Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 15, 2004
Speakers:
None this week.
For
theoretical and experimental experts:
Prof. Mark Reed, EE & AP, gave the
plenary talk and
monthly MPI colloquium at the "International
Workshop
on Electronics: From Molecular Materials to Single
Molecule
Devices," held at the Max Planck Institut für
Physic
komplexer Systeme Feb. 23-27 in Dresden, Germany.
This workshop brought together theoretical and
experimental
experts from physics, chemical physics, chemistry,
biology,
and material science to discuss molecule-based
electronics
and other classes of organic materials and covered
systems,
methodological developments, computational
approaches,
and device applications.
For
students who check their e-mail during Spring Break:
Here are reminders of some deadlines:
Deadline extended:
The National Institute of Entrepreneurship has
extended the entry date in the Venture Bowl for
undergraduates and graduate students who have
an idea for a new business. The new online
registration
date is Mon., March 15, and business plans are
due Mon., March
22.
See <www.venturebowl.com>
EPA sustainability student competition:
EPA is offering grants of $10,000 to teams of
graduate
and undergraduate students to research, develop,
and
design sustainable solutions to environmental
challenges.
Students are challenged to: 1) define a technical
challenge
to sustainability, 2) discuss the challenge vis-à-vis
people,
prosperity, and our planet, 3) design an approach
to
address the challenge. Deadline: Thurs., March
25.
Visit
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/designs_sustain_rfp.html
DILS open to undergrads and grad students:
Directed Independent Language Study invites
students
to learn less commonly taught languages. Students
meet
twice a week with Language Partners for language
practice (to learn pronunciation and language
patterns,
Fri., March
26.
See <www.cls.yale.edu/dils/>
YSEA
update:
To spread the word that there is Engineering at
Yale, members
of the Yale Science and Engineering Association
participate
in state and regional high school science fairs by
giving YSEA
Awards to the 11th-grade students with the most
outstanding
exhibits in computer science, engineering, physics,
or chemistry.
In 2003, YSEA gave out 253 YSEA Awards and
certificates in
45 states in the U.S. and in Argentina, Australia,
Belarus,
Canada, China, Peru, and Russia. Each Award winner
also
received a brochure about undergraduate studies in
Engineering
at Yale ("Orange Book"). A list of YSEA
Award winners was
forwarded to the Yale Admissions Office.
"We are just amazed at how eager students and
teachers are
for the 'Yale award'," says Steven E.
Lasewicz Jr. '60 E who
launched the YSEA Award initiative during his term
in office
as president of YSEA. The first YSEA Award was
presented
at the Connecticut Science Fair in 1989 and then
introduced
into other state and regional high school science
fairs. Since 2002,
it is also being presented at the International
Science and
Engineering Fair.
Save
trees and Campus Mail time:
To stop receiving mailings from: American Council
of Learned Societies, The Protein Society, Folio
Associates,
Alltech Assoc., Positive Promotions, Bureau of
National Affairs,
Upstate Cell Signaling, Lab Safety Supply, and
Ambion,
contact <lynne.beauchemin@yale.edu>
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 616