Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 3, 2003
Speakers:
Tues., March 4, 3:00
pm, Becton 5th floor Alcove.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Avalanching Photo-detector (APD)," An
Chen,
Electrical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Jerry Woodall. Refreshments.
Wed., March 5, 2:30
pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Between Human and Machine: Rethinking the
History
of Computing," Prof. David A. Mindell, MIT.
Host: Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Wed., March 5, 4:00
pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
Spring 2003 Barnett F. Dodge Lecture:
"Developing Direct-Oxidation, Solid-Oxide
Fuel Cells,"
Prof. Raymond Gorte, Department of Chemical
Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania.
Host: Prof. Eric Altman.
Sponsored by Procter and Gamble.
Fri., March 7, 4:00
pm, Dunham Lab, 5th Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
"Maintaining a Good Attitude About Spacecraft
Orientation,"
Dr. John Junkins, Texas A&M University.
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.
Professor awarded Sloan Fellowship:
Prof.
Charles Ahn,
AP, has been awarded a 2003 Sloan
Foundation Fellowship for two years. Prof. Ahn will
use the
Sloan fellowship to study oxide heterostructures.
Last year,
Prof. Ahn was invited to a National Academy of
Engineering
Symposium as one of "100 of the nation's
outstanding young
engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and
government
to discuss pioneering technical work and
leading-edge research
in various engineering fields." The year
before, Prof. Ahn
received a five-year Packard Fellowship which is
awarded to
the nation's most promising young professors to
pursue their
research (making our Department of Applied Physics
one
of only two academic departments in the country to
have three
active Packard Fellows on the faculty, the other
two being
Prof. Robert Grober and Prof. Robert
Schoelkopf).
Graduate student paper wins international award:
Graduate
student Robert Koudelka,
EE, has won the
2002 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award for his
paper
"Novel Light Emitting Device with Ultrafast
Color Switching."
The achievement is especially notable, because the
competition
is international and students' and senior
scientists' papers
compete on the same level. Koudelka will receive
his plaque
and a check in December at the 2003 IEDM Plenary
Session
in Washington, DC. Robert Koudelka's beaming
Faculty Adviser
is Prof.
Jerry Woodall.
Final doctoral examination:
Martin
Piech: "Depletion Interactions in
Charged Systems."
Committee: Prof. John Walz, Prof. Menachem
Elimelech,
Prof. Daniel Rosner.
Thurs., March 6, 10:30 am, Dunham 220.
Quality "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day":
Engineering's
participation in National Engineers Week with
"Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" was
a huge success.
The teachers and counselors who accompanied the
fifty 7-10th grade
girls from nine area schools spoke of having their
eyes opened
about how ubiquitous engineering is in our society
and were
very enthusiastic about encouraging students who
are good in
math and science to consider the various fields of
engineering
for their future career.
The smoothness of the
organization of the "Day" was an
exemplary team effort, with Mrs.
Jane Boone, Coordinator for
Educational Affairs, as the facilitator par
excellence.
Mrs.
Jane Boone, Coordinator for
Educational Affairs, as the facilitator par
excellence.
NSBE-Yale members were judges at school:
Last
January, NSBE-Yale members Nathan
Hood, SM ’04;
Jihan
Mercier DC ’05; and Tiffanee
Green JE ’03 served as
judges at a science fair at Troup Magnet Academy of
Sciences.
Troup winners will compete in a New Haven-wide
competition at
Woosley Hall March 10 (do visit the event!), and
those winners
will enter the state competition March 11. The Yale
Science and
Engineering Association will award the YSEA medal
to the high
school Junior with the most outstanding exhibit at
the state
competition.
YSEA has been awarding
their medal at state high school
science fairs since 1989 in order to raise
awareness nationwide
(and now in other countries also) about Yale's
engineering and
science programs, <www.eng.yale.edu/ysea/awards.html>
Nathan
Hood, SM ’04;
Jihan
Mercier DC ’05; and Tiffanee
Green JE ’03 served as
judges at a science fair at Troup Magnet Academy of
Sciences.
Troup winners will compete in a New Haven-wide
competition at
Woosley Hall March 10 (do visit the event!), and
those winners
will enter the state competition March 11. The Yale
Science and
Engineering Association will award the YSEA medal
to the high
school Junior with the most outstanding exhibit at
the state
competition.
YSEA has been awarding
their medal at state high school
science fairs since 1989 in order to raise
awareness nationwide
(and now in other countries also) about Yale's
engineering and
science programs, <www.eng.yale.edu/ysea/awards.html>
End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 577