- Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, January 8, 2001
-
- HAPPY
SPRING TERM 2001!
-
- Speakers:
- Mon.,
Jan. 8,
4:00
pm, Mason 107.
- Monday
Evening Seminar:
- "Revealing
the Structure and Properties of Semiconductor
- Nanoclusters
using Advanced Mass-Spectrometric Tools,"
- Prof.
Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Department of Chemistry
- and
Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University,
- Toronto,
Canada. Host: Prof. Robert Grober, Applied Physics.
Tues.,
Jan. 9,
11:00 am, Becton Faculty Lounge.
- "Cell-based
Biosensor Systems for Toxin Detection and Drug
- Discovery,"
Gregory T.A. Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford
- University.
Host: Prof. James Duncan, Biomedical Engineering.
-
- Welcome:
- Dr.
Jung Han has joined our faculty as Associate Professor of
- Electrical
Engineering, effective 1/1/01. Prof. Han's research
- centers
on photonic and electronic materials and devices from
- wide
bandgap semiconductors. Prof. Han joins us from the
- Sandia
National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, where
- he
was a Senior Member of the technical staff.
-
- Visiting
Professors for the spring term:
- Dr.
Bijoy K. Ghosh, Visiting Professor in Electrical
- Engineering,
will teach BENG 460b/ENAS 915b, "Physiological
- and
Dynamic Problems in Machine and Animal Vision."
- Prof.
Ghosh is a professor in the Department of Systems
- Science
and Mathematics and the director of the Center
- for
BioCybernetics and Intelligent Systems at Washington
- University,
St. Louis, MO.
Dr. Joseph Ryan, Visiting Associate Professor in the- Environmental
Engineering Program, will teach ENAS 648b,
- "Colloids,
Biocolloids, and Colloid-Facilitated Transport in
- Subsurface
Environments." Prof. Ryan joins us from the
- Department
of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural
- Engineering
at the University of Colorado. His research
- focuses
on the role of surface chemistry in the fate and
- transport
of contaminants in natural waters.
-
- Appointed:
- Dr.
Chang Sub Kim, Visiting Research Scientist, effective 1/1/01.
- Dr.
Kim is an Associate Professor at the Chonnam National
- University
(Kwangju), South Korea. Dr. Kim will work in
- Prof.
A. Douglas Stone's, AP, research group.
- Dr.
Michael Mason, Postdoctoral Associate, effective 1/1/01.
- Dr.
Mason joins us from the University of California, Santa
- Barbara,
where he just received his Ph.D. in chemistry.
- He
will work in Prof. Robert Grober's, AP, research group.
-
- If
enough enroll:
- If
you are interested in a new graduate course ENAS 918b,
- "Data/
Telecommunication Technology," developed by
- Prof.
Jerry Woodall, EE and AP, attend the organizational
- meeting
Thurs., Jan. 11, 3:00 pm, Becton 5th floor alcove.
- The
minimum enrollment is ten students.
-
- Staff
position at the Faculty of Engineering:
- Senior
Executive Assistant to the Dean of Engineering.
- For
specifics, see the M&P postings for 1/4/01 at
- http://websrv.its.yale.edu/hr/jobpost.html
-
- Calling
ME students, especially Freshmen:
- On
Wed., Jan. 10, come to Mason 107 at 5:00 pm
to
connect with other
undergrads and to become acquainted
with Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy, the
new faculty adviser
for the Yale student chapter of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, ASME. Mr. Weston-Murphy, a practicing
engineer, was an engineering troubleshooter in various foreign
countries before
joining the Faculty of Engineering. He will
add his "real-life" feel for
engineering to engineering students'
academic experience. Find out how
the ASME can be used
as a career-enhancing tool and grab some pizza
along the way.
-
- Alumna
invites job inquiries:
- An
alumna who recently joined Intel Corporation's
- Human
Resources as Senior Staffing Representative alerts
- our
ChE, EE, ME, and CS soon-to-be B.S., M.S., and also
- Ph.D.
candidates about many currently available positions
- at
Intel. Contact Adrienne Emery '93 at
- <adrienne.emery@intel.com>
or at 480/552-0360.
- Note:
Ms. Emery's husband, Richard Emery '94, was
- an
ME major and is presently finishing his Ph.D. thesis
- in
ME at Yale.
-
- Engineering
Library hours:
- -
Regular hours: 8:30 am to 10:00 pm
- -
Closed: Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 6 and 7
-
- There’s
a name for that:
- "Yes,
the idea of letting students creatively express themselves
- on
paper without worrying about grammar and punctuation
- should
continue. But there’s a name for that: first drafts."
- Frank
Harris III, New Haven Register, 9/24/00. Prof. Harris
- teaches
journalism at Southern Connecticut Sate University.
-
- End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 499
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