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September 2008
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9/1, Monday

Labor Day Holiday (no classes)

9/2, Tuesday

Meeting of fall term graders
11:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Graders must attend this meeting in order to be hired. If you cannot attend, contact Dimetra to make other arrangements.

9/3, Wednesday

3rd week of the 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 tutorial should be directed to rob.matthews@coe.gaech.edu or 5-7473

9/4, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 116W
Title: A Collector's Guide to Radioactive Dinnerware
Speaker: R. E. Toohey (Oak Ridge Associated Universities and President, National Health Physics Society)

Woodruff School (New Event Announcement) - Welcome Social
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Burdell Plaza (adjacent to the Love Building)
All Woodruff School undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. We will have ice cream sundaes, tee-shirts, and entertainment

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Toroidal Alternates for a Fusion Component Test Facility
Speaker: Xianzhu Tang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

RoboJackets Informational Meeting for those interested in building robots
7:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
For more information, go to: www.robojackets.org

9/8, Monday

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Making Massive Crowds of Nanotubes
Speaker: John Hart (University of Michigan)

Acoustics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Imaging Soft Tissue Viscoelastic Properties: From Transient Elastography to Supersonic Shear Imaging
Speaker: Mathias Fink (University Denis Diderot, Paris, France)

Graduate Student Information Session with Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Bill Moore Student Success Center, President's Suite C
This meeting will begin after the Fall Career Fair. Food and Drinks will be provided.

9/9, Tuesday

Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: The Roles of Engineers in Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Amadei, Founder of Engineers Without Borders
(This lecture was rescheduled from April 2008) there will be a reception following the lecture in the Galleries of the Ferst Center. This lecture is free and open to the public

9/10, Wednesday

Deadline for Woodruff School faculty members to submit an RSVP for the Senior Honors Dinner on September 17th
Let Trudy Allen know if you will attend this event

4th week of the 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 tutorial should be directed to rob.matthews@coe.gatech.edu or 5-7473

9/11, Thursday

CETL Workshop for Faculty and TA's
12:00 p.m.
Alumni House Ballroom
Title: Understanding Millennial Students
Speaker: Richard Sweeney (University Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
For further information and registration, see http://www.cetl.gatech.edu

9/12, Friday

Deadline for faculty to submit evaluation forms for new graduate students they wish to advise

Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee Meeting
2:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 431

College of Engineering Town Hall Meeting for faculty and staff
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom

9/15, Monday

McKinsey @ Company Career Opportunities Presentation for Graduate Students
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Student Success Center, Clary Theatre

9/15, Monday - 9/19, Friday

PRC Industry Week at the Microsystems CenterPackaging Research
Manufacturing Research Center (MaRC) Building
http://www.prc.gatech.edu/events/glance For more information, contact Patricia Allen at 404-894-9097 or patricia.Allen@ece.gatech.edu

9/16, Tuesday

Graduate Students Workshop
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: How to Prepare Your Resume: A Worshop for Woodruff School Graduate Students
Speaker: Ralph Mobley, Director of Career Services

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Kenway Chen
11:15 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: MCAD - ECAD Integration: Constraint Modeling and Propagation
Committee: Dr. Dirk Schaefer, Chair (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME)

9/17, Wednesday

Georgia Tech Presidential Search Open Forum
Student Center Theater
9:00 a.m. - faculty; 10:00 a.m. - staff; 11:00 a.m. - graduate students; 2:00 p.m. - undergraduate students. This is your opportunity to participate in the search process for Georgia Tech's next president. If you can not attend, view the search site at www.gatech.edu/president/search

5th week of the 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 tutorial 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

Woodruff School Senior Honors Dinner
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Love Building, 1st floor atrium

9/18, Thursday

Graduate Students Workshop
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: How to Get a Fellowship Workshop
Speaker: Drs. David Rosen and Jeff Donnell

Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211

9/19, Friday

Deadline date by which new graduate students will be assigned faculty advisors

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jamal Wilson
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Systematic Approach to Bio-Inspired Conceptual Design
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. Janet Allen (ME), Dr. Bert Bras (ME), Dr. David Ku (ME), Dr. Meisha Shofner (PTFE), Dr. Jeannette Yen (BIO)

9/20, Saturday

Georgia Tech vs. Mississippi State Home Game

9/22, Monday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Scott Kasprzak
10:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: Enhanced Small-Scale Polymers: Shrinking Bulk Thiol-Ene Based Copolymer Systems
Committee: Dr. Ken Gall, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Olivier Pierron (ME), Dr. Karl Jacob (PTFE), Dr. Joseph Perry (CHEM)

2008 Federal Grants Workshop
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Georgia State University, Student Center
Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. This event is free, but you must RSVP by September 15th to http://www.isakson.senate.gov or call 770-661-0999

9/23, Tuesday

Annual NRE/MP Cookout
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lawn between MRDC/MaRC
For all NRE/MP Students, Faculty and Staff

Graduate Students Workshop
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Builing, room 4211
Title: How to Get a Job in Industry: A Workshop for Woodruff School Graduate Students
Speaker: Ralph Mobley, Director of Career Services

Georgia Tech Women's Forum (GTWF)
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Student Center, Room 319
Title: Sweet Reads Annual Social and Membership Drive
Find out more about the Georgia Tech Women's Forum (GTWF) and enjoy a complimentary dessert bar while you browse through a great selection of used books for purchase. All proceeds from books sales will benefit the GTWF Scholarship Fund.

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Building Knowledge Systems for the Design and Processing of Materials with Customized Performance Characteristics
Speaker: Surya R. Kalidindi (Drexel University)

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Numerical and Experimental Research on Inelastic Behaviour of Composites and Overview of Activities on Smart Materials and Structures at Politecnico di Milano
Speaker: Alessandro Airoldi (Politecnico di Milano)

NASA/JPL Tech Talk and Information Session
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Clary Theatre
Go to www.jpl.nasa.gov for more details.

9/24, Wednesday

6th week of the 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 tutorial should be directed to rob.matthews@coe.gatech.edu or 5-7473

9/25, Thursday

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB), Room 116W
Title: Developing Human Resource Specialists at Operations Facilities, the Department of Energy, the Former Soviet Union, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Cultural of Vienna, Austria and Surrounding Regions
Speaker: M. Dawn Eipeldauer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

9/26, Friday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Megan Blackburn
12:30 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 117
Title: Clinical Medical Physics Application of a Coarse-Mesh Transport (COMET) Method
Committee: Dr. Farzad Rahnema, Co-Chair(NRE/MP), Dr. Eric Elder (Emory/MP), Dr. Sang Cho (NRE/MP), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE/MP), Dr. Rebecca Howell (MD Anderson/MP)

Structural Mechanics Seminars
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Predicting DNA Supercoiling and Looping Using A Computational Rod Model
Speaker: Noel Perkins (University of Michigan)

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