Faculty:
Issa Batarseh, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, Computer and Electrical Engineering, was promoted recently to full Professor of Electrical Engineering.

Erol Gelenbe, Director of SEECS, was elected a professional member of Eta Kappa Nu, the national Electrical Engineering Honor Society.

Michael Georgiopoulos has been promoted to full Professor of Electrical Engineering.

Jannick Rolland, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and her team demonstrated at the ARCH Virtual Reality display at the Orlando Science Center on Feb. 23, 2002, as part of an initiative to honor Women in the Sciences. The event was a great success with more than 3,000 participants.

Mubarak Shah, Professor of Computer Science, received a $60,000 corporate grant from Lockheed-Martin for his research project, “Advanced Image-Based Tracking,” which is the third largest grant from Lockheed-Martin Corporation out of 22 national awards.

Students:
Gregory C. Auerbach, a Computer Engineering major, is one of eight UCF undergraduate students to receive the Order of Pegasus, a university honor recognizing outstanding graduating seniors and graduate students.

Christopher Fuhrman is an undergraduate Honor Student working with Dr. Jannick Rolland on distributed systems and has been recently selected for the 2002-2003 President's Leadership Council.

Frank Goergen, a Computer Engineering major, won the "Outstanding Undergraduate Student" award from the Orlando Section of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering), the world's largest technical professional organization with more than 315,000 electrical and computer engineers in roughly 150 countries.

Rusty Philips, who is receiving his B.S. (Honors in the Major) in Computer Science and is an advisee of Dr. Mubarak Shah, recently received third prize from the College of Engineering and Computer Science on his Honors in the Major Thesis.

Tiffani Williams, who earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCF in Fall 2000 and served as a Visiting Lecturer in CS for a year, received one of the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships.

In March, the UCF Programming Team finished fifth in the United States and 27th in the world in the International Collegiate Programming Contest Finals, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). UCF's team was one of 64 to advance to the contest finals from an initial field of more than 3,000 teams from 67 countries.

A group of undergraduate and graduate Electrical Engineering students, advised by Dr. Issa Batarseh, received third place in the prestigious Future Energy Challenge Award for "Best Engineering Design." Other recipients of the award, given by the Department of Energy, included Texas A&M (first place), Virginia Tech (second place) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (fourth place).