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Fall 2000

Three ECE faculty win Early Career Development Awards from NSF Left to right: Amit Lal, Yogesh Gianchandani and Susan Hagness, winners of 2000 CAREER awards - FULL STORY -		Pinpoint: Message from the Dean College Notes: News briefs Alumnews: Alumni tid bits Periscope: Looking in on College of Engineering alumni Faculty News: Faculty tid bits Feedback: How are we doing?   NOBEL PRIZE Jack St. Clair Kilby (MS Electrical Engineering 1950) is co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit. His insight led to what is now the foundation of the modern electronics industry. Kilby, 76, is retired from Texas Instruments Inc. He is a prolific inventor credited with more than 60 patents. More information is available. (Full story in the Winter Perspective)
Twelve receive COE Distinguished Service Awards Next generation wireless research advances New anti-cancer weapon College's auto programs look forward to new facility NSF awards Materials Research Science and Engineering Center $11.7 million Dean's Award for Excellence -- Lester J. Dugas, Jr. Kimberly-clark sponsors 15 UW-Madison scholarships
OTHER NEWS Four new DARPA grants to COE announced Auto advisor wins top honor Groundbreaking news Alumnus gives CEE $1 million Wisconsin's Governor tours technology
OPEN HOUSE Visitors came August 19 from as close as down the street and as far as Evanston, Illinois, and Appleton, Wisconsin, to learn about engineering during "Engineering on the Mall," part of UW-Madison's weekend-long open house celebration. Among the college's events were displays of the Baja Car, Future Car, Formula Car and Concrete Canoes; tours of the nuclear reactor and foundry, photos with the engineering fountain, make-your-own polymer slime, a Legoland and campus Lego model, and a chance to thread a catheter through a transparent heart model and learn about light-emitting diodes, ferrofluids and memory metals. (Formula Car pictured at right.)

STORY CLARIFICATION: In a story in the spring issue of Perspective, "Reaching for the stars: Part-time job takes ECE student to the South Pole," we reported that detectors for the AMANDA project were built by the UW-Madison Department of Physics. We did not mention that most of the design, construction and testing of the detectors was conducted by the staff of the university's Physical Sciences Laboratory.

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