Please announce to your students next week in class important in important clarification about scholarships. The scholarship application deadline for Maseeh College is still April 1st (even thought the university extended theirs until May 1). Most scholarships are need-based and require a minimum 2.0 GPA. So, all students are encouraged to apply. If students have questions about the scholarship application, they should reach out to mcecsscholarships@pdx.edu.
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Maseeh College was just awarded the Bronze Level in The Diversity Recognition Program by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), recognizing our significant, measurable progress in increasing diversity, inclusion, and degree attainment outcomes.
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Maseeh College reached our $4 million annual fundraising goal last week with about four months ahead of schedule. The gift from Daimler Trucks North America comprised the largest portion and, as you heard from Dean Bull in the State of the School, is supporting three professorships, graduate assistantships and scholarships across departments. Other large contributions to the goal include a gift-in-kind of EDA software and the Sloan Foundation Grant to develop strategies for supporting BIPOC PhD students.
- Despite complications from both an ice storm and a quickly resolved bomb threat and thanks to the stellar work of our organizers, Maseeh College’s first Transfer Day at Native American Student Community Center was a success. Transfer students enjoyed a warm welcome from Dean Joseph Bull, a student panel, tours of our labs, and networking opportunities
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Dean Joseph Bull’s annual State of the College presentation, also delayed by the vagaries of Portland’s weather, was warmly received and followed by some lively commentary about the necessity of calculus, among other topics. Staff and faculty networked over snacks and drinks afterward. A recording is available for anyone who may have missed it, as well the slide presentation.
- Maseeh College recently held its first PhD student gathering, and Wedge Vision professors Ehsan Aryafar (CS) and Elliot Gall (MME) offered brief presentations on their award-winning research after some opening words from Dean Joseph Bull.
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Tau Beta Pi held its Winter induction ceremony. Students Jonathan Cervantes-Rivera (MME), Christopher Crider (ECE), Garrett Duncan (CEE and son of ECE faculty member Don Duncan (ECE), Eric Ovcharenko (MME), Tod Richards (CEE), and Hiep Thieu (ECE).
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As part of the Vietnam Oregon Initiative supporting the Intel Vietnam Scholars, James Hook (Associate Dean for International Partnerships, CS) recently visited Vietnam to participate in a trade delegation and a meeting with the University of Da Nang. Maseeh College has been partnering with one of their units, the Da Nang University of Technology (DUT) since 2008, when we helped them launch an Embedded Systems program
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PSU Communications has relaunched its Embolden marketing campaign campaign, and Diane Moug (CEE) and Arash Khosravifar (CEE) were some of the first faculty members to participate. Take a look here. (Moug will also be featured soon on PSU’s blog and the next Maseeh Matters newsletter.)
- SMRC
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Jun Jiao (MME) was recently recognized by the National Academy of Inventors for their advancements in science and consumer technologies. She is being honored as an NAI Senior Member, which recognizes emerging academic inventors.
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As part of Daimler Truck's recent generous award to PSU, Maseeh College has awarded three four-year professorships to Raúl Bayoán Cal (MME), Antonie Jetter (ETM), and Christof Teuscher (ECE).
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Elliot Gall (MME) and his team were one of the EPA's Phase 2 winners of the Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge.
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- James McNames (ECE) $9,955 from Oregon State University (OSU)/NASA for“ Oregon/NASA Space Grant Consortium”
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Joshua Mendez (ECE) $9,914 from OSU /NASA for “Oregon/NASA Space Grant Consortium”
- Sung Yi (MME) $9,950 from OSU/NASA for “Oregon/NASA Space Grant Consortium”
- Yi Xia (MME) $9,950 from OSU/NASA “Oregon/NASA Space Grant Consortium”$9,950.00
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Christof Teuscher (ECE) $490,00 from University of Texas San Antonio/NSF for “EFRI BRAID: Fractional-order Neuronal Dynamics for Next Generation Memcapacitive Computing Networks”
- Andrew Tolmach (CS) $154,299 from Charles Stark Draper Laboratory for “PIPE Cleaner: Configurable PIPE-Based Policy-Informed Root-Cause Fuzzing”
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Mahima Gupta, (ECE), $28,982 from the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers for "Single- Stage Buck-Boost DC/AC Power Conversion with Non-Pulsating AC Output Waveforms for Electrified Traction Applications"
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Ann Cudd’s Presidential Speaker Series is continuing, with Dr. Michael Sorrell on Thursday, April 25th, at Hoffman Hall. During his 16 years as president of Paul Quinn College, Sorrell has helped the school become nationally celebrated for its ability to reimagine higher education to better serve the needs of today’s students and their communities.
- Maseeh College plans are coming together for PSU’s Research Week (May 6-10). We’ll be hosting an open house and self-guided tour of our cutting edge research labs, creating a digital scavenger hunt for Maseeh College swag, and sharing poster presentations of student-led research projects in the atrium.
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Jun Jaio (MME) was briefly interviewed, along with other PSU faculty, named to the prestigious National Academy of Inventors Senior Membership.
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In case you missed the profile of Ameeta Agrawal (CS) in the most recent issue of Maseeh Matters in which she discusses some of the inequities of AI, you can read it here.
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Christof Teuscher (ECE), along a team of other mutli-discipline researchers, received a large grant from the National Science Foundation, and their exciting work on developing energy efficient AI models is outlined here.
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Here’s a recent article from PSU’s Research and Graduate Studies on new assistant professor Ilke Celik (MME)'s work on improving solar energy materials and methods. She is one of Maseeh College's many NSF CAREER Award; keep an eye out for a longer piece on all of these stellar faculty members coming out soon.
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