Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, April 28, 2003

Speakers:

Mon., April 28, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
    "New Microwave-based Amplification Scheme for
    Superconducting Qubit Readout, Part I: Principle,"
    (May 5, Part II: Experimental Results), R. Vijay,
    QuLab, Applied Physics.
    Adviser: Prof. Michel Devoret.
    Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Wed., April 30, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
    "Farther, Faster, and Wider: Extending the Reach of
    Multimode Fiber Optical Links," Dr. Petar Pepeljugoski,
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Communication
    Research Department, Yorktown Heights, NY.
    Host: Prof. Jerry Woodall.

Wed., April 30, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
    "Stress Response in Force Chain Networks,"
    Prof. Joshua Socolar, Physics Department, Duke University.
    Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern.
    Refreshments at 2:15 pm.

Wed., April 30, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
    "Flake Alignment in Composite Coatings," Prof. Edward
    Cussler, Department of Chemical Engineering and
    Materials Science, University of Minnesota.
    Host: Prof. John Walz.

Fri., May 2, 4:00 pm, Dunham Lab, 5th Floor Conference Room.
Center for Systems Science Seminar:
    "Neurointerfaces for Coupling Human Operators to
    Difficult-to-Control Plants," Prof. Bernard Widrow,
    Stanford University.
    Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra.

Senior Project presentations:
    >Wed., April 30, BME, 11:30 am-3:30 pm, Dunham 220.
    Faculty Adviser: Prof. James Duncan.

    >Thurs., May 1, EE, 10:30 am-noon, 1:30- 3:00 pm, Dunham 220.
    Faculty Adviser: Prof. Peter Kindlmann.

     >Thurs., May 1, ME 185 Robot Challenge 2003, 4:30-9:30 pm,
    Davies Auditorium. Twenty-one robots will Rebuild Ground Zero
    on a 64 sq. ft. game board. Pizza break for contestants and
    audience at 6:30 pm.
    Faculty Adviser: Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy.

     >Fri., May 2, EnvE, 10:00 am-noon, Becton 508. Faculty Adviser: 
    Prof. Roger Ely. Presenters: Roger Austin, Hanan Karam, Jessica Lawson, 
    Noa Lincoln, Miriam Seifter.

    >Fri., May 2, ChE, 2:00-4:00 pm, Mason 107. "Recycling
    Nitric Acid from a Radioactive Liquid Waste Stream."
    Team A: Mark Marion and YouJung Byon.
    Team B: Isabelle Chumfong and Skye Gruen.
    Faculty Adviser: Dr. Yehia Khalil.

What did those 150 visit?
    The more than 150 students and campus visitors who were
    so keen on visiting Engineering facilities during Bulldog
    Days were taken to see Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko's lab/class,
    Prof. Jung Han's Gallium Nitride MOCVD Lab,
    Prof. Mark Reed's Lab, Prof. Richard Chang's Lab,
    Prof. Marshall Long's Laser Diagnostics Lab,
    Prof. Jerry Woodall's MBE lab, the MicroELM Cleanroom,
    the Morse teaching facility, the "Garage" computer lab,
    the new engineering student center, Davies Auditorium,
    and the Engineering buildings from the outside and the
    courtyard between Becton and Dunham. The knowledgeable
    tour guides were Ph.D. candidates Tom Boone EE,
    Robert Koudelka EE, and Jim Schuck AP.

Inaugural SWE event a hit:
    Both the speaker at the first Yale Society of Women
    Engineers event, Senior Researcher at IMB Kathryn Wilder
    Guarini '94 EE, Ph.D. Stanford '97, and the audience of 21
    (from Freshmen to a Professor Emeritus and grad students
    and postdocs in between) enjoyed the energetic 
    Presentation-Dialogue about various aspects of R&D at IBM. 
    Dr. Guarini also spoke of the push at IBM to recruit more engineers 

    (with an emphasis on women) and expressed an interest in 

    assisting our students with IBM internships.

Clear across the country:
    Eight NSBE-Yale members attended workshops focusing
    on professional development, academic excellence, and
    career design at the annual NSBE Convention March 1923
    in Anaheim, CA. They also interacted with recruiters,
    distributed résumés, and discussed potential internship
    and permanent employment opportunities. Attendees:
    Boma Brown-West BK ‘03, Tiffanee Green JE ‘03, Leah
    Walker JE ‘03, Abena Asare BR ‘05, Kimballe Campbell BR ‘05,
    Daisy Tawiah DC ‘05, Robert Watkins III TD ‘05, Shani
    Harmon SM ‘06.

YSEA dinner:
    Coming to the YSEA dinner Wed., April 30, 6:00 pm, Presidents
    Room, Woolsey Hall? Late reservations: 432-4220.

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