Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 17, 2003

 

Speaker:

 

Mon., March 17, 11:00 am, Watson 400.

"Node Location in Wireless Sensor Networks,"

Mr. Andreas Savvides, Networked and Embedded

Systems Lab and Center for Embedded Networked

Sensing, UCLA.

Host Prof. A. Stephen Morse.

 

Named to endowed chair:

President Richard Levin has named Prof. Kumpati Narendra

the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Narendra

has made seminal contributions to systems theory (stability theory,

adaptive control, multiple models, switching and tuning /MMST/,

neural networks), authored more than 175 technical papers,

written three books and edited four, advised 41 doctoral students,

and consulted for more than a dozen corporate research laboratories.

Prof. Narendra has lectured at more than 40 universities, worldwide,

and since 1993 has delivered more than 45 plenary and invited

lectures at international conferences, universities, and research

laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. He has received numerous

awards and serves on advisory committees of engineering institutes

in Korea, Ireland, and Singapore. At Yale, Prof. Narendra has

chaired the Department of Engineering and has been the head

of the Center for Systems Science since 1981.

 

Even more accurate?

Science, March 14, featured a 3/4 page report entitled "A

Thermometer Beyond Compare?" by Adrian Cho. The author

highlights a paper given at the APS Meeting March 3-7 in

Austin, TX, by Lafe Spietz, a graduate student advisee of

Prof. Robert Schoelkopf, AP. The paper reports on a new

kind of thermometer, based on current noise in tunnel junctions,

which needs no calibration. This "shot noise" thermometer

could provide the basis for substituting a standard beyond

what is available today for measuring temperature. This

device could track temperature from less than a degree above

absolute zero to room temperature. The device is presently

accurate to within 0.1%, and the researchers are working

to increase its accuracy. More.

 

Is your patent listed?

A reminder to faculty who hold patents to check whether

their list is up to date <www.eng.yale.edu/research/patents.htm>

 

Any new faculty research areas?

Should any titles be added to the list of Faculty of Engineering

research areas? Is everyone listed under all research areas

in which they are doing research?

<www.eng.yale.edu/research/research_areas.html>

 

Take a look at the Science Fair in memory of Prof. Apfel:

<www.eng.yale.edu/news/Apfel-in-memory.htm>

50 Engineering undergrads to be Mentors

In February, Mrs. Jane Boone, Coordinator for Educational

Affairs, and student volunteers mailed out information

packets to Early Decision admittees '07 who had expressed

an interest in Engineering. In the packet was a new

booklet introducing 50! undergraduate Engineering Mentors

(face, name, hometown, major, activities/hobbies/interests)

who are ready to welcome the new students. The Mentor

brochure will be mailed to regular admittees in April,

will be available on "Bulldog Days" to high school

students who will be on campus April 14 & 15 trying

to decide among Yale and other institutions to which

they have been admitted, and to alumni leaders who

are coming to Yale for an "Engineering and Applied Science

in the Service of Society" Alumni Assembly April 25 & 26.

 

Bet you didn't know!

Our newest member of the National Academy of Engineering,

Prof. T.P. Ma, Chair of the Department of Electrical

Engineering, is Vice President of the Yale Figure Skating

Club. Prof. Ma is an avid skater, and ice dancing is his

specialty.

 

C (comma) goes before q (quotes):

In bibliographies or written conversations, the comma goes

inside the quotations marks (in some other countries,

it's the other way around). Correct "Oh, now I'll know,"

he said.

 

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