2008~2009 Rutgers SPIE Student Chapter Annual
Report
1. Elected Officer Information
Position
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Name
Qiulin Ma
Lei Huang
Lei Huang
Zhizhong Dong
Email Address
qiulin@eden.rutgers.edu
huanglei@eden.rutgers.edu
huanglei@eden.rutgers.edu
zhizhong@eden.rutgers.edu
2. Current Student Chapter Members
Name
Shannon Agner
Jonathan Chappelow
Ye Cheng
Lei Huang
Ryan Integlia
Jian Jiao
Chen Lin
Xiaofei Liu
Qiulin Ma
Ghenadie Mardari
Paul Mark
Gaurav Saraf
Douglas Slusark
Zhizhong Dong
Hadi Halim
Huan Huang
Graduate/Undergraduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
graduate
email
agnersc@umdnj.edu
chappjc@eden.rutgers.edu
yecheng@eden.rutgers.edu
huanglei@eden.rutgers.edu
integlia@gmail.com
jiaojian@eden.rutgers.edu
chenlin@eden.rutgers.edu
xiaofliu@rutgers.edu
qiulin@eden.rutgers.edu
g.mardari@rutgers.edu
paulmark@eden.rutgers.edu
gsaraf@rci.rutgers.edu
dslusark@rci.rutgers.edu
zhizhong@eden.rutgers.edu
hdhalim@eden.rutgers.edu
eddhuang@eden.rutgers.edu
3. Chapter Activities of 2008~2009
Chapter Development: Chapter application; Constitution and Bylaws; Funding applications to SPIE and
Rutgers GSA
(09/18/08) General member meeting
Qiulin Ma and Lei huang were elected as the new president and vice president, respectively. Lei huang and
Zhizhong Dong were elected as the new secretary and treasurer, respectively.
(10/16/08) General member meeting
Got our new members acquainted, introduced each other’s academic background or interested field. We
also discussed future activities’ plans and set up schedules.
(10/30/08) Joint Technologies Virtual meeting at Colgate Palmolive, Piscataway NJ
A technologies virtual meeting hold by New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy in Colgate, NJ. An
engineering topic related to the applications of Spectroscopy had been presented.
Also, this on-site visit to Colgate gave out members a sense of the real industry. Members also had a
discussion of the career development and research topics with scientists.
(12/12/08) Lab tour in the Laboratories at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The students went to the New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS) meeting which is
conducted as a tour of the laboratories at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, followed by a
presentation.
(01/21/09) General member meeting
Our members presented what they have done or have been working on their researches, shared with each
other the research experiences and wisdom. A lot of more interesting engineering topics had been discussed.
(02/17/09) General member meeting
Summed up the activities in the past months. Our members shared with each other what they got from our
chapters’ activities and the progress of their researches.
A discussion of the pros and cons of our activities and further more the future plans.
(03/04/09) Seminar by Mr. Kevin Harding (Principal scientist in GE Research, SPIE and OSA Fellow,
SPIE President '2008)
A seminar given by Mr.Kevin Harding, introduced the art of invention. Mr. Harding used to be a president
of SPIE, 2008 and has served as association chair, society committee chair and conference chair for over 20
years working with the SPIE, LIA, ESA, SME, and OSA. This seminar was supported by SPIE visiting
lecture program, mechanical department of Rutgers university and throlabs. Enthusiastic ask & answer
after the seminar pushed this activity to another climax.
(04/26/09) General member meeting
Summed up the activities in the past months. Our members shared with each other what they got from our
chapters’ activities and the progress of their researches.
A discussion of the pros and cons of our activities and further more the future plans.
(06/20/09) Join West Point Boat Ride with New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy
We joined the New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS) annual boat ride at West Point,
which is for honoring the 2009 Graduate & Undergraduate Student Award Winners. During the boat ride,
presentations are given by the winners. And the SPIE student members got to discuss with the members in
the NYSAS on different research topics related to spectroscopy.
4. Planned Activities of Next Year
(1). Monthly member meeting
As in the regular member meeting, we will discuss past and coming events, share with each other our
research experiences and opinions. Further plans will also be taken into discussions.
(2). Visiting Scholar lecture
As a visiting lecture program from SPIE, we plan to take the advantage of it to invite Mr. Kevin Harding,
who is the president of SPIE this year and has a over thirty years of research experience in optics industry,
to give a talk to us (topic will be either academic or career development).
(3). On-site visiting
To offer out members a real industry experience , one on-site visiting to an optics related company will be
provided. Detailed explanations and discussions will be given by research scientists.
(4). Joint Meeting with other societies
To promote the optics related areas with a more expanded view, we plan to hold joint meeting with other
societies. By the opportunity, our members will have the chance to know more about the optics related
research field as in other points of view.
(5). Invited talk
Academic talk will be invited to give a sense of advanced science and technology, in this manner, our
members will have the sense of what is going on in the top of optics related researches and gain a clearer
mind of researches.
5. Financial Information
SPIE
Beginning Balance
Ending Balance
Rutgers Graduate Student Association
(GSA)
Beginning Balance
Ending Balance
2008
$700
$0
$720
0
2009
$581.99
$451.99
$540
0
Note: The GSA approved funding allocation is just the amount available for each semester, the amount left
after the semester does not go to next semester meaning that the ending balance is always zero.