Mykhaylo I. Andriychuk
Chapter Chair
andr@iapmm.lviv.ua
The West Ukraine Chapter in Lviv has sponsored two student technical conferences and one technical meeting this year, supporting the leadership of faculty and students at two academic institutions.
Thanks to the efforts of Telecommunication Department Chair Dr. Mykhaylo Klymash and West Ukraine Chapter Vice-Chair Dr. Bogdan Koval, the 59th Student Scientific Conference of Radioengineering Faculty, held in April, was a resounding success. Twenty-three reports were presented in the following scientific areas: mobile communications and networks design, signal processing and medical applications, and electromagnetic wave propagation in electronic devices. Technical and financial support was provided by the West Ukraine Chapter. Awards for the best presentations were given to O. O. Tomochko for "Modeling the system of base stations for BBS-mobile communication of the GSM-900 standard," to S. Zablotskyi for "C++ builder and technology of the database BDE-access," and to V. Romanchuk and O. Doliba for "Microprocessor devices for recording and reproduction of the vocal submissions."
The West Ukraine Chapter also sponsored the 16th Regional Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists. The conference, held in May at Karpenko Physiko-Mechanical Institute (PMI), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, was organized by The Young Scientists Council of PMI. The West Ukraine Chapter provided the technical and financial support. Seventy-five papers of 106 authors from Ukraine and Poland were included in the Conference Program. Short abstracts of papers were published before the event. Two speakers from PMI were named by the Chapter as Best Young Speakers. They were A. I. Koval for "About estimation of the rate distortion function for generalized Gaussian distribution under mean square error criteria" and V. P. Tsisar for the "Peculiarities of oxide phase formation on the chromic steel surface contacting with oxygen content lead." The best papers were published in a post-conference special issue.
The West Ukraine Chapter's Technical Meeting was held 3 May 2001 and featured the presentation of "The radiation operator in the electromagnetics theory" by Dr. Mykhaylo I. Andriychuk, Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, NASU, Lviv, Ukraine. The West Ukraine Chapter added the Solid-State Circuits Society last year to its joint focus of interests in the many related Societies that gave birth to its original organization: Microwave Theory and Techniques, Electron Devices, Antennas and Propagation, and Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.
Emad Hegazi of UCLA Receives the 2001-2002 SSCS Predoctoral Fellowship
Emad Hegazi, a doctoral candidate at UCLA, has been selected to receive the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Fellowship for 2001-2002.
Hegazi (S'94) received both his BS and MS in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1995 and 1998 respectively. Since 1998 he has been with UCLA, where he is a candidate for a Ph.D. in integrated circuits and systems. His research area covers fractional-n synthesizer design, high-purity VCO design and optimization methods.
"The Awards Committee had an exceptional field of candidates, and the choice was extremely difficult," reports SSCS Awards Chair, Richard Jaeger. "Mr. Hegazi is to be commended for being selected for this prestigious award." A certificate for the award will be presented to Hegazi at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) during the Monday morning Plenary session at the San Francisco Marriott on 4 February 2002.