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Intel Corp. contributes to wireless education
By Rina Raphael
Published: 11/7/2002
The Intel Corporation donated a grant of $271,000 to the Wireless Information Network Laboratory in Rutgers' School of Engineering to establish a laboratory and graduate-level curriculum for the study of wireless education.
According to its Web site, WINLAB is a National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative. It was founded at the University in 1989, and its research goal is to expand the progress of wireless networking technology by pooling the government's powerful resources, industry and academia. WINLAB's educational aim is to prepare the next generation of wireless technologists through graduate research programs especially significant to industry.
Tim Saponas, manager of worldwide higher education programs for Intel, said in a prepared statement the Intel Corporation selected Rutgers, along with other renowned research universities, because of its expertise in wireless technology and communications — a field that will grow increasingly important as computing devices become more connected. The Intel Corporation has donated over $67 million to various universities' technology studies departments.
"Intel wanted to support new ideas for building labs for students that gives hands-on training," said Dipankar Raychaudhuri, director of WINLAB. "This grant is meant to help increase the number of graduate students learning at WINLAB" and to "provide depth to the teaching aspects of the lab," he said.
The new WINLAB courses will be located in a new lab, will offer state-of-the-art networking, hardware and mobile computing platforms and will be available in Fall 2003.
Typically, WINLAB has a pool of 30 to 50 graduate and undergraduate students.
Although the Intel Corporation is already involved with research studies at WINLAB, this grant aids the educational resources of the department. The curriculum, developed collaboratively by electrical engineering Professor Narayan Mandayam and computer science Professor Badri Nath, provides students with training in designing, experimental prototyping and evaluation of wireless technologies that "will teach students how to build wireless systems," Raychaudhuri said.
In the past, WINLAB has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology awarded WINLAB $2.82 million intended to develop of multi-modal wireless sensors.
Raychaudhuri said the Intel grant — the latest addition to the "Rutgers Campaign: Creating the Future Today" — "allows students to be the next leaders in innovative technology."
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