Accolades: Week of Feb. 20, 2001

Bianca Dupuis, assistant women's field hockey and women's lacrosse coach and graduate student in industrial and organizational psychology, has been invited to the ED-Media conference in Tampere, Finland, June 25 -30. ED Media is a world conference on educational, multimedia, hypermedia, and telecommunications. Dupuis will present her thesis topic, which examines the efficacy beliefs in males and females at a technological university that relies heavily on computers and examines if differences in efficacy beliefs affect course grade performance. 2/12/01

Thomas Griffin, longtime Institute photographer, was honored recently by the University Photographers Association of America (UPAA). Griffin won three first-place awards and one second-place award for images he submitted to the UPAA's third annual Web image competition. The contest, one of three yearly competitions sponsored by the UPAA, was judged by Phil Lapidus from Kodak. UPAA has more than 200 member universities and colleges. Griffin's winning images can be found at www.upaa.org/web_competition_2000.htm. 2/12/01

Partha Dutta, assistant professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering, received $150,000 from Lucent Technologies to initiate optoelectronics education and research at Rensselaer. Dutta will use the funds to set up an optoelectronics laboratory in the ECSE department to complement his graduate-level optoelectronics course, develop a new course for undergraduates in the area of optical engineering and optoelectronics, initiate Undergraduate Research Projects in the area of optoelectronics, and use the laboratory resources for graduate research. He plans to build the laboratory by the end of this summer. The first course in this laboratory is planned for spring 2002. 1/29/01

Lester Gerhardt, associate dean of engineering, was invited to speak at the National Press Club in Washington Jan. 26 on the subject of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program (Global E³). Gerhardt played a key role in founding and developing the Global E³, which was established to promote international opportunities for undergraduate engineering students, and he is founding chair of the Executive Committee. 1/29/01

John Gowdy, professor of economics and head of the Ph.D. program in ecological economics, is president-elect of the United States Chapter of the International Society of Ecological Economics for 2001-2004. Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field that explores socially and ecologically sustainable economic development. 1/29/01

Daniel Walczyk, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, and mechanics, had one of his doctoral students capture first place in the sixth annual Student Manufacturing Design Competition at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2000 Conference in Orlando. The design competition is sponsored by the Manufacturing Engineering Division of ASME. Yong-Tai Im's paper and presentation were titled "CAM Software Development for Profiled-Edge Laminated Tooling: An Innovative Rapid Tooling Approach for Dies and Molds." He will receive a $1,000 award and a plaque. 1/29/01

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