Mechanical Engineering Design Day, May 14 and 15, 2008 in the Computational Science and Engineering building., room B-17, 1 p.m.
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Presents:
Barry D. Nussbaum
Chief Statistician
US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C.
"Greenhouse, White House, and Environmental Statistics:
The Use of Statistics in Environmental Decision Making"
Thursday, May 1, 2008
4:00 pm
Hodson 213
Reception to follow in 301 Whitehead Hall
FRED BURBANK, M.D.
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Computational Science and Engineering Building B17 (Homewood Campus)
Dr. Fred Burbank has founded three successful medical device companies – Biopsys (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), Vascular Control Systems, and SenoRx. After he received his M.D. from the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Burbank completed an internship in Internal Medicine, residencies in Psychiatry and Diagnostic Radiology, and a fellowship in Interventional Radiology.
In his talk, he will focus on one company "Vascular Control Systems," and he will discuss the challenges associated with starting a medical device company and with being an entrepreneur, and how his background assisted him along his career path.
Refreshments will be provided!
To reserve your spot, RSVP to jhuhmdn@gmail.com.
Upcoming events in the Biodesign & Innovation Speaker Series will feature:
ROGELIO RODRIGUEZ, M.S.
Date: Tuesday, April 8
Time:
6:00 pm
Location:
Hodson 210 (Homewood Campus)
Mr. Rogelio Rodriguez will speak about his experiences in medical device development. He received his B.S. in Engineering from California State University, Fullerton and his M.S. in Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. His master’s thesis was entitled, “Cardiac Bioelectric Activity: Real-Time Simulation of Electrocardiogram.” He currently serves as the Director of Engineering Science Programs at UC Irvine, where his functional role is to address the workforce and the professional development needs of scientific and engineering professionals, and to lead program development for continuing education.
DAVID HUNGERFORD, M.D.
Date: Wednesday, April 16
Time:
6:30 pm
Location:
PCTB West Lecture Hall (School of Medicine)
Dr. David Hungerford invented the Duracon Total Knee Replacement technology, which has been implanted in approximately 3 million patients. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University. In his talk, entitled "Medical Device Innovation: Total Knee Replacement as a Case Study," Dr. Hungerford will speak about the commercialization path that he pursued and will also provide some pearls of wisdom regarding creativity and device innovation.
April 17, 2008, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Charles Commons Banquet Room
The Johns Hopkins University
Homewood Campus
3400 N Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
The Johns Hopkins University student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an active student organization that stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity. As a student chapter, we strive to make women feel and become equal by bringing a sense of a community to campus life, both socially and academically. Through events and activities, SWE women work to help each other as well as foster engineering awareness in the surrounding neighborhood.
At Johns Hopkins University, the student chapter of SWE holds an annual networking dinner to bring representatives from various industries and engineering students together to network and to raise industry awareness. This event will allow you to recruit and meet many of our talented students from the Whiting School of Engineering. All women graduate students are cordially invited to join this grand event.
The event will begin with a welcoming speech from the Johns Hopkins University SWE officers, then shortly followed with a speech from the keynote speaker. Afterwards, the dinner reception will begin.
If you are interested and are able to attend the networking dinner, please contact Gwendolyn Melnyk, Vice President, at gmelnyk1@jhu.edu or by telephone at 847-567-7759.
Featuring David W. Jourdan ’84
President and Founder of Nauticos
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart during her second attempt to fly around the world in July 1937 stunned the nation and was world news. Seventy years later, her fate remains a mystery. In 2002, and again in 2006, Nauticos, a deep ocean exploration company, has searched the seafloor off of Howland Island for Amelia’s Lockheed Electra, believed to be resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean nearly 20,000 feet deep. With an unblemished record of success in deep ocean discovery, including an Israeli submarine, historical wrecks from WWII, and a cargo ship that sunk in 200 B.C., Nauticos hopes to locate the Electra and use the discovery to promote Amelia’s legacy of exploration and achievement.
April 3, 2008 | 7:00 pm
Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus
9605 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850
RSVP by March 27th
engineering@jhu.edu or 410.516.8723
Sponsored by:
The Johns Hopkins Society of Engineering Alumni
and the Whiting School’s Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals
Dr. Barney J. Wilson, Principal of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Dr. Nicholas P. Jones, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering are pleased to announce the 2007 Hackerman Scholars who will attend the Whiting School as freshmen this fall.
These talented young scholars are named in recognition of a generous gift to the Whiting School by Willard Hackerman, a 1938 graduate of the School of Engineering and 1935 graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic.
Hackerman Scholars, Class of 2011
Laura Carson, Mechanical Engineering
Brandon Demory, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dawneshia Sanders, Civil Engineering
In one of the largest events of its kind, 200 blind and low-vision high school students from more than 40 states will converge on the Johns Hopkins University campus from Tuesday, July 31 to Friday, August 5 to take part in specially designed non-visual science and technology experiments and workshops. Blind adult mentors from throughout the nation will also participate. The goal is to use innovative teaching techniques to enable young blind people to complete science and technology projects and to encourage them to pursue college degrees and careers in these fields. Students will learn to build rockets, collect audible data from weather balloon sensors and sense how live geckos climb walls without falling. Other classes will focus on astronomy, biology, robotics and environmental chemistry.
Beginning with the fall 2007 semester, the Johns Hopkins University Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP) will offer a fully online master of science degree program in environmental planning and management in collaboration with the university's Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. This online program will focus on water resources planning.
Engineering Innovation’s mission is to create a national pipeline of innovative and creative thinkers who will lead society’s technological advancements. The program engages pre-college students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, inspires them to consider further studies and careers in engineering, and provides an understanding of basic engineering principles and skills so that students can make informed decisions about their futures. The academic program demystifies technology, emphasizes engineering’s innovative and creative aspects, and exposes students to engineering’s diverse educational and career opportunities with the ultimate goal of reversing the declining national interest in engineering careers and STEM education. Contact engineeringinnovation@jhu.edu or 1-866-493-0517 or 410- 516-6224.
After a process that has involved extensive consultation with faculty, students, and staff, Deans Adam Falk and Nick Jones have come to the conclusion that it is in the interest of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering to adopt a reformed weekly class schedule that is closer to the traditional schedules in use at many of our peer institutions. Because of the implementation of the new student information system (ISIS), the new schedule will first be in use in the spring semester of 2008.
The Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in conjunction with the IEEE Information Theory Society, hosts the 41st annual conference on Information Sciences and Systems on March 14 - 16, 2007. All conference sessions will take place in Hodson Hall on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. Session topics will include signal and image processing and analysis, systems biology and control, communications and information theory, computer engineering, and photonics.
This year nearly 200 technical papers are scheduled for presentation by faculty and graduate students from many major educational institutions from across the United States and abroad. The deadline for submitting papers is February 23, 2007.
For more information, visit http://ciss.jhu.edu.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Hodson Hall, JHU Homewood Campus
The Department of Biomedical Engineering's annual Design Day and Medtronic Distinguished Lecture was held on Wed., May 2, 2007.
Undergraduate and graduate Biomedical Engineering students, over the course of a year, tackle complex medical design problems that have applicability to patient care and potential for commercialization. Their completed projects were presented at Design Day.
This year's Medtronic Distinguished Lecture, "Experiences of a Medical Device Entrepreneur," was be presented by Mir Irman, Chairman and CEO of InCube Laboratories.
Visit the BME Design Day website or visit the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s home page for more information.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10, 2007
9 a.m. - noon
Hodson Hall, rm. 110
JHU Homewood Campus
Seniors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering present their completed design projects.
Included in this year's design projects:
A Fully Operational, Scale-Model of a Cargo Module that will fit into the propulsion hulls of a uniquely designed experimental ship, the CHARC, which is under development by LMCO for the US Navy.
Crash Test Dummy Neck, Sponsor: APL. The exact injury mechanisms due to whiplash from automobile accidents are not understood because of a lack of an adequate simulation of the neck in existing crash test dummies. Students developed a new test dummy neck, with sufficient instrumentation to allow measurements of displacements and/or loads in these cervical spine segments.
Backpack Positioning Device for a ten-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy to enable him to access the contents of his backpack, which is now hung from the back of his motorized wheelchair. Developed a mechanism to allow the backpack to be moved from the back to the front of his wheelchair where he can access its contents.
For more information, contact the Department of Mechanical Engineering at:
Phone: (410) 516-7154
E-mail: mech_eng@jhu.edu
The Whiting School's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is holding a networking banquet, open to all women engineering students, faculty, and staff. The event will be held from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, in the Banquet Hall at Charles Commons ( 3330 St. Paul Street). Admission is free. RSVP by Tuesday, April 10th to LanLe@jhu.edu.
At the banquet, undergraduate and graduate students will have the opportunity to meet with engineering faculty and industry experts and learn from the experiences of women working in a variety of engineering fields.
This year's keynote speaker is Janie Robinson, who received her master's degree in electrical engineering from JHU in 2004. Robinson, who is employed by Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA and worked previously for the National Security Agency (NSA), will share her experiences and insights as both a student and a professional engineer.
Women of Whiting (WoW) present an evening with Sara Laschever, co-author of "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation & the Gender Divide," on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bloomberg Center for Physics & Astronomy, room 272. Light refreshments will be served prior to the talk and a reception and book signing will follow. Admission is free.
Twenty percent of adult women say they never negotiate in the workplace although they often recognize that negotiation is appropriate and even necessary. At a time when the workplace is becoming more gender-balanced, women's salaries, in comparison to men's, have stagnated at 73%. According to Laschever, it is important for women to learn how to better argue for themselves and for both genders to better understand each other's communication strategies.
At the lecture, Laschever will discuss her book and the high cost of avoiding negotiation. Lecture attendees will earn how to decrease their anxiety about the process of negotiation, anticipate roadblocks, and techniques to allow them to move ahead and be better negotiators.
RSVP to wow@jhu.edu
For more information, visit:
http://www.womendontask.com
http://www.jhu.edu/wow/
"Can You See the Light? Probing the Structure of Materials on the Nanoscale with Synchrotron Radiation”
Todd C. Hufnagle, professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Friday, March 9, 2007, 3 p.m.
Arellano Theater, Levering Hall, JHU Homewood Campus
Reception to follow in the Sherwood Room
Professor Hufnagel will discuss how synchrotron x-ray radiation can be used to study the structure of materials on the nanoscale, including the unique features of synchrotron radiation, and possibilities for future research enabled by new "fourth generation" light sources. The talk will also address Hufnagel’s research on the uses of resonant x-ray scattering as it applies to both the structural study of metallic glasses on the atomic scale and real-time observation of rapidly propagating reactions in nanoscale metallic multilayers.
“We’re building virtual cells to mathematically solve how real cells work...If we can determine the behavior of these cells before we do the lab experiments, we can predict reality before it happens.”
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