The first IMG seminar of the spring semester will be on Wednesday February 20th at 11:30am in Larsen 234. Featured speakers include Dr. Mark Sheplak with the "State of IMG Address" and Ben Griffin with a tutorial on Endnote.

Sheetal Shetye and Naigang Wang each earned oral presentations at the upcoming Intermag 2008 meeting in Madrid, Spain. Their respective papers are entitled, "Self-assembly of millimeter-scale components using integrated micromagnets" and "Electroplated Co-rich CoPt thick films and patterned arrays for magnetic MEMS".

Congratulations to Benjamin Griffin for successfully completing his dissertation proposal, entitled "MEMS-Based Parametric Acoustic Array."

Congratulations to new IMG graduate Karthik Kadirvel, who finished in December after completing his dissertation, "Development of Closed-Loop Interface Circuits for Capacitive Transducers with Applications to a MEMS Capacitive Microphone." Best wishes to Karthik at his new job as IC Design Engineer in the Battery Monitoring Solutions Group at Texas Instruments in Melbourne, FL.

Benjamin Griffin will be defending his proposal, entitled "MEMS-Based Parametric Acoustic Array," on Wednesday, December 12th in Larsen 234 at 11:30am.

Please join us in congratulating the following students on their election to the inaugural IMG Leadership Council: Janhavi Agashe, Brandon Bertolucci, Benjamin Griffin, Christopher Meyer, Alex Phipps, Mingliang Wang, and Matt Williams.