See http://ualr.edu/www/2011/09/09/1-million-sturgis-gift-endows-nanotech-chair/

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UALR Students Compete in International Engineering Competition in Boston

Boston, Massachusetts. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) held a Present Around the World (PATW) engineering competition on April 25^th at University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  Fei Song, Yinle Zhou, and Haider Khaleel received the top awards in the local competition among a field of seventeen competitors.  Mr. Song and Ms. Zhou will compete in the 2011 Americas Regional Finals of the PATW in Boston, Massachusetts on September 10th.

Fei Song, from Beijing, China, won the local competition at UALR for his presentation Piezoelectrically Induced Guided Wave Propagation for Health Monitoring of Aircraft Honeycomb Composite Structures. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Control and his Master of Science degree in Solid Mechanics from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007.  He is currently pursuing a Ph. D in Engineering Science at UALR.  His research interests include structural health monitoring of complex engineering structures, smart structures/NDE, wave propagation, and multi-scale continuum modeling of nanomaterials.  Mr. Song has received numerous awards including Outstanding Publication and Presentation Award in the Department of Applied Science at UALR in 2010 and Harambee Outstanding Graduate Student at UALR in 2008. Mr. Song is a student member of ASME, ASNT, ISHMII and IET.

Yinle Zhou’s presentation, Entity Identity Information Management in Entity Resolution Systems, received second place in the local competition.  Ms. Zhou is originally from Guizhou, China.  She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Nanjing University and her Master of Science degree in Information Quality at UALR.  She is currently pursuing her Ph. D in Integrated Computing at UALR and expects to complete her degree next spring.  Her research interests include entity resolution, entity identity information management, and information quality and she has authored many publications on these subjects.  Ms. Zhou has received a full scholarship for her master’s and doctorate degrees and she teaches three information quality and entity resolution courses at UALR.  She has received many awards including the Outstanding Research Award in Information Quality in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at UALR and the Harambee Outstanding Graduate Student (GPA 4.0) at UALR.

Mr. Song and Ms. Zhou are among seventeen students and young professionals that will be traveling from all over North America and the Caribbean to present at the engineering competition in Boston.  Participants at the competition make a 10-minute presentation on a science or engineering topic.  They are judged 75% on their presentation and 25% on the technical content.  The winner of the Boston competition will receive $650 and will go to London in November to compete at the global final.  The PATW competition is a chance for students and young professionals from around the globe to showcase their academic prowess and their ability to communicate technical topics at a comprehensive level.

Since its inception in the United Kingdom in 1871, the Institution of Engineering and Technology has become a world-leading professional organization. The IET has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.  Providing a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas, the IET promotes the positive role of science, engineering, and technology in the world.

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Dr. Lai’s paper was awarded the Best Paper Award at the recently concluded IEEE International Conference on Communications , known as ICC. This conference is one of the premiere IEEE conferences in Communications. To put it in context, this year ICC received 2838 submissions, among which 1093 were accepted. Amongst the accepted papers, 11 papers were selected to receive the best paper award, of which Dr. Lai’s was one.

The paper is titled:
” Decoding the `Nature Encoded’ Messages for Distributed Energy Generation Control in Microgrid “

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The following students of Systems Engineering Department were recognized for their outstanding accomplishments at the EIT Awards Ceremony on May 6, 2011.

EIT College Award for Outstanding Senior

Heather Keathley

Department Awards

Master of Science in Systems Engineering

Manjusha Vadakke Veetil
Oleksandr Babenko

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering

Seniors:
Christina Marie Dunlap
Noor Mohamad Jabur

Juniors:
Robert Miller
Jena de Dieu Mutangana
Jimmy Shayka
Janviere Umuhoza
Jesus Luongo Lizana

Sophomore:
Festus Hategekimana
Eginde Murisa

Freshmen:
Marcus Hefner
Caitlin Buchanan

Check out their pictures taken during the award ceremony.

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Arnab Dey, ASMSA high school student who was mentored by Dr. Jinxiang Xi during the summer of 2010, received the second place at 2011 International Science and Engineering Fair in LA (May 8 -13). He also received the 1st place in award from the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the 2nd place award from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Society

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Dr. Lifeng Lai, Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering Department, received CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal “CAREER: Building Secure Wireless Communication Systems via Physical Layer Resources.” NSF CAREER Awards are given to most promising and outstanding young faculty members as stated on the NSF Website: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

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Systems Engineering Professor Dr. Kamran Iqbal organized the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Present Around The World (PATW) competition in Little Rock this month at the UALR campus. IET sponsors the PATW competition worldwide to encourage valuable contributions to the engineering discipline and recognize young and talented engineering students and professionals. This competition provides a supportive and informal environment in which students and young professionals network and develop their presentation skills. They also enable students and young professionals to learn about the latest advances within engineering and technology and to gain access to new ideas.

Two of our Systems Engineering students have won the competition. Fei Song, mentored by Dr. Guoling Huang, won the first place. He will receive fully paid trip to Boston to participate in regional finals and a chance to participate in global finals in London. He also received a cash award of $300. His topic of presentation was “Piezoelectrically Induced Guided Wave Propagation for Health Monitoring of Aircraft Honeycomb Composite Structures”. Haider Khaleel, mentored by Dr. Hussain Al-Rizzo, won the third place. He received a cash award of $100. His topic of presentation was “An AMC Based Antenna for Telemedicine Applications”.

Check out the pictures taken during the competition.

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Dr. Seshadri Mohan, chairman of the Systems Engineering department in the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UALR, has been honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as its Outstanding Engineering Educator for Region 5, which encompasses Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

Dr. Mohan was on hand to receive the award at the annual IEEE Region 5 meeting April 16 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

For further details, see
http://ualr.edu/eit/2011/04/21/mohan-named-ieee%E2%80%99s-outstanding-engineering-educator-for-region-5/

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Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology will host the IET Present Around The World (PATW) student presentation competition on April 25, 2011. The competition will be held in EIT 203 from 1-5 p.m. PATW is a global competition organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (http://www.theiet.org/) and led by its members worldwide. The competition provides an opportunity for students and young professionals to network together, learn about the latest advances in engineering and technology, and gain access to new ideas. The top two finishers in the competition will get one year of free IET membership and a paid visit to Boston to compete in the regional finals.

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