Opportunities & Announcements, June 2013

Mark G. Allen, Ph.D. (PA D ’84), has been named as the inaugural scientific director of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Dr. Allen is the executive director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech, where he is also a professor of Microelectronics. He earned his undergraduate degrees in engineering from Penn. Read the article

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In a blog post on nonacademic careers for Ph.D.’s in the sciences from The Chronicle of Higher Education, the discussion was about becoming a patent lawyer. Many law firms have an intellectual-property practice, according to the article, and are looking for STEM expertise. There is a difference between a patent agent and a patent lawyer, and if you are not interested in going to law school you can still be a scientific adviser or technical adviser.

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CBS Detroit has announced that Lawrence Technological University is offering scholarships “for two years to community college graduates to complete a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a power engineering concentration.” The scholarships are made possible thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation with up to 20 available during the first year of the Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program.

The application deadline for the S-STEM program this fall is August 1. Philip D. Olivier, Ph.D. (GA B ’80), is the chair of LTU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor. He said, “Electricity generation is one industry you can’t outsource, and there is a shortage of power engineers in this country that could become acute in the next few years as many engineers in this field retire.” Click here to learn more

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