CLARK SCHOOL E-NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2005 |
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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. Read the Story | Watch the Lecture 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. Read the Story | Visit the Gala web site 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:
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.
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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 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: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Electrical and Computer 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 |