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ECE/CS Advisory Board

 

Steve Aho - Chair of the Board
Senior Program Manager
Mentor Graphics Corporation
steve_aho@mentor.com

Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske
ECE Department Chair & Professor
Portland State University
jeske@ece.pdx.edu

Wu-Chi Feng
CS Department Chair & Professor
Portland State University
wuchi@cs.pdx.edu

Frank H. Goovaerts
Director of Engineering
Tektronix
frank.h.goovaerts@tektronix.com

Gordon Hoffman
Managing Director
Northwest Technology Ventures
ghoffman@nwtechventures.com

Richard I. Knight
Interim MCECS Dean
Previous companies: Sarif, Tektronix
knight@hevanet.com

Hanna Linder
VMware ESX Support Engineer
IBM
hlinder@us.imb.com

Mitchell Mlinar, Ph.D.
R&D Group Director
Synopsys, Inc.
mmlinar@synopsys.com

Charles W. Rosenthal
Principal
Engineering Consultants
c.rosenthal@ieee.org

John C. Thomas
Member of Technical Staff
Sharp Laboratories of America
jct@sharplabs.com
 
awarded

Jeff Hoffman & Don Tornquist have been chosen for the 2009-2010 ECE Undergraduate Honors Program. The program enables undergraduates to go beyond their normal studies to work with faculty in the area of their choice: research, entrepreneurship or innovation.

Robert Daasch

Dr. Robert Daasch has won the Semiconductor Research Corporation 2009 Technical Excellence Award. It is the second highest research award in the SRC. The Technical Excellence Award was established as an incentive and recognition program for research of exceptional value to GRC members. Authorized by the Board of Directors in December 1991, the award is intended to complement the Inventor Recognition Award. The Technical Excellence Award is shared among key contributors for innovative technology that significantly enhances the productivity/
competitiveness of the semiconductor industry. To date 25 research efforts have received the award. The 2008 Technical Excellence Award was presented to a team of researchers from Portland State University led by Professor W. Robert Daasch, and supported by students Liwei Ning (PhD 2009), and Amit Nahar (MS 2006) for their research, "Burn-in Reduction: Improving Outlier Screening".