Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 14, 2002

 

Engineering Sesquicentennial Alumni Reunion 

October 18-20

 

Speakers:

Wed., Oct. 16, 1:00 pm, Mason 107.

Solid State and Optics Seminar:

"Fun with Josephson Junctions: Quantum Bits and Quantum Ratchets,"

Prof. Kenneth Segall, MIT.

Host: Prof. Daniel Prober.

 

Wed., Oct. 16, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.

Mechanical Engineering Seminar:

"Granular Shear Flow: Memory in Sand," Prof. Wolfgang Losert,

Physics, University of Maryland.

Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern.

 

Wed., Oct. 16, 4:00 pm, Davies Auditorium, Becton.

Engineering Sesquicentennial Distinguished Lecturer Series/

Tetelman Lecture:

"Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems," Prof. Mark E. Davis, 

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology.

Host: Dean Paul A. Fleury.

 

Thurs., Oct. 17, 4:00 pm, Becton 3rd floor alcove.

"Research on Semiconductor Nanodevices and Nanostructured

Materials in Brazil," Prof. E. F. da Silva Jr., Departamento de

Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitaria, Recife, Brazil.

Host: Prof. T.P. Ma.

 

Fri., Oct. 18, 2:30 pm, SSS 114.

"Capital, Espionage, and Engineering: How Itek's High Tech

Products Destroyed the Iron Curtain," Mr. Jonathan Lewis,

Co-Chairman, Intelligence Capabilities Action Group at Business

Executives for National Security (BENS).

Host: Prof. Richard Lethin.

Sponsors: Department of Electrical Engineering, International

Security Studies, Yale University Press.

 

NOBEL PRIZE for ChE Prof. Emeritus Fenn:

John Fenn, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, has

won the Nobel Prize for work done in Mason Lab at Yale (it may be the first time that work done in an engineering department has

been recognized with a Nobel prize). 

 

Dr. Fenn shares the Prize with Dr. Koichi Tanaka of Japan

and Dr. Kurt Wuethrich of Switzerland. The Prize recognizes the

importance of advances in the analytical chemistry of large

biological molecules that will have huge societal impact and

may lead to the understanding the processes of life itself.

The techniques developed by the Nobel Laureates assist with

diagnosing cancer, monitoring doping in sports, analyzing

environmental pollution, etc. Winners will share a $1 million prize.

 

John Fenn received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1940, 

worked in industry, and then joined the faculty of the 

Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale, where he 

taught and did research for 20 years (1967-1987) until mandated retirement (the laws have since changed). He continued at Yale as a Senior Research Scientist in Chemical

Engineering until 1994. See Prof. Fenn at Yale.

 

In honor of Yale Engineering Sesquicentennial:

Beinecke Library hosts "A Selection of Notable Books in the 

History of Engineering" through the end of October. The 

exhibit features first or early edition works of such seminal 

figures as Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, James 

Clerk Maxwell, and Josiah Willard Gibbs, dating from the 

16th through the 19th centuries.

The exhibit is on the north side of the mezzanine.

 

Students (future alumni!) are encouraged to attend Engineering Sesquicentennial Alumni Reunion events. Program

 

Debates: Semifinal-Sun., Final-Sat., Oct. 19:

Semifinal topic: "Resolved: The Kyoto Protocol is about Catharsis, not Crisis." Sun., Oct. 13, noon-2:00 pm, Davies Auditorium and Dunham 220.

 

Team #1:  Joshua Bendor, Anjun Sundaram (EE), Mehul Kamdar (EE), Samuel Walker.

 

Team #4:  Jennifer Rost (BME), Leo Shklovski (CS), Gary Green (BME). 

 

Team #5:  Anthony DiFranco (AP), Emmett Shear, Vladimir Vladimirov.

 

Team #6:  Goran Lynch (EE), Zachary Dennett (ME).

 

The final debate will be held during the Alumni Reunion

Sat., Oct. 19, 4:00 pm, Davies Auditorium. Alumni will

determine the winning team.

 

YES:

Y50K Educational Session on "Creativity and Management in

Entrepreneurship" by Patricia Sanders, Ph.D., Vice President

for Academic Affairs at Teikyo Post University, Waterbury, CT.

Dr. Sanders has implemented management development programs

for executives in Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Greece, Poland,  
Hungary, and Ukraine. Mon. Oct 14, 7:00 pm, WLH 208:

 

Engineering Library workshop:

Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences  
databases Tues., Oct. 15, 4:00 pm.

 

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