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August 2008
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8/1, Friday

Deadline to submit an application for Rice NSF ADVANCE: Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position Workshop for senior female graduate students and female post docs
See the information flyer at advance.rice.edu/negotiatingtheidealfacultyposition/default.html

Deadline to submit applications for the fourth 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

8/3, Sunday

The Course/Instructor Opinion Surveys (CIOS) for summer 2008 courses ends
Instructor access to CIO: http://www.coursesurvey.gatech.edu/login.cfm Student access to CIOS: http://www.coursesurvey.gatech.edu Send an email to CETLhelp@gatech.edu with CIOS Help in the subject line if there are problems with the survey.

8/3, Sunday - 8/4, Monday

Fall Freshman FASET Orientation
Contact Kristi Mehaffey for more information about FASET in the Woodruff School

8/4, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Robert Cross
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Processing Verically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes For Heat Transfer Applications
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Suman Das (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joseph Freedman
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Preventing Helicopter Brownout Using an Acoustic Altimeter
Committee: Dr. Peter Rogers, Chair (ME), Dr. Michael Gray (ME), Dr. Ken Cunefare (ME)

8/5, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joseph Freedman
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Preventing Helicopter Brownout Using an Acoustic Altimeter
Committee: Dr. Peter Rogers, Chair (ME), Dr. Michael Gray (ME), Dr. Ken Cunefare (ME)

8/6, Wednesday

Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

8/8, Friday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Qihong Nie
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Experimentally Validated Multiscale Thermal Modeling of Electronic Cabinets
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi,, Chair (ME), Dr. Zhuomin Zhang (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Martha G. Gallivan (ChBE), Dr. Pui-Kuen Yeung (AE)

Deadline to submit nominations for the Woodruff School Outstanding Classified Employee for summer term 2008
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4204

8/10, Sunday - 8/14, Thursday

ASME 3rd Energy Nanotechnology Conference
Jacksonville, Florida
http://asmeconference.org/energynano08

8/11, Monday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Kwaku Eason
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Numerical Investigation of Micro-Macro Coupling in Magneto-Impedance Sensors for Weak Field Measurments
Committee: Dr. Kok-Meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Gary May (ECE), Dr. Mark Allen (ECE)

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Workshop
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Georgia Tech Library, Wilby Room
Title: Teaching the Multitasking Generation

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Workshop
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech Library, Wilby Room
Title: Enhancing Your Class with Technology
The workshop is particularly suited for those who have classes with more than fifty student.

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Workshop
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech Library, Wilby Room
Title: Strategies for Mentoring Your Graduates Students and TAs

8/11, Monday - 8/15, Friday

Georgia Tech Orientation Programs for Incoming Students

8/12, Tuesday

Fall transfer FASET Orientation
Contact Kristi Mehaffey for more information about transfer FASET in the Woodruff School of ME

8/12, Tuesday - 8/14, Thursday

CETL/Georgia Tech New Faculty Orientation Program

8/13, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Graduate Expo (Orientation for New Graduate Students)
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Woodruff School Orientation Program for New Graduate Students
12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MaRC Building Atrium, Auditorium, and Room 114 (1st floor)
This event is by invitation only. More details are forthcoming

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Zachary Dominguez
1:00 p.m.
Whitaker Ford Building, Room 2110
Title: Development of a Novel Organ Culture System Allowing Independent Control of Local Mechanical Variables and its Implementation in Studying the Effects of Axial Stress on Arterial Remodeling
Committee: Dr. Raymond Vito, Chair (ME), Dr. Alexander Rachev (ME), Dr. Rudolph Gleason (ME)

8/13, Wednesday - 8/14, Thursday

Fall Freshman FASET Orientation
(For students who live 600 miles or more away from campus)

8/14, Thursday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Anne-Marie Lerner
1:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Stability and controllability investigation of MREs in longitudinal vibration absorbers
Committee: Dr. Kenneth A Cunefare, Chair (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. Christopher Lynch (ME), Dr. Reginold DesRoches (CE), Dr. Massimo Ruzzene (AE)

8/15, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Travis Blackburn
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Electro-kinetically Enhanced Nano-metric Material Removal
Committee: Dr. Steven Danyluk, Chair (ME), Dr. David Butler (ME (Nanyang Technological University)), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Christopher Blandin
10:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Production of Dielectric Materials
Committee: Dr. Jonathan Colton, Chair (ME), Dr. John Schultz (GTRI), Dr. Min Zhou (ME)

New Woodruff School Faculty Orientation Program
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
This event by invitation only

8/18, Monday

First day of classes for fall semester

8/18, Monday - 8/21, Thursday

8th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
For more information about this conference, view http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/nanotech/nano2008/

8/18, Monday - 8/22, Friday

Woodruff School Research Area Group Open Houses
When a research area group schedules an open house, new graduate students will be notified by e-mail.

8/19, Tuesday

MEMS Research Group Open House for Woodruff School Graduate Students
12:00 p.m.
Love Building, 3rd floor atrium
For more information, contact Dr. Peter Hesketh

Coffee/tea Social for Woodruff School Faculty Members
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Sponsored by the Woodruff School's Faculty Development Committee

8/20, Wednesday

College of Engineering MatLab Tutorial for faculty and graduate students
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, ECS Computer Lab, Room 013
This is a six week tutorial. Attendance is limited by the size of the room. Any questions related to the tutorials should be directed to rob.matthews@coe.gatech.edu or 5-7473

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

8/21, Thursday

Retirement Celebration for Dr. Jerry Ginsberg (George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems)
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Love Building, 2nd Floor Atrium
For more information, contact Melody Foster

8/22, Friday

Deadline to register for classes for fall semester
4:00 p.m.

8/26, Tuesday

Deadline to submit the names of fall term graders
Send form to Dimetra Diggs-Butler

Materials Council Seminar Series
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 299
Title: Disentangling High Temperature Evolution of Thermal Barrier Coatings
Speaker: Emily Carter (Princeton University)

Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems Research Group Open House
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Love Building, 3rd floor atrium
For more information, contact Mostafa Ghiaasiaan

8/27, Wednesday

2nd week of the College of Engineering MatLab Tutorial for faculty and graduates students
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
French Building, ECS Computer Lab, Room 013
This is a six-week tutorial. Attendance is limited by the size of the room. Any questions related to the tutorial should be directed to rob.matthews@coe.gatech.edu or 5-7473

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Xavier Brun
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Analysis of Handling Stresses and Breakage of Thin Crystalline Silicon Wafers
Committee: Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman (ME), Dr. W. Steven Johnson (MSE), Dr. Paul M. Griffin (ISyE), Dr. Juris Kalejs (American Solar Technologies)

8/28, Thursday

Georgia Tech vs. Jacksonville State Home Game

Woodruff School Graduate Women Open House
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Refreshments will be provided. For more information, go to www.me.gatech.edu/wsgw

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Lin Wan
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Matched Field Processing Based Geoacoustic Inversion in Shallow Water
Committee: Dr. Ji-Xun Zhou, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Peter H. Rogers (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Laurence J. Jacobs (CE), Dr. Mohsen Badiey (Univ. of Delaware)

8/29, Friday

Deadline to submit intent to propose as a funded partner for the NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships (NSF 08-580)
Submit electronically to Kathy Garcia (kathy.garcia@carnegie.gatech.edu)

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