AGENDA
February 12 – 14, 2004
Thursday, February 12
Texas Instruments Foundation Auditorium, ECS South Complex
Student Research Review and Competition
1:30 – 1:45
Welcome, introductions, & expectations – Dean Bob Helms
1:45 - 2:00
Guidelines for presentations and judging – Dr. Sook Kim
2:00 - 3:30
Electrical and Telecom Engineering Presentations – Associate Dean
Cy Cantrell, moderator
3:30 – 3:45
Break
3:45 - 5:15
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Software
Engineering Presentations – Dr. Radha Krishnan, moderator
5:15 - 5:30
Concluding Remarks – Dr. Sook Kim
5:30
Judges caucus and dinner
Friday, February 13
Texas Instruments Foundation Auditorium, ECS South Complex
Erik Jonsson School Review – Status and Plans
7:30 – 8:15
Continental breakfast & networking
8:15 – 8:45
Welcome, introductions, purpose, & expectations – Associate Dean
Doug Harris, President Franklin Jenifer, & Dean Bob Helms
8:45 – 8:55
8:55 – 9:20
9:20 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:25
Electrical Engineering Department – Professor Gerry Burnham,
Department Chair – 10 mins.
Communications & Signal Processing* – Professors Kamran Kiasaleh &
Philip Loizou – 25 mins.
Digital & Analog Systems – Professors Poras Balsara & Franco
Maloberti – 25 mins.
Optics, Microelectronics, & Materials* - Professors Larry Overzet & Bruce
Gnade – 25 mins.
Break
Friday, February 13
Texas Instruments Foundation Auditorium, ECS South Complex
Erik Jonsson School Review – Status and Plans Continued
10:25 – 10:35
10:35 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:35
11:35 – 11:55
11:55 – 12:10
12:10 – 1:40
Computer Science Department – Professor D. T. Huynh, Department
Chairman – 10 mins.
Computer Systems & Computing – Professors Huynh & Balaji
Raghavachari & Gopal Gupta – 25 mins.
Software Engineering – Professor Farokh Bastani – 15 mins.
Networks & Information Assurance – Professors S. (Venky) Venkatesan
& Ravi Prakash – 20 mins.
Intelligent Systems – Professors Klaus Truemper & Sanda Harabagiu –
20 mins.
Break
Lunch – Guest speaker: Rich Templeton, President and CEO, Texas
Instruments
1:40 – 2:10
Quality of Education & Students – Associate Deans Ivor Page & Cy
Cantrell – 30 mins.
2:10 – 3:10
Jonsson School Research Excellence Initiative – Dean Bob Helms
3:10 – 3:25
Break
3:25 – 3:35
4:25 – 4:35
Interdisciplinary Programs* – Associate Dean Dr. Duncan MacFarlane
– 10 mins.
Telecommunications Engineering – Professors MacFarlane, Andrea
Fumagalli, & Jason Jue – 30 mins.
Computer Engineering – Professors Dinesh Bhatia & Edwin Sha – 20
mins.
Break
4:35 – 5:45
ECS lab tours & poster viewing
5:45 – 8:00
Reception – McDermott Suite
3:35 – 4:05
4:05 – 4:25
Names underlined will be moderator for each session.
*Interdisciplinary programs in materials and signal processing for biomedical applications will be
discussed in the EE Department section; interdisciplinary programs in information assurance and
digital forensics will be discussed in the Computer Science section.
Saturday, February 14
Texas Instruments Foundation Auditorium, ECS South Complex
Advisory Council and Friends of the School Caucus and Feedback
8:00 – 8:45
Continental breakfast & networking
8:45 – 9:15
Welcome, introductions, purpose, & expectations – Doug Harris – 30
mins.
9:15 – 9:45
Strategic plan: Jonsson School Research Initiative Summary;
instructions for the breakouts – Bob Helms – 30 mins.
9:45 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:45
Breakouts – See below for topics and Jonsson School owners
Break.
Breakouts cont. – See below for topics and Jonsson School owners
11:45 – 1:00
Working lunch - report from breakouts
1:00 – 1:30
Summary, actions, and next steps
Proposed breakout topics & Jonsson School faculty co-leader
Strategic plan goals and metrics for tier-1 status – Doug Harris
Growth areas, new programs and departments – Duncan MacFarlane
Research graduate program curriculum & research student recruiting – D.T. Huynh
Developing a Jonsson School and UT Dallas culture – R. (Chandra) Chandrasekaran
Undergraduate curriculum, teaching, work study opportunities, & ABET – Gerry Burnham and Ivor
Page
Programs to encourage industry participation in on-campus research – technology acceleration
(incubation) – Ed Esposito
Infrastructure & physical plant – Cy Cantrell