[BNC-all] MONDAY MEMO

[Deborah Starewich]

MONDAY MEMO, October 8, 2007
 
 
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1. Announcements
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1.1:  BNC Mandatory User Meetings: Monday, Oct. 15, and Tuesday, Oct. 16
2007; 6:00-7:30PM; MRGN 121.  Updates and reviews of safety procedures will
be covered. Attendance at one of these meetings is required ‹ access to the
BNC laboratories and cleanroom will be revoked for those not in attendance.
 
1.2:  Borrowed Chairs?  If you¹ve borrowed a chair from one of the
conferences rooms, please be sure to return it.
 
1.3:  Moving furniture?  In the 10-person offices in Birck, there are
two-drawer file cabinets underneath the desk areas.  Please be aware that
the offices were designed such that these cabinets provide support for the
desktops.  If you have moved any cabinets, please be aware of the problems
this could cause and consider moving them back to their original positions.
Thanks!
 
1.4:  Business Office change:  Vikki Fast has moved to BRK 1023 on a
temporary basis until BRK 1014 may be reconfigured to house four people.
 
1.5:  Internet problems?  Slow connections?  If you are experiencing slow
internet connections in Birck, or any other computer issues, please send an
e-mail to DPSITE at ECN.PURDUE.EDU and describe the problem that you are
having.  A help ticket will be placed and someone from ECN will contact you.
 
1.6:  DURI Program Proposals due Tuesday, Oct. 9:  The Discovery Park
Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) program is accepting proposals for
research projects for the Spring 2008 semester.  DURI involves Purdue
undergraduates in the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment of
Discovery Park.  The program offers 50 internships per academic semester at
the West Lafayette campus, funded through the Discovery Learning Center.
Select interns to help advance your research from a pool of highly talented
and motivated students.  Mentor undergraduate students by fostering the
exchange of ideas and creating new research opportunities.  View additional
information (including sample projects) and use the simple form to submit
your project proposal online:  http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri
<http://www.purdue.edu/dp/duri> .  If you have any questions, please
contact:  Amy Childress; Intern Coordinator; Discovery Learning Center;
63590; childres at purdue.edu.
 
1.7:  Showalter Trust Grant Competition:  Details are available at
http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/showalter.shtml. Pre-proposals
and rankings must be received by Dr. Alan Rebar, Executive Director,
Discovery Park, Friday, October 19, 2007.  The internal selection committee
will meet and screen all pre-proposals to determine which investigators will
be asked to submit full proposals.  Full proposals will then be due by
mid-December to be forwarded to the Showalter Trust Committee.  Final award
decisions by the Showalter Trust Committee are expected to be made in the
spring.  Please direct questions or comments to Rhonda Hostetter, 40901
hostett at purdue.edu.
 
1.8: 17th Biennial IEEE UGIM (University Government Industry Micro/nano)
Symposium, July 13-16, 2008, Louisville, KY.
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together leading educators and
researchers from university, government, and industry around the world to
promote the various exciting fields of micro/nanotechnology. Representatives
of university micro/nano fabrication facilities, ranging from new labs to
nationally recognized facilities, have found this symposium an excellent
forum for exchanging information and presenting new research and educational
concepts. Government agencies such as NSF, NIH, NIST, SEMATECH, SRC, DoD and
ONR regularly participate with research papers and updates on funding
opportunities. Industry interactions with universities, including technology
transfer, collaborative research, and training efforts are frequently
presented.  Included will be tours of the University of Louisville¹s new
$20M, 10,000 sq ft class 100/1000 cleanroom facility.  This conference
allows groups from academia, government labs and organizations, and industry
the opportunity to network and present their latest findings/opportunities
in the area of micro/nanotechnology.  Keynote Speakers for 2008 include:
Abbie Gregg, President of AGI (Abbie Gregg, Inc.), recognized as one of the
leading cleanroom and engineering consulting firms in the world; Dr. Stephen
Campbell, Professor of ECE, University of Minnesota, Director, Minnesota
Nano Fabrication Center; Dr. Rajinder Khosla, National Science Foundation
Program Director; and Dr. Mark Lundstrom, Professor of ECE, Purdue
University, and founding director of the national NSF-funded Network for
Computational Nanotechnology.
Call for Papers:  Abstracts (one text page + one figure page) must be
submitted electronically on the symposium web site by March 10, 2008.
Authors should indicate preference for oral or poster presentation, as well
as their institution and contact information.  Final manuscripts (6 pages
maximum) must then be submitted electronically by April 21, 2008.  These
manuscripts, both papers (20 minute presentation) and posters, will be
published in the symposium proceedings.  For more information, visit the
2008 UGIM Symposium web site at: www.louisville.edu/micronano/2008UGIM. Dr.
Kevin M. Walsh, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director
of the Lutz and BRB Micro/Nanotechnology Cleanroom, University of Louisville
(502) 852-0826, walsh at louisville.edu.
 
1.9:  NSF 07-600 Instrumentation for Materials Research (IMR);
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07600/nsf07600.htm
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07600/nsf07600.htm> .  The IMR Program
supports the acquisition and/or development of research instruments that
will provide new capability and/or advance current capability to:  (1)
discover fundamental phenomena in materials; (2) synthesize, process, and/or
characterize the composition, structure, properties, and performance of
materials; and (3) improve the quality, expand the scope, and foster and
enable the integration of research and education in research-intensive
environments.
 
1.10:  e-Pubs submissions CHANGE: send your published papers (those that
include acknowledgement of work done here in Birck and/or those that include
the Birck as part of your affiliation) to JEFF GOECKER
(jgoecker at purdue.edu).
 
1.11:  NSF Summer 2008, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for US
Graduate Students pursuing science and engineering: Austrial, China, Japan,
Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan.  Application deadline: December
12, 2007.  Visit www.nsf.gov/eapsi; e-mail: eapinfo at nsf.gov.
 
 
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2. Seminars
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2.1:  BNC Seminar Series, Thursday, October 11, 10:30AM, ³Microscale Ionic
Wind for Local Cooling Enhancement,² by David B. Go, PhD candidate, School
of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue; BRK 1001.
ABSTRACT:  As the electronics industry continues to develop small, highly
functional, mobile devices, new methods of cooling are required to manage
the thermal requirements of the not only the chip but the entire system.
Comfortable skin temperatures, small form factors, and limited power
consumption are just some of the challenges that current devices face.
Microscale ionic wind engines are air cooling enhancement devices which
operate based on the principles of electrohydrodynamic interactions. Air
ions, generated by impact with electrons emitted from a cathode, are pulled
through the air and collide with neutral air molecules causing a wind. In
the presence of a bulk flow, an ionic wind can modulate the boundary layer
at a wall and enhance heat transfer. Microscale ionic wind devices can be
fabricated onto a chip or heat sink in areas of known high heat flux to
enhance the cooling effects of a fan without adding significant volume to
the overall package. Proof-of-concept, millimeter-scale experiments have
demonstrated a more than 25 °C temperature drop and greater than 250%
increase in local heat transfer coefficient with power consumption of only
~50 mW.  In this presentation, the concept of ionic winds for electronics
cooling will be presented.  The challenges of scaling down the technology to
the microscale will be discussed and current efforts to fabricate microscale
devices will be covered. Additionally, detailed modeling of the microscale
phenomena will be presented and preliminary results will be shown.
BIO:  David received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of Notre Dame in 2001 and his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the
University of Cincinnati in 2004. David was a design and analysis engineer
at G.E. Aviation (formerly G.E. Aircraft Engines) in Evendale, OH from
2001-2004 where also graduated from the Edison Engineering Development
Program. David is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at
Purdue University, co-advised by Professors Timothy S. Fisher and Suresh V.
Garimella.  David¹s research focuses on scaling down ionic winds for
electronics cooling applications and he has contributed 2 archival journal
publications (published or in review) and 3 papers to conference
proceedings. Additionally, David conducted electronics cooling research at
Intel Corporation during the summer of 2007.
 
2.2: Thursday, October 11, 4:30PM: Hawkins Memorial Lecture, School of
Mechanical Engineering, ³Engineering and National Priorities,² ME 161;
Refreshments served 4:00PM, ME 254.
 
2.3:  Friday, October 12, 10:30AM: Heat Transfer Seminar, School of
Mechanical Engineering, ³Radiative Transfer in Gas and Particulate
Mixtures,² POTR 118A&B; Refreshments served 10:00AM; POTR 118A&B.
 
2.4:  2007 Discovery Lecture Series:  Global Business Development in Life
Sciences, Thursday, November 8, 9:00AM, Ross-Ade Pavilion.
         9:00 Session I ‹ Kauffman Campuses Initiative, Best Practices
Workshop: ³Skills for Business Development,² by Ted Ashburn, Senior Director
of Corporate Development, Genzyme Corporation; ³Skills for Successful
Entrepreneurs,² by Michael Kurek, Partner, Biotechnology Business
Consultants, LLC
         11:30 Luncheon ‹ BioCrossroads Keynote, Starting Regionally,
Thinking Globally, Business Development, and the Life Sciences: ³Welcome and
Opening,² by Alan Rebar, Sr. Assoc. Vice President for Research, Executive
Director, Discovery Park, Purdue University; ³Keynote: Biotech 2007: A
Global Transformation,² by G. Steven Burrill, CEO, Burrill and Company,
moderated by William Miller, Provost Emeritus, Stanford University;
³Technology Commercialization and Purdue University,² by France A. Córdova
         2:30 Panel Session ‹ Translating Indiana Ideas into Global
Successes, moderated by David Johnson, President and CEO, BioCrossroads:
³Importance of Intellectual Property,² by Ted Ashburn; and ³Considering
Global Competition When Developing IP in a Startup Environment,² by Roger
Newton, Co-Founder, Esperion Therapeutics, a Division of Pfizer Global
Research & Development
This event is free and supported by the generosity of the Lilly Endowment
and the Kauffman Foundation. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come,
first-serve basis.  Questions may be directed to:  Lori LeRoy, Public
Relations and Marketing Director, Biocrossroads, at
lleroy at biocrossroads.com; or Candiss B. Vibbert, Associate Director for
Discovery Park Engagement, at vibbert at purdue.edu
            Please register today: www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/register.html
 
 
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3. Birck Visitors
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3.1:  Monday, October 8, 2:30PM: Brian Landis, Managing Director of Butler
Business Accelerator and his daughter.
 
3.2:  Tuesday, October 9, 2:00PM: Bill and Sandy Beckman; Bill is an ECE
alumnus, a retired design/development/systems engineer with Lockheed Martin.
 
3.3:  Thursday, October 11, 9:30-3:30: Mike Chiappetta, Research, Advanced
Development, Delivery Device R&D, Eli Lilly; and Ron Mojarrad, Project
Management Consultant, Delivery Device R&D, Eli Lilly
 
3.4:  Thursday, October 11, 10:30AM: Retired Teachers¹ Group plus Sam Endy,
Vice President, Atheros Communications and Margarita Contreni, Director of
Development, ECE.  Visit will begin in Morgan 129 and include tours of both
Bindley and Birck.
 
3.5:  Thursday, October 11, 11:15AM: Richard O. Buckius, 2007 Hawkins
Memorial Lecture Speaker
 
3.6:  Thursday, October 11, 3:30PM:  Veterinary Comparative Respiratory
Society
 
 
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4. Discovery Park
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4.1:  Homecoming 2007!  Discovery Park Engagement is proud to represent
Discovery Park at Homecoming 2007 for the Family Friendly Celebration on the
Mall, but we need your help to make it a success!  Our goal this year is to
represent Discovery Park as a whole with interactive games, activities,
videos, and glow in the dark footballs for giveaways.  Purdue will be
playing against Northwestern on Saturday, October 27th, with kickoff
scheduled at 12pm at Ross-Ade Stadium.  We will need to represent our tent
on the Purdue Mall from 9:00 a.m. ­ 11:00 a.m.
We are inviting everyone, including Ambassadors and students, from Discovery
Park to stop by our tent and volunteer your time for a quick 20 minutes to
talk with Alumni, friends, and family about the cool things Discovery Park
is doing to transform their world! We will have Boiler Bucks available for
you to grab a snack, and will make sure you are off to the game in plenty of
time to cheer on our Boilers!!
I am also requesting a few volunteers to help setup and teardown.  If you
are interested in participating, please send an email to Valerie Lawless at
lawlessv at purdue.edu, or call her at 4-3662, and indicate what time frame you
would like to represent Discovery Park.
If you do not wish to be a volunteer, but would like to stop by our tent and
say hello, I have attached the link where you may find all the information
for Purdue¹s Homecoming 2007 and where our tent will be located.
http://www.purdue.edu/events/homecoming/
<http://www.purdue.edu/events/homecoming/>
Boiler Up! for a great Purdue Homecoming 2007!
 
4.2:  United Way ³Cake Off²:  Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 8:00­3:00PM, MRGN
129
It is time to show off your baking skills. . . .  Discovery Park personnel
and students are invited to make their favorite goodie to support United
Way.  Please make two of your favorite baked goods.  One will be for
sampling; $1.00 for two samples and the other one will be available for
purchase.  All profits go to United Way.  We will have the following
categories:  Cakes, Brownies, Cookies, and Pies.  Please bring your baked
goods to Burton D. Morgan Center, Room 129 by 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday,
October 10.  You will also be able to vote for your favorite goodie! Any
questions contact: Leza Dellinger at 4-1279, Jackie Lanter at 4-6400
<http://www.uwlafayette.org/> , or Sheryl Willison at 4-9806.


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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