| January 3 - January 13 |
Registration for new students and late registration for continuing students for spring semester 2006 |
| Phase II registration for spring semester 2006 (drop courses without a W grade) |
| January 4 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
| January 5 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Vlad Patrangenaru
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Development of Dynamic Seating System for High-Tone Extensor Thrust
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. David Sanborn (ME), Dr. Stephen Sprigle (CATEA) |
| January 6 |
Deadline to pay fees without late fees for spring semester 2006 |
| January 9 |
First day of classes for spring semester 2006 |
| Deadline to submit nominations to the Dean's Office for the 2006 Faculty Research Awards. Nominations should be submitted through the School Chair. |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The IAEA and the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources
Speaker: Dr. Brian Dodd, President-Elect, Health Physics Society |
| January 11 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Irradiation Damage in Molybdenum-Rhenium Alloys for High Temperature Reactor Applications
Speaker: J.T. Busby Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| January 13 |
Last day to register and make schedule changes for spring semester 2006 |
| Fee payment deadline with late fees for spring semester 2006 |
FOCUS Program
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
Woodruff School Faculty Meeting with the Dean of Engineering on the COE Strategic Plan
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| January 16 |
MLK Holiday (Tech is closed) |
| January 17 |
Schedule cancellation for students failing to pay fees in full by the deadline |
| January 18 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials
Speaker: Nico Declercq |
| January 19 |
Woodruff School Student Graders Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Physics and Control of Wall Turbulence
Speaker: Dr. John Kim, Rockwell (Intl. Prof., Dept. of Mech. and Aero. Eng. at UCLA) |
Woodruff School Faculty Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: From Materials to Sustainability: A Research Program in Systems Realization
Speaker: Dr. David W. Rosen (Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering) |
| January 20 |
Deadline to submit nominations for the 2006 Don Bratcher Human Relations Award. Nomination forms are available from www.gtdiversity.gatech.edu. Contact Stephanie Ray at 404.894.2561 with questions. |
| January 23 |
Deadline to submit applications for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards for 2007. See www.orau.org/academic/financial/Powe.htm for more information. |
| January 24 |
Information Meeting on the 2006 Georgia Tech Shanghai Summer Program
11:00 a.m.
Student Center, Room 319
Pizza and drinks will be served. See www.shanghaisummer.gatech.edu for more information. |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: TBA
Speaker: Dr.Ryan O'Hayre, Dept. of Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
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| January 25 |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: TBA
Speaker: Dr. Dirk Schaefer, University of Durham, UK |
| January 26 |
Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Dislocation Pile-Up/Hall-Petch Constitutive Equations
Speaker: Dr. R.W. Armstrong, University of Maryland, College Park |
| January 27 |
Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Modeling Deformation And Fracture Using Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics: Brittle Fracture And Mechanics Of Collagen
Speaker: Dr. Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| January 30 |
Deadline for the Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program. The competition for the 2006/07 academic year is now open and full Whitaker Program information and application materials can be found online at www.whitakerawards.org. |
| Deadline to submit nominations for Institute Committees for terms beginning in fall 2006 to the Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee. Send nominations to . |
| Deadline to submit nominations for the Sigma Xi Faculty and Student Research Awards. Send nominations packaged to Professor Jianmin Qu at .
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| January 31 |
Deadline for faculty to submit annual evaluation materials. Requirements sent previously. Contact with any questions. |
New Georgia Tech Faculty Orientation to Sponsored Programs
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Research Administration Building, 505 Tenth Street NW (next to Rocky Mountain Pizza)
(Lunch will be provided.) Please respond by January 24th to Nadia Zitman at or 404.894.6944.
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Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| February 1 |
Deadline for readmission applicants with an academic standing of drop or review |
| Beginning of the Annual Equipment Inventory. Contact for more information. |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
| February 2 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Public Health Response to a Nuclear/Radiological Emergency
Speaker: Dr. Armin Ansari, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Ali Gordon
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Crack Initiation Modeling of a Directionally-Solidified Ni-base Superalloy
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard W. Neu (ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Tom Sanders (MSE), Dr. Stephen Antolovich (MSE), Dr. Erian Armanios (AE) |
| February 3 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Maria-Isabel Carnasciali
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Investigation of the Kinetic Friction Associated with Nonwetting Systems
Committee: Dr. G Paul Neitzel, Chair (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Michael Schatz (Physics), Dr. Mark G. Allen (ECE)
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| February 6 |
Deadline to submit nominations for the Sigma Xi Education Postdoctoral Fellowship. View http://www.sigmaxi.org/fellow.shtml for additional details. |
Deadline to submit nominations for the 2006 Education Partnership Awards
5:00 p.m.
Direct questions to or 404.894.2340. |
| February 7 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
Georgia Tech General Faculty/Academic Senate Meeting
3:00 p.m. |
| February 8 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
A Celebration of the Life of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
8:00 a.m.
Student Center Theater
Title: TBA |
Georgia Tech Pre-Retirement Meeting on Social Security Benefits, Georgia Tech Benefits
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Student Success Building, Room 117
Register online at http://www.transweb.gatech.edu. Check first to see if space is available (see the master calendar). |
| February 9 |
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
12:00 p.m.
Skiles Building, Room 269
Title: Modeling Crystal Surface Evolution: From Microscopic Schemes to Continuum Laws
Speaker: Dionisios Margetis, MIT |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Integrative Research on Designing Transformation Networks:Improving the Realization of Complex Engineering Systems
Speaker: Dr.Jeffrey Herrmann, University of Maryland |
| February 9 - February 12 |
Woodruff School Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend |
| February 10 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Harry Rowland
2:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Thermomechanical Manufacturing of Polymer Microstructures and Nanostructures
Committee: Dr. William King, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME), Dr. Ken Gall (MSE), Dr. Cliff Henderson (ChBE), Dr. Amy Sun (Sandia National Lab.) |
| February 13 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Clifford Johnson
1:00 p.m.
Montgomery Knight Building, Room 317
Title: Adaptive Control of Combustion Instabilities Using Real-Time Modes Observation
Committee: Dr. Ben Zinn, Chair (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Samuel Shelton (ME), Dr. Timothy Lieuwen (AE), Dr. Yedidia Neumeier (AE) |
Deadline to submit nominations for the CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
5:00 p.m.
Applications and further information are also available on the CETL website: http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/services/tas/taaward.htm or by contacting Dr. Steven Girardot at |
Meeting of the ASME Atlanta Chapter with speaker Reginald Vachon, former president of the ASME
6:00 p.m.
MARC Building Atrium and Auditorium
6:00 p.m. (registration and networking), 6:30 p.m. (buffet dinner), 7:15 p.m. (speaker); To reserve a buffet dinner ($15 for members, $6.00 for students), contact Connie Rimes at or 404.401.7936. |
| February 15 |
Deadline to register for ASEE 2006 Engineering Research Council Summit, Workshop and Forum (ERC). http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/erc/2006/Registration.cfm.
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Deadline to submit an application for the 2006 Georgia Tech Shanghai Summer Program. View www.shanghaisummer.gatech.edu. |
Georgia Tech Pre-Retirement Meeting on Teachers Retirement and Optional and Supplemental Retirement Benefits
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Student Success Building, Room 117
Register online at http://www.transweb.gatech.edu. Check first to see if space is available (see the master calendar).
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Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting (Alternate)
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
| February 16 |
Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Nuclear Energy Policy in France:European Context and Environmental Issues
Speaker: Dr. Regis Babinet |
Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Lessons on Structure from the Structure of Viruses
Speaker: Dr. Richard D. James, University of Minnesota |
| February 17 |
Progress Report grades due (1000 and 2000 level courses only) |
| February 18 |
College of Engineering Faculty Appreciation Evening
By invitation, to follow at a later date. |
| February 22 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting |
Medical Physics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Gold Nanoparticle-Aided Radiation/Thermal Therapy - A New Paradigm in Cancer Therapeutics: Basic Concepts and Current Development
Speaker: Dr. Sang Hyun Cho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Georgia Tech Women's Forum February General Meeting
12:00 p.m.
GT Student Center, Room 319 |
| February 23 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jeffrey Rambo
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Reduced-Order Modeling of Multiscale Turbulent Convection: Application to Data Center Thermal Management
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Marc Smith (ME), Dr. P. K. Yeung (AE), Dr. Benjamin Shapiro (AE, University of Maryland)
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Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Gregory Mocko
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: A Knowledge Framework for Integrating Multiple Perspectives in Decision-Centric Design
Committee: Farrokh Mistree, Co-Chair(ME), David Rosen (ME), Janet K. Allen (ME), Chris Paredis (ME), Leon McGinnis (ISYE), Nelson Baker (CEE) |
Woodruff Faculty Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MDRC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermal Processing and Thermal Measurements at Extremely Small Scales:10 nanometers to 50 micrometers
Speaker: Dr. William P. King |
| February 24 |
Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: ITER: Demonstrating the Scientific and Technological Feasibility of Magnetically-Confined Fusion Power
Speaker: Dr. Ned Sauthoff, DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University |
| February 26 - February 28 |
ASEE 2006 Engineering Research Council Summit, Workshop and Forum (ERC). For more information see ERC homepage. |
| March 1 |
Deadline to submit nominations for the 2006 Jack M. Zeigler (BME 1948) Woodruff School Outstanding Educator Award. For more information and to submit nominations, contact |
| Deadline for Graduate Admissions applications for summer term 2006 |
| Deadline for academic faculty to submit requests for the 2006 Woodruff School International Research Assistantships. Send requests to Yogendra Joshi, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. |
| Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
| Start of Womens Awareness Month activities by the Georgia Tech Womens Resource CenterFor more information view www.womenscenter.gatech.edu. |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
| March 2 |
Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Macro to Micro Scale Haptics: From Surgical Simulation to Cell Manipulation
Speaker: Dr. Jaydev P. Desai, Associate Professor, Drexel University |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:30 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Precision Forming and Hard Turning
Speaker: Dr. Taylan Altan |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Haifeng Li
4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Evanescent-Wave Based Particle Image Velocimetry
Committee: Dr. Minami Yoda, Chair (ME), Dr. Andrei Fedorov (ME), Dr. Cyrus Aidun (ME), Dr. Cheng Zhu (BME/ME), Dr. Victor Breedveld (ChBE)
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| March 2 - March 5 |
Woodruff School Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend |
| March 3 |
Last day to drop individual courses (with a grade of W) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Katharine Shilling
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 331
Title: Mesoscale Edge Characterization
Committee: Dr. Thomas Kurfess, Chair (ME, Clemson), Dr. Doug Chinn (Sandia), Dr. Paul Griffin (ISYE), Dr. William King (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME) |
| March 6 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Sangil Han
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Mechanisms and Modeling of White Layer Formation in Orthogonal Machining of Hardened and Unhardened Steels
Committee: Shreyes Melkote, Chair (ME), Steven Liang (ME), Thomas Kurfess (ME), Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Paul Griffin (ISYE) |
| March 7 |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Electrokinetic Transport in Nanochannels
Speaker: Dr. Sumita Pennathur, Stanford University |
| March 8 |
2nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Student Center
All Day; For more information, visit sga.gatech.edu/symposium. |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Electrokinetic Transport in Nanochannels
Speaker: Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi, Wright State University
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| March 9 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Impacts of Civilian Nuclear Power Expansion on Nuclear Nonproliferation
Speaker: Dr. Man-Sung Yim, North Carolina State University |
| March 13 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Austin Chen
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Integrated Inspection for Precision Part Production
Committee: Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Y. Liang (ME), Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote (ME), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISYE), Dr. Paul M. Griffin (ISYE) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by James Shepherd
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Multiscale Modeling of the Deformation of Semi-Crystalline Polymers
Committee: Dr. David L. McDowell, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Karl I. Jacob (PTFE), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Rina Tannenbaum (MSE)
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| March 13 - March 14 |
Regents' Testing Program |
| March 15 |
Annual Equipment Inventory must be completed. For more information, contact or . |
| Right-to-Know Training must be completed. This training is done twice a year. For more information, contact or . |
| Deadline to submit proposals by the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech Proposals must be submitted electronically. For questions, contact David White at 404.894.1080 or . |
| Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: TBA
Speaker: Alejandro Allevi |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting (Alternate)
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
| March 16 |
Deadline for undergraduate students to submit applications for the Georgia Tech Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) Program. Contact Dr. Donna Llewellyn at 4-2340 or Dr. Marion Usselman at 4-9673 for more information. See also www.cetl.gatech.edu. |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: The NPT, the Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone for Northeast Asia, and the Need for Action
Speaker: Dr. John Endicott, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Tech |
Woodruff School Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Scaling Plasma and Arc Discharges for Manufacturing and Sensing Applications
Speaker: Dr. Yogesh Gianchandani |
| March 17 |
Deadline for Degree Petitions and approved Programs of Study for Master's Candidates to be received by the Registrar's Office for Summer 2006 commencement. Department deadlines may vary; check with the Woodruff School's Office of Student Services. |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Michael Mears
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Geometry Estimation and Adaptive Actuation for Centering Preprocessing and Precision Measurement
Committee: Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote (ME), Dr. Richard F. Salant (ME), Dr. Jane C. Ammons (ISyE), Dr. Francis M. Kolarits (The Timken Company) |
Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| March 18 |
Last day to withdraw from school with W grades in all courses |
| March 20 |
Deadline to submit proposals for the Campus Faculty Energy Research Seed Funding Opportunity. Contact for more information. |
| March 20 - March 24 |
Spring Break (no classes) |
| March 22 |
Summer and fall terms 2006 schedule of classes data available on the web |
Georgia Tech Best Practices Showcase
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Student Center
View www.orgdev.gatech.edu/bp/tech.htm for more details. |
| March 24 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by John Reap
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Holistic Biomimicry: A Biologically Inspired Approach to Environmentally Benign Engineering
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Janet Allen (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Matthew Realff (ChBE), Dr. Jeanette Yen (Biol), Dr. Dayna Baumeister (Biomimicry Guild) |
| March 27 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Rahul Sathe
4:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Design and Development of a Novel Implantable Prosthetic Vein Valve
Committee: Dr. David Ku, Chair (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. Elliot Chaikof (Emory Dept of Surgery) |
| March 27 - March 29 |
Academic Advisement for summer and fall 2006 terms |
| March 28 |
Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Milestones to Modern Powder Diffraction
Speaker: Dr. Herbert Gbel, Siemens AG Germany |
| March 29 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (academic matters) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Amarendra Atre
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: A Finite Element and Experimental Investigation on the Fatigue of Riveted Lap Joints in Aircraft Applications
Committee: Dr. Steve Johnson, Chair (ME), Dr. Rick Neu (ME), Dr. Chris Lynch (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Rami Haj-Ali (CEE), Dr. David Steadman (Delta Airlines) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Desiree Jangha
10:15 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Quantitative Conjugate Imaging of Iodine-123 and Technetium-99m Labeled Brain Agents in the Basal Ganglia
Committee: Dr. Chris C-K Wang, Chair (ME), Dr. John N. Aarsvold (Emory University), Dr. Nolan Hertel (ME), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (ME), Dr. Paul J. Benkeser (BME) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Vladimir Novak
11:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Experimental and Numerical Studies of Mist Cooling with Thin Evaporating Subcooled Liquid Films
Committee: Dr. Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Chair (ME/NRE), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Sheldon M. Jeter (ME), Dr. W. Russell Callen, Jr. (ECE), Dr. Daniel W. Tedder (ChBE) |
Retirement Reception for Professor Narl Davidson
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wardlaw Center, Gordy Room |
| March 29 - April 9 |
Early registration for summer term 2006 |
| March 30 |
Deadline to submit applications to be an ASME/ABET Program Evaluator. Applications can be downloaded from: www.asme.org/Education/CertifAccred/Become_Evaluator.cfm. Please contact Amy Bentow () at ASME if you have any questions.
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| Deadline to submit applications for the Sam Nunn Security Program |
A MEGA Panel Discussion on How to Complete Your Thesis?
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Morgan Bruns
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Propagation of Imprecise Probabilities through Black Box Models
Committee: Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Bert Bras (ME), Leon McGinnis (ISyE) |
Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multi-Scale Modeling of Composite Materials by an Adaptive Concurrent Multi-Level Model
Speaker: Dr. Professor Somnath Ghosh, Ohio State University |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Benay Sager
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Stereolithography Characterization for Surface Finish Improvement: Inverse Design Methods for Process Planning
Committee: Dr. David W. Rosen, Chair (ME), Dr. W. Jack Lackey (ME), Dr. Farrokh Mistree (ME), Dr. Ali Adibi (ECE), Dr. Cliff Henderson (ChBE) |
| March 30 - April 2 |
Woodruff School Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend |
| April 1 |
Deadline for readmission applications for summer term 2006 |
Third Annual Georgia Tech Auto Show
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Georgia Tech Campus, Instructional Center Parking Lot
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate sponsors of Georgia Tech. For more details and to register your car or motorcycle, go to www.GaTechAutoShow.com.
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Third Annual Georgia Tech Auto Show Keynote Address
2:00 p.m.
Instructional Center, Tannenbaum Auditorium, Room 103
Speaker: Mr. Franco Cimatti, Engineering Concept Manager at Ferrari (BME 1981) in Maranello, Italy |
| April 3 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by George Nelson
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Solid Oxide Cell Constriction Resistance Effects
Committee: Dr. Comas Haynes, Co-Chair(GTRI), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Sam Shelton (ME) |
Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Nanoporous Metals Actuators Driven by Surface Stress
Speaker: Dr. Jrg Weissmller
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| April 4 |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Design Methodology for a Flexible Manufacturing Casting System for Membrane Material Used in PEM Fuel Cells
Speaker: Dr. Tequila A. L. Harris, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Amanda Busch
1:30 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 417
Title: Vacuum-Assisted Wet Shaping of Paper
Committee: Dr. Fred Ahrens, Chair (ME), Dr. Timothy Patterson (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME) |
ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) Judging and Competition
5:00 p.m.
MARC Auditorium and Atrium
5:00 p.m. (judging); 6:15 p.m. (competition); For more information, contact .
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| April 5 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by James Kitchen
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Design of Wheelchair Seating Systems for Users with High-Tone Extensor Thrust
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. Stephen Sprigle (ID), Dr. Raymond Vito (ME) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jian Mi
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: SiC Growth by LCVD and Process Analysis
Committee: Dr. W. Jack Lackey, Chair (ME), Dr. Joe K. Cochran (MSE), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Andrei G. Fedorov (ME), Dr. David W. Rosen (ME), Dr. ZhongLin Wang (MSE) |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
Woodruff School Spring Banquet
6:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom |
| April 6 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Reinhard Powell
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Development of Convective Solder Reflow and Projection Moire System and FEA Model for PWBA Warpage Prediction
Committee: Dr. I. Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Russell Peak (MaRC), Dr. C. P. Wong (MSE), Dr. Jiahui Pan (Akrometrix, LLC)
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Towards Self Organizing Systems for Integrated Product and Process Design
Speaker: Dr. Fathianathan Mervyn, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BioMers Pte Ltd., Singapore |
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Preparation Workshop With Paddy Kennington
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Contact for more information. This session is designed for students planning to take the qualifying exams in fall 2006 or spring 2007. |
| April 7 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Virginia Maniquis
4:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Monte Carlo Dose Verification of an X-ray beam in a Virtual Water Phantom
Committee: Dr. Cassiano de Oliveira, Chair (ME), Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (ME), Dr. Tim Fox (ME) |
| April 9 |
Last day to register early for summer term 2006 |
| April 10 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Kuan-Ming Li
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Predictive Modeling of Near Dry Machining
Committee: Dr. Steven Liang, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Min Zhou (ME), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISyE), Dr. Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil (ISyE) |
Seminar in Consideration of a No Cost Joint Appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: ULTRA - A Systems Approach to Vehicle Survivability
Speaker: Dr. Gary Caille, Principal Research Engineer, GTRI |
| April 12 |
Georgia Tech Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon
12:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom |
Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: First Principles Study of Defects in Zno
Speaker: Dr. Sukit Limpijumnong, School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand and National Synchrotron Research Center, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand |
| April 12 - April 25 |
Early registration for fall term 2006 |
| April 13 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Proliferation Issues
Speaker: William E. Hoehn, Jr., Coca-Cola Foundation Eminent Practitioner in Residence And Visiting Professor Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech |
| April 15 |
Deadline to submit suggestions for the one-minute engineering documentaries for the WGBH Engineering Program for Kids (9-12), Design Squad. Please e-mail submissions and suggestions to .
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| April 17 |
Course/Instructor Opinion Survey Opens
12:00 a.m.
The survey closes on Sunday, May 7th at 11:59 p.m. View www.coursesurvey.gatech.edu |
Seminar in Consideration of a No Cost Joint Appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: High-Pressure Shock Synthesis and High-Strain-Rate Mechanical Properties of Materials
Speaker: Dr. Naresh N. Thadhani, Professor and Associate Chair, School of Materials Science & Engineering |
| April 18 |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Realistic Haptic Feedback for Virtual Environments and Teleoperation
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, Stanford University |
Panel Discussion on Family and Career Planning
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
This panel is sponsored by the Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW). For more information, contact . |
Meeting of the General Faculty with the Academic Senate and Academic Faculty
3:00 p.m.
Student Center Theater |
| April 19 |
Georgia Tech Student Honors Luncheon
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom
Contact Gus Giebelhaus at 404.894.6828 for more information. |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Product Family Design Knowledge Representation, Aggregation, Reuse, and Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Jyotirmaya Nanda, Ph.D. Candidate, The Pennsylvania State University |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting (Alternate)
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
| April 20 |
High-Performance Computing Town Hall Meeting
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermomechanical Behavior of Materials at Nano, Micro and Macro Scales
Speaker: Dr. Minn Zhou, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech |
When the Whistle Blows Ceremony
6:00 p.m.
Tech Tower Lawn (grassy area between North Avenue and the Carnegie Building. The rain location is the Student Success Center.
Refer to www.whenthewhistleblows.gatech.edu for more information |
| April 21 |
Last day to apply for cross registration for summer term 2006 |
Georgia Tech Earth Day
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Skiles Walkway
To see the program or to volunteer, view www.EarthDay.gatech.edu.
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M.S. Thesis Presentation by Russell Marzette
12:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Feasibility Study of Thin-Shell Deformable Mirror with Adaptive Truss Support for Spaced-Based Telescopes
Committee: Dr. Harvey Lipkin, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman (ME), Dr. I. Charles Ume (ME) |
| April 22 |
Tech Beautification Day
8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Campus
For more information and to volunteer go to www.techbeautificationday.org. |
| April 24 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Hyeong-Kae Park
10:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Coupled Space-Angle Adaptivity and a Goal Oriented Error Control for Radiation Transport Calculations
Committee: Cassiano de Oliveira, Chair (ME), Farzad Rahnema (ME), Weston Stacey (ME), Thomas Morley (MATH), Barry Ganapol (U of Arizona) |
Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| April 25 |
Last day for early registration for fall term 2006 |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Laser-Based Materials Characterization on Nano/Micro/Millimeter Length Scales
Speaker: Dr. David H. Hurley, Advisory Scientist, Physics Department, Idaho National Laboratory |
Woodruff School Safety Brown Bag Luncheon
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Topic: Stress Management |
Georgia Tech Women's Forum - General Meeting
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 319
Topic: 'Symphonic Expressions' is Passionate about Poetry. DiAnn Y. Mason, CEO/President of Symphonic Expressions will discuss her unique business of writing poetry for anyone and for any occasion. Lunch: Personal pan pizza, spring mix salad, dessert bite, sweet tea and water. $7. Brown-baggers may enjoy dessert and a drink for $1. RSVP TO: Maude Robinson by noon, April 21. |
Tribology Seminar Series
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Semi-Analytical Modeling of Rolling and Sliding Contact
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Boucly, INSA Lyon, France |
Materials Council Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Nitride Alloys for LEDs
Speaker: Dr. Linda Romano, Philips-Lumileds Lighting |
| April 26 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
Mechanics of Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Mason Building, Room 142
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Safety Factors: From Atomistic to Structural Scale
Speaker: Dr. Zdenek P. Bazant |
| April 27 |
MEGA Workshop on Writing Grants: An Introduction to Sources of Funding for Your Research by Michelle Powell from the Office of Sponsored Programs
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
She will discuss strategies and resources for finding funding, proposal preparation and submission and budget development. If you are thinking of an academic career, don't miss this opportunity.
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ATDC Entrepreneurs Showcase and Celebration: Annual Open House
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Technology Square Research Building |
Woodruff School Colloquium
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Science and Technology in Modern Tribology
Speaker: Dr. Koji Kato, Tohoku University |
| April 28 |
Last day of classes for spring semester 2006 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Hoyeon Kim
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Integrated sensing technology for polymer surface probe microscopy cantilevers
Committee: Dr. Jonathan S. Colton, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter J. Hesketh (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Lawrence A. Bottomley (ChBE), Dr. John D. Muzzy (ChBE) |
| May 1 |
Deadline to submit an application for the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program. For more information on these awards, see http://www.cies.org/ab_dc/download/Chairs.pdf, visit http://www.cies.org/ab_dc, or contact Assistant Director Maria Bettua, 202.686.6245 () or Senior Program Associate Jamie Oberlander, 202.686.6232 (). |
| Deadline to submit proposals for the 2006 Honda Initiation Grant Program. View research.honda.com for more details. |
| Final grade entry by BuzzPort or OSCAR for spring semester is open. For assistance, e-mail . |
| May 1 - May 5 |
Final Exams for spring semester 2006 |
| May 3 |
Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Shelby Highsmith
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Development of Crack Path Prediction Criteria for 3-D Mixed Mode Loading
Committee: Dr. Steven Johnson, Chair (ME), Dr. Rick Neu (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Rami Haj-Ali (CE), Dr. John Holmes (AE) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Wei Chen
2:30 p.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Investigation of FcgRIII-IgG Binding and Integrin Conformational Change by Molecular Modeling
Committee: Dr. Cheng Zhu, Chair (ME/BME), Dr. Marc E. Levenston (ME), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME), Dr. Stephen Harvey (BIOL), Dr. Nicholas V. Hud (CHEM) |
Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220 |
| May 4 |
Deadline to submit proposals for Faculty Materials and Supplies Funding for Undergraduate Research. Call Karen Harwell at 404.385.7325 with questions. Send proposals to .
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| May 5 |
End of Spring Semester 2006 |
| May 6 |
Spring Commencement
9:00 a.m.
Georgia Dome |
| May 7 |
Last day to participate in the Course/Instructor Opinion Survey. Until 11:59 p.m. View www.coursesurvey.gatech.edu. |
| May 8 |
Deadline for online entry of all grades for spring semester 2006. 12:00 p.m. |
Deadline to enter final grades on BuzzPort or OSCAR for spring semester
12:00 p.m.
For assistance, e-mail . |
| Deadline to submit nominations for the Woodruff School Outstanding Achievement Award for Spring Semester. 4:30 p.m. |
| May 9 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Eric Vanderploeg
10:30 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1316
Title: Mechanotransduction in Engineered Cartilaginous Tissues: in vitro Oscillatory Tensile Loading
Committee: Dr. Marc E. Levenston, Chair (ME), Dr. Andrés J. García (ME), Dr. Michelle C. LaPlaca (BME), Dr. Robert M. Nerem (ME), Dr. Harish Radhakrishna (BIO) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Benjamin Black
2:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Controlling a Passive Haptic Master During Teleoperation
Committee: Dr. Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Lee (ME), Dr. Ferri (ME), Dr. Ting (BME), Dr. Jacko (ISyE), Dr Falcon (non-GT)
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| May 11 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Laam Tse
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Design for Power Density Enhancement of Driect Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs)
Committee: David W. Rosen, Chair (ME), Peter J. Hesketh (ME), S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Meilin Liu (MSE), Tom F. Fuller (ChBE), Comas L. Haynes (GTRI) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Nathanael Hudson
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The Correction of Pebble Bed Reactor Nodal Cross Sections For the Effects of Leakage and Depletion History
Committee: Dr. Farzad Rahnema, Chair (NRE), Dr. Weston Stacey (NRE), Dr. C.-K. Wang (NRE), Dr. Guillermo Goldsztein (MATH), Dr. Abderrafi Ougouag (Idaho National Laboratory)
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| May 11 - May 19 |
Late registration and schedule changes for summer term 2006 |
| May 12 |
First day of summer semester |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Benoit Forget
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Coarse Mesh Transport Method for Reactor Calculations
Committee: Dr.Farzad Rahnema, Chair (NRE), Dr.Chris Wang (NRE), Dr.Weston Stacey (NRE), Dr.Tom Morley (MATH), Dr.Jean Koclas (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Lizheng Zhang
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Development of Microelectronics Solder Joint Inspection System: Modal Analysis, Finite Element Modeling, and Ultrasound Signal Processing
Committee: Dr. I. Charles Ume, Chair (ME), Dr. Wayne Book (ME), Dr. Jennifer Michaels (ECE), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME), Dr. Kwok-Leung Tsui (ISyE), Dr. Deepak Goyal (Intel) |
| May 15 |
Deadline to submit abstracts for the 2006 AATCC International Conference and Exhibition.
Materials Interest Group
Send to Ms. Peggy Pickett at . |
| Georgia Tech Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting (Student Petitions) |
| Classes begin for summer semester 2006 |
| Annual Chemical Inventory must be completed. Contact or for more information. |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Siarhei Tsiareshka
8:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 431
Title: Vibrating CPD Chemical Degradation Oil Sensor
Committee: Dr. Steven Danulyk, Chair (ME), Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess (ME), Dr. Peter Hesketh (ME) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Akhil Agarwal
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop During Condensation of Refrigerants in Microchannels
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Tom Fuller (ChBE), Dr. Mark G Allen (ECE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sam Golbuff
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Optimization of a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle
Committee: Dr. Samuel V. Shelton, Chair (ME), Dr. Bill Wepfer (ME), Dr. Jerome Meisel (ECE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ghislain Retaureau
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Corrosion Detection by Backscattering Ultrasonics
Committee: Dr. Yves H. Berthelot, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter H. Rogers (ME), Dr. Jennifer E. Michaels (ECE) |
| May 16 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jason Aughenbaugh
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Managing Uncertainty in Engineering Design using Imprecise Probabilities and Principles of Information Economics
Committee: Dr. Chistiann J. J. Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Bert Bras (ME), Dr. Ye-Hwa Chen (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISYE), Dr. Mark Ferguson (MGMT) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Mark Telesz
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Design and Testing of a Thermoacoustic Power Converter
Committee: Dr. Tim Lieuwen, Co-Chair(AE), Dr. Ben Zinn (ME), Dr. Sam Shelton (ME) |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Computational Metrology - A Classification and Synthesis
Speaker: Dr. Vijay Srinivasan, Ph.D., IBM, Corporation |
| May 18 |
National Science Foundation Career Awards Panel Discussion
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Research Administrative Building, Seminar Room (corner of Hemphill and 10th St.)
Contact Nadia at 404.894.6944 or at to reserve a space. |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Etienne Dufour
4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Optimization of a medium with a large parameter of nonlinearity and its application to the enhancement of a compact, omnidirectional, parametric source
Committee: David H. Trivett, Chair (ME), Peter H. Rogers (ME), Jerry H. Ginsberg (ME) |
| May 19 |
Deadline to reactivate degree petitions for summer commencement |
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Deadline to register and to make schedule changes for summer semester. 4:30 p.m. |
| May 22 |
First day of classes for the Shanghai Summer Program at Jiao Tong University, Xuhui Campus. See www.shanghaisummer.gatech.edu. |
| May 23 |
Georgia Tech Retirement Dinner
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wardlaw Building, Gordy Room
Contact Aimee Anderson at 404.894.7613 for more information. |
| May 24 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Mahesh Shenoy
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Constitutive Modeling and Life Prediciton in Ni-base superalloys
Committee: David McDowell, Chair (ME), Richard Neu (ME), Tom Sanders (MSE), Naresh Thadani (MSE), Min Zhou (ME) |
| May 25 |
Georgia Tech Women's Forum - General Meeting
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 319
Topic: How did I get so unhealthy? How do I fix the problem?
Susan Marsico, Director and Owner of Inches-A-Weigh of Atlanta. RSVP: Maude Robinson by noon, May 22. |
| May 29 |
Memorial Day Holiday
No classes |
| Deadline to submit proposals for the Focused Research Program at Georgia Tech |
| May 30 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Ulf Andresen
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Supercritical Gas Cooling and Near-Critical-Pressure Condensation of Refrigerant Blends in Microchannels
Committee: Dr. Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Graham (ME), Dr. Fuller (ChBE), Dr. Webster (CE) |
| May 30 - June 2 |
ITherm: 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems. See www.itherm.org. |
| June 1 |
Deadline to submit graduate applications for the fall semester |
| Deadline to submit nominations for the 2006 Johannes A. Van Den Akker Prize for Paper Physics. Send nominations to D. Steven Keller at . |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Xin Zhang
2:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Development and Validation of a Nanodosimetry-Based Cell Survival Model for Mixed High- and Low-LET Radaition
Committee: Dr. C.-K. Chris Wang, Chair (ME), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (ME), Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (ME), Dr. Harish Radhakrishna (School of Biology), Dr. Mohamad Al-Sheikhly (University of Maryland) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Andrew DeMaio
2:00 p.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: The Role of Paper Structure on the Tensile Creep Compliance of Paper
Committee: Dr. Timothy Patterson, Chair (ME), Dr. Frederick Ahrens (ME), Dr. David Orloff (ME), Dr. Preet Singh (MSE), Dr. Douglas Coffin (Miami University) |
| June 2 |
Deadline to apply for the Cooperative Division this semester |
| June 5 - June 6 |
National Academy of Sciences Regional Meeting on Science and Security. Registration is free but seating is limited. Go to http://nrc58.nas.edu/pgasurvey/Quask/HTML/ga_tech.htm. |
| June 8 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ryan Bechtel
2:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Uranium-232 Beryllide Neutron Source
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Daniel Tedder (ChBE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Zubair Abbasi
4:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Identification and Calculation of Activity of Unknown Isotope from Spectral Analysis in a Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) Incident
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Chris Wang (NRE), Dr. Rebecca Howell (NRE) |
| June 9 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Erik Sunden
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Carbon Nanotube Synthesis for Microsystems Applications
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. William King (ME), Dr. Satish Kumar (PTFE) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Narasimhan Swaminathan
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Mechanical-Electrochemical Theory of Defects in Ionic Solids
Committee: Dr. Jianmin Qu, Chair (ME), Dr. David L. McDowell (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE), Dr. Paul A. Kohl (ChBE), Dr. Ting Zhu (ME) |
| June 12 |
Deadline to submit papers or extended abstracts for the ISRA-20065th International Symposium on Robotics and Automation. For more information, view www.uaeh.edu.mx/isra2006/Html. |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by John Meacham
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Micromachined Ultrasonic Droplet Generator: Design, Fabrication, Visualization, and Modeling
Committee: Andrei G. Fedorov, Chair (ME), F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Yves Berthelot (ME), Ari Glezer (ME), Mark Allen (ECE), Mark Papania, MD (CDC) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Ryan Krauss
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Control Design for Flexible Robots using the Transfer Matrix Method
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Al Ferri (ME), Dr. Bill Singhose (ME), Dr. James Craig (AE), Dr. Dewey Hodges (AE) |
| June 14 |
Progress report grades due for summer semester (1000 and 2000 level Classes) |
| First day of classes for the freshman summer and short summer sessions. |
ME Brown Bag Safety Luncheon
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| June 15 |
Tribology Seminar Series
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Optical Techniques Applied to in situ Studies of Elastohydrodynamic Contacts
Speaker: Dr. Philippe Vergne, CNRS/INSA Lyon, France |
| June 19 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by David Blackburn
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Command Shaping for Vibration Reduction in Nonlinear Cabled Systems
Committee: William Singhose, Ph.D., Chair (ME), Nader Sadegh, Ph.D. (ME), John-Paul Clarke, Sc.D. (AE) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Nathan Masters
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Efficient Numerical Techniques for Multiscale Modeling of Thermally Driven Gas Flows with Application to Thermal Sensing Atomic Force Microscopy
Committee: Wenjing Ye, Chair (ME), William P. King (ME), Levent Degertekin (ME), Zhuomin Zhang (ME), Elisa Riedo (Physics), John Pelesko (Math (U of Delaware)) |
| June 20 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Brian Kern
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Experimental Investigation of the Hydrodynamics of a Plunging Two-Phase Plane Jet
Committee: Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Sheldon Jeter (ME) |
| June 21 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Cornelius Ejimofor
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: An Experimental Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop in Microchannels
Committee: Dr. Sheldon M. Jeter, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Said I. Abdel-Khalik (ME), Dr. Seyed M Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. W. Russell Callen Jr (ECE), Dr. Daniel W. Tedder (CHE) |
| June 22 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Donald Bradley
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Method to Relate Product Tolerancing Decisions to Environmental Impacts and Costs in Manufacturing
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Liang (ME), Dr. David Rosen (ME) |
| June 23 |
Last day to drop individual courses with a grade of W for Summer Semester 2006 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Wichit Liewkongsataporn
10:00 a.m.
IPST Building, Room 521
Title: Characteristics of Pulsating Flows in a Pulse Combustor Tailpipe
Committee: Dr. Timothy Patterson, Chair (ME), Dr. Frederick Ahrens (ME), Dr. Cyrus Aidun (ME) |
| June 26 |
Woodruff School Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 3220
Contact Richard Salant for more information. |
| June 26 - June 29 |
Hands-On NanoBio Fluidic MEMS Workshop |
| June 27 |
Deadline for faculty members to submit input to the Provost Search Committee, 3:30 p.m., Student Center Theater. For additional information, contact Bill Koros at . |
Research at GT Lorraine Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Van Leer Building, Room 218
Title: The GT-CNRS Unite Mixte International (UMI)
Speaker: Abdallah Ougazzaden (UMI Director and Professor of ECE) and Steven McLaughlin (GTL Deputy Director and Ken Byers Professor of ECE) |
| June 28 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Adam Christensen
8:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermal Transport in III-V Semiconductors and Devices
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Ian Ferguson (ECE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Mark Claffee
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: The Effects of Wing Manipulation on Automated Cutting of Biological Materials
Committee: Dr. Kok-Meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote (ME), Dr. Daniel Fletcher (Poultry Science, UGA) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jason Lawrence
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Enhancing Crane Oscillation Control and Education
Committee: William Singhose, Chair (ME), Steven Danyluk (ME), Nader Sadegh (ME), Donna Llewellyn (CETL), Neil Singer (MIT) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Shannon Stott
2:00 p.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Kinetic Study of Intracellular Ice Formation in Micropatterned Endothelial Cell Cultures using High Speed Digital Video Cryomicroscopy
Committee: Jens O. M. Karlsson, Chair (ME), Andrés García (ME), Hanjoong Jo (BME), Athanassios Sambanis (ChBE), Cheng Zhu (ME) |
| June 29 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Brent Nelson
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Nanoscale Thermal Processing Using a Heated Atomic Force Microscope Tip
Committee: William P. King, Chair (ME), Yogendra Joshi (ME), Levent Degertekin (ME), Alexei Marchenkov (Phys), William J. Koros (ChBE) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Hyunjin Lee
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Radiative Properties of Silicon Wafers with Microroughness and Thin-Film Coatings
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Martha Gallivan (ChBE), Dr. Yiping Zhao (University of Georgia) |
| June 30 |
Deadline for initial thesis format check (Note: All theses should conform to the requirements in the Manuel for Graduate Theses.) The initial check is not required but is strongly recommended. |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Amir Shenouda
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Quasi-Static Hydraulic Control Systems and Energy Savings Potential Using Independent Metering Four-Valve Assembly Configuration
Committee: Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Nader Sadegh (ME), Chris Paredis (ME), Bonnie Heck (ECE), Renato Monteiro (ISyE), Roger Yang (HUSCO International) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by John Huey
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: The Intelligent Combination of Input Shaping and PID Feedback Control
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. Aldo Ferri (ME), Dr. David Frakes (4D Imaging, Inc.), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras (AE) |
| July 1 |
Deadline to submit application for the American Academy of MechanicsFounder Prizes and Grants (Ph.D. level) for 2006-2007. View www.haythornthwaite.org for more details and entry rules. |
| Deadline for readmission applications for fall term 2006. |
| July 2 |
Last day to withdraw from school with W graduates in all courses for summer semester 2006 |
| July 4 |
Independence Day Holiday. Tech is closed, no classes. |
| July 5 |
Deadline to submit new degree petitions for fall commencement |
| Last day to drop individual courses with a grade of W for the freshman summer and short summer sessions |
Automation and Mechatronics Seminar
3:30 p.m.
Love 210
Title: Seeking Near Human Functionality for Human Arm Prostheses
Speaker: Prof. Michael Goldfarb, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University |
| July 7 |
Time tickets, phase I using web student access system |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Manas Bajaj
9:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: A Composable Knowledge Methodology for Efficient Analysis Problem Formulation in Simulation-based Design
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Russell Peak (MARC), Dr. David Rosen (ME), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Charles Eastman (COA and COC), Dr. Steve Fenves (NIST & CMU) |
| July 10 |
Graduate thesis/dissertation and required forms deadline |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Thomas Smith
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Hardware Simulation of Fuel Cell / Gas Turbine Hybrids
Committee: Dr. William J. Wepfer, Chair (ME), Dr. Comas L. Haynes (GTRI), Dr. David Tucker (U.S. DOE NETL), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Christiaan Paredis (ME), Dr. Meilin Liu (MSE) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Sebastien Wolff
12:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 220
Title: Statically Stable Assembly Sequence Generation and Structure Optimization for a Large Number of Identical Building Blocks
Committee: Dr. Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Chair (ME), Dr. Harvey Lipkin (ME), Dr. Tucker Balch (CS), Dr. Wayne Book (ME), Dr. Andrea Surovek (CEE (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)) |
| July 10 - July 12 |
Academic advisement for fall semester 2006 |
| July 11 |
Regents' Testing Program |
| July 12 |
Deadline to apply for cross registration for fall semester 2006 |
| Deadline to submit applications for the Presidents Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA). For more information view www.undergraduateresearch.gatech.edu/funding.php.
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Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Wuwei Liang
9:15 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: A Novel Shape Memory Behavior of Single-crystalline Metal Nanowires
Committee: Min Zhou, Chair (ME), Christopher S. Lynch (ME), David L. McDowell (ME), Karl I. Jacob (PTFE), Jianmin Qu (ME), David J. Srolovitz (Yeshiva University) |
| July 12 - July 15 |
Registration period for fall semester 2006 |
| July 14 |
Deadline for academic faculty to submit promotion or tenure materials to the School Chair |
| July 16 - July 20 |
ICONE-14: The 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
Miami, Florida
See www.asmeconferences.org/icone14. |
| July 17 |
Mechanical Systems Seminar
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Normal Cone Inclusions in Non-Smooth Lagrangian Systems: Models and Algorithms
Speaker: Dr. Christoph Glocker, Professor of Mechanics / Mechanical Systems, ETH (Federal Polytechnic, Zurich, Switzerland) |
| July 19 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Zhonglu Wang
12:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: A Novel Design of a Boron Neutron Capture Enhanced Fast Therapy Assembly
Committee: Dr. Nolan E. Hertel,, Chair (ME), Dr. C.-K. Chris Wang (ME), Dr. Ratib Karam (ME), Dr. Eva K. Lee (ISYE), Dr. Arlene J. Lennox (Fermilab), Dr. Rebecca Howell (Emory) |
| July 20 |
Last day of classes at the Shanghai Summer Program at Jiao Tong University, Xuhui Campus |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Hungsun Son
9:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Effects of Physics-Based Magnetic Field Model on Observer and Controller Design of an Electromagnetic Actuator
Committee: Dr. Kok-meng Lee, Chair (ME), Dr. William Singhose (ME), Dr. Nader Sadegh (ME), Dr. David Taylor (EE), Dr. Eric Johnson (AE) |
| July 21 |
ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) Energy Crisis Competition
5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (judging); 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. (competition); View http://singhose.marc.gatech.edu/me2110/index.htm. |
| July 25 |
Last day to register for fall semester 2006 |
| July 28 |
Deadline for faculty to submit Interview Request Forms listing new graduate students they wish to interview |
| Last day of classes for the full summer, the Freshman Summer, and Short Summer Sessions for 2006 |
| July 31 |
First day of final exams for summer sessions 2006 |
| August 1 |
First day for new Woodruff School graduate students to have their photo taken in the Office of Student Services
MRDC Building, Room 3112
8:00 a.m. to Noon and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. |
| August 3 |
Last day of final exams for summer sessions 2006 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Joseph Goodman
3:00 p.m.
Global Learning Center, Room 421
Title: Economic and Technical Study of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Technologies
Committee: Dr. William Wepfer, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Samuel Shelton (ME), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME) |
| August 4 |
Summer Commencement Ceremony |
| August 7 |
Deadline to enter all grades online for summer sessions. 12:00 p.m. |
| August 8 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Shubham Saxena
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Nanolithography on thin films using heated atomic force microscope cantilever
Committee: Dr. William P. King, Chair (ME), Dr. Clifford L. Henderson (CHBE), Dr. Ken Gall (ME) |
| August 11 |
Time tickets, phase II using web student access system |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ashby Bridges
12:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Estimating the Radiation Dose to Emergency Room Personel in an Event of a Radiological Dispersal Device Explosion
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE), Dr. Rebecca Howell (NRE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Sharon Chandler
1:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Comparison of Reprocessing Methods for Light Water Reactor Fuel
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Daniel Tedder (CHBE), Dr. Ratib Karam (NRE) |
| August 14 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Patrick Mcdonald
2:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115
Title: Wicking in Multiply Paper Structures of Dissimilar Plies
Committee: Dr. Frederick Ahrens, Chair (ME), Dr. Timothy Patterson (ME), Dr. Haskell Beckham (PTFE) |
| August 15 |
Institute Graduate Student Orientation
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts |
Woodruff School New Graduate Student Lunch
12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
MARC Building, Atrium |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Ashby Bridges
12:00 p.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Estimating the Radiation Dose to Emergency Room Personel in an Event of a Radiological Dispersal Device Explosion
Committee: Dr. Nolan Hertel, Chair (NRE), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE), Dr. Rebecca Howell (NRE) |
Grad Expo for Computer Accounts, Buzz Card and BuzzPort
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Buzz Card Center, Student Center Commons |
Woodruff School New Graduate Student Orientation
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Auditorium |
Immigration Sessions for New International Graduate Students
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Student Center Ballroom, Level 3 |
Woodruff School Graduate Student Orientation
2:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium |
Help with Registration for New Woodruff School Graduate Students
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Various locations in the Woodruff School |
Woodruff School Registration for Fall Term for New Graduate Students
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2104 (Computer Cluster) |
| August 16 |
Grad Expo for GRA/GTA Signup (Payroll Processing and Social Security Applications, Removal of Registration Holds Removals (final transcripts), and Tuberculosis Screening, MMR Immunizations
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| Opening of late registration period for fall semester 2006 |
Clearing Medical Holds
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Campus Recreation Center |
| August 17 |
Georgia Tech New Faculty Orientation Dinner |
Grad Expo for GRA/GTA Signup (Payroll Processing and Social Security Applications, Removal of Registration Holds (final transcripts), and Tuberculosis Screening, MMR Immunizations, and Clearing Medical Holds
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Campus Recreation Center |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Michael Muir
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Life Cycle Assessment for Strategic Product Design and Management
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Janet Allen ( ME), Dr. Beril Toktay (COM) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Sivaramakrishna Venkatachalam
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 301
Title: Predictive Modeling for Ductile Machining of Brittle Materials
Committee: Dr. Steven Liang, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Xiaoping Li (National University of Singapore), Dr. Shreyes Melkote (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Paul Griffin (ISYE) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Nsikan Udoyen
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Information Modeling for Intent-based Retrieval of Parametric Finite Element Analysis Models
Committee: Dr. David Rosen, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Farrokh Mistree (ME), Dr. Nelson C. Baker (CEE), Dr. Charles Eastman (CoC & Arch.), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME), Dr. Russell Peak (ME), Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (ME) |
| August 18 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Nicholas Maser
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Numerical Model of a Reciprocating Rod Seal, Including Surface Roughness and Mixed Lubrication
Committee: Richard F. Salant, Chair (ME), Jeffrey L. Streator (ME), Wayne J. Book (ME) |
Tribology Seminar Series
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
MRDC 4211
Title: Numerical Model of a Reciprocating Rod Seal, Including Surface Roughness and Mixed Lubrication
Dr. Jeffrey Streator
Speaker: Nicholas Maser, Graduate Student, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Ameya Limaye
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Process planning method for Mask Projection Stereolithography under parameter uncertainty
Committee: David Rosen, Chair (ME), Chris Paredis (ME), Shreyes Melkote (ME), J. C. Lu (ISyE), Ali Adibi (ECE), Cliff Henderson (ChBE) |
| Registration fees must be paid for students who wish to retain their schedule and avoid late fees. 4:00 p.m. |
| August 21 |
Meeting of the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (student petitions) |
| Fall semester classes start |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Kirk Martin
1:30 p.m.
College of Management Building, Room 400 F-H
Title: Site Specific Optimization of Rotor / Generator Sizing of Wind Turbines
Committee: Dr. Sam Shelton, Chair (ME), Dr. William Wepfer (ME), Dr. Susan Stewart (SEI) |
| August 24 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Celine Lascar
9:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Shock Attenuation in Two-Phase (Gas-Liquid) Jets for Inertial Fusion Applications
Committee: Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Chair (ME), Dr. Cyrus Aidun (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Daniel Tedder (CHE), Dr. Donald Webster (CEE) |
Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) Open House for New Female
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
For more information, view www.me.gatech.edu/wsgw.
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| August 25 |
Closing day of late registration for fall semester 2006 (last day to register and make schedule changes) |
| Deadline to submit reactivated degree petitions for fall commencement |
| Thesis deadlines to use enrollment waiver |
| Last day to pay fees with late fees |
| August 25 - August 28 |
ISRA-2006 5th International Symposium on Robotics and AutomationSan Miguel Regla, Hidalgo, Mexico. For more information, view www.uaeh.edu.mx/isra2006/Html. |
| August 28 |
Deadline for class schedules to be cancelled for students failing to pay their fees in full. |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Andrew Cannon
9:30 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Unconventional Microfabrication Using Polymers
Committee: Dr. William P. King, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Clifford L. Henderson (ChBE) |
| August 29 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Jungchul Lee
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications of Multifunctional Microcantilever Heaters
Committee: Dr. William P. King, Chair (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Ari Glezer (ME), Dr. Mark Allen (ECE), Dr. Oliver Brand (ECE) |
| August 31 |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: The Implicit Monte Carlo Method for Nonlinear, Time-Dependent Radiative Transfer Calculations
Speaker: Scott Mosher, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Introduction for Students to Packaging Research Center Research Opportunities
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MaRC, Room 114
For additional information, contact Barbara Park, 404.894.9097 or . |
| September 1 |
Deadline to apply to the Division of Professional Practice (Cooperative Program) |
| Last day for new Woodruff School graduate students to have their photo taken in the Office of Student Services. 8:00 a.m. to Noon and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. |
| September 4 |
Labor Day Holiday |
| September 5 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 224
Title: Radioactive Ion Beam Development for Stewardship Science
Speaker: Andreas Kronenberg (Oak Ridge Associated Universities) |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Seminar on Radioactive Ion Beam Development for Stewardship Science
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Radioactive Ion Beam Development for Stewardship Science
Speaker: Andreas Kronenberg (Oak Ridge Associated Universities) |
| September 7 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Shashvat Prakash
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Control System Development for Lean Flame Stabilization
Committee: Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Chair (ME), Dr. Yedidia Neumeier (AE), Prof. NaderSadegh (ME), Prof. Wayne Book (ME), Prof. Tim Lieuwen (AE) |
| September 8 |
Deadline to submit proposals on the National Science Foundation's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STP) Solicitation
Submit proposals to Kathy Mims. |
| September 11 |
9/11 Remembrance
6:00 p.m.
At the Georgia Tech Campanile |
| September 12 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Chih-Chieh Hu
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Mechanistic Modeling of Evaporating Thin Liquid Film Instability on a BWR Fuel Rod with Parallel and Cross Vapor Flow
Committee: Said Abdel-Khalik, Chair (ME/NRE), S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Nolan E. Hertel (NRE), Yingjie Liu (Mathematics), Mostafa H. Ammar (CoC) |
Nano@Tech Seminar Series
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
MIRC building, Room 102
Title: The AFM Probe
Speaker: Levent Degertekin (Georgia Tech)
If you plan to attend, notify Paul Turgeon at . |
| September 13 |
Brown Bag Safety Presentation
12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Chemical Hazards Right-to-Know |
| September 14 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Felipe Roman Morales
8:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Machine Tool Models for Environmentally Conscious Process Planning of Machining, Cleaning and Auxiliary Processes
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME), Dr. Steven Liang (ME), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISyE), Dr. Mark Fergusson (COM) |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: How the NRC Accomplishes It's Mission
Speaker: Jim Moorman, Chief Operations Branch, Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Alumni House Ballroom
Title: Promoting Learning in Large Classes
Speaker: Guest Presenter
For more information and registration, see: www.cetl.gatech.edu/services/faculty/devsem.htm.
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Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| September 15 |
Deadline to submit planning phase proposals for The Leadership in Undergraduate Engineering Education (LUEE) Program in the College of Engineering. If you have any questions or wish to submit proposals contact Ray Vito. |
| Deadline for new graduate students to submit Evaluation Forms that have ranked possible advisors |
| Deadline for faculty to submit Evaluation Forms that have Ranked those students they wish to advise |
Annual Woodruff School Cookout for Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
On the lawn between MARC and MRDC.
More information will be available at a later date. |
| September 18 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Sathyan Subbiah
8:30 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Some Investigations of Scaling Effects in Micro-Cutting
Committee: Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Steven Danyluk (ME), Dr. Stefan Koehler, Emory (Physics), Dr. David McDowell (ME/MSE), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISyE) |
| September 19 |
Graduate Student Resume Preparation Workshop with Ralph Mobley, Director of Career Services
11:00 a.m.
MRDC, Room 4211 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Ho Ching
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Internet-Based Bilateral Teleoperating Using Wave Variables With Adaptive Predictor And Drift Control
Committee: Wayne J. Book, Chair (ME), Nader Sadegh (ME), Harvey Lipkin (ME), Julie A. Jacko (BME), Bonnie S. Heck (ECE) |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: MEMS-based Displays for Direct Viewing: Present and Future Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb |
| September 19 - September 22 |
UPADI 2006 Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
www.UPADI2006.com. |
| September 20 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
11:30 a.m.
IBB Seminar Room
Title: Focal Adhesion Kinase Modulates Cell Adhesion Strengthening Via Two Distinct Mechanisms: Integrin Activation and Vinculin Localization
Committee: Andrés J. García (Georgia Tech), Andrew P. Kowalczyk (Emory University), Michelle C. LaPlaca (Georgia Tech), Harish Radhakrishna (Georgia Tech/Coca Cola), Cheng Zhu (Georgia Tech) |
| September 21 |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: GE's Advanced Nuclear Plants
Speaker: Dr. Russell Stachowski (Chief Engineer-Nuclear Physics, Global Nuclear Fuel & GE Energy, Nuclear) |
| September 22 |
Deadline for faculty advisor assignments to be completed |
| Deadline for academic faculty to submit periodic peer review materials to the School Chair |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Haiyan Deng
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Analysis and Synthesis of Fixturing Dynamic Stability in Machining Accounting for Material Removal Effect
Committee: Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote, Chair (ME), Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess (ME, Clemson University), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Chen Zhou (ISyE), Dr. Roshan J. Vengazhiyil (ISyE) |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Yu-Bin Chen
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Radiative Properties of Periodic Micro/Nanostructures
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Chair (ME), Dr. Peter J. Hesketh (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Gee-Kung Chang (ECE), Dr. Pei-feng Hsu (ME, FIT) |
| September 25 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Keunhan Park
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Thermal Characterization of Heated Microcantilevers and a Study on Near-Field Radiation
Committee: Dr. Zhuomin M. Zhang, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. William P. King (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. Alexei Marchenkov (PHY), Dr. Mark Allen (ECE) |
| September 28 |
Woodruff NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: The Real Life of a Clinical Medical Physicist
Speaker: Sean Dresser, MS, DABMP (Northside Hospital Cancer Center) |
Energy Policy and Technology Innovations for a Sustainable Future Seminar
11:00 a.m.
DM Smith Building, Room 303 (Next to the Library)
Title: Energy and American Society - Thirteen Myths
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Dr. Marilyn A. Brown (Georgia Tech) |
Annual COE Staff Appreciation Event
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Yellow Jacket Park
Cruisin the Sea with COE |
Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Shock Wave Theory for Rupture of Rubber
Arash Yavari, CEE
Speaker: Dr. Michael Marder (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin) |
| September 29 |
Deadline to submit progress report grades (for 1000 and 2000 level classes only) |
| Deadline to submit proposals for the Georgia Research Alliance Energy Research See Grant Program. For more information contact Michael Cassidy at www.gra.org. |
| Deadline to submit proposals for the Georgia Tech Honors Program. For more details, see www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu. |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Jiann-Cherng Su
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Residual Stress Modeling in Machining Processes
Committee: Dr. Steven Y. Liang, Chair (ME), Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Dr. Yong Huang (Clemson, ME) |
| October 1 |
Deadline to submit readmission applications for Spring Semester 2007 for students with an academic standing of drop or review. |
| October 2 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Karen Hallow
9:00 a.m.
MRDC, Room 4211
Title: Collocation of Mechanical Stress and Inflammation in Human Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque
Committee: Raymond Vito, Chair (ME), Robert Guldberg (ME), Rudy Gleason (ME), Hamid Garmestani (MSE), Robert Taylor (Emory Medicine), Alexander Rachev (ME) |
| October 3 |
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Methods for Coupling Radiation, Ion, and Electron Energies Using Implicit Monte Carlo
Speaker: Thomas Evans, Ph.D. (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
Materials Council Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 299
Title: ZnO Nanowire Based Solar Cells
Dr. Tom Sanders
Speaker: Eray S. Aydil (University of Minnesota) |
Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| October 4 |
Georgia Tech Women's Forum
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech Student Center, Room 320
Meet-n-Eat:: Annual Social and Membership Drive |
| October 5 |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Engineering Help in Improving Outcomes in Orthopaedic Oncology
Speaker: Dr. Shervin V. Oskouei (Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine) |
Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building Auditorium
Title: Simiulations of Wetting Phenomena, with Application to Microfluidics
Speaker: Professor Gustav Amberg (The Royal Institute of Technology) |
Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Characterization and Modeling of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) and Magnetic SMAs
Dr. Christopher S. Lynch, ME
Speaker: Dimitris C. Lagoudas (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University) |
| October 5 - October 7 |
Georgia Tech Family Weekend. More details will be published later in the year. |
| October 6 |
Deadline to submit nominations for the 2006 Georgia Tech Student Paper Contest Sponsored by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). By 4:00p.m. Papers cannot be submitted electronically. For more information, email . |
| Deadline to submit applications for the Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology Program. For more information, contact Ryan Jowers by . |
| Deadline to submit applications for the L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Program. For more information on this postdoctoral program, view http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10004027/lorealusa. |
Materials Council Seminar
10:00 a.m.
Mason Building, Room 142
Title: Self-healing Composites
Arash Yavari, CE and Hamid Garmestani, MSE
Speaker: Sia Nemat-Nasser (University of California, San Diego) |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Montgomery Knight Building, Room 317
Title: Bandit: Autonomous and Proximity Operations on a 3-kg, Student-Built Spacecraft
Speaker: Dr. Michael Swartwout (Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Washington University) |
Woodruff School Open House for Family Weekend
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building
More information will be available at a later date. |
| October 9 |
GTRI Seminar on Emerging Research Needs
12:00 p.m.
Centennial Research Building, Room 119
Title: Energy Challenge
Speaker: Drs. Tom Fuller and Art Ragauskas |
| October 10 |
Materials Council Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 299
Title: Developing New Materials & Methods for Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing
Speaker: Clifford L. Henderson (Associate Professor & Robert C. Bud Moeller Faculty Fellow, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) |
General Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m.
Global Learning Center, Room 236 Amphitheater
The President will deliver the Annual State of the Institute Address at the Fall meeting of the General Faculty and General Faculty Assembly combined with a meeting of the Academic Senate |
| October 11 |
James R. Carreker Distinguished Lecture
3:30 p.m.
Van Leer Auditorium, Room W200
Title: Innovators and Engineers: The Global Demand for Design Talent
Speaker: Richard K. Templeton (President and CEO of Texas Instruments) |
Woodruff School Annual Senior Honors Dinner
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location to be announced
This dinner is by invitation only. For more details, contact Trudy Allen (). |
| October 12 |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Reload Core Analysis Methods at SNC
Speaker: Adel Alapour (Southern Nuclear Operating Company) |
Distance Learning Meeting
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
This meeting should be of interest if you are teaching, or have taught a distance learning course, or if you expect to teach a distance learning course in the future. |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Analytical and Computational Mechanics Associated with Vehicle Front End Accessory Drives & Nanostructured Materials
Al Ferri
Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Leamy (Research Scientist, the Mitre Corporation) |
| October 12 - October 13 |
Woodruff School Ph.D. Written Qualifying Exams |
| October 13 |
Deadline to submit abstract for the ASTM Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture Student Presentation Competition in November. Submit abstracts to Dr. Richard Neu at or call 404.894.3074. |
| Deadline to drop individual courses with a grade of W |
| Right-to-Know Training must be completed. This training is done twice a year. For more information, contact or . |
| October 16 |
Start of the 2007 GT Charitable Campaign. See www.charitable.gatech.edu. |
| October 16 - October 17 |
Mid-term recess (no classes) |
| October 18 |
Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Joseph Charest
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Topographic and Chemical Patterning of Cell-Surface Interfaces to Influence Cellular Functions
Committee: Dr. William P. King, Chair (ME), Dr. F. Levent Degertekin (ME), Dr. Andrés J. García (ME), Dr. Hang Lu (ChBE), Dr. Todd C. McDevitt (BME) |
| October 18 - October 20 |
Woodruff School Ph.D. Written Qualifying Exams |
| October 19 |
Earl W. McDaniel Memorial Lecture
3:00 p.m.
Howey Physics Lecture Room 4
Speaker: Dr. Steven Chu (1997 Nobel Laureate, University of California at Berkeley) |
| October 23 - October 27 |
Woodruff School Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Exams |
| October 24 |
How to Get a Job in Industry Workshop with Ralph Mobley, Director of Career Services
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Speaker: Mr. Ralph Mobley, (Director of Career Services) |
| October 25 |
Spring Term 2007 schedule of classes available on the web |
| Deadline for the Registrar to accept degree petitions (departmental deadlines may vary) |
| Deadline to submit new degree petitions for spring commencement |
| October 26 |
NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science and Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Timeline of Nuclear Safety Technology Evolution
Speaker: John T. Larkin |
Ribbon cutting ceremony for the Klaus Advanced Computing Center
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Klaus Building Courtyard |
| October 26 - October 28 |
Georgia Tech Homecoming Weekend |
| October 27 |
Campus Open House at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. For more informaion, view www.cc.gatech.edu/klaus. |
| October 29 |
Last day to withdraw from school with W grades in all classes |
| October 30 |
First day for academic advisement for spring term 2007 registration |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Environmental Contributions to Fatigue Failure of Micron-Scale Silicon Films Used in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Devices
Speaker: Olivier Pierron |
| October 30 - October 31 |
2006 AATCC International Conference and Exhibition (Materials Interest Group)
World Congress Center
Atlanta, Georgia
View www.aatcc.org for more details on the conference |
| October 31 |
Deadline to submit applications for the L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Program. For more information on this postdoctoral program, view http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10004027/lorealusa.
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Automation and Mechatronics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Fault Diagnosis in Complex Systems
Dr. Kok-Meng Lee
Speaker: Professor Yo-Yuen Chow (North Carolina State University) |
| October 31 - November 2 |
Regents' Testing Program |
| November 1 |
Deadline to submit application for the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. View www.asee.org/sffp for more details. Restricted to U.S. citizens and Permanent residents who are full-time science and engineering faculty at U.S. Colleges and universities. |
| Last day for academic advisement for spring term 2007 registration |
| Deadline for Graduate Admissions Applications for Spring Term 2007 |
| First day of early registration for Spring Term 2007 |
Woodruff School Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
| November 2 |
Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Yucca Mountain - Just How Important Is It for Building New Plants (And Why)
Speaker: Jeffrey A. Benjamin (Exelon Corporation) |
Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, 3220 |
| November 3 |
Woodruff School Advisory Board Meeting |
| College of Engineering Awards Banquet. By invitation only |
| Woodruff School Advisory Board Annual Meeting. All day |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Srinidhi Nagaraja
10:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Microstructural Stresses and Strains Associated with Trabecular Bone Microdamage
Committee: Dr. Robert E. Guldberg, Chair (ME), Dr. Karl Jepsen (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Dr. Christopher Lynch (ME), Dr. Jianmin Qu (ME), Dr. Oskar Skrinjar (BME) |
| November 5 - November 10 |
ASME International Congress and Exposition
Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
View www.asmeconferences.org/congress06. |
| November 6 |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Hyeong-Kae Park
11:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Coupled Space-Angle Adaptivity and Goal-Oriented Error Control for Radiation Transport Calculations
Committee: Dr. Cassiano de Oliveira, Chair (NRE), Dr. Farzad Rahnema (NRE), Dr. Weston Stacey (NRE), Dr. Thomas Morley (MATH), Dr. Barry Ganapol (U of Arizona) |
| November 6 - November 8 |
Georgia Tech Book at the ASME Exposition
Chicago Hilton Hotel; Exposition Floor, Booth 406
For more information, view www.asmeconferences.org/congress06. |
| November 7 |
Brown Bag
11:30 a.m.
Wardlaw Building, Cordy Room
Title: Planning for a Potential Flu Pandemic |
Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Classroom 299
Title: Squeezing CCMV: AFM Nanoindentation Studies of Icosahedral Viruses
Professor Rina Tannenbaum
Speaker: Dr. Charles M. Knobler (University of California) |
| November 8 |
Meeting
12:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 320
Speaker: Chinatsu Miyaushi of Genji Sushi Express
She will lead a fun discussion on the history and health benefits of sushi. She will also demonstrate how to make simple sushi for your holiday parties. Lunch: Chick-fil-A nuggests, spring mix salad, dessert bite, sweet tea and water, cost $7.00. RSVP to Beth Spencer at or 404.385.2557 |
| November 9 |
Training Class on Chemical Inventories
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Paul Treasurer
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: Characterization and Analysis of Damage Progression in Non-Traditional Composite Laminates With Circular Holes
Committee: Dr. W. Steven Johnson, Chair (MSE), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Erian Armanios (AE) |
| November 10 |
Algorithms and Randomness Center and Think Tank Inaugural Lectures
Klaus Auditorium
For more information, see http://www.ce.gatech.edu/arc. |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by James Ford
3:30 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: An Enhanced Transient Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance Model
Committee: Samuel Graham, Co-Chair(ME), Comas Haynes (GTRI), Peter Hesketh (ME) |
ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) Student Competition
5:00 p.m.
MaRC Atrium, Auditorium, and Room 114Atrium
(judging) 5:00 to 6:15 p.m. and (competition) 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. |
| November 13 |
Initial thesis format check (This is not required, but Is strongly recommended; all theses should conform to the requirements in the Manual for Graduate Theses.) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Peter Nagy
8:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Investigation of Nonwetting System Failure and System Integration
Committee: G. Paul Neitzel, Chair (ME), Ari Glezer (ME), Marc K. Smith (ME), John McCuan (MTH), Michael Schatz (PHY) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Akhil Agarwal
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop During Condensation of Refrigerants in Microchannels
Committee: Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Chair (ME), Dr. Samuel Graham (ME), Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Tom Fuller (ChBE), Dr. Mark G Allen (ECE) |
M.S. Thesis Presentation by Hannah Muchnick
1:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Robust Design of Multiscale Systems Using Design Templates
Committee: Janet K. Allen, Chair (ME), Farrokh Mistree (ME), David McDowell (ME) |
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Qiang Li
1:30 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Effects of Adaptive Discretization on Numerical Computa |
