Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 15, 2001

 

Speaker:

Tues., Jan. 16, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.

Graduate Studies Seminar Series:

"Stochastic Adaptive Control using Multiple Estimation Models,"

Osvaldo Driollet, Electrical Engineering.

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm.

 

Appointed:

Paul A. Fleury, Dean of Engineering, has been appointed

Professor in Applied Physics, effective 1/1/01.

 

Welcome:

Prof. Kwang-ho Kim, an Associate Professor in Cheongju University

in Chungbuk, Korea, will be a Visiting Fellow in Electrical

Engineering from 1/1/01 to 12/31/01. Prof. Kim's research

focuses on ferroelectric memory materials and devices.

 

Great turnout:

Nineteen ME, BME, and other majors showed up for the 2001

organizational meeting of the Yale chapter of the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, on Jan 10. Also

attending (and very pleased at the turnout) were ASME

Regional Director Peter Hauser, New Haven ASME Senior

Section Chair Michael Ganci and Treasurer Dr. Beth Anne

Bennett, ME. The Yale ASME chapter adviser is

Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy.

 

$100,000 in prizes for business plans:

The Yale Entrepreneurial Society announces its 2nd annual

Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Last year's grand prize

winner ($30,000 cash and $30,000 in services) was a business

plan, YellowPen, developed by Engineering grad students

Stephen Robinson and Stephen Brown and John Leibowitz,

a Law School student. Chair of Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition

Julian Reeve '02, MB&B major from Trumbull College, invites

entrepreneurs to the Y50K TEAMBUILDER meeting in the

Silliman College Common Room, Thurs., Jan.18, 7:30-9:00 pm

to meet other entrepreneurs, find a team to join, or find members

for your team (teams must include at least one Yale student,

staff member, or faculty member). See www.y50k.com

 

Sandia to recruit:

Sandia National Laboratories representatives will be on

campus on Jan. 30, Jan. 31, and Feb. 1 to recruit Engineering,

Applied Physics, and Computer Science undergraduates, graduate

students, and postdocs for summer internships and permanent

positions. U.S. citizenship is required. If you are an undergraduate,

e-mail your preferred time and date

     to <deborah.apotrias@yale.edu>

If you are a graduate students or a postdocs, e-mail your

preferred time and date

     to <cara.gibilisco@yale.edu>

You will receive the time and location of your interview

by e-mail. Bring a résumé and current transcript to the interview.

 

Have your considered Teach for America?

When planning your "life after Yale," check out a field that

is receiving increasing attention: teaching. Teach for America

is looking for recent college grads with demonstrated leadership

qualities and academic excellence. Those who are chosen

(fewer than one in three) receive five-weeks of intensive training

and are hired as regular teachers by a school in one of 15 urban

and rural sites. During the two-year commitment, student loan

repayment is deferred and there is no accrued interest. After

completing each year, corps members receive an education award

of $4,725 that they can use to repay student loans or for future

education costs. Teach for America's greatest need is for "math

and science" teachers. Deadlines: Jan. 16 and Feb 26. For

more, see www.teachforamerica.org or talk with Michael

Johnston '97, Teach for America alumnus now studying

at the Yale Law School, <michael.johnston@yale.edu>

 

It's simple, really:

"It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.

If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It

isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.

Oxford University Press, Edpress News.

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