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Wild Rovers—ECE Professor Wolfgang Fink (center) holds Tucson Explorer I. He is surrounded by planetary rovers and students, from left, Chad Essig, Patricia White, Oscar Galvan, and Chris Warner.
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Alumni Echoes Where are they and what are they doing?
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ECE Celebrates 100 Years The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is 100 years old in 2010 and to celebrate its first century ECE organized an exciting program of events to highlight how engineering affects every aspect of our lives. Celebratory events included a gala evening to raise funds for student scholarships, a public STORY lecture series, a book launch, Ae FULL Number 191 and an exhibition on the UA Mall of planetary exploration rovers designed by professor Wolfgang Fink, who holds the Keonjian endowed chair and directs the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory.
Fink has received the NASA Board Award and R&D Magazine’s 100 Award and Editors’ Choice award, and his research on autonomous planetary exploration by satellites, airships, and land and sea rovers has been featured in Science magazine. Fink and his students demonstrated the rovers in front of the administration building. C O NT I NUE D O N PA G E 1 2