1st Annual Capstone Poster Competition Held
 The ECE Department held it's first annual Capstone Poster Competition on May 29. Visitors from industry, area high schools, alumni, and current students came to view posters highlighting the projects students have been working on their senior year. Students complete their undergraduate studies by working on a Capstone project in groups on a project of their choice that is sponsored by local industry. PSU has been recognized for many years as one of the best colleges for Capstone projects by U.S. News and World Report.
Pictured at left are first place winners Andrew Chuinard, Tim Chairet, Eric Lochbrunner, and Forest Kernan. Their project was titled "Optical Elastography of Skin" sponsored by OHSU and advised by Dr. Lisa Zurk. This group also was awarded the ECE Capstone Team of the Year. Click here for a link to their poster and to a list of the other winners and posters.
Dr. Martin Siderius wins the 2009 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography
On Wednesday, May 20th, Dr. Martin Siderius was awarded the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), for his research accomplishments in the field of acoustical oceanography. This award was presented to him at the society's semi-annual meeting, which took place in downtown Portland on May 18-22. He is the ninth recipient of the Medwin Prize, which is given annually to a young to mid-career scientist who demonstrates effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. As part of the honor, Dr. Siderius gave a one-hour prize lecture titled "Seabed characterization and model based processing: Past, present, and future," in which he summarized more than a decade of sea experiments and modeling research. Click here for more on this story.
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News & Noteworthy
 Professor XiangFu Zong, the President of the Shanghai Institute of Information Science and Technology visited the PSU campus from April 1 - 3, 2009. The Institute is the education partner of PSU in Shanghai.
Pictured from left: Dr. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, ECE Chair; XiangFu Zong, President of the Shanghai Institute of Information Science and Technology; Prof. Judy Reed of IELS; MCECS Dean Dick Knight; Wuchi Feng, CS Chair; and Marcia Fischer, MCECS Assistant Dean.
Summer interns arrive
 Over the last two weeks, 4 summer interns joined Dr. Teuscher's lab. The students are working on projects in the area of self-assembling nanoscale interconnects, biomolecular computing, self-assembling systems, and agent-based optimization methods for new computing architectures. The mission of Teuscher's lab is to study, rethink, model, and design the implementation of computations in living and non-living systems.
Dr. Teuscher is also organizing the 2009 Summer Intern Seminar Series for interns in the ECE and CS department. For more information, click here.
From left to right: Lillian Olney, incoming PSU student in CS/ECE/biomedical informatics; Nolan Hergert, undergraduate student in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University; Erica Hose, Saturday Academy ASE intern, Centennial High School; Jonathan Aherne, Saturday Academy ASE intern, West Linn High School.
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