| 8:30 A.M. | Registration/Continental Breakfast - Martel Hall | |
| 9:00 A.M. | Opening Remarks | Richard Baraniuk, Co-Chair ECE Affiliates Program and Victor E. Cameron Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 9:05 A.M. | Welcome | C. Sidney Burrus, Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering |
| 9:15 A.M. | ECE Departmental Overview | Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Chair, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Morning Session - Focus on Computer Engineering, Systems and DSP | ||
| 9:30 A.M. | Rice Research Projects in Sensor Networks | William Mantzel, ECE Graduate Student Texas Instruments Fellow |
| 10:00 A.M. | Compressing Images with Twirling Things | Michael Orchard, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 10:30 A.M. | Coffee Break in Martel Hall | |
| 11:00 A.M. | TAPS: An Architecture and Protocols for a High-Performance Multi-hop Wireless Infrastructure | Edward Knightly, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Computer Science |
| 11:30 A.M. | Multi-level InterConnect Architectures for Computer Systems | Joseph Cavallaro, Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Computer Science |
| Noon | Lunch (Registration Required) - Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center | |
| Afternoon Session - Focus on Electrical Engineering in Biomedicine | ||
| 1:30 P.M. | Recent Advances of Trace Gas Sensors based on Infrared Semiconductor Lasers: Opportunities and Challenges | Frank K. Tittel, J.S. Abercrombie Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering |
| 2:00 P.M. | Medical application of nanoshells | Jennifer West, Isabel C. Cameron Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering and Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering |
| 2:30 P.M. | Recruiting at Rice | Cheryl Matherly, Asst. Dean of Students for Career Services, Scholarships and Fellowships |
| 2:45 P.M. | Innovation in International Engineering Education | Patrick Frantz, Executive Director, Center for Multimedia Communication |
| 3:00 P.M. | Poster Session - Martel Hall (Refreshments served) | |
Note: Focus on Computer Science is on Monday, October 18.