Dr. Martin Siderius wins the 2009 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography

Dr. Martin SideriusPrior to his faculty appointment at the Maseeh College in 2008, Dr. Siderius was Vice-President and Principal Scientist at HLS Research Inc., a startup company he co-founded in 2004. HLS Research is dedicated to applied and basic research on wave-propagation phenomena. Dr Siderius spent three years as a Senior Scientist at the Science Applications International Corporation between 2001-2004. From 1996-2001 he was on the scientific staff of the NATO Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy. Dr Siderius has a B.S. degree in physics from Western Washington University and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.

Dr Siderius' current research interests include remote sensing and inversion methods, exploiting ocean noise for seabed imaging, characterizing the effects of sonar systems on marine life, detection and localization of marine mammals and other underwater targets, underwater acoustic communications and environmentally adaptive signal processing. He is currently the co-director of the Northwest Electromagnetics and Acoustics Research lab (NEAR-Lab) at Portland State University.


 
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".