Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, April 23, 2001
Speakers:
- Tues.,
April 24, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Graduate
Studies Seminar Series:
- "Multimodal
Studies of Brain Activation" Silvina Horovitz,
- Biomedical
Engineering.
- Refreshments
served at 3:45 pm.
-
- Wed.,
April 25, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Condensed
Matter and Optics Seminar:
- "Molecular
Dynamics at Metal Surfaces," Prof. John
- Tully,
Chemistry.
- Host
Prof. Werner Wolf.
-
- Wed.,
April 25, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
- The
John McClanahan Henske 2001 Spring Distinguished
- Lecture*
in Engineering:
- "New
Adsorbents for Gas Separation by Weak Chemical
- Bonds,"
Prof.
Ralph T. Yang, University of Michigan.
- Host:
Prof. Gary Haller.
- Reception
at 3:30 pm in the Mason Lobby.
- *Sponsored
by Olin Corporation.
-
- Outstanding:
- April
3, at UConn, six industrial members of Connecticut
- Microelectronics
and Optoelectronics Consortium (CMOC:
- microelectronics
and optoelectronics companies and Yale,
- UConn,
Southern CT State and Bridgeport Universities)
- honored
two graduate students and four undergraduates
- for
quality microelectronics or optoelectronics research.
Ashot
Melik-Martirosian, Prof. T.P. Ma's, EE, advisee,
- received
a CMOC-JDS Uniphase Graduate Prize (DS Uniphase
- is
a multinational telecommunications company with a large
- R&D
operation in CT), consisting of a plaque and $6,000.
Andrew
Lin '03, Prof. Charles Ahn's, AP, advisee received
- a
CMOC ATMI Undergraduate Prize (ATMI: Advanced
- Technology
Materials Inc., a U.S. supplier of processing
- materials
for semiconductor device manufacturing, with
- headquarters
in Danbury), consisting of a plaque and $2,000.
- Graduate
student Wenjun Zhu, advisee of Prof. T.P. Ma, received
- the
CMOC Best Paper Award for "Characteristics of Ultra-thin
- Hafnium
Oxide Gate Dielectrics."
-
- YES
1st Prize goes to MEMStar:
- "Dedicated
to bringing electronic devices based on Micro
Electro Mechanical
Systems (MEMS) technology to consumers,"
- MEMStar
took
the top for-profit prize in the Y50K YES (Yale
- Entrepreneurial
Society)
Entrepreneurship Competition. First
- Prize was $15,000
in
cash and $15,000 in services (a lawyer
- immediately slated a
working
lunch with the winning team).
- Congratulations to
MEMStar
leader Abigail Lubow '02, EE/International
Studies major;
Rameez Saleh '02, EE/Economics major; Mark
- Meras '01,
CS
major; and Dr. James Klemic, Lecturer in BME
- and EE.
-
- Recital
by EE/Music major:
- Kimberly
Stanford '01, one of our two EE/Music double majors,
- will
give her senior vocal recital Mon., April 23, 3:00 pm,
- Branford
College Common Room, with Perry So '04 at the piano.
- Program:
Darius Milhaud, Richard Strauss, Joaquin Turina,
- and
Giuseppe Verdi.
-
- Dean
Fleury convenes Student Council:
- Tues.,
April 24, in the Becton Faculty Lounge, Dean Fleury
- will
discuss the future of engineering programs and lunch with
- the
newly formed Engineering Student Council. ESC comprises
- representatives
from our four departments, two programs,
- student
organizations (AIChE, ASME, IEEE, NESBEY, Tau
- Beta
Pi), and Freshmen interested in engineering.
An Engineering Student Advisory Committee had been
- organized
in 1979 by George Gagliardi '79, when Prof. Werner
- Wolf
chaired the Department of Engineering and Applied
- Science.
Mr.
Gagliardi is presently ending three years as
- president of
YSEA
and will continue as Treasurer of this
- alumni organization
which
assists Yale Engineering by funding
- undergraduates
research
projects and with recruiting.
-
- Senior/Special
Projects:
- Final
presentations by twelve seniors, a junior, and a
- sophomore taking
EE 472 and EE 236, "Special Projects,"
- coordinated by Prof.
Peter Kindlmann,
EE, Thurs., April 26,
- 1:00-5:30 pm, Dunham 220.
All
are invited. Pizza concludes
- the event.
-
- Whose
name will grace the 13th college?
- Robots
designed by students taking ME 185, "Mechanical
Design Studio,"
taught by Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy, will
- compete for the
honor
(imaginary) of having the 13th Yale
- residential college named
after
the winning robot's designer/builder.
- The event, also called
"Robot
Wars," complete with uniformed
- participants, exuberant
fans,
and food will happen in Davies
- Auditorium, Thurs., April 26, 4:00 pm.
Join
the fun!
-
- End
of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 512