Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, November 12, 2001

Speakers:
Wed., Nov. 14, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Micro- and Nano-Fluid Mechanics," Prof. N. Giordano,
Physics Department, Purdue University.
Host: Prof. Werner Wolf.

Wed., Nov. 14, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere: Effervescent Research
in Physics, Engineering, and Medicine," Prof. Robert E. Apfel,
Mechanical Engineering.
Wed., Nov. 14, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"The Physics of Dynamic Wetting," Prof. Stephen Garoff,
Center for Complex Fluids Engineering, Department of Physics,
Carnegie Mellon University.
Host: Prof. John Walz.

Thurs., Nov. 15, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Electron-Phonon Interactions and Superconductivity in
Polyacene Plastic Transistors," Prof. Jairo Sinova,
University of Texas.
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin.

BME program hires its first senior professor:
Prof. Mark Saltzman, a professor of chemistry at Cornell,
has accepted an appointment in our Biomedical Engineering
program and will join us in the fall of 2002. Prof. Saltzman's
received his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the MIT/Harvard
Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Prof. Saltzman's
research focuses on studying the mechanisms of drug distribution
in the body and using this information to design drug delivery
systems.

Yale Engineering ranks #1 in citation impact:
According to the Institute for Scientific Information, ISI,
Yale Engineering is #1 in citation impact among the top
100 federally-funded U.S. universities that published more
than 300 papers in 1996-2000; the ISI report measures research
quality rather than quantity. In ISI-indexed journals,
Yale published 321 papers that were cited 1,395 times,
average of 4.35 times per paper.
Harvard-- 432 papers, 4.10 per paper,
University of California at Santa Barbara--715 papers,
average 3.83 per paper,
Stanford--1,546 papers, average 3.39 per paper,
Princeton--805 papers, average 3.34 per paper.
In a similar ISI survey covering 1993-97, Yale had ranked #8.
Source: University Science Indicators, 2000. Standard Ed. Philadelphia: ISI.

Tau Beta Pi sponsors another workshop:
Invited by Tau Beta Pi, Joni Huff, Engineering career counselor
at Career Services, will give a workshop Nov. 14, 8:30 pm, Mason 104.
She will focus on how to conduct successful job and internship
searches and will provide pointers about how to prepare an effective
technology-based résumé. Also, see www.yale.edu/career/calendar.html#nov

NSBEY invites fellow students to dinner:
At a catered dinner Mon., Nov. 12, 5.30 pm, in the JE Senior
Common Room, Dr. Kailasnath Purushothaman, Research
Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology, Lecturer in ME, and faculty
adviser to NSBEY, will discuss his research on the assessment
of the viability of cardiac muscle. Reserve a place with NSBEY
Chair tiffanee.green@yale.edu by Fri., Nov. 9, 3:00 pm.

The U.S. Patent office needs EE grads:
In order to shorten the time to process a patent application (presently,
it takes more than a year), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
seeks to hire 700 additional patent examiners to handle the flood of
high-technology patent filings (an estimated 360,000 in 2001).
Entry-level positions start at $50,000 plus a 12% signing bonus,
flexible schedules, and support for further education (including law
school tuition). The basic qualification for a high-tech patent examiner
is a B.S in Electrical Engineering.

'03 and '04 are eligible for $7,500:
Engineering majors with a B average and the potential to make a
significant contribution to their field are eligible for national Goldwater
Scholarships (awarded on merit) of up to a $7,500 per year.
Deadline: Mon., Nov. 26. Get an application from IEFP, 55 Whitney Ave.,
Room 316, 3rd floor or www.yale.edu/iefp/fellowships/individual/goldwater.html

Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at
you rapidly.

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 527