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updated October 23, 2009
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Faculty Newsmakers: Professors Share ASEE Best Zone Paper Award
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Jim Hanson |
Pat Brophy |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Civil Engineering Professor Jim Hanson
and Humanities & Social Sciences Professor Pat Brophy were co-authors of a
research paper that received the Best Zone Paper Award at the American
Society of Engineering Education’s 2009 Annual Conference.
The paper examined the reasonableness of results, and asserted that
engineering students can hone skills and replicate intentional practices
that will improve their depth of understanding.
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In other faculty news:
Chemical Engineering Professor Hossein Hariri has been honored for his three
years of service as director and executive committee member of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineering’s Fuels and Petrochemical Division.
In other chemical engineering news, the
department has received a donation of surplus
equipment from Eli Lilly and Company –- thanks to the efforts of alumni Mike Markowski (a visiting part-time faculty member) and Steve Gillman (member of
the department’s advisory board). Professors Atanas Serbezov and Ron Artigue
worked with Lilly to obtain this donation, worth approximately $40,000.
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Mathematics Professors Yosi Shibberu and
Allen Holder attended a workshop on "Network
Biology: Understanding Metabolic and Protein
Interactions" at the Mathematical
Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State
University. Holder gave an invited talk on
the role of operations research in the study
of biological networks. |
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Renat Letfullin |
Several members of the Physics and Optical Engineering faculty have been
featured in international, national and regional academic conferences, and
media interviews. Assistant Professor Renat Letfullin has been invited to
arrange and to chair the session on “Multidisciplinary Education in
Nanoscience: from Nanophotonics to Nanomedicine” at the 2010 International
Conference on Education, Training and Informatics this spring in Orlando. He
will also be a session chair at the 20th Argonne National Symposium later
this fall.
Also, Letfullin was awarded a $49,832 grant from St. Louis University to
examine “Undergraduate Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Nanomedicine,” and
will join PHOE Advisory Board Member Thomas George in giving a radio
interview for Radio Health Journal, an award-winning program broadcast on
approximately 450 stations nationally. Letfullin and George will discuss the
future of nanomedicine, covering topics related to how the characteristics
of nano-sized particles make them valuable in medicine.
Assistant Professor Richard Lepkowicz attended a kickoff meeting in
Washington, D.C., for the DARPA program on GRIN optics. Professor Rob Bunch
and Lepkowicz will be doing optical design in collaboration with University
of Rochester, Naval Research laboratory and Case Western Reserve University
to develop new lightweight optical systems for imaging systems and solar
concentrators.
Sudipa Kirtley |
Professor Sudipa Kirtley has been requested by Wiley Publishing to prepare
instructor’s PowerPoint files for 20 chapters in the latest edition of an
Introductory Physics textbook, written by Halliday and Resnick. She also
conducted two physics workshops at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College on
“Expanding Your Horizons” for Wabash Valley middle school female students.
Professor Mike Moloney will give an invited talk at the Acoustical Society
of America’s meeting, and Professor Rick Ditteon gave an invited talk on
“How Astronomers Make Those Amazing Images” at the Terre Haute Swope Art
Gallery brown bag series on Oct. 7. |
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| Visiting Assistant Mathematics Professor Alberto Condori was invited to give
a talk at Indiana University’s Analysis Seminar. The title of the talk was
“On the Sum of Superoptimal Singular Values.” |
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Professor of American Literature Patricia Carlson attended a National
Science Foundation Board of Advisors’ meeting for the Calibrated Peer Review
Project. She gave a presentation on using the software to evaluate oral
presentations for engineering education.
Professor Heinz Luegenbiehl presented a paper on “Autonomy Unbound: An
Unanticipated Consequence of Biotechnology” at the Humanities & Technology
Association Conference. Professor Andreas Michel presented a paper on
“Democracy, Technology, Secularization” and was president of the conference. |
Patricia Carlson |
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Professor of Anthropology Scott Clark presented a paper on “Soak-n-Culture:
Culture & the Japanese Bath” at the East Asian Studies Seminar at Wittenberg
University in Springfield, Ohio.
In other faculty news from the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences,
John Gardner presented a paper on “Instant, Unique and Gone: Image and Text
in Suso de Toro’s Polaroid” at the 63rd Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association convention in Snowbird, Utah, and Andreas Michel presented a
paper on “German Turks as Insider/Outsiders in the Movies of Fatih Akin” at
the German Studies Association conference in Washington, D.C. |
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Kay C Dee |
Professor of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering Kay C Dee has
finished a chapter on protein- and amino acid-derived polymers for the
second edition of An Introduction to Biomaterials, being published by CRC
Press. The chapter was written with Joshua Haarer, (Biomedical Engineering
master’s graduate currently working at Boston Scientific) and with Beau
Inskeep (2009 Biomedical Engineering bachelor’s graduate before beginning
graduate studies in biomedical engineering at Clemson University).
In other ABBE faculty news, applied biology students Mike Volitich and Will
Terrill joined faculty and staff members Huihui Xu, Christine Buckley, Scott
Small, Gabi Waite and Lee Waite in attending the annual meeting of the
Biomedical Engineering Society in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lee Waite |
Department Chair Lee Waite attended the annual meeting of the Council of
Chairs in Biomedical Engineering, where he heard pleasant words of praise
for Rose-Hulman students.
Publications resulting from the 2009 BMES annual meeting included “BEEM: A
Project to Enhance Lab and Design Skills for BME Students,” written by
Huihui Xu of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, and Xiaoyan Mu and
Deborah Walter of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering;
“BEEM Practical Design Example: ECG (Electrocardiogram),” by Xu, Mu and
Walter; “Comparison of Photoelastic and Strain Gage Evaluation Techniques on
Tibial Strain in an Orthopaedic Model,” by Michael Volitich, faculty members
Renee Rogge and Christine Buckley and Scott Small and Michael Berend of the
Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation; “Strain in the
Medial Tibia with Fixed All-Polyethylene Bearings in Unicompartmental Knee
Arthroplasty,” by Volitich, Small, Rogge, Buckley and Berend; “Differences
in Blood Viscosity between Diabetics and Non-Diabetics Receiving Treatment
for Kidney Failure by Dialysis,” by Terrill and colleagues from the Illinois
Institute of Technology and University of Chicago; “A Lumped-Parameter Model
of Mitral Valve Blood Flow: Left Ventricular, Diastolic E-Wave Filling,” by
Lee Waite and Jerry Fine of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and
“Mathematical Model for In Vitro Control of H2O2 and O2 Concentrations in
Cell Culture,” by Gabe Waite and Lee Waite. |
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