Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday

"Fast Wafer Alignment Simulation for State-of-the-art Photolithography,"

Dr. Qiang (Ken) Wu, IBM Microelectronics, Hopewell Junction, NY.

Host: Prof. Robert Grober.

"From Uncertain Geometry to Reliable Visual Contour Computation,"

Jonas August, Electrical Engineering. Refreshments served at 3:45 pm.

Host: Graduate Studies Office.

"Electric Polarization as a Berry’s Phase," Prof. David Vanderbilt,

Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University.

Host: Prof. Charles Ahn.

"The Role of Disjoining Pressure in Three Phase Contact of a

Liquid Drop on a Deformable Substrate," Prof. Lee R. White,

Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA.

Host: Prof. John Walz.

"The Measurement of Surface Forces Between a Rigid Probe

Particle and a Liquid Drop by Atomic Force Microscopy,"

Prof. Lee R. White, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA.

Host: Prof. John Walz.

"Colloidal Suspensions: Model Systems for Complex Materials,"

Prof. Anthony Dinsmore, Harvard University.

Host: Prof. Marshall Long.

"Micro-Macro Modeling, Computational Testing and Design of

Advanced Materials," Dr. Tarek Zohdi, Institut für Baumechanik

und Numerische Mechanik, Universität Hannover, Germany.

Host: Prof. Marshall Long.

Jean Edmunds will join us April 16 as the Executive Assistant

to Dean Fleury. At Yale since 1975, Ms. Edmunds has held positions

in the Medical School, the Graduate School, and with undergraduate

programs. For the past 12 years she worked in the Provost's Office

as the Administrative Associate to the Deputy Provost. Ms. Edmunds,

having resumed her education after raising a family, expects to receive

her B.A. from Albertus Magnus in 2002 with a major in the social

sciences and a minor in communications. And she'll keep going,

she says, because she loves to learn.

The Department of Defense awarded 16 research grants to 14 academic

institutions to conduct nano-technology research in basic science

and engineering and 17 equipment grants for support of this

research and for graduate students. The competition drew 334 white

papers which generated 95 proposals from which 16 were funded.

The nanotechnology equipment competition drew 89 proposals;

17 were funded.

Prof. Mark Reed, EE, will share in two grants to do research

at Yale on "Characterization of Nano-scale Elements, Devices, and

Systems" and on "Polymeric Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics."

The average award is $1 million per year for three years; funding

is possible for additional years.

If you missed Dean Fleury's interview in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar

on his goals for Yale's engineering programs and the strategy for

achieving those goals, you can read it at www.yale.edu/opa/v29.n23/story5.html

To advance the teaching of invention and innovation in American

higher education, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators

Alliance, NCIIA offers:

Up to $50,000 Faculty Grants to help:

--Plan and implement a course/project that encourages students to innovate

--Purchase equipment and supplies

--Pay for travel and guest speakers

$1,000 to $20,000 Student E-Team Grants to help:

--Develop and prototype a new product/technology with commercial
potential

--Research the market and create a business plan

--Perform patent searches

--Purchase equipment and supplies

--Pay for travel.

Deadline: May 15.
For specifics, visit www.nciia.org/grants/index.shtml