Appointments, honors and activities
• Campus activities:
- The Center on Poverty and Health Inequities in Discovery Park is hosting a poster competition with a focus on health, health care, poverty and inequity. A first place prize of $100 will be awarded to the top undergraduate student poster and a graduate student poster. Posters with students from both categories must be registered in the graduate student division. Roster registrations are due by Oct. 14. Posters will be displayed and judged on Oct. 20. A booklet of the posters and abstracts will be available Oct. 19 when the posters will be displayed in Mann Hall. For more information, contact Mary Schultz of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at schultm@purdue.edu, 765-494-9828.
• Notables:
- Monica Cox, an associate professor of engineering education at Purdue University, participated in a panel discussion at the White House on Sept. 26 during an event titled New Workplace Flexibility Policies to Support America's Scientists and their Families. Cox was one of four panel members with Tina Tchen, chief of staff to the first lady and executive director of the Counsel on Women and Girls; Robert Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California - Berkeley; and Catherine Hunt, research and development director at The DOW Chemical Company. Subra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation, moderated the panel. The panel discussion was scheduled as part of efforts to support and retain women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.
• Alumni honors:
- The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics will honor its 2011 Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Award winners Oct. 21. The honorees are:
* A. Dwight Abbott, retired general manager and systems engineer of The Aerospace Corp. He received his bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue in 1958 and a master's in industrial administration from Krannert School of Management in 1965.
* Michael J. Corso, a board certified civil trial and business litigation lawyer. He graduated from Purdue with a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering in 1971.
* Robert J. Flemming, a technical fellow in the research and engineering department at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Flemming earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue in 1967.
* G. Wayne Hawk, chairman and CEO of Acme Electrical Corp. He graduated from Purdue with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1957.
* Stephen S. Kress, director of advanced air and missile defense at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. He earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue in 1975.
* Gary E. Mitchell, retired vice president of Europe operations for Boeing Co. He received his bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering at Purdue in 1960.
* Michael P. Moses, vice president of operations at Virgin Galactic. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1989 and master's degree in aerospace engineering in 1995 from Purdue.
* Jane M. Quirk, who is with the U.S. Department of Defense's missile defense agency, system engineering directorate, Aegis ballistic missile defense, and acquisition and contract management directorate. Quirk earned her bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue in 1984.
* Paul L. Shattuck, director and chief engineer and directed energy systems at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Shattuck earned his degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue in 1974.
* Wayne S. Tygert, director of flight sciences at BCA Engineering for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Tygert received his bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue in 1985.
More information on the honorees can be found at https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/AboutUs/Alumni/oae/2011/index_html (RP)
• Student honors:
- Greg Weber, a doctoral candidate in the School of Health Sciences, won the first place award in the graduate student platform presentation competition in the Ohio Valley Society of Toxicology annual meeting this month. Kaitlyn Egan, an undergraduate student studying pre-med, also won the first place award in the undergraduate student poster competition. Both students work in Jennifer Freeman's toxicology lab in the School of Health Sciences. Freeman is an assistant professor of toxicology.
- Three students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering won awards at the Semiconductor Research Corporationn TECHCON 2011 Conference in September in Austin, Texas.
* Joseph Katz received the Best Poster Award in the undergraduate category for his poster titled "Highly Reliable MEMS Bimorph Temperature Sensors for Harsh Environment Applications." His undergraduate research adviser is Dimitrios Peroulis. This was the first year undergraduates were eligible for awards at TECHCON. Katz is in the SRC Undergraduate Research Opportunity program and participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program.
* John Wilcox, a graduate research assistant, won a Best Poster Award in the Energy Research Initiative category for his poster titled "Using Detailed Numerical Models to Analyze Photovoltaic Solar Cells." His adviser is Jeff Gray.
* Niladri Mojumder, a graduate research assistant, won a Best in Session award for his paper "A Three-Terminal Dual Pilar Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM for Low-Power, High-Performance, Robust Memory Applications." His adviser is Kaushik Roy.