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Post-Doc Positions Note: For access to past MIME E-Bulletins, visit e-bulletin archives. ATTENTION MIME PRO-SCHOOL STUDENTS…YOU’RE INVITED! To our fellow MIME Pro-School Students, You are invited to the 2nd Annual MIME Winter Awards Banquet
hosted by Alpha Pi Mu and Pi Tau Sigma. The banquet will be held on Tuesday, March 10, 6–8 pm in the MU
Ballroom. There will be a free catered dinner and an awards
ceremony for the most outstanding seniors and professors for ME and IME. This
is a great chance to mingle with your peers and faculty and to say bon voyage
to graduating seniors and those who will be on MECOP spring term. Please sign up in
Rogers 204 ASAP, but no later than this Thursday at 5 pm!!! You can also sign up by
sending an e-mail to Hillary Shoop (shooph@onid.orst.edu). In your e-mail
include your major (ME, IME, MfgE or Mat Sci), year (junior or senior), and number of guests. Important note: The event will be cancelled if enough people do not
sign up, so if you would like to attend the banquet you must sign up by this
Thursday! We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, APM & PTS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE 2009 ENGINEERING EXPO This year the Engineering Expo is happening on Friday, May 15th.
We need both students and staff volunteers to help out on May 14th
and May 15th with setting-up and tearing-down, giving guided tours
and managing info booths. Volunteers will receive a free T-shirt. If you are
interested in volunteering, please sign up before Wednesday, April 1st. To sign up on the COE volunteer
page, click here. Visit the MIME event calendar online This Week... Mon Mar 2: MIME Seminar:
“An
Integrative Approach to Product Development: Engineering Design in a Societal
Context.” Presenter: Bart Frischknecht,
Candidate for PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan. 3
pm, Rogers 226. Mon Mar 2: AIAA
Design, Build, and Fly (DBF) Meeting. 6 pm, Covell 017. All OSU students
are welcome to attend. Questions? Contact Kevin Lewis
(kevin.t.lewis.11@gmail.com). Mon Mar 2: Formula SAE Meeting. 6–7 pm, Rogers 132 (SAE Shop). All MIME students are welcome to attend. Mon Mar 2: EWB El Salvador Project Meeting. 7 pm, Gilmore 234. Agenda: Fund raising and discussion of data needs for next 2 potential projects. All OSU students are welcome to attend. Tues Mar 3: Baja SAE Meeting. 5 pm, Rogers 230. Review previous week’s meeting and work that needs to be done. All MIME students are welcome to attend. Tues Mar 3: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) Meeting. 6 pm, Rogers 230. Agenda: Will discuss the
structure of the club and the direction to take it in the upcoming year. This
is a mandatory meeting for the ASME Officers but is open to all OSU students. Tues Mar 3: MECOP Recruiting Event (for freshmen and
sophomores). 7 pm, Dearborn 118. Food and drinks provided. Learn more about
the MECOP internship program and get your questions answered by previous MECOP
interns. For more info, click
here. Wed March 4: Controls Seminar: “Model Predictive
Control of Micro Channel Flow.” Presenter: Chris Patton, OSU School of MIME. 10
am, Rogers 226. Wed Mar 4: Human
Powered Vehicle Team (HPVT) Meeting. 4 pm, Dearborn 5b. Agenda:
Continue to test and adjust final vehicle for competition in early May. All CoE
students are welcome to attend. Questions? Contact Ryan Carpenter (carpryan@onid.orst.edu). Wed Mar 4: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) Club Meeting. 6–7 pm, Rogers 230. Agenda: Discuss recent events, get updates on club design projects, and plan future campus events. Any OSU student who is interested in flight, rockets, or space in general is welcome to attend. AIAA is always looking for new members. Questions? Contact Kevin Lewis (kevin.t.lewis.11@gmail.com). Wed Mar 4: Documentary Screening: "Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure." 6:30 pm, Kearney 112. Hosted by American Society of Civil Engineers. "Liquid Assets" tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, waste water, and storm water. Screening will be followed by a community discussion. Thurs Mar 5: Materials
Science Seminar: “Title
TBA.” Presenter: Ram Ravichandran, OSU Electrical
Engineering/Materials Science. 3 pm, Dearborn 303. This
seminar is open to all MIME faculty and graduate students. Thurs Mar 5: Microgravity
Flight Team (MGFT) Meeting. 4 pm, Dearborn 209. Agenda: Work
on sections of the proposal. All OSU students
are welcome to attend. Questions? Contact Alex Newman (newmana@onid.orst.edu). Sun Mar 8: DAYLIGHT SAVING
TIME BEGINS. Don’t forget to spring your clocks forward 1 hour! Plan Ahead... [back to top] Mon Mar 9–Fri Mar 13: Dead Week. Tues Mar 10: 2nd Annual MIME Winter
Banquet for Pro-School Students. 6–8 pm, MU Ballroom. Take a break during dead week and enjoy a free catered dinner, socialize with friends, bid adieu to folks
who are heading off campus, and congratulate this year’s winners of the IME and
ME Outstanding Senior and Professor awards. Banquet registration closes at 5 pm on
Thursday, March 5. (See features). Wed Mar 11–Thurs Mar 12: 5th Annual Women
Engineers Global Marathon. Begins at 9 am (PST).
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the National Engineers Week foundation
is launching the 2009 Global Marathon for, by, and about Women in Engineering. This
live, 24-hour worldwide forum provides information, insight, and inspiration
for women and girls on topics related to careers in engineering and technology.
For more info, click
here. Mon Mar 16–Fri Mar 20: Finals Week. Tues Mar 17:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Tues Mar 17: Voices
Project Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Multiracial Identities, Part 1.” Noon–1 pm, MU Journey room. Hosted by the Office of Community and Diversity.
OSU students, faculty and staff talk about diversity-related topics. Bring your
lunch and join the screening and conversation. For more info, email diane.davis@oregonstate.edu or click here. Fri Mar 20: OSU Campus Coalition Builders “Lunch &
Learn” Forum: “Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice”… on Becoming a Woman. 11:30 am–1 pm, MU 206. What happens on woman’s journey through life? How is her
sense of self impacted by society and how does this affect her physical and
emotional well being? Learn about female gender identity development and the
complicated interplay of societal forces on this process. Presenters:
Drs. Michele Ribeiro and Ayesha Nagra, Psychologists,
OSU CAPS. All OSU students, faculty and staff are
welcome. No pre-registration required. Bring your lunch. For more info, click here. Wed April 22: Voices
Project Brown Bag Lunch Series: “I Am A…, Part 1.” Noon–1 pm, MU Journey room. Hosted by the Office of Community and Diversity.
OSU students, faculty and staff talk about diversity-related topics. Bring your
lunch and join the screening and conversation. For more info, email diane.davis@oregonstate.edu or click here. Wed April 22–Thurs April 23: 2009 NWPPA E&O Conference and Tradeshow. For more info about Northwest
Public Power Association Engineering & Operations (NWPPA E&O), click here. UPCOMING MIME SEMINARS [back to top] Visit the upcoming and archived
MIME seminars and presentations online Mon Mar 2: MIME Seminar: “An Integrative Approach to Product Development: Engineering Design in a Societal Context.” Presenter: Bart Frischknecht, Candidate for PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan. 3 pm, Rogers 226. Wed March 4: Controls Seminar: “Model Predictive Control of Micro Channel Flow.” Presenter: Chris Patton, OSU School of MIME. 10 am, Rogers 226. Thurs Mar 5: Materials
Science Seminar: “Title
TBA.” Presenter: Ram Ravichandran, OSU Electrical
Engineering/Materials Science. 3 pm, Dearborn 303. This
seminar is open to all MIME faculty and graduate students. Note: The list of MIME Seminars now includes seminars
from the specialty groups within the School of MIME. These seminars are
open to all MIME faculty and graduate students. MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS [back to top] PRO-SCHOOL APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2009 ARE NOW AVAILABLE. To apply, click here. Application deadline: Friday, April 10, 2009 before 11:59 pm. Questions? Contact your academic advisor. To see if you qualify for Pro-School Admission, click here. [posted 3/2] SPRING ALS COURSE OFFERS INCREASED AWARENESS OF YOUR CONNECTION TO THE COMMUNITY. ALS 199: “Understanding Community through Service & Coalition Building” is designed to lead you through exercises, large and small group work, and personal reflection to help you begin to identify your connection to community, how oppression functions in society, social structures that keep oppressive conditions in place and how each of us participates in the oppression and liberation of others. This is a 1-day and 1-credit course, and it includes an off-site community service project with a free lunch. For more info, click here. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs of OSU Campus Coalition Builders, and open to all OSU students. Meeting time and place: Saturday, April 18, 8 am–5 pm, MU 109B. CRN: 54951. For the course catalog listing, click here. Questions? Contact Jodi Nelson (Jodi.nelson@oregonstate.edu) [posted 2/23]
Grad Students/Faculty/Staff [back to top] LIBRARY RESEARCH TRAVEL
GRANTS. OSU Libraries is
accepting applications for the 2009–10 Library Research Travel Grants for the
spring funding period. These grants promote faculty scholarship and
instructional expertise by supporting faculty travel to libraries and
collections outside the state of Oregon. Submission
deadline: Tuesday, March 3. For more info, click here. Questions? Contact Faye Chadwell (737-8528
or faye.chadwell@oregonstate.edu).
[posted 3/2] BECOME AN ELI HOST FAMILY FOR A WEEKEND. OSU’s English Language Institute (ELI) is
in great need of host families to host one or two Japanese university students
from Bunkyo University for a two-night home stay. There are three home stay
weekends to choose from (April 17–19, April 24–26 and May 1–3) and you may
choose to host one, two or three weekends. The ELI will pay a $20/night stipend
per student. These students are here for a term-long language/culture program.
The home stay provides an opportunity for them to practice speaking English and
learn more about American culture. Interested? Contact Candy Pierson-Charlton,
ELI Coordinator of Student Services (541-737-6981 or candace.pierson-charlton@orst.edu).
[posted 3/2] INTERESTED IN IMPROVING YOUR TEACHING ABILITIES IN SCIENCE AND MATH? SED 596: “Methods for College Teaching in Science and Math” is a course for graduate students interested in improving their teaching abilities and portfolio. In this course you will learn how to develop a teaching philosophy, read college science and math educational research and apply it to your teaching, expand your repertoire of teaching methodologies, and document your teaching effectiveness and assess your students. Credits: 3. Meeting time and place: Thursdays, 1–3:50 pm, Weniger 222. CRN: 58175. For the course catalog listing, click here. [posted 3/2] SPRING NUMERICAL ANALYSIS COURSE FOR GRADS. NE 699: “Multiphysics Methods in Computational Science and Engineering” will cover advanced topics encountered by practitioners and researchers when engaging in the simulation of coupled physical phenomena within the area of science and engineering. Prior course work (or experience) with numerical solution of partial differential equations will be required. Students must have some fundamental background in numerical analysis, with a working knowledge of numerical discretization methods and simple numerical solution of linear systems. This 1-credit course consists of eight 1.5 hour lectures over 4 weeks. Meeting time and place: Tuesdays, 2–3:20 pm, and Fridays, 12–1:20 pm, RC 124C. CRN: 57913. For the course catalog listing, click here. [posted 3/2] NOMINATE CO-WORKERS FOR THE EXEMPLARY EMPLOYEE AWARD PROGRAM. Do
you know a professional faculty or classified employee who goes above and
beyond the call of duty? If you would like to recognize someone in your unit or
elsewhere on campus who exemplifies great service to OSU, click here.
Submit nominations to the OSU Office of Human Resources. The employee
recognition committee will select two recipients to be honored at the
University Day ceremonies with the presentation of plaques and a cash award of
$500. Nomination deadline: Tuesday, March
31. [posted 2/23] SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS [back to top] (UG = Undergraduate Students; G = Graduate Students; UG/G =
Both Undergrad and Grad) G EXTENDED NOMINATION DEADLINE FOR GRADUATE DIVERSITY RECRUITMENT BONUS PROGRAM 2009–10. This award provides $5,000 nonrenewable recruitment scholarships for the first academic year of graduate study. Graduate programs must provide base support at the .49 FTE level through a graduate assistantship, fellowship or equivalent. For more info, click here. If you would like to be nominated, contact your faculty advisor. Nomination deadline: March 15, 2009. For a complete list of financial support programs offered by the Graduate School for 2009–10, click here. [posted 3/2] G CHARLES HUTCHINS EDUCATIONAL GRANT. The SMTA and Circuits Assembly magazine announce the 12th annual Grant to be awarded to a graduate-level student working on thesis research in electronics assembly, packaging or a related field. To apply, submit a completed application (click here), a 1-page abstract describing the objectives and methodology of the thesis research, and documents listed in the application. Application deadline: Monday, April 20, 2009. Note: Applicants must be SMTA members. To join SMTA for $5, click here. In addition, students are only eligible if their expected degree completion date is April 1, 2010 or later. For more info, visit www.smta.org. Questions? Contact Karen@smta.org [posted 3/2] JOB AND INTERNSHIP POSTINGS FOR MIME STUDENTS [back to top] The following listings were generated from the MIME Jobs and Internships Web site. For additional job and internship listings, click here. And don't forget to check out these helpful resources as well: ·
CampusPoint– Includes MIME-related job
and internship opportunities in the Portland-Metro and Seattle/Puget Sound
areas. ·
AfterCollege MIME Job
Resource Center– Job listings site, tailored especially for MIME students. ·
Beaver
JobNet– Upload your resume
on-line so employers can contact you about internship and employment opportunities.
Note: When uploading your resume to your account, be sure to “publish” to make your resume available for employers to
view. TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH
ASSOCIATES, US EPA - Terracosm
Operations Assistant. The Terracosm Operations
Assistant will assist the Facilities Operations Specialist in chamber
maintenance, modification, and sensor calibrations at the US EPA Western
Ecology Division’s Terrestrial Ecophysiology research
site, which consists of a large greenhouse to shelter data acquisition and
process control computers, and a field of 12 sunlit plant growth chambers.
Ambient and elevated temperature, dew point, and CO2 concentration are
carefully controlled in each chamber by programmable microprocessors and
associated hardware. See http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/facilities/corvallisfacilities.htm.
The position will be funded by Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates, a
nonprofit organization that is leasing the terracosm
facility to perform a five-year, asymmetric warming, grassland experiment
(project information at http://per.ornl.gov/Gregg.html).
Note: Work is available ASAP More ... Internships [back to top] CORPS OF ENGINEERS - Mechanical Engineer Summer Intern (SCEP). The Portland District Corps of Engineers is recruiting for a Mechanical Engineering student for summer work in a construction management in the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP). Applicants must be at sophomore or junior status by summer of 2009; senior status students with one or two terms left are also eligible. The nature of the work involves office and field duties related to construction management and oversight of construction and dredging projects located in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Construction offices are located in Eugene, Troutdale, and Portland, OR and Kalama, WA, but assigned construction projects may be located elsewhere. Applicants for this position should have an interest in a long term career in construction management with the Corps of Engineers. At the end of the summer assignment, students will be considered for tuition assistance and for conversion to permanent employment upon graduation. More ... TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, US EPA - Terracosm Operations Intern--Full or Part-time. The Terracosm Operations Intern will assist the Facilities Operations Specialist in chamber maintenance, modification, and sensor calibrations at the US EPA Western Ecology Division’s Terrestrial Ecophysiology research site, which consists of a large greenhouse to shelter data acquisition and process control computers, and a field of 12 sunlit plant growth chambers. Ambient and elevated temperature, dew point, and CO2 concentration are carefully controlled in each chamber by programmable microprocessors and associated hardware. See http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/facilities/corvallisfacilities.htm. The position will be funded by Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates, a nonprofit organization that is leasing the terracosm facility to perform a five-year, asymmetric warming, grassland experiment (project information at http://per.ornl.gov/Gregg.html). Note: Work is available ASAP More ... FACULTY AND POST-DOC POSITIONS [back to top] Note: Check for additional
mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering positions on two ASEE web
sites: · Women in Engineering Division job site No
current postings. Note: Faculty and post-doc positions are posted
for 2 weeks. For previous postings, visit e-bulletin archives ABOUT THIS E-BULLETIN [back to top] The Mechanical, Industrial,
& Manufacturing Engineering E-Bulletin is a weekly, one-stop source of
information about school events, announcements, scholarships, job
postings, student club updates, and other school-related items. Past
issues are posted here.
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