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New advisory board focuses on aggressive vision for electrical & computer engineering

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes seven distinguished individuals from industry and academia to a newly formed ECE department advisory board. The incoming board members met in January at Rice University. "The department has a high national ranking, research expenditures are growing, and the faculty is quite active and visible, nationally and internationally," said Behnaam Aazhang, ECE department chair. "Our challenge is to break into the upper tier of the top-10 ranking and to position the department for the future growth that President Leebron anticipates for Rice University. The advisory board is an outstanding group of accomplished individuals with a particular affinity for Rice ECE. With the board's guidance, we can take an already great department to the next level."

The advisory board members, who will serve for an initial three-year term, through 2009, include:

Dr. George Bourianoff
Senior Program Manager
Intel

Professor Rob Calderbank
Departments of ECE, Math and Applied Computational Mathematics
Princeton University

Mark Dankberg (Rice BSEE 1977, MEE 1977)
Chairman & CEO
ViaSat

Professor Tony Heinz
ECE Department Chair
Columbia University

Dr. Steve Sheafor (Rice BA Econ/Math 1972, MEE 1972)
Executive Vice President
VizionWare

Dr. Len Srnka
Senior Research Advisor
ExxonMobil Upstream Research

Dr. Turner Whitted
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research

 
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