Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, September 13, 2004
Speakers:
Mon., Sept. 13,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Electrical Characterization of Self-Assembled
Monolayer,"
Wenyong Wang, Physics.
Adviser Prof. Mark Reed.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
Tues.,
Sept. 14,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Segmentation of Utrasound Images," Zhong
Tao,
Biomedical Engineering.
Adviser: Prof. Hemant Tagare.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
Wed.,
Sept. 15,
2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Drying and Cracking of Highly Filled Ceramic
Coatings," Prof. Lee White, Carnegie Mellon
University.
Host: Prof. Eric Dufresne.
Refreshments at 2:15 pm.
Wed.,
Sept. 15,
4:00 pm, Watson 500.
Communications and Networking Seminar:
"Coded Dynamic Systems," Prof.
Christoforos
Hadjicostis, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Host: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Thurs.,
Sept. 16, 4:00
pm, Sterling Hall of Medicine B-145.
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Seminar:
"Hand-over-hand vs. Inchworm Motion of
Molecular
Motors," Prof. Paul Selvin, Biophysics and
Physics,
University of Illinois.
Host: Prof. Frederick Sigworth.
New
faculty:
Themis R. Kyriakides, Assistant Professor
of Pathology
and Biomedical Engineering.
Ph.D. Washington State University.
Cellular and molecular events at the interface
between
implanted biomaterials and tissues;
biomaterial-induced
inflammation, wound healing, tissue regeneration
with
a focus on angiogenesis, and extracellular matrix
remodeling;
in vivo work on genetically-modified mice; gene
delivery
from biomaterials; development of biodegradable
polymers;
modification of glucose sensors; development of
artificial skin.
Sun-ichiro Karato, Professor of
Mechanical Engineering
and of Geology and Geophysics.
Ph.D. University of Tokyo.
Mineral and rock physics, mantle dynamics, core
dynamics.
Primary appointment is in Geology and
Geophysics.
Final
doctoral examination:
Final doctoral examinations are open to the entire
faculty;
a copy of the thesis is available for review in
Dunham 226.
Jie Lin--"Coordination of Distributed
Autonomous Systems."
Committee: Prof. Stephen Morse, Prof. Edmund Yeh,
and
Prof. Paul Hudak.
Tues., Sept. 14, 2:00 pm, Dunham 5th floor
Conference Room.
Become
an Engineering Tour guide:
Guides receive training (great transferable
skills!) and make
$20 per tour. Depending on your schedule, you could
lead
one, two, or three tours a week, probably Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturday afternoons. Contact
<claire.conly@yale.edu>
right away.
Sandia
recruiters on campus:
Sandia recruiters will be interviewing Oct. 18. If
you are
interested in discussing an internship or a
permanent
position with Sandia, submit a resume by October 1
to
Ms. Erica Brossard, Dunham 220. For help
with the
resume and with preparing for the interview, see
below.
New
Engineering-UCS liaison:
The new UCS liaison for Engineering is Mr. John Bau,
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Career
Services.
He has extensive experience in career counseling
(business,
engineering, science) and using Internet data
mining
and other tools needed for job searches. He will
offer
undergraduates:
--A workshop on resume
writing in September,
--A workshop on
interviewing in early October,
--Resume critiques are
already available at UCS
on a
first-come-first-served basis Mon.-Fri.,
11:00 to 5:00 pm, 55
Whitney, 3rd floor.
Mr. Bau is available
Thurs., 12:30-2:00, by
appointment, 2-0800.
Visit a Recruiting Fair Sept. 17, Payne Whitney
Gym,
11:30 am-3:00 pm. The Fair is open to graduate
students, <www.yale.edu/career/media/corp_fair.pdf>
Engineering
Library offers:
Workshop on "Web of Science" and
"Tools for Citation Analysis."
Learn how to use Web of Science (Science Citation
Index)
for finding papers that have referenced a published
work;
also learn to use tools for analyzing the impact of
journals and
authors. Tues., Sept. 14, 4:00 pm.
End Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 631