SUPPORT AND DEPARTMENT
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ECE Welcomes
Dr. Tamal Bose as the
New Department Head
Tamal Bose will join the UA
College of Engineering July 15
from Virginia Tech, where he is
a professor in the Bradley
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering.
At Virginia Tech, he was
director of the National Science
Foundation's Wireless Internet
Center for Advanced
Technology, and associate
director of Wireless@VT, a
universitywide wireless
research group.
ECE Community
ECE News
Wolfgang Fink of
the UA department of electrical and computer engineering has developed
an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this
planet and others.
Fink unveiled the lake lander, named Tucson Explorer II, or TEX II, in a paper titled "Robotic Lake Lander Test Bed for Autonomous Surface and Subsurface Exploration of Titan Lakes," which he presented March 8 at an aerospace conference organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Big Sky, Mont.
Fink presented TEX II as an autonomous exploration vehicle that potentially could be used to explore the lakes of liquid hydrocarbon known to exist on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
TEX II is the second vehicle de...