Bowling with Faculty
On May 8, ASME and faculty hit the lanes at Helen Newman for a night of bowling and fun.
Senior Bowling with Cornell ASME
Come join your fellow classmates and professors for free bowling and pizza!
WHEN: Tuesday, May 8
WHERE: Helen Newman Lanes
TIME: 5:00-6:30pm
Click here to sign up! (If prompted to log into Cmail, don’t panic — it’s so we can record your Netid when you fill out the form!)
ASME Spring Barbecue
Join your fellow MechEs for a free lunch catered by ASME!
WHEN: Thursday, May 3
WHERE: Upson Lounge
TIME: 11:30 – 2:00
E-Board 2012-2013
If you’re interested in being a part of the ASME executive board next year, please send an email to asme@cornell.edu listing your name, class year, and top three position choices. Interviews and elections will be held after spring break on Tuesday April 17rd. All interested candidates are invited to attend our executive board meetings on Tuesday March 13th and March 27th at 4:30pm in Upson 215 to learn more about ASME.
Click here to see more information about the available positions!
ASME/SiGMA Graduate Student Panel
When: Wednesday, October 5th, 5pm
Where: Kimball B11
Do you have questions about what to do after graduating? Do you want to know how to best prepare yourself for whatever it is? Bring your questions to the fall ASME/SiGMA graduate student panel! The panel will shed light on their experiences working in industry and academia to help you prepare for entering those environments. Panel members include:
- Radhika Patel studied biomedical engineering with a concentration in biomechanics at Case Western Reserve University. She applied directly to graduate school after getting her B.S. and is currently working towards her PhD in mechanical engineering with a concentration in biomechanics at Cornell.
- Kirk Samaroo graduated from MIT with Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. He interned as an R&D developer for Black & Decker/Applica Consumer Products in Miami, FL, and as a Dynamic Analyst for Orbital Sciences Corp. in Chandler, AZ. Kirk also worked for Redback Networks and Ericsson as a Mechanical and Thermal Engineer in the SF Bay area. Currently, He is a third-year PhD candidate in Prof. Bonassar’s laboratory, studying the mechanical properties of synovial joints.
- Jim Smith graduated from Clarkson University in 2008 with a double major in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. Following two summer internships with the company, he joined Lockheed Martin Space Systems full-time after graduation, where he worked on projects for DARPA and NASA. Jim started at Cornell in Fall 2009, where he works in Professor Kirby’s research group.
- Julia Westbom is an M.Eng. student majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. She began taking classes towards her Master’s degree while she finished her B.S. in ME last semester. Her M.Eng. project is with Prof. Yingxin Gao’s soft tissue biomechanics lab, and it involves diagnostic ultrasound imaging.
- Marcia Sawyer is the Graduate Programs Coordinator for the MAE department at Cornell. She has knowledge of the Masters and PhD application process.
Lunch with ASME
WHEN: Tuesday, November 16
WHERE: Upson 207
TIME: 1-2pm
Pizza will be served!
Presentations by:
Alan Argondizza: Performing research on: semi-distributed reduced weight hydraulic systems with Professor Garcia. We’re trying to develop hydraulic systems that work well with small robots.
Laura Bowler: Performing research on: Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) represent the car of the future; running on a combination of electricity and gasoline, these cars significantly reduce both the user’s carbon footprint and the financial strain of driving a purely gasoline-powered vehicle
Jason Moran: Performing research for: Professor Campbell in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory in Rhodes Hall. My research is on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using a mobile robot and a camera.
Movie Night
Come watch Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas! The perfect way to start the Halloween weekend!
WHEN: Thursday, October 29
WHERE: Upson B17
TIME: 9:30 pm
Lunch with ASME
Come and have some pizza in Upson Lounge for presentations by M.E. undergrads for M.E. undergrads concerning their research efforts. Lunch With ASME is organized and hosted by ASME. Kentaro Miura ’11 will be facilitating this event.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 20
WHERE: Upson Lounge
TIME: 11:15-12:15
Lunch With ASME Presenters:
Cam Salzberger is doing research in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory on the Nao humanoid robot. The project is to be able to “program” the robot’s movement using sentences in structured English. Mobility is only the first step. The Nao’s humanoid form and variety of sensors opens up a large number of possible positions, gaits, and reactions to the environment.
Gangyuan Jing: Creating autonomous robots is a major interest of a large variety of domains: medical surgery, military operation, manufacturing, exploration and public service. As one of the technologies required by autonomous robots, mission and motion planning has been researched since the late 1960’s. It seems that motion planning is a simple task; however, it actually requires a surprisingly large amount of mathematical and algorithmic methods to transfer high-level planning to low-level controllers. Recently, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) has been successfully applied to the robotic motion planning with a user interface coded in a programming language called “Python” This interface allows users with little motion planning knowledge to control robots from specifications written in a structured language and simulate the experiment with either real robots equipped with sensors or virtual robots (e.g. Player and Stage robotic framework and simulator).
Andrew Nassau: I worked in Locomotion and Robotics Lab with Professor Ruina. I have worked on several projects in the lab, however, the latest and most exciting is the Cornell Ranger. Over the summer, the Ranger set the unofficial world record for distance walked by a robot.
ASME Go-Karting
ASME is organizing a short (2 hr) go-karting trip to nearby Ringwood Raceway! Join your classmates in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! It’s $ 3 / ride; SO INEXPENSIVE!
WHEN: October 23
WHERE: Ridgewood Raceway
TIME: 2-4 pm
To sign up, go to http://tinyurl.com/asmegokart.
For more information, email cld72@cornell.edu.
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