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Mar. 27: Clark School of Engineering Alumni Reception April 6: Start Your Engines–Colonnade Society and the A. James Clark School of Engineering Event
April 12: Alumni Association Awards Gala April 23: Celebration of Scholarships
April 26: Maryland Day May 8: 5th Annual Clark School Baltimore Networking Event May 15: Terps Take Los Angeles SAVE THE DATE |
West Coast region engineering alumni will join Interim Dean Herbert Rabin for a networking reception and program featuring a presentation by the McKinsey Global Institute on its groundbreaking study, “Curbing Global Energy Demand Growth: The Energy Productivity Opportunity.”
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 Securing Faculty Competitive with the BestCommunication Beyond the BlackBerry on the Horizon
As the Cynthia Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology, Ephremides knows first hand the impact an endowed chair can have in recruiting top faculty. This drove his own interest in creating an opportunity for someone else. The result—a commitment of $1.5 million to establish the Anthony Ephremides Chair in Information Sciences and Systems, an endowed fund to support a faculty person working on theoretical and practical aspects of the processes of telecommunications. “I have seen the tremendous benefits of being awarded a chair,” says Ephremides. “It provides stability against fluctuations in external funding and offers tremendous discretionary support for things not funded by grants.” In addition, he notes, a chair lends a level of prestige that enables the university to raise the bar, “to attract a truly exceptional person.”
Ephremides says he looks forward to the college attracting a researcher that will contribute to the growing strength of the electrical and computer engineering department. Since he joined the faculty in 1971 he has seen the department transformed from one that primarily served part-time professional students to one that is now a highly ranked academic powerhouse, abuzz with research activity nearly seven days a week. Across the department, faculty and graduate students are working on a broad range of communication technology challenges, including improving the speed of, and access to, wireless connections and enhancing the quality and security of data communications. Ephremides’ own research with an interdisciplinary team is focused on creating ad hoc networks that are free of wired infrastructure, allowing instant communication in remote rural areas, in the middle of a battlefield or when infrastructures fail in a mass catastrophe. He is also developing networks of tiny sensing computers to monitor remote locations and trigger appropriate responses in military, law enforcement or even environmental operations. “This is a very healthy, evolving field and we want Maryland to continue to play a significant role in communication advances for the foreseeable future,” says Ephremides. Learn how you can help make Great Expectations, The Campaign for the A. James Clark School of Engineering a success. Contact Stu Stabley, 301.405.8289.  | ||||||||
