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November 2009
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10/28, Wednesday - 11/10, Tuesday

Registration for Spring Semester 2010 for continuing students (Phase I)

11/2, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Kiran Rao Bheem Kambly
1:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Characterization of Curing Kinetics and Polymerization Shrinkage in Ceramic Particle-Loaded Resins for Large Area Maskless Photopolymerization
Committee: Dr. Suman Das, Chair (ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME), Dr. Clifford L. Henderson (ChBE)

11/2, Monday - 11/6, Friday

American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information, go to http://www.aps.org

11/2, Monday - 11/6, Friday

Woodruff School Ph.D. Oral Exams

11/3, Tuesday

The Annual Georgia Tech Majors Fair
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
This is a Career Services event; for more information, contact marge.dussich@success.gatech.edu

11/4, Wednesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Min Seok Ha
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Thermal Analysis of High Power LED Arrays
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. J. Rhett Mayor (ME)

11/5, Thursday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Janine Johnson
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermomechanical Modeling of Porous Ceramic-metal Composites Accounting for the Stochastic Nature of Their Microstructure
Committee: Dr. Jianmin Qu, Chair (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Arun Gokhale (MSE), Dr. Steve Johnson (ME), Dr. Edgar Lara-Curzio (ORNL), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Temsiri Sapsaman
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: An Energy Landscaping Approach to the Protein Folding Problem
Committee: Dr. Harvey Lipkin, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Michael Leamy (ME), Dr. Stephen Harvey (Biology), Dr. Joel Sokol (ISyE)

Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center Building, Room Theater
Title: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Speaker: Mr. David Phelps (CreoSalus, Inc.)

NRE/MP Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Wardlaw Center Building, Room Gordy Room
Title: Key Challenges Currently Faced by the NRC and the Nuclear Industry
Speaker: Chairman Gregory Jaczko (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: Feasibility and Technology Options for CO2 Capture From Transportation and Distributed Sources
Speaker: Andrei Fedorov (Woodruff School of ME, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

11/6, Friday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Benjamin Waghorn
1:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room Class
Title: Assessing Alterations in Myocardial Mn2+ Fluxes Following Myocardial Infarction in a Murine Model Using T1- Mapping Manganese-Enhanced MRI
Committee: Dr. Tom Hu, Co-Chair(MCG), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE/MP), Dr. Sang Cho (NRE/MP), Dr. Autumn Schumacher (MCG), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE/MP), Dr. Nathan Yanasak (MCG)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Adam Christensen
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Thermal Transport in Gallium Nitride Microelectronics
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Zhuomin Zhang (ME), Dr. Michael Leamy (ME), Dr. Douglas Yoder (ECE), Dr. Sankar Nair (ChBE), Dr. Donald Dorsey (AFRL)

Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

11/7, Saturday

Last day of the Georgia Tech 2009-2010 Charitable Campaign
You may donate at www.techworks.gatech.edu

11/10, Tuesday

Last day to register for Spring Semester 2010 for continuing students (Phase I)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Dimitri Hughes
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Facilitated Characterization of a CPOx Fuel Reformer Using insitu Measurements
Committee: Dr. Comas Haynes, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Premkumar Nagarathnam
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Novel Carbon Nanotube Interfaces for Microelectronics
Committee: Dr. Sam Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Min Seok Ha
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Thermal Analysis of High Power LED Arrays
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. J. Rhett Mayor (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Mohammad Jeelani
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Integration and Characterization of Micromachined Optical Microphones
Committee: Dr. Levent Degertekin, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. Daniel Baldwin (ME)

Woodruff School Staff Meeting with School Chair Bill Wepfer
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

11/11, Wednesday

Dinner for the Woodruff School Advisory Board
By invitation

Meeting of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Advisory Board
All day - Contact Rarzad Rahnema for more details

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Matthew Rogge
1:30 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: In-Process Sensing of Weld Penetration Depth Using Non-Contact Laser Ultrasound System
Committee: Dr. Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. Ye-Hwa Chen (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Jennifer Michaels (ECE), Dr. George Vachtsevanos (ECE)

11/12, Thursday

College of Engineering Advisory Board Reception and Dinner

Woodruff School Advisory Board Meeting
MRDC Building, Room 4211 and other locations to be announced
All Day

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jay Johnson
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Defect and Thickness Inspection System for Cast Thin Films using Machine Vision and Full-field Transmission Densitometry
Committee: Dr. Tequila Harris, Chair (ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Wayne Daley (GTRI)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Cheng Shu Ngoo
3:45 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Admittance and Impedance Haptic Control for Realization of Digital Clay as an Effective HMI Device
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME)

11/13, Friday

College of Engineering Advisory Board Meeting
for more information, go to www.coe.gatech.edu

Deadline to submit abstracts for the 14th Annual Hilton Head Workshops on Heart Valve Biology and Tissue Engineering and on Regenerative Medicine to be held the week of March 7-13th on Hilton Head Island.
Go to www.hiltonhead.gatech.edu for more details

Non-ME Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Building Building, Room KACB 1116W
Title: Evolving Efficiencies in Data Center Design and Operation-- Please note corrected time change**
Speaker: Mr. Scottt Noteboom (Yahoo, Sr. Director of Data Center Engineering and Operations)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Philip Abramson
11:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Fluidic Control of Steering Forces and Moments on an Axisymmetric Body
Committee: Dr. Ari Glezer, Chair (ME), Dr. Bojan Vukasinovic (ME), Dr. Mark Costello (AE)

ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) Competition
5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
MaRC Building Atrium and Auditorium
Contact Bill Singhose for more information.

11/13, Friday - 11/14, Saturday

GT EcoCAR to be displayed at Enviro Expo USA
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Georgia World Congress Center
For more information on EcoCAR, visit

11/15, Sunday - 11/20, Friday

ASME International Congress and Exposition
Swan and Dolphin Hotel, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Go to www.asmeconferences.org/Congress09 for more information

11/16, Monday

Cross registration application deadline for spring 2010

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Koji Intlekofer
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Environmental Implications of Leasing
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Mark Ferguson (COM), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME)

11/17, Tuesday

Information Session for volunteers for the State of Georgia FIRST Lego League Championship to be held on Saturday, January 23rd at the Georgia Tech Student Center
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2448
For more information, see: http://georgiafill.org/. For more details about volunteering, contact Jeff Rosen at 404-385-2431 or jrosen2@mail.gatech.edu. lego09.pdf>Volunteer Information

11/19, Thursday

NRE 8011/8012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Design Features of IRIS, an Advanced Integral Pressurized Water Reactor
Speaker: Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11/20, Friday

Georgia Tech benefits open enrollment period ends
The first day of open enrollment is October 26th

Fluid Mechanics Seminar
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Topological Behavior of Rotating Two-Fluid Interfaces
Speaker: Prof. Yasushi Takeda (Hokkaido University, Division of Energy and Environmental Systems)

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

11/22, Sunday

Deadline for faculty, staff, and students to submit nominations for the CETL/BP Teaching Assistant (TA) Awards
for the new online form, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com>

11/23, Monday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Azam Thatte
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: Multi-Scale Multi-Physics Model and Hybrid Computational Framework for Predicting Dynamics of Hydraulic Rod Seals
Committee: Dr. Richard Salant, Chair (ME), Dr. Jeffrey Streator (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Robert Braun (AE), Dr. Emily Nelson (NASA Glenn)

11/24, Tuesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Tyler Sumner
10:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Effects of Fuel Type on the Safety Characteristics of a Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor
Committee: Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, Chair (ME/NRE), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Bojan Petrovic (NRE), Dr. Weston Stacey (NRE), Dr. C. K. Wang (NRE), Dr. John Zino (GE)

11/26, Thursday - 11/27, Friday

Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes)

11/30, Monday

Deadline to submit applications for the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE SCGF)
For more information about the program, eligibility, and application, go to: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Modeling and Applications of Vibration Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Transduction
Speaker: Mr. Alper Erturk (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA)
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