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Welcome Back
New Undergrad Advisor
ENS Refurbishment
Faculty and Staff on the
Move
Upcoming Events
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 From
Departmental Chair Anthony Ambler
Welcome back! We hope you had a fun and restful holiday and
return full of energy for what promises to be an exciting semester.
The UT-ECE faculty continues to inspire us with their
accomplishments. Congratulations go to:
 John Pearce - New Undergrad Advisor
Professor
John Pearce has taken over as the new undergraduate
studies committee chairman and undergrad advisor. Dr Pearce
succeeds Dr. Archie Holmes, a long-time and much beloved undergrad
mentor. Dr. Pearce begins his new position at a crucial time for
undergraduate education. A task force for curricular reform has
issued its final report
and fundamental changes to undergrad curiculum are expected by
2010.
More Changes
to Come in the ENS
 (pronounced ohms), a lounge/coffee bar at the front
entrance of the ENS opened right before Fall finals. We are
experimenting with hours of operation. For now will
offer coffee, juice, sandwiches, and pastry (menu) from
7:30 AM - 8 PM weekdays. We are also looking into late night
service for our students, staff, and faculty.
The 7th floor "penthouse" student lounge is currently
being rennovated. Changes include comfortable furniture, roof top
seating, and new tables for the front porch. The Department would
like to thank the UT
Co-op for funding these projects.
Sometime this spring, portable buildings will appear on the ENS
lawn and the faculty parking lot just south of the building. The
plan at present is to move the third floor student labs and some
offices to the portables in order to free up research and office
space for new professors. Space constraints should ease somewhat
when the Biomedical department moves to their new building in early
2008.
Faculty and
Staff on the Move
We are delighted to welcome new faculty and staff to UT-ECE.
 Emanuel
Tutuc received his B.S. in Physics from Ecole Normale
Supérieure, University of Paris in 1997, his M.S. in Electrical
Engineering in 1999 and Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University
2004. His current research interests include electronic properties
of quantum confined systems, novel semiconductor materials and
devices, chemical vapor deposition, metal organic chemical vapor
deposition.
 Seth
Bank received the B.S. degree from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in 2003 and 2006 from Stanford University, all in electrical
engineering. His current research interests are centered on the
growth of dilute-nitride semiconductors and metal/semiconductor
nanocomposites and their application to silicon-based lasers,
mid-IR lasers, THz generation and sensing, and high-speed
transistors.
 Mattan
Erez received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and
B.A. in Physics from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology,
and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. His
main research interest in computer architecture is on the critical
aspects of locality, bandwidth, and parallelism, and on improving
the cooperation between the hardware, compiler, and programmer. He
was the over all coordinator of the Stanford Streaming
Supercomputer.
  Our new staff members are
Alexandria Alley, a Student Development Specialist in
the Undergraduate Advising office, and
JoAnne Lambert, a Microcomputer Applications
Specialist, in the IT group.
UT-ECE is currently interviewing for six tenure-track faculty
positions and four chaired positions in computer engineering,
microelectronics (2 positions), and mixed-signal/analog design.
Applications have been pouring in from all over the world and we
expect more new faculty in the fall.
Upcoming Events
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Febuary 2 |
Spring Engineering Expo |
For UT Austin students interested in gaining
valuable work experience, including full-time,
intern, and co-op opportunities.
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March 3 |
ExploreUT |
See a solar car designed and built by
undergraduates. Find out how fast your fast ball really
is. Robots! An exploded computer! The human battery!
and more. |
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March 28 |
AMD
Day |
Find out about AMD from the guys who work there
plus a resume workshop, free lunch, lecture by
AMD's CTO, and a raffle for big prizes! |
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April 5 |
ECE Spring Banquet |
The annual celebration for our graduating seniors
and external advisory committee |
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May 13-15 |
Austin
Conference on Integrated Systems and
Circuits |
ACISC covers the latest in electronic technology at
chip, board and system levels, covering design, CAD
methodology, and test. |
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