- Faculty of
Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 14, 2001
-
- Commencement
Engineering Reception:
- Faculty and Staff
please note on your calendars the Commencement
- Engineering
Reception, to be held Mon., May 21, 2:30 to 4:00 pm
- in the Becton
Plaza. Dean Fleury will award the Engineering
- Prizes, and we
will have the pleasure of enjoying refreshments
- in the company of
our new graduates and their proud parents
- and friends.
-
- Yale Combustion
Center receives $2.4 million:
- Instead of
batteries, DARPA wants small devices that convert
- high-energy
content fuels to electricity to power its many
- emerging
missions. DARPA has awarded the Yale Combustion
- Center a $2.4
million, three-year research grant to develop
- the technology
for power generation in miniaturized systems
- using liquid
hydrocarbons. Prof. Alessandro Gomez, ME,
- will head the
Yale combustion team comprising Dr. James
- Klemic,
EE,
Prof.
Marshall Long, ME, Prof. Lisa Pfefferle, ChE,
- Prof.
Mark Reed,
EE, Prof. Daniel Rosner, ChE, and
- Prof.
Mitchell Smooke, ME. For specifics, visit
- www.eng.yale.edu/news/events.html
-
- Final doctoral
examination:
- The examination
of Guowen Zheng will take place Wed.,
- May 16,
10:00
am, Mason 107. The thesis, "Atomic-scale
- Mechanisms
of Oxidation
Reactions," is available for review
- at
Dunham 239. The
faculty adviser is Prof. Eric Altman, ChE.
-
- Engineering
alumni, outstanding
- At its annual
dinner on April 25 in the Presidents Room,
- Woolsey Hall, the
Yale
Science and Engineering Association
- conferred its
annual awards. All three awards went to
- Engineering
alumni:
- Ralph T. Yang,
MS '68, Ph.D. '71, received the
- Award for the
Advancement of Basic and Applied Science,
- Henry B.
Schacht '56 B.S. received the
- Award for
Distinguished Service to Industry, Commerce or Education,
- William Henry
Oler II 1945E received the
- Award for
Meritorious Service to Yale University.
- The
citations are at www.eng.yale.edu/news/awards.html
-
- Accept our
admiration, Prof. and Mrs. Prober:
- Prof. Daniel
Prober, AP, and Mrs. Sharon Prober must have
- provided the
right kind of example, educational background
- and support,
because on May 7 their 18 year-old son Joshua
- was one of 20
recipients of the highest Congressional medal
- available to a
young person (the only other Congressional medal
- is the Medal of
Honor). Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro conferred
- the Congressional
Award Bronze Medal on the Hopkins School
- senior for
exceptional academic and physical achievements and
- for contributions
to the community (New Haven Register, 5/8/01).
- The award
ceremonies were held at the Hopkins Malone Science
- Center, erected
with funds donated by John C. Malone EE '63
- who is providing
$24 million toward the construction of our
- new engineering
building, to be designed by Cesar Pelli Associates.
- Joshua Prober
will study political science at Brandeis University.
-
- Deadline
approaching for collegiate inventors:
- June 1 is the
deadline for submitting entries to the Collegiate
- Inventors
Competition. Student winners/ teams receive $20,000
- and faculty
advisers receive $10,000, visit
www.invent.org/collegiate
- (do look up
previous Yale winners). If you need specific questions
- answered, contact
program coordinator Mr. Ray DePuy,
- 330/849-6887.
-
- YSEA
survey:
- The Yale Science
and Engineering Association was delighted
- at the thoughtful
feedback provided by 25 students who
- responded to the
survey. Haroon Sethi '03, Trumbull, was
- the winner of the
$50 gift certificate.
-
- Have you renewed
your parking space?
- Do it online
at
www.yale.edu/hronline/selfservice/
-
- Commencement
information:
- www.yale.edu/commencement/
-
- When to be kind:
- "Life
is short, and we do not have much time to gladden
- the hearts of those
who travel with us. So be swift to
- love and make haste
to be kind."
-
Anonymous, 13th century
-
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