Home    •    Site Map    •    Contact Us    •    Employment    •    Campus Map    •    Giving to Tech    •    Georgia Tech    •    College of Engineering
Site Search:
Calendar of Events   |   Lectures   |   News & Information   |   Publications   |   Seminars   |   Submit your Seminar
March 2008
Select a Day:
Select a Month:

3/1, Saturday

Deadline to submit nominations for the 2008 Ziegler Outstanding Educator Award in the Woodruff School
For more information, contact Jon Colton, Committee Chair, at jcolton@gatech.edu

Deadline to submit applications for the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science Program (SURE) at Georgia Tech
Visit http://www.sure.gatech.edu for more information

Deadline to submit applications for the third review cycle of the National Research Council of the National Academies Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards
For detailed information, view www.nationalacademies.org/rap. Direct questions to the NRC at 202-334-2760 or rap@nas.edu

Deadline for Graduate Asmissions applications for summer term 2008

3/3, Monday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Vietnam Education Foundation U.S. Faculty Scholar Grants for Academic Year 2008-2009
For more details and an application, see http://application.vef.gov/ufsp/

Deadline to submit applications for the Vietnam Education Foundation U.S. Faculty Scholar Grant Program
http://application.vef.gov/ufsg

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
MaRC Building, Room 431
Meeting begins at 4:10 p.m.

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Christopher Golden
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Analysis of Surface Form Errors in Rings of Non-Uniform Cross-Section due to Workholding and Machining Loads
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Liang (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME)

Woodruff School Faculty Development Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.
Love Builing, Room 210

3/3, Monday - 3/7, Friday

Woodruff School Oral Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

3/4, Tuesday

Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

3/5, Wednesday

Deadline to submit nominations of Ph.D. candidates for 2008-2009 Intel Fellowships
Nominations must be submitted online. Questions, contact S. Danyluk (MaRC)

The ISyE Distingished Lecture
Title: Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation
Speaker: Lawrence Wein (Stanford University)
For more information on the upcoming lecture visit www.isye.gatech.edu/news-events/dls/wein.php

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Jamil Ahmad
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Development of Thin Film Interfacial Fracture Testing Technique using an Intrinsically Stressed Electroplated Metal Layer
Committee: Dr. Suresh Sitaraman, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Olivier Pierron (ME), Dr. Ken Gall (MSE), Dr. Jud Ready (MSE/GTRI)

Woodruff School Instructional Laboratory Committee
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3319

Medical Physics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MS&E Buillding, Room 3201A
Title: Multimodal Imaging of Breast Cancer in Genetically Engineered Mouse Models
Speaker: Minghua Xu (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

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

3/6, Thursday

Woodruff School Town Hall Meeting: Meet the New Chair of the Woodruff School
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2406
All undergraduate ME students are invited.

3/7, Friday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Emad Samadiani
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers Via Open Multi-Scale Design
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Farrokh Mistree (ME), Dr. Janet Allen (ME), Dr. Karsten Schwan (COC), Dr. Thorsten Stoesser (CE), Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann (IBM Yorktown Research Ctr.), Dr. Madhusudan K. Iyengar (IBM Fishkill)

3/10, Monday - 3/11, Tuesday

Regents' Testing Program

3/11, Tuesday

Celebrating Teaching Day at Georgia Tech
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
For more information about this even and to register, go to www.cetl.gatech.edu

Town Hall Meeting with Mr. Troy A. Clarke, President of General Motors North America
1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Student Competition Center (Tin Building)

3/11, Tuesday - 3/12, Wednesday

3D All Silicon System Integration: An Industry-Academic Consortium Workshop
Manufacturing Research Center Building
View visit www.prc.gatech.edu/events/3dassi for more details

3/12, Wednesday

4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium (Competitive Research)
View gss2007.sga.gatech.edu for more information

Deadline for degree petitions and approved programs of study for master's candidates to be received by the Registrar's Office for Summer Commencement. (Departmental deadlines may vary.)

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters and Appeals)

Last day in spring semester to withdraw from school with W grades in all courses

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Lunch will following meeting

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Snakes on a Plane
Speaker: David Hu (The Courant Institute)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Wichit Liewkongsataporn
4:00 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: A Numerical Study of Pulse-Combustor Jet Impingement Heat Transfer
Committee: Dr. Tim Patterson, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Fred Ahrens (ME), Dr. Cyrus Aidun (ME), Dr. Jeff Empie (ChBE), Dr. Jim Frederick (ChBE)

3/13, Thursday

Institute raduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Omkar Karhade
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Scanning Micro Interferometer Arrays with Tunable Diffraction Gratings for Parallel Operation
Committee: Dr. Levent Degertekin, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Thomas Kurfess (ME, Clemson Univ), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. Ali Adibi (ECE)

3/13, Thursday - 3/15, Saturday

Peachtree Regional FIRST Robotics Competition
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Gwinnett Civic Center, Duluth
View http://www.peachtreeregional.org for more information

3/14, Friday

Deadline to submit nominations for a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface
Submit nominations electronically to kathy.mims@carnegie.gatech.edu. View http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_awards_main.html for more details.

Deadline to submit proposals for Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) Development Funds for Educational Programs
For more information, contact nelson.baker@dlpe.gatech.edu

3/14, Friday - 3/15, Saturday

Woodruff School Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend
Title: Contact the Woodruff School Office of Student Services at (404) 894-3204 for more information
By invitation only

3/17, Monday

Deadline to submit applications for the NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program administered by the American Society for Engineering Education
View http://www.asee.org/nasaasp or contact nasa.asp@asee.org for more information.

3/17, Monday - 3/21, Friday

Spring Break (no classes)

3/18, Tuesday

Woodruff Colloqium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Laser-Assisted Micro/N anoprocessing and Device Fabrication
Speaker: Costas P. Grigoropoulos (University of California)

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Laser-Assisted Micro/Nanoprocessing and Device Fabrication
Speaker: Costas P. Grigoropoulus (University of California, Berkeley)

Woodruff School Colloquia
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Speaker: Costas Grigoropoulos

Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Speaker: Costas Grigoropoulos

3/19, Wednesday

Summer and fall terms 2008 schedule of classes available on the web at www.gatech.edu

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Qinghe Li
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Light Scattering of Semitransparent Media
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. W. Jud Ready (GTRI)

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

3/21, Friday

Deadline to purchase tickets to the Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon
For more information, contact Laura Staub at 404-894-7613

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

3/23, Sunday

Lecture by John Young, Jr., Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics U.S. Department of Defense
10:00 a.m.
Student Success Center, Clary Theater
Title: The Value of Public Service for the Scientist and Engineer

3/25, Tuesday

Structural Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Materials for Energy
Speaker: Edgar Lara-Curzio (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Materials for Energy
Speaker: Edgar Lara-Curzio (ORNL)

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Westinghouse Advanced Reactors - Fueling the Nuclear Renaissance
Speaker: Regis A. Matzie (Westinghouse Electric Company)

Woodruff School Colloquia
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Westinghouse Advanced Reactors - Fueling the Nuclear Renaissance
Speaker: Regis Matzie

The George H. and Faye C. Sparks Forum in Ethics and Engineering
4:00 p.m.
Student Success Center, Clary Theater
Title: Levee Failures in New Orleans: Root Causes, Solutions and Implications for the Engineering Community
Speaker: Dennis Mileti (University of Colorado)

3/26, Wednesday

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters and Appeals)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Maria-Isabel Carnasciali
11:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Kinetic Friction of Nonwetting Drops
Committee: Dr. G. Paul Neitzel, Chair (ME), Dr. Marc K. Smith (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Michael Schatz (PHY), Dr. Mark G. Allen (ECE)

3/26, Wednesday - 4/1, Tuesday

Early Registration for Summer Term 2008

3/27, Thursday

Pi Tau Sigma Presents the 2008 Engineering Academic Challenge
Registration forms and directions are available at This event is open to all Georgia Tech undergraduates

Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
9:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC building Auditorium
Title: Machining Revolution in Large Aerospace Components
Speaker: Dr. Scott Smith (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Speaker: Scott Smith (UNC-Charlotte)

Georgia Tech Women's Forum
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
GT Student Center, Piedmont Room (lower level, near Jackets Restaurant)
Join the Georgia Tech Women's Forum as we present our 2008 scholarship award recipients: Mahima Ashok (Bioengineering), Naihobe Gonzalez (Economics and International Affairs), Tabitha Pilgrim (International Affairs and Modern Languages), and Rachel Smith (Architecture). Recipients will discuss their award-winning essays, which include three new topic choices this year. RSVP by Friday, March 21: Contact Shondra Carter at shondra.carter@comm.gatech.edu

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Integrated Design of Multilevel Systems with Applications to Materials and Products Design
Speaker: Jitesh H. Panchal (Georgia Tech)

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Linear Scaling Enriched Finite Element Solution of the Coulomb Problem in Solids
Speaker: N. Sukumar (University of California)

3/27, Thursday - 3/28, Friday

National Science Foundation Career Proposal Writing Workshop Northwestern University
View http://www.k-state.edu/career/2008/08index.htm for the agenda and registration information

3/28, Friday

Deadline to confirm attendance at the Student Honors Luncheon

Deadline to file retirement paperwork with OHR for staff members retiring between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, who wish to attend the Retirement Dinner in May

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Anandraj Sengupta
8:00 a.m.
Tech Tower, Room 303
Title: Effect of Specimen Geometry on Ultrasound Diffusion in Cement-Based Aggregates
Committee: Dr.Laurence J Jacobs, Co-Chair(ME), Dr.Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr.Reginald Desroches (CEE)

CAE/Design Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 201
Title: Continuum and Atomic-scale Modeling of Self-positioning Nanostructures
Speaker: Dr. G. P. Nikishkov (University of Aizu, Japan)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Mohsin Waqar
2:15 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Robust Non-Linear Observer for Non-collocated Flexible Motion System
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Steve Dickerson (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sarah Scarboro
2:30 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: The Use of a Thyroid Uptake System for Assaying Internal Contamination Following A Radioactive Dispersal Event
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Armin Ansari (CDC), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Eric Burgett
3:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: A Broad Spectrum Neutron Spectrometer Utilizing a High Energy Bonner Sphere Extension
Committee: Dr. Nolan E. Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Rebecca Howell (MP), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE)

3/29, Saturday

5th Annual Georgia Tech Auto Show
11:00 a.m.
Instructional Center Parking Lot
View www.GaTechAutoShow.com for more information

3/31, Monday

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
MaRC Building, Room 431
Meeting begins at 4:10 p.m.

Campuses: Atlanta; Metz, France; Savannah     |