OSU MECHANICAL ENGINEERING E-BULLETIN

OSU MECHANICAL, INDUSTRIAL, & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING E-BULLETIN

FINALS WEEK, December 4, 2006

BULLETIN SECTIONS—QUICK LINKS

Upcoming Events

Miscellaneous Announcements

ME–IME Faculty/Graduate Seminars

Scholarships and Fellowships

Student Organizations

Job and Internship Postings—ME & IME Students

Faculty and Post-Doc Positions

About this E-Bulletin

ME 382 DESIGN COMPETITION RESULTS

Kudos to all ME students who participated in last Thursday’s ME 382 competition—and thanks to the hundreds of visitors who attended and cheered them on. Today’s Corvallis Gazette Times features a front-page article about the event. Check it out at http://www.gtconnect.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/community/7aaa03_cleanwater.txt. (Be advised, though, that the title is a little misleading…I saw plenty of WOMAN-powered machines on Thursday, too :)

Special congratulations to the members of the three winning teams. First place went to Lucas Marks, Umang Patel, Peter van Tamelen, Lindsey Walker, and Stephanie Wilton, whose friction-based heating mechanism with bicycle human-power input produced 113 grams of distilled water. Members of the second-placing team—Mark Cooley, Jennifer Mark, Richard Walloch, and Scott Zenier—produced 75 grams of distillate with their compact and lightweight bicycle-powered electrical wire-based heat mechanism. The third placing team, Devin Allphin, Husain Alshaiji, Florian Kapsenberg, Kevin Silveira, and William Zimmerman, also produced 75 grams of purified water with their pedal-powered electricity-based copper-plate heating device.

ME FACULTY KUDOS ALSO IN ORDER

Materials Science professor Dave Cann, in collaboration with other Materials colleagues, has successfully competed for a 2006 Intel Faculty Fellowship Award for a "New Graduate/Senior Undergraduate Lab Course on Materials Analysis." The funding will support equipment for a new materials laboratory course and will be team-taught by an interdisciplinary faculty team.

And Jay Kruzic, also Materials Science faculty, was recently awarded a General Research Fund award from the OSU Research Office, one of only four in the University and the only one from Engineering. The research is titled "Ductile B2 Intermetallic Compounds:Structural Materials for the 21st Century." And as if that weren’t enough, Dr. Kruzic has also won a 2007 Young Leader Professional Development Award from The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS).

UPCOMING EVENTS [back to top]

This Week…

Monday, Dec. 4: Formula SAE team meeting. 6 pm, SAE shop (Rogers 132).

Wednesday, Dec.6: Baja SAE team meeting. 5 pm, Rogers 230.

Wednesday, Dec. 6: President’s Winter Coffee for OSU faculty, staff, and students. 9:30 –11 am. Memorial Union Lounge. Take a break from finals week for holiday treats and gourmet coffee, and join President and Mrs. Ed Ray in celebration and conversation. Featuring Beth Rietveld at the piano. Please bring a non-perishable food item to benefit Linn-Benton Food Share. For more information, contact Shelly Houghtaling, 737-0724, shelly.houghtaling@oregonstate.edu

Plan Ahead…

Take a break, enjoy the holidays, and see you in January!

MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS [back to top]

Departments-wide…

INTERESTED IN WORKING AS AN ACADEMIC COACH DURING WINTER TERM? The Academic Success Center and Academic Services for Student Athletes need to fill at least ten academic coaching positions for winter term. These Learning Strategists will provide intensive academic coaching for at-risk students, including assistance with time management and organization, reading and note taking. They will work intensively with one or two students, 3–4 times/week, assisting students in applying learning strategies directly to their reading and assignments. While not necessarily content tutoring, this is an intensive and applied study assistance program. Training and orientation prepare students for this peer support position. Required job qualifications: minimum one year at OSU or graduate status with 1 to 2 terms at OSU, good academic standing. Preferred job qualifications: prior tutoring experience, good interpersonal skills. Other details: Number of positions to be filled: up to 20 positions. 6-20 hours per week, variable. Work study or non-work study. $8-10 per hour. January 5 - March 23, may continue into spring term. Supervisor: Moira Dempsey. To apply: Indicate the job title "Learning Strategist" and address the required and preferred job qualifications in your correspondence. Deliver or send a brief cover letter, your winter term schedule, resume and contact information (including phone and email) to: Janine Kobel, 102 Waldo Hall, OSU, janine.kobel@oregonstate.edu. Interviews and hiring will occur during finals week. Mandatory training will be held on Friday, January 5.

DONATE YOUR USED TEXTBOOKS FOR AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES. Engineers Without Borders-OSU is now collecting used textbooks and other qualifying books to send to universities in Africa. Qualifying books include (1) college textbooks and study guides (with copyright dates from the past 5 years); (2) any book used in a college class; (3) workbooks (with no missing pages); and (4) in general, books that cover college subject matter (i.e. Math, Science, Business, Literature, Engineering, Health, Psychology, Foreign Language, History, Business, Philosophy, Sociology, Computer Science, Anthropology, Government, etc.) Highlighting and/or writing in books is fine, and accompanying CD’s are great to send along as well. This is a great opportunity to benefit a community in Africa while raising money for EWB and its projects. (EWB-OSU will receive $0.50 for every qualifying book.) Book drop boxes will be available until December 15 in the Valley Library (next to Java II), MU student lounge, and the History Department (Milam Hall). Just think…if every OSU student donated just 1 textbook, a shipment of 17,000 books would go to Africa…enough to fill a whole library!

ADDITIONAL “DESIGNING FOR LEAD FREE” WORKSHOP SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY. Due to the high level of interest in this workshop, the Oregon Chapter of SMTA has agreed to sponsor a training day in January to help accommodate OSU students who might be interested in attending. The session will be held on January 10, 2007! The time will be 9 am–5pm. The workshop will take place in the Portland area. Local companies have agreed to sponsor students to attend this training, so there is no cost to the student. To receive a sponsor for this training, however, you must be a member of the OSU Student SMTA chapter. Student memberships $5, and you can join on-line at www.smta.org. If you are interested in attending this training session, please e-mail IME Professor Toni Doolen (toni.doolen@oregonstate.edu) by 12/11/07. Dr. Doolen will arrange for transportation from OSU to the class. If you have questions about the event or SMTA membership, feel free to call at 737-5641.

SUMMER OPPORTUNITY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. The Washington Internship for Students in Engineering (WISE) program offers a unique opportunity to 3rd and 4th year engineering students to spend the summer of 2007 in Washington, D.C. Recent graduates, beginning study in an engineering policy-related Master’s program, will also be considered. During their internship, they will learn how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public policy decisions. For more information on the WISE program, visit http://www.wise-intern.org, or contact Melissa Carl at carlm@asme.org. A number of professional societies sponsor WISE internships, including AIChE, ANS, ASME, ASHRAE, IEEE, and SAE. To apply for one of these sponsored internships, visit http://www.wise-intern.org/application/index.html. The deadline for WISE internship applications is December 31, 2006. Interns will receive a stipend and housing for the summer.

NASA ANNOUNCES 2006-07 AERONAUTICS COMPETITION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. The Fundamental Aeronautics Program of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters is pleased to announce this year’s aeronautics competition for the 2006-07 academic year. For this year’s competition, students are invited to propose solutions for complex technical problems in hypersonic and supersonic flight; subsonic fixed and rotary wing transport; or Mars entry, descent, and landing. Some of these challenges occur in Earth's atmosphere, others occur in space. Individuals, small (<10-person), and larger undergraduate/graduate student teams are all invited to participate. Multi-disciplinary, multi-department teams are encouraged. College entries are due in late April. For competition details, visit http://aero.larc.nasa.gov/competitions_univ.htm.

Grad Students/Faculty/Staff

ASME ESSENTIAL TEACHING SEMINAR: REGISTER NOW! Advance registration is now open for the Essential Teaching Seminar to be held February 1–3, 2007, at Texas A&M University. The intensive ASME Essential Teaching Seminars for Engineering Faculty have helped over 400 faculty and graduate students in technical disciplines hone their teaching skills in a collegial, peer-critique environment, and learn from the latest best practices in teaching and learning. Essential Teaching Seminars are appropriate for new faculty, experienced faculty interested in strengthening their teaching and lecturing skills (and improving student evaluations!), and graduate students preparing for a career in academia. Each seminar is limited to 30 participants, and spaces fill quickly. Essential Teaching Seminars website:

http://www.asme.org/Education/College/Faculty/Essential_Teaching_Seminars.cfm. Register by December 15 to receive the early bird discount!

CALL FOR HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE NOMINATIONS. The Faculty Recognition and Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the Honorary Doctorate degree. Nominees should be distinguished educators, scholars, scientists, business people, creative artists, reformers, or humanitarians whose accomplishments are recognized as "making a difference" well beyond the bounds of their formal discipline; that is, to the broader audience of society both nationally and internationally. Their recognition is intended to honor them as individuals and also to contribute to the stature and visibility of Oregon State University. Note: While OSU emeritus faculty are technically eligible to be nominated to receive an honorary doctorate, their "impact" must be of extraordinary social significance to be considered for this honor. Conferral upon "one of our own" will occur in only the rarest of circumstances. Nominations should include the following:

§ A letter of nomination identifying the individual, affiliation (complete address), and area of achievement

§ A brief (approximately two pages) biography of the nominee, including a clear explanation of the broad significant contributions to society of the nominee, and a description of the area(s) of achievement which clearly conveys what the impact of the accomplishments has been.

Note: All nominations are to be considered confidential. In particular, nominations should not be discussed with the nominee! This is an important function for Oregon State University and an opportunity to recognize outstanding contributions by individuals and disciplines. Nominations should be sent to Vickie Nunnemaker, Faculty Senate Office, by Friday, January 12, 2007.

UPCOMING NSF-SPONSORED WORKSHOP FOR STEM EDUCATORS: Breaking Barriers In Communication: Technology-Enabled Active Learning in STEM Disciplines. At this June 2007 workshop in San Diego, you can:

§ Exchange ideas with other STEM-discipline active learning proponents

§ Learn to use Ubiquitous Presenter (a Tablet PC-based active learning system

§ Prepare to participate in a multi-institutional study of the impact of active learning.

Selected participants receive a grant toward the purchase of a Tablet PC! Applications due January 10, 2007: See http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~bsimon/CCLI07 for details.

WANTED: FACULTY MEMBER-IN-RESIDENCE (FMR) FOR WISE INTERNS. An outstanding individual capable of teaching and mentoring engineering students on the interaction between engineering, technology, and public policy is sought to serve as a Faculty Member-In-Residence (FMR) for the 2007 Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program. The WISE program offers a unique opportunity to 3rd and 4th year engineering students to spend the summer of 2007 in Washington, D.C. Recent graduates, beginning study in an engineering policy related Master’s program, will also be considered. During their internship, they will learn how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public policy decisions. The deadline for applying to be this year's FMR is December 31, 2006. The FMR will receive a stipend for the summer. For more information about this position, visit http://www.wise-intern.org or contact Melissa Carl at carlm@asme.org.

NOMINATIONS INVITED FOR LL STEWART FACULTY SCHOLARS. Newly established in 2005, the L.L. Stewart Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty at Oregon State University and provides resources to stimulate creative advancements in teaching, research, and extended education. Each year, a Stewart Faculty Scholar will be selected by the Oregon State University President from a pool of applicants who have been nominated for this prestigious award. The theme of the award is to support creativity and innovation among the university’s top scholars. The L.L. Stewart Faculty Scholars Program is supported by an endowment established by L.L. Stewart and provides $20,000 in financial support for faculty selected as a Stewart Scholar. Funds may be used for any allowable teaching, research, or extended education expenses, including faculty release time. Recipients will have up to two years to spend the funds. Examples of activities that the program might support include: Creatively linking scholarship to student learning; bringing multi-disciplinary teams of faculty together for innovative teaching, research, or extended education program development; providing an opportunity for exploring new ideas in research that may not be possible to fund from traditional sources; and providing an opportunity for emerging faculty leaders to develop leadership and management skills. Submit nominations no later than December 15, 2006 to the Office of Academic Affairs, 628 Kerr Administration Building. Additional information regarding the nomination and evaluation process can be found at http://oregonstate.edu/admin/aa/faculty/awards.html .