- Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, March 4, 2002
Speakers:
Mon.,
March 4, 2:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Mechanical
Engineering Special Seminar:
- "Thin-Film
Metal Alloys for MEMS by Combinatorial
- Synthesis,"
Dr. Ainissa G. Ramirez, Bell Laboratories,
- Lucent
Technologies. Murray Hill, NJ.
- Host:
Prof. Marshall Long.
-
- Mon.,
March 4, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Monday
Evening Seminar:
- "A
Gaussian-optical Approach to Asymmetric Resonant
- Cavities,"
Hakan Tureci, Physics Department.
- Refreshments
at 3:30, Mason Lounge.
- Advisor:
Prof. A. Douglas Stone.
-
- Tues.,
March 5, 4:00 pm, Davies Auditorium, Becton Center.
- ENGINEERING
SESQUICENTENNIAL LECTURE:
- "Developing
Segways: The Struggle for Smooth Transitions
- between
Research and Production," Dr. John B. Morrell '86,
- Lead
Dynamics Engineer of the Segway Human Transporter
- Project,
DEKA Corporation.
-
- Wed.,
March 6, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
- Mechanical
Engineering Seminar:
- "Electric
Measurements of Charged Sprays Emitted by Cone-Jets,"
- Dr.
Manuel Gamero-Castano, Busek Co., Inc., Natick, MA.
- Host:
Prof. Juan Fernandez de la Mora.
-
- Wed.,
March 6, 4:00 pm, Mason 211.
- Department
of Chemical Engineering Seminar:
- "Structure
and Chemistry of TiO2 -Anatase Surfaces,"
- Prof.
Annabella Selloni, Department of Chemistry,
- Princeton.
- Host:
Prof. Eric Altman.
-
- Thurs.,
March 7, 10:30 am, Mason 107.
- Special
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
- "DeSOx
and DeNOx Reactions on Model Oxide Catalysts:
- Photoemission,
XANES, and Density Functional Studies,"
- Dr.
J.A. Rodriguez, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven
- National
Laboratory, Upton, NY.
- Host:
Prof. Lisa Pfefferle.
-
- Thurs.,
March 7, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
- Condensed
Matter Physics Seminar:
- "Ground
Rules: Quantum Computation using a Zero Energy
- State,"
Prof. Ari Mizel, Pennsylvania State University.
- Host:
Prof. Steven Girvin.
-
- Final
doctoral examination:
- Jin-ping
Han was examined Fri., March 1, 5:00 pm, Becton
- Center
508. Thesis: "Ferroelectric SrBi2Ta2O9 (SBT) and
- Metal/Ferroelectric/Insulator/Si
Transistor for Memory
- Applications."
Faculty committee: Prof. T.-P. Ma, Prof. Richard
- Barker,
Prof. Jerry Woodall, and Prof. Charles Ahn.
-
- For
undergraduates in the ABET program:
- Two
Professional Engineers will discuss with our ABET
- students
how ethics questions come up when pursuing the
engineering profession,
also PE licensing. Mon., March 4, 5:00-7:00 pm,
Becton
Faculty lounge.
-
- Mr.
Mark I. Austin, PE, Environmental Engineer for the
- City
of Bristol, has 8 years experience with design and
- construction
of municipal facilities and infrastructure and
- compliance
with environmental regulations. He is the
- president
of the Connecticut chapter of the National Society
- of
Professional Engineers and is involved with the national
- office
as the Northeast Regional Representative of the
- Young
Engineers Advisory Council, member of the
- Mentoring
Task force, and a mentor. He serves on the
- Civil
Engineering Advisory Board at the University of
- Connecticut.
- Mr.
Charles A. Warren Jr., PE, has over 40 years of
- professional
experience in the design, construction, operation,
- maintenance,
management and demolition of facilities,
- from
foundations and structure to life safety and finishes.
- For
the last 20 years he has been self-employed with Warren
- Engineering
Reports. Mr. Warren serves on the board of
- the
Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers and
- belongs
to a number of other professional associations.
Undergraduates
at Sikorsky:- Coordinator
for Educational Affairs Ms. Jane Boone took
- Charles
Ambler '05, Rachel Burnes '03, David Davis '04, and
- Edward
Stewart '03 to visit Sikorsky in Stratford, CT, Fri. 22.
- Sikorsky
treated them to lunch, engineer-led tours of the
- Comanche
Lab, Test Engineering Fatigue Lab, Blade Shop,
- Final
Assembly facility, and to a Panel Discussion and Q&A
- with
six engineers who also discussed internship and
- employment
opportunities at Sikorsky.
-
- Dine
with a professor, invites YSEA-Undergrad:
- Come
to dinner at Branford College March 4, 5:30 pm,
- to
enjoy the company of Prof. Steven Segal, Professor
- of
Cellular & Molecular Physiology, and fellow students. RSVP <youjung.byon@yale.edu>
Also, visit www.yale.edu/ysea
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