National Engineers Week 2006
Trivia Tournament


Each department will know where to sit
the better to cheer together!


This is where Electrical Engineering will go wild


Electronic gameboard operator, Quentin Lindsey '07, and
the MC get ready


Last-minute cramming by Prof. Michael Loewenberg


The "Men in Black" team gets ready; last pointers by the MC


Here come the cheering sections

The Applied Physics Team: Men in Black!

The Biomedical Engineering Team: Hall and Oats!

The Chemical Engineering Team: Atoms' Family!

The Electrical Engineering Team: Team Z Mismatch!

The Environmental Engineering Team: Earth and Sky!

 The Mechanical Engineering Team: The Burninators


 

The Supreme Judge: Dean Paul Fleury


 


Men in Black: Prof. Ramamurti Shankar, Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Hall and Oats:
Prof. Michael Levene, Prof. Mark Saltzman
Atoms' Family: Prof. Michael Loewenberg, Prof. Gary Haller


Team Z Mismatch: Prof. Edmund Yeh, Prof. Hür Köser
Earth and Sky: Prof. Jordan Peccia, Prof. William Mitch
The Burninators: Prof. Mitchell Smooke, Prof. Eric Dufresne


"Ladies and gentlemen!"
The Master of Ceremonies, James Salzano '06, announces the categories: Home Repair, Geography, Engineering, Celebrity Gossip, and Robots


Note student concentrating (at left) and Prof. Richard Chang having a laugh (above, left of center)


They blew it

Men in Black and Hall and Oats


 Will his faculty know the answer?

 

 

 

 




Earth and Sky and The Burninators


What categories are left?


Conference: The MC checks with the electronic gamekeeper
and Prof. Smooke remonstrates to the Supreme Judge

                   The Director of Engineering Development
                   Bridget Calendo, loves it all


The long view...


...and the behind-the-scenes view: Andrew Morcus,
Facilities Manager, and his Assistant Christopher Doyle


Prof. Roman Kuc thought he would get some
work done but got swept up in the fun


David Gingerella, Business Manager, Jean Edmunds, Executive
Assistant to the Dean, James Westgate, Assistant Administrator,
Lieyang Zhou,
IT Support Specialist, Dawn Finaldi, Assistant
Administrator (front, right)

 


ME graduate student Weiwei Deng records it all for posterity


New Haven Register science reporter, Abram Katz, asks the
winning team, Mechanical Engineering's The Burninators, how
they figured out the victory-clinching answer to:
      This is the solution to this differential equation:
        y"=6y'+132y=0

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