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May 2009
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5/1, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals to the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on High-Impact Nanoscience Research

Deadline to submit proposals for the GIT Energy Seed Fund Grants Program for FY10 (Creating Energy Options Program)
see www.energy.gatech.edu/rfp for more information or contact mary.hunt@energy.gatech.edu if you have any questions.

Deadline to submit comments on the Library Journal Review Project
By the end of the business day. To comment go to https://www.library.gatech.edu/journalcancellation/index.php If you have any questions, contact William Baer, ME Librarian, at william.baer@library.gatech.edu

Last day of finals for spring semester

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Carl Tompson
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Radiographic Determination of the Layup Influence on Fatigue Damage Development under Bearing/Bypass Conditions
Committee: Dr. W. Steven Johnson, Chair (ME), Dr. Andrew Makeev (AE), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME)

Woodruff School Class of 2009 Recognition Reception
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
A lunch reception will be held in the galleries of the Ferst Center after the program. All Woodruff School students who are graduating in the spring or summer semesters and their families are invited.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Michael Nichols
1:30 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Quantitative Basis for Component Factors of Gas Flow Proportional Counter Efficiencies
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Bernd Kahn (GTRI), Dr. Chris Wang (ME), Dr. Eva Lee (ISyE), Dr. David Kulp (Physics)

Georgia Tech Ph.D. and Master's Degrees Commencement Ceremony
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Georgia Dome

5/2, Saturday

Spring semester graduation ceremony

Georgia Tech Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Georgia Dome

5/4, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joel Neff
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Investigation of the Effects of Process Parameters on Performance of Gravure Printed ITO on Flexible Substrates
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME)

Deadline to submit final grades for spring semester
12:00 p.m.
Grade entry can be accessed through BuzzPort or through OSCAR

Woodruff School Reception for Michael Brandon, David Orloff, and Wilfred van Rooijen
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

5/5, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by James Wilson
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Development and Validation of a Laminate Flooring System Sound Quality Test Method
Committee: Dr. Ken Cunefare, Chair (ME), Dr. Erica Ryherd (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Design, Fabrication, and Reliability Challenges for Nano- and Micro-Structures
Speaker: Suresh Sitaraman (Georgia Tech)

The 12th Annual Sowers Symposium: A Geotechnical Event
2:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech Student Center

5/6, Wednesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Aaron Enes
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Shared Control of Hydraulic Excavators to Improve Energy Efficiency
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Jun Ueda (ME), Dr. Ayanna Howard (ECE), Dr. Magnus Egerstedt (ECE)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Stress-Dependent Chemical Potentials and Their Application to Crystalline Solids
Speaker: Jianmin Qu (Georgia Tech)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ashlie Brown
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Improved Thermal Energy Utilization through Coupled and Cascaded Cooling Cycles
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME)

5/7, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Michael McNary
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Implementation of the eXtended Finite Element Method in Abaqus
Committee: Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Olaf van der Sluis (ME)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermomechanical Reliability Evaluations and Analyses of Microelectronic and Electronic Packages
Speaker: Charles Ume (Georgia Tech)

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: Existing Technologies for CO2 Capture and Sequestration
Speaker: TBA
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

5/7, Thursday - 5/15, Friday

Registration for new and continuing students for summer semester (Phase II)

5/8, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Strategic Energy Institute Creating Energy Options (CEO) Program Grants
A proposal guide and budget template is at www.energy.gatech.edu/efp Address all proposals and questions to Mary Hallisey Hunt at mary.hunt@energy.gatech.edu

Registration fees without penalty due to bursar's Office for summer semester
by 4:00 p.m.

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 246
Title: Hierarchy Driven Characterization of Ceramic and Polymer Matrix Composites for Aerospace and Energy Applications
Speaker: Vikas Tomar (University of Notre Dame)

5/8, Friday - 5/10, Sunday

U.S. Open RoboCup (GT RoboJackets
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, see www.robojackets.org

5/11, Monday

First day of classes for summer semester

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Chen Chu
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 331
Title: Design Synthesis for Morphing 3D Meso-scale Structure
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME), Dr. Richard Hague (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Cody Hellstern
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Investigation of Interlayer Burr Formation in the Drilling of Stacked Aluminum Sheets
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Rhett Mayor (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Peter Cameron
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: An Acoustic Countermeasure to Supercavitating Torpedoes
Committee: Dr. Peter Rogers, Chair (ME), Dr. Aldo Ferri (ME), Dr. Massimo Ruzzene (AE), Dr. Marc Smith (ME), Mr. David Trivett (ME), Dr. Ben Zinn (AE)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Shaohui Foong
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Development of Magnetic Field-Based Multisensor System for Multi-DOF Actuators
Committee: Dr. Kok-Meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. William Singhose (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Fumin Zhang (EE), Dr. Yang Wang (CE)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Zhengchun Peng
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: On-Chip Manipulations of Magnetic Particles and Their Biomedical Applications
Committee: Dr. Peter Hesketh, Chair (ME), Dr. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Minami Yoda (ME), Dr. Mark Allen (ECE), Dr. Hang Lu (ChBE), Dr. William Heineman (Chem (Univ. Cincinnati))

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Woong-Sik Choi
1:00 p.m.
Knight Bldg, Room 317
Title: Flame stabilization by a plasma driven radical jet in a high speed flow
Committee: Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Chair (ME/AE), Dr. Jeff Jagoda (AE), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME), Dr. Yedida Numier (AE)

5/12, Tuesday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by John Cutright
8:30 a.m.
Knight Bldg, Room 317
Title: Ignition Triggering of an Afterburner Using Partial Oxidation Mixtures
Committee: Dr. Ben Zinn, Chair (ME), Dr. Tim Lieuwen (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Jechiel Jagoda (AE), Dr. Yedidia Neumeier (AE)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Advanced Micro-Mechanical Systems for Audio, Ultrasound, and Nanoscale Science and Technology
Speaker: Levent Degertekin (Georgia Tech)

Meeting of the Silver Jackets Featuring Dr. David Ku (Woodruff School)
11:00 a.m.
Student Center, Room 343
For more details contact steve.dickerson@camotion.com

MatLab Tutorial for GT Graduate Students
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, Room 013, ECS Computer Lab
Registration is not required for this two week course, but seating is limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, contact Rob Matthews at rob.matthews@ecs.gatech.edu

5/14, Thursday

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Angela Sodemann
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: A Study on Productivity Enhancement in High-Speed, High-Precision Micromilling Processes
Committee: Dr. J. Rhett Mayor, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Charles Ume (ME), Dr. Jan Shi (ISYE), Dr. Burak Ozdoganlar (ME)

MatLab Tutorial for GT Graduate Students
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, Room 013, ECS Computer Lab
Registration is not required for this two week course, but seating is limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, contact Rob Matthews at rob.matthews@ecs.gatech.edu

5/15, Friday

Deadline to submit a Letter of Intent for the 8th Annual Centers for Disease Control/Georgia Tech See Grant Research Awards for July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011
Contact James Godard at james.godard@ibb.gatech.edu or 404-894-8896 for more information.

Last day to pay registration fees without penalty to Bursar's Office for summer semester
By 4:00 p.m.

Deadline to register and/or make schedule changes for the full summer session, early short summer session, and late short summer session
4:00 p.m.

5/18, Monday

Deadline to submit President's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) applications for fall 2009 awards
For details and an application, see http://undergradresearch.gatech.edu/funding.php

Opening date to submit proposals for Department of Defense SBIR. For complete details on each topic and proposals requirements, go to: http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sbir092/index.htm

5/18, Monday - 5/22, Friday

Acoustical Society of America Meeting
Portlan, Oregon
For more information, view www.aip.org

5/19, Tuesday

MatLab Tutorial for GT Graduate Students
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, Room 013, ECS Computer Lab
Registration is not required for this two week course, but seating is limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, contact Rob Matthews at rob.matthews@ecs.gatech.edu

Georgia Tech's 2009 Annual Retirement Dinner
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wardlaw Center, Gordy Dinning Room

5/20, Wednesday

National Employee Health and Fitness Day: Health Fair at Georgia Tech
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
Visit www.gotech.gatech.edu for details of this event.

5/21, Thursday

MatLab Tutorial for GT Graduate Students (this is the last class)
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, Room 013, ECS Computer Lab
Registration is not required for this two week course, but seating is limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, contact Rob Matthews at rob.matthews@ecs.gatech.edu

5/22, Friday

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Polonium-210 in Cigarettes
Speaker: Dade W. Moeller (Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health, Dade Moeller technical Services)

Deadline to submit nominations for the Woodruff School Outstanding Staff Achievement Award for Spring Semester 2009
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 105 (Dana Foster)

5/25, Monday

Memorial Day Holiday

Memorial Day Holiday (no classes)

5/27, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Women's Forum with Atlanta's Coupon Queen, Anka Bozeman
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 319
RSVP by noon, Tuesday, May 26 to Michele Yager at michele.yager@chemistry.gatech.edu

5/28, Thursday

Photography Session for Woodruff School Faculty and Staff
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Michael Psimas
3:00 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 515
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Heat and Mass Transfer Due to Pulse Combustor Jet Impingement
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Tim Patterson (ME), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Sujit Banerjee (ChBE), Dr. Preet Singh (MSE)

5/29, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Health Systems Institute 2009-2010 Seed Grants
For more information, go to www.hsi.gatech.edu/seedgrantcfp

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

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Farhad Farzbod
2:45 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Multi-Scale Dispersion Analysis for Periodic Nanophononic Structures Using Bloch Formalism
Committee: Dr. Michael J. Leamy, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Massimo Ruzzene (AE)

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