program self-study report - Lamar University Electrical Engineering

Sayil, S. Lee, K.Y. "An Hybrid Neighborhood Training and Maximum Error Algorithm for CMAC",2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence", U.S.A., 5, 31 2002.Scientific and professional societies of which a member:Member of IEEEIEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) SocietyHonors and awards:Took a nationwide selection examination in Turkey for Undergraduate study and ranked among thefirst 4% in Math+Science score among 600,000 students taking the exam.Graduated 1 st in rank among the graduates of Electronics Dept in Gazi Univ., Turkey 1990.Won a nationwide selection examination in Turkey towards graduate study in the U.S. and obtainedscholarship which secured entrance to a graduate program in Electrical Engineering.Tuition waiver awarded by Vanderbilt University (1997-1998).A New Time-Efficient Method for Precise Estimation of Cross-talk Noise on Multi-line Circuits”,Lamar Research Enhancement Grant – Fall 2003, PI, $5,000.“Evaluation of Existing Test Sets for Crosstalk Test Coverage using VHDL Hardware DescriptionLanguage”, Lamar Research Enhancement Grant – Spring 2004, PI, $5,000.“Modeling the Impact of Cross-Coupling Noise on Wire Delay for Today’s Microchip Technologies”,Lamar Research Enhancement Grant – Spring 2006, PI, $5,000.Who’s Who in America 2006.Who’s Who in America 2006 in Science and Engineering.Institutional and Professional service in the last five years:Served as Lamar IEEE Student AdvisorServed as the Interchanging Cultures advisor at Lamar.Served as Thesis advisor for 3 Master’s studentsServed as Department Library RepresentativeServed on University Merit/Professor Award CommitteeThesis Committee MemberNon thesis Committee MemberPrepared EE Graduate Comprehensive Exam and Graded students.Represented Lamar EE in High School Career Days.Professional and development activities in the last five years:Attended NSF Educational Grant workshop on Successful Grant Writing at LamarAttended NSF Educational Grant workshop on CCLI Grants at Las Vegas.Developed Signal Integrity Research LaboratoryCreated a new elective/graduate course named “CMOS Digital IC Design”.Created two new Graduate level courses named “VLSI Testing” and “VLSI Interconnects”.Offered six Independent Study courses.Wrote 14 educational/research grant proposals to NSF, NASA, SRC and other organizations andcollaborated for 3 proposals.Reviewed Manuscripts for 3 different academic journals.Served as Book reviewer on the subject of Microelectronics Design.EE Program Self-Study Report-2006 121