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December 17th - Engineering Recognition Ceremony at Macky Auditorium, http://engineering.colorado.edu/Engineering_Recognition_fall.htm
The WALK ONLY SLIP is for graduate and undergraduate students who will not actually graduate in December but wish to participate in the Engineering Recognition Ceremony. Please recall students may walk once per degree earned. The Walk Only Form needs to be filled out and turned in or emailed to Judy Meyer in the Engineering Dean's Office by November 9th. This form does NOT need to be submitted by students who are truly graduating in December and have submitted diploma cards to either the Engineering Dean’s office or the Graduate School.
The DEADLINE to submit a diploma card into ECAD 100 for all BS and BS/MS (not masters only and PhD) students intending to graduate this December 2009 is THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st. DIPLOMA CARDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR STUDENTS AFTER THIS DATE. IF THE DIPLOMA CARD IS NOT TURNED IN, THE STUDENT WILL NOT GRADUATE IN DECEMBER 2009. Remember, a student can always be taken off the graduation list, so any student who has the possibility to graduate should turn in a diploma card.
November 16, 2009
Lunch seminar on writing NASA proposals (17 Nov)
GET YOUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL OFF THE GROUND
Dr. Waleed Abdalati, Director of CIRES' Earth Science and Observation Center, and Associate Professor of Geography, will share insider perspectives on writing a successful research proposal for NASA and other funding agencies. Abdalati managed NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program, overseeing NASA-funded research efforts on glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and polar climate. Junior faculty/researchers and doctoral students are encouraged to attend. CIRES Auditorium, Tuesday 11/17, 12-1 p.m. Brown bag lunch. Beverages/desserts provided.
Contact: Suzanne Van Drunick
Additional information:
http://cires.colorado.edu/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=17&year=2009&month=11
Jeffrey G. Sczechowski Ph.D., PE
Coordinator of Research Opportunities
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
422 UCB
Boulder, CO 80304
303 492 2615
sczechowski@colorado.edu
ASN Seminar: Tuesday, November 17
2-2:50PM, Seebass Forcum Room, ECAE
Dynamics of Post-Fission Binary Asteroids
Seth Jacobson
We derive a realistic model for the evolution of tidally perturbed binary asteroids to examine systems immediately after a spin-up fission event. The spin rate of an asteroid can be increased by the YORP effect—thermal re-radiation from an asymmetric body, which induces torques that can rotationally accelerate a body. If the asteroid is modeled as a "rubble pile", a collection of gravitationally bound boulders with a distribution of size scales and no tensile strength between them, increasing the spin rate leads to an eventual fission of components, determined by the largest separation between the mass centers of the asteroid. We note that these post-fission binaries are always unstable and initially evolve chaotically. We model the shapes of these bodies as tri-axial ellipsoids with a gravitational potential expanded up to second order.
Our model applies instantaneous tidal torques to both members of the binary system to determine energy dissipation that could provide enough loss to settle the system into a stable orbit.
We find that most systems experience a period of chaotic evolution with rapid energy dissipation followed by a classical quasi-steady state tidal evolution. The mass ratio of the system plays a dominant role in determining the final state after the chaotic evolution.
Systems can be divided into distinct evolutionary tracks that determine the outcome of their chaotic behavior in terms of timescale and total dissipated energy during the rapid phase. Secondary bodies of low mass ratio systems may proceed through their own spin-fission events. Systems with higher mass ratios approach a fully synchronous state after this fast energy dissipation period. After these systems emerge from their chaotic behavior they evolve according to the much slower classical theory, where other effects such as Binary YORP could play a more significant role.
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Daniel J. Scheeres, Ph.D.
November 13, 2009
CIRES Presentations
Michael Rhodes of ASEN, and Ingrid Ulbrich of Chemistry, will each be giving two 15 minute talks on Wednesday, November 18th. Michael will be talking about his recent trip to the Drake Passage. The Aerospace Engineering Graduate Students are invited to attend.
There will be a light reception beforehand at 3:30 in CIRES room 340, with the talks next door in the auditorium. The event is posted on our calendar website:
http://cires.colorado.edu/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=21&month=11&year=2009 <http://cires.colorado.edu/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=21&month=11&year=2009>
Thanks,
Nancy
Nancy Lathrop
Graduate Student and Leave Specialist
CIRES
phone: 303-492-5045
fax: 303-492-1149
University of Colorado
216 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
November, 10, 2009
Fulbright Grant - Information Meeting
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 7:00 P.M. in Humanities 186
Fulbright awards are offered in more than 140 countries worldwide in nearly all fields and disciplines, including the sciences, professional fields and the Creative and Performing Arts.
Please come to a Fulbright information meeting presented by Roman Yavich, a Fulbright Alumni and CU-Boulder graduate. Roman will discuss his year in Nicaragua researching the sustainability of the tourism industry in Nicaragua and the non-profit organization he has established there which brings together investors, tourists, the local government, and local residents to foster sustainable development, leadership, and civic engagement through education and collaboration.
Come to an information meeting to learn how you too can apply for a Fulbright grant.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 7:00 P.M. in Humanities 186
sponsored by the Office of International Education
contact:
Nancy Vanacore
303-492-6016
e-mail: vanacore@colorado.edu
November 9, 2009
November GIM
Peace Corps Volunteers work with community members in more than 70 countries, in areas including education, youth and community development, agriculture, health and HIV/AIDS, business development, the environment, and information technology. The Peace Corps provides volunteers with intensive training in foreign languages, cross cultural awareness, and technical subjects related to their projects. Other benefits include a living stipend, great medical and dental care, grad school opportunities, and over 6,000$ following the end of a volunteer's service.
Because the application process can take up to a year, all interested students who will be graduating next May should try to attend an information session or complete their application online as soon as possible if they wish to serve after their graduation. Come to our general information session Thursday, November 19th, at 6:00pm in Hellems 252, or check out our website at www.peacecorps. gov to learn more about the toughest job you will ever love!
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Evan Taylor
CU Boulder Peace Corps Coordinator
RPCV Mali, '06-'08
303 492 8454
peacecorps@colorado.edu
Bev Sears grants
The Bev Sears Graduate Student Grant application is now available on the graduate school website: http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/funding/awards.html#beverly
This year the application process is all online! For any questions regarding the grants please contact Natalie Skaggs Natalie.skaggs@colorado.edu, who will be taking over the process this year.
All best,
Gretchen
Gretchen S. O'Connell
Graduate Student Funding and Assistantships Coordinator
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research/Dean of the Graduate School
University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 026
tel: 303.492.6143
fax: 303.492.5777
November 6, 2009
Microgravity proposal opportunity
The NGSRC conference is an opportunity to present at an international sub-orbital rocket conference here in Boulder in February 2010. The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, based here in Boulder, is soliciting ideas from university students and teams as to how:
Sub orbital microcravity flights could be used for research and education.
All ideas are welcome and they are looking for a 3 page or less proposal for how this unique platform could be used.
You can register for the conference now at the below link. Those papers which are selected will get a free pass to the Student Competition to present your idea and compete. Details about the prizes will be posted shortly to the website.
Main conference website:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010/
Student Competition and submission guidelines:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010/nsrc2010studentguidelines.shtml
Flier:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010/documents/studentflyer.pdf
No abstract is required for the Student Competition (website will be updated soon to reflect this). This is a great opportunity and I highly encourage you to get involved. We can help you develop ideas if you like too.
Brian Sanders
Research Coordinator
Colorado Space Grant Consortium
303-492-5451
November 3, 2009
New Venture Challenge
Please pass this information on to your Graduate Students regarding the New Venture Challenge sponsored by the Silicon Flatirons. This is a great opportunity for Faculty, Post-Docs, Graduate Students and Undergraduate Students to learn about the entrepreneurial process. Faculty should encourage their Graduate Students to attend this as several of CU’s spin off companies have been started by Grad Students and Post-Docs who continue to have a research relationship with the Faculty Advisor through these companies (via SBIR/STTR funded projects and consulting agreements).
In its second year, the CU-NVC is an interdisciplinary competition presented by entities across campus. The goal is to provide an experiential educational opportunity for CU students and faculty. This hands-on approach to entrepreneurship is a critical part of catalyzing a start-up culture across CU-Boulder.
Monetary prizes are available to the challenge winners. Each participant will learn how to “think like an entrepreneur.” The opportunity to attend workshops, discuss the application of ideas, and receive feedback from local experts in represented fields offers an unprecedented incentive to “put your idea to the test”.
There is more information at: http://cunvc.org/
Jeff Sczechowski
Jeffrey G. Sczechowski Ph.D., PE
Coordinator of Research Opportunities
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
422 UCB
Boulder, CO 80304
303 492 2615
November 2, 2009
interest meeting for community-based engineering design projects
Have you ever wanted to help design a product that will make a difference in someone’s life? Are you interested in service to local communities? Do you want to practice your engineering design skills while improving the health, happiness, and safety of others? If you have answered yes to any of these, then Engineering for American Communities (EFAC) is the group for you!
EFAC is an engineering student service group who works with local communities that have a need that can be met through engineering student design work. EFAC teams meet with customers in the places in which they live and work, talking to them about what they do and listening to what they say in order to create products that are useful and extremely affordable. The purpose of the innovative products is to improve customers’ quality of life in some meaningful way.
We have an interest meeting to kick off our first design challenge on Tuesday, November 10th at 5pm in ITL Room 1B50. Both undergraduate and graduate students in all engineering disciplines are welcome! Come by and learn more about EFAC and what we will be doing this year. We hope to see you there!
Faculty advisors: Dr. Derek Reamon and Dr. Daria Kotys-Schwartz
Graduate student contacts: Lauren Cooper and Mindy Zarske
October 21, 2009
2nd International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC 2010)
April 12-14, 2010
Shenzhen, China
http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2010
http://world-research-institute.org/conferences/CMC/2010
Call for Papers & Expo
CMC 2010 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in communications and mobile computing. We invite you to submit your original papers on the most recent results and technology trends to one of the 5 symposiums. Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline is extended to 15 November 2009.
CMC 2010 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) which will include the conference proceedings in the IEEE Xplore and submit to Ei Compendex and ISTP for indexing (CMC 2009 proceedings were already indexed in Ei).
CMC 2010 is organized by the College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. In addition to research papers, CMC 2010 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for communications and mobile computing.
Shenzhen, situated just across the border from Hong Kong, is a beautiful coastal city in southern China. It is a showcase of China’s reforms and opening up to the rest of the world. In 27 years, Shenzhen has developed from a small fishing village into a modern city with a population of 12 million and a gross domestic product (GDP) ranking among the highest in China. Famous tourist attractions include Dapeng Fortress, Lotus Hill, Shennan Thoroughfare, and Yangtai Mountain.
If you have any questions, please email us at cmc2010 <AT> szu.edu.cn or call +86 755 2653 6198 or +86 755 2653 5259.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2009 Review Notification: 10 December 2009 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 30 December 2009
October 5, 2009
ATOC Poster Conference
The conference will be on
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MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2009 between 4:00-6:00 pm in the University Memorial Center (UMC) Glenn Miller Ballroom.
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Fore more details and registration please visit the ATOC Wiki:
http://atoc.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/ATOC_Poster_Conference
Registration deadline will be 6 November 2009.
Please distribute this announcement among your students and colleagues.
Please encourage your graduate students who are interested in atmospheric oceanic sciences to register for one of the five sessions and your colleagues to attend this wonderful opportunity to meet our graduate students.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
ATOC Poster Conference 2009 Organizing Committee.
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Dr. Katja Friedrich
Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences University of Colorado UCB 311 Boulder, CO 80309-0311
NASA Announces 2010 RASC-AL Student Engineering Design Competition
It is my pleasure to invite your students to participate in NASA’s 2010 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition. The 2010 design competition is looking for innovative and creative ideas from undergraduate and graduate level engineering students. We encourage you to involve your students in this competition which gives them the opportunity to: interact with NASA and industry experts; infuse concepts and data from RASC-AL into NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate program planning; develop relationships that could lead to participation in other NASA student research programs; and demonstrate and leverage potential university-NASA-industry cooperation.
Student teams and their faculty advisors are invited to submit abstracts by February 5, 2010, responding to the following themes:
Lunar
Outpost to Settlement
Technology-Enabled Human Mars Mission
Bringing the World Along with Participatory Exploration
Common Lunar Sortie/NEO Mission Design
Based on review of the abstracts by the RASC-AL Steering Committee, up to ten (10) undergraduate and five (5) graduate level teams will be selected to participate and receive a $5,875 travel stipend per team to attend the RASC-AL forum to be held at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Hotel in Cocoa Beach, Florida in June. The top scoring undergraduate and graduate teams will be invited to participate in the AIAA Space 2010 Conference & Exposition where they will present their design project to industry experts (team travel stipends provided).
"NASA is always looking for great ideas. What better group to turn to than the next generation of engineers?" said Pat Troutman, senior systems analyst at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. "Students get something out of it too. They get chance to apply what they learn in class to real world aerospace challenges.”
Attached, please find a copy of the NIA press release, 2010 RASC-AL Engineering Design Competition, and a flyer describing the 2010 RASC-AL challenge themes. For complete information on the 2010 RASC-AL Engineering Design Competition, visit www.NIAnet.org/rascal. For your convenience, here is a list of important dates for the competition:
Feb 5, 2010 |
Deadline for abstract submission |
Feb 24, 2010 |
Team notification of abstract review decision |
Apr 9, 2010 |
Online registration and payment for conference |
May 26, 2010 |
Submission for written reports due |
May 28, 2010 |
Submission of oral reports due |
June 7-9, 2010 |
2010 RASC-AL Forum |
Teams are requested to submit a Notice of Intent to compete form which can found on the RASC-AL website.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Shelley Duguid Spears
Director, Outreach & Development
National Institute of Aerospace
100 Exploration Way
Hampton, VA 23666
757.325.6732
September 21, 2009
LASP Public Lecture Series
flyer
September 1, 2009
Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference
February 18-20, 2010
A new generation of space vehicles capable of economically delivering payloads and researchers is coming on line beginning in 2010. These vehicles will revolutionize space access by providing frequent, low-cost access to space. Fields that will potentially benefit include atmospheric science, solar physics, microgravity science, planetary science, space life science, space physics, and education and public outreach (EPO).
NSRC 2010 will provide a forum to learn about the research and EPO capabilities of these new systems, along with their experiment and EPO integration processes, and to provide input on vehicle design requirements for science and education.
The abstract deadline for the conference will be November 12, 2009. To subscribe to a mailing list to receive e-mail updates about the conference, please submit the Indication of Intent form by October 14, 2009.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010
August 4, 2009
Fall Graduation Checkout
Masters Students:
If you plan to graduate this fall, you will need to complete and return your graduation paperwork to me no later than Friday, September 11th. This is about one week before the completed paperwork is due in the Graduate School. I need time to get the appropriate signatures on the forms so I need them earlier than the posted deadline.
Masters, Thesis Option. Masters students who are completing a thesis should complete the Candidacy Application for an Advanced Degree and Diploma Card no later than Friday, September 11th so that departmental signatures can be collected. The Master’s Examination Report form must be submitted to me at least two weeks before the thesis exam defense so that your thesis committee can be approved by the Graduate School. Each committee member must have a regular or special faculty appointment (see below). The Candidacy Application and Master’s Examination Report forms are available on the Graduate School website, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/resources/forms.html ; however, the Diploma Card (due September 11) and Final Grade Card (due December 11) are not available electronically. These forms can be picked up in my office.
It is imperative that all committee members have the proper faculty appointments in place before this deadline so that your committee will be approved by the Graduate School in time for your examination.
The last day for your final exam/thesis defense is December 2nd, and the deadline to submit the thesis is December 9th.
Masters, Non Thesis Option. Masters students who are not completing a thesis should complete the Candidacy Application for an Advanced Degree, Degree Plan Approval Form, and Diploma Card by September 11th so that departmental signatures can be collected. The Candidacy Application and Degree Plan Approval forms are available on the Graduate School website, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/resources/forms.html ; however, the Diploma Card is not available electronically. This form can be picked up in my office.
BS/MS – Concurrent degree students should complete the forms and processes described above for masters with thesis and masters, non-thesis option. In addition, BS/MS candidates must complete two supplemental forms: Concurrent Bachelor’s Master’s Degree Program Supplement to the Application for Admission to Candidacy, and Concurrent Bachelor’s/Master’s Certificate of Completion of the Requirements for the Bachelor’s Degree. Both supplemental forms are available on the Graduate School website, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/resources/forms.html or in my office.
The last day to have grade changes submitted for incomplete courses taken during previous semesters is December 11th.
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Ph.D. Students:
Submit your Diploma Card to me by September 28th so I will have time to forward it to the Graduate School. (You completed the Candidacy Application for an Advanced Degree form when you took your comprehensive exam and do not need to submit another.)
The Doctoral Examination Report and Leaflet must be submitted two weeks prior to your exam. These forms are located on the Graduate School website, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/resources/forms.html, however, the Diploma Card and Final Grade Card are not available electronically and are available in my office.
It is imperative that all committee members have the proper faculty appointments in place before this deadline so that your committee will be approved by the Graduate School in time for your examination (see below).
The deadline for submitting your dissertation title is October 19th; completing your oral exam in defense of dissertation, November 25th; and final copy of dissertation to the Graduate School, December 2nd.
If for some reason, you are unable to graduate, a Diploma Card must be resubmitted in the following semester by the posted graduation deadline.
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Students who are writing a masters thesis and PhD Students should note the following:
Faculty Appointments. Each committee member must have a faculty appointment on file with the Graduate School. Contact me to verify that the necessary appointments are in place as soon as you form your committee. It takes 2-4 weeks to process a faculty appointment. Committee members who do not have established appointments should submit their most recent curriculum vitae to me as soon as possible so that I can do the necessary paperwork.
Note: the outside member of a Ph.D. final dissertation committee MUST have a regular or tenured graduate faculty appointment. Additional information about Ph.D. dissertation committees is available in the Graduate School Rules, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/policies/downloads/GSRules2001.pdf, pp. 18-19.
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For more information on Master and Ph.D. deadlines and graduation requirements, please view the Graduate School calendar, http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/calendar.html, and graduation pages http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/graduation.html
For frequently requested forms, see http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/resources/forms.html