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WEEKLY E-BULLETIN FOR OSU
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Postings—Students Faculty and
Post-Doc Positions Note: For access to past MIME E-Bulletins, visit e-bulletin archives. INVITATION
TO THIS YEAR’S SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT PRESENTATIONS: MONDAY (3/9) and
WEDNESDAY (3/11) Drs. Doolen, Parmigiani, and Paasch would like to invite all
MIME students, faculty, staff, and all other interested parties to attend the
2008–09 MIME Senior Project presentations taking place this week on Monday,
March 9th and Wednesday, March 11th. Many of
these projects have been sponsored by industry and community partners, and a
number of the teams are interdisciplinary. These presentations give our
seniors the opportunity to share their projects with the MIME community and
give faculty, staff, students, and project sponsors a chance to recognize the
teams’ impressive accomplishments. From 4 to 6 pm on both 3/9 and 3/11, three presentation
sessions will be running concurrently in Covell 218, Rogers 226, and
Rogers 440. Each of these sessions will feature a mix of product, process,
and Baja/Formula design projects, so any session that you attend is sure to
have an interesting mix of topics. Student teams will give a 12-minute overview
of what they have accomplished since September 2008. If you are interested in
seeing a specific project, feel free to move between rooms. We hope to see you there! ATTENTION GRADUATE
STUDENTS: REGISTER FOR THE SPRING
2009 MIME GRADUATE COMMUNICATION SEMINAR! This year’s MIME Graduate Communication Seminar is being
offered during Spring 2009. This 1-credit weekly
seminar series addresses a variety of academic & professional communication
skills and genres. Seminar topics range from managing the thesis/dissertation
writing process and surviving your oral defense to designing effective research
posters, crafting funding proposals, and delivering elevator pitches. The
seminar is targeted primarily to first-year MIME graduate students, but all
IE, ME, and Mat Sci graduate students are invited to
enroll. (Repeat enrollments permitted.) For the full course description and
topic listing, click
here. Course name: ME 507: MIME Graduate Communication
Seminar. CRN: 57297. Instructor: Tracy Ann Robinson. Meeting time and
place: Tuesdays, 12–12:50 pm, Rogers 226. (Note: This being a
noontime event, sandwich fixings will be provided for seminar participants). Course catalog listing. Questions? Contact Tracy Ann Robinson (tracy.ann.robinson@oregonstate.edu).
Visit the MIME event calendar online This Week... Mon Mar 9–Fri Mar 13: Dead Week. Mon Mar 9: Senior Project Presentations: Day 1. 4–6 pm, Covell 218, Rogers 226, and Rogers
440. See features. Mon Mar 9: 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 9: Formula SAE Meeting. 6–7 pm, Rogers 132 (SAE Shop). All MIME students are welcome to attend. Mon Mar 9: 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 10: 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 10: 2nd Annual MIME Winter
Banquet for Pro-School Students. 6–8 pm, MU Ballroom. Hosted by Alpha Pi
Mu and Pi Tau Sigma. Take a
break during dead week and enjoy a free
catered dinner, socialize with friends, bid adieu to folks who are graduating
or on MECOP spring term, and congratulate this year’s winners of the IME and ME
Outstanding Senior and Professor awards. 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. Wed Mar 11: 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 11: Senior
Project Presentations: Day 2. 4–6 pm, Covell 218, Rogers 226,
and Rogers 440. See features. Wed
Mar 11: IIE Officer Elections Meeting. 6 pm, Covell 218. Run for an
IIE officer position, or help choose next year’s officers. Questions? Contact Brenda Buckman (buckmanb@engr.orst.edu). Wed Mar 11: 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 11: EWB Project Selection Meeting. 7 pm, KEC 1001. Help EWB decide which of 3 international projects to adopt as its main project for the next couple years. All input is welcome. Free pizza and soda as usual. Thurs Mar 12: Microgravity
Flight Team (MGFT) Meeting. 4 pm, Dearborn 209. Agenda: Work
on proposal (due Friday, March 20). All OSU
students are welcome to attend. Questions? Contact
Alex Newman (newmana@onid.orst.edu). Thurs Mar 12: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) Meeting. 6 pm, Rogers 228. Agenda: Will discuss the SPDC
trip, junior design competition, RC Baja Junior Design Competition, Boys and
Girls Club project, and plans for ASME next term. All OSU students are welcome
to attend. Fri Mar 13: MIME Seminar:
“Fast,
Cheap, Accurate: Pick 2?—Performance Scaling in 3D Scanners.”
Presenter: Damion Shelton, CTO,
threeRivers 3D, Inc. 3 pm, KEC
1005. Plan Ahead... [back to top] 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 Fri Mar 13: MIME Seminar: “Fast,
Cheap, Accurate: Pick 2?—Performance Scaling in 3D Scanners.”
Presenter: Damion Shelton, CTO,
threeRivers 3D, Inc. 3 pm, KEC
1005. 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] APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR: · 2009–10 MECOP INTERNSHIP PROGRAM. To apply, click here. Application deadline: Friday, April 10. Questions? E-mail mecop@engr.orst.edu. Note: To qualify for a MECOP internship you must first be accepted into Pro-School. [posted 3/9] · 2009 PRO-SCHOOL. 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] 2009 HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE
CHALLENGE (HPVC) IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. This year’s ASME HPVC West competition, hosted by Portland State
University, will be held in Portland, Oregon, on May 1–3, 2009. HPVC teams compete to design
and build aerodynamic, highly engineered vehicles that can be used for everyday
activities. The vehicles are judged on design, safety and performance. The
first stage of the competition is preparing a comprehensive design report, and
the second part of the competition includes design presentation and performance
events where the vehicles race in time trials, an endurance event and a utility
course. For more info, click here
or e-mail hpv@asme.org. [posted
3/9] 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. If you volunteer
for 2 hours or more you will receive a free T-shirt! If you are interested in
volunteering, click here, and be sure to include that you are from MIME. Note: Please
sign up before Wednesday, April 1st. [posted 3/2]
Grad Students/Faculty/Staff [back to top] NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR TWO NEW RESEARCH AWARDS. The Faculty Recognition and Awards Committee is accepting nominations for: ·
Promising
Scholar Award. This award recognizes scholarship of junior faculty and
bestows upon the recipient the title "Promising Scholar" for the year
following receipt of the award. Click here for
more info and the nomination form. · OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship. This award recognizes OSU faculty who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship in a specific project or activity resulting in substantial impact beyond the university setting. Click here for more info and the nomination form. To nominate a faculty member for either award, submit the required materials to the Faculty Recognition and Awards Committee, c/o OSU Faculty Senate Office, 107 Gilkey Hall, Corvallis OR 97331-6203. Nomination deadline (for either award): Friday, April 3. [posted 3/9] 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] SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS [back to top] (UG = Undergraduate Students; G = Graduate Students; UG/G =
Both Undergrad and Grad) UG ZONTA SERVICE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FOR WOMEN. The Zonta Service Foundation of Corvallis is now accepting application for its 2009–10 scholarships. Ten $2,400 scholarships will be offered to undergraduate women attending OSU or LBCC. One of the scholarships is reserved for a woman studying engineering, technology, or science. Application deadline: Friday, March 27. For more info and how to apply, click here. Questions? Contact Rebecca Yu (rebeccayu@remax.net). [posted 3/9] UG BENJAMIN A. GILMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, FALL 2009. The Gilman International Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $5,000 for US undergraduate students to study abroad for up to one academic year. The program serves students who have been under-represented in study abroad, including: students with high financial need, community college students, students in under-represented fields such as the sciences and engineering, students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, students attending minority-serving institutions, and students with disabilities. In academic year 2009–10, over 1200 scholarships will be granted. Additionally, $3000 Critical Need Language Supplements are available for students studying a critical need language for a total possible award of $8000. For more info, eligibility criteria, and application instructions, click here. Application deadline: April 7. Questions? Contact: gilman@iie.org or call 1-888-887-5939, ext 25. [posted 3/9] 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] 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
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