- Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 24, 2003
-
- No
speakers this
week.
-
- ENAS
441b/ENAS 748b/MENG 441b spring term:
Applied
Numerical Methods II will be given during the
spring
term (it was bracketed in the Blue Book and the Orange
Book).
The class will be taught by Dr. Beth Anne Bennett, ME.
The
course description is at
- <www.eng.yale.edu/mechanical/ug_courses.html>
-
- Our
faculty on the international stage:
--Paper
among most downloaded in the field: According to
- ScienceDirect,
the third most downloaded paper on catalysis is
Prof.
Gary Haller's, ChE & Chem, "New Catalytic Concepts from
New
Materials Understanding Catalysis from a Fundamental
Perspective,
Past, Present, and Future," Journal of Catalysis,
- 216
(1-2), 12-22 (2003).
ScienceDirect®
evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science
- journals
to one of the world's largest commercial (since 1999)
- providers
of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature for
- scientists
around the world. Visit
- <http//elsevier-wrg.dmdelivery.nl/
custom/md_articles/index.php>
- --Invited
talk: Prof. Janet Pan, EE, will give an invited talk on
"Optical
and Transport Properties of Devices Utilizing Nanoscale
Deep
Centers" at the 27th International Conference on the Physics of
Semiconductors
next July 26-30 in Flagstaff, AZ. ICPS, the principal
conference
in the field of the physics of semiconductors, is held every
two
years and attracts up to 1000 attendees, see <www.icps2004.org>
-
- Final
doctoral exam:
- Konstantinos
Aivalis: "Measurement and Analysis of Scalar
Fluctuations
and Turbulent Flows." Committee Prof. Katepalli
Sreenivasan,
Prof. Marshall Long, Prof. Juan Fernandez
de
la Mora, and Prof. Michael Loewenberg.
Fri., Nov. 21.
-
- :)
AP
does it again! :)
- Nov.
18, Dr. Irfan Siddiqi, Postdoctoral Associate in AP, and
- Mrs.
Ambreen Siddiqi became the proud parents of a baby boy,
- Talha
Furqan Siddiqi. Congratulations!
- (When
asked what she feeds the AP faculty and staff to elicit such
- impressive
generative achievements, Administrative Associate
- Jayne
Miller smiled wickedly as she gave away the secret which,
- alas,
is off the record).
-
- Engineering
Library fall recess hours:
- Closed:
Sat. & Sun., Nov. 22-23,
- Open:
Mon.-Wed., Nov. 24-Nov. 26 830 am-500 pm,
- Closed:
Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 27-Nov. 29,
Regular
hours resume Sunday, Nov. 30.
-
- WISE
internships:
Washington
Internships for Student of Engineering, WISE, invite
Juniors,
Seniors, and beginning graduate students to spend
10
weeks during the summer of 2004 in Washington, DC, under
the
guidance of a "nationally prominent engineering professor....
The
WISE Program is ranked one of the 100 best Internship
opportunities
in the U.S. by the Princeton Review" (from
<www.wise-intern.org/>).
Deadline Dec. 12.
-
- The
Women's Forum invites:
- Yale
community members are invited to enjoy a buffet dinner
- (it
starts at 6:00 pm) and a panel discussion on the structures,
- the
joys, and the demands of work and family "Work-Life Lessons
- from
Around the World," Thurs., Dec. 4, 6:00 to 9:00 pm,
- Whitney
Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208. The
- panelists
are Yale law and political science faculty plus a member
- of
the Yale Corporation who founded and chairs Bright Horizons.
- The
event is free, but reservations are required. Please
- reserve
your place with Ms. Rachel Thomas, 432-8847, or write
- <rachel.thomas@yale.edu>
-
- By
international snailmail:
- Your
letters and cards will reach their destination in time for
- Christmas,
if you mail them
-
by Dec. 8 to Africa, to Central and South America,
-
by Dec. 15 to everywhere else.
-
- When
you graduate, you'll join a minority:
- According
to the 2000 census, the majority of the people in the U.S.,
- 75.6%,
have not graduated from college (24.4% have a Bachelor's
- or
a higher degree). Degree-wise, Connecticut ranks fourth highest
- in
the country 31.4% of its residents have a Bachelor's or higher
- degree.
New Haven Register, June 18, 2002.
-
- Happy Thanksgiving!
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 603
Current Engineering Bulletin 603