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Integrated Biomed. Informatics & Enabling Tech. Symposium, 2005. ■ ■ ■ Wang, Y., Xuan, J., Srikanchana, R., and Choyke, P.L. “Modeling and Reconstruction of Mixed Functional and Molecular Patterns.” International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2006, pp. 1–9. Bakay, M., Wang, Z., Melcon, G., Schiltz, L., Xuan, J., and Hoffman, E. “Nuclear Envelope Dystrophies Show a Transcriptional Fingerprint Suggesting Disruption of Rb-MyoD Pathways in Muscle Regeneration.” Brain, vol. 129, no. 4, 2006, pp. 996–1013. Xuan, J., Wang, Y., Freedman, M., Adali, T., and Shields, P. “Non-Rigid Medical Image Registration by Finite Element Deformable Sheet-Curve Models.” International J. Biomed. Imaging, 2006. Activities ■ ■ Ahmed, F., Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, served as the associate editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He served as the program committee member of the Multimedia Systems and Applications IX Conference at the SPIE International Symposium on Optics East, Boston, MA, 2006. He served as the program committee member of ACM International Conference on Communication and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2004. He attended Microsoft Academic Days on Trustworthy Computing, Seattle, WA, April 2006, IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, 2005, Fifth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, November 2005, Washington, DC. Kelly, W.E., Ph.D., civil engineering, served as chair of the Personal Certification Accreditation Committee of the American National Standards Institute, 2005. He served as chair of the Education Committee of the American National Standards Institute, 2005. He served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute, fall 2005. He served on the National Advisory Board for the ABET EC 2000 Study, 2005. He served on the Evaluation Team for the ABET Participation Project, 2005. Kilic, O., Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, with the support of the dean of engineering, founded the Interdisciplinary Remote Imaging and Sensing Research Center at CUA, 2006. She served as the technical program chair for 2005 IEEE AP-S Int. Symposium. She was elected as the vice chair for International Union of Radio Science Commission A (Electromagnetic Metrology). She was elected as a full member for International Union of Radio Science Commission B (Fields and Waves). She is serving as a member of International Advisory Committee for 2007 URSI Electromagnetic Theory Symposium. She served as a member of IEEE AP-S 2006 Special Session Committee and Poster Session Committee. She organized a special session on Hybrid Numerical Techniques in EM for Modeling Electrically Large Structures at 2006 ACES conference and in 2005 IEEE AP-S Int. Symposium on Rotman Lenses. She has served as a reviewer for IEEE AP-S Symposium since 2000. She received a ASEE ONR Summer Faculty Research Program grant, 2006. She presented invited papers at IDGA Military Antennas Symposium, IEEE AP-S Int. Symposium and ACES Conferences. She served as a member of the review panel for ASEE AFRL Summer Faculty Program for 2006. Lade, P., Ph.D., civil engineering, co-organizer, cochair and co-editor of Proceedings (with Professor T. Nakai, Japan) of The Second Japan-U.S. Workshop on Testing, Modeling and Simulation in Geomechanics, held in Kyoto, September 8–10, 2005. He was the chair of Technical Session 1a: Laboratory Testing (1): Fundamental Properties, at the 16th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, September 12–16, 2005, Osaka, Japan. Lucko, G., Ph.D., civil engineering, served as reviewer for the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management during the academic year 2005–06. He represented the Department of Civil Engineering at the Careers in Construction Expo at the National Building Museum, organized by the Associated Builders and Contractors in Washington, DC, April 2006. He served as review panel member for the Directorate of Engineering of the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, 2005. He served as mentor for the Career Directions for Students in Architecture, Construction, and Engineering program in Washington, DC, during the academic year 2005–06. Lum, P., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, served on the Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Panel, March 1–2, 2006. He served on the review panel for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Switzer Research Fellowship Program, March 27–29, 2006. He attended the Upper Extremity Translational Research Conference, Gainesville, FL, January 6–7, 2006. Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, visited Saigon Technology University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on June 12, 2005, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Dr. Truong Quang Mui, chairman of the STU Board of Management. This MOU opens up opportunities for CUA and STU for cooperative academic programs and research collaboration. The dean, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation, was an observer of the interviews of Vietnamese student applicants conducted by researchers and educators enlisted by the National Academy of Science, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, June 6–11, 2005. He attended the 2006 National Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ and Presentation Ceremony, February 21, 2006, Union Station, Washington, DC. The dean delivered a talk at the plenary session of the Sixth Technical International Conference of the Vietnamese Association for Computing, Engineering Technology and Science, Milpitas, CA, June 4, 2005. He was the invited speaker at the banquet of the Sixth Technical International Conference of the Vietnamese Association for Computing, Engineering Technology and Science, Milpitas, CA, June 4, 2005, and was the keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual Academic Excellence Program organized by the Dallas Chapter of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association on July 24, 2005, Richardson, Texas. Nguyen was the keynote speaker at the Ninth Annual Vietnamese American Youth Excellence Recognition Program sponsored by the Houston Chapter of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association on August 7, 2005, Houston, Texas. Dean attended the ABET Commission Summit 2005, San Diego, CA, October 26, 2005 and delivered a paper at the Best Assessment Processes Symposium VIII, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, February 27–28, 2006. He visited George Mehocic, an alumnus of the CUA School of Engineering and a real estate developer, July 2005, Las Vegas, NV. He traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, with Professors Pao and Ling, March 11–18, 2006, and visited five Taiwanese universities. He signed MOU for academic exchange programs and research collaboration with the schools of engineering of three Catholic and Christian Taiwanese universities. The dean was interviewed by Radio Free Asia regarding an educational issue in California, May 2006, and he was interviewed by the Vietnam American Television, Fairfax, VA about his life as an educator and presidential appointee, May 2005. Ramella-Roman, J.C., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, chaired a session of Optical Interactions with tissue and cells XVII, Session of Optical Properties II, at the SPIE International Symposium, San Jose, CA, 2006. Sun, L., Ph.D., civil engineering, paper reviewer for Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, for Transportation Research Record, TRB, for Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, and for Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE. He was the proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation and for the Midwest Regional University Transportation Center. Tran, B.Q., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, co-chaired the “Interfaces for Home Healthcare Devices” session at the Workshop on Accessible Interfaces for Medical Instrumentation held at the FDA in Rockville, MD, October 2005. He organized a symposium at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, entitled “Community-based Delivery of Health Care Services through Advanced Technologies” held in November 2005. He served on the conference organizing committee for the Distributed Diagnosis & Home Healthcare Conference held in Crystal City, VA, April 2006. He served on the National Institutes of Health Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences grant review panel, 2006. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2006. Wang, Z., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, attended the Society of Experimental Mechanics Annual Congress and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics and served as chair of Electronic Packaging technical session in Portland, OR, ■ ■ ■ ■ fall2006 | 11
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