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Quarterly Newsletter
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Note from the Dean It is with great pleasure that we introduce the Select Quarterly, a newsletter dedicated to sharing information on the activities of the Select Program in Engineering, initiated in the fall of 1996. As you know, the Select program allows Yale engineering students to continue past their Bachelor of Science education to a Masters program with significant points of contact with the Yale School of Management. In the present issue, Volume 1, we will have brief reports on our preparations for the first year of the Masters program, to commence in the fall of 1998. As part of the Masters year we are developing a new kind of thesis, called SynThesis, which brings engineering and management students together in teams to conceive of new products, develop them, and construct a business and marketing strategy for them. (See story: SynThesis-Moving Beyond the Thesis) Another story heralds the addition to our program of the Department of Computer Science. This action has prompted Microsoft to join as one of our new industrial partners. (See story: CS Joins Select) An essential part of the program is the participation of our industrial Select Partners. We anticipate the creation of a Select Advisory Council consisting of one representative from each of the partners. Regular features of our newsletter will be Company Profile and Intern Update. We also welcome input from you, partners, students, and instructors in this innovative program. Welcome aboard. Computer Science Joins Select The Department of Computer Science, chaired by Professor Martin Schultz, has decided to join the Select Program. CS students will have the same requirements as engineering students, but will ordinarily receive a Master of Science degree rather than a Master of Engineering degree after their fifth year of study (unless they have a sufficient number of engineering courses and elect the engineering degree). This fall Dean Bromley visited Microsoft to visit Dr. Nathan Myrhvold, Vice President for Research, and other senior Microsoft officers. He brought with him the news of CS's entry into the Select program, and came away with Microsoft's agreement to join the program. Mr. Ben Jones, of the Human Resources department at Microsoft, will be the key liaison to the Select Intern program. The CS department focuses its research into areas of artificial intelligence, programming languages and systems, theory of computation, and topics of discrete mathematics with applications to computer science. For a more complete description of the department's activities, please visit: www.cs.yale.edu/
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Company Profile Elisha Graves Otis, Willis Carrier, Igor Sikorsky, Frederick Rentschler, Thomas Hamilton, and Paul Palmer - from the genius of these men was born United Technologies. Today United Technologies is a leading manufacturer of jet engines, elevators, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment, helicopters, advanced control systems for the aerospace industry, and custom designed electrical/electronic, and interior product components. Under their umbrella lay Pratt & Whitney, Otis, Carrier, Sikorsky, Hamilton Standard and United Technologies Automotive. United Technologies Research Center works closely with the business unit as a premier industrial Research & Development organization. It is located in Hartford, Connecticut and helps United Technologies bring next generation products to market.
Intern Update One of the outstanding new members in the Select Program is Laurel Abbott. Laurel is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College, majoring in Electrical Engineering. She is also Science and Engineering Coordinator with the Undergraduate Admissions Office and helps to coordinate recruiting for students interested in the sciences and engineering at Yale University. She has also just recently been named IEEE Chairman and is involved with the Yale Anime Society, a film society focusing on Japanese TV Series and animation films. Laurel's home is in West Lafayette, Indiana. She says that she always knew her interest was in Engineering but wanted to be able to study other subjects as well so she chose Yale. Last summer Laurel had the opportunity to intern with Hewlett Packard in Fort Collins, met many new people and had a great experience. We're glad that Laurel has chosen to join the Select Program and look forward to seeing her excel. |
SynThesis-Moving Beyond the Thesis A committee of Yale faculty members is in the process of synthesizing the new SynThesis team project course planned to commence in the Fall of 1998, which ushers in the first graduate academic year of the Select Program. SynThesis, as its name implies, is a "thesis" requirement that transcends the traditional view of the solitary scholar undertaking an in-depth analytic study of a limited subject area. In SynThesis, a diverse team of students must work together to apply their distinct talents in a way that yields a product that is clearly more than the sum of its parts. Teams will be composed of both graduate engineering and School of Management students. Their goal during the academic year will be to conceive of a novel product and to build a prototype, while undertaking the appropriate strategic marketing surveys and generating a realistic business plan. The teams will use the faculty and industrial mentors as resources, as they learn what it means to build a small entrepreneurial team (which might be a small new company or a new-products team in a bigger business). The SynThesis Advisory Committee is trying to subject itself to similar constraints, by working as an interdisciplinary team in designing its new product (the SynThesis course) that will achieve its educational objectives. Time will tell whether the product becomes a best-seller! New Research Grant Farouk Hadeed, a Senior in our Select Program, has just been awarded a research grant in the amount of $1000 from the Yale Science and Engineering Association, for a research project concerning measurements and analysies of the electrical properties of gallium nitride, a novel semiconductor material. This award has been made possible through the generosity and contributions of many Yale Science and Engineering Alumni. Congratulations Farouk!
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