BME MONDAY ROUNDTABLE

DECEMBER 13, 2021

 

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES

FACULTY RECRUITING

Faculty recruiting season is in high swing. Over the next two weeks, we will have four candidates visiting our campus. More to come!

Mon., Dec. 13 – Tues., Dec. 14 -  Dr. Anne Draelos, Swartz Foundation Fellow for Theory in Neuroscience, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University (candidate for Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering tenure-track faculty position). Seminar: 9:30 a.m., Mon., Dec. 13, MJIS 2001

Thurs., Dec. 16 – Fri., Dec. 17 – Dr. Cristina Rodriguez, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (candidate for Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering tenure-track faculty position). Seminar: 11:30 a.m., Mon., Dec. 13, via Zoom

 

SPRING 2022 BME Faculty Meetings

All faculty meetings will begin at 11:30 a.m. in MJIS 2001

Fri., January 14

Fri., February 11

Fri., March 25

Fri., April 22

 

SPRING 2022 BME Primary Committee Meetings

Fri., March 4, 11:30-1:00, MJIS 2001

Fri., April 15, 10:00-5:00, MJIS 2001 (LONG meeting!)

 

Week of Dec. 13

 

Mon., Dec. 13, 9:30 a.m., MJIS 2001 – Prospective BME Faculty Presentation by Dr. Anne Draelos, Swartz Foundation Fellow for Theory in Neuroscience, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University

Thurs., Dec. 16: Senior Design Expo from 3:30-5:30pm in MJIS.  I would like to encourage all faculty and staff to attend, interact with design teams, and learn about the accomplishments of the seniors this year.  More details to come. 

Thurs., Dec. 16 – Fri., Dec. 17 – Dr. Cristina Rodriguez, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (candidate for Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering tenure-track faculty position). Seminar: 11:30 a.m., Mon., Dec. 13, via Zoom

Fri., Dec. 17 – Cookies and coffee in MJIS 2001 at 11:30 a.m. Celebrate the end of the semester, and get to know our graduate students and faculty better!

Fri., Dec. 17 - Fall 2022 Graduate Student Applications Available to Review on Intranet

Fri., Dec. 17—Pre-screening eligibility list of Purdue Doctoral and George Washington Carver fellowships sent to faculty

 

Upcoming important deadlines and info.

Mon., Dec. 13 – Sat., Dec. 18: FINAL EXAMS: Final Exam Policy here: https://catalog.purdue.edu/content.php?catoid=9&navoid=10509#final-examinations

Wed., Dec. 15, NOON – Deadline for ordering animals and limitations on when animals can be received.  These are intended to assure all animals coming to the University are properly received and given proper care on arrival. 

Thurs., Dec. 16: Senior Design Expo from 3:30-5:30pm in MJIS.  I would like to encourage all faculty and staff to attend, interact with design teams, and learn about the accomplishments of the seniors this year.  More details to come. 

Sat. Dec. 18: Deadline for pending Fall 2020 Incomplete Grades to become Failing Grades

Tues., Dec. 21 BEFORE 5:00 p.m. – GRADES DUE. (This includes classes and grades for all graduate and undergraduate research students)

January 2022 – Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication will be mandatory for all faculty, staff and students on the West Lafayette campus. This will ensure you have continued access to your email plus an added layer of protection from phishing attacks. More details: https://www.itap.purdue.edu/mfa/

Early January - Fall 2022 classes are due to the Registrar in early January.  Faculty, working with their research areas, should submit elective courses (BME 400s, 500s and 600s) prior to Monday, January 10, 2022 (the first day of class).  Please send info to both Cindy (cholderb@purdue.edu) and Tami Kinzer-Ursem (tursem@purdue.edu).

Mon., Jan. 10: 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program: Graduate Assistant/Mentor Position Announcement

The Engineering Undergraduate Research Office (EURO) seeks to hire graduate students from STEM disciplines who enjoy teaching and mentoring undergraduate researchers.  Qualified candidates should have the ability to work in a diverse, fast-paced team environment. This position could be particularly beneficial for the graduate student planning a career in academia.

SURF Graduate Assistants gain unique experience following areas:

•          Mentoring undergraduate researchers in and outside their discipline

•          Program implementation through administrative and leadership experiences at an extensive university research program

Please see attached positions announcement and job description.

Submit your resume and letter of interest by January 10, 2022, via https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Home/myCCO JOB ID: 904126

Wed., Jan. 12: Research area nominations and rankings for diversity fellowships due to grad office

Thurs., Jan. 13: Admissions Faculty Preview Event—virtual

Mon., Jan. 24 by NOON: Research area nominations and ranking for non-traditional and research excellence fellowships due to grad office (hotel rooms need to be released today so I have to have a name tied to a room by 5 pm)

Mon., Jan. 24 – Updated faculty CVs due to Jo (jo@purdue.edu). Formatting requirements include page numbers, and date on first page (e.g., January 2022)

Thurs., Feb. 24 – Sat., Feb. 26: Admissions Open House visit—planning for hybrid (virtual and in-person) event

 

Updates from the head

Please attend the faculty candidate seminars this week and provide your feedback!

 

Important notice: Change in UPS rates ; Negotiated rates for UPS shipments expired Nov. 27, 2021. Therefore, UPS is no longer the economically prudent choice to ship packages. Until further notice, please choose FedEx when completing a Form 23 for shipping. Contact Patty Turner (paturner@purdue.edu) with questions.

 

Animal ordering deadline: With the upcoming winter recess, the Laboratory Animal Program office has issued deadlines for ordering animals and limitations on when animals can be received.  These are intended to assure all animals coming to the University are properly received and given proper care on arrival.   Animal care staff will be working to provide care for the animals during winter recess, but will have minimal staff each day so that they may also spend holidays with their families.

If you have questions, please direct them to Deana Galema dgalema@purdue.edu or the BME vet tech staff bmevt@purdue.edu .

 

Committee Updates

DEI:

Promoting a culture of support and inclusion for undergraduates:

In an effort to increase the support network and lower the barriers to academic success for all students, the DEI Steering Committee and Academic Programs has out an Undergraduate Resource Center in room MJIS 1097 which is staffed by BME course Teaching Assistants Monday through Wednesday each week from 7-9pm. Support was provided for 7 different BME courses as well as BIOL 230 this last semester with 200 students seeking support from the center. The undergraduate resource center will be open during Reading Week (M-W Dec 6-8 @7-9pm) as well as for an exam review for BME 201 (Biomolecules) on December 14th of final's week. Many thanks to Dr. Michael Linnes, Lecturer and Instructional Laboratory Coordinator, and Ms. Lucy Tecle, Graduate Student Assistant, for coordinating the Resource Center and to all of the TAs who provided support this semester. 

 

The Resource Center will continue next spring and faculty are encouraged to schedule TA office hours and help sessions, and to direct their students to Center for course support. Questions about scheduling or suggestions for providing additional resources can be directed to Dr. Michael Linnes (mlinnes@purdue.edu) and Ms. Tecle (ltecle@purdue.edu).

 

 

 

Graduate Admissions:

 

Graduate Programs – update Dec 3 2021

Our systematic review and update of our Graduate Programs continues, with the goal to have a broad framework for changes/updates by early February for implementation in Fall 2022.  We continue to review data from various sources, and are working to map desired learning outcomes for the PhD program across a 5-year time frame, after which we will determine the most effective milestones/requirements and support systems to achieve our vision for our training program.

One NEW initiative we will be launching in Spring 2022 are monthly Faculty Coffee Chats with grad students.  This idea arose from student feedback gathered during our process, and we have already received survey input from students as to best times/days/logistics.  These coffee chats will attempt to accomplish 3 student priorities:

1.       Grad student professional development—to learn/ask/chat about topics of interest to students.

2.       Increase faculty involvement with graduate students outside of their lab.

3.       Help build community with BME grad students that may not be located in MJIS.

 

There is a lot of excitement about this initiative from our students, as well as from the Graduate Committee – we look forward to launching this initiative in January (details to come in next few weeks)!

 

Resources, attachments, further information

 

Wed., Dec. 15, 1:00 p.m., via Webex: BME PhD Defense Announcement for Nicolas Leiva Molano (E. Nauman, advisor)

Everyone is invited to attend the public presentation beginning at 1:00pm EST.

Research Title: Modal Testing as a Novel Evaluation Method for Shockpad Layers in Composite Sport Surfaces 

Thesis committee members:  

Eric A. Nauman (Chair) 

Thomas M. Talavage 

Scott E. Lawrance 

James M. Gibert 

WebEx Meeting link:

https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=mb63e5778364e3d479c70c32f28ec71ec  

Meeting number: 

2624 799 2645 

Password: 

FinalExam121521 

Abstract:  Use of artificial turf (AT) as s sport surface has increased in the last decade. reflected in the financial commitment countries such as USA ($2.7 billion USD) and England ($318 million USD) have pledged to spend on the installation of synthetic surfaces. Nonetheless, AT has maintained its negative reputation due to a reported greater burden of lower limb injury when compared to its natural turf (NT) counterpart. Quantification of the performance of AT is limited by the existing industry testing metrics that rely heavily on the recording of peak translational acceleration. These parameters include shock absorption, vertical deformation and energy restitution, and are only calculated after impacting the top-most layer of AT. Hence, a novel design of experiment and approach to quantifying turf performance was piloted, with special attention given to the transfer of energy through the AT system. Despite its renown use for detecting structural health irregularities in other industries, frequency domain based modal analysis has not been used as a tool to explore sports surface properties. Impact testing was used to calculate frequency response functions, to help estimate modal parameters and transmissibility properties of AT. This method was able to determine isolated and interaction effects of AT components to impact attenuation. Furthermore, this novel methodology has potential for on-field analysis which takes the first step towards smart fields for measuring surface performance during athletic events. 

 

The Purdue Military Research Initiative (PMRI) is currently looking for faculty that might want to host a summer cadet/midshipman from one of the military academies. Funds to pay for this 4-week opportunity is approx $4k per student (pays travel/per diem/lodging).   If you are interested and able, they would need a project description from you to assist in recruiting efforts.  You can upload that on their website with the link below.  There is an alternative as we recruit from students who are mostly on the West Coast and have been in the military previously and then have completed their enlistment and are now pursuing their undergrad degree’s.  They will cost about the same, but will be here for most of the summer.   Faculty would be able to review/approve a student before being assigned here.

 

If you have a project in mind, please use the following website and let me know that you have done so. They are requesting that I share the names of interested faculty directly with them as well. 

 

https://engineering.purdue.edu/PMRI

Note on the headers, there is one titled “Faculty Project Application”.  Faculty can fill in their projects there.

Attachment:  PMRI 1-page Summary 2020.pdf