December 2009 issue:
- The train has left the station . . .
- Search for new Dean underway
- Buy your tickets today!
- Engineering Outreach selected as test site
- A loss in our family
- New members inducted into Tau Beta Pi
- Dr. Widera elected to two boards
- IEEE chapter takes first place
- Dr. Corliss meets alumni in Germany
- Marquette WORKS may be coming to your company
- From our family to yours
- Help spread the news
The train has left the station . . .
Demolition is underway on the site of the future Discovery Learning Complex and together we are building a new location where we will carry on our strong tradition of pairing theory with hands on experience to yield Discovery Learning.
Marquette engineering is making a difference in engineering education 21st century. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.
If you’re interested in getting an exciting behind-the-scenes look at the college and/or making a year-end gift to support its initiatives, the Engineering on a Mission site features brief video story episodes, the college’s proposed new facility and links to recent media coverage. Click here to share in the excitement or make a gift online.
Banner picture from left to right: Dr. Kris Ropella, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering; Dr. Mike Switzenbaum, Professor and Executive Associate Dean; Dr. Stan Jaskolski, OPUS Dean; Dr. Tom Wenzel, Associate Professor and Chair, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering; Dr. Ed Yaz, Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Dr. Kyuil Kim, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering
Search for a new Dean underway
With Stan Jaskolski’s announced retirement, the college is seeking a talented successor to continue the momentum – for an innovative curriculum, for scholarships, for endowed faculty chairs and for the new Discovery Learning Complex.
A rigorous nationwide search, led by the search firm Baker and Associates LLC, is underway and a committee continues to meet to identify candidates for the OPUS Dean, the chief academic officer of the College of Engineering. The deanship position was endowed by a gift from the OPUS Corp. and it was the first endowed deanship at Marquette.
“Stan has done a magnificent job of refocusing engineering education, collaborating with other institutions to enhance business partnerships in the Milwaukee region, identifying and recruiting world-class faculty and reaching out to K-12 schools to create interest in STEM education,” University Provost John Pauly said. “We will look for someone who can continue along the path Stan has set as we prepare engineers for the global challenges that they are in a unique position to help resolve.”
For more on the search, visit http://www.marquette.edu/opusdean .
Buy your tickets today!
The College of Engineering Alumni Association (COEAA) invites you to its annual Silent Auction, Brunch and Basketball Game event on Saturday, March 6, 2010.
Join us for an opportunity to meet, greet, and outbid fellow alumni and afterwards, cheer on Marquette as they take on the Notre Dame. Tickets are limited and available for purchase here. This exciting opportunity to show Notre Dame that “We Are Marquette!” is open to all alumni, faculty, staff, parents and friends of the College of Engineering.
Engineering Outreach selected as test site
The college’s Engineering Outreach program has been selected to become one of eight field test sites for a new Family Engineering program funded by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by the Foundation for Family Science, American Society of Engineering Education and Michigan Tech University. The purpose of the program is to actively engage parents and their children in fun, hands-on engineering activities and events.
As a test site, the college will conduct five events with families and provide feedback to Family Engineering about the development of quality program materials. Marquette was selected because of its ability to engage professional engineers in conducting these activities, its connection with professional engineering societies, and the ability to reach an under-served population.
A loss in our family
Dr. Joseph Matar
Dr. Joseph E. Matar, Professor Emeritus, peacefully passed away on Dec. 2 at the age of 87. His life revolved around his family, his career as a mechanical engineer and his long time affiliation with Marquette University.
Dr. Matar was an extremely warm, helpful and patient person who excelled in his role as a professional engineer and professor. Throughout the years, he served as a mentor to many undergraduate and graduate students and continued to provide them with advice and counsel as they embarked on their professional careers.
He received a BSME from Marquette, his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees were from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan respectively. Dr. Matar joined the faculty at Marquette, serving as a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Provost for the university – a career spanning more than 50 years.
During his last fifteen years at Marquette he returned to his first love, teaching. During this time Dr. Matar immersed himself in becoming a worldwide expert in the fields of reliability, design of experiments and Taguchi methods. His extensive knowledge of these cutting edge methods quickly led to a second career in consulting and conducting seminars for a number of international corporations, all of whom recognized the business benefits of these novel techniques. His efforts culminated in the publication of a book he co-authored entitled Designing for Quality, which was an introduction to the best of Taguchi and Western methods of statistical experimental design.
Dr. Matar’s family has requested that memorials in his name be made to the Building Fund for the Discovery Learning Complex. Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.
New members inducted into Tau Beta Pi
The annual Tau Beta Pi induction ceremony was held on campus last month. Marquette’s Wisconsin Beta Chapter President Hannah Behm and Vice President Michelle Williamson hosted the Wisconsin Gamma Chapter from UW - Milwaukee as 36 new members were welcomed into the engineering honor society in a combined celebration between the universities. The society recognizes upper level engineering students with records of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character.
During the reception for the new inductees and their parents, Professor Frank Jacoby provided entertainment by singing “As Time Goes By” from Casablanca, and reminded everyone that Marquette is only one stop in life’s journey but to always remember their time here.
Dr. Alan Horowitz, UWM’s Tau Beta Pi faculty advisor, concluded the evening by leading the students in the traditional Tau Beta Pi cheer.
Dr. Widera elected to two boards
Dr. G.E. Otto Widera, Professor of Mechanical Engineering was elected to the Board of Directors of the Materials Properties Council (MPC) and the Welding Research Council (WRC).
MPC, established in 1966, serves as an international organization dedicated to industrial cooperation on materials performance, identifying major needs for reliable data on the engineering properties and performance of materials. WRC was established in 1935 to bring together science and engineering specialists to develop solutions to problems in welding and pressure vessel technology.
IEEE chapter takes first place
Marquette’s Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student chapter recently competed in a leadership and ethics competition at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.
The ethics challenge consisted of a situation in which two people could have acted unethically. The teams were asked to use the IEEE Code of Ethics to demonstrate who acted unethically and why, and how the situation could have been handled differently. The Marquette team of Lauren Adrian, Rebecca Kohl, Ashley Milner and Clyde Hoffman took first place over three other universities.
Members Jenny Rose Hawk and Eric Jonardi participated in the leadership conference portion of the day, where they learned about the skills necessary to be a leader of an IEEE chapter.
From left to right: Clyde Hoffmann, Lauren Adrian, Jenny Rose Hawk,
Eric Jonardi,
Rebecca Kohl, and Ashley Milner
Dr. Corliss meets alumni in Germany
Dr. George Corliss, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, visited Schoss Dagstuhl, a conference center for computer engineering/science near Saarbrucken, Germany last month to participate in a conference on scientific computing. He spoke about Marquette’s GasDay technologies for forecasting natural gas consumption for 22 utilities across the country.
He then traveled to Darmstadt to host a dinner for alumni living in Germany, during which they enjoyed reminiscing about Marquette and hearing of recent developments on campus. The university has approximately 30 alumni in Germany and 200 in Europe. Go Marquette!
From left to right: Dr. Corliss, Dr. Matthias Staritz (MBA ‘02), Colette Ober,
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Ober (Grad ’71), and Karl-Heinz Midunsky (MBA ’71)
Marquette WORKS may be coming to your company
Marquette WORKS, a new alumni outreach initiative, has been developed to strengthen Marquette relationships within companies by connecting alumni, parents and friends to the university and to one another. Special events and professional development seminars by Marquette faculty and staff will be scheduled at targeted company sites.
One of these companies, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, hosted a meeting and social gathering for its employees on Dec. 3. Tim Simmons, Chief Alumni Relations Officer, updated the Marquette alumni and friends on the university’s initiatives and activities. Sue Michaelson, Director of the Engineering Co-op Program, thanked the guests – many of whom were former Co-op students – for the company’s longstanding support of the program.
For information about this program, please contact Theresa Nemetz at theresa.nemetz@marquette.edu .From our family to yours
Cindy and Stan Jaskolski
Our fondest hope is that your Christmas and New Year is filled with peace and love. Thank you for your help and support. We keep you in our prayers and are grateful for your prayers. May the closeness of family and friends and the comforts of home renew your spirit this holiday season. Wishes that the joy and peace of Christmas be with you and those you love now and throughout the New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and your family,
The Jaskolski Family
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