Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, May 27, 2002

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES!

 

Commencement Engineering Reception:

    Dean Paul Fleury invites faculty, students, and staff to our

    Commencement Engineering Reception Mon., May 27, 2:30 pm,

    Becton Faculty Lounge, where he will have the pleasure of

    awarding the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Prizes.

 

Prof. Wolf to carry mace at Commencement:

    As the Senior Marshal at Commencement, Professor Emeritus

    Werner Wolf, AP & Phys, will carry the mace and lead seniors in

    procession through the New Haven Green, then lead the banners

    at the start of Commencement. Prof. Wolf and the Corporation

    Marshal will assist in the hooding of the honorary degree recipients.

 

Speaker:

Fri., May 31, 11:00 am, Mason 107.

Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar:

    "Engineering Biomimetic Surfaces with Spatially and Dynamically

    Controlled Properties," Prof. Joerg Lahann, Department of Chemical

    Engineering, MIT.

    Host: Prof. John Walz.

 

Congratulations:

    --The Acoustical Society of America will award a Gold Medal at its

    bi-annual meeting in Pittsburgh in June to Prof. Robert Apfel, ME,

    "for fundamental contributions to physical acoustics and biomedical

    ultrasound and innovative leadership in electronic publishing."

 

    Prof. Apfel was President of ASA from 1995 to 1996.

 

   -- The Analytical Section of the Swedish Chemical Society has chosen

    Prof. Csaba Horváth, ChE, "as the sole receiver of the Torbern

    Bergman Medal, 2003." Prof. Horváth will give the Medal Lecture

    in Stockholm next June, with the Swedish Society handling all

    arrangements. An honorarium accompanies the medal.

 

    --Prof. A. Stephen Morse is the recipient from Purdue University

    of its 2002 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award.

 

Never too late for applause:

    As heard through the grapevine, Mr. Nicholas Bernardo, Research

    Support Specialist for the Faculty of Engineering, was hugely appreciated

    by the students who worked on building robots for the "Robot Challenge."

    If his help was needed, Mr. Bernardo was in the shop at 6:00 am; he

    missed part of the competition, because he was helping students fix

    last-minute robot problems.

 

Doctoral area examination:

    Zhong Tao: "Segmentation of Myocardium and Blood in Ultrasound Cardiac

    Images." Committee: Prof. Hemant Tagare, Prof. James Duncan,

    Prof. Lawrence Staib, Prof. Roman Kuc.

    April 9.

 

    Reinford Williamson: "Ultrasound Mediated Gene Transfection." Committee:

    Prof. Robert Apfel, Prof. Csaba Horváth, Prof. John Walz.

    May 2.

 

    Xiaohui Li: "Microfabrication for Planar PDMS Patch Electrode Array,

    Mesoscale Combustor, and Nanowell Array." Committee: Prof. Mark Reed,

    Prof. Frederick Sigworth, Prof. Alessandro Gomez, Prof. James Duncan.

    May 17.

 

NSBE-Yale officers for 2002-03:

    President: Tiffanee Green JE '03

    Vice-President: Tundi-Daro Mott TC '05

    Secretary: Nathan Hood SM '04

    Treasurer: Daisy Tawiah DC '05

    Faculty adviser: Prof. Kailasnath Purushothaman.

 

Yale AIChE student chapter 2002-03 officers:

    President: Youjung Byon '03

    Vice-President, External Affairs: Preetham Reddy '04,

    Vice President, Internal Affairs: Joshua Buck '04

    Treasurer: Edward Pritchett '05

    Secretary: Bryan Cory '04

    Faculty adviser: Prof. Michael Loewenberg.

 

YSEES officers for next year:

    Skye Gruen '03

    Jessica Lawson '03

    Gordon Gray '04

    Kathryn Johnson '04

    Philip Gerhardt '04

    Faculty adviser: Prof. Roger Ely.

 

Engineering Library will be closed:

    Mon., May 27, Memorial Day, the Engineering Library will be closed.

 

End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 551