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2008 Concrete Canoe Competition
In their first year of eligibility, the civil engineering student chapter of ASCE competed in the
Texas Section Annual 2008 Concrete Canoe Competition. The team traveled to Corpus Christi and
represented the University with distinction. With the canoe "THE PIONEER", the team took 2nd
place overall out of 12 teams, dominating universities such as Texas Tech, UT Austin, and
Texas A&M. The team was also placed 1st in the Design Report portion of the competition.
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Shirvaikar Appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar has been appointed chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He has served in the Electrical Engineering Department since 2003 and manages active research programs in real time image processing and engineering education that employ several graduate and undergraduate students, including the “Back-To-Basics Tutoring” program. Mukul has published over 15 refereed papers and was awarded 23 grants totaling over $500,000. He serves as an Associate Editor of the international Journal of Real Time Image Processing and is a member of the Technical Committee for the SPIE International Conference on Real Time Image Processing. He was nominated in 2006 and 2007 for the Minnie Piper Award for overall excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement.
Dr. Shirvaikar came to UT-Tyler with significant industrial experience. At Texas Instruments he was part of an internal startup group chartered to develop new businesses based on digital signal processors. Prior to this he worked at Pressco Technology, developing ultra-high-speed inspection systems for food and beverage containers operating at speeds of 3600 parts per minute. These products are currently in operation throughout the world.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and has a M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maine. He earned a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University, India. |
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May 5-10, 2008 |
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Final Exam Week |
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May 9-10, 2008 |
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Spring Commencement |
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May 10, 2008 |
Order of the
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| May 14, 2008 |
Long Summer Session
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| May 23, 2008 |
| Application Deadline Extended for RISE Summer Camp |
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| June 9, 2008 |
Summer I Session
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| July 14, 2008 |
Summer II Session
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