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CLARK SCHOOL E-NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 2005

The Clark School Has a New Look on the Web!

Please visit the new Clark School web site to see your new home! The home page address remains the same: https://eng.umd.edu/. Be sure to check out the new Alumni section!

Dr. GriffinCelebrating Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator

On October 5, the Clark School feted alumnus Michael D. Griffin, Ph.D. '77 aerospace engineering, for his appointment as NASA administrator. Griffin presented his vision for the space agency to an overflow crowd in the Kim Building lecture hall.

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Kim Building Officially Opens

Hundreds of guests filled the three-story rotunda of the new Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building for its dedication in September. Visit our new gallery of pictures from the event.

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Super Cell Phones Coming: Whiting-Turner Lecture Series Begins

QUALCOMM founder Irwin Jacobs kicked off this year's Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series on October 11. Jacobs described the coming of the "super cell phone." The next lecture will be given by 3Com founder Robert Metcalfe on December 8.

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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

Julie Blondeau (M.S. '04 aerospace engineering) and Paul Samuel (B.S. '96, M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '03 aerospace engineering), were wed in Meux, France, on August 26.  The couple honeymooned in France before returning to the United States.

Sarmad (Sam) Rihani (M.S. '02 civil engineering) has been elected to serve as chairman-elect of the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., for 2005-2006. He will serve as chairman in 2006-2007.

Dwight Williams (Ph.D. '05 nuclear engineering) has been named as the National Society of Professional Engineers Young Engineer of the Year. Williams is a 34-year-old chief engineer and principal nuclear physicist with the U.S. Department of Defense.

The Clark School Mourns the Passing of.

Over the past two months, we have said goodbye to alumnus James M. Butler (B.S. '00 mechanical engineering), alumnus Joseph H. Bourdon III (B.S. '52 civil engineering), alumnus Curt Alfred Herbert Jeschke (B.S. '49 civil engineering) and Everett C. Carter, professor emeritus of transportation engineering.

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

Kim, Wiser Win Alumni Honors

Discovery Channel Science Challenge Comes to Campus

Griffin Presents Plan for NASA's Future

President Mote Wins NAE Founders Award

Free Advice from Entrepreneurial Experts

AnthroTronix Wins Tech Museum Award

Alumnus Miller Receives NRO Honor

Post's Pearlstein is Encouraged by Kim Building Trend

Alumna Named to MIT's TR 35, Joins Faculty at UC-Santa Barbara

Civil Engineering Hosts Katrina Panel

Innovation Hall of Fame Moves, Inducts New Members

Mosleh Awarded Professorship

Clark School Alumnus Named Young Engineer of the Year

Ducao Takes First Place at MERIT Fair

Lathrop to Head IREAP

Clark School Student, Alumnus Win Merck Research Poster Honors

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

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