Dam Safety 2011 Student Paper Competition

Dam Safety 2011 Student Paper Competition 

ASDSO is holding its third annual Student Paper Competition, in conjunction with Dam Safety 2011, to be held September 25-29 in the Washington, DC area (National Harbor, MD).
ASDSO invites students to submit papers on a wide variety of topics related to dam and levee safety, including but not limited to design engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, geology, environmental protection, agricultural sciences, construction, risk management, hazard mitigation, emergency management, floodplain management, critical infrastructure security, policy development, and case studies thereof.  Extended abstracts are due February 11, 2011.  Details are below and in the linked flyer:
Download a 2011 ASDSO Student Paper Competition flyer.	Lourdes Polanco, Utah State University, was a winner of ASDSO's 2010 Student Paper Competition for her paper, entitled "Reliability-based Underseepage Analysis in Levees Using Monte Carlo Simulation."

Eligibility:

--Students must be actively pursuing a degree at a U.S. college or university at the time of the extended abstract deadline (February 11, 2011).

--Full-time, part-time, and cooperative education students—both graduate and undergraduate—are eligible.

--Award winners must present their papers at Dam Safety 2011.  (Conference registration fees will be waived for all student attendees.)

--Papers may be co-authored by faculty or colleagues who are not students, but a student must be the lead author, and only student authors who present papers are eligible for prizes.

--Papers cannot have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Prizes and Recognition:

--Papers will be judged on their originality, organization, clarity, and demonstrated knowledge of the topic.

--ASDSO will award up to three prizes totaling up to $1500.  For papers co-authored by more than one student, awards will be divided among student co-authors.  A travel stipend of up to $250 will also be granted for each winning paper.

--Winning papers will be published in the Dam Safety 2011 Proceedings.  All other entries will be reviewed for entry in the Dam Safety 2011 Poster Session.

--ASDSO will recognize prize winners at the Dam Safety 2011 Awards Banquet, in the ASDSO newsletter, and in the quarterly Journal of Dam Safety.

Dates:
--Extended abstracts are due February 11, 2011.

--Following review of extended abstracts and support materials, ASDSO will invite full papers by February 25, 2011.

--Full papers will be due May 20, 2011.

--Awards will be announced in June 2011.

--Final revised papers will be due in late July 2011.

Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts:
--To be considered for an award, abstracts must be extended and detailed, of at least 1,200 words in length.

--Students may submit extended abstracts on-line or by e-mail.

--On-line – Complete the submittal form at www.damsafety.org under “Conferences & Training.”  Go to the submittal form.

--E-mail – Send to info@damsafety.org.  Attach your extended abstract to the email.  Provide in the body of your email message:
1.    Name of and full contact information for primary student author(s)
2.    Name of academic institution
3.    Academic major and level
4.    Enrollment status in February 2011 (full-time, part-time or co-op)
5.    Names, titles and affiliations of all co-authors (including other students, faculty, or outside professionals)
6.    Title of paper
7.    Notice of intent to present the proposed paper at Dam Safety 2011

For more information, contact Sarah McCubbin-Cain, 859-257-2102.

Call for Papers [EI/ISTP]

2011 WASE International Workshop on Advanced Intelligence, Software Engineer and Knowledge Management

(IWASK2011)

 Xi'an, China, 30 July, 2011

www.enjoywise.org/iwask11

All papers accepted by WASE IWASK 2011 will be indexed by EI&ISTP and included in IEEE Xplore. Selected 30-50 papers will be recommended to publish in SCI&EI journal.

Important Dates
Full paper submission:              January 30,  2011 
Acceptance Notification:             March 1,    2011
Camera-ready papers:               March 10,   2011
Presenting author registration due:  March 10,   2011
Conference:                        July 30,     2011

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2011 WASE International Summer Workshop on Energy, Electronic and Communication Engineering

(IWEEC 2011)

Xi'an, China, 6-7 Aug, 2011

www.enjoywise.org/iweec11

All papers accepted by WASE IWEEC 2011 will be indexed by EI&ISTP and included in IEEE Xplore. Selected 30-50 papers will be recommended to publish in SCI&EI journal.

Important Dates

 Full paper submission:                                      January  30,      2011
 Acceptance Notification:                                    March     1,        2011
Camera-ready papers:                                        March    10,        2011
 Presenting author registration due:                  March    10,        2011
Conference:                                                         August  6-7       2011

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2011 WASE International Summer Workshop on Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Transportation Engineering

(IWMAT 2011)

Xi'an, China, 6-7 Aug, 2011

www.enjoywise.org/iwmat11

All papers accepted by WASE IWMAT 2011 will be indexed by EI&ISTP and included in IEEE Xplore. Selected 30-50 papers will be recommended to publish in SCI&EI journal.

Important Dates
Full paper submission:                                     January  30,        2011
Acceptance Notification:                                  March     1,          2011 
Camera-ready papers:                                      March    10,         2011  
Presenting author registration due:               March    10,         2011  
Conference:                                                        August  6-7          2011

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2011 WASE International Workshop on Ubiquitous

computing MANET and Cyber Physical System

(UMC2011)

Xi'an, China, 30 July, 2011

www.enjoywise.org/umc11

All papers accepted by WASE UMC 2011 will be indexed by EI&ISTP and included in IEEE Xplore. Selected 30-50 papers will be recommended to publish in SCI&EI journal.

Important Dates Full paper submission:                  January 30,   2011

Acceptance Notification:                 March 1,    2011

Camera-ready papers:                   March 10,   2011 
Presenting author registration due:        March 10,   2011 
Conference:                            July 30,   2011

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Please submit your papers to Easychair Conference System or icie@enjoywise.org

Senior Design Competition at Northeast Bioengineering Conference

The 37th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference will have a senior design competition. The conference will be held on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on April 1 – 3, 2011. The senior design competition will be held during the afternoon on Friday April 1, 2011. The judging will be done by industry representatives and there will be cash awards to the winners.
The competition will consist of a poster presentation by the students. There will not be a platform presentation for this event.

For those senior design courses that are ongoing in the spring, 2011 semester, it is reasonable that the projects will not be completed by April 1, 2011 and especially not by the paper submission deadline. Students are encouraged to participate in the competition even though the projects will not have been fully completed. This will be taken into account be the judges. Also if a paper is to be submitted but not ready by the submission deadline of February 1, 2011, papers will be accepted in this category until February 28, 2011.

Please let Stan Reisman, Program Chair, know by January 28, 2011 if you plan to participate and about how many posters they can expect.

For more information, please go to http://www.nebec.org/

FAA Design Competition for Universities

The FAA is continuing to offer a Design Competition for Universities for the 2010 – 2011 academic year. The Competition has added new design categories.


The Competition guidelines and many resources are posted at the Competition website: http://FAADesignCompetition.odu.edu


The broad challenge categories of Airport Operations and Maintenance, Runway Safety/Runway Incursions, Airport Environmental Interactions and Airport Management and Planning embrace many engineering, science, information technology, psychology and management disciplines.

The competition is again open to individual and student teams at U.S. colleges and universities (both undergraduate and graduate) working under the mentorship of a faculty advisor. Winners can earn cash awards and first place winners have the opportunity and travel funds to present their design at a national aviation event during the summer of 2011. A notice of intent is strongly encouraged. This competition opens on August 30, 2010 and closes on April 15, 2011.

For more information, please contact, Debbie Ross (dross@odu.edu).

RI Business Plan Elevator Pitch Contest

Applications Due Dec. 3 for Elevator Pitch Contest
Friday, Dec. 3, at 5 p.m. is the deadline to apply to make a pitch at the Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Contest -- to be held Wednesday, Dec. 8.

Applications are available at:
http://www.ri-bizplan.com/Events/StatewideElevatorPitchContest/tabid/214/Default.aspx

The event, free to the public, will be held from 5 - 7 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the Rhode Island Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at One Davol Square, Providence.

Here's how it works:
Up to 30 presenters will each make a 90-second presentation.
A panel of expert judges from the Rhode Island business community will then give feedback about the clarity and persuasiveness of the presentation.
At the end of the evening cash prizes totaling $1,000 will be awarded to the best presenters.
This is a great opportunity to practice making a business pitch with immediate feedback from experienced business building professionals.

Want to just watch and listen?
You'll learn a lot, but we ask that you register to attend at:
http://ri-bizplan-pitch.eventbrite.com/

Workshops Start Jan. 13
The RI Business Plan Competition will host three free workshops, starting Jan. 13, that will help people develop and present strong business plans.
These workshops are open to everyone, whether or not you plan to apply to the competition.

For more information, please go to:
http://www.ri-bizplan.com/

Duke University Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis

The Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition was inaugurated in 1989 to honor Professor Melosh, a pioneering researcher in finite element methods and former chairman of civil and environmental engineering at Duke. In a professional career that included working at Boeing, Philco-Ford Laboratory, and MARC Analysis and Research Corporation, as well as teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and Duke University, Professor Melosh made significant and varied contributions to the finite element method. The Competition was established in view of his body of work, and aims to reflect Professor Melosh's dedication to the education of young engineers and researchers by providing a forum for student researchers to present their work and interact with each other and with leading researchers in the field. The winner of the competition, as determined on the basis of a submitted extended abstract and oral presentation of the paper, receives the Robert J. Melosh Medal and a $500 honorarium.

The competition is conducted in two primary phases. Initially, extended abstracts are reviewed by a panel of distinguished researchers in computational mechanics. Based on this review process, the top six papers are selected as finalists, and their student authors are invited to participate in the second phase of the competition, a symposium at Duke University on April 29, 2011.

The symposium features lectures by the members of the distinguished judging panel, as well as talks by all the selected finalists. After the selection of the finalists and the symposium itself, the finalists will be given the opportunity to prepare a full-length manuscript for inclusion in the journal Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. The deadline for the extended abstracts, which are to be between three and five pages in length, is January 7, 2011.

Details concerning the submission of papers for the annual competition can be found at www.cee.duke.edu/melosh.

Tenth Annual New England Science Symposium to be held in April

Established in 2002, the New England Science Symposium promotes careers in biomedical science. The aim of the symposium is to encourage postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to present their research projects through oral or poster presentations, to exchange ideas that can further their career development and to expand their professional network.


Abstract Submission and Registration
The fellows and students interested in presenting at the symposium must submit their abstract online by January 6, 2011.
To submit an abstract please go to:
http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/med_grad/ness/#abstract

There is no fee to attend the symposium, but pre-registration is required. Register early as seating is limited.


Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards
The Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards recognize participants who deliver outstanding oral presentations and who create exceptional scientific posters. The awards will be presented to the first ($300), second ($200), and third ($100) place winners of both the oral and poster presentations.


Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Awards
The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Awards recognize participants who deliver outstanding cancer-related oral and poster presentations. The awards will be presented to one oral presenter ($300) and one poster presenter ($300).


Sponsors and Supporters
Harvard Medical School
Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP)

MFDP of the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, established in 1990, seeks to increase the number of minority faculty and post-graduates at Harvard Medical School and the 18 Harvard Medical School-affiliated institutions; establish model programs for the development of minority faculty; and create programs designed to reach out to pre-college, college, graduate and postdoctoral populations with the goal of supporting outstanding, underrepresented minority individuals in the biomedical science pipeline.

Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP)
BSCP was founded in 1991 by MFDP in collaboration with the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Board of Higher Education to identify, inform, support and provide mentoring for academically outstanding minority students and fellows ranging from middle school to postdoctoral level.

Harvard Catalyst|The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center

Harvard Catalyst is a shared National Institutes of Health-funded enterprise of Harvard University (its ten schools and its 18 academic health centers), the Boston College School of Nursing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and community partners established to create connections, enable cutting-edge research, and nurture clinical and translational researchers.

Genzyme Research

Novartis

The Office of Minority Health through Cooperative Agreement No. MPCMPO51007
Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology and NIGMS Center for Modular Biology Grant No. GM68763
Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology and the Cell Decision Process Center Grant No. GM68762


Contact
For more information, please contact:
Harvard Medical School
Pinar Kilicci-Kret
Phone: 617-432-5580
pinar_kilicci-kret@hms.harvard.edu

Biomedical Science Careers Program
Lise D. Kaye
Phone: 617-432-0552
lise_kaye@hms.harvard.edu

RISD & RI-CIE Sustainable Design Competition

RISD & RI-CIE Sustainable Design Competition

Request for Proposals Deadline November 5
The Rhode Island Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (RI-CIE) is collaborating with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), who has received funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration for a pilot project aimed at enhancing opportunities for early-stage small businesses and/or product designers and entrepreneurs working in areas of sustainable development and the emerging green economy.

This collaboration will take place between December 2010 and August 2011. RI-CIE will provide support for the project through business development and business acceleration assistance, as well as mentoring and networking opportunities. In addition, incubator space and material support will be made available.

RISD currently seeks proposals from potential partners (individuals or companies) who are early stage small businesses and/or in the early stages of development of new products, services, or other business concepts that will advance the agenda of sustainable development in Rhode Island and will benefit from the combined technical and art + design/business development expertise of the RISD/RI-CIE collaboration.

The deadline for all proposals is November 5, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
For further information regarding the project and to get a copy of the RFP guidelines, please visit the RI-CIE home page - http://www.ri-cie.org/

email: suelene_gallogly@brown.edu

Dell Social Innovation Competition

The University of Texas at Austin and Dell are searching for student social entrepreneurs to dream up ingenious ideas to change the world. College students worldwide are invited to enter the 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition for a chance to win $50,000 to turn their ideas into a new business or nonprofit with a mission to change lives for the better.

The deadline to enter is February 14, 2011. Students can submit their ideas online at
http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com

Along with students, the public is invited to comment on, vote for and discuss the ideas in the online community forum.

The RGK Center for Philanthropy & Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded more than $200,000 in prizes to student social entrepreneurs since the introduction of the Social Innovation Competition in 2006.

http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com
http://twitter.com/dellsocialinnov
http://www.facebook.com/DellSocialInnovation

Virtual Poster Session competition

An exciting opportunity for students to present their work and win prizes through our Virtual Poster Session competition, which will take place until November 2010. Interested students should make a video of themselves discussing a scientific poster and upload their submission to YouTube. Details about the competition, including a flyer and official entry form, can be found at http://www.jyi.org/competitions/virtual_poster_2010/. Last year's participants and winning entries can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/JYIJournal.

AfterCollege Career Network Scholarships

AfterCollege awards one (1) $500 scholarship every quarter to a student who is seeking a bachelors, masters or doctorate in the field of Engineering or Computer Science. The next deadline is Wednesday, March 31.  Please apply now before you get too busy with mid-terms.  Click on the link below to view prior winners, eligibility requirements and download the application.
http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_engineering_student_scholarship/
Thank you in advance for submitting an application.

Zynga Tech Talk

Zynga is doing a Tech Talk on Tuesday, February 9th at the Career Development Center from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. They're also interviewing on campus on March 2, 2010 for Software Engineers and Software Engineer Interns. They are very excited to recruit at Brown.

Zynga in collaboration with HiddenAgenda is putting on a game development competition! Students can win $25,000 and a trip to San Francisco. (click jpg image above for more details)