Faculty of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, June 3, 2002   Enjoy a look:     The Commencement Engineering Reception was a resounding     success. Graduating Engineering Prize winners and their beaming     parents, relatives, and friends enjoyed chocolate dipped strawberries     and mingled with faculty members, some in their academic regalia     adding the perfect touch to the occasion. Becton Faculty Lounge     was filled to capacity when Dean Paul Fleury, assisted by     Prof. Roman Kuc, awarded the prizes. Take a look at some     outstanding new Yale engineering alumni at     www.eng.yale.edu/news/prize_winners_02.htm   Incoming graduate students:     Our Graduate Admissions Committee selected our new crop of     graduate students from a pool of ~540 applicants. Our new graduate     students are from the U.S. and from Canada, Belgium, Greece,     India, Korea, New Zealand, the Peoples Republic of China, Singapore,     and Vietnam. The Admissions Committee consisted of Prof. Eric     Altman, ChE; Prof. Michel Devoret, AP; Prof. Menachem     Elimelech, ChE; Prof. Jung Han, EE; Prof. Yiorgos Makris, EE & CS;     Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE; Prof. Robert Schoelkopf, AP & Phys;     Prof. Mitchell Smooke, ME; Prof. Lawrence Staib, Diagnostic     Radiology & EE; and Prof. Wei Tong, ME. The Graduate Admissions     Committee was chaired by Prof. John Walz, ChE.   Wine and neural networks:      Manuel Duarte-Mermoud '85 M.S., '86 M.Phil., '88 Ph.D.,      now a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Chile,      persuaded Prof. Kumpati Narendra, EE, to assist with      developing an intelligent instrumentation system based on      artificial neural networks to identify grape varieties from which      Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines are produced.      The project is sponsored by the Chilean National Committee of      Science and Technology, University of Chile, and U.S.      companies. Prof. Narendra, a wine connoisseur, is looking      forward to sampling Chilean wines also with some alumni      when he is in Santiago in December.        Before then, Prof. Narendra will visit a number of universities      in India (June and October) and give plenary talks at international      conferences in Japan (August) and in Ireland, Scotland, and      Singapore (September).   Speaking of travel:      Prof. Marshall Long, ME, is just back from a most enjoyable      ~5,000-mile ride to New Mexico and back on his BMW R1150GS.   Congratulations!     Jason Kroon, Financial Assistant, is getting married June 1 to      Sara Abbe of Hamden, whom he met when both were undergraduates      at the University of Michigan. The bride received her Master of      Divinity degree from the Yale Divinity School a week ago and will      be seeking a position as a chaplain or minister. The newlyweds      will spend their honeymoon in Hawaii.   If you hear of anything:      Denis Lobov, who has ably assisted the Faculty of Engineering      with financial accounting since August 2000, is leaving us May 31.      Mr. Lobov and his wife, Natalia, have two sons, three-year old      Nikolai and one-year old Mikhail. Mr. Lobov would welcome leads      about financial positions in the area. He has six years experience      in financial accounting and graduated from Albertus Magnus with      honors last December, 2001.   Statistics remind us:      Our website, www.eng.yale.edu, had 3.6 million requests between      Jan. 1 and May 24, an average of 25,676 hits per day. Such interest      is reason enough to keep our information up to date. Please check      your homepage and the other pages related to your research and      contact our Webmaster (right from each web page) if anything      needs to be revised.   Do you have what they need?      Josh Collins '94 ChE, Senior Manager, Tungsten Technology, Novellus      Systems, Inc., is looking for process engineers to work on CVD tungsten      and related deposition systems. He needs Ph.D.'s with "excellent      hands-on experimental skills, the ability to design and drive complex      development projects, and solid fundamental skills in transport      phenomena, reaction kinetics, and semiconductor technology."      Visit www.novellus.com/index.htm and contact Mr. Collins at      <josh.collins@novellus.com>   Have a great summer!     The next issue of our Engineering Bulletin will reach you in     late August.   End of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 552