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Drexel Fellowships Office Summer Workshops
August 3, 2011 August 11, 2011 August 17, 2011 Classes End August 29, 2011
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DEAN'S MESSAGE
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Drexel has made history these past few weeks. Standing in the Bossone Lobby, we experienced great excitement as we watched alumnus and astronaut, Chris Ferguson, command the final space shuttle. We had hundreds present at the Final Space Shuttle Launch Party to support Mr. Ferguson. There were the attendees at the summer camps, students, faculty and professional staff that watched in awe as he prepared for the lift-off. The cheers that erupted in the Lobby were full of pride that day. Our community felt inspired once again by a great leader that graduated from the College of Engineering. Mr. Ferguson is a role model for our students and a leader we can all learn from. He exemplifies the Drexel mission of engineering the future and accomplishing our dreams. Dragons, aspire to do the same! We can lead in solving the problems of tomorrow, together.
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein
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All commitments to the "Drexel Why I Give Campaign" support students and the community. 54% of faculty and staff have participated to date.
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Shuttle Led by Alum and Astronaut Chris Ferguson Lands Safely
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Philadelphia native and Drexel mechanical engineering alumnus Chris Ferguson ('84) led space shuttle Atlantis and the STS-135 crew to a safe landing July 21, 2011 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Ferguson, commander of the STS-135, wrapped up the final mission of the space shuttle program with pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim. The crew delivered more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, spare equipment and other supplies in the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module - including 2,677 pounds of food - that will sustain space station operations for the next year. Drexel will be honoring Ferguson and Drexel's other astronauts, Jim Bagian and Paul Richards, for their outstanding accomplishments with an event in the Fall. Read more on the final space shuttle .
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Drexel Engineering Students Conduct Zero-G Experiments
|  After testing their self-designed and constructed experiments on-board a gravity-defying aircraft, engineering students and advisor Dr. Jin Kang (MEM) are busy evaluating their data after experiencing weightlessness at NASA Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston. The students participated in NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (RGEFP), which gives teams of undergraduate students from across the nation the opportunity to propose, design, build, fly and evaluate a reduced gravity experiment. The team was selected from more than 70 proposals based on scientific merit and education outreach potential. Read more. |
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CoE Appoints Interim Department Head of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein, Interim Dean of CoE, appointed Dr. Paul Oh, Interim Department Head of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Oh is currently the director of the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab. He has brought in more than $4M in research grants and he is serving as the advisor to the recent $6M NSF MRI award for the Drexel team on Humanoids. Dr. Oh will be leading the largest department in CoE. Read more.
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CoE Appoints Associate Dean of Strategic Planning
|  Dr. Bruce Eisenstein, Interim Dean of CoE, appointed Dr. Jonathan Spanier, Associate Dean of Strategic Planning. In this new role, Dr. Spanier will develop a strategic plan for the College. Dr. Spanier is currently Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and his research is in electronic, photovoltaic and functional materials and devices, particularly complex oxides and nanowires. Read more.
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Drexel Students Travel to Thailand to Help Farmers
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A group of Drexel seniors recently returned from Thailand after successfully completing a project to help rice farmers in the small village of Ban Nam Khe in Thailand. Working on the project are senior Mechanical Engineering students RJ Bauer, Maria LaPosta, Kathleen Rizzo and Biomedical Engineering senior Phuong Diep-Lam and Graphic Design senior Kathryn VenVertloh. Dr. James Tangorra, (MEM) and NSF Fellow Alex Moseson advised the team. The team spent two weeks in the field at the end of June designing and building tools to ease the labor of farming on the steep slopes of the Bo Klua region. This project is the culmination of more than a year of work by The Thai Harvest Initiative. Read more.
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