Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 21, 2005

Speaker:

Mon., Nov. 21,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
   "Kondo Effect in Electromigrated Gold Break Junctions,"
   Andrew Houck, Applied Physics.
   Adviser: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
   Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
 
New staff:
  
David Gingerella is assisting us as Interim Business
   Administrator until a permanent Administrator can
   join us. Mr. Gingerella is the Director of the
   Shared Science Services Branch of the Office
   of the Provost and the Office of University Finance.
 
  
Ms. Bridget Calendo has joined us as Advancement
   Director for Yale Engineering. She acquired her
   development expertise at Northwestern University,
   where she worked at the Weinberg College of Arts
   and Sciences, the Feinberg Medical School, the
   McCormick School of Engineering, and at the Medill
   School of Journalism. She is a graduate (Honors)
   of Roosevelt University and has a Master in Arts
   from Northwestern University. She has also taken
   development and fundraising courses at Indiana
   University. Ms. Calendo loves to cook and bake
   and is an avid sports fan (Thanksgiving without
   football? Unthinkable!).
 
  
Dawn Finaldi has joined us as an Assistant Business
   Administrator. She comes to us from the Medical School
   which she knows well from having worked there for 19 years
   in Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health, MB&B,
   Internal Medicine, and, for the last two years, in
   the Department of Surgery as the Assistant Administrator.
   At FoE, she will focus on Biomedical, Chemical,
   Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering. Ms. Finaldi
   is an amateur photographer and lives with her husband,
   Thomas, in Wallingford. They share a love for San
   Francisco where they vacation every year.
 
  
James Westgate
has joined us as an Assistant Business
   Administrator. His focus will be on the departments
   of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He
   comes to us from the Central Budget Office where he
   served as Senior Budget Analyst for the last seven
   years. Before coming to Yale, he handled the budgets
   for Sacred Heart University. Mr. Westgate and his wife,
   Elaine, share an absorbing hobby­-ferrying Beth, 11, Brian, 9,
   Thomas, 6, and Daniel, 3, to activities too numerous to
   mention. The Westgates live in Oxford.

Prof. Köser wins Yale Fellowship:
   Prof. Hür Köser, EE, is one of three Assistant
   Professors in the Natural Sciences who were awarded
   a Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship for 2006-07. This
   Fellowship provides time for research without
   teaching or other academic obligations.
 
Valuable field trip:
   Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy, ME, took the ME Senior
   Design Class on a field trip to the Sikorsky
   helicopter plant in Stratford on Nov. 14.
   Eliza Becton '06, Andrew Paster '05, and Jacqueline
   Martinez '06 toured the plant in the company of
   the heavy-lift helicopter operations manager and
   later met with the heavy-lift helicopter chief
   engineer, the program manager, and the head of
   new product design engineering. The Sikorsky
   representatives discussed core competencies,
   globalization (how Sikorsky decides whether,
   what, and where to outsource, etc.), and the
   new product development process. They also
   mentioned that Sikorsky is hiring engineers
   and is also looking for summer interns (paid).
   If anyone is interested, contact
   < glenn.weston-murphy@yale.edu>
 
       
Have a Happy
       THANKSGIVING!

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End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 676