Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 22, 2004

Speakers: None THANKSGIVING WEEK.

Welcome:
    Two new Postoctoral Associates have joined
    Prof. Mark Reed's, EE, Group:
        Elena Cimpoiasu who received her Ph.D. at Kent State University in 2002,
        Nilay Pradhan who received his Ph.D. in 2004 at Cornell.

Doctoral area examination:
    Jian Xu--"Microfluidic Device for Chemotaxis." Committee:
    Prof. Hür Köser, Prof. Mark Reed, Prof. T.P. Ma, and
    Prof. Mark Saltzman.
    Nov. 17.

Distinguished speakers:
    Nov. 19, Prof. Stephen Morse, EE&CS, was the Distinguished
    Speaker in the Penner Distinguished Lectures in the Aerospace
    & Mechanical Engineering Sciences Series at the University of
    California San Diego. His topic was
    "Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents."
    Prof. Morse is a recipient of numerous awards, including an Institute of
    Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Field Award for
    Control Systems and the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award.
    Prof. Morse, Dudley Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer
    Science, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Another
    speaker in the 2004 Penner Series was Yale Professor Emeritus of Chemical
    Engineering and Nobel Laureate John Fenn.

Proud as punch:
    Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Director of the Environmental Engineering
    Program, is delighted with the success of the first three Ph.D. graduates
    of Yale's Environmental Engineering Program. Eric Hoek '02 Ph.D. is
    an Assistant Professor at UCLA and in 2005 Sharon Walker '05 Ph.D.
    will start as Assistant Professor at the University of California at Riverside
    and Nathalie Tufenkji '05 Ph.D.--as an Assistant Professor at McGill
    University in Montreal, Canada

Want to see some pictures?
    -Prof. Schultheiss, EE, surprises and is surprised,
    -Senior Advisory Committee visits with students

Tau Beta Pi featured "Engineering disasters":
    Nov. 17, Tau Beta Pi attracted a good crowd (including
    our Business Manager who has an engineering background)
    to the Engineering Student Center for a showing of a film
    on engineering disasters. Pizza added to the interest
    of the evening.

Y-IEEE sponsored HALO-2:
    In order to promote dialogue among students from all
    classes, Y-IEEE organized a video game competition
    (played on an XBOX Video Game Console) Nov. 18 in 
    Davies Auditorium. "The game's combination of spectacular
    graphics, interactive gameplay, and team-building
    experience coupled with Davies Auditorium's gigantic
   screen drew over 25 people to the event, including a
   representative from Microsoft [HALO-2 is produced by
    Microsoft]," said Jose Fuentes '06, the Y-IEEE Vice Chair 
    who organized the event. The winning team consisted of
    Chris Oropena, Paul Chikosh, Gregory Thomas '07, and
    Steven Sun '05. The feedback from the players was so positive
    that Y-IEEE is considering a series of "HALO Fridays" and
   maybe even opening a tournament to the entire student body.

Langer ChE Graduate Student Symposium:
    The second annual Robert M. Langer Chemical Engineering
    Graduate Student Symposium will be held
    Fri., Dec. 3, 9:00 am-5:00 pm in the Becton Faculty Lounge
    and Dunham 220. More next week. Visit.

Engineering Library hours, repeat:
    Thanksgiving recess week Engineering Library hours:
    Nov. 20-21,       Sat.-Sun., Closed
    Nov. 22-24,       Mon.-Wed., 8:30 am-5:00 pm
    Nov. 25,           Thurs., Closed, THANKSGIVING
    Nov. 26-27,       Fri.-Sat., Closed
 
Faculty patents, are yours listed?
    The list of faculty patents is incomplete. Please
    review your listing.

Have a wonderful THANKSGIVING!

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