Texas Instruments Selects New Scholar

From left to right: Prof. Steven Tretter, Texas Instruments (TI) Senior Fellow William Witowsky, TI Scholars Jerker Taudien and Kenneth Ho, ECE Chair Patrick O'Shea, and Assoc. Prof. Min Wu

Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) master's student Kenneth Ho was selected as the 2007 Texas Instruments (TI) Scholar as part of a program established through the company’s Industrial Affiliate partnership with the department.

TI Scholars, selected among students with an interest and academic background in communications and signal processing, work on selected research topics during the academic year and throughout the summer. The program provides a tuition grant, stipend and benefits.

Ho joins current TI Scholar Jerker Taudien, another ECE graduate student.

For more information about the Texas Instruments Scholar program, contact Director of Public Relations Ted Knight at teknight@umd.edu. For more information about the ECE Industrial Affiliates program, visit http://www.ece.umd.edu/IAP/iap.html.

Published December 13, 2006