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MERIT Fair 1999


The MERIT Fair was held on Friday, August 13, 1999, in the Grand Ballroom Lounge of the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland. Students presented their projects to a team of judges comprised of members from industry and faculty from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.Pictures from the fair are shown below. For more information about the 1999 MERIT projects, please visit MRCP '99 and RITE Site '99 for the projects in each program, respectively.

Pictured: (from left to right) Dr. Ken Jones, from ARl, Dr. R.D. Vispute, from the University of Maryland, Amit Patel, from the University of Maryland, Dr. Skip Scozzie, from ARL, and Kathleen Baynes, from the University of Maryland, next to the poster for their project "Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of TiN/AIN/SiC Heterostructures."
Pictured: Students Jothi Narananan and Matthew Prenatt talking to a guest about their poster, which combined the projects "Using Focused Ion Beam Surface Modification" and "Improved Physical Contact To Silicon Carbide (SiC)."
Pictured: Students Luke Winternitz and Jeremy Ang, both from the University of Maryland, next to the poster for their project "Embedded CELP Voice Coding."
Pictured: Students Jiwanjot Tulsi, from the University of Maryland, and Matthew Juhasz,from Carnegie Mellon University, presenting their project "Sound Source Localization Using Inter-Aural Level and Time" at the MERIT Fair.
Pictured: Students Juan Carlos Alvarado, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Aisha Husain, from the University of Virginia, next to the posters for their projects "Application of LabView to Control the Feedback Loop in a Photothermal Interferometer" and "Determining the Relationship between Densification and Photoinduced Refractive Index Changes in Fiber Bragg Gratings," respectively.
Pictured: Prof. Jerome Gansman, from the University of Maryland, and student Nkwenten Ejedepang-Koge, from University of Maryland/Bowie State University, talking about Nkwenten's project, "IP Over WDM: Tomorrow’s Networks" at the MERIT Fair.
Pictured: students James Bonanno, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Kerry Kimes, from the University of Maryland, and Teen Sheng, from the University of Maryland, next to the poster for their project, "Genetic Resynchronization of Multiprocessor Embedded Systems."
Pictured: Julio Liriano, from the University of Maryland, and Jason Wang, from Case Western University, talking to a guest about their project "Line-of-Sight Optical Communication Links."
Pictured: Student Tim Darling, next to the poster for his project "Using Neuro-Dynamic Programming Methods to Approximate a Large MDP for Isolating Attackers in Non-Linear-Based IP Networks."
Pictured: student (far left) Michael Martin, from the University of Maryland, and (right) Dr. George Simonis, from ARL, and Alex Sistla, from Duke University.
Pictured: Ms. Jacqueline Rybacki, from AlliedSignal, and Ms. Karen Thornton, from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, talking with Norman Lo and Jong-Hoon Lee about their project, called GPS-Based Location Determination.

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