The University’s chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers was named an outstanding student chapter for 2008 by the nationwide organization. “Every year our student chapters committee awards recognition to a handful of student chapters based on their level of participation,” explained Gordon Ellis, head of student awards at AIChE, an organization that aims to advance the practice and theory of chemical engineering. Recognition is based on “the percentage of chemical engineering students who are members of the chapter.”

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General Information and Fees
HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW
IN MICROSCALE III
September 21-26, 2008
Hilton Whistler, BC, Canada

Final Program (9/15/08)

General Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to November 30, 2008
Advances in Boundary Lubrication
and Boundary Surface Films

March 29 - April 3, 2009
Seville, Spain

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Design Victoria together with Design Institute of Australia and Society of Plastics Engineers are pleased to present the Design Ready seminar Plastics & Innovation.

Coinciding with the plastics trade show, Ausplas 2008, Plastics & Innovation will provide an overview of polymer material emerging technologies, strategies for converting innovation into commercial products and the role of design in plastics innovation.

Society for Women Engineers 2008 Conference. For more information visit: http://www.biospace.com/calendar_event_details.aspx?CalendarEventEntityI...

ME 553 Final Project. A 6 legged walker driven by an electric screwdriver.

UAE. Hill International, the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today the promotion of three key executives in the Middle East region of the company’s Project Management Group.

Participants in the new hands-on University of Michigan short course, "Compliant Design," will have a unique opportunity to take an innovative approach to solving a real-life engineering design problem that they bring from their workplace on Oct. 13-14 in Ann Arbor.

Globys, a leading provider of analytics and e-billing applications for the global telecommunications industry, has named Thomas Enochs as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations. In this capacity, Mr. Enochs will oversee the Engineering, Quality Assurance, Implementations, Operations, Customer Service, and Program Management groups. Mr. Enochs will report to the Chief Executive Officer, Derek Edwards.

MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Seth Lloyd has found that a peculiar quantum-physics property called entanglement can be harnessed to make detectors--similar in principle to radar systems used to track airplanes in flight or ships at sea--that are as much as a million times more efficient than existing systems. In addition, beams of entangled light could be swept across a scene to reconstruct a detailed image, with a similar improvement in efficiency.

A SIMPLE quotation attached to the noticeboard in Tony Trapp’s office in Broomhaugh House, the grand former home of the famous Swan family, neatly characterises his own remarkable story. “Persistence is omnipotent,” former US President Calvin Coolidge once said, and Dr Trapp’s success is certainly testimony to that. And you could add determination, bravery, ingenuity and entrepreneurship for good measure.

An international generator assembly firm has announced it will arrange tours around its Nigerian plant for local engineering students.

Speaking to the attendees of a reception for the Mechanical Engineering Students' Association of Obafemi Awolowo University, Abbas Ghandour, managing director of company Mikano, said the firm is placing increasing emphasis on human resources.
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An area native who formed one of the Southeast’s leading engineering consulting firms will be the featured speaker for the Johnstown Unit, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual Fighting Fund for Freedom Banquet.

Stanley L. King, president and CEO of S.L. King & Associates Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, is slated to speak at the event.

The banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Pasquerilla Conference Center, Napoleon and Walnut streets, downtown Johnstown.

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