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March 30, 2001 JOURNALISTS: Here are story ideas and a list of selected Purdue events during the next two weeks. President to give Hawkins Memorial LecturePurdue President Martin C. Jischke will give the 2001 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer titled "If You Can't Stand the Heat, Don't Transfer to the President's Office." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be Wednesday (4/4) in Room 161, Mechanical Engineering Building. In the lecture Jischke will share his career path from working in his father's grocery business to professor and researcher in heat transfer in fluid mechanics to president of Purdue. Contact: Suresh Garimella, associate professor of mechanical engineering, (765) 494-5621, sureshg@ecn.purdue.edu. Engineering team has designs on 'three-peat'Thursday (4/5), journalists can get a sneak preview of a Purdue team's game plan to defend a national title for the third time – in environmental design. Twenty-three engineering students in a senior design class will conduct their final practice of presentations before traveling to the annual International Environmental Design Contest. The practice presentations begin at 9 a.m. Journalists attending the presentations should meet in Room 1141, Civil Engineering Building, Stadium Mall Drive, on the West Lafayette campus. The design contest is April 9-12 on the New Mexico State University, Las Cruces campus. For the 11th year, the Waste-management Education & Research Consortium (WERC) invited university and high school students to compete in solving real-world environmental problems. WERC presented seven "real-world" environmental problems for the students to solve. Purdue will field four separate teams to address four of the seven proposed tasks . Last year, Purdue University won the overall top place, taking first in two tasks and second place in a third task. Purdue received $12,000 in cash prizes and captured the traveling trophy. The year before, Purdue netted $11,500 for winning overall honors and two first-place finishes. Contact: Loring F. Nies; (765) 494-8327, nies@purdue.edu. Career Day set for female studentsThe annual Women in Engineering Career Day for high school juniors will be Monday, April 9, at Purdue University. Jocelyn Wong, assistant brand manager for Crest at Proctor & Gamble and a 1996 Purdue graduate with a bachelor's degree in agricultural and biological engineering, will deliver the keynote speech. Her speech will be at a noon luncheon in Purdue Memorial Union's North Ballroom. The career day provides junior high school women with information about the Schools of Engineering as well as each student's specific area of interest. Richard Schwartz, dean of the Schools of Engineering, will speak to students at 9 a.m. in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Practicing women engineers will discuss their careers with students at 11 a.m. There also will be lectures or demonstrations by Purdue professors and students. The event is sponsored by the Schools of Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers at Purdue. A similar career day for high school seniors is conducted during the fall semester. For further information, Andrea Yeoman, Women in Engineering Program, (765) 494-3889, puwie@ecn.purdue.edu. Events• Tuesday, April 3. Room 310, Stewart Center. "Purdue Diversity and Me." Guest speaker Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. Doors open at 7 p.m., talk at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by The Kitchen Table. • Wednesday, April 4. 2-3 p.m. WBAA's "AM-920 Magazine." Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke will discuss "The Teaching-Research Debate and Teaching Assistants in the Classroom." Contact: Dan Skinner, WBAA manager, (765) 494-5920. • Friday, April 6. 10:30 a.m. Purdue University Board of Trustees meeting. Room 326, Stewart Center.
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