Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 22, 2004
Speakers:
Tues., March 23,
4:00 pm, Yale Medical School, TAC N-135.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Seminar:
"Rapid Methods for Cardiac and Coronary
Artery MRI,"
Prof. Craig H. Meyer, Biomedical Engineering,
University
of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Host: Prof. R. Todd Constable.
Wed.,
March 24,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Electrostatic Polymer Processing:
Applications to
Biomaterials and Electrochemical Device,"
Prof. Gary
E. Wnek, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Host: Prof. Juan de la Mora.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Wed.,
March 24,
4:00 pm, Watson 400.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"Geometry, Information, and Ad Hoc Networks
of Mobile
Agents," Prof. John Baillieul, Boston
University.
Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Fri.,
March 26,
11:00 am, Watson 500.
"Nonlinear Reduced-Order Modeling for Analog
and RF:
Challenges and Opportunities," Prof. Peng
Li, Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University.
Host: Prof. A. Stephen Morse.
Fri.,
March 26,
4:00 pm, Dunham Fifth Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in
Network
Resource Allocation," Prof. John Tsitsiklis,
MIT.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Honda
invites pre-proposals from professors:
The areas are 1) broad automotive- and
motorcycle-related
research: advanced-simulation and modeling
technologies
(e.g., meshless techniques) for material
(including human
tissue) modeling using high performance
computing, et al.
2) environment and material research: novel
materials and
processes for advanced propulsion systems (e.g.,
emission
catalyst, novel fuel concepts, electrocatalyst
for fuel cell,
hydrogen storage/conversion), et al.,
3) robotics research: understanding and capturing
human-like
capabilities in audio and visual processing,
reasoning,
developmental learning and language-based
communication, et al.
Grants are $50,000 each and provide full overhead
coverage and
simplified licensing terms for resultant
inventions. Deadline for
pre-proposals: May 1. Full proposal by invitation
only.
See <research.honda.com> (no www).
Design
contest:
The student IEEE chapter at the Rochester
Institute of
Technology announces a Student Design Contest to
conceive,
design, and build a working prototype of an idea.
1st place: $3,000,
2nd place: $2,000, 3rd place: $1,000. Design
teams should involve
two or more Juniors and Seniors. The contest will
be judged by
academic and industry experts. Register by April
9. Entry fee
$10 per person. Specifics at <ieee.rit.edu>
For
1st, 2nd, and 3nd year Yale undergraduates:
The Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship
provides
$2,720-$3,400 for a full time 8 to 10 week summer
research experience
under the supervision of a Yale faculty member.
See if you would
quality. Details at <www.yale.edu/yalecol/fellowships/ycdf.html>
Yale
Alumni Magazine features Ms. Jeremijenko:
The March/April issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine
devotes
six pages to an illustrated feature article on
Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko,
Lecturer in ME. In the article, "An engineer
for the avant-garde,"
author David Case calls Ms. Jeremijenko "a
techno-artist with a
high profile among new-media art circles--people
who explore
how technology shapes culture." The article
quotes Dean Paul
Fleury: "In the past few years we've added
well over a dozen
young, highly motivated faculty to all of our
departments.
All of them are inherently
interdisciplinary....They all bring
a new way of looking at things, and they are
adding excitement
to the program."
Looking
for a position?
A growing medical technology start-up (headed by
1980s Yale
Engineering alumni) located in Guilford, CT, is
seeking an
Embedded Software Engineer. C language and
assembly
programming experience required. Contact Giovanni
Meier,
<giovanni@defibtech.com>
The
many uses of technology:
Notice in the "Ely Standard," a British
newspaper:
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug
this jack in
at night as they go to bed and it will monitor
their heart
throughout the night. And the next morning, when
they
wake up dead, there'll be a record." FCC
Chairman who
shall remain nameless.
End
of the Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 617