Page 2 - The Alpha Gam - Fall 2014

Chapter News Chapter President’s Report lumni, it is good to Additionally, Abe able to get back we are looking in touch with all of you stronger than and let you know what ever. Recruitment a busy year we’ve had was very here on campus as a successful this chapter. As of writing fall, and at the this, I only have a few moment, we are weeks left to serve as on pace to initate president of the chapter, 11 new members and it has certainly been an honor to be able this semester. Semi-Formal in New Orleans. to lead the fraternity in the direction we’ve M o t i v a t i o n been going. I would like to highlight that we to succeed in had a marked increase in chapter GPA this homecoming ass high, and as we rallyed the entire brotherhood put forward to get past spring up to a 3.11, and also committed behind brother Timothy Tjia-Gan, president the house in tip top shape has been unlike 990 hours of our time to community service! of the homecoming committee, to try and anything I’ve seen in my time. Chapter pride While that is exciting to see us accomplish win it all. The highlight of my time here, is stronger than I’ve seen in a while. Proud to so much, I would like to highlight that we though, has been hosting the award reception be a Delta Sig. aren’t stopping here, and our brothers have for Mike Duke this October. Mike Duke ’68 been hard at work to continue this as an was awarded the Career Achievement Award upward trend for the fraternity. by the national fraternity, and the effort that Alec Hearne Chapter Spotlight: Samir Jain Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as cochlear implants and other hearing Spotlight is legacy Samir Jain. Born in Sydney, devices. Australia and raised in Duluth, GA, Samir How are you preparing to work in came to Tech to pursue a degree in Biomedical your feld? Engineering. Now in his Junior year, Samir has served the chapter as Family Relations I currently have research in the ECE Chair and Academic Chair. On campus, he is department with Dr. Bhatti. This spring the Treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering I worked with her to model, design, Society and is a volunteer with Circle K. and 3D print a safer surgical tool to Samir interned this summer in Washington, use in cochlear implantation. This semester I’m working to study more DC at Gallaudet University where he studied effcient signaling programs for the Samir (L) and a fellow DSP (R) genetics of the deaf and had great success with electrode array inside cochlear implants. from Eta Psi chapter, both saying his work. Read on to fnd out more about our Additionally, I’m partaking in Teachable “YITBOS” in sign language. bright Spotlight! Moments (see https://starter.gatech. edu/#161) to present the complex topics What led you to join Delta Sigma Phi? It’s a fantastic way to get out of the stress of of cochlear implants and hearing aids in In DC I got the opportunity to work in a wet engineering school and spend time bonding with simple explanations to middle and high lab with deaf genetic DNA and also work on brothers and new members. school students, to encourage them to programmed simulations to predict the behavior of take interest in STEM felds. deaf genetics over 600 generations. There I met the How has your bond strengthened Eta Psi Gallaudet chapter of Delta Sigma Phi, who with your brother Kanav Jain ’12? all conversed in sign language and gave a different My relationship with my big brother perspective on how to appreciate the values of Delta Kanav has strengthened tenfold since Sigma Phi. It was my frst experience being with a pledging here at Delta Sig. There’s large group of deaf people, as I grew up attending so much more we can discuss now, schools where I was the only deaf person. I rushed and we sometimes tailgate together Delta Sig because I understood that DSP could at the fraternity house. adapt to different personalities and backgrounds, including a deaf person. Any plans for after graduation? Defnitely grad school. I feel What do you enjoy most as a Delta Sig? like there’s so much more for As a Delta Sig in the Alpha Gamma chapter, me to learn and I am looking to my favorite time of the year is brotherhood specialize in the device side of retreat. Every semester we go out and camp in biomedical engineering. This Samir presenting data in sign language. the woods, mountains, or near a lake or river. would include the research on