Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, May 23, 2005
Speaker:
Tues., May 24,
2:00
pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Optimal Synthesis of Concepts for a New Product,
Based on the Morphological Diagram," Prof. Menachem P. Weiss,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Host: Prof. David LaVan.
Congratulations:
Wins in Doctoral Thesis competition:
Haralampos
Stratigopoulos,
EE Ph.D. student working with
Prof. Yiorgos Makris, took 3rd place in the first
Doctoral Thesis Award competition organized by the
Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) of the
IEEE Computer Society. The competition was held at
the VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), the main academic
conference in the area of test May 3 in Palm Springs, CA.
Finalists were selected from a large pool of applicants
through a blind review. A panel of judges ranked
the presenters on novelty, technical content, and
industrial relevance. Stratigopoulos’ research on
"Neural Classification of Analog Circuits" was selected
as the most novel thesis topic.
AP graduate student is Outstanding TA:
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
has selected Matthew
Reese,
doctoral advisee of Prof. Daniel
Prober, AP, as an AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant for
2005. Reese will receive a one-year subscription to the AAPT
journal, American Journal of Physics, and complimentary
membership in the organization. Reese had been a Teaching
Fellow in Basic Quantum Mechanics, an undergraduate course.
He was previously a recipient of the 2004-5 Yale Prize
Teaching Fellowship.
Receives national Tau Beta Pi scholarship:
Hannah Collins ‘06,
BME, is the recipient of a National
Tau Beta Pi Scholarship which is "awarded on the criteria
of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and
promise of future contributions to the engineering profession."
Scholarship recipients must be members of Tau Beta Pi,
the engineering honor society that admits Juniors majoring
in BME, ChE, EE, and ME who are in the top 1/8 and Seniors
in the top 1/5 of their class. The Yale chapter, Connecticut
Alpha, was established in 1923 and was the first Tau Beta
Pi chapter in Connecticut.
More faculty patents:
Prof. Eric Dufresne, ME, has received two patents this year:
--"Apparatus and Method for Fabricating, Sorting, and
Integrating Materials with Holographic Optical Traps,"
with D.G. Grier, U. S. Patent #6,863,406 (2005),
--"Apparatus for Using Optical Tweezers to Manipulate
Materials," with D.G. Grier, J.E. Curtis, and B.A. Koss,
U. S. Patent #6,846,084 (2005).
See <
www.eng.yale.edu/research/patents.htm>
Take a look:
Did you know that Prof. Peter Kindlmann, EE, is quite
a photographer? Take a look on the fifth floor of Becton
near Room 503.
Doctoral area
examination:
Eric Stern--"Molecular
Sensors: Design and Realization."
Committee: Prof. Mark Reed, Prof. David LaVan, and
Prof. Frederick Sigworth.
Fri., May 27, 10:00 am, Mason 107.
Good news:
More alumni of our graduate program are contributing to
the Engineering Alumni Fund; participation last year was 24%,
this year it’s 26%. The gifts are also larger. At this time
last year the Engineering Alumni Fund had reached 91% of
its goal and this year it’s almost at 100%. Graduate alumni
gifts are used to assist current graduate students with
their studies and research.
Could you use them?
Biomedical Engineering is willing to part with some
hardware peripherals still in unopened boxes:
-One SH68-EP noise rejecting shielded cable (1m),
-Two BNE-2110 noise rejecting shielded BNE connector blocks.
If you could use them, contact Nancy Bennett, 2-5262.
ENGINEERING COMMENCEMENT
CONVOCATION:
The Engineering Commencement Convocation will be held
Mon., May 23, 2:30 pm, in Davies Auditorium. A reception
will follow in the J. Robert Mann Jr. Engineering Student
Center.
Engineering Bulletin:
This is the last issue of our Bulletin for the 2004-05
academic year. We will resume publication in the fall.
Have a
WONDERFUL
summer!
End of the Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin 664