Current HKN News

Congratulations to the new Fall 2012 officers!

President
Janice Pan
Vice President
Dan Zhang
Treasurer
Gabriel Mok
Recording Secretary
Natcha Techachainiran
Corresponding Secretary
Sharud Agarwal
Historian
Jeremy Chang
SEC Service Representative
Vikram Sripadam
SEC Social Representative
Simon Chow
Office Administrator
Ali Unwala

Posted by Razik on 2012.05.02

Congratulations to the new Spring 2012 Corresponding Secretery!

Corresponding Secretary
T Nguyen

Posted by Razik on 2012.01.25

Congratulations to the new Spring 2012 officers!

President
Razik Ahmed
Vice President
Janice Pan
Treasurer
Na Chen
Recording Secretary
Doug Ilijev
Corresponding Secretary
Michael Graczyk
Historian
Jenny Huynh
SEC Service Representative
Anjali Datta
SEC Social Representative
Natcha Techachainiran
Office Administrator
Stephen Hall

Posted by Razik on 2011.11.30

Fall 2011 Tech Core Night

Calling all EE/ECE students!

Eta Kappa Nu will be hosting the Fall 2011 Technical Core Night on Thursday, October 20th. You can learn about the technical cores from faculty and enjoy a FREE meal of pizza at the same time.

Posted by Razik on 2011.10.20

More new Fall 2011 officers!

Due to some officer resignations, a new SEC Service Representative and a new Historian have been elected.
SEC Service Representative
Helen Sun
Historian
Doug Ilijev

Posted by Razik on 2011.08.31

Congratulations to the new Fall 2011 officers!

President
Michael Graczyk
Vice President
Anjali Datta
Treasurer
Janice Pan
Recording Secretary
Razik Ahmed
Corresponding Secretary
Howard Tsai
Historian
Neel Shah
SEC Service Representative
Cal Butcher
SEC Social Representative
Ford Rylander
Office Administrator
Jeffrey Nelson

Posted by Razik on 2011.04.20

Spring 2011 Tech Core Night!!

Tech Core Night is Wednesday, April 6.

This is a great opportunity to get to know the different tech areas you can choose from. (There will be pizza and refreshments!)

Here's the schedule for the event:

6:30 P.M. Introduction in RLM 7.104
7:00 - 7:40 P.M.First Session
7:50 - 8:30 P.M.Second Session

During each session, the following professors will have presentations:

RLM 5.116Prof. Hao Ling Fields, Waves, & Electromagnetic Systems
RLM 5.118Prof. Brian Evans Communications, Signal Processing, Networks & Systems
RLM 5.120Prof. Christine Julian Software Engineering & Design
RLM 5.124Prof. Seth Bank Nano Electronics & Nano Technology
ENS 212 Prof. Mack Grady Energy systems & Renewable Energy
RLM 6.126Prof. Ariang Hassibi Electronics & Integrated Circuits
RLM 7.124Prof. John Pearce
Veronica Vasquez
Academic Enrichment
RLM 7.104Prof. Yale Patt
Prof. Bill Bard
Computer Architecture & Embedded Systems

Posted by Matt on 2011.04.01

Spring 2011 Course Notes

HKN is now selling course notes from 9am to 6pm in ENS 129. Course notes are available for EE302, EE333T, EE445S, EE364D, and EE464. You can pay in cash or by check to “Eta Kappa Nu”.

Course notes sales will end on the 12th day of class, February 2nd.

For more information, including pricing and availability, click here.

Posted by Matt on 2011.01.18

Congratulations to the new Spring 2011 officers!

President
Cal Butcher
Vice President
MongMong Peng
Treasurer
Michael Graczyk
Recording Secretary
Kevin Boos
Corresponding Secretary
Kelly Cook
Historian
Michael Zhang
SEC Service Representative
Mufaddal Pratapgarhwala
SEC Social Representative
Helen Sun
Web Correspondent
Matt Hicks

Posted by Matt on 2011.01.01

Fall 2010 Tech Core Night

Calling all EE/ECE students!

Eta Kappa Nu will be hosting the Fall 2010 Technical Core Night on Thursday, October 7th. You can learn about three of the eight new technical cores from faculty and enjoy a FREE meal of pizza at the same time.

Posted by Jesse on 2010.10.05

Congratulations to the new Fall 2010 officers!

President
Deepyaman Datta
Vice President
JW Peters
Treasurer
Will Zhong
Recording Secretary
Cal Butcher
Corresponding Secretary
T Nguyen
Historian
Andrew Wang
SEC Service Representative
Jason Lii
SEC Social Representative
Stephen Hall
Web Correspondent
Jesse Tannahill

Posted by Dan on 2010.04.21

HKN 2010 AMD Day Design Competition Results

This year's AMD Day Design Competition involved developing an algorithm to fill an arbitrary shape with the minimum possible number of rectangles and triangles. Programming was done in C and the pthread library was allowed for multithreaded implementations. Grading was done based on rectangle performance as well as runtime.

The winners are listed below:
1st place: Ashton Grimball
2nd place: Farhad Abasov
3rd place: Jonathan Tamir

Fewest Blocks: Eric Shrewsberry
Best Parallel Implementation: Joshua James

The following is an example input file run on each of the algorithms:

Posted by Dan on 2010.04.14

HKN 2010 AMD Day Design Competition

The HKN 2010 AMD Day Design Competition has started! Download the problem specification here! Good luck!

Posted by Dan on 2010.04.02

HKN 2010 AMD Day Design Competition

Put your programming skills to the test at the HKN 2010 AMD Day Design Competition! Win cool prizes such as an HP Touch Smart, featuring an AMD processor! The contest begins on Friday, April 2 at 5:00PM with a kick-off in ACA 1.104 and lasts for 24 hours. The programming problem will be announced at the start of that time.

Register for the event here!

If you have any questions, email admin AT hkn.ece.utexas.edu

Posted by Dan on 2010.03.30

HKN's Spring 2010 UT SEC Video Grant Submission

This is HKN's Spring 2010 UT SEC video grant submission. Enjoy!

Posted by Dan on 2010.03.09

HKN Wins 1st Place at E-Week

HKN won 1st Place in Small Orgs for the 2010 E-Week Competition! Thanks for participating everyone!

Posted by Dan on 2010.02.24

Spring 2010 Tutoring Begins

HKN tutoring sessions begin on Thursday, February 4th in the HKN office (ENS 129). The hours are every Tuesday and Thursday from 7-9PM.

Posted by Dan on 2010.01.31

Spring 2010 Course Notes Sale Over

Course Notes sales are over on Thursday, February 4th. If you still need to purchase course notes, you will need to visit Paradigm Books for copies.

Posted by Dan on 2010.01.31

Spring 2010 Course Notes

Course notes are now available in the HKN office (ENS 129) until February 3rd, from 9AM to 5PM. Course notes for EE392, 333T, 364D, and 464 cost $15. Course notes for EE345S and 385J cost $35. Please provide cash or write a check to "Eta Kappa Nu".

Posted by Dan on 2010.01.19

Congratulations Erik

Congratulations to Erik Eyberg, our outgoing vice president, for receiving the 2009-2010 UT President's Leadership Award. See the ECE website for more information.

Posted by Sean on 2009.12.02

Congratulations HKN

Our Test of Strengh Booth won the "Best Concept" award at this semester's SEC Fall Spectacular. Thanks go out to the build team.

Posted by Sean on 2009.11.16