Agenda

8:00 - 8:30
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00
Welcome and College Profile - Dean
(Dean Reza Abbaschian will welcome attendees and give an overview of the College including its current status and its growth plans)
9:00 - 10:00
State-of-the-Field Presentations - Session I
  • Jerry Schultz - "Bioengineering: Opportunities for Leadership at UCR"
  • Thomas Stahovich - "Sketch Understanding and the Future of CAD"
10:00 - 10:15
Break/Refreshments
10:15 - 11:00
Keynote Speaker - "Getting Respect in the Post-Rodney Dangerfield Era"

Thomas F. Godfrey, III, MD
Area Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Associate Executive Director for Communications,
Permanente Federation (Kaiser Permanente), Oakland
11:00 - 12:00
State-of-the-Field Presentations - Session II
  • Frank Vahid - "Embedded Systems: Supercomputing in a Pencil Tip"
  • Srikanth Krishnamurthy - "New Architectures for Wireless Networks"
12:00 - 2:45
Lunch and Poster Session
(Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and undergraduates will present posters on state-of-the-art research)
2:45 - 3:45
State-of-the-Field Presentations - Session III
  • Mark Matsumoto - "Perchlorate Water Contamination - Iron to the Rescue"
  • Ilya Lyubomirsky - "Optical Communications for a Global Economy"
3:45 - 4:00
Break/Refreshments
4:00 - 5:15
Panel Discussion

Dr. Linda Trocki (Moderator)
Principal VP and Manager, R&D/Technology Coordination
Bechtel Corporation, Inc.
Dr. Elliot Axelband
Consultant
Rand Corporation
Dr. Thomas McCann
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Walt Disney Imagineering
Dr. Rami Razouk
Senior Vice President,
Engineering & Technology Group
Aerospace Corporation
Ms. Jean Easum
Director, Business Development & Strategic Planning
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division
5:45
Dinner/Awards Presentation