Special Reading Day Edition

We made it to Reading Day. Good luck on all your exams. Remember; study, take short study breaks, and get plenty of sleep. 

I realize that as you are taking exams, packing, graduating and offering adieus. As such, you may not have time for a weekly blog. So, this will conclude the blog post for this academic year. Weekly blog post will resume on or around August 16th. 

MSE Senior Design Poster Session 

Please visit the 2012-13 MSE Senior Design Poster Session, held tomorrow from 10am - 2pm in the Torgesen Museum. Food will be provided. 

Presenters include:  

• Colin Glesner, Vincent Iozzo, Chadd Jenkins & James Stratton
• Design, Characterization and Optimization of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
• Ben Dillinger, Timothy Horne Joseph Ullmann, & Sun Hye Yoon
• Study of Alternative Nuclear Fuel Rod Coatings
• Shawn Bottoms, Shawn McKinney, Mary Seals & Patrick Stockhausen
• Evaluation of 3D Printed Polymers for Investment Casting Expendable Patterns
• Justin Carwile, Ruth Kay, James Tang & Derek Zimmer
• In-Stream Inoculation of Ductile Iron
• Sunny Chang, Daniel Drew, Chris Rowland & Stephanie Sparks
• Sediment Filtration Using Melt Blown Nanofiber Nonwoven Mats
• Samara Levine, Justin Ryan, Patrick Sinko, & YiMeng Sun
• The Merits of a Formaldehyde Free Wood Adhesive
• Cameron Curtis, Joshua Rice & Patrick Walsh
• Evaluation of Austenitic and Duplex Stainless Steel Corrosion in a Mixed Acetic-Sulfuric Acid Environment
• Margaret Anderson, Ashley Durrbeck, Joshua Larrick & Rebecca Samuelson,
• The Effects of Crystallization on the Acoustic Properties of Glass-Ceramics
• Morgan Brown, Ryan Cass, Haley Cherniuk & Tyler Dietrick
• Porous Ceramics via Freeze Casting
• Michelle Leslie, Daniel Flagg & Brendan Ondra
• Controlled Deformation of a Slender Structure
• Alexandra Egert, Lyndsay Kibler & Tom Zimmerman
• Microwave Curing Water-based Urethanes on Instrument-grade Woods
• Heather Blount, Charles Forman, Kelly Ramsburg & Andy Wentzel
• Comparison of 3D Printing Powders for Casting Lattice Structures
• Kelly Hotchkiss, Zhijie Ma, Arielle Strong & Katelyn Waldeisen
• Novel Micro-Stereolithography Fabrication Technique of a Polymeric Scaffold: A Pilot Study

Senior Moments

• Contact me if you received a confusing email from the registrar about graduation & have questions.
• Please read & follow the directions sent by the COE regarding graduation.
• Please re-read the email sent by the COE regarding graduation!
• Reminder of the Graduation Reception; contact me if you need directions.

Important Dates

• Exams!
• Friday, May 17: Web Add/Drop for fall 2013 closes
• Tuesday, May 28: Summer I classes begin

Helpful Tools

I know you guys are sick of hearing me harp on the importance of sleep… so, I’m going mention it one more time! 

Studies show that students who get at least 8 hours of sleep a night have a higher GPA than students who get less than 6 hours.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/the-freshman-8-and-your-g_b_703155.html

Random 

A snail can sleep for three years.

Sandbox

http://youtu.be/bhcA4Ry65FU 
(This is my favorite of all time!)  

My Schedule 

In Scholar under the MSE Undergraduate Advising Tab use the sign-in tool to select a meeting time. Please know it will be necessary to click on “expand all recurring meetings” to see all available dates, then click on the date you would like to schedule a meeting and the available times will show. Currently, meeting times are available through May 17.

Between May 20 - August 9 I will be available by e-mail & appointment only. If needed, please contact me directly for an appointment time. I do plan on taking two different weeks off during the month of July and a little time in August for my niece's wedding.