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MECHANICAL, INDUSTRIAL, & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING E-BULLETIN Winter Break
Edition: December 12, 2007 BULLETIN
SECTIONS—QUICK LINKS Job and Internship Postings—Students Faculty and Post-Doc Positions ME 382 Design Contest Kudos Congratulations
to all ME juniors for your hard work and outstanding performances at the recent
ME 382 Design Competition. On the night of November 29, after ten weeks of
blood, sweat, and many sleepless nights, you demonstrated a plethora of unique
devices whose mission was to automatically wash a residential window. Some
worked, others didn’t, but all teams gave it their best shot and your efforts deserve
a big round of applause. Special recognition goes to the members of the top
three winning teams: David Haley, Ryan
Carpenter, Alex Legg, Christopher Cookston, Drew
Hawthorne, Scott Hollowell, David Shapiro, Ryan Weismann-Yee,
Kevin Drost, Jonathan Brady, Michael Hendrix, and Jesse Boudart. Plan
Ahead... Wed Jan 9: WME Event: Bowling and Pizza with Women Engineering Students!
Open to all women engineering students and all CoE faculty (women AND men). 4–5
pm, MU Bowling Alley. Wed Jan 23: OSU Market Research Open
Forum: Key Audience Perceptions of OSU. 10:15–11:15 am, MU Journey Room. Representatives from Lipman
Hearne, a communications and
marketing firm specializing in higher education,
will present their findings on how OSU is positioned and valued relative to
other leading public research universities. Tues Feb 12, 2008: MECOP/CECOP Placement Event. 8 am–9 pm. Attendance required for all MECOP and CECOP students. Sat Feb 16, 2008: Third
Annual OSU College of Engineering Ball. Kelley
Engineering Center Atrium. MISCELLANEOUS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
[back to top] GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENT PARENTS! OSU has a new service (started Fall 2007) for student parents: the OSU Little Village Drop-off Care for Children in the Valley Library. This is a free service for OSU student parents. You can drop off your child(ren) with us and we will take care of them for 2–3 hours per day while you study in the library. For more information, contact Kristi King, Site Director, ASOSU OLV-Library Drop-off Care for Children, 737-8122, kristi.king@oregonstate.edu. BEAT WINTER BREAK BOREDOM:
DESIGN A T-SHIRT!
Alpha Pi Mu and Pi Tau Sigma are hosting design competitions for 2007–08 IME
and ME T-shirts. Your design should be creative, catchy, and of course
IME- or ME-related. (MEs, please avoid gear motifs.) Single-color designs
preferred. Email
IME designs (PDF format) to Cameron Follas, follasc@onid.orst.edu . Email ME designs (PDF format) to Jaime Junell, junellj@onid.orst.edu. All design entries are due by Friday, January 11, 2008
(first Friday of winter term). Prize: The winner of each
competition will receive two free t-shirts. SME-Hosted Mock Interviews Coming Up First Week of Winter Term. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers will be hosting their annual Mock Interviews on January 8th & 9th, 4–7 pm. A mock interview is a 15–20 minute one-on-one practice interview with an industry representative. After the interview you will receive valuable feedback. MOCK INTERVIEWS ARE FREE. Sign up now in the MECOP office, or e-mail wellinga@onid.orst.edu and state 'I would like an interview spot.' [posted 12/3] GRADUATING
SENIORS: PHOTOS NEEDED. If you are graduating this year, please be
sure to contact The Ball Studio in Corvallis to have your senior
photograph taken if you haven’t already done so. They have a sitting fee
ranging from $10.00 to $15.00 and they have been given a list of your names,
phone numbers and onid email addresses and will try to contact all graduating
seniors, but you should call or email them and set up your optimal sitting
time. Students graduating this FALL TERM should contact the
studio immediately, if you have not already done so, and make make your appointment with them at your earliest
convenience. For more information, contact the Ball Studio directly at theballstudio@gmail.com or 541-753-5721 HEY ALL YOU CLOSET WRITERS, HERES YOUR CHANCE FOR FORTUNE AND FAME! The 20th annual Provost's Literary Prize for OSU undergraduates consists of an award of $500 and publication for on-campus distribution. The literary work can be fiction, poetry (including a group of poems), or creative nonfiction written for a general audience (hmmm, do you think your senior design report would qualify for the latter?? :) The prize is open to currently enrolled undergraduate students at Oregon State University who may submit their own work or have work nominated by faculty members. Submissions must be the student's original work, typed, no longer than 20 double-spaced pages for prose, or 8 manuscript pages for poetry, and include the full name, year in school, current mailing address, phone number, and student ID number of the writer. Deadline for submission of work for consideration is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. Submissions should be turned in to the Provost’s Literary Prize Screening Committee via Keith Scribner in the English Department (Moreland Hall 238). Questions may be directed to Professor Scribner at 7-1645 or keith.scribner@oregonstate.edu. The winner of the 2008 Provost’s Literary Prize will be announced in May. [posted 12/3] STUDENT TUTORS NEEDED FOR WINTER TERM. The Academic Success Center, The Center for Writing and Learning, and Academics for Student Athletes are looking for students with effective tutoring and interpersonal skills for a variety of positions available in winter term. If you enjoy supporting the success of other students and are interested in enhancing your leadership and communication abilities, please consider applying for these positions. We need students who have been academically successful and have completed two or more terms at OSU—juniors and seniors preferred. § Learning Strategist—intensive study facilitation for student athletes. Training and development in collaboration with the Academic Success Center. § Supplemental Instruction—facilitated study tables for high risk classes including Math 111, Math 112, and the Zoology 330 series (Anatomy and Physiology). Training and development organized by the Academic Success Center and the Center for Writing and Learning § Content Tutors—if you have a class or classes that you are especially competent in, sign on to join the tutor pool for the Academic Success Center and Academics for Student Athletes. See position descriptions and application instructions at http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/PositionDescriptions2008.doc. [posted 12/3] WINTER TERM GRAD COURSE REGISTRATION: MIME graduate students should register for
winter courses by December 14. After
that date, we will begin canceling under-enrolled courses or offering them as
reading and conference only. Note: Several
instructors have asked us to advertise their course offerings, and these are
listed below: § ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING (COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE) (IE 416/516, WF 1400–1520, Covell 218. Instructor: Prof. Shiwoo Lee) Artificial intelligence (AI) is the established name for the field we have defined as computational intelligence (CI). Computational intelligence is the study of the design of intelligent agents. The obvious intelligent agent is the human being. Many of us feel that dogs are intelligent, but we wouldn’t say that worms, insects, or bacteria are intelligent. There is a class of intelligent agents that may be more intelligent than humans, and that is the class of organizations. Ant colonies are the prototypical example of organizations. Each individual ant may not be very intelligent, but an ant colony can act more intelligently than any individual ant. The colony can discover food and exploit it very effectively as well as adapt to changing circumstances. Similarly, companies can develop, manufacture, and distribute products where the sum of the skills required is much more than any individual could understand. The central scientific goal of computational intelligence is to understand the principles that make intelligent behavior possible, in natural or artificial systems. The main hypothesis is that reasoning is computation. The central engineering goal is to specify methods for the design of useful, intelligent artifacts. This course will introduce the following contents: • Introduction to recent developments in Computational Intelligence; • Introduction to different Computational Intelligence paradigms; • Introduction to algorithms for easy implementation (Monte Carlo methods, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, ant colony algorithms); • Exercises to stimulate thought and breed new ideas. Prerequisite: IE 411/511 or programming experience is required. Motivation is a must. § PARTIAL
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
(MTH 628, CRN 27932, 3 credts Showalter MWF 1100-1150 KIDD 280).
We begin with an introduction to various partial differential equations that
arise as models of flow, transport, conduction or vibrations. Then we shall describe
the corresponding stationary boundary-value problems as linear operator
equations A(u) = f in appropriate function spaces. General properties of the operators
that lead to well-posed problems and to constructive methods of solution will
be discussed. We shall introduce various
expansion or variational methods to construct
solutions. These will be extended to solve initial-boundary-value problems for
time-dependent partial differential equations as evolution equations of the
form u'(t) + A(u(t)) = f(t) or u"(t) + A(u(t)) =
f(t). Major objectives are to
characterize those operators for which the preceding problems are solvable and
to understand the distinction between parabolic and hyperbolic problems and
the properties of their solutions. These ideas will be extended to systems
describing fluids (Stokes), elasticity (Navier), and
porous media (Darcy). Depending on the
background of the class, we shall develop necessary mathematical topics as
needed in order to keep prerequisites to a minimum. The necessary background
should include some previous coursework in analysis and some experience with
differential equations. Potential registrants, including those from science and
engineering, are encouraged to discuss objectives and prerequisites with the instructor (show@math.oregonstate.edu). All course materials will be available on the web. § Product Innovation and Commercialization. (ECE 599/CS599, CRN 26996, F 1400–1550, KEC 1001) This 2-credit course is open to all engineering graduate students, is meant to complement your research activities, and comprises an opportunity to build skills that will help you leverage your technical skills throughout your career. Guest instructor Joe Tanous has been a successful venture investor and start-up executive for over 25 years. In the course of his endeavors he has started several successful start-ups, raised millions of dollars in venture and private financings, managed several mergers and acquisitions, private offerings, IPOs, and secondary offerings. He has also set up and managed all manner of operations including engineering, production, marketing and distribution. If you’re interested in finding out what it takes to commercialize a research idea that you have, or just know more about entrepreneurship, sign up for ECE 599A/CS599A winter term and ECE 599B/CS 599B spring term. The 599A course syllabus is available at http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/ece599syllabus.doc. List of guest speakers, with bios, is at http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/ECE599SpeakerDateswithBios2008.xls. [posted 12/3] ATTENTION MIME FACULTY: Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) 2008 Grant program guidelines and application are now available at http://www.nwacc.org/programs/grants/guidelines08.html. Each grant is for $10,000 and the process, as you will see when you go to the online application form, is uncomplicated. Please note the deadline for applications is Feb. 22, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. and that you must have an eligibility code to complete the application. UBC Master of Management in Operations Research Program. The Master
of Management in Operations Research (MM in OR) program at the Sauder School of
Business, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), provides
unparalleled depth and experience for students and industry professionals
interested in the quantitative analysis of business problems. Designed for
individuals with backgrounds in engineering, mathematics, economics or other
quantitative fields, this 16-month MM in OR program offers a unique blend of
technical coursework, practical consulting skills, and real-world
problem-solving experience that positions students for success in today's
competitive business world. UBC MM in OR students work closely with
internationally renowned faculty, business leaders, and outstanding peers to
develop and realize their goals in a professional business environment. A
highlight of the program is the Industry Project. Each student receives
generous financial support by completing an intensive 5-month applied project
with an industry partner that addresses a significant operational issue.
Working closely with faculty and project leaders, students use the latest
decision tools and technologies to make concrete recommendations to executives
of prominent companies in Canada. The UBC MM in OR program is an ideal
alternative to an MBA for technically-oriented students looking for a
professional business degree that utilizes their quantitative skills. UBC MM in
OR students have excellent employment potential, and graduates go on to rewarding
careers in such fields as consulting, logistics and operations analysis, and
supply chain management. For further information or to request a brochure,
please visit our web site http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/ or contact us by email at info@coe.ubc.ca or by phone at 604-822-1800. [posted 12/3] COMMUNICATING WITH THE OSU COMMUNITY:
A PRIMER. Many of
you have the occasional need to communicate with the campus community, or
groups within the broader community. Options for doing so include OSU Today, OSU This Week, My OSU News, and the
Inform OSU email lists. To guide you through these options, refer to the
document at http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/CommunicatingwiththeOSUcommunity.doc. [posted 12/3] BUSINESS ATTIRE DONATIONS NEEDED FOR CAREER MAKEOVER EVENT. Last year you and many of your colleagues donated
suits and interview appropriate attire for the Career Makeover Wardrobe event.
This event allowed hundreds of students to purchase clothing at an incredible
price - for instance $15.00 for a suit already dry cleaned! The event is
happening again this year and we are soliciting your donations again! We hope
you will clean your closet over the holidays and consider donating your gently
used items to support this important event for Oregon State University
Students! Bring your tax-deductible to OSU Career Services (basement of Kerr
Admin). For additional information, check http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/manrrs/ [posted 12/3] SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND
RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS [back to top] NEW!
supplemental
scholarships for Potential IE and MfgE majors. A limited
number of one-time scholarships ranging from $250 to $1,000 will be awarded to
qualified students interested in pursuing a BS in either Industrial Engineering
(IE) or Manufacturing Engineering (MfgE) at OSU. Any new freshman or transfer student who did
not already receive a 2007-8 IME scholarship is eligible to apply. Industrial engineering emphasizes the
involvement of people in cost-effective systems for many areas, including the
production of consumer goods, energy conversion, agriculture, health care,
communications, and transportation.
Manufacturing engineers are concerned with the design and operation of
integrated systems for the production of high quality, economically competitive
products utilizing computer networks, advanced automation, machine tools, and
other equipment. As IE and MfgE are lesser known engineering disciplines, we
hope that this scholarship will encourage students to investigate whether one
of these programs are right for them.
Freshman level COE courses are fully interchangeable among
pre-engineering disciplines. To apply
for this scholarship, you must send an e-mail to the IME Head Advisor, Lynn
Paul, at Lynn.Paul@OregonState.edu
requesting consideration for the scholarship.
If you are not already a Pre-IE or Pre-MfgE student, transfer to either
one of those two disciplines, stay registered as a Pre-IE or Pre-MfgE at least
through winter term 2008, and, during winter term 2008, attend at least three
IE or MfgE-related student organization events.
Qualifying student organizations are: IIE - Institute of Industrial
Engineers; SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers; and SMTA - Surface Mount
Technology Association. Scholarship applications are due back January 15th,
2008. Decisions will be based on high school GPA, SAT/ACT scores, and OSU GPA
for fall term 2007 and winter term 2008. Please
note that this is a supplemental scholarship and will be awarded during this
(2007-2008) academic year. Students
interested in applying for scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year should complete the online application available through
the COE website. [posted 12/12] Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship
and Internship Programs in Research and Development. http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships.html.
Application deadline for summer internship and postdoctoral fellowship programs:
February 1, 2008. National Defense Science and Engineering
Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG). http://www.asee.org/ndseg.
Application deadline: January 7, 2008. . NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (NRL)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. http://www.asee.org/nrl.
This program has a rolling
admission. OSU
GRADUATE SCHOOL scholarships and fellowships. http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/OSUGradFellowshipTable08-09.doc. Applicants for any of these awards should submit
completed application to Dr. Logendran (IME) or Dr. Cann (ME) at least one week
before the nominations are due at the Graduate School. NEW!
Sandia National Laboratories Masters Fellowship Program. Sandia National
Laboratories (http://public.ca.sandia.gov/casite) is a premier science and engineering lab for
national security and technology innovation. We are seeking exceptional
candidates who are interested in joining our laboratory and pursuing their
master’s degree through the Masters Fellowship Program (MFP) in engineering,
computer science, computer engineering, or another related discipline. The MFP
is a recruiting program designed to enable Sandia National Laboratories to meet
its affirmative action goals, while building its capabilities with exceptional
employees who have earned advanced technical degrees and demonstrated the
attributes necessary to work at one of the premier national laboratories in the United States. Requirements: To be eligible for Sandia’s MFP, candidates must be a minority student who is
currently pursuing a B.S. degree in a technical discipline such as engineering,
science, computer science, computer engineering, etc., with a minimum
cumulative GPA of 3.2/4.0 and an expected graduation timeframe of December 2007
or June 2008. For more information and application instructions, visit http://me.oregonstate.edu/news/bulletins/SandiaMFPjob.pdf.
[posted 12/12] Science, Mathematics, And Research for
Transformation (SMART) ScholarshipS. http://www.asee.org/smart/index.cfm.
Application deadline: 5:00 pm EST,
December 14, 2007. The Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship.
http://www.ku.edu/~selfpro. US NAVY NUCLEAR PROPULSION OFFICER
CANDIDATE PROGRAM. For more
information contact Lieutenant Clay Johnson at 503.347.2133. No
closing date. NEW! Washington State University Summer Doctoral Fellows Program Invitation. Washington State University invites applications from and nominations for doctoral candidates who are nearing completion of their graduate degrees and preparing for careers in higher education to attend a six week Summer Doctoral Fellows Program (June 15 to July 26). Applications will be considered in the following colleges: Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences; Business; Education; Engineering and Architecture; Liberal Arts; Nursing; Pharmacy; Sciences; and Veterinary Medicine. The purpose of the program is to provide selected doctoral students with the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors at Washington State University in preparing for academic careers as future faculty embers. During the program, Fellows will (1) work on completing dissertations or dissertation proposals; (2) actively engage in seminars on the changing roles and expectations of faculty, the future of the professoriate, the changing nature of higher education, and issues facing faculty of color and women in higher education including the STEM disciplines; and (3) design individualized programs for enhancing their ability to teach, conduct research, and other scholarship. Interested candidates should submit a curriculum vita, graduate school transcript, three letters of recommendation, and a 3-5 page career goals and research interest statement to Dr. Howard D. Grimes, Dean, Graduate School, Attn: Summer Doctoral Fellows Program, PO Box 641030, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-1030. The program is designed primarily for U.S. citizens from diverse backgrounds. For additional information and details of the program, please consult http://www.gradschool.wsu.edu/current-students/funding/fellowshipsandgrants/summerdoctoralfellows.html or call or write to Joe Merrill at (509) 335-6412 (joem@wsu.edu) or Steve Burkett (509)335-6424 (sburkett@wsu.edu). [posted 12/12] | |||||||
