Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 12, 2003

 

Speakers:

 

Tues., May 13, 1:30 pm, Becton Faculty Lounge.

    "Synthesis and Device Applications of Aerosol Nanoparticles,"

    Prof. Richard C. Flagan, Division of Chemistry and Chemical

    Engineering, Caltech.

    Host: Prof. Juan de la Mora.

 

Wed., May 14, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

    "Josephson Charge-phase Qubits: Decoherence, Readout and

    Coupling Issues," Dr. Daniel Esteve, CEA-Saclay, France.

    Host: Prof. Michel Devoret.

 

Thurs., May 15, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:

    "Kondo Physics and the Lamb Shift in the Single Electron Box,"

    Prof. Robert Schoelkopf, Applied Physics.

    Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.

 

Thurs., May 15, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Special Environmental Engineering Seminar:

    "Solar Energy and Membrane Hybrid Process for Remote

    Community Water Supplies," Dr. Andrea I. Schäfer, Environmental

    Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia.

    Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

 

Fri., May 16, noon, Watson 500.

Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and

Center for Computational Vision and Control Seminar:

    "Geometry of Gyroscopic Feedback: From Rigid Bodies to Swarms,"

    Prof. P. S. Krishnaprasad, Department of Electrical and Computer

    Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of

    Maryland-College Park.

    Host: Prof. Stephen Morse.

 

American Academy of Arts & Sciences elects:

    Prof. Michel Devoret, Applied Physics and Physics, has been elected

    Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Founded in 1780,

    the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an international learned

    society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists,

    business people, and public leaders."

    For more, visit www.amacad.org/news/new2003.htm

 

More organizations elect officers for 2003-04:

    YSEES, Yale Society for Environmental Engineering:

    Sander Daniels '05 and Amanda Chavez '05, Co-presidents.

    Faculty Adviser: Prof. Menachem Elimelech.

 

    YSEA-Undergraduate Chapter:

    Loretta Li '04, President.

    Faculty Adviser: Prof. Michael Loewenberg.

 

AYA staffs--surprised, AYA Delegates--delighted:

    AYA staff had never seen so many students volunteer for

    this sort of activity and actually show up (!). Our students

    were there at 9:00 am on a rainy Saturday morning, April 26,

    eager to accompany AYA Delegates on tours of Engineering labs.

    "Every [student] exhibited brilliance in describing the subject

    research, wrote a Delegate who had majored in Industrial 

    Administrationand Engineering in the 1940’s. "A strong feeling

    came over me that History or English majors would never portray

    [such] passion for their work that was on exhibit all through those

    engineering labs!…It was the first time I have ever had the

    strong feeling that I wanted to start my life all over again!”

 

    Our "Ambassadors for Engineering" were George Malcolmson '03,

    Joshua Buck '04, Kathryn Johnson 04, Nicholas Gross '06,

    Ryan Hutchinson '03, Michael Murphy '03, Jennifer Rost '06,

    Michelle Brady 03, Jacqueline Costrini 06, -Mehul Kamdar '05,

    Jonathan Schwarz '06, Aaron Shelley 05, Kathryn Dana 05,

    Goran Lynch '06, and Kayla Nelson '03.

 

2003 Robot Competition drew them in:

    The ME 185 Robot Competition, Faculty Advisers Mr. Glenn

    Weston-Murphy and Ms. Natalie Jeremijenko, assisted by

    Mr. Nicholas Bernardo, drew not only a student audience

    but also teachers, counselors, administrators, and students from

    Jackie Robinson Middle School and Career High School as well

    as staff and their sons and daughters from Admissions and AYA;

    Provost Susan Hockfield couldn't make it, but her daughter and

    husband, Dr. Tom Byrne, were there to enjoy the action.

 

Sean Glass '03 EE employs 20+ & needs more:

    In 1999, Sean Glass '03 co-founded YES, Yale Entrepreneurial

    Society, and in 2000, together with a Computer Science and an

    Economics major, co-founded Higher One which now provides financial 

    services for ~65,000 college students at the University of Houston, 

    Wisconsin-Stout, Sam Houston State University, and Texas Southern 

    University. Higher One is growing swiftly and is currently seeking a full-time

    Technical Support/Software Engineer. Get the specifics from 

     <jobs@higherone.com> and visit www.higherone.com

 

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