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Re: [SigBio] followup on student lunch



HI Karen,

 

My plan is to eventually have a “complete” Optics resource online with demos and visualizing tools, from high school to grad school level open to students/ teachers from everywhere. I call this WikiOptics. Of course, this will take a lot of time, money, and effort, but it’s important to break ground first.

 

I want to start this summer with several undergrad students with a project centered around the “Optical Imaging” course I am teaching in fall (ECE460). So, I am looking for students with interest in optics, computers, and education/ dissemination. I am not sure about credit in CS, but I expect to be no problem receiving that. I am pretty sure that the students will be able to account this towards electives also.

 

Thank you for helping spreading this info.

 

Best regards,

Gabriel.

___________________________

GABRIEL POPESCU

Assistant Professor

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

405 North Mathews Avenue, Room 4055

Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: (217) 333-4840;  Fax: (217) 244-1995

Email: gpopescu@xxxxxxxx

http://light.ece.uiuc.edu/

 

From: Hyman, Karen
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:30 PM
To: Anthony Philipp; Popescu, Gabriel
Cc: top4@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sigbio-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: followup on student lunch

 

Anthony and Professor,

 

Thank you, Anthony, for passing this along. I would be happy to help promote this opportunity, both in the upcoming e-newsletters and by sharing it with other appropriate students. Can you give me an idea of what students would be interested in this project (my thought is to have it announced in relevant classes)?  Also, can you help clarify for me if students would receive research credit in CS, or is it just in ECE? (I’m not familiar with how this works)

 

A not insignificant part of my job description is working on initiatives to improve the student experience. The department has identified increasing undergraduate opportunities as a highly important goal. So, I’m especially glad to be of service here and think making it part of our weekly ACM discussion would be a good start.

 

Thanks again!

 

Best,

Karen

 

Karen K. Hyman
Associate Director for Public Engagement

Department of Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

201 N. Goodwin Ave

Urbana, IL 61801

217/244-4496 (o)

217/621-2008 (m)

kkhyman@xxxxxxxx

www.cs.uiuc.edu

 


From: Anthony Philipp [mailto:ap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:18 PM
To: Popescu, Gabriel; Hyman, Karen
Cc: top4@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sigbio-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: followup on student lunch

 

Professor Popescu --

If you haven't had too many responses you may be able to work with Karen to spread word of your opening in the weekly CS mailing to students. Karen is in charge of corporate relations in the computer science department and might know of a few good students as well.

In general we might want to consider bringing up research recruiting in one of the weekly meetings. As not very much emphasis is placed on that for students in general.

Take care,

Anthony

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Popescu, Gabriel <gpopescu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Anthony, hi everybody,

(Thanks Anthony for spreading the word).

 

I plan to build this summer an interactive website on Optical Imaging to be used in the Fall when I teach ECE460.

 

For this I want to work with several undergraduate students interested in research credit, preferably with some background in Optics and Java programming. If you are interested, please let me know.

 

Best,

Gabriel.

 

___________________________

GABRIEL POPESCU

Assistant Professor

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

405 North Mathews Avenue, Room 4055

Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: (217) 333-4840;  Fax: (217) 244-1995

Email: gpopescu@xxxxxxxx

http://light.ece.uiuc.edu/

 

From: Anthony Philipp [mailto:ap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:46 PM
To: Gabriel Popescu
Cc: top4@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sigbio-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: followup on student lunch

 

Professor Popescu,

 

Today at lunch you mentioned that you wanted to work with a few undergraduate students over the summer in your lab. I've included the leadership of ACM and the list for students interested in bioengineering topics to this email. Although many of the students in ACM are either computer science or ECE students, there are a few others, including mechanical and bioengineering students. Sigbio, one of the ACM subgroups is focused particularly on bioengineering topics and might have students interested in working on the live cell imaging project you spoke of. If you were willing, I am certain the students in Sigbio would love to have you speak at one of their meetings.

 

Once again, thank you for joining us as lunch and for the pleasant conversation.

 

Kind regards,

 

Anthony Philipp

(217) 377-7386

philipp1@xxxxxxxx