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CLARK SCHOOL E-NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2005

Metcalfe: "Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed."

Robert Metcalfe's Whiting-Turner lecture delivered provocative pronouncements on luck, innovation and university research to an overflow audience.

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Wiser (left) and Kim (right)Kim, Wiser Receive Alumni Honors at Gala

Jeong H. Kim (Ph.D. '91 reliability engineering) won the President's Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Phil Wiser (B.S. '90 electrical engineering) won the Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award at the Alumni Association's Awards Gala on Dec. 3.

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Online Master's Programs Help You Do More and Go Further

Project Management is the latest offering in online graduate education from the Clark School. Be part of this new Master's program that begins January 2006 (application deadline: 1/10/06). See how lifelong learning is the key to maintaining your strengths as an engineer.

Order of the Engineer 2006 Ceremony

The Order of the Engineer Ceremony, Presentation and Reception will be held at 6:30 p.m., February 23, 2006, in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building. For more information, visit the ceremony web site or contact Cornelia Kennedy, director of alumni relations.

Corporate Partners

Are you looking for a job? The Clark School's Corporate Partners are always looking to fill positions with experienced engineers! Below are direct links to their recruiting web sites:


Alumni Notes

Ajay Kumar Gupta (B.S. ’95, M.S. ’98, electrical engineering) received an MBA from Georgetown University in April 2005.

Hamid Jafarkhani (M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '97 electrical engineering) was selected as an IEEE Fellow earlier this year. He is on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.

Alan J. Lindenmoyer (M.S. ’86 aerospace engineering) has been named by NASA as project manager of the space agency’s new Commercial Crew/Cargo Project Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The Clark School Mourns the Passing of...

We are sad to report the loss of alumni Michael Osmolovsky (B.S. ’82 chemical engineering) and Robert F. Burke (B.S. ’68 chemical engineering), and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering John Warren Jackson.

Tell Us Your News

Clark School Alumni, we produce this e-newsletter so we can tell you about the school, but also so you can tell your fellow alumni about yourselves. Send us news about your recent career moves and personal events and we will include them in upcoming issues. Please send your news to ckennedy@umd.edu.

 

This e-mail was approved for distribution by Cornelia Kennedy '82,
director of Alumni Affairs.

Table of Contents

BGE President and CEO to Speak at Clark School Graduation

Metcalfe: "Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed."

Online Master's Programs Help You Do More and Go Further

M-CINSE and NIST Study Nanoparticle Health Risks

New Space Robotics Institute Funded by Congress

Clark School's Cukier Provides IT Security Warning

Prime-Time Nano:

M-CINSE Featured on PBS

Northrop Grumman Appoints Chino to New Post

Skibniewski Joins Civil Engineering

Wallace Named Maryland Carnegie Professor of the Year

Clark School Faculty Make Rain

Gligor Wins National Security Award

Departmental and Institute News:

Aerospace Engineering

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fire Protection Engineering

Materials Science Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute

Institute for Physical Science and Technology

Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

Institute for Systems Research

Maryland Center for Integrated Nano Science and Engineering

Bioengineering Graduate Program

Project Management Graduate Program

Office of Advanced Engineering Education

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