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June 2009
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6/1, Monday

Deadline for readmission applications for fall 2009 for students with an academic standing of drop or review (all other readmissions, see July 1st)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Tyler Randolph
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 401
Title: Development of High-Speed Autofocus Interferometric Inspection System
Committee: Dr. I. Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. J. Rhett Mayor (ME)

6/2, Tuesday

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The Fundamental Properties of Magneto Rheological (MR) Fluids in Squeeze Mode
Speaker: Mehdi Ahmadian (Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Chih-Hsing Liu
1:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Finite Element Based Dynamic Modeling Method for Design Analysis of Compliant Mechanisms
Committee: Dr. Kok-Meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Yang Wang (CE), Dr. Bruce Webster (UGA)

Deadline to submit Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Funding Opportunity Concept Paper
8:00 p.m.
For more information, go to: www.energy.gov/media/ARPA-E_FOA.pdf

6/5, Friday - 6/8, Monday

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (GT RoboJackets)
Auburn Hills, Michigan
For more information, see www.robojackets.org

6/8, Monday

Deadline to submit proposals for the Focused Research Program for FY10 at two funding levels: Innovation Grant Funding and Seed Grant Funding
Proposals should be submitted by email to svpri@provost.gatech.edu. If you have any questions, contact Monique Tavares at monique@gatech.edu

6/8, Monday - 6/12, Friday

ASME Turbo Expo 2009
Orlando, Florida
See www.asme.org for details.

6/9, Tuesday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Benchmarking the Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering Basic Research
Speaker: Ward Winer (Georgia Tech)

6/10, Wednesday

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters and Petitions)

Progress report grades due for 1000 and 2000 level courses for summer semester

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Sung Chul Joo
3:30 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Adhesion Mechanisms of NANO-Particle Silver Interconnects
Committee: Dr. Daniel Baldwin, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Paul Kohl (CHBE), Dr. C.P. Wong (MSE)

6/11, Thursday

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Academic Matters)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Roderick Jackson
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Development of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Transparent Conductive Electrodes for Organic Electronics
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Jud Ready (MSE), Dr. Bernard Kippelen (EE)

6/12, Friday

Deadline to submit proposals for the 8th Annual Centers for Disease Control/Georgia Tech Seed Grant Research Award
Contact James Godard at james.godard@ibb.gatech.edu or 404-894-8896 for more information

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Kimberly Burns
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Coupled Multi-Group Neutron Photon Transport for the Simulation of High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Application
Committee: Dr. Nolan E. Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Farzad Rahnem (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Bojan Petrovic (NRE), Dr. Eva Lee (ISYE), Dr. William David Kulp III (Physics), Dr. L. Eric Smith (PNNL)

6/12, Friday - 6/14, Sunday

GT RoboJackets/BattleBots Competition at RoboGames
San Francisco, California
For more information, view www.robojackets.org

6/14, Sunday - 6/18, Thursday

American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology

6/14, Sunday - 6/18, Thursday

American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting
Atlanta

6/15, Monday

Deadline for new degree petitions to be received by the Registrar's Office for fall commencement
4:30 p.m.

6/17, Wednesday

Deadline to submit proposals for Department of Defense SBIR 2009.
For complete details on each topic and proposals requirements, go to: http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sbir092/index.htm

6/19, Friday

Deadline to apply for graduate substitution

Last day to withdraw from individual courses with a grade of W for summer semester

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Siddharth Ram Athreya
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Processing and Characterization of Carbon Black-filled Electrically Conductive Nylon-12 Nanocomposites produced by Selective Laser Sintering
Committee: Dr. Suman Das, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Satish Kumar (PTFE), Dr. Gleb Yushin (MSE)

6/22, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Bernard Jones
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Monte Carlo Calculations of Microscopic Dose Enhancement Factor for Gold Nanoparticle-aided Radiation Therapy
Committee: Dr. Sang Hyun Cho, Chair (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Eric Elder (NRE)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Chan Yoon
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Computational Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Microarchitectured Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Improved Energy Efficiency
Committee: Dr. Suman Das, Chair (ME), Dr. William J. Wepfer (ME), Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE), Dr. John Halloran (MSE, Univ. of Michigan)

6/23, Tuesday

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

State of the School Meeting with Dr. Bill Wepfer, Woodruff School Chair
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

6/24, Wednesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Megan Blackburn
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Numerical Benchmarks of a Coarse-Mesh Transport (COMET) Method
Committee: Dr. Farzad Rahnema, Co-Chair(NRE/MP), Dr. Eric Elder (NRE/MP), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE/MP), Dr. Sang Cho (NRE/MP), Dr. Rebecca Howell (MD Anderson/MP)

6/25, Thursday

Opening day of early registration for fall semester for new summer freshmen, transfer, and new graduate students

6/26, Friday

Deadline to withdraw from the full summer session with W grades in all courses

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ryan Hopman
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Arbitrary Cellular Automata for Elastodynamics
Committee: Dr. Michael Leamy, Chair (ME), Dr. Aldo Ferri (ME), Dr. Karim Sabra (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Dooroo Kim
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Dynamic Modeling of Belt Drives using the Elastic/Perfectly-Plastic Friction Law
Committee: Dr. Michael Leamy, Chair (ME), Dr. Al Ferri (ME), Dr. Mark Costello (AE)

6/28, Sunday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Trevor Bright
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Non-Fourier Heat Equations in Solids Analyzed from Phonon Statistics
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Satish Kumar (ME), Dr. G.P. "Bud" Peterson (ME)

6/29, Monday

Mechanical Engineering
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Understanding Generation and Mitigation of Underwater Noise from Pile Driving
Speaker: Dr. Mardi Hastings (Ohio State University)

6/30, Tuesday

Announcement of the three engineering student winners of the $150.000 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare
View www.cimit.org for details about the prize and CIMIT

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Justin Ketterer
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Fatigue Crack Initiation in Cross-Ply Carbon Fiber Laminates
Committee: Dr. Steve Johnson, Chair (ME), Dr. Rick Neu (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Michael Shannon
1:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: An Accelerator Air Scatter Experiment
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (ME), Dr. Chris Wang (ME), Dr. Chaitanya Deo (ME), Dr. David Kulp (PHYS), Dr. Adam Stulberg (INTA), Dr. James Jones (DOE-INL), Dr. Tanya Oxenberg (USNRC)

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