Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 13, 2003

Speakers:

 

Tues., Jan. 14, 1:00 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

Biomedical Engineering Seminar:

    "Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, and Developmental Biology:

    What Connections can be made?" Prof. Jennifer H. Elisseeff,

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins

    University, Baltimore, MD.

    Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman.

 

Tues., Jan. 14, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Graduate Student Seminar:

    "A Novel High Speed Light Emitting Device," Robert Koudelka,

    Electrical Engineering.

    Adviser: Prof. Jerry Woodall.

    Refreshments at 3:45 pm in the Mason Lounge.

 

Thurs., Jan. 16, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

    "Diagrammatic Monte Carlo and Wormalgorithm: From

    Polarons and Polymers to Interacting Bosons,"

    Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts.

    Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

 

Appointed:

    Dr. Hür Köser was appointed Assistant Professor in

    Electrical Engineering, starting 1/1/03. He received his Ph.D.

    at MIT in 2002 and was a postdoc at MIT before joining the

    Yale Faculty of Engineering. Prof. Köser's research focuses

    on design and fabrication challenges in microelectromechanical

    systems (MEMS), micro-power devices, bioMEMS, and

    non-artificial neural networks.

 

    Dr. Ainissa G. Ramirez was appointed Assistant Professor

    in Mechanical Engineering, starting 1/1/03. She received her 

    Ph.D. in 1998 at Stanford in materials science and engineering.

    Prior to coming to Yale she was a member of the technical staff at

    Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, and principal

    investigator in the field of carbon materials and thin film materials.

    Prof. Ramirez is interested in the development of materials for

    applications in micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and

    optoelectronics.

 

Congratulations:

    Every year, WIRED magazine editors and an international jury

    "honor innovators and visionaries whose work has contributed

    to the creative evolution of their craft and field. These are

    The People Changing Your Mind."

         Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko, ME, has been nominated for

    a WIRED Rave Award as Artist/Performer for her Feral

    Robotic Dogs, www.raveawards.com (click "Nominees").

    The celebration of the Rave Awards is Jan. 13 in San Francisco.

    Information about the awardees will be featured in a future

    issue of WIRED magazine.

 

Updating webpages:

    Faculty homepages:

    Faculty who have received a hard copy of their homepage

    are asked to make our Webmaster ecstatically happy by

    returning their marked-up copy asap to Elona Vaisnys,

    Dunham 234. Faculty who received no hard copy may

    congratulate themselves for being the good guys (but

    should check their homepage on www.eng.yale.edu anyway).

 

    Patents:     
    A number of faculty patents are not listed on

    www.eng.yale.edu/research/patents.htm Please provide

    the missing information to <elona.vaisnys@yale.edu>

 

Your summer with Briggs & Stratton?

    The internships are for 12 weeks, the location is Wisconsin,

    the stipend is $6,000 plus subsidized housing and one

    roundtrip, and the deadline for applications is Jan. 31.

    The Senior Project Engineer to whom you will e-mail your

    résumé is a Yale alumnus '91. For more information,

    see Mrs. Jane Boone, Coordinator for Educational Affairs

    and the Select Program, Dunham 224.

 

Breakfast at the Business Office:

    At the Holiday Expo 2002 held last December at the New

    Haven Lawn Club, area hotels, restaurants, limousine companies,

    trains, and the airport provided information for area institutions

    that use travel-related services. Ms. Joanne Dupee, Business

    Office, attended the event and decided to try her luck at Holiday    

    Inn's "Wheel of Fortune." She won a breakfast for the colleagues

    on her floor! And so, at the start of 2003, three beaming

    representatives from the Holiday Inn on Whalley Avenue

    delivered pastries, bagels, cream cheese, jams, and various

    of Starbucks coffees to the delight of Ms. Dupee's colleagues on

    the second floor of Dunham.

 

2003 National Engineers Week:

    Are our student engineering organizations planning anything

    for National Engineers Week, <www.eweek.org>, Feb. 16-22?

 

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