WSU Tri-Cities

MME Seminar Series: The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Gas Dynamic Shock Waves
2019-03-01 12:10 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BSEL 102
This seminar presents a computational investigation of shock-wave structures through a novel
implicit high-order Galerkin finite element Runge–Kutta algorithm. The algorithm induces no spatial
discretization artificial diffusion, relies on cubic and higher-degree elements for an accurate resolution
of the steep shock gradients, uses an implicit time integration for swift convergence to steady states,
and employs original Neumann-type outlet boundary conditions in the form of generalized Rankine
Hugoniot conditions on normal stress and balance of heat flux and deviatoric-stress work per unit time.
Through an innovative approach, the formulation also calculates the shock extent, which is an additional
unknown, and employs the single non dimensional (0, 1) computational domain for the determination
of any shock structure. The algorithm rapidly generates steady shock structures, in at most 150 time
steps for any upstream Mach number considered in this study, in the range 1.05 < M < 10.0. The finite
element discretization is shown to be asymptotically convergent under progressive grid refinements, in
respect of both the H0 and H1 error norms, with an H0 accuracy order as high as 6 and reduction of the
discretization error to the round-off-error threshold of 1 x10-9 with just 420 computational cells and
5th-degree elements. For any upstream Mach number, the computational results are shown to satisfy the
Rankine–Hugoniot conditions, an established requirement for solution reliability.
MME Seminar_Flyer_Iannelli_03.01.2019

National TRIO Day
2019-03-06 11:00 - 14:00 | Floyd Atrium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
In honor of National TRIO Day, TRIO Student Support Services is hosting a celebration event next Wednesday March 6, 2019. Leading up to and at the event we will be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the WSUTC Cougar Cupboard. In addition, our students have been signing up for local volunteer opportunities such as tutoring support at the Family Learning Center, providing workshops at the Kids Engineering Day at Jeffereson Elementary, and offering mentorship for the Dream It, Be It conference.

Overview of National TRIO Day:

On February 24, 1986, a congressional resolution (H. Con. Res. 278) declared that Saturday, February 28, 1986, should be designated as “National TRIO Day” to commemorate the annual achievements of the Federal TRIO programs in communities across the country.
Every year since then, our community has reserved the fourth Saturday in February as National TRIO Day — an opportunity to focus the nation’s “attention on the needs of disadvantaged young people and adults aspiring to improve their lives if they are to become contributing citizens of the country, and to the talent which will be wasted if that investment is not made.”
For many programs, National TRIO Day has become a tradition as it allows students who benefit from the TRIO programs and to give back to their local communities through acts of service.

Please join us next week, and bring a non-perishable food item, in the Atrium beginning at 11:00 am as TRIO Student Support Services celebrates National TRIO Day. There will be guest speakers from PNNL, activities hosted by our students, and light appetizers.

RFO Spring General Assembly
2019-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 | CIC 125T, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States

Picture Books and Social Justice-Diversity Lecture
2019-03-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Floyd 243, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
Join award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh on March 7, 4-5 p.m., to see his livestreamed presentation, “Picture Books and Social Justice.” Tonatiuh will share some of his children’s books and talk about the role children’s literature can play in teaching our youth about social justice issues like immigration. The presentation is great for teachers, social workers, parents, and anyone working in youth programming.

This event will also be available via Global Campus, https://connections.wsu.edu/events-calendar/picture-books-and-social-justice/

International Women's Day
2019-03-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Floyd Atrium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Students, staff and faculty are invited to join WSU Tri-Cities in a celebration of International Women’s Day on campus.

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar - "Molecular Insights on Materials Formation from Solution”
2019-03-08 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
See the flyer for more information.

College Planning Day CANCELED
2019-03-12 09:00 - 12:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
College Planning Day has been canceled because of inclement winter weather.

Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a personalized campus tour or groups visit.

Pre-retirement seminar
2019-03-13 09:00 - 10:30 | Floyd 209, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Human Resource Services (HRS) will be conducting pre-retirement seminars to assist you with retirement planning. Topics include:
• Retiree Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance Enrollment Processes;
• Medicare and Social Security;
• Voluntary Employee’s Benefit Association Medical Expense Plan (VEBA MEP);
• Annual Leave Payment;
• Voluntary Investment Programs;
• Retirement Income, and;
• Retirement Supplementation for WSURP participants.
These seminars are open to all Department of Retirement System (PERS/TRS/LEOFF) and WSU Retirement Plan (WSURP) participants. You do not need to register to attend, but seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-seated basis.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 9:00 – 10:30 in Floyd

Current Student Advising
2019-03-18 13:00 - 15:00 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.

Current Student Advising
2019-03-19 14:30 - 16:30, 2019-03-21 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-03-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-03-26 14:30 - 16:30, 2019-03-28 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-04-01 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-04-02 14:30 - 16:30 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.
Undergraduate Advising
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2710 Crimson Way | Richland, WA 99354-1671
Website: tricities.wsu.edu/advising |Email: advising@tricity.wsu.edu

Diversity Lecture: On the Power of Memoir: Writing Black Lives Into the Future - Darnell Moore
2019-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | floyd 244, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Diversity Lecture from the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center Speaker Series – On the Power of Memoir: Writing Black Lives Into the Future by Keynote Speaker: Darnell Moore

Current Student Advising
2019-03-20 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-03-27 09:00 - 11:00 | CIC 219, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Campus lecture and discussion - Expert Women Explore The Heavy Burden Of Hanford Cleanup
2019-03-21 17:00 - 20:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Northwest News Network’s Anna King will present her award-winning public radio project Daughters of Hanford at WSU Tri-Cities.
Afterwards, King will moderate a panel discussion with three of those featured expert women. The event starts at 5 p.m., March 21, in WSU Tri-Cities’ East Auditorium.
“These women have intense experiences, great depth of knowledge and funny stories to share about Hanford,” says Anna King, who also appears on WSU’s Northwest Public Broadcasting. “Hanford is a heavy burden that we all inherit and these women’s wisdom is invaluable.”
WSU Tri-Cities, WSU WiSTEM and the Women Chemist Committee of the American Chemical Society, Richland Section, are presenting the entertaining program together.
Daughters is oral histories, portraits and personal archives of women who changed the World War II plutonium production site, and women who were changed by it. The evening’s panel discussion will feature three Daughters of Hanford: retired Washington State Ecology geologist Zelma Maine Jackson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Frannie Smith and retired head of Washington State Ecology’s Hanford program, Jane Hedges.
“Women’s contributions to the Hanford site and the Manhattan Project sites across the country, but especially at Hanford, are unknown,” says Zelma Maine Jackson. “When you think of the nuclear industry you think of men, you never think of women. But more than likely they performed 90 percent of the hard work — the laborious, tedious, number crunching, dictating a letter, making a policy come into effect — it’s always been the mental heavy load carried by women.”
Daughters of Hanford was created in partnership with WSU Tri-Cities, The REACH, and Northwest Public Broadcasting. Daughters is a series, a museum installation and a radio documentary. Daughters was awarded the Washington State Historical Society’s David Douglas award.
“This won’t be a stiff lecture, or a glum chat,” King says about the upcoming event at WSU Tri-Cities. “Bring a young woman or girl and grab a seat for this entertaining evening full of dynamic sound, surprising Northwest stories, poignant moments and laughter.”
Daughters gets its name from nuclear science. “Daughter products” are isotopes formed by radioactive decay of some other isotope. Daughters collaborators include: WSU Tri-Cities’s associate professor of fine arts Doug Gast, Seattle-based photographer Kai-Huei Yau, and newly-minted APM podcast editor Phyllis Fletcher. You can listen to the audio stories and explore the full project and photography at daughtersofhanford.org.

MME Seminar Series - "How to do a Project" - with Lance Doyle
2019-03-22 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
Abstract
In order to successfully complete a project, there are a number of steps
that must be taken. The goal of this presentation is to help you identify
those steps. The process starts with a concept and goes through initial
production. Lessons learned from over 40 years in the industry are
discussed.
Bio
Lance Doyle
Electronics Engineer/Mfg Engineer
Bruker Nano Analytics
Lance has been doing engineering and design work since 1974 working
for companies with 1 to 4,000+ employees. The products he has been
involved with range from X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers, Spaceborne
Tape Recorders, weather instrumentation, and robotic tape libraries for
medium to large computer systems. While his focus is in electronics, he
has also done tool and die design. He holds 2 patents for his work in Road
Condition Sensors for snow & ice control.

Strategic Planning Town Hall
2019-03-25 15:00 - 16:30 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Campus Survey Results
Monday, March 25, 3– 4:30p.m. in East 266 (Auditorium)
Sarah Tragesser, Ph.D., associate professor, and Ray White, MBA, vice chancellor for finance and administration at WSU Tri-Cities, will provide an overview of the campus survey results collected earlier this year on common values, expectations and vision for the campus moving forward. Also joining Dr. Tragesser will be her data analysis team of undergraduate research assistants, Sarah Wright, Eric Mendez and Emma Ballew.
If you would like to learn more about WSU Tri-Cities’ strategic planning process, visit tricities.wsu.edu/strategicplanning.

2019-03-26 14:30 - 16:30 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.
Undergraduate Advising
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2710 Crimson Way | Richland, WA 99354-1671
Website: tricities.wsu.edu/advising |Email: advising@tricity.wsu.edu

State of the University Address
2019-03-26 15:10 - 16:30 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
President Schulz highlights the University’s accomplishments of the past 12 months. Q & A and a reception will follow the address.

Professional Development Workshop Series for Juniors and Seniors, Presented by the English Dept.
2019-03-27 13:10 - 14:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
Expand Your Network
This workshop will focus on expanding and building your professional network by providing tips and ways to grow it.

Work shops are limited to 10-15 participants. Students who attend the workshop on January 30th, will have first priority to attend other workshops in the series.
Registration is required, to register, email Vanessa Cozza@wsu.edu.
Snacks and beverages provided.

Running Start Info Night
2019-03-27 18:00 - 19:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
Join us for an in-depth look at Running Start, there will be a student panel, faculty presentation, and a Running Start 411.

MME Seminar Series - Microstructural Evolution
2019-03-29 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
Abstract
Materials issues such as corrosion, strength, ductility, crack propagation, etc are
significantly affected by microstructural evolution either during the materials lifetime
or in the manufacturing processes which produced the material. By gaining a clear
understanding of the microstructural evolution of materials it is possible to create
new improved materials tailored specifically for the required task. Using the specific
examples of the solidification of carbides in liquid U, hydride formation and growth in
nuclear fuel rod claddings, and grain boundary engineering in FCC nickel the study of
microstructural evolution to improve materials will be discussed.
Bio
Jacob L. Bair was raised on a farm near Ephrata, WA. He earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical
Engineering with a second major in French from Washington State University in December
of 2012, then his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Missouri University of
Science and Technology in December of 2016. His research has been on experimental
and computational studies of the microstructural evolution of materials using scanning
electron microscopy with Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Phase Field Modeling, and
Molecular Dynamics. Topics he has researched include hydrides in Zr fuel rod claddings,
grain boundary migration in face centered cubic materials, and twinning in nickel. At
PNNL he has been involved in phase field modeling of UC formation in a liquid U melt,
Pu Oxalate precipitation, and a combined experimental and computational study of
hydride embrittlement in Zr fuel rod claddings.

2019 WSU Tri-Cities Social Justice Institute
2019-03-30 08:30 - 16:00 | 1004 Long Street, Richland, WA
Register Now! 2019 Social Justice Institute: Our Roots & Your Story

2019 WSU Tri-Cities Social Justice Institute
When: Saturday, March 30th: 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Where: WSU Tri-Cities
Limited to first 50 students to complete registration!
Lunch will be provided for attendees!
WSU Tri-Cities hosts an annual Social Justice Institute to equip and empower participants in creating a stronger inclusion environment for all members of the campus community. Participants attend lectures, workshops, and discussion groups to explore the foundations, dynamics, and consequences of privilege and oppression at the individual, group, and institutional levels. Through this facilitated dialogue, students enhance and refine their skills and competencies of contemporary social justice issues.
The theme for this year’s institute is “Our Roots & Your Story.”
Which includes workshop sessions exploring the history of our community and sharing our stories.

Register Now!

Point to Success fundraising Brunch
2019-03-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Anthony’s at Columbia Point, 550 Columbia Point Dr., Richland, WA, 99352, United States
The master of ceremonies will be KNDU Television news anchor Tracci Dial and the featured speaker is Tim Hanni, flavor maven, internationally known expert in wine and the wine business, and the first person in the U.S. to earn the Master of Wine credential (http://www.timhanni.com/). Tim is author of the book, Why you like the Wines you Like. Did you know that your wine preference correlates to a dislike of loud restaurants, an affinity for sushi, a dislike of cilantro, a dislike of tags in your clothes, and your mother’s susceptibility to morning sickness? And that Tim developed a short quiz you can take to sort this all out? You won’t want to miss this informative and amusing presentation.
This year’s brunch will include a live auction for some great packages, a $25 wine grab, and a fun game of heads-or-tails. Auction items include a private vineyard-to-bottle tour featuring Charlie Hoppes and Dick Boushey; a weeklong stay at a penthouse condo at Punta Mita, near Puerta Vallarta; a stay for four on a Seattle houseboat; a private tasting for twelve at a local distillery; a condo stay for eight at Eagle Crest resort, near Bend; two-night stays at the Columbia Gorge Hotel and the Lodge at Cannon Beach; a summer pool barbecue overlooking the Snake River; a family photo session; a private tour of a submarine conning tower with dinner for eight; and a dinner for eight at a local waterfront home prepared by the Executive Chef of the WSU School of Hospitality and Business Management, Jamie Callison. The wine grab will include many bottles of wine with retail values greater than $60 and an average value of over $40, including ten 90-pointers and two double gold winners. The prize package for heads-or-tails includes a $350, 100-point wine.

As in previous years, Anthony’s is generously donating the space, food, and champagne, so essentially all of the money raised goes straight to the Carson College of Business at WSU Tri-Cities.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any others whom you feel would be willing to help support the CCB at WSU Tri-Cities.

Current Student Advising
2019-04-03 09:00 - 11:00 | TCIC 219
