[BNC-all] MONDAY MEMO (delayed this week)

[Deborah Starewich]

This is actually the ³Tuesday² Memo as I was out of the office yesterday :)




MONDAY MEMO, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
 
CONTENTS
 
1. Announcements
 
1.1: Placing orders with OnePurdue
 
1.2: Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internships (DURI) Fall 2007
Opportunities; project descriptions due 03.05.07
 
 
2. Faculty/Staff/Student Awards and Honors
 
2.1: Eric Stach, 2007 College of Engineering Early Career Research
Excellence Award.
 
 
3. Seminar Announcements
 
3.1:  Wednesday, 02.28, 2:00 PM, EE 317 ­ ³Nanolithography,² by Minghao Qi,
Purdue University
 
3.2: Thursday, 03.01, 10:30 AM, BRK 1001 ­ ³Computer Simulation of
Nanoparticles, Viruses, and Electrical Power-Generating Bacteria,² by Peter
Ortoleva, Indiana University
 
3.3: Friday, 03.02, 9:30 AM, BRK 1001 ­ ³MEMS-Enabled Nanotechnology,² by
Dr. Bai Xu, State University of New York at Albany
 
3.4: Friday, 03.02, 3:30 PM, MSEE B012 ­ ³High Performance Automotive
Castings ­ Theory and Reality of Their Production,² by Nick Green, The
University of Brimingham
 
 
4. Workshops/Conferences
 
NONE
 
 
5. Job/Fellowship opportunities
 
5.1: Eta Kappa Nu corporate relations: 02.27 ­ Northrup Grumman; 02.28 Intel
 
5.2: NEXTRANS Center Managing Director; Discovery Park and the Office of the
Vice President are launching a newly funded center on transportation
research.
 
 
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1. Announcements
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1.1: Placing orders with OnePurdue.  Until graduate students and other staff
are trained to use the new purchasing tool through OnePurdue, staff members
who have been trained will place orders for you.  Those members include
Annie Cheever, Vikki Fast, Jeremy Schroeder, Deborah Starewich, and MaryJo
Totten.
 
To expedite your orders, please
1)  complete a purchase order form (available from the business office);
this form should include the account number to charge and the signature of
the PI or person who has authority to purchase from the account being used;
2)  if ordering chemicals or gases, include the MSDS;
3)  if ordering chemicals or gases, obtain the necessary approval from
either Kenny Schwartz (gases; kfschwar at purdue.edu
<mailto:kfschwar at purdue.edu> ) or Steve Jurss (chemicals; sejurss at purdue.edu
<mailto:sejurss at purdue.edu> )
4)  please provide a quote from the company, if available;
5)  present in hard copy form all documentation associated with the order to
the person with whom you submitted the order.
 
1.2: Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internships (DURI) Fall 2007
Opportunities; project descriptions due 03.05.07.
 
The Discovery Learn Center invites all Purdue faculty members to submit
descriptions for interdisciplinary research that will engage top
undergraduate students in Discovery Park projects. Faculty with approved
project submissions will have the opportunity to select from a pool of
highly talented and motivated students.
 
If you see yourself as a mentor to undergraduates who aims to foster the
exchange of ideas and create new research opportunities, please consider
submitting a project description.
 
The Lilly Endowment, Inc. endowed the DURI program to stimulate awareness of
advanced research and promote interest in graduate study.  The DURI program
funds approximately 50 internships every fall and spring semester.  Students
receive a $500 scholarship each semester in recognition of their selection
and participation.
 
Information is available online at www.purdue.edu/dp/learningcenter/duri/
<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/learningcenter/duri/> ; use the simple on-line
form to submit your project descriptions; view additional information and
sample descriptions.
 
Project descriptions are due March 5, 2007; if you have any questions,
please contact Amy Childress, childres at purdue.du; 63590.
 
 
 
 
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2. Awards/Honors
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2.1: Eric Stach is the 2007 College of Engineering Early Career Research
Excellence Award.  This award will be conferred formally at the College of
Engineering Faculty Awards Banquet on 04.28.
 
 
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3. Seminar Announcements
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3.1:  Wednesday, 02.28, 2:00 PM, EE 317 ­ ³Nanolithography,² by Minghao Qi,
Purdue University
 
ABSTRACT: Integrated circuits have dramatically changed the way people live,
communicate and work over the past forty years.  For example, digital
storage has almost eliminated the need for printed materials as a method of
preserving information.  However, another means of printing, or lithography,
has been the driving force for the ever faster, cheaper, yet more powerful
computer chips. Lithography is probably the most important process in
transforming human creativity and engineering efforts into real devices or
systems.  This tutorial will go through pattern generation and duplication,
as well as resist technology.  Both fundamental laws governing the
resolution and throughput of lithography and latest trends in
state-of-the-art lithography will be discussed.  At the nanometer length
scale, lithography continues to play a central role in prototyping novel
devices, and will meet in the near future the bottom-up approach, which
generates patterns by controlled chemical growth/synthesis.
 
NOTE:  This seminar is being taped for the nanoHUB¹s Nanotechnology 501
Seminar Series at http://www.nanohub.org/education/nanotechnology501
<http://www.nanohub.org/education/nanotechnology501>
 
ABSTRACT: Minghao Qi received his BS degree in Chemical Physics from the U
of Science and Technology of China in 1995.  He received his MS and PhD in
Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998
and 2005 respectively.  He was a post-doctoral research associate in the
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT before joining Purdue University
as an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August
2005.
 
 
3.2: Thursday, 03.01, 10:30 AM, BRK 1001 ­ ³Computer Simulation of
Nanoparticles, Viruses, and Electrical Power-Generating Bacteria,² by Peter
Ortoleva, Indiana University
 
ABSTRACT: Models of cells and nanometer-scale biosystems are presented that
clarify their physico-chemical characteristics and allow for computer-aided
design of therapeutic and nanotechnical devices. Multiscale  techniques are
used to obtain rigorous, coarse-grained equations for the migration and
structural transitions of viruses and other bionanostructures. The theory
starts with the N-atom Liouville equation and arrives at Langevin equations
for the fluctuating dynamics of order parameters characterizing the state of
major nanoscale components (e.g., protomers, pentamers, and hexamers for
viral capsids). Application of the theory to macromolecules is also
illustrated.
 
A phenomenological approach is used to analyze electrical power generating
bacteria. A microbial fuel cell is described in terms of a circuit diagram
accounting for nanowires. These wires are self-assembled by the bacterium to
mediate electron transfer processes.  When the bacteria, electrodes, and
substrate-bearing fluids are correctly configured, the system constitutes a
bacterial fuel cell capable of directly converting organic waste into
electrical power.
 
BIO: Peter J. Ortoleva is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the
Indiana University Center for Cell and Virus Theory in the Department of
Chemistry. He received his PhD in Applied Physics at Cornell U, was a
Postdoc in the Dept of Chemistry at MIT, and joined the faculty of the Dept
of Chemistry at Indiana U in 1975.  He has published over 187 refereed
papers, 3 monographs, and 3 edited volumes.  His research interests include:
the theory of reaction-transport mechanical systems; chemical kinetic;
statistical mechanics; cell and virus modeling; regulatory network
discovery; and nonlinear dynamical systems theory.
 
Host:  Sabre Kais, Chemistry Dept (45965; kais at purdue.edu)
 
SPONSORED BY:  Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center,
Discovery Park, The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, The
Network for Computational Nanotechnology, VEECO, NCN Student Leadership
Council, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, School of Chemical
Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of
Mechanical Engineering
 
 
3.3: Friday, 03.02, 9:30 AM, BRK 1001 ­ ³MEMS-Enabled Nanotechnology,² by
Dr. Bai Xu, State University of New York at Albany
 
ABSTRACT: The pressure for reduction in cost and development time in new
product, together with the need to pack more functions into smaller volumes
in silicon chips has been fueling the development of semiconductor industry.
However, the current semiconductor technologies available essentially
involve merging of chips fabricated with standard CMOS technology.  These
CMOS compatible technologies provide an integration solution with compatible
fabrication processes that require little changes in process integration.
Even with some limited product offerings such as integrated accelerometers
and pressure sensors, it remains a challenge to merge devices from
non-compatible fabrication processes in a cost-effective way.
Nanotechnology, enabled by Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), may
offer a solution by making inexpensive LEGO-like building blocks to snap
together a system.  MEMS-enabled nanotechnology applies the tools and
processes of nano/microfabrication, compatible or non-compatible with CMOS,
to build devices and systems. This presentation will be focusing on the
current topics in the development of nanotechnology and MEMS technology.
After a brief overview of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
at University at Albany/SUNY, a few project examples will be used to
introduce our MEMS program. MEMS provide important tools to address the
bottlenecks in realizing Feynman's vision of nanotechnology: the fusion of
Nanotech, Biotech and Infotech, which is a growing area of scientific and
technological opportunities.
 
BIO: Prof. Bai Xu obtained his PhD in Material Sciences from U of Paris/CNRS
in 1991.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of SUNY at Albany and
Senior Research Scientist of Albany NanoTech.  Prof. Xu manages the MEMS
program at Albany NanoTech, which has a technology portfolio of optical
MEMS, bioMEMS, fluidic MEMS and RF MEMS.  Before joining Albany NanoTech,
Prof. Xu worked at IME Singapore and I-STAT Canada where he initiated a
number of MEMS development projects that led to the fabrication of MEMS
micro-relays, MEMS microphone, pressure sensors, flow sensors,
accelerometers and miniaturized biomedical testing devices.  Prof. Xu has
been very active in the MEMS and Nanotechnology area.  He served on the
review panel of the National Science Foundation to review the Nanotechnology
Interdisciplinary Research Team Proposals.  He was the Chair of the Special
Symposium for Science and Fabrication of Nanosystems sponsored by the Upper
State New York Chapter of the American Vacuum Society. Prof. Xu has given
over 30 invited talks at Intel, GE, IBM, Finisar, 3M and other universities,
as well as in international technical conferences in USA, Canada, Mexico,
Germany, Japan, China mainland and Taiwan. He is currently co-chairing the
MEMS fluidic I/O standardization working group sponsored by SEMI. Professor
Xu also serves in the Editorial Board of ³Nanomedicine,² the Journal of the
American Academy of Nanomedicine (bxu at uamail.albany.edu).
 
Host:  Xianfan Xu, Mechanical Engr (45639; xxu at ecn.purdue.edu)
 
SPONSORED BY: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center,
Discovery Park, The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, The
Network for Computational Nanotechnology, VEECO, NCN Student Leadership
Council, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, School of Chemical
Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of
Mechanical Engineering
 
 
3.4: Friday, 03.02, 3:30 PM, MSEE B012 ­ ³High Performance Automotive
Castings ­ Theory and Reality of Their Production,² by Nick Green, Professor
of Casting Technology; Metallurgy and Materials Department; The University
of Birmingham; Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
 
ABSTRACT: For the past three decades the Cosworth process has been
considered the benchmark against which the reliability of structural
aluminum alloy castings is measured.  Though adhering only to the Œsimple¹
principles of attaining and maintaining liquid metal integrity through
avoidance of free surface turbulence during metal movement, the process
poses significant challenges when operated at an industrial scale.  This
seminar will review free surface turbulence as a mechanism for formation of
oxide bifilms and their impact on casting reliability, describe the high
volume Cosworth casting process and present results of a recent benchmarking
exercise of European premium automotive foundries.
 
BIO: Nick Green holds the EPSRC/Rolls-Royce Star Appointment in Casting
Technology and has worked in casting research since completing his PhD
(Cambridge 1992), beginning his postdoctoral career at Birmingham. He then
moved into the automotive foundry industry. Throughout his career he has
pursued his interest in relationships between casting processes and casting
reliability, applying root cause understanding of defect forming mechanisms
to casting process development for improved reliability, process
simplification and scrap reduction. Prior to his appointment he worked for
eight years in the automotive foundry industry, most recently as Technical
Director of Cosworth Technology Ltd (2000­2005), developing innovative
solutions for improved material and engine performance in high volume, niche
and racing applications. Recent research led to two patent applications in
the areas of enhanced integrity/fatigue life and enhanced dimensional
accuracy. From 1996 to 2000 he was Technical Manager of VAW motorcast Ltd, a
major UK automotive foundry manufacturing approximately 1.5­1.8 million
cylinder heads and engine blocks per annum. During this period he was also
Competence Leader for Process Development within VAW¹s group of European
foundries. In 1998­1999 he directed the technical launch of a major green
field joint venture in Mexico (Castech SA de CV) to produce aluminum
cylinder heads and blocks for the North American market. In 2000 he was
awarded the American Foundrymen¹s Society (AFS) Howard F Taylor Award and
received their best paper award in both 1998 and 1994. Between 1994 to 1996
he was an industrially funded Senior Research Fellow at The University of
Birmingham developing and implementing root cause solutions to long standing
casting integrity, reliability and productivity problems, and from 1992 to
1994 was an SERC Research Fellow researching defect formation in cast
aluminum alloys.
 
 
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4. Workshops/Conferences
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NONE
 
 
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5.  Fellowship/Job Opportunities
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5.1: Eta Kappa Nu Corporate Visits: 02.27: Northrop Grumman free bagel/donut
day, HKN Lounge, EE ­ WHILE SUPPLIES LAST; www.northropgrumman.com
 
02.28: Intel Free Bagel/Donut Day, HKN Lounge -- WHILE SUPPLIES LAST;
representative on site 8-10:30 am; bring your resume; www.intel.com
 
Check bagel status http://hkn.ecn.purdue.edu/bagelcam.php
 
 
5.2: NEXTRANS Center Managing Director; Discovery Park and the Office of the
Vice President are launching a newly funded center on transportation
research (www.purdue.edu/dp/nextrans/).
 
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  Master¹s Degree in engineering, science, business
or related field required.  Five or more years of professional experience in
a transportation-related field required.  Significant experience serving in
a managerial role required. Candidates must possess excellent oral and
written communication skills as well as interpersonal and negotiation
skills; must be self-motivated and have the ability to exercise sound
judgment in prioritizing tasks.
 
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:  PhD in engineering, science, business, or related
field preferred.  Experience with academic environment and a general
knowledge of University business policies and procedures preferred.
Knowledge of fiscal planning/budgeting and subject matter also preferred.
 
JOB DUTIES: Provide day-to-day supervision of NEXTRANS staff and oversee
delivery of enhancement programs and outreach activities. Pursue/recruit
potential new partners.  Report on Strategic Plan performance metrics;
facilitate the external peer review process for proposals; disseminate
reports; serve as liaison and organizational coordinator to the Advisory
Council and Executive Committee.  Coordinate operations with other Region 5
University Transportation Centers (UTCs) as well as with other Regional
UTCs.  Monitor adherence to program timelines and monitor cost-share.
Supervise Center website and newsletter.  Serve as operational liaison to
the UTC Programs office.  Act as part of the leadership team that implements
the vision and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations in support of the
Discovery Park mission, managing the interface between faculty and
facilities.  Interface with appropriate academic units on charge-back
systems and space issues, and engage faculty/staff about their research
interests in focus areas and/or the use of the affiliated
facilities/laboratories. Represent the NEXTRANS Center at functions when
delegated by the Center Director.  Provide leadership and supervision in
organizing and managing special events, and devise and implement plans for
development, marketing, and communication.


Deborah S. Starewich
Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University

765-494-3509
dstarewi at ecn.purdue.edu

http://www.nano.purdue.edu/



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