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New buses to take students to Inner Harbor on weekends Beginning this week, there will be a new bus tooting around campus. On Saturdays and Sundays the Power Plant bus will shuttle students from the Homewood campus to the Inner Harbor, courtesy of the Cordish Company and the Downtown Partnership.
To inaugurate the free service, which will serve other
college campuses as well, a launch party will be held for
students on Friday, Oct. 8, at the Lava Lounge at the Power
Plant. Buses will leave from XandO, in the Homewood Apartments
building, at 6:45, 7:30 and 8:45 p.m., returning at 10:15 and 11
p.m. Regular service will begin Oct. 9, with some routes using
XandO and others Levering. Schedules can be found on the
Engineering grants provide new tools to students
Chemical engineering students will soon be using innovative
computer software and new materials processing equipment to help
them learn laboratory skills that are increasingly valued by
employers in private industry.
"These are new tools to make us more competitive in the new
frontiers of chemical engineering," said Michael Paulaitis, chair
of the Whiting School's Department of Chemical
Engineering. "It's part of an effort to move forward with the
chemical engineering industry. This new equipment will help us
continue to attract the best students in this evolving
discipline."
These research and teaching enhancements will result from
two $250,000 grants recently received by the department.
The Grace Davison Foundation, based in Columbia, Md., has
agreed to provide $50,000 annually for five years to help the
department renovate and purchase new equipment for the
undergraduate materials processing lab in Maryland Hall and to
provide a permanent endowment for maintenance and upgrading of
the new equipment.
In this lab, students will learn that the way a material is
created can affect the characteristics of the final product. This
requires the ability to study the fabrication process at the
microscopic level. To accomplish this, the department plans to
purchase two high-tech tools: a spectroscopic ellipsometer and a
dynamic light-scattering photometer.
The second grant is the donation of $250,000 worth of
computer hardware and software that will allow students to
simulate chemical engineering experiments on a computer, then use
the computer to control and monitor real equipment used in the
actual lab experiment.
This computer software and hardware is being provided by
Baltimore-based GSE Systems Inc. Chemical engineering majors will
be able to use the new software to help set up their capstone
senior design projects.
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