Dedication, Gratitude, and Appreciation

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Dedication, Gratitude, and Appreciation
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Dedication

• Fill your heart with love
• and express it in everything you do.
• Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi,
• Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
• To viewers and users all over the world,
• I offer to you this material on Electromagnetics,
• the Mother of Electrical and Computer
  Engineering,
• with the spirit of the above message from Amma,
• the Mother of Compassion!

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Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in her Ashram,
with the US delegation for the Indo-US
Interuniversity Collaborative Initiative for
Higher Education and Research, on December 9, 2005
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Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi hugging the lady
on the right in the previous slide, on December
9, 2005
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore
(picture taken on August 9, 2006)
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Narayana Rao presenting a copy of the U.S.
Edition of Fundamentals of Electromagnetics for
Electrical and Computer Engineering to Amrita
University Vice Chancellor Venkat Rangan,
directly in front of the statue of Goddess
Saraswathi, the Goddess of knowledge and wisdom,
on August 22, 2008.
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Gratitude and Appreciationto ECE Illinois

• I would like to express my gratitude and
  appreciation to the administrators, faculty
  colleagues, and staff of ECE Illinois, over my
  many years at Illinois since 1965, without whose
  support my contributions over the years, leading
  to this material, would not have been possible.

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William L. Everitt Laboratory, Home of the ECE
Department, and Temple of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
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• Most of all, it is with great humility that I
  acknowledge the immense fortune of having known
  in my early years at Illinois three giants of
  their time, William L. Everitt, Edward C. Jordan,
  and Mac E. Van Valkenburg, whom I consider the
  grandfather, father, and uncle of the ECE
  Department, respectively. They can be seen in
  the picture, on the next slide, which was taken
  in 1975.

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Some of the 136 full-time staff members of the EE
Department in 1975
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Thank You