric Nanofibers
  
  
• Prof. Farhad Azadivar Awarded a $59,400 Grant (9/13/2011)
  Grant award.
  
  
• Sengupta and Colleagues Awarded NSF-TUES Grant for Development and Testing of a Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering Concept Inventory (9/13/2011)
  NSF-TUES Grant Award for Development and Testing of a Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering Concept Inventory
  
  
• Prof. Khanna receives new $49,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (9/6/2011)
  This new computational physics grant supports a research program to understand and to address the challenges associated to scaling specific gravitational wave physics applications from a prototype cluster of 16 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming consoles to the largest system now available, that built by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, NY.
  
  
• Mass. Life Sciences Center/UMass Dartmouth highlight area life science student interns (8/19/2011)
  UMass Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center highlighted the work of Massachusetts student interns and the companies they have been working with this summer.
  
  
• Prof. Khanna publishes black hole research calculations that made use of several hundred PlayStations (6/3/2011)
  When a large black hole captures a smaller object (say, a star) this process emits gravitational radiation ("ripples" in space-time) in a specific direction.
  
  
• Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian (CIS) awarded follow on grant from ONR (5/18/2011)
  Grant Continuation Award
  
  
• Prof. Khanna is granted access to one of the largest and uniquest supercomputers (4/27/2011)
  The AFRL CONDOR supercomputer was built in Fall 2010 at the Naresky Facility of the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, NY.
  
  
• Researchers Show Exploding Stars Bend Space and Time (3/29/2011)
  Dropping a pebble into a pond sets off a ripple in the surface of the water. Similarly, according to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduate student David Falta, the explosion of some stars sets off a wave in space and time.
  
  
• Massachusetts Recovery & Reinvestment Office visits UMass Dartmouth (3/17/2011)
  State officials from the MA Recovery & Reinvestment Office visited UMass Dartmouth on March 2nd, 2011 and met with researchers that have benefited from the federal Recovery Act.
  
  
• Li and Kasilingam Awarded DURIP Grant to Develop RF/Photonics Testbed (2/24/2011)
  ECE faculty members Drs. Yifei Li and Dayalan Kasilingam were awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant of $236k from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop the RF/photonics testbed in the ECE department.
  
  
• ECE Graduate Students Win Grand Prize in IEEE International Student Design Competition (2/11/2011)
  ECE graduate students, Renyuan Wang and Mohammad Ali won the first prize in the IEEE international student design competition.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Dr. Liudong Xing Awarded Scholar of the Year Award (12/10/2010)
  Dr. Liudong Xing, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer (ECE) was awarded the Scholar of the Year award for 2010.
  
  
• Prof. Khanna publishes research article in the high-profile Physical Review Letters journal (12/10/2010)
  One of Prof. Khanna's research articles, titled "Test bodies and naked singularities: is the self-force the cosmic censor?" and co-written with Dr.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth Prof. Howard E. Michel Elected 2011 IEEE Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities (12/9/2010)
  Term Includes a Position on the Board of Directors
  
  
• 2010 UMass President's Public Service Award (12/3/2010)
  2010 UMass President's Public Service Award
  
  
• Sudip Majumder, Physics Graduate student pursuing the PhD program with the intercampus School of Marine Sciences passed two portions of the general exam for his PhD (11/19/2010)
  Sudip Majumder is pursuing the PhD program with the intercampus School of Marine Sciences, in the Physics based track with Physics as his home department.
  
  
• Prof. Liudong Xing Selected as Scholar of the Year (11/18/2010)
  Scholar of the Year award.
  
  
• Professor Vinod Vokkarane awarded a multi-year Department of Energy (DOE) grant (11/18/2010)
  Dr. Vinod Vokkarane (CIS) has been awarded a $525,000 grant from DOE.
  
  
• Physics alumnus has been invited to attend this year's Nobel Prize ceremony (11/2/2010)
  Chagaan Baatar (formerly Chagarn Whan), a 1988 Masters Degree graduate from the Physics Department, was honored recently with an invitation to attend this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
  
  
• Secretary of Housing and Economic Development to host roundtable discussion on textile industry competitiveness October 25 (10/22/2010)
  Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki will host a roundtable discussion with leaders from the textile industry, academia and the Natick Soldier Systems Center on Monday, October 25, 10 a.m.
  
  
• College of Engineering welcomes new faculty members (9/30/2010)
  Introduction and welcome for new faculty members in the College of Engineering.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Awarded New Research Grant (9/3/2010)
  Dr. Igal Bilik, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering was awarded a new research grant titled 'Source Localization in the Presence of Multipath' by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development in the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
  
  
• Professor Khanna awarded new NSF GOALI grant (8/30/2010)
  The new grant is titled "GOALI: An Exploration of the Use of OpenCL for Numerical Modeling and Data Analysis" and has a total budget of $166,499 for a period of 2 years.
  
  
• ECE Graduate Student David Hague Awarded DoD SMART Scholarship (8/3/2010)
  ECE graduate student, David A. Hague, received a Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program (SMART) scholarship.  The SMART Scholarship for Service Program provides an opportunity for students pursuing a graduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines to receive a full scholarship and be gainfully employed at a Department of Defense lab facility upon degree completion.
  
  
• National Science Foundation Awards Prof. Fisher Support To Acquire a State-of-the-Art Supercomputer For UMass Dartmouth (5/26/2010)
  The National Science Foundation has awarded $199,480 to Robert Fisher, Assistant Professor of Physics, to acquire a cutting-edge supercomputer, which will become a shared research facility at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus.
  
  
• ECE Faculty and Students Active in Acoustical Society of America Meeting (5/12/2010)
  Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty and students had a strong presence at the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Baltimore, MD.
  
  
• Society of Women Engineers Hosted a Day of Engineering Event for Middle School Girls (4/28/2010)
  Society of Women Engineers Hosted a Day of Engineering Event for Middle School Girls
  
  
• Prof. Nima Rahbar Wins Life Sciences Award (4/28/2010)
  Prof. Nima Rahbar, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Life Sciences Moment Fund
  
  
• Dr. Marguerite Zarrillo has been appointed by the National Transportation Research Board to be a Member of the Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (4/28/2010)
  Dr. Marguerite Zarrillo has been appointed by the National Transportation Research Board to be a Member of the Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics
  
  
• Jill Mercik Elected President of IEEE Student Branch (4/23/2010)
  Jill Mercik, a computer engineering junior, was elected President of the Student Branch of the IEEE.
  
  
• Chancellor Professor Chi Hau Chen Awarded New Navy Grant (4/12/2010)
  Dr. Chi Hau Chen was awarded a $8000 research grant by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, Rhode Island, to study Generic Pseudo Random Bioacoustic Signals.
  
  
• Physics graduate student Rakesh Ginjupalli publishes research paper in HPC conference (4/5/2010)
  Rakesh Ginjupalli and Prof. Khanna have just published a peer-reviewed conference paper titled "High-Precision Numerical Simulations of Rotating Black Holes Accelerated by CUDA".  
  
  
• The World Scientific Company will soon publish the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (4/5/2010)
  Chancellor Prof. J.P. Hsu has finished co-editing and making camera-ready manuscripts for the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Gravitational and Astrophysics that took place in Wuhan, China in July 2009.  
  
  
• ECE Graduate Student Awarded Office of Naval Research Internship (4/1/2010)
  ECE graduate student David A. Hague received an internship position for the 2010 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP).
  
  
• NCST Award Winners (2/2/2010)
  Congratulations to two of our COE graduate students for their award: Neda Masoud, Masters Degree student of Physics and Ikechukwu Azogu, PhD candidate of ECE.
  
  
• CANCELLED: UMass Dartmouth Observatory open house, Dec. 19 (12/8/2009)
  NOTE: Due to the inclement weather forecast (winter storm advisory with snow), the Observatory public open house scheduled for Saturday, Dec.
  
  
• Physics professor O'Rielly to be first Faculty Fellow for Teaching and Learning (12/4/2009)
  Selected by the Office of Faculty Development
  
  
• Physics department to hold 2-day symposium (11/9/2009)
  In order to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy and to   highlight the new focus of the Physics Department on Computing and   Simulation, a 2-day symposium "Computing and Simulation in Astronomy   and Physics" is organized.
  
  
• Dr. Hsu participates in the 9th International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics (11/9/2009)
  Prof. J. P. Hsu presented a paper and co-chaired a session in the 9th   International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics in Wuhan,   China in July 2009.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Wins Grant to Study Microfluidic Platforms for Biosensors (11/2/2009)
  ECE faculty member, Dr. David Rancour, was awarded a research grant by the U.S. Small Business Administration to study the use of microfludics for biosensors.
  
  
• Physics Graduate Student Eric Holmes in Japan for Science Mission (10/20/2009)
  Physics Graduate Student Eric Holmes has reached Japan, and is now onboard R/V Natsushima with other scientists from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, MIT, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to make measurements across the Kuroshio Front and fast moving Kuroshio current!
  
  
• College of Engineering welcomes new faculty members (10/13/2009)
  Announce the appointment of two new Assistant Professors.
  
  
• College of Engineering undergraduate Justin McKennon publishes research paper with Prof. Khanna (9/30/2009)
  Justin McKennon, undergraduate engineering student in the Electrical   and Computer Engineering department has just published a research   paper with Prof.
  
  
• UMass-Dartmouth's Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC) Hosts Two Important Ocean Energy Conferences this Fall (9/23/2009)
  As a central effort in fostering stakeholder input and building a strong university research consortium, MREC is hosting two important events in September and October.
  
  
• Katja Holtta-Otto and Collaborators Received "Best Paper Award" (9/9/2009)
  Katja Holtta-Otto Receives Best Paper Award
  
  
• Professor Alan Hirshfeld announces the release of his new book "The Life and Legacy of Archimedes" (9/9/2009)
  Prof. Alan Hirshfeld's new book Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes has just been published by Walker Books in New York.
  
  
• Professor Khanna awarded NSF grant under the American Recovery (9/8/2009)
  This proposal is about exploring the use of alternative technologies,   such as the Sony Playstation 3 gaming console, multimedia workstations   and similar hardware for scientific computing.
  
  
• Amit Tandon Awarded New NSF Research Grant (8/28/2009)
  The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dr. Amit Tandon of the Physics Department $328,384 over three years to study the importance of submesoscale ocean processes to ocean productivity.
  
  
• Dr. Robert Fisher attends the Ninth Asia-Pacific International Conference in Wuhan, China (8/13/2009)
  Dr. Robert Fisher, Assistant Professor of the Physics Department delivered an invited presentation on supercomputer simulations of Type Ia supernovae at the the Ninth Asia-Pacific International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics(ICGA9) at the end of June at Huazhong University of Science & Tecnology in Wuhan, China.
  
  
• UMASS Dartmouth Engineering Student receives Space Grant (7/23/2009)
  UMass Dartmouth electrical engineering major, Justin McKennon (Springfield, MA) has earned a NASA Space Grant to support his undergraduate super computer research.
  
  
• NASA Selects UMass Dartmouth Graduate as one of the New Astronauts for Future Space Exploration (6/30/2009)
  Scott D. Tingle, 43, a mechanical engineering alumnus, was among nine people selected by NASA for the 2009 astronaut candidate class.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth seeks support of Physics alumni and friends of the Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory (6/29/2009)
  UMass Dartmouth plans improvements to the Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory to expand and enhance the facility.
  
  
• John Buck Awarded New ONR Research Grant (3/16/2009)
  Dr. John Buck, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, was awarded a new research grant by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
  
  
• GreatPoint Energy Partners with UMass Dartmouth In Support of Clean Energy Education (3/4/2009)
  Partnership Creates Internship Opportunities at Leading Clean Energy Company at Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth to join statewide effort to diversify participation in information technology (1/5/2009)
  UMD has been awarded grant funding as part of a project to bring more women and underrepresented minorities into information technology (IT) and computing education and careers throughout Massachusetts.
  
  
• Playstations settle black hole related controversy (12/18/2008)
  In September 2007, Dr. Gaurav Khanna of UMass Dartmouth clustered eight (8) Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles together and demonstrated that one could obtain supercomputer-level performance at an extremely low cost.
  
  
• Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian of the Computer Science Department awarded $150,000 grant by the Office of Naval Research (12/10/2008)
  Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian of Computer Science Department has been awarded $150,000 for a period of two years (2009-10) by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
  
  
• College of Engineering CS and CE students succeed in IEEE Robotic Competition (11/19/2008)
  College of Engineering CS and CE students succeed in IEEE Robotic Competition
  
  
• College of Engineering Students Excel in IEEE Robotics Competition (11/17/2008)
  College of Engineering students, Matthew Donoughe and Kevin Cormier of Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Julian Plante and Nick Savery of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), participated in the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) Robotic Competition, under the guidance of CIS faculty adviser, Dr.
  
  
• Dr. John Buck Wins Leo M. Sullivan Teaching Award (11/12/2008)
  Dr. John Buck, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Leo M. Sullivan Teacher of the Year award for 2008.
  
  
• CIS Senior Capstone Software Engineering Project a success at Naval Undersea Warfare College, Newport, RI (10/27/2008)
  Senior Computer Science students received real-world experience as part of their Senior Capstone Software Engineering Project
  
  
• CIS announces new academic program, "Software Engineering Option," starting Spring 2009 (10/24/2008)
  CIS announces a new academic program, the "Software Engineering Option," which will be offered in the spring 2009 semester as a part of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree program
  
  
• Dr. Sherif D. El Wakil Receives President's Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers (10/24/2008)
  Dr. Sherif D. El Wakil Receives President's Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers
  
  
• Prof. Khanna has been awarded membership to the Foundational Questions Institute, with an accompanying research grant (10/15/2008)
  The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi: http://www.fqxi.org/ was established in 2005 to catalyze, support and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality.
  
  
• ECE Department, ATMC and Progeny Systems Awarded $750k DoD STTR Grant (10/9/2008)
  The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) along with their partners the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) and Progeny Systems of Middletown, Rhode Island were awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant for $750k by the Department of Defense.
  
  
• Rotating Tank experiments at the Working Waterfront Festival (10/7/2008)
  Physics Junior Carter Chamberlain and Dr. Amit Tandon, Associate Professor Physics presented rotating tank experiments at the Working Waterfront Festival on September 27th and 28th, 2008.
  
  
• Dr. Amit Tandon, Associate Professor of the Physics Department presents at the ICES Annual Science Conference 2008 (10/6/2008)
  Associate Professor Dr. Amit Tandon attended his first International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Annual Science Conference which was held in Halifax, Canada Sept.
  
  
• Dr. Yifei Li Awarded Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award (10/1/2008)
  Dr. Yifei Li, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), won the presigious 2008 Young Faculty Award of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
  
  
• ECE Faculty, Dr. Liudong Xing, Awarded Multi-Year NSF Grant (9/10/2008)
  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Liudong Xing, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant for 250k to study the reliability of complex dynamic systems.
  
  
• College of Engineering welcomes new faculty members (9/9/2008)
  The College of Engineering is pleased to welcome new Assistant Professors Igal Bilik, Robert Fisher, and Nima Rahbar.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Awarded Patent for VLSI Chip Design (8/20/2008)
  ECE faculty members, Drs. Howard Michel and David Rancour were awarded a patent for the VLSI implementation of a complex valued neuron.
  
  
• Prof. Khanna receives $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (6/25/2008)
  This grant is about novel extension of the cost-effective Beowulf cluster approach towards supercomputing, using very low-cost, special purpose gaming hardware, such as the Sony PlayStation 3.
  
  
• Dr. Katja Hölttä-Otto of Mechanical Engineering Department has been awarded a grant of $211,450 by National Science Foundation (6/18/2008)
  Collaborative Research: Extreme Experience Design for Breaking Barriers to Innovation
  
  
• Student Article Published in Oceanography (6/17/2008)
  An article by Physics graduating seniors David Beesley and Jason Olejarz co-authored with Professor Amit Tandon of the Physics department and Professor John Marshall of MIT appears in the current issue of the official magazine of the Oceanography Society.
  
  
• Congratulations to the master's degree graduates in physics (6/4/2008)
  Photos of the master's degree graduates in physics are online
  
  
• MASCOT: Manycast Architecture for Service-Oriented Tactical Operations (6/3/2008)
  Dr. Vinod Vokkarane (PI) and Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian (Co-PI) of the Computer and Information Science Dept.
  
  
• Marine Corp Award Joint Grant between NUWC and CIS faculty (5/21/2008)
  CIS faculty member Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian and Frederick Berkeley (NUWC) have been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Marine Corp.
  
  
• CIS Professors Awarded Research Grant by Marine Corps (5/5/2008)
  CIS Professors have been awarded a $50,000 research grant by the US Marine Corps.  The grant is funded through the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Newport and Northrop Grumman Corporation.
  
  
• ECE Faculty Awarded $550k DARPA Grant (4/16/2008)
  ECE faculty member, Dr. Yifei Li, was awarded a $550,000 research grant by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
  
  
• Mass Technology Collaborative awards $250,000 to Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (4/11/2008)
  Proposal to establish a Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC) in collaboration with officials in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
  
  
• CIS Chairperson, Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak awarded subcontract $90,000 NSF Grant (3/27/2008)
  CIS Chairperson, Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak awarded subcontract $90,000 NSF Grant
  
  
• Pavement Research Institute enters into $399,000 research agreement with Commonwealth (3/27/2008)
  Goal is longer lasting and environment-friendly roadways
  
  
• Howard Michel takes over as Director of Region I of the IEEE (3/11/2008)
  Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth takes over as Director of Region I of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2008 and 2009.
  
  
• MS/CS graduate student Derek Beaton awarded NSF Grant for the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program (3/6/2008)
  Program helps students initiate scientific relationships that will enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts
  
  
• ECE and IEEE Host Starcraft Tournament (3/3/2008)
  On February 29th, the student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held the First Starcraft Tournament on campus.
  
  
• Suku Sengupta and Collaborators Awarded $600,000 NSF Grant on Developing Ion Exchange Fibers (2/7/2008)
  $600,000 grant awarded to College of Engineering personnel by NSF.  UMass Dartmouth's share is $306,153.
  
  
• Dr. Vijay Chalivendra of Mechanical Engineering Department awarded $140,000 Office of Naval Research grant (2/6/2008)
  To investigate the percolation threshold of Boron nitride nano-particles in a polyurethane matrix for optimum thermal and mechanical properties
  
  
• Observatory Open House (2/5/2008)
  On Saturday, February 2, the Physics Department held its most successful Observatory Open House since the mid-1990s.
  
  
• Physics Undergraduate Students Present Their Research At American Met Society'S Annual Conference (1/31/2008)
  Physics Undergraduate Seniors David Beesley and Jason Olejarz presented their research at the American Meteorological Society's Seventh Annual Student Conference held on January 19th and 20th, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  
  
• Open House at UMass Dartmouth Observatory (1/30/2008)
  Free open house and night-sky viewing session at the newly renovated campus observatory, 7 p.m, Feb.
  
  
• Observatory at UMass Dartmouth Open on December 15 (12/11/2007)
  The Astronomical Society of Southern New England to observe Geminid meteors, Mars and two amazing comets
  
  
• Forum on Nov. 1 at ATMC features business opportunities in marine science and technology (10/24/2007)
  Forum to highlight business opportunities in ocean observation, offshore energy and port security
  
  
• Golden Key International Honour Society (10/19/2007)
  The Physics Department's Professional Technician, Danielle LeMeur, also the UMass Dartmouth Chapter Advisor of the Golden Key International Honour Society held the annual induction ceremony.
  
  
• Physics professor uses Sony PlayStations for black hole research (10/18/2007)
  PS3 has unique features that make it suitable for scientific computations
  
  
• Sony PlayStations used in Astrophysics Research (9/17/2007)
  Dr. Gaurav Khanna and Mr. Glenn Volkema of the Physics department have built a small supercomputer using eight (8) Sony PlayStations 3 gaming consoles.
  
  
• Grand Reopening of Campus Observatory to be held Sept. 15 (9/10/2007)
  Celebration to feature non-technical astronomy programs and viewing through the Observatory's 16-inch telescope
  
  
• Dr. Liudong Xing Presented IEEE Outstanding Technical Innovation Award (9/10/2007)
  Dr. Liudong Xing, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized by Region 1 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for her outstanding technical innovations in the field of Reliability Engineering.
  
  
• University Collaborative for Intelligent Transportation Systems (UC-- ITS) (8/31/2007)
  The President's Office of the University of Massachusetts Science and Technology Program has awarded $160,000 to establish a Multi-campus University Collaborative for Intelligent Transportation Systems (UC-ITS).
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth Pavement Research Institute receives $365,000 grant (7/30/2007)
  Researchers will design and evaluate hot mix asphalt pavement mixes to identify the best materials to preserve roadways
  
  
• Physics students prototype fluids experiments at MIT (7/24/2007)
  Physics students accompanied Prof. Amit Tandon to Prof. John Marshall's laboratory
  
  
• Professors create technology to prevent lead shot pollution at shooting ranges (7/16/2007)
  Special fabric and barrier curtain system will protect the environment
  
  
• Student engineers to benefit from software donation (6/29/2007)
  CAD software package valued at $100,000, the gift of Thompson Consultants Inc. of Marion
  
  
• Dr. Haiping Xu awarded NSF grant (6/26/2007)
  Dr. Haiping Xu awarded NSF grant
  
  
• Student Chapter of National Society for Black Engineers is formed at UMass Dartmouth (6/8/2007)
  Junior electrical and computer engineering major Emmanuel Lyte led the effort to establish a student chapter on campus
  
  
• Dr. Khanna published in Europhysics Letters (6/8/2007)
  Dr. Khanna's recent research was published in Europhysics Letters which is one of the leading European journals for Physics.
  
  
• ECE Professors Awarded Research Grant by Office of Naval Research for Acoustics Research (4/25/2007)
  Drs. David Brown and Boris Aronov of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) were awarded a research grant by the Office of Naval Research to develop electro-mechanical modeling of piezoelectric cylindrical shells.
  
  
• Summer Internship (4/25/2007)
  An undergraduate summer internship is available for qualified undergraduate Physics,Engineering and Mathematics majors to work on problems relating Ocean Dynamics.
  
  
• Dr. John Buck Awarded Research Grant by Office of Naval Research (4/13/2007)
  Dr. John Buck, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently awarded a research grant totally $234,000 by the Office of Naval Research.
  
  
• Software Engineering option expands Computer and Information Science offerings (4/12/2007)
  Responding to industry needs within the region, UMass Dartmouth's College of Engineering will add a software engineering option this fall to the programs offered in the Computer and Information Science Department.
  
  
• Civil engineering major Mark Costa wins regional contest (4/6/2007)
  Mark Costa, a UMass Dartmouth senior civil engineering major from Reading, is the first place winner of the regional Daniel W.
  
  
• Beautiful Patterns from the Atmosphere - Ocean Experiments (3/28/2007)
  Dr. Tandon's Physics 300 class, Undergraduate Seminar, work on a fluids experiment with the goal of creating fascinating Taylor columns, and ultimately to understand the consequences of the Taylor-Proudman Theorem.
  
  
• The Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Limnology" asks Dr. Amit Tandon to continue. (3/20/2007)
  The Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Limnology asked Dr. Amit Tandon, Associate Professor of Physics Department to continue his involvement as the foreign member of the editorial board.
  
  
• Three New Companies Open at Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center (3/13/2007)
  Firms specialize in marine science, renewable energy, bio-technology, and medical software
  
  
• A grant to Materials & Textiles Department (3/12/2007)
  Grant is for working on photovoltaic fabrics with Konarka
  
  
• Computer and Information Science to offer new Software Engineering Option beginning Fall 2007 (3/7/2007)
  Computer Science majors will be able to select either the mainstream Computer Science Program or the Software Engineering Option at the beginning of their sophomore year
  
  
• New Technology Courses Developed by Computer and Information Science (3/1/2007)
  "Exploring Computer Programming with Animation" and "Advanced Web Site Development" to be offered
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth lab receives $300,000 from New England Transportation Consortium to address deteriorating roads (2/13/2007)
  Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center-based materials facility focused on multi-billion dollar national problem.
  
  
• START program helps prepare students for university studies (1/27/2007)
  Students considering a technical major who need a stronger background in math and science are encouraged to enroll in START (Steps Toward Abstract Reasoning and Thinking) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
  
  
• Dr. Hsu publishes book on the theory of Relativity (1/25/2007)
  Chancellor Professor of Physics, Dr. J.P. Hsu recently published a new edition of his book titled "A Broader View of Relativity".
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth observatory to re-open (1/17/2007)
  Will be the basis for new cooperative outreach program with the Astronomical Society of Southern New England
  
  
• Dr. Khanna selected to be on the executive committee of MacResearch.org. (1/12/2007)
  Dr. Gaurav Khanna was recently selected to be on the executive committee of MacResearch.org, which is an open and independent community for scientists using Apple computers in their research.
  
  
• The Materials & Textiles department is pleased to welcome a new postdoctoral fellow (12/28/2006)
  The Materials & Textiles department is pleased to welcome a new postdoctoral fellow, Dapeng Li.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth observatory to re-open in January (12/26/2006)
  Following a two-year closure for renovations, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's observatory is re-opening in time for the second semester beginning Jan.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth, Bristol Community College accelerate transition for engineering students (12/6/2006)
  Goal is to increase supply of engineers for regional innovation economy
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center graduates two Massachusetts start-up innovation companies (12/4/2006)
  Companies to create jobs in Fall River and Easton.
  
  
• Westport man gives SHARE Foundation $15,000 memorial donation (12/1/2006)
  Santa came early to the SHARE foundation in the person of Westport resident Gilbert Goulet who honored the memories of the two women he loved with a memorial donation to the SHARE Foundation in their names.
  
  
• Book Review: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (11/9/2006)
  Alan Hirshfeld's book is reviewed in The American Journal of Physics
  
  
• Gaurav Khanna Awarded 30,000 Hours of Supercomputing Time (10/19/2006)
  Prof. Gaurav Khanna has been awarded 30,000 hours of supercomputing time on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid computing infrastructure.
  
  
• ECE Ph.D. Student Wins Award in IEEE Graduate Student Technical Paper Contest (10/13/2006)
  Akhilesh Shrestha, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering came second in the IEEE Region 1 Graduate Student Technical Paper Contest.
  
  
• Co-operative research contract with Engineered Yarns (10/13/2006)
  SBIR Contract won by Engineered Yarns
  
  
• Rotating fluids in the curriculum - where UMass Dartmouth joins MIT, Penn State, Johns Hopkins University, U. of Wisconsin-Madison and Millersville University (10/2/2006)
  Associate Professor Amit Tandon of the Department of Physics has been awarded a subcontract for $28,475 by MIT along with four other universities to implement a series of atmospheric/ocean dynamics experiments into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at UMass Dartmouth.
  
  
• Graduate Research Opportunity in Physical Oceanography: Collaborative Research -- UMass Dartmouth and Boston University. (9/29/2006)
  A Ph.D. research assistantship is available to study submesoscale dynamics and its effects on the vertical transport, mixing and distribution of properties in the upper ocean.
  
  
• Discussion and Book Signing by Alan Hirshfeld (9/27/2006)
  On Thursday, September 28, 2006, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld will be giving a talk at Baker Books, 69 State Road (Route 6), North Dartmouth, MA at 7:00 pm on the history of science and of Michael Faraday's special place in that history.
  
  
• Vijay Chalivendra awarded National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant (9/26/2006)
  Dr. Vijay Chalivendra of the Mechanical Engineering Department and his collaborators, Dr. Paul Calvert (Materials and Textile Sciences) and Dr.
  
  
• Katja Holtta-Otto and Collaborator Received "Best Paper Award" (9/25/2006)
  Pia Helminen, a doctoral student at Helsinki University of Technology, and Katja Holtta-Otto, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMass Dartmouth, received "Best Paper Award"
  
  
• Suku Sengupta and Collaborator Awarded CICEET Grant on Denitrifying Bioretention Systems (9/25/2006)
  Professor Suku Sengupta of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and his collaborator -- Prof.
  
  
• Alan Hirshfeld Receives Contract to Write His 3rd Book (9/25/2006)
  Alan Hirshfeld just received a contract to write his 3rd book, entitled "Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes," to be published in late 2008 by Walker Books in New York.
  
  
• Amit Tandon and Collaborator Awarded NSF Grant (9/21/2006)
  Amit Tandon and Collaborator Awarded NSF Grant
  
  
• Second Annual Invention To Venture Workshop (9/21/2006)
  One-day, intensive workshop presents the basics of transforming technological ideas into business ventures, to be held October 20 at the ATMC
  
  
• Shelley Zhang and Other Researchers Awarded Contract to Develop the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture(GILA). (9/15/2006)
  Assistant Professor Shelley Zhang of the Computer and Information Science Department and other researchers from 11 universities and institutes, united by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, (ATL), won a $22 million, 48-month contract ($290K for UMass Dartmouth) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA).
  
  
• Amit Tandon and Collaborators Awarded NSF-NOAA Grant (9/3/2006)
  Associate Professor Amit Tandon of the Department of Physics and his collaborators from MIT, UCLA, Princeton University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Florida State University and two federal labs (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Labarotary, Princeton NJ) have been awarded an NSF-NOAA grant to continue their work on mesoscale and mixed layer models as part of the Climate Modeling and Process teams.
  
  
• Freshman Summer Institute at UMass Dartmouth eases transition from high school to university (9/1/2006)
  The Freshman Summer Institute program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a valuable tool to bridge the gap between high school and university life, according to participants, educators and parents. Now in its fifth year, the weeklong residential program in the College of Engineering attracted 65 students this past August.
  
  
• Vinod Vokkarane and Collaborator Awarded NSF Grant on Optical Networks (8/23/2006)
  Assistant Professor Vinod Vokkarane of the Computer and Information Science Department and his collaborator from the University of Texas at Dallas, Professor Jason Jue, have been awarded a $440,000.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth College of Engineering announces appointments (8/4/2006)
  Dr. Renate Crawford was named Associate Dean and Thomas Lambalot has been appointed Assistant Dean for Development and External Relations.
  
  
• In Memory of Professor Emeritus Richard Walder (7/14/2006)
  Richard Walder, 83, died Thursday, July 6, 2006.  Rick was among the last of the pre-merger faculty.  He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at New Bedford Institute of Technology in 1956 and served continuously until his retirement in January of 1995.
  
  
• College of Engineering Researchers Receive UMass President's S&T Grant Award (6/14/2006)
  UMass President's Office Supports the College of Engineering's Bioengineering Initiative with Science and Technology Award.
  
  
• Karen Payton and Collaborators Awarded NIH Grant (5/24/2006)
  Dr. Karen Payton, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and several collaborators from MIT were awarded a $1.9 million grant by the National Institutes of Health
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth team places third in national aero-design competition (5/22/2006)
  A University of Massachusetts Dartmouth team of mechanical engineering students ranked first in one category and placed third overall at the 2006 SAE International Aero-Design® East Competition sponsored by Lockheed Martin
  
  
• Dr. Theophano Mitsa Honored by New York State (5/17/2006)
  Dr. Theophano Mitsa of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and her advisor Dean Kevin Parker from the University of Rochester were recognized by New York State's Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in their list of 50 years of achievements by universities in New York state.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth engineering design team wins competition (5/17/2006)
  A team of UMass Dartmouth Seniors from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the top overall award at the 6th Annual IEEE Student Design Competition in Rochester, NY on Saturday, the 13th of  May.
  
  
• Concrete Canoe Competition hosted by UMass Dartmouth, April 29-30 (4/25/2006)
  Students and faculty from 11 universities compete in the event, which challenges design and problem-solving skills
  
  
• Collaboration with Procter & Gamble (4/21/2006)
  The Department of Materials & Textiles is collaborating with Procter & Gamble on a new dry-cleaning agent.
  
  
• Engineer to Entrepreneur discussion to be held at the ATMC (4/20/2006)
  A panel discussion by well-known entrepreneurs on how to become an entrepreneur.
  
  
• Engineering Seminar: The Seductive Equation -- and the Future of Technological Education (4/13/2006)
  A College of Engineering seminar on Engineering and Technological Education in the 21st century.
  
  
• Materials and Textiles Department Receives Grant Award (4/5/2006)
  The Materials and Textiles Department has been awarded a Department of Defense $100,000 grant for purchasing equipment to develop robotic fabrication methods for biomedical textiles.
  
  
• Open House for Prospective Graduate Students (3/28/2006)
  The College of Engineering at UMass Dartmouth will hold an open house for prospective graduate students from 5 to 9 p.m.
  
  
• SMAST Researchers Funded to Study Effects of North Atlantic Oscillation (3/22/2006)
  Research to model the response of marine life to climate change
  
  
• Dr. Gaurav Khanna pursues black holes with $50,000 grant (11/30/2005)
  A UMass Dartmouth physics professor recently received $25,000 from the Florence M. Glaser Gift Giving Trust to study the interior structure of black holes
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth associate professor elected Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Region 1 (11/18/2005)
  Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has been elected Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 1 Director-elect for 2006 and 2007 and Director for 2008 and 2009.
  
  
• Big federal boost for textiles, materials science research (11/10/2005)
  Congressmen Frank, McGovern, Delahunt; Senators Kennedy and Kerry secure $1.2 million for National Textile Center work
  
  
• The 2005 Solar Decathlon is over! (11/8/2005)
  The 2005 Solar Decathlon is over! UMass Dartmouth's Contest Home finished last competing this year for the first time in the U.S.
  
  
• Jack Welch to speak at manufacturing conference at Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (10/27/2005)
  Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric, will speak at the Manufacturing Competitiveness Conference (MCC) hosted by the UMass Dartmouth Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) in Fall River on November 16.
  
  
• US News & World Report ranks UMass Dartmouth top New England public university of its kind (8/22/2005)
  U.S. News & World Report's 2006 America's Best Colleges issue has ranked UMass Dartmouth the best public institution of its kind in New England and cited the College of Engineering as having one of the best undergraduate programs among similar universities.
  
  
• UMass Dartmouth physicist receives international honor (10/6/2004)
  UMass Dartmouth physicist receives international honor Among the  top winners in the John Templeton Foundation 'Power of Purpose' awards UMass Dartmouth physics professor Alan Hirshfeld s essay about 19th century scientist Michael Faraday was among the top five winners of the prestigious John Templeton Foundation Power of Purpose awards announced recently.
  
  
• Umd Receives $600,000 Grant From Nsf To Develop Partnerships For Innovation With Industry (6/11/2004)
  DARTMOUTH, MA.  The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announced that it has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support new partnerships for innovation between the University and businesses in the region.
  
  

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. John Buck, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the School for Marine Science and Technology, is the recipient of the 2005 Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award. The award is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society and recognizes educators who have made outstanding contributions to the field early in their professional careers. [story]

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Branislav Notaros and his former Ph.D. student Milan Ilic have won the prestigious 2005 Microwave Prize. [story]

Computer Science

Sheetal Naik and Emad Aboelela published "IDEM- Internet Delay Emulator Approach for Assessing VoIP Quality" in The 2005 Systems Communications Conference, Multimedia Communications Systems, Montreal, Canada, pp. 92-97, August 14-17, 2005.

Computer Science

Haiping Xu, Zhiguo Zhang, and Sol M. Shatz published "A Security Based Model for Mobile Agent Software Systems," in the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ( IJSEKE), Auguest 2005, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 1-28.

College of Engineering

US News & World Report ranks UMass Dartmouth top New England public university of its kind. [story]

Computer Science

Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak presented a paper entitled "Workflow Mining Alpha Algorithm - A Complexity Study" during International Information Processing and Web Mining Conference, June 13-16, 2005 held in Gdansk, Poland and published in Advances in Soft Computing, Springer, 2005.

Computer Science

Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak presented a paper entitled "Distributed Actor-based Approach to the Optimal Polygon Triangulation Problem with Visualization Using Colored Petri Nets" during 17th Trieennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies IFORS 2005, July 11-15, 2005, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, US. The paper will be published in Journal of Control and Cybernetics.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nathaniel Barcelos, a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering, is named "Student of the Semester" for spring 2005
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Physics: Two George Leung Scholarships Awarded

With the help of Dean Azadivar, Physics Alumni Council awarded two George Leung Scholarships ($2000) to two outstanding physics students (recommended by Prof. J. P. Hsu) during the COE Alumni Reunion (April 22, 2005):

1. Zhenhua Ning (graduate)
2. John Westgate (undergraduate)

Physics: Book to be Published

Prof. J. P. Hsu (Physics Dept.) and Prof. D. Fine (Math. Dept.) finished a book, "100 Years of Gravity and Accelerated Frames---The Deepest Insights of Einstein and Yang-Mills" (pp. xxxvii + 623, World Scientific, to be published in 2005).

Textiles: Steven Warner inducted into "Circle of Excellence"

At the recent NTC forum in Raleigh NC, Steven Warner of the Textile Department was one of 10 people inducted into the "Circle of Excellence" for his contining contributions to building textile research at UMass Dartmouth and nationally.

There is more about the NTC and forum at: http://www.ntcresearch.org

Physics: Assistant Professor Khanna to be published in Physical Review Letters

Work that was done with Dr. Daniel Cartin (NAPS, RI) has just been accepted for publication in the highly respected "letter" journal, Physical Review Letters. It is due to appear in volume 94, issue 11.

Title: Absence of preclassical solutions in Bianchi I loop quantum cosmology

Summary: Solutions to homogeneous and isotropic models of our Universe in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity have been known for a number of years. They have some intriguing features, such as the possible exploration of pre-big bang Physics. Our work attempts to find similar ("preclassical") solutions to an anisotropic model ("Bianchi I") and we discover that there are none. This indicates possible technical issues with the model, or something very appealing i.e. Loop Quantum Gravity suppresses anisotropy, thereby providing an explanation for why our Universe is so isotropic.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Branislav Notaros, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named the recipient of the 2005 Microwave Prize. This is the best-paper award by the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) granted for a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. The winning paper is entitled "Higher Order Hierarchical Curved Hexahedral Vector Finite Elements for Electromagnetic Modeling" (March 2003, Vol.51). The award will be presented on June 15, 2005 at the MTT-S Awards Banquet as a part of the 2005 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Long Beach, California. The Microwave Prize is considered the highest and most competitive scientific/technical award in the microwave area worldwide.

Physics

Prof. Amit Tandon will be serving as one of the Associate Editors for the International journal "Limnology" from April 2005 to March 2007, to serve from the perspective of mixing processes and physical limnology. Limnology is an international journal published by the Japanese Society of Limnology, started in 2000 published by Springer-Verlag. The new editor-in-chief from April 2005 to March 2007 will be Dr. Zen'ichiro KAWABATA, Center for Ecological Research Kyoto University, Japan.

New grants awarded to UMD for research on Textiles

The National Textile Center has awarded two new grants to UMD engineering for research on building a robotic spider and on melt electrospinning for low cost nanofibers. This is in addition to continuing projects on Bioactive bandages, on electrostatic web formation, on stents for treatment of arterial disease, on fibers with butterfly-like colors, on fabrics for biofiltration, on textiles for fuel cells and on sensors based on quantum tunneling.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Soluzochukwu Nwanze selected as ECE Student of the Semester.

Press Release

Study of Passive Sonar, Whale Songs

John Buck, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a sound man. Much of his time between teaching courses is spent listening to noises and compiling data that is of use to researchers and the defense department alike.

Press Release

Published

Dr. Paul Fortier, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is the author and editor of "Introduction to Networks & Networking," a textbook for high school students.

Press Release

Award Winner

Dr. Howard E. Michel, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a 2004 recipient of the Regional Activities Board Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Press Release

Award Winner

Dr. Alan Hirshfeld of Newton, Massachusetts, Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory- was announced as a winner in a worldwide essay competition sponsored by John Templeton Foundation.

Atlanta, GA - September 27, 2004 - The Power of Purpose Awards: A Worldwide Essay Competition sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, announced its winners last week. The John Templeton Foundation is internationally renowned for its annual Templeton Prize. A total of $500,000 in prizes was awarded to the 19 winners at an event in New York City.

Dr. Alan Hirshfeld’s essay, “How Wonderfully We Stand Upon This World.” placed second among more than 7200 entries. This award also includes a $50,000 cash prize.

Press Release | HowWonderfully We Stand Upon This World

New Appointment

Dr. Finnie is appointed as a new Associate Dean, College of Engineering, starting from July 01, 2004. He could be reached at:

John Finnie, Ph.D
Associate Dean
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Dion 326
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
Tel: (508) 999-8490
Fax: (508) 999-9137
Email: jfinnie@umassd.edu

Grants

1. Dr. Sukalyan Sengupta, "Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology", Awarded amount: $212,762, 2003-2005.
2. Dr. Avijit Gangopadhyay, "Integrating Feature Oriented High-resolution Synoptic Observations for MODAS", Amount of Award: $72,219
3. Dr. Gaurav Khanna, "Computational and Theoretical Astrophysics", NSF's grant of $45,000.
4. Dr. Elliott P. Horch, "Unlocking the Potential of Speckle Binary Stars for Stellar and Galactic Astronomy", $234,341, 2003-2006.
5. Dr. Mikolajczak, B., NSF 01-52 Track- ATE Articulation Partnerships, $309,000, 2002-2005
6. Dr. Amit Tandon, "Coollaborative Project: Interaction of eddies with mixed layers", $47,000
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7. Dr. John Rice, a model propulsor vibration, $50,000, 2002-2004.

Recent publications

1. Dr. Iren Valova, Associate Professor with Computer and Information Sciences Department
2. Dr. B. Mikolajczak, chairperson of Computer and Information Science Department.
3. Dr. L. Xing, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Student activities

1. Energy's Solar Decathlon Contest held at the National Mall in 2005
2. Christopher Yafrate , one of ATMC Interns, picked by Mass High Tech as "Best in Class."

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Grants

Dr. Sukalyan Sengupta, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, recently received a grant from the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology, a joint partnership between the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the University of New Hampshire. Funding for this 2-year project is $212,762. The project will explore the autotrophic denitrification of decentralized wastewater systems using sulfur or hydrogen as an electron donor.

Dr. Gaurav Khanna, Assistant Professor in Physics Department, has recently received a grant of $45,000 supported by NSF's Gravity Program under the Division of Physical
Sciences. The research is regarding Computational and Theoretical Astrophysics.

Dr. Elliott P. Horch, Assistant Professor of Physics, recently received word that his NSF proposal entitled: "Unlocking the Potential of Speckle Binary Stars for Stellar and Galactic Astronomy" will be supported by NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences. Funding for this 3-year project is $234,341. Dr. Horch is the Principal Investigator, with Zoran Ninkov and William F. van Altena, being Co-Principal Investigators.

Dr. Amit Tandon, Assistant Professor of Physics, is UMass Dartmouth PI for the "Coollaborative Project: Interaction of eddies with mixed layers" funded by The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration and the National Science Foundation. The fund has been awarded $1.5 million. The UMD portion of the award is $47,000, and the goal of this team project is to derive and test in climate models the parameterizations of the interaction of mesoscale eddies with turbulent mixing in the upper ocean. Other partners on this grant include scientists from MIT, Princeton, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Columbia University, Florida State University, University of California at Los Angeles and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD).

Dr. Mikolajczak, B., chairperson of Computer and Information Science Department, has recently received a grant from NSF 01-52 Track – ATE Articulation Partnerships, Establishing an Articulated Computer Science Program: From BCC through Univeristy of Massachusetts Dartmouth, co-principal investigator with P. Grocer, BCC, $309,000, 2002-2005, CIS faculty Emad Aboelela, Jan Bergandy, Paul Bergstein, and graduate students are involved.

Dr. John Rice of Mechanical Engineering Department has recently received a grant from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center for $50,000 over two years (2002-2004) to model propulsor vibration.

Publications:

Dr. Iren Valova, Associate Professor with Computer and Information Sciences
Department has published the following refereed papers:

I.Valova, G.Milano, K.Bowen, Optimizing Genetic Algorithms to Train Fully Connected Feed - Forward Neural Networks, ASME Press Series on Inteligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2003), Smart Engineering System Design, eds C. Dagli et al, (2003) November, Missouri, USAI.

Valova, N.Gueorguieva, V.Zacharias, Incremental broadcasting as a strategy for multi agent communication, ASME Press Series on Inteligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2003), Smart Engineering System Design, eds C. Dagli et al, (2003) November, Missouri, USAI.

Valova, N.Gueorguieva, M.Kempka, Feed-forward neural networks with sigmoidal and radial basis hidden neurons, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, October 5-8, 2003, Washington, D.C., USAN.

Gueorguieva, G.Georgiev, I.Valova, Facial expression recognition using feedforward neural networks, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2002), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, (June) 2003

N.Gueorguieva, I.Valova, Building RBF Neural Network Topology Through Potential Functions. Springer-Verlag Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol.. 27140. Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing (ICANN - ICONIP 2003), Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja, L. Xu (Eds.), Istanbul, Turkey, (June) 2003

Dr. Mikolajczak, B., chairperson of Computer and Information Science Department, has recently been accepted for several publications:

B. Mikolajczak, A. Ottlik, Specification of Distributed Software Systems with Actors Using Object-Oriented Petri Nets, Intelligent Information Systems 2002, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Physica Series, 2002, pp.423-434.

B. Mikolajczak, Petri Net Approach to Inter-organizational Workflow: A Case Study of Printed Wiring Board Manufacturing with Renew and Woflan, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, Cybernetics, SMC’02, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002; IEEE Press.

Mikolajczak, B., Wang, Z., Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems using Vicinity Preserving Morphisms, International Symposium “Intelligent Information Systems”, IIS’03, Zakopane, Poland, June 2-6, 2003; Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Physica Series, 2003.

Mikolajczak, B., Eranosian, G., Gallaghar, G., Performance Study of Parallel Algorithms of LU Decomposition for Dense Matrices, 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mikolajczak, B., Sefranek, Ch., Integrating Object Oriented Design with Petri Nets – Case Study with SYROCO, SCI’2003, Orlando, Florida, July 27-30, 2003.

Mikolajczak B., Sefranek, Ch. Integrating Object-Oriented Design with Petri Nets – A Case Study of ATM System, 2003 IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, Cybernetics SMC’2003, Track on “Petri Nets and Discrete Event Systems”, Washington, DC, Oct. 5-8, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Mikolajczak, B., Wang Z., Conceptual Modeling of Concurrent Systems through Stepwise Abstraction and Refinement using Petri Net Morphisms, 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER2003, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 13-16, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Dr. Liudong Xing, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has recently published following papers.

L. Xing, "Phased-Mission Reliability and Safety in the Presence of Common-Cause Failures", Proceedings of The 21st International System Safety Conference, August 2003, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (ISSC'2003).

L. Meshkat, L. Xing, S. Donohue, Y. Ou, "An Overview of the Phase-Modular Fault Tree Approach To Phased-Mission System Analysis", Proceedings of The First International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), Pasadena, CA, July 2003, pp. 393-398; JPL Publication 03-13A, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calfornia Institute of Technology.

L. Xing, "Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Common-Cause Failures", Proceedings of The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2003, San Francisco, CA (DSN'2003).

L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, "Analysis of Generalized Phased Mission System Reliability, Performance and Sensitivity", Vol. 51, No. 2, pp199-211, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, June 2002.

Student Activities

UMass Dartmouth is one of only 20 universities worldwide that have been invited to participate in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon contest held at the National Mall in 2005. UMass Dartmouth is the only representative from the state of Massachusetts. Gerald Lemay's interests and efforts played a role in making this a reality.

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