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August 2009
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8/1, Saturday

Georgia Tech Commencement

8/2, Sunday - 8/3, Monday

FASET Orientation Session 4 for Fall Semester Freshmen
See www.faset.gatech.edu

8/3, Monday

Deadline to submit Letters of Intent for the DOE Office of Science Early Career Award
Contact Carole McGuire at cmcguire@lewis-burke.com for more information

Deadline for faculty to submit final grades for summer semester
12:00 p.m.
Access the system through OSCAR or BuzzPort

Deadline for grades to be entered online for full summer session
12:00 p.m.

8/4, Tuesday

Students can access grades online for summer session
After 6:00 p.m.

8/5, Wednesday

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions)

8/6, Thursday

Visit by Woodruff School faculty to GE Energy in Greenville, SC to meet with new Distance Learning GE Edison students
Contact Dave Rosen at dave.rosen@me.gatech.edu for more details.

8/7, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sead Dzebo
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Investigation of Methods to Improve Process Performance in Centerless Grinding of Inconel 718 and Ti-6Al-4V Superalloys
Committee: Dr. Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Kyriaki Kalaitzidou (ME)

Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

8/10, Monday

Deadline to submit names of graders for fall semester 2009
For more information, contact Dimetra Deggs-Butler (dimetra.diggsbutler@me.gatech.edu

8/11, Tuesday

FASET Orientation Session 2 for Fall Transfer Students
7:45 a.m.
Student Center Ballroom
Check-in is 7:45 a.m. See www.faset.gatech.edu

8/11, Tuesday - 8/13, Thursday

CETL/Institute New Georgia Tech Faculty Orientation
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
More details are available at www.cetl.gatech.edu

8/12, Wednesday

Registration begins

Woodruff School New Graduate Student Orientation
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MaRC Auditorium, Atrium and MRDC Building
For more information, contact Trudy Allen

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Robert Amaro
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Thermomechanical Fatigue Crack Formation in a Single Crystal Ni-base Superalloy
Committee: Dr. Rick Neu, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Steve Antolovich (MSE), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. W. Steve Johnson (MSE), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE)

8/12, Wednesday - 8/13, Thursday

FASET Orientation Session 5 for Fall Semester Freshmen
See www.faset.gatech.edu

8/12, Wednesday - 8/21, Friday

Late registration and schedule changes for fall semester (drop classes without a W grade)
Until 4:00 p.m.

8/12, Wednesday - 8/21, Friday

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

8/13, Thursday

Acoustics & Dynamics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Bright and Dark Zone Control of Sound and its Recent Applications, Including Personal Audio System
Speaker: Dr. Yang Hann Kim (Kaist University)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Markus Rippel
3:30 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Improved Robustness Formulations and a Simulation-Based Robust Concept Exploration Method
Committee: Dr. Janet K. Allen, Chair (ME), Dr. Farrokh Mistree (ME), Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi (ME)

8/14, Friday

Registration fees without penalty due to Bursar's Office for fall semester

Woodruff School New Faculty Orientation
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

8/14, Friday - 8/23, Sunday

R.A.T.S. Welcom Week Activities

8/16, Sunday

2009 Freshman Convocation: Welcome to Georgia Tech
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Alexander Memorial Coliseum

8/17, Monday

First day of classes for fall semester

Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Radu Cazan
12:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Dynamics of Turbulent Swirling Flows Induced by Twisted Tapes in Circular Pipes
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. Minami Yoda (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Donald Webster (CEE), Dr. Jerry Seitzman (AE)

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Asif Salahuddin
4:00 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: Direct Particle Level Simulation of Semidilute Fiber Suspension Flow: Rotational Diffusion
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Richard F. Salant (ME), Dr. Victor Breedveld (ChBE), Dr. Richard Vuduc (CSE)

8/18, Tuesday

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Translational Research Capabilities at SJTRI and
Speaker: Jai Pal Singh (St. Joseph’s Translational Research Institute)

NRE Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: “Research in Basic and Applied Nuclear Detection for Nuclear Security and Safeguards Applications”
Speaker: Dr. Jason P. Hayward (University of Tennessee(Knoxville, TN)/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jonathan Olander
1:30 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: Comparison of the Hybrid and Thermal Lattice-Boltzmann Methods
Committee: Dr. Cyrus Aidun, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME)

8/19, Wednesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Rameen Hadizadeh
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Novel Probe Structures for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
Committee: Dr. Levent Degertekin, Chair (ME), Dr. Michael Leamy (ME), Dr. Todd Sulchek (ME)

8/20, Thursday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Suppression of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Photovoltaic Nanomaterials towards Efficiency Enhancement
Speaker: Prof. Xiulin Ruan (School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)

Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) Open House
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
For more information, go to www.me.gatech.edu/wsgw or contact Kathryn Smith at ksmith@gatech.edu. WSGW Openhouse Flyer

8/21, Friday

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

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Towards PLM systems that support the emergence of product definition in engineering design
Speaker: Dr. Nadège Troussier (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France)

Mechanics of Materials Seminar
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Validation of Multi-Variable Design Equations for Strain Based Design of Gas Pipelines
Speaker: Dr. Karel Minnaar (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas, USA)

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

8/24, Monday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Nam Su Kim
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Fabrication and characterization of thin-film encapsulation for organic electronic devices
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Bernard Kippelen (ECE), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Sankar Nair (ChBE)

Georgia Tech Budget Town Hall Forum
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
The even will be webcast and archived at www.gatech.edu/budgetupdate. Questions on this topic may be submitted in advance to budgetupdate@gatech.edu

8/27, Thursday

Meeting for Fall Graders
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Graders must attend this meeting to be hired for the semester

NRE/MP Research Fair
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MSE Building, 3rd floor atrium
For more information, contact Dwayne Blaylock at dwayne.blaylock@nre.gatech.edu

RoboJackets Introductory Meeting
5:30 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116
for more information about the RoboJackets, go to www.robojackets.org

Georgia Tech Student Government Association Crime Prevention and Awareness Night
7:00 p.m.
Instructional Center Lawn

8/30, Sunday - 9/2, Wednesday

2009 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences
Omni San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
View http://www.asmeconferences.org/idetc09/ for more information

8/31, Monday

Deadline to submit nominations for the Woodruff School Outstanding Achievement Award for Classified Employees for Summer 2009
By Noon, submit to Dana Foster, Room 105, Love Building

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