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News

"Use of Tomorrow's Photonics Devices Today" was the title of an article in Optics & Photonics News in October 2003. The article talked about pre-commercial devices for research and highlighted the Photonics Technology Access Program (PTAP) which was established in July 2002 by NSF and DARPA here at WPI with Ryszard Pryputniewicz. This program allows students in mechanical engineering here at WPI access to cutting-edge photonics devices.

The AIAA Technical Committee of Aerospace America included the water tunnel experiments that are being carried out by Hamid Johari and his students in it's December 2003 issue called "The Year in Review."

The May 19th Telegram & Gazette presented a full page color photo and write up about Chris Brown's student and his MQP project that proved the warmer the chocolate the better the taste.

Editorial Boards

Diran Apelian

• Chief Editor, Journal of Light Metals
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Cast Metals
• Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering
• Editor, Metal Processing Series

Michael Demetriou

• Associate Editor of Transactions on Automatic Control
• Associate editor of the Conference Editorial Board
• Chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems

Gretar Tryggvason

• Associate Editor, Intl. Journal of Multiphase Flow
• Editor-in-chief, Journal of Computational Physics

Nikos Gatsonis

• Associate Editor, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 2003-2005

Hamid Johari

• Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering

Ryszard Pryputniewicz

• Associate editor of the Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems

Joseph J. Rencis

• Associate Editor, Advances in Boundary Elements
• Editorial Board, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Boundary Elements Methods Communications

Appointments, Elections, and Memberships

William Durgin has received an appointment to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Committee on Honors.

Gretar Tryggvason was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society 2003 for a fouryear term. He was also elected member of the Governing Board of the International Conference of Multiphase Flow 2004. He was elected vice-chair and becomes chair in three years.

Christopher Brown is past president and founding president of the Haas Technical Education Center Council. He is also an elected member of the international board of directors for SME and a member of the SME Journal Committee that oversees the editors.

Richard Sisson serves as a FASM Trustee to the ASM International Board of Trustees, the materials information society. This is a three year term which started in 2002-03.

Michael Demetriou is a member of the organizing committee for the 2005 IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.

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