W. Kenneth Jenkins - US grants

Support is provided for attendance at the annual meeting of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, which brings together experts, from all countries, in the appropriate technical areas. This year's meeting is to be held in the Far East, with contacts in Japan and China. Meetings will be held between American researchers and their counterparts in China and Japan.

The research is an engineering approach to the solution of two fundamental problems in designing systolic arrays, namely, restructuring of algorithms for increased parallelism and efficient mapping of algorithms into systolic arrays. Two major limitations in the state-of-the-art of existing transformation systems are the nonexistence of powerful systematic semantic transformations and the inability to systematically achieve optimality in the resulting designs. Efforts are underway to investigate: new syntactic and semantic transformations on complex algorithms for optimizing area, time, input/output and other parameters in the systolic architecture; efficient methodology for mapping algorithms onto two- or three-dimensional systolic arrays with feedbacks, replicated data, general timing and limited or full broadcasting and other architectural constraints; design of macropipelines of systolic arrays and the related problems in interconnection, buffering, timing, and closure property; and design of macropipelines of systolic arrays for image processing and pattern recognition. Emphasis is on both theoretical and practical approaches in this research. With the theory developed, an automated design tool will be implemented so that it can be interfaced with existing VLSI design tools.

Research in Circuits and Signal Processing since l960's has contributed to developments in many areas such as filter (analog and digital) design, processing of signals (one- and multi-dimensional), VLSI architectures for signal processing and computer aided analysis and design tools for integrated circuits. The field is now at cross-roads with many researchers looking at various problems, some new ones and some that have been around for a long time. This one-of-a-kind workshop is being held to identify problems/topics that are relatively new and or worth investigating and topics that are mature and or may not lead to significant breakthroughs.

The rapid proliferation of new instruction set architectures that support instruction-level parallel processing has created great compiler and microarchitecture research opportunities. The IMPACT compiler, with its advanced features such as predicated compilation, instruction level parallelism optimizations, compiler engineered speculation, profile-based optimizations, advanced machine description facilities, scheduling frameworks for resource sensitive code optimizations, and pointer-based dependence analysis and tracking facility, has become a premier compiler technology base for major U.S. companies as well as academic researchers. This software capitalization project enables the use of IMPACT's state-of-the-art compiler framework by a large number of researchers. This will be accomplished by enhancing existing documentation and developing new documentation and tutorials, further strengthening the software interfaces, building and maintaining a web-based support infrastructure, and making the software as stable as possible through the aggressive use of a regression-test environment and timely response to users' bug reports. This project's software and documentation will be released in several phases over two years and the end product will be a high-quality and readily-available compiler environment that supports a wide variety of advanced instruction-level parallel processing research.

The objective of this proposed workshop is to develop potential approaches for the introduction
of nanoscale engineering into the undergraduate and graduate engineering education process.
Recognizing that nanoscale engineering is a very interdisciplinary activity, the correct approach
to accomplish the education of future nanoelectronic engineers is not clear. The primary goal of
this effort is to hold a workshop with a collection of individuals well versed in the various
technologies that are necessary to accomplish advances in nanotechnology as well as individuals
that have been instrumental in developing roadmaps for new curricula. The attendees will be
primarily invited from the membership of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Heads Association (ECEDHA). The co-located workshop will be held during the first two days
of the highly successful IEC DesignCon conference, taking place January 27-30, 2003.
DesignCon attracts more than 6,000 design engineers and managers and is also a draw for the
academic community. The proposed program plan is to hold a one-day tutorial on the general
topic of nanoscience and engineering that both the educators and the industrial participants of
IEC DesignCon can attend. The second day will be focused on the development of an
educational plan. The outcome of the workshop will be a report that outlines the possible
approaches that should be attempted to support the development of the undergraduate and
graduate nanoengineer. The workshop will be organized by ECEDHA, with board members
serving as the organizers and workshop hosts.
Intellectual Merit of the Proposed Activity: This workshop will bring together for the first time
educators in the general areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering with researchers in the
areas of Nanoscience and Engineering to address the critical issues of education and workforce
development relative to the emerging field of nanotechnology. This workshop will provide a
unique intellectual forum to identify problems and bottlenecks in educating engineering students
in this multidisciplinary arena.
Broader Impacts Resulting from the Proposed Activity: The proposed activity represents only the
first step in a broader program seeking to impact the engineering educational system in terms of
new and emerging areas of science and technology. Since nanoscience and engineering are
broadly interdisciplinary, the ideas relative to curriculum and education emerging from this
workshop are expected have much broader impact in approaches to multidisciplinary education
in other fields, such as information technology.

0244030 Guo

This award funds a five-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Pennsylvania State University's University Park Campus for 14 students each year for research in electrical engineering. The REU site is designed as a nine-week summer experience. Students will have an opportunity to participate in a broad range of research projects that include both traditional and emergent interdisciplinary fields of electrical and electronics engineering. The program will introduce participants to hands-on, cutting-edge research experiences especially designed for undergraduate students. Each student participant will be paired with a faculty mentor to work on a specific research topic. In addition students will participate in a number of group activities such as weekly research seminars and biweekly field trips to world-renown research centers. At the end of the summer program a mini research symposium will be held to give students an opportunity to share their experiences. Students will be selected nationwide with an emphasis on junior-level students outside of the University Park Campus that desire research opportunities. Current research collaborations with other universities will be used to assist in attracting students from population groups underrepresented in research fields in engineering. This program seeks to broaden opportunities and enable participation of domestic undergraduate students in research careers in engineering.

A junior faculty specializing in radar and lidar remote sensing of the upper atmosphere is supported with salary and with a portion of start-up funds from University resources. The new faculty position replaces slight erosion in the Space Science Faculty at Pennsylvania State University during a time when new community initiatives in the Space Weather program and with the AMISR radar require new intellectual capital. This faculty augmentation strengthens the Communication and Space Science Laboratory (CSSL) within the Electrical Engineering Department at Penn State, and solidifies the new University-wide Center For Space Science Research (CSRP). Educational and Public outreach is facilitated by the Pennsylvania State Grant Consortium that organizes outreach in the Space Sciences for grades K-12 through Graduate students. Including curriculum development consistent with the expertise of the faculty candidate, the Pennsylvania State curriculum is expanded to include training of science teachers and proposal preparation training.

In response to significant interests in globalization, public policy, and engineering out-sourcing that emerged during the 2004 ECEDHA Annual Meeting, and which continued throughout the 2005 ECEDHA Annual Meeting, the Electrical and Computer Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) and The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) are proposing to organize a fall 2005 workshop that focuses on The Impact of Globalization on Electrical and Computer Engineering Curricula of the Future. The workshop will be held at the Constitution Avenue location of the National Academy of Engineering, Washington D. C, on November 14 and 15, 2005. The ECEDHA Board of Directors is grateful to Dr. William Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), for making the NAE facilities available for this event. Dr. Ralph Cavin of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has expressed an interest in the workshop on behalf of SRC, and it is anticipated that SRC will play a crucial role in representing the U.S. semiconductor industry's views on engineering education. Also, since ECEDHA has recently developed a new working relationship with the Computing Research Association (CRA), CRA will also participate in the workshop to represent their views on educational policy. Funds are requested in this proposal to provide partial travel support for invited workshop attendees and to cover basic administrative expenses for the fall 2005 workshop.
There is a growing need to educate engineering students for competitive careers in a global economy.
Educators need to carefully consider how to educate engineering students to prepare them for changes in a
profession that is becoming increasing influenced by globalization and outsourcing. Educators will also face
increasing challenges when recruiting students into ECE programs in the face of negative publicity on out-sourcing, and the perceived undercutting of the value of an engineering degree in the United States due to global competition. Another challenge to educators will be the retraining of engineering professionals in fields that have suffered from excessive out-sourcing. Addressing this challenge requires a new emphasis on continuing education to provide opportunities for engineers at all career levels to refresh and change the direction of their evolving careers. The proposed workshop will explore changes that are needed in engineering education and ECE curriculum to properly prepare graduates from United States institutions for careers in an economy where globalization and out-sourcing are predominant characteristics.
Although this proposal requests funding for the November 2005 workshop, the long range plan is for
ECEDHA and NSF to sponsor a series of three workshops in consecutive years from 2005 through 2007. The first (2005) workshop will focus on the discovery phase, with its goal being to analyze the effects of globalization on the Electrical and Computer Engineering profession, to propose ECE curriculum revisions designed to prepare students for further changes in the future, and to deal with issues involving the recruiting and retention of undergraduate students, graduate students, and young faculty in ECE. The role of ABET will be re-examined, and the workshop will seek to define changes needed in the ABET process to facilitate the creation curricula that prepare students to effectively deal with globalization of their profession. The second workshop (2006) will explore the implementation phase, in particular how ECE educators can bring about much needed curricula change in light of traditional program structures and increasing pressures to introduce emerging technologies into already crowded ECE curricula. The third workshop (2007) will focus on assessment and continual improvement of curricular revisions
that were identified and implemented in the two previous years. ECEDHA believes a three-year time window is the minimal period over which substantial changes can be made in ECE curricula in response to the globalization and outsourcing pressures that are already appear to be dominant forces in the profession. It is hoped that one of the outcomes of this three-year workshop series will be an increase in proposals submitted by ECE departments that will lead to major curricular revisions and eventually to overall department level reform across the nation.
Intellectual Merit: Intellectual merit of the proposed workshop centers on the urgency for ECE educators to
respond to the increasing pressures of globalization in the ECE profession, to provide opportunities for continuing education, and to motivate life-long learning in a rapidly changing ECE profession that is dominated by international issues.
Broader Impact: The broader impact of the proposed workshop is reflected in the international scope of the issues to be addressed at the workshop, and by the serious attention that the workshop will devote to recruiting, retaining, and mentoring undergraduate students, graduate students and young faculty, while drawing as much as possible from underrepresented groups in engineering (minorities and women in engineering).

This 9-week summer REU Site program will allow undergraduate students to participate in cutting-edge research in the field of electrical engineering and expose them to interdisciplinary aspects of research through a carefully designed program of individually mentored research projects and team activities such as: 1) Weekly Scientific Seminars;
2) Professional Development Workshops in Ethics and Entrepreneurship; and 3) Field Visit Programs. The REU students will be mentored and guided by highly qualified professors and supported by state-of-the-art laboratories. Their research achievements will be documented in the EEREU Annual Research Journal which will be published yearly by this program. The main objective of this program is to strengthen the participants' educational experiences and to motivate them to select electrical engineering research careers or to enter into advanced graduate study.

The involvement of undergraduates in engineering research with exposure to ethical issues in technology and society has implications beyond the technical scope of the individual research projects, and the inclusion of entrepreneurship will show how research products from the lab transitions to products that impact society.

Recruitment efforts will be carried out nationwide, with emphasis on junior students, especially those from underrepresented groups and in colleges with limited research opportunities.

There is a recognized need to educate engineering students for competitive careers in a global economy. Educators need to carefully consider how to educate engineering students to prepare them for changes in the profession due to globalization and outsourcing. Educators also face the challenge of recruiting students into ECE programs in the face of the negative publicity of out-sourcing, and the perceived undercutting of the value of an engineering degree due to global competition. In response to this challenge the Electrical and Computer Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) and the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) organized a workshop on this topic that was held at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington D. C. on November 14 and 15, 2005.
The second workshop will highlight on-the-job engineering experiences, best practices, and curricular development. There will be an attempt to compile information about the types of outreach activities in which ECE departments are currently engaged to address recruitment and retention of students and faculty in the face of globalization. Information on programmatic changes to improve global awareness and technical skills for global engineering will also be presented. The first day of the workshop will center around two invited panels, one a panel of experts from industry and the second a panel of experts from academia. Breakout groups will be charged to discuss issues raised by the panels and prepare reports on the most important lessons learned. These reports will be presented at the spring ECEDHA meeting in San Diego, March 14 ? 18, 2008 and a final report will be prepared for distribution to NSF and the ECEDHA membership. Opportunities to provide information electronically will be made available to those ECEDHA members who are not able to attend the workshop.
Intellectual Merit:
Intellectual merit of the second workshop centers on the urgency for ECE educators to modify ECE curricula in response to the increasing pressures of globalization in the ECE profession, to improve opportunities for continuing education, to motivate life-long learning in the ECE profession.
Broader Impact:
The broader impact of the second workshop is reflected in the international scope of the issues to be addressed at the workshop, and by the serious attention that the workshop will devote to recruiting, retaining, and mentoring undergraduate students, graduate students and young faculty, while drawing as much as possible from underrepresented groups in engineering (minorities and women in engineering).

This renewal REU Site program will continue to provide individually challenging experiences in research and well-organized integrative team activities and professional development in ethics, entrepreneurship, and systems engineering to accomplish its objective of attracting talented undergraduate students and providing a program of unique, high quality, and balanced research activities that positively impact the participants' lifelong career choices in engineering research.

The REU site renewal will continue to broaden opportunities and provide enhanced research experiences for talented and diversified domestic undergraduate students, especially from the underrepresented groups. Furthermore, the involvement of the undergraduates in engineering research with exposure to ethical issues in tech transfer has implications well beyond the technical scope of the individual research projects, and the inclusion of entrepreneurship shows how research products from the lab transition to products that impact society. It is expected that undergraduate participants will gain successful admission to graduate school, and become outstanding researchers in their chosen fields and strong contributors to society both as individual researchers and as team oriented professionals.