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is intended for the faculty, students, and staff in
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Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical
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Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 1, 2003
- Week
in week out:
- Welcome
back, Engineering Bulletin readers, and welcome, new
subscribers, to our weekly Engineering Bulletin. Our Bulletin
seeks to keep you aware of what goes on within the Faculty of
Engineering. You are invited to write to <engineering@yale.edu>
about events or information that might be of interest to the
faculty, students, researchers, or staff of our Engineering
community. In the weeks to come, along with information of
current interest you will receive the news and information that
have accumulated since our last issue in June.
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A
new department:
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The
Faculty of Engineering now has a Department of Biomedical
Engineering. The Chair of the new department is W. Mark
Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and
Biomedical Engineering. Prof. James Duncan, Diagnostic
Radiology/EE, is DUS.
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New
faculty:- -Sohrab
Ismail-Beigi, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and
Physics. Ph.D. 2000 MIT.
Research interests: Computational
condensed matter physics applied to optical properties,
photo-induced structural change, and photoluminescence in
molecules, nanotubes, and defects in solids; electronic and
mechanical properties of nanotubes, nanowires, and solids;
surfaces and interfaces.
Other interests: Ballroom dancing and
chess.
-Erin Lavik, Assistant Professor of Biomedical and
Chemical Engineering. Sc.D. 2001 MIT.
Research interests:
Biomaterials, synthesis of new degradable polymers; tissue
engineering; spinal cord repair; retinal regeneration; drug
delivery for optic nerve preservation and repair.
Other
interests: Playwriting (produced), hiking, fishing, and "a
Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever with, perhaps, a little
Britanny, named Wally."
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Prof.
Yeh receives two major awards:- YIP
Award: Prof. Edmund Yeh, EE/CS, has won the Army Research Office
(ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for 2003. This
award provides $150,000 in research grants over a three-year
period. The title of the ARO proposal is "Throughput and
Delay Optimization in Wireless Networks: A Fundamental
Approach."
ITR Grant: Prof. Yeh has also received a National Science
Foundation (NSF) Information Technology Research (ITR) grant
jointly with Prof. Randall Berry of Northwestern University for
"Fundamental Performance Trade-offs for Ad-hoc Networks."
Yale portion of the grant provides $115,000 over a three-year
period.
Prof. Yeh will use these grants to develop a new integrated,
cross-layer approach to efficient resource allocation in
multi-hop wireless communication networks.
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Final
doctoral examinations: - -June
19, Robert Koudelka: "Novel High Speed Light Emitting
Devices." Committee: Prof. Jerry Woodall, Prof. T.P. Ma,
and Prof. Janet Pan.
-July 25, Petia Vlahovska: "Dynamics of a
Surfactant-Covered Drop and the Non-Newtonian Rheology of
Emulsions." Committee: Prof. Michael Loewenberg, Prof. John
Walz, and Prof. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz.
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Prospective
majors or "just curious", welcome:-
Undergrads,
come to Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, Mon., Sept. 1, 3:30
pm, for an overview (with visuals) of "Engineering and
Applied Science at Yale" by the Director of Educational
Affairs for Engineering, for Q&A with DUSs in Applied
Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Computer Science, and a tour of Engineering
facilities. Refreshments? But of course.
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Congratulations:
- June
6, Mr. Senen Antunez, Financial Assistant, and Mrs. Patricia
Antunez became the parents of a second son, Guillermo. Their
first son, Joaquin, was born February 5, 2001.
Engineering
Library:- Orientation
Tour: Thurs., Sept. 4, 4:00 pm. Introduction to Engineering and
Computer Science Databases.
Workshop: Fri., Sept. 5, 12:00 noon. Introduction to a variety
of online databases for finding books, journal articles and
full-text papers.
New
Orange Book:- The
new Orange Book will reach us at the end of the week. In the
meantime, visit <www.eng.yale.edu/undergraduate/Guide.htm>
Free
to the first: - A
DVD player and battery for an IBM thinkpad T20 will go to the
first Yale person who contacts Prof. A. Stephen Morse, EE/CS.
End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 591
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