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The second annual Engineering Industry Day was a tremendous success with close to 30 representatives from Industry in attendance. The Mechanical and Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments would like to thank our guest speakers:
• Eva Hakansson
• Kevin Shelburn, Steadman-Hawkins Research Foundation
• Shannon Campbell, Advanced Research Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions, Covidien
• Mike Ragole, Lockheed Martin
• Richard Fay, Fay Engineering
• Tom Siewert, Materials Reliability Division, NIST - SURF

Our Graduate Seminar Series event for Thursday, October 15th will include presentations by the MME faculty on their current research. Please come join us at 11:55 for pizza and presentations in Knudson Hall 309.

The Mechanical & Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering Departments are hosting our Second Annual Undergraduate Engineering Industry Day on Friday, October 23rd from 12 - 5 p.m. in the Hotel Restaurant Tourism and Management Building (HRTM) south of Driscol South. We kick off with a buffet lunch/open session giving students an opportunity to speak directly with industry representatives. At 2:00 p.m. there will be presentations from industry, "Life after Undergrad" presentations by current graduate students and former students, and an internship panel of your peers.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, Jon Belkowitz successfully defended his thesis defense "An Investigation of Nano Silica in the Cement Hydration Process." Congratulations, Jon, on a job well done!

The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering would like to congratulate Dr. Michelle Zeles-Hahn on her successful dissertation defense. On September 8, 2009, Michelle successfully defended her PhD dissertation "Electrohydrodynamic Atomization as a Technique for Pharmaceutical Manufacture and Delivery." Congratulations, Dr. Zeles-Hahn, on a job well done!