Michigan E-News
January 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE:
RESEARCH AND NEWS UPDATES
Alumni Enjoy Looking Back, Ahead
Michigan Chosen for Nationwide Nanotechnology Project FundingBITS--brief stories from the College
IOE Faculty Member Named Distinguished University Professor
BME Student Is Tops in the Nation
Computing in Czechoslovakia
Outreach Effort Is Nation's SHARPestALUMNI AND GIVING
Faculty and Staff Build Momentum for 150th-Anniversary Campaign Kickoff
Help Recruit Top Students
Now Available: Anniversary Pins and Other MerchandiseRECENT MEDIA COVERAGE
National media responded to the College's work.
Alumni Enjoy Looking Back, Ahead
To celebrate Michigan Engineering's 150th Anniversary, this year's Alumni Weekend featured two special forums. A packed Chesebrough Auditorium audience enjoyed five former College of Engineering deans and Dean Stephen Director comparing experiences as head of the College. Earlier, three high-tech industry leaders discussed the future of wireless communication. View a gallery of Alumni Weekend photos at
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Michigan Chosen for Nationwide Nanotechnology Project Funding
NSF has announced that the University of Michigan has been selected for a National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) award. Professor Khalil Najafi, EECS, BME, is U-M's Principal Investigator (PI), and Associate Professor Fred Terry, EECS, and Dennis Grimard, manager, Solid-State Electronics Lab, EECS, are co-PIs. NNIN is an integrated national network of schools that will provide users access to leading-edge nano- and micro-fabrication and characterization tools, instruments and expertise to enable experimentation and technological innovation.
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IOE Faculty Member Named Distinguished University Professor
Don Chaffin, IOE, BME, has been appointed Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, effective January 1, 2004. These professorships are among the University's most coveted honors. Chaffin, G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering, is director of the Human Motion Simulation Laboratory. Snyder's research advanced the auto industry's passenger-protection, interior-design efforts.
BME Student Is Tops in the Nation
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Alessandra Ennett, PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, will receive the GEM/Black Engineer of the Year Student Leadership Award. GEM is the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science. This is the second consecutive year a CoE student will receive the award. Ennett will accept the award in Baltimore in February.
Computing in Czechoslovakia
A U-M student team will compete in the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, March 28 to April 1, 2004. A U-M team has not qualified for the international competition since 1997. Organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and sponsored by IBM, the contest will bring together 72 teams selected from regional competitions among 1300 colleges and universities in 68 countries. The U-M team, consisting of undergraduate computer science students Nuttapong Chentanez, Galen Elias and James McCann, won its berth by placing fourth in its regional field of 127 teams.
Outreach Effort Is Nation's SHARPest
The University of Michigan's NASA Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP) was cited as "Most Outstanding in the Country" by approximately 250 participants at the national debriefing meeting in Washington, D.C. NASA SHARP provides junior and senior high-school students with an eight-week research experience at a top-ranked university, and encourages students who have been traditionally underrepresented in science, math and engineering. Since 1980, nearly 5,700 high-school students have participated in NASA SHARP, and nearly 90 percent of the participants have earned college degrees.
Faculty and Staff Build Momentum for 150th-Anniversary Campaign Kickoff
The faculty/staff phase of the 150th Anniversary Campaign has yielded 36 Charter Donors, each of whom has pledged a gift of $10,000 or more. A substantial number of other faculty and staff have made commitments to the effort. The official kickoff of the University-wide campaign will take place May 14, 2004.
Help Recruit Top Students
Every year the Alumni Society Recruiting Committee seeks volunteers to call top high-school scholars who have been admitted to U-M but have not yet enrolled to encourage them to attend Michigan Engineering. Each volunteer is assigned three or four students to call. Assignments are sent at the end of January and calls are to be completed by the end of March. Those interested in participating in the alumni recruiting project should email enginrta@umich.edu by January 10, 2004.
Now Available: Anniversary Pins and Other Merchandise
The College has purchased lapel pins to commemorate Michigan Engineering's 150th Anniversary. If you are in the area and did not receive a pin during Alumni Weekend, please stop by the front desk of Lurie Engineering Center to request one.
"26 Years After Launching, Voyager Is at Crucial Border," The New York Times online, November 6, 2003
"Muting Meddling Microwaves," ABCNews.com, November 18, 2003
"U Marks Groundbreaking of Computer Science Building," Michigan Daily, November 24, 2003
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