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NANOTECHNOLOGY: HYPE AND REALITY
Dr. Rajendra Singh
Clemson University
Director of Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics
Abstract:
Fueled mostly by federal funding and some private money, the buzzword
"nanotechnology" is so popular today that the exclusion of this word from your
professional life means that you may have no future. In this talk I will
separate the hype from reality and focus on areas that will have direct impact
on the next generation of information systems and related industries.
Bio:
Dr. Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks Professor in the Holcombe Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Center for Silicon
Nanoelectronics at Clemson University. He has published over 270 papers in
various journals and conference proceedings in the area of solar cells,
semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology. Currently he is serving as the
editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He is also serving on the
editorial board of IEEE Transactions of Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Journal
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has presented over 50 keynote and invited
talks in various conferences. Professor Singh has received a number of
international and national awards. His most recent awards include, 2003 J.F.
Gibbons award for outstanding contributions to the field of rapid thermal
processing presented in 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Thermal
Processing of Semiconductors. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electronics and
Electrical Engineering (IEEE), the Society of Optical Science and Engineering (SPIE),
American Association of Advancement of Science (AASM) and ASM International, the
materials information society (ASM).
Where: La Quinta Inn at Pelham Road and Haywood Road,
Greenville
When: Thursday, March 25, 2004
Agenda:
Dinner is $5 for all IEEE members and guests. Student dinners will be $3 (please bring change). Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 23, 2004 to Rob Scruggs if you plan to attend and especially if you plan to eat. Rob’s email address is scruggsr@squared.com. For directions to the Inn, please call (864)233-8018. I will provide a carpool leaving from my house in Clemson (please contact me (m.stokes@ieee.org) if you want to ride). I plan to leave at or around 5:45pm (I should have a late model green Toyota Sienna).
http://www.ieeeusa.org/eweek/2004
Are you getting too much SPAM?
Mark Stokes
Then you should try out the IEEE’s newest member service, the UCE filter. The IEEE is offering as a free member service UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) filtering service. This service is available to all members and only requires you sign up for an IEEE email alias and turn the UCE filter on. Both of which can be done immediately and online.
You’ll need an IEEE web account to sign up for the alias service, but that too is easy (the alias signup site has full instructions for that). I have been using the service and while it is not perfect, it is very good at correctly identifying spam before it makes it to my computer.
There are three levels of filtering (aggression levels), and you can have the system simply tag the mail as being spam suspect, or you can have it go ahead and delete it (and reply to the sender that the mail didn’t work).
As an added benefit, the email alias will stay with you as long as you are a member. You can have it forward mail to your @ieee.org account to any other email account. Finally, probably the most significant benefit to the alias service is the free virus scanning. The system doesn’t care how big attachments are, it will find and block any attachment that is infected with a virus. I have never had this interfere with legitimate email, and it has never failed to catch viruses (for me anyway).
I strongly suggest if you use email in today’s world of spam and viruses/worms, to start using the alias system that is provided free to every member of the IEEE.
Douglas Gorham, Ed.D.
Manager, Pre-College Education
IEEE Educational Activities
Educational Activities encourages you to complete the "Why Engineering" survey in conjunction with the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, USA at http://istf.ucf.edu/YEngineering/IEEEPilot. This pilot phase will continue until March 26, 2004.
Engineers are, in large part, responsible for the growing influence and increasing complexity of technology in today's society. In light of the decline in engineering graduates in a number of countries and in the number of students planning to major in engineering it is important to understand why engineers chose engineering as an academic field of study and career.
IEEE-USA Today's Engineer Webzine Covers Experiential Learning, Contract Engineering, Nanotechnology, Age Discrimination
Also for an article on Intelligent Transportation Systems, a "Capitol Shavings" column on immigration law, a "Your Engineering Heritage" column on African Americans in engineering, and an interview with a U.S. IEEE member working in Baghdad, read the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer online at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/.
Engineering association coalition launches new web site to help engineers "get out the vote". IEEE-USA, the American Society of Chemical Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers have sponsored and created an "Engineering-The-Vote" Web site to help prepare engineers for the 2004 elections. This new Web site brings together all the information engineers need to know about registering to vote, upcoming election dates and deadlines, and the election process.
To find out more, visit http://www.engineeringthevote.org.
SoutheastCon 2004 Tutorial Registration Extended
Mark Stokes
The SoutheastCon 2004 tutorial registration has been extended to the date of the conference (next Friday, 26Mar2004). You don’t have to register for the full conference to attend a tutorial. Details are here:
http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/secon04/professional/tutorials.html
CHAIRMAN Mark Stokes (864) 647-2065 m.stokes@ieee.org
VICE-CHAIRMAN Rob Scruggs (864) 886 1348
scruggsr@squared.com
TREASURER
Wayne Cockrell: (864)223-2888x1452
j.w.cockrell@ieee.org
SECRETARY Jerry Clark (864) 918-2535 jclark89@hotmail.com
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Lee Stogner (864) 281-8276
l.stogner@ieee.org
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Adib Chebli (864) 241-6583
a.chebli@ieee.org
STUDENT ACTIVITIES Dr. John Komo (864) 656-5916
john.komo@ces.clemson.edu
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES Lee Stogner (864) 281-8276
l.stogner@ieee.org
NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mark Stokes (864) 647-2065 m.stokes@ieee.org
AWARDS Dr. Randy Collins (864)656-5920
randy.collins@ces.clemson.edu
The Piedmont section of the IEEE is still offering sections of its newsletter for advertising space. If you are interested in supporting this effort, please contact one of the officers listed above.
-Mark