OSU
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING E-BULLETIN
Issue #12
Week of January 9, 2006
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WELCOME
BACK!
To all students,
staff and faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, welcome back to OSU! We hope you had a great
holiday and an excellent start to 2006,
and we’re looking forward to another great year together here in OSU ME. As you
browse through the first winter-term issue of the ME Bulletin, note especially the information in the
“Miscellaneous Announcements” section,
and check out the new postings in “Jobs and Internships.” Also, we encourage you to participate in the many
upcoming activities and events associated with this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Tribute and Celebration. Please read Dr. Ray’s invitation below, and check out the Celebration 2006 web site link
included in his letter.
To:
The OSU Community
From: Edward
Ray, President
I am pleased to invite you to
participate in the activities associated with Oregon State
University's 24th Annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute and
Celebration. The Celebration 2006 theme is WAKE UP! Justice delayed is
justice denied, promoting Dr. King's
goals for local communities and a society where equality and justice, and freedom and peace can grow and flourish.
By recognizing the strength inherent in diversity,
pledging to a united will and utilizing the energy and synergy of collective
hope each of us can make a difference,
individually and collectively. More than ever,
national and international events lead us to reflect,
in greater depth and breadth, on Dr.
King's aspiration for America.
Celebration 2006 takes place
during the three-week period of January 9 through January 26. The
calendar of events and activities,
jointly sponsored by a number of academic colleges and departments, student organizations,
student government, and
administrative units, may be
accessed on the homepage of the Office of Community and Diversity http://oregonstate.edu/admin/comdiv/mlk.php or via the link on the Oregon State
University
homepage.
UPCOMING EVENTS
This Week...
Monday, January 9: Formula Team meeting, 6 pm in the SAE shop (Rogers 132)
Tuesday, January 10: Mini Baja Team meeting, 6 pm in the SAE shop (Rogers 132). (Note meeting-day change from last term.)
Thursday, January 12: Human-Powered Vehicle Team meeting, 5 pm in Rogers
226. This meeting is open to anyone interested in joining the team, helping manufacture this year’s HPV, and perhaps attending the west-coast competition
at the end of April. For more information about this year’s HPV project, check out http://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/hpv/index.htm.
Plan Ahead...
Wednesday, February 22: Winter Engineering Career Fair. 11:00
am– 4:00 pm, CH2M Hill Alumni
Center. Employers will be
there to speak with students about full-time,
co-op & internship opportunities. For a listing of employers attending the
fair: http://oregonstate.edu/career/fair/engineering.php (this
list will be updated in coming weeks so be sure to check back). Check out other
winter term career services events at http://oregonstate.edu/career/fair/careerconnectionswinter06b.doc.
This year, Mechanical
Engineering and EECS will hold a joint “meet
and greet” reception for students and industry reps the evening before the career fair (Feb. 21). Plans for this event
are being finalized; stay tuned for details and sign-up information.
As another great opportunity to network
with industry leaders this term (as well as learn about the entrepreneurial
side of life), consider attending
some of the Winter Fireside Chats at
Weatherford Hall. A sampling of this term’s sessions includes:
•
Dr. Julie Ann Elston, Asst. Professor of International Business at
OSU-Cascades, speaking on
“Entrepreneurship and Risk” (1/20),
•
Walter G. Kortschak.
Managing Partner of Summit Partners,
a $9.0 billion private equity and venture capital firm,
speaking on “Venture Capital” (1/31).
•
Steve Nigro, Hewlett-Packard Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Graphics and Imaging
Business, speaking on “Introduction
to Entrepreneurship” (2/23).
•
Eric Rosenfeld, Managing Partner of Capybara Ventures speaking on
Technology-Based Startups” (3/7).
Attendance at Weatherford Fireside Chats is free,
but sign-up is required. To sign up (and to see a complete listing
of upcoming Fireside Chats), go to http://www.bus.oregonstate.edu/aepfellows/ListFellows.aspx.
FACULTY/GRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES
Winter 2006 ME Seminars will take place on Fridays,
2-3:30 pm (2-2:25 is social time with refreshments; presentations start
promptly at 2:30). Unless otherwise announced,
all seminars will convene in Rogers 226. Currently scheduled winter term
presentations (as of 1/9/06) are listed below.
|
Date
|
Speaker
(Organization)
|
Topic
|
|
Jan.
20
|
Kenneth Funk
(IME/OSU)
|
Finding
Systemic Vulnerabilities To Human Error in the Operating Room: A Systems
Engineering Approach
|
|
Jan.
27
|
Heiner Linke
(Dept.
of Physics, Univ. of Oregon)
|
Self-propelled
film-boiling liquids: a novel concept for heat-actuated pumps?
|
|
Feb.
3
|
Sourabh Apte
(ME/OSU)
|
Thermal
and Fluid Science
|
|
Feb.
10
|
Kristi Morgansen
(Dept.
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Univ. of Washington)
|
Nonlinear
Control Theory
|
|
Feb.
17
|
Laurel Kristick
(Physical
Science and Electronic Resources Library,
Valley Library/OSU)
|
Using
e-resources for graduate research development
|
|
Feb.
24
|
Wayne Robertson
(Assistant
Director, OSU Center
for Writing and Learning)
|
Writing Across Borders:
Addressing the needs of ESL student writers at American universities. Film
followed by discussion.
|
|
March
17
|
James Bryan
(University of Missouri, Columbia)
|
Understanding
and using electrostatic forces in thermal and fluid processes on meso- to micro-scales
|
|
March
20
|
Martha Gallivan
(School of Chemical
and Biomolecular
Engineering, Georgia Tech.)
|
Control
at Molecular Scale
|
MISCELLANEOUS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
This Wednesday, Dr. Ping Ge will be doing a phone interview
with Field and Stream Radio about
last term’s ME 382 “controlled fishing
rod” project. The taped interview will be broadcast nationally about a
month from now; exact time and date TBD. Congratulations again to all project
participants; the press release that went out about the December field test
drew the interest of numerous organizations and publications.
Do you know about the Industrial
Assessment Center
here at OSU: Check out the new ME web
site link to information about the IAC, http://me.oregonstate.edu/iac/. Also, credit for the new machine shop web page (http://me.oregonstate.edu/facilities/machineshop/index.html) and
other forthcoming web site enhancements goes to the talents of ME sophomore Jon
Snyder. Thanks, Jon!
The CAREER SERVICES WINTER
NEWSLETTER is available online at http://oregonstate.edu/career/fair/careerconnectionswinter06b.doc. Check
out Career Services’ winter on-campus recruiting schedule and other upcoming
events and workshops, especially
those taking place during Winter Career
Week, February 13-20.
Also, ME students as well as
faculty and staff may be interested in reading the Winter Term “OSU
Career Services Faculty and Staff Letter” from Career Services Director Tom Munnerlyn,
available at http://oregonstate.edu/career/staff/facultyletterwinter06.doc
IT’S
NOT TOO LATE to sign
up for a NEW Winter-Term course called
“How Engineers Can Serve Society” (ME 206,
CRN 28699, Section 002, 1 credit,
P/NP). This class is open to all
pre-engineering students, so
help spread the word to friends in other departments! The class will be run by
three faculty members: Dr. Zaworski (ME),
Dr. Toni Doolen (IME), and Dr. Bill
Warnes (ME). It is designed to help you learn how you can use your engineering
knowledge to make a difference in your community,
in the nation, and in the world by
designing, building, fixing,
and teaching people about appropriate technologies. Planned activities include
guest speakers, discussions, and development of local projects that can be
started Spring term. If you’re
interested, sign up today—there are
only 9 spots left in the class.
FE REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING UP! Mechanical
Engineering students graduating winter,
spring, or summer terms are eligible
to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam during spring term as the first step towards Professional Certification. You
must register for this exam by January
15th, 2006. For
details, see the IIE web site, http://oregonstate.edu/groups/iie/fe_information.html or
contact Danielle Davies, daviesda@engr.orst.edu.
REMINDER: Students
must take ME 452 or ME 453 Winter term or ME 514 Spring term to satisfy the lab
elective requirement for ME Engineering Electives. ME 406 PROJECT CREDIT may
NOT be used to satisfy this requirement.
STUDENT
ORGANIZATIONS
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (ASME)
Want to know why you should become a student
member of the ASME? Find out the 10 Top Reasons for joining at http://www.asme.org/jointoday/. You can apply for membership online, or pick up a paper application form from Murty
Kanury, OSU ASME chapter advisor, Rogers
324. You are also invited to join the ASME
mailing list (go to lists.oregonstate.edu group:
ASME)
HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE TEAM
The HPV team is affiliated
with the OSU chapter of ASME and shares a
similar role in the College
of Engineering as the
Mini Baja and Formula One teams.
Members of the HPV team
bring experience from many different areas including exercise science, biomechanics,
manufacturing, aviation, composite structures,
and automotive repair. Many of
our team members are dedicated cyclists and athletes. If you’re interested in joining the team this
term and helping us build this year’s vehicle,
come to the term kick-off meeting on
Thursday, Jan. 12, at 5 pm in Rogers
226, or contact team advisor Dr. Brian Bay or team captain Heidi Wolfe. Team web site: http://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/hpv/index.htm.
MICROGRAVITY FLIGHT TEAM
Want to work on a research project for NASA?
Want to develop something that will help put a person on Mars? You like engines, why not work on a prototype nuclear engine that
powers a plasma rocket? Do you want to conduct an experiment in zero gravity at
26,000 ft? If you answered yes to
any of these questions, come check out the OSU Microgravity Flight Team! We meet
every Wednesday at 6 in Rogers
226.
SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (SAE)
Formula SAE group meets every Monday at 6 pm in Rogers
132. Baja SAE group meets every Tuesday at 6 pm, also in Rogers
132.
OSU SOLAR VEHICLE TEAM
(OSUSVT)
OSUSVT is currently designing a solar powered vehicle to
compete in the 2007 American Solar Challenge and the 2007 World Solar Challenge in Australia. See
the team web site at http://oregonstate.edu/groups/osert/.
Meetings are on Wednesdays, 7:30, MU 211.
SCHOLARSHIPS and FELLOWSHIPS
The AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING,
REFRIGERATING, AND AIR-CONDITIONING
ENGINEERS, INC. (ASHRAE) offers
a number of scholarships to undergraduate engineering students. Application
deadlines are December 1, 2005, and
May 1,
2006. For more information on ASHRAE scholarships, go to
