The Herff College - University of Memphis

y Jeff Marchetta is being offered for the
second time during the 2008 Fall semester.
It is in demand by our students and is
expected to become a permanent edition
to the course catalog.
Gladius Lewis gave an invited presentation
at the DePuy heritage Celebration at the
2008 Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons:
“Acrylic Bone Cement: Enhanced Fatigue
Properties from high-Molecular Weight
Polymers.”
Mr. Zelazny is the second student from
our department to take advantage of our
exchange program with hochschule ulm
in ulm, Germany. Their International
Mechanical Engineering Program offers
courses taught in English that are a very
good match to the 7th semester of our
BSME program, and he is there as this is
being written.
The Center for Biofuel Energy and
Sustainable Technologies (BEST), with its
home in our department, was recognized
by the university as an Interdisciplinary
Center. It was the primary organizer of
the Inaugural Sustainable Technologies
Awareness Day held on October 7, 2008.
Gary Qi and Steve Wayne organized
and hosted the 51st Acoustic Emission
Working Group Meeting and International
Symposium on Acoustic Emissions held
on campus October 13-15, 2008. rajesh
Muthireddy, a current MS student, won an
honorable mention for his paper presented
at this meeting.
The SAE Student Club is building a car to
enter in this year’s mini-Baja competition.
As we move forward to meet today’s
and tomorrow’s challenges, the “we”
must be emphasized. “We” are the
current students, the alumni, and the
faculty of Our department. Together, our
actions and our achievements define our
department and build upon the legacy left
to us. I hope that each of you has enjoyed
a good year and that for each of you, next
year is even better.
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