Brown Club OC enjoyed an informative and engaging lecture January 26th by Brown Dean of Engineering, Larry Larson. Dean Larson told us how the Brown Design Workshop and Center for Entrepreneurship is at the core of making Engineering at Brown a truly interdisciplinary field of study. Many thanks to Principal Gordon McNeill and Sage Hill School for hosting the event.

 

Larry Larson, Brown's Dean of Engineering, speaks in Irvine Jan. 26, 2015

Once, telephones looked like this - and we thought they were good then!

We have come a LONG way. One of the leaders in today's wireless revolution is Larry Larson, Brown's Dean of Engineering, who holds over 40 patents. 

A long-time San Diegan, Larry is escaping the Providence winter to visit us in Orange County at

Location: Sage Hill School, 20402 Newport Coast Drive, Newport Coast, CA 92657
map: https://goo.gl/maps/xGOuu
Date: Monday, January 26, 2015, 7 - 8:30 PM 

Admission is free, but please register here
https://alumni.brown.edu/Alumni/BRAVO/Events/Registration.aspx?Event=1429
so we know how many to expect. And bring friends! 

Larry is an engaging and interesting speaker who is not only an expert on today's fast-moving communications and wireless technologies, but also the leader of America's 3rd-oldest Engineering Program at Brown University. You'll learn what's coming beyond 4G-LTE and what it takes to be part of a top Engineering school in the Age of STEM - and you will have a good time doing it. We'll see you at Sage Hill School Monday night at 7!

Take a look at what Brown Club OC is up to this winter!

Monday, January 26. HOLD THE DATE. Larry Larson, Brown Dean of Engineering and expert in the field of wireless communications, will speak at Sage Hill School from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Topic and details to be announced.

Saturday, January 31. Brown Alumni Interview program hosts a day of interviewing at Sage Hill School beginning at 10 a.m. Your help is needed to accommodate all the excellent applicants from the OC.
Sign up now by contacting Brown Alumni Interview chair for Orange County, Sean Zhang ’13, at Click to email Sean Zhang

Sunday, February 8. SPECIAL PURCHASE (1/23 UPDATE: ONE TICKET LEFT!) Ira Glass at the Barclay Theater, UCI, 3:00-5:00 p.m. If interested in attending, contact Chiyo Rowe at browncluboc@gmail.com or Barclay Theater ticket information.

Saturday, February 14. Brown Alumni Interview program hosts a day of interviewing at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim beginning at 10 a.m. Your help is needed to accommodate all the excellent applicants from the OC.
Sign up now by contacting Brown Alumni Interview chair for Orange County, Sean Zhang ’13, at Click to email Sean Zhang

Saturday, February 21. HOLD THE DATE. Lunar New Year’s Dinner at J. Zhou Restaurant in the District in Tustin. For more details:Click to email Sean Zhang

Sunday, March 1. HOLD THE DATE. Anne Willan, award-winning author of The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook and One Souffl at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France will be doing a special appearance for BCOC at the Laguna Niguel Library followed by a book signing and special reception. Details to be announced.

A clip from the Brown Derbies appearance today at the Van Damme Academy in Aliso Viejo.

There's still time to see them tonight at 7:00 in the Black Box Theater, Sage Hill School, Newport Coast.
Don't miss out!
Map to Sage Hill School
Ticket information

Forgot Your New Year's Resolutions?

Worried about 2015? Global Warming? Investments? Seth Rogan’s film career?
Fuhgeddaboudit! Come hear the world-famous singing group even the Guardians of Peace couldn’t stop!

See the Brown Derbies live, in person, at the Black Box Theater, Sage Hill School, Newport Coast on Tuesday, January 13th at 7:00 p.m.This hack-proof event has a smile-back guarantee!!

Click for more information or tickets
For more info. text or call Scott at 949-636-1975 or email scott.ed@cox.net

Farewell to the Barus-Holley parking lot

Barus-Holley and The Parking Lot

My favorite memory of the soon-to-be-gone parking lot just south of BH had to do with (the late) Engineering Prof. Don Avery, one of the most outrageous people on campus, who often rode his motorcycle to the office. To protect the bike, he used a heavy chain and special lock when he parked it in that lot.

Motorcycles with helmetless riders wearing aviator sunglasses were popular around the parking-challenged Brown campus in my student days. These bikes were very hot theft targets – a fraternity brother had his BSA swiped and was told by the police that odds of recovery were less than 1 in 10. For him they proved to be zero.

Mr. Avery was constantly trying new tricks with materials, and loved putting them to the practical-use test. He had put a special ultra-hard hasp on the motorcycle lock, and then did some sophisticated case-hardening on the heavy steel chain. “Case-hardening” the steel gave each link a very hard but tough surface “case,” difficult to cut or crack. Meanwhile the inner part of each link, under the "case," retained the toughness and strength of steel. Being steel, the outer case was not brittle like cast iron or other hard metals.

One mid-winter night about 6:30, Mr. Avery took the elevator down to the BH lobby, bundled up and ready to unlock his bike for the chilly ride home. From the lobby, he could see in the darkness that two men with a 4-foot pair of bolt cutters were testing his chain’s performance. One was holding the bolt cutters on the chain while the other was jumping up and down on the end of the cutters, trying to get enough force to cut it. Technology forever! The case-hardened steel was winning the battle.  

Mr. Avery retreated inside to the nearest phone and called the police, who arrived promptly and discreetly. The would-be thieves were so involved in trying to cut through the chain they did not notice the armed audience arriving to watch their act. The police took two motorcycle thieves off the streets that night, and after filing a preliminary report, Mr. Avery unlocked his motorcycle, bundled up his slightly-nicked chain, and headed home.

A lot of other historic things happened in that lot, I’m sure, but I liked this one. 

- Bill McNeely, Sc. B. in Engineering 

Brown launches new internship initiative

November 12, 2014   Contact: Courtney Coelho   401-863-7287

BrownConnect, launched today, is an initiative that will provide Brown students with streamlined access to summer internships, research, and funding — and a suite of digital information services to review opportunities and engage with a global network of Brown alumni, parents, and supporters.

BrownConnect