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TechNews | TuesdayApril 2, 2013

ECE Seminar Series presents Bahram Nabet

Swasti Khuntia
LAYOUT EDITOR

As a part of the Seminar Series, the
Department of Electrical and Computer En,
gineering organized a lecture on Friday, the
29th of March: This seminar was also a part
of the search for ECE Department Chair The
lecture was delivered by Dr: Bahram Nabet of
Drexel University and hosted by Dr Vincent T
Turitto, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
and Director of Pritzker Institute of Biomedie
cal Science and Engineering Dr: Nabet is also
an ECE Chairman candidate:

Dr Bahram Nabet received his BSEE
degree with honors from Purdue University in
1977 and his MSEE and PhD degrees from the
University of Washington in 1985 and 1989,
respectively He joined the faculty of Drexel
University in 1989 where he is presently Prof
fessor of Electrical and Computer Engineer,
ing, and affiliated Professor of Materials Sci,
ence and Engineering

The first part of Dr: Nabet’s talk was
about his research work, ie, development of
optoelectronic devices that circumvent limie
tations of charge transport Arguing over the
fact that ‘electronics’ need not be limited to
the transistor action of carrying charge from
a source to a drain, he supported the work of
Langmuir and Debye in 1920’s

Accordingly, Dr: Nabet and his re,
search team have fabricated a semiconductor
device in which reservoirs of electrons and
holes respond to optical excitation through a
wave that is generated in the reservoir, achieve
ing speed that is impossible if it were based on
transport of charge:

This large (> 85 micrometer) device
has a fuleidth halfemax of <25 ps and a tail
of response <2 ps, which is the response ex,
pected from a 100 nm device: It also shows an
unprecedented sensitivity of tens of thousands
of photons, all performed at room tempera,
ture:

Explaining in terms of a layman,
he show that kicking a ball in Newton’s cradle

from one end to other end takes much longer
than lining up balls between these points and
kicking the first: Hence, they replaced the rape
id transfer of energy, for the slow transport of
mass, which allowed them to overcome limita
tions of the (drift) velocity and effective mass
in present day (opto) electronics

Applications of these micro plasma
devices are in optical communications with
nanowatts of light, photovoltaics with moon
light, night vision, and detection of terahertz
radiation The result is that he is the coauthor
of two books and over 160 refereed publica
tions, and has won 6 Best Professor teaching
awards from students as well as a departmental
and a universityewide teaching award:

The second part of Dr: Nabet’s talk
was about the 3 C’s that can bring about a
revolution in the society The 3 C’s represents:
Computer, Content and Community He dis,
cussed one of his experience with providing
computer, content, and community (learning)
for open access education that may be appli
cable to undergraduate education:

Talking about Gdium, he proved his
thoughts Gdium is an education social net,
work, that lets the education community, from
students to teachers to parents, create their
own collaborative environments and access
knowledge resources

All users have their personal space,
blog, notebook, and agenda, and they manage
their network of friends and create groups He
suggested how this online community may
collectively overcome inertia in a drastically
changing academic landscape when courses
are taken, for credit, by tens of thousands of
students across the globe:

Dr: Nabet is also the representative
for Gdium Foundation for the Americas

Concluding his talk, Dr: Nabet dis,
cussed how faculty research and scholarly ac,
tivities, closely correlated with graduate edu,
cation, could be amplified through relevant
collaboration, and response to the needs of a
changing research scenario:

The talk was attended by ECE facule
ties and students

Humanities Department writing competition deadline is today

Lewis College of Human Sciences,
Humanities Department

Fulletime IIT undergraduate stu
dents are invited to enter the 48th Annual
Writing Contest, sponsored by IIT’s Depart,
ment of Humanities (Fulletime is defined
as being enrolled for at least 12 credit hours
in the Spring 2013 semester) Prizes will
be awarded as Amazoncom gift cards The
deadline for submissions is at 12:01 pm: on
Tuesday, April 2, 2013: For more information,
contact iitwritingcontest@gmail:com:

Winners will be announced Thurs,
day, April 18, on the Humanities Website:
Please do not call the Humanities Department
to inquire whether you have won: Reception
for all entrants, with awarding of prizes will
be held on Thursday, April 25, 2013:

NCCWS

Office of Campus Life
& Women’s Services

I know what you are asking your,
self at this very moment: What is NCCWSL??
Great question! NCCWSL is the National
Conference for College Women Student Lead,
ers that will be hosted at the University of
MarylandeCollege Park from May 30 to June 1,
2013: This annual conference provides a plat,
form for women students to grow and better
understand themselves as women leaders in
society today IIT’s Women Service’s depart,
ment within Campus Life will sponsor a couple
of women students to attend this inspirational
conference over the summer Here are some
testimonials from 2012 conference attendees:

“Attending the NCCSWL was en,
lightening: I have never before experienced
quite so vividly that women have made such
great progress, even in the last decade: Most
of my life I have been very content with my
position in society I’ve had above average
success in school, and full support of my advie
sors, supervisors, and peers in almost all my
endeavors This conference held an interesting
commentary that made me realize that what I
have experienced in my life is not necessarily
unique, but is different than the experiences of
many other women" rKelly Lohr, SGA Presie

Contest Rules

- Entries may include fiction, poetry, plays,
nonfiction (such as essays, reviews, and
technical or scientific papers), and essays by
freshman: Nonfiction (including essays by
freshman) should be readable by an educated
person with no special training in the subject
of the essay

- All entries must include an entry form as a
cover sheet attached to each entry Forms are
available in 218 Siegel Hall, or you can down,
load one on the Humanities Website at http://
goo:gl/Kme3:

- All entries must be submitted in duplicate:
One should be typed, doubleespaced, on 85
x 11 paper: Do not put your name on the
paper copy itself or any of its pages Deliver
paper submissions to Susan Mallgrave at the
Lewis Department of Humanities, 218 Siegel

L 2013

dent, Materials Science and Engineering Major

“I was surrounded by liberal arts and
science majors, public policy, women’s studies,
political science; it was refreshing to say the
least: The most useful events of the entire con,
ference, in my opinion, were the workshops
We had a young professional share with us
the “Do’s and Don’ts" of working in the pro,
fessional world, topics such as how to have a
good handshake, how to deal with sexual ha,
rassment/gender discrimination at work, and
even how to speak to make ourselves seem
confident: Another workshop that was amaze
ing was discussing how to negotiate your sale
ary when you receive a job/internship: I will
NEVER forget that workshop:::" rRani Shah,
SGA Vice President, Chemical Engineering
Major

This conference is a great way to
meet students from around the country who
are working towards being the best leaders
within their universities and communities
More information about what the conference
has to offer, keynote speakers for this year, and
much more can be found on the NCCWSL
website www:nccwsl:org : If you are interest,
ed in attending the conference please contact
Alex Garrett in Campus Life alex:garrett@iit:
edu with the subject heading of “NCCWSL
Registration”:

 

Hall: The second copy should be submitted
as an MS Word :doc or :docx file to iitwrite
ingcontest@gmail:com: The file name should
be LastnameNonfictiondoc, Lastname:Poe
etrydoc, Lastname:Fiction:doc, or Lastname:
Freshmandoc, depending on the category it
is to be entered into:

- You may enter several categories, and you
may submit more than one entry in a categoe
ry Limit of one prize per category to any one
student:

- You are encouraged to submit work that has
been the subject of a class assignment, but be
sure to send a clean copy, free of any com,
ments, marks, or grades

- Entries will not be returned, so keep a copy
- All submitted short stories and plays will be
considered for the Edwin H: Lewis Prize for
Fiction Submissions must be limited to no

more than 25 doubleespaced pages

- All submitted poems or groups ofpoems will
be considered for the Mollie Cohen Poetry
Prize, which seeks to honor the effort to mas,
ter the art of poetry rather than the exhibition
of emotions You may submit all the poems
you wish; however, multiple poems by the
same student will be judged as a single entry
- All submitted nonfiction will be considered
for the Edwin H: Lewis Prize for Nonfiction:

- All submitted freshman essays will be con,
sidered for the Freshman Essay Prize: Fresh,
man is defined as any student who is in their
first year of fulletime college enrollment:

- Authors retain all rights to their works; how,
ever, the authors grant IIT, the Humanities
Department, and TechNews the rights to pub,
lish their works for one calendar year, from
April 4, 2013 7 April 4, 2014:

Bog pre-event
successful for TEDxIIT

Shreeyeh Rajan
TECH NEWS WRITER

Last Thursday, TEDxIIT hosted a
preeevent at the BOG to give more insights
on the main event: With the help of the BOG
Committee and the Campus Conference Cen
ter, we were able to run the event without any
major problems With Soobin Kim and Luling
Li helping us publicize the event through post,
ers, we had a great turn out with more than
twentyefive people who showed extreme inter,
est in getting more involved in TEDxIIT this
year

While Isabelle Romero encoure
aged the students to sign up, Chanese Smith
made sure that the overall event was going on
smoothly After everyone grabbed some of
the pizza and cookies that were delivered by
Sodexo, Yoetzin Diaz and I took the stage to
introduce ourselves and the team who created
this event: We then spoke minimally about our
speakers so that we don’t give out too much in,
formation: Before we watched a couple of TED
Talks, I spoke about what you get for signing
up as a volunteer for this event:

With just two weeks until the big
event, all we need is you: Volunteers who will
help us make this a global event: Why should

you volunteer? You build immense leadership
skills by working with a small team for a huge
event: You also build solid relationships with
the aluan students, faculty and staff You can
also be a speaker buddy and team up with one
of your favorite speakers to get to know more
about why they’re passionate about what they
do! Due to the limited seating, only a handful
of students are selected to be at the event: But
not you; as a volunteer, you get to be a part of
this event without applying!

Assist us in creating a friendly at,
mosphere for the speakers who have travelled
miles to be here at IIT

To get weekly updates on what’s go,
ing on with the event, sign up on the TEDxIIT
2013 mailing list at TEDxIITcom and attend
our weekly meetings on Friday mornings from
9:30710:30 at the SW conference Room on the
16th Floor, IIT Tower:

The more people we have, the better!
Sign up on the TEDxIIT Volunteer Form:

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