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December 2008
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12/1, Monday

First day undergraduate and graduate engineering students to submit a Letter of Intent for the CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) $150,000 Prize for Primary Healthcare
View www.cimit.org for more information about the prize and entry procedures

Collaborative Seed Grant Information Session
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
RSVP to connie.snipes@emory.edu

12/2, Tuesday

The 2008 Gegenheimer Lecture On Innovation
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: Noise in Hospitals: Effects and Cures
Speaker: Jim West (Johns Hopkins University)
A reception will be held after the lecture in the Galleries of the Ferst Center. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Omkar Karhade
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Scanning Micro Interferometer with Tunable Diffraction Grating for Low Noise Parallel Operation
Committee: Dr. Levent Degertekin, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Thomas Kurfess (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. Ali Adibi (ECE)

12/3, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Women's Forum Silent Auction
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
All proceeds will benefit the Georgia Tech Women's Forum Scholarship Fund. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. for inspection of bid items. Bid closings every five minutes, beginning at noon.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Rachel Valade
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Development and Verification of a Simplified Building Energy Model
Committee: Dr. Sheldon Jeter, Chair (ME), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME), Dr. Ruchi Choudhary (ARCH)

Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

12/4, Thursday

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Wind Science and Engineering
Speaker: Scott Schreck (NREL's National Wind Technology Center)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seaminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116W
Title: Radiation Damage and Thermal Transport in UO2 by Atomic Level Simulations
Speaker: Taku Watanabe (Georgia Tech)

Capstone Design (ME 4182) Expo
6:00 p.m.
MaRC Building Atrium

12/5, Friday

Last day of fall term classes

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Wind Power: History, Technology and Future Development
Speaker: Amir S. Mikhail (Clipper Windpower)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Fang Liu
2:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Monte Carlo Modeling of an X-Ray Fluorescence Detection System by the MCNP Code
Committee: Dr. Sang Hyun Cho, Chair (NRE/MP), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE/MP), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE/MP)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Rajesh Prasannavenkatesan
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Microstructure-Sensitive Fatigue Modeling of Heat Treated and Shot Peened Martensitic Gear Steels
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Ken A. Gall (MSE), Dr. Gregory B. Olson (Northwestern University) (MSE)

12/8, Monday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Chih-Chieh Hu
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Mechanistic Modeling of Evaporating Thin Liquid Film Instability on a BWR Fuel Rod with Parallel and Cross Vapor Flow
Committee: Dr. Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (NRE), Dr. Yingjie Liu (Math.), Dr. Mostafa H. Ammar (CoC)

12/8, Monday - 12/12, Friday

Final Exams for Fall Term

12/9, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joshua Rast
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: Characterizing the Fatigue Damage in Non-Traditional Laminates of Carbon Fiber Composites Using Radiography
Committee: Dr. Steve Johnson, Chair (ME/MSE), Dr. Erian Armanios (AE), Dr. Rick Neu (ME)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Longke Wang
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Adaptive Robust Control of Variable Displacement Pump
Committee: Dr. Wayne J. Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. David G. Taylor (ECE), Dr. Perry Y. Li (ME(UMN))

12/10, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Adam Christensen
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Multiscale Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Phonon Transport in Microelectronics
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Douglas Yoder (ECE), Dr. Zhuomin Zhang (ME), Dr. Michael Leamy (ME), Dr. Sankar Nair (ChBE), Dr. Donald Dorsey (AFRL)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Thomas Forbes
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Electrohydrodynamics and Ionization in the Array of Micromachined UltraSonic Electrospray (AMUSE) Ion Source
Committee: Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME), Dr. Thomas Orlando (Chem), Dr. David Muddiman (NCSU-Chem)

Holiday Coffee and Tea Social for Woodruff School Faculty
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Sponsored by the Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee

12/11, Thursday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Narasimhan Swaminathan
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Stress-Defect Transport Interactions in Ionic Solids
Committee: Dr. Jianmin Qu, Chair (ME), Dr. Paul. A. Kohl (ChBE), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE), Dr. David. L. McDowell (ME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME)

12/12, Friday

Master's and Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Alexander Memorial Coliseum

12/13, Saturday

Fall Term Commencement

Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Alexander Memorial Coliseum

12/15, Monday

Last day to register to compete for The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech
View http://inventureprize.gatech.edu for more information.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Hanif Hunter
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Formation and Break Down of Microscale Liquid Jets
Committee: Dr. Ari Glezer, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME)

Deadline to enter final grades for the fall 2008 semester
12:00 p.m.
Grade entry can be accessed through BuzzPort or directly through OSCAR

12/16, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Hanif Hunter
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Formation and Break Down of Microscale Liquid Jets
Committee: Dr. Ari Glezer, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Stephanie Thompson
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: A Quantitative Foundation for Risk Management in the Design Process
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Bert Bras (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISyE), Dr. Baabak Ashuri (CoA)

12/17, Wednesday

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

12/19, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals for the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation Supported Workshops
Download applications at www.bsf.org.il. Submit applications by e-mail to bsf@bsf.org.il.

Deadline to submit nominations for the fall semester Woodruff School Outstanding Employee Achievement Award
MRDC Building, Room 4204
Submit nominations by Noon

Deadline for Woodruff School academic faculty to submit graduate student needs for fall 2009 to the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Contact Dave Rosen

12/31, Wednesday

Last day for advanced registration for the April 2009 Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration by the National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research
For more information and registration, go to: http://www.osp.gatech.edu/NIH_Seminar.html

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