Chairman's Message
On behalf of the UH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, I would like to provide an overview of our activities during the 2008 calendar year.
Our faculty roster continues to change due to retirements and new faculty recruitment. This same year, we hired two outstanding junior faculty members, Jiming Bao and Zhu Han. Bao came to us from Harvard and has expertise in semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics, silicon photonics and metallic nanostructures for plasmonics. Han came from Boise State University and brings expertise in collaborative transmission networks, cognitive radios, compressed sensing, sensor network design, security, biosignal processing and MIMO wireless communications. These hires are part of continued efforts to implement a newly created strategic plan, which is designed to make the college a top 50 program.
In the coming years, we are planning to grow our well-logging and sensor technology focus into two larger core areas, namely energy and sensors. Following national and international trends, the University of Houston has selected two broad areas of emphasis: health care and energy.
Our department's core areas in neuro-engineering and energy fall under two of the university's strategic research clusters. Our focus areas in nanosystems and sensors provide the state-of-the art support for these core areas creating multiple opportunities for collaborations; for example, nanosensors are designed to solve biomedical or energy challenges.
In addition, our department also houses the Southwest Public Safety and Technology Center, which was created to respond to national and regional needs in homeland security, public safety and emergency management.
Our faculty members continue to excel in their scholarly activities. As summarized in the table, the excellence of our faculty members has been recognized by several honors and awards during the year.
| Ji Chen |
Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) prize, Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference |
| Named, in Aug. 2008, as IEEE EMC society Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2011 |
| Ovidiu Crisan |
Life Senior Member, IEEE |
| John R. Glover |
Outstanding Teaching Award, UH Cullen College of Engineering |
| Ben H. Jansen |
Member, Special Emphasis Panel ZAT1 PK 2, Basic Science, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), June 18-19, 2008, and Oct. 27-28, 2008 |
| Stuart A. Long |
Career Teaching Award, UH Cullen College of Engineering |
| Haluk Ogmen |
American Library Association Choice 2008 Outstanding Academic Title award for the book: Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary, T. Bachmann, B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen, Oxford University Press: New York,
N.Y. (2007) |
Member, Central Visual Processing Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 2005–2009
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| Honorary Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K. |
| Paul Ruchhoeft |
Distinguished Young Engineering Alumni Award, UH Cullen College of Engineering |
| Len Trombetta |
Outstanding Teaching Award, UH Cullen College of Engineering |
As a department, our vision is to contribute, through education and research, to technological changes that will shape society in the coming decades.
I thank you for your interest in our department and would like to encourage you to visit us in person.
Best Regards,
Haluk Ogmen, P.E., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair |
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Dr. Haluk Ogmen
Professor and Chair
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