Physics and Engineering.The 2000-01 year proved to be very successful for the Physics and Engineering division. Twenty-one presentations had been scheduled, as published in the abstracts issue, for the annual meeting in Tupelo tupelo, in botany tupelo: see black gum. Tupelo, city, United States Tupelo (t  `pĭlō, ty . Of
these, twenty were presented. In addition, there were three poster
presentations. The uniqueness of this division in terms of topical
variety was in evidence again this year. The presentations varied from
design of sedimentation sedimentationIn geology, the process of deposition of a solid material from a state of suspension or solution in a fluid (usually air or water). Broadly defined it also includes deposits from glacial ice and materials collected under the effect of gravity alone, as in talus traps to analysis of gamma-ray bursts gamma-ray burst n. A short-lived, localized, and intense burst of gamma radiation that originates outside the solar system from an unknown source. . Similarly, we witnessed the use of presentation tools as simple as transparencies to the high-tech laptop-based computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. displays. Three cash prizes were awarded to the best student presenters: $100 as first prize to Mr. Vasudevan Ramanujam, $50 as second prize to Ms. Ching-Sia Lim, and $25 as third prize to Mr. Christopher G. Kelly. Christopher deserves a special mention--as a high school student he competed with both the undergraduate and graduate students, and won. Dr. Ahmed A. Kishk was elected as the chairperson chairperson Chairman The head of an academic department. See 'Chair.', Cf Chief. for 2001-02. |
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