MONDAY MEMO, September 10, 2007 **************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Policy and Procedures Committee Meeting: Monday, September 10, 3:00-4:30, BRK 2001. 1.2: TESTING scheduled: Tuesday, September 11, 9:00AM; emergency generator/auto transfer switch test for "E" electric panels. Systems connected to emergency electric panels should see ~10 sec outage. During this test there is always a chance that the transfer switch could fail causing a longer power interruption. This test was completed two months ago with no major issues. (see Mark Voorhis with questions or concerns) 1.3: Vibration Potential: The construction project across State Street will be doing heavy pile-driving work on Tuesday, 9/11/07. While we don¹t expect it to have an impact [pun intended] on vibration levels at BNC, that possibility does exist. Please be aware of this potential issue. (see John Weaver with questions or concerns) 1.4: CORAL problems? ECN has created a new queue for reporting problems with Coral. Please use this to send all trouble reports or questions about the Coral software system to coral@ecn.purdue.edu. Account requests still go to https://engineering.purdue.edu/NANO/coral 1.5: REFRIGERATOR cleaned: Friday, September 14 J Please have anything you want kept, clearly marked with your name and a date on it. 1.6: RAT reservation system restored: We believe that the RAT reservation system has now been restored by ecn. If you have any problems or concerns, please contact Melissa Lane (lanem@purdue.edu) **************** 2. Seminars **************** 2.1: Theory Seminar; Monday, September 10, 6:30, ³Scaling and Computational Issues in Hydrology,² by Professor Rabi H. Mohtar, Birck 1001 Rabi H. Mohtar, Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering at Purdue. His research priorities is in the environmental and natural resources conservation engineering, including: water, soil, plant, and animal; evaluation of environmental impacts of land use and water management; innovative soil and groundwater remediation technologies; application of numerical methods to food, natural and biological engineering systems; characterization of the soil water medium at the pedon, field, and watershed scales; and design and evaluation of international sustainable water management programs to deal with water shortage conditions. 2.2: Intell: Tech Talk & Graduate Student Reception; Wednesday, September 12; Tech talk 5:00pm-5:45pm; Networking Reception 5:45pm-6:30pm; ME 118 Martin Giles will talk about Extending Moore¹s Law in the Nanotechnology Era. Intel will host a pizza reception afterwards where you can network with other Intel employees and get any additional questions answered. Intel is hiring MS and PhD students for internships and full-time positions. Seeking grad students with backgrounds in: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics 2.3: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar, Thursday, September 13, 4:30-5:30, ³On the History of Ancient Engineering with Emphasis on Mechanics,² by Dr. Werner Soedel, Herrick Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, ME 161; REFRESHMENTS 4:00, ME 254 ABSTRACT: This is an informal, non-scientific, slide based presentation with the theme that in early times discoveries in physics and mathematics usually followed or were stimulated by practical engineering developments and needs. More often that not, so called ³fathers of physics and mathematics² were practicing engineers. A prime example is Archimedes. The presenter has over the years done research on historical engineering topics as a sideline to his work in vibrations, acoustics and machinery dynamics, in collaborations with Professor Vernard Foley of the Purdue History Department. Together, they published a number of papers and are probably best known to wider audiences for their publications in Scientific American. The slide presentation traces engineering history starting with Egypt, through Greece and Rome into Europe from ancient times to roughly the renaissance. Influences of other cultures are acknowledged. Because of time limitations, the presentation is somewhat anecdotal and omits a number of important engineering developments. BRIEF BIO: Professor in 1967, Associate Professor in 1971 and Full Professor in 1975, all at Purdue. Was appointed Herrick Professor of Engineering in 2002. Main interests are in mechanics, particularly in vibrations and dynamics of solids, liquids, and gases. This includes vibrations of shells and acoustics. Also strong interest in mathematical modeling and computer simulations of machinery dynamics, and he history of engineering. Chairman of the Mechanics Area Committee in the School of Mechanical Engineering of Purdue University since 1983. Published over 234 papers in journals and proceedings, one textbook on vibrations of shells and plates in 1982, with a revised and expanded 2nd edition in 1993, and an even more expanded edition in 2004; another textbook on sound and vibrations of compressors; one Encyclopedia article, five short course text books on valve dynamics and gas pulsations in machinery, editor of twenty-one volumes of conference proceedings, the latest volume in 2004. Active in continuing education: Organized and taught short courses on vibration isolation, gas pulsations, valve mechanics, compressor noise, mathematical modeling and simulation of compressors. Consultant to 51 industrial companies. Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Acoustical Society of America, the Society of Experimental Stress Analysis and the American Academy of Mechanics. Member of honorary societies Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi. 1972 and 1976 recipient the Solberg Award. In 1986, Ralph Coates Roe Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1995. Cited in American Men of Science, International Scholars Directory, and other biographical works. Editorial Board and Americas Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration (from 1989-2005). 2.4: Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, Tuesday, September 18, 7:30-4:00pm; ³Transforming Healthcare Delivery²; STEW 218. Register at www.purdue.edu/rche/fall2007 <http://www.purdue.edu/rche/fall2007> . Network with colleagues and students in exploring Purdue¹s multidisciplinary advances in some of the most challenging health issues of our time. ******************** 3. Birck Visitors ******************** 3.1: Ethicon-Endo Surgery, a division of Johnson and Johnson, visit; Wednesday, September 12, 9:30 3.2: Purdue Recruitment Council meeting; Wednesday, September 12, 1:00; BRK 1001; tour to begin ~2:30 **************** 3. OnePurdue **************** Legacy Employee Self Service: With the implementation of the OnePurdue system 7/1/2007, employee information and payment data is available on a new Employee Self Service site, accessed at: https://erp-portal-prd.itap.purdue.edu/irj/portal. As part of the implementation, all year-to-date pay information for 2007 was converted into the OnePurdue system. Now that the OnePurdue HR/Payroll implementation is complete, the legacy Employee Self Service application located at: https://www.purdue.edu/user/login will be disabled on October 5, 2007. If you have any questions, please contact hrs@purdue.edu. Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi@ecn.purdue.edu http://www.nano.purdue.edu/