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In
This Issue:
Astronaut Alums Take SEAS to New Heights
Biomedical Engineering Meets Art at MoMA
SEAS Establishes New Advisory Board For Entrepreneurship
Philips Electronics Honors Professor Gertrude Neumark
Deodatis Is Named First Calatrava Family Professor
Engineers Without Borders Brings “Power to the People”
Programs That Create Engineers Who Care
Doing Well by Doing Good
BOTWINICK MULTIMEDIA LEARNING LABORATORY
Faculty Notes
TWO SEAS PROPOSALS RECEIVE UNIVERSITY FUNDING
Nayar Elected New Member of National Academy of Engineering
Undergrads Contribute to Research
University Announces New Financial Aid Plan
SEAS Parents Program Formed
SEAS Goes West, Brings Columbia to CA
Reunion Program
Alumni Notes
In Memoriam
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TWO SEAS PROPOSALS
RECEIVE UNIVERSITY FUNDING
The University's Academic Quality Fund will support the Education Center for Sustainable Engineering and the Columbia Mechanical Engineering Initiative in Micro- and Nanoscale Energy Conversion. Both grants are for approximately $200,000 over a two-year period.
The Education Center for Sustainable Engineering, with eight investigators from six disciplines, will provide SEAS and other Columbia units with the capacity to coordinate and direct student projects involving sustainable engineering. The proposal for Micro- and Nanoscale Energy Conversion will develop materials for two laboratory-based courses to provide hands-on skills for Ph.D. level students in the application of microscale and nanoscale science to energy conversion.
The Education Center for Sustainable Engineering will bring together all SEAS departments to create an innovative practicum and classroom experience in sustainable engineering design and technology for SEAS students. Research participants include Professors Patricia Culligan and George Deodatis from the SEAS Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Professor Upmanu Lall of the SEAS Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering; Professor Vijay Modi of the SEAS Department of Mechanical Engineering; SEAS Associate Dean Jack McGourty; Professor Kevin Griffin of the Department of Environmental Sciences; Stephanie Pfirman, chair of the Earth Institute Education Subcommittee; and Professor Richard Plunz of the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.
The Micro- and Nanoscale Energy Conversion proposal was submitted by Assistant Professors James Hone and Arvind Narayanaswamy of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. With the AQF funding, they will create two novel course offerings on the graduate level. Hone's nanofabrication lab course will give Ph.D. students a strong formal training in cutting-edge nanofabrication techniques, while Narayanaswamy's course will introduce to graduate students the different techniques from nano- and microscale science that are important to energy research. Both will give graduate students hands-on skills necessary to become better scientists and researchers in the area of nanoscale and microscale science and its application to energy conversion.
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