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uri Suzuki earned a Ph.D. inapplied physics from Stanford in
1995. In 2003, she joined the Berkeleyfaculty after five years on CornellUniversity’s faculty. Her researchfocuses on the synthesis and character-ization of complex oxide thin filmsand nanostructures, magnetism atsurfaces and interfaces at the nano-meter-length scale and magnetic junction and photonic devicesfor information technologies.
Call her: Professor Suzuki
Teaching this spring: MSE117, Properties of Dielectricand Magnetic Materials
Office hours: Tuesday, 2 to3 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:30to 11:30 a.m.
Earliest science experi-ment: “I entered schoolscience fairs, but I don’treally remember them.I’ve never been the tinker-ing type. I enjoy science in a moretheoretical way, for the process.”
How she got into the field: “I grewup in Berkeley and went to a collegeprep high school, but when I start-ed college [at Harvard], the mathand physics classes were a rudeawakening. I wondered, ‘Do I reallybelong here? What should I reallybe?’ I was pretty scared, actually.But I kept at it. My dad is a physicsprofessor here at Berkeley, and Iavoided physics initially because ofmy dad. Now, some of his col-leagues are my colleagues, too.”
Has a weakness for: “Sweets. Andmy kids. If they want to play withme, I’m easily distracted.”
If she could teach any course: “Itwould be on the materials scienceof gourmet cooking. What are youdoing to food when you cook it?And what about those differentpots and pans… is All-Clad worththe money? Of course, it would be ademonstration class, and we’d eatlunch. I’m not a terribly good cook,but a class like that would be fun.”
OFFICE HOURS
Biggest problem facing engineeringover the next 50 years: “Reducingour footprint on the environment.Of course, this isn’t just a problemfor engineering, but various engi-neering disciplines can certainlycontribute by, for example, build-ing energy efficient systems. I domagnetism research, and we’re
asking ourselves whether we canmanipulate electrons via their spinand not so much their charge, sothat the electrons don’t dissipate asmuch electricity. And now that Ihave kids and think more aboutwhat the planet will be like whenthey are grown, it’s not just a theo-retical problem. It hits home. Weneed to do better to make ourimpact sustainable.”
In her spare time: “I spend timewith my kids. We like to take walksor go hiking. I used to play the vio-lin, and I’d like to take it up again.Maybe in 10 years.”
Best thing about her job: “I get tohelp undergraduates learn how tothink and help graduate studentsbecome scientists. Once you’re outin the real world, it’s not as muchabout knowing the material as it isabout being able to think and gothrough an analytical process.”
In March, BioE/ChemE professor Jay Keaslingwas named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “100Agents of Change.” Keasling was chosen for hiswork engineering microbes to produce cheapmalaria drugs, synthesizing biofuels and advancingthe field of synthetic biology. Other honoreesincluded Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., BillGates and President Barack Obama. Get all thedetails at www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26754176/the_rs_100_agents_of_change.
Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year bythe Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, Collegeof Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadlineis 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication.
Rachel Shafermanaging editor and writer
Megan Mansell Williamsreporter
S. Shankar Sastrydean
Karen Rhodesexecutive director, marketing and communications
University of CaliforniaEngineering News312 McLaughlin HallBerkeley, California 94720-1704Phone: 510 642.5857Fax: 510 643.8882
www.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/publications/engineering-news
APRIL 23, 2009
Rock star professor
An interview with MSE professor Yuri Suzuki
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Geoff Theiss, ChemE senior
“Main lecture room at theGoldman School of PublicPolicy. The chairs swivel
nicely, and there’s a slopeto the room so you don’t
have to worry about seeingover people.”
Jacob Neal, Eng.Sci. junior
“If it’s just me withfriends, Dwinelle. You canhave your own space withyour own chalkboard, andthey always have rooms
available.”
Tara Srinivasan, BioE sophomore
“For GSI-held review ses-sions, 105 Stanley is a nicebig lecture hall with a pro-jector screen and boardspace. People can come
and go easily.”
Brian Yeh, IEOR junior
“101 O’Brien. The roomis not so good, but they
have this guy there namedJeff Strahl who holds the
best math review sessions.He’s the bomb.”
His next thrill ride
im Jacobi(M.S.’08 ME)
adores hurtlingthrough the air,whipping aroundhairpin turns andfeeling his stomachdo loops. The Dec-ember graduate is aroller coaster junkiewho put his gradu-ate studies on tem-porary hiatus in2004 to join a smallcadre of mechani-cal engineers whospecialize in amuse-ment park rides.Now employed atthrill ride manufac-turer S&S World-
wide, Jacobi designs roller coasters. “I always thought coasters were cool,” says
Jacobi, recalling the excitement of his first rideaboard a suspended coaster known as the Hang-man at the now-shuttered Opryland theme parkin Nashville, Tennessee.
AN ENGINEER’S DELIGHT: Rollercoaster engineer Tim Jacobi rec-ommends the Medusa coaster atSix Flags Discovery Kingdom inVallejo for its bending track andsophisticated control system.
What’s
the best place
to hold a review
session?
Continued on page 2
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PHOTOCOURTESY
OFTIM
JACOBI
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
GAME ON: Engineers from EECS and BioE face off, part of an
Engineering Week basketball tournament that ended with
mechanical engineers winning the championship. E-Week activi-
ties such as sports competitions and a wine and cheese party
persuaded students to suspend coursework for a bit to socialize,
meet others and have fun.
PASS/NO PASS
ME alum twists roller coasters into a satisfying career
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<announcements>Since joining S&S, Jacobi has worked on
more than a dozen big projects, includingswing rides — attractions with gigantic pen-dulum arms that soar back and forth. One ofthe biggest is the Skyhawk, a ride in Ohio’sCedar Point amusement park that sends rid-ers flying 125 feet in the air.
For Jacobi, creating roller coasters meansgrappling with such factors as fluids, dynam-ics, machine design and stress analysis.“There are good coasters and bad coasters,”he says. “It’s not easy to design a good ride.”
His latest — and perhaps most spine-tingling — assignment involves devising thelaunch system for what is expected to be theworld’s fastest pneumatically launched rollercoaster. The ride, set to debut in Germanythis summer, will propel passengers fromzero to 135 mph in less than three seconds.
While creating such excitement is an obvi-ous goal, Jacobi considers safety a priority.Rides must have an inherently sound design,he says, and include redundant safety fea-tures or safety factors requiring structuralelements that are many times stronger thanneeded for the loads they carry. “On realcritical areas, where people’s lives are dep-ending on it, you overdesign for it,” he says.“We’re morally responsible to be safe.”
Jacobi’s engineering path has taken itsown share of twists and turns. As a Yaleundergraduate, he weighed several careeroptions before turning to mechanical engi-neering. He graduated in 2000 and spent ayear doing engineering analysis forZamperla, a ride manufacturer in Vicenza,Italy. Returning to the United States as theamusement industry tanked following theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks, Jacobi signedon as a maintenance worker at Playland Parkin Rye, N.Y. By the fall of 2003, he decided itwas time for more schooling and headed toCal, where he studied mechanical designwith ME professor Alice Agogino.
When his dream job opened at S&S, “Idecided to jump on it,” he says, and laterfound the time to write his thesis and com-plete one remaining class for his degree.
“It was clear that his passion was rollercoaster engineering, and we figured out away to make that dream happen,” saysAgogino of her first-ever student specializingin roller coasters.
—Written by Abby Cohn and first published inInnovations January 2009.
His next thrill rideContinued from page 1
APRIL 23, 2009
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PHOTOS
IN THE SHOP: Cal’s formula-style race car
team is preparing for the Formula SAE
West competition in June, where college
teams race and exhibit the small-scale cars
they’ve designed and built. Above, from
left, ME junior Raechel Tan, ME junior Jaya
Iyer and ME graduate student Joe Silber in
the team’s shop at Richmond Field Station.
Members experimented with a new chassis
this year, eschewing a standard steel tube frame for a carbon-fiber
monocoque, a one-piece “skin” that adds sophistication, subtracts weight and
makes it easier to assemble the car. Above right, Iyer has been on the team since
her freshman year. fsae.berkeley.edu
FAST TIMES FOR TEAM
FORMULA SAE
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Nano conference You’re invited to attend the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2009on SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Haas School ofBusiness. The forum will feature speakers on molecular engineer-ing, renewable energy, nanoelectronics, health care and the busi-ness and public policy of nanotechnology. See details and registerto attend at www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nano.
Spring dance All engineering undergraduates are invited to the first annual“Spring Fling” dance on FRIDAY, MAY 1, in the Betty and GordonMoore Lobby of Hearst Memorial Mining Building. The casualdance, organized by undergrads, will run from 8 p.m. to midnightand feature the DJ talents of CEE student James Jackson. Ticketsare $5. Contact Kris at [email protected] for details.
A send-off for seniorsCongratulations to the class of 2009! You are graduates of thegreatest public university in the country and one of the finestengineering colleges in the world. The College of Engineeringinvites you to a festive celebration on MONDAY, MAY 11, 5 to 6:30p.m., in the Betty and Gordon Moore Lobby of Hearst MemorialMining Building. Reserve your space by e-mailing Dawn Kramer [email protected]. We wish you much success and happiness andwelcome you to the alumni community!
Last Engineering NewsThis is the last regular issue of Engineering News for the 2008–2009academic year. Look for our special Commencement issue onTHURSDAY, MAY 14, in the blue newsstands and of course at
Commencement. Good luck on finals, and have a wonderful sum-mer break! Send feedback and suggestions to the editor anytime [email protected].
Feed the Bears! Are you in need of a Finals Week study break? Then stop by theBerkeley Engineering Alumni Relations (BEAR) “Feed the Bears”table on FRIDAY, MAY 15, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., outside KresgeLibrary at the Bechtel Engineering Center. Grab a free snack anddrink! We’ll see you there.
Career Center on northsideAll engineering majors are invited to meet with a Career Centercounselor for drop-in hours EVERY TUESDAY, 3 to 5 p.m., in theASCE student office, located on the third floor of Davis Hall (mainentrance). Before the semester ends, stop by and ask questionsabout resume building, interview skills, job or internship possibil-ities, careers in engineering and Career Center resources.career.berkeley.edu
Spend the summer in GermanyHave summer plans yet? Spice up your resume with a researchinternship at Hamburg University of Technology, a prominentresearch university in Germany. You will be working one to twomonths with a team of highly motivated young scientists at theInstitute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering. We will provideyou with all the support you need, including an attractive grant of$500/month that makes up for most of the extra costs of stayingabroad. Put your knowledge into practice doing research, and atthe same time stay in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.Interested? Contact [email protected] or [email protected].
APRIL 23, 2009
“Below the Mean” iscreated by BioE alum
Charles Yong (B.S.’07).
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Get the complete College calendar atwww.coe.berkeley.edu/events.
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<announcements>Since joining S&S, Jacobi has worked on
more than a dozen big projects, includingswing rides — attractions with gigantic pen-dulum arms that soar back and forth. One ofthe biggest is the Skyhawk, a ride in Ohio’sCedar Point amusement park that sends rid-ers flying 125 feet in the air.
For Jacobi, creating roller coasters meansgrappling with such factors as fluids, dynam-ics, machine design and stress analysis.“There are good coasters and bad coasters,”he says. “It’s not easy to design a good ride.”
His latest — and perhaps most spine-tingling — assignment involves devising thelaunch system for what is expected to be theworld’s fastest pneumatically launched rollercoaster. The ride, set to debut in Germanythis summer, will propel passengers fromzero to 135 mph in less than three seconds.
While creating such excitement is an obvi-ous goal, Jacobi considers safety a priority.Rides must have an inherently sound design,he says, and include redundant safety fea-tures or safety factors requiring structuralelements that are many times stronger thanneeded for the loads they carry. “On realcritical areas, where people’s lives are dep-ending on it, you overdesign for it,” he says.“We’re morally responsible to be safe.”
Jacobi’s engineering path has taken itsown share of twists and turns. As a Yaleundergraduate, he weighed several careeroptions before turning to mechanical engi-neering. He graduated in 2000 and spent ayear doing engineering analysis forZamperla, a ride manufacturer in Vicenza,Italy. Returning to the United States as theamusement industry tanked following theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks, Jacobi signedon as a maintenance worker at Playland Parkin Rye, N.Y. By the fall of 2003, he decided itwas time for more schooling and headed toCal, where he studied mechanical designwith ME professor Alice Agogino.
When his dream job opened at S&S, “Idecided to jump on it,” he says, and laterfound the time to write his thesis and com-plete one remaining class for his degree.
“It was clear that his passion was rollercoaster engineering, and we figured out away to make that dream happen,” saysAgogino of her first-ever student specializingin roller coasters.
—Written by Abby Cohn and first published inInnovations January 2009.
His next thrill rideContinued from page 1
APRIL 23, 2009
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTOS
IN THE SHOP: Cal’s formula-style race car
team is preparing for the Formula SAE
West competition in June, where college
teams race and exhibit the small-scale cars
they’ve designed and built. Above, from
left, ME junior Raechel Tan, ME junior Jaya
Iyer and ME graduate student Joe Silber in
the team’s shop at Richmond Field Station.
Members experimented with a new chassis
this year, eschewing a standard steel tube frame for a carbon-fiber
monocoque, a one-piece “skin” that adds sophistication, subtracts weight and
makes it easier to assemble the car. Above right, Iyer has been on the team since
her freshman year. fsae.berkeley.edu
FAST TIMES FOR TEAM
FORMULA SAE
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Nano conference You’re invited to attend the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2009on SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Haas School ofBusiness. The forum will feature speakers on molecular engineer-ing, renewable energy, nanoelectronics, health care and the busi-ness and public policy of nanotechnology. See details and registerto attend at www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nano.
Spring dance All engineering undergraduates are invited to the first annual“Spring Fling” dance on FRIDAY, MAY 1, in the Betty and GordonMoore Lobby of Hearst Memorial Mining Building. The casualdance, organized by undergrads, will run from 8 p.m. to midnightand feature the DJ talents of CEE student James Jackson. Ticketsare $5. Contact Kris at [email protected] for details.
A send-off for seniorsCongratulations to the class of 2009! You are graduates of thegreatest public university in the country and one of the finestengineering colleges in the world. The College of Engineeringinvites you to a festive celebration on MONDAY, MAY 11, 5 to 6:30p.m., in the Betty and Gordon Moore Lobby of Hearst MemorialMining Building. Reserve your space by e-mailing Dawn Kramer [email protected]. We wish you much success and happiness andwelcome you to the alumni community!
Last Engineering NewsThis is the last regular issue of Engineering News for the 2008–2009academic year. Look for our special Commencement issue onTHURSDAY, MAY 14, in the blue newsstands and of course at
Commencement. Good luck on finals, and have a wonderful sum-mer break! Send feedback and suggestions to the editor anytime [email protected].
Feed the Bears! Are you in need of a Finals Week study break? Then stop by theBerkeley Engineering Alumni Relations (BEAR) “Feed the Bears”table on FRIDAY, MAY 15, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., outside KresgeLibrary at the Bechtel Engineering Center. Grab a free snack anddrink! We’ll see you there.
Career Center on northsideAll engineering majors are invited to meet with a Career Centercounselor for drop-in hours EVERY TUESDAY, 3 to 5 p.m., in theASCE student office, located on the third floor of Davis Hall (mainentrance). Before the semester ends, stop by and ask questionsabout resume building, interview skills, job or internship possibil-ities, careers in engineering and Career Center resources.career.berkeley.edu
Spend the summer in GermanyHave summer plans yet? Spice up your resume with a researchinternship at Hamburg University of Technology, a prominentresearch university in Germany. You will be working one to twomonths with a team of highly motivated young scientists at theInstitute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering. We will provideyou with all the support you need, including an attractive grant of$500/month that makes up for most of the extra costs of stayingabroad. Put your knowledge into practice doing research, and atthe same time stay in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.Interested? Contact [email protected] or [email protected].
APRIL 23, 2009
“Below the Mean” iscreated by BioE alum
Charles Yong (B.S.’07).
Issue 7S April 23.qxp 4/21/2009 10:10 AM Page 4
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
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uri Suzuki earned a Ph.D. inapplied physics from Stanford in
1995. In 2003, she joined the Berkeleyfaculty after five years on CornellUniversity’s faculty. Her researchfocuses on the synthesis and character-ization of complex oxide thin filmsand nanostructures, magnetism atsurfaces and interfaces at the nano-meter-length scale and magnetic junction and photonic devicesfor information technologies.
Call her: Professor Suzuki
Teaching this spring: MSE117, Properties of Dielectricand Magnetic Materials
Office hours: Tuesday, 2 to3 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:30to 11:30 a.m.
Earliest science experi-ment: “I entered schoolscience fairs, but I don’treally remember them.I’ve never been the tinker-ing type. I enjoy science in a moretheoretical way, for the process.”
How she got into the field: “I grewup in Berkeley and went to a collegeprep high school, but when I start-ed college [at Harvard], the mathand physics classes were a rudeawakening. I wondered, ‘Do I reallybelong here? What should I reallybe?’ I was pretty scared, actually.But I kept at it. My dad is a physicsprofessor here at Berkeley, and Iavoided physics initially because ofmy dad. Now, some of his col-leagues are my colleagues, too.”
Has a weakness for: “Sweets. Andmy kids. If they want to play withme, I’m easily distracted.”
If she could teach any course: “Itwould be on the materials scienceof gourmet cooking. What are youdoing to food when you cook it?And what about those differentpots and pans… is All-Clad worththe money? Of course, it would be ademonstration class, and we’d eatlunch. I’m not a terribly good cook,but a class like that would be fun.”
OFFICE HOURS
Biggest problem facing engineeringover the next 50 years: “Reducingour footprint on the environment.Of course, this isn’t just a problemfor engineering, but various engi-neering disciplines can certainlycontribute by, for example, build-ing energy efficient systems. I domagnetism research, and we’re
asking ourselves whether we canmanipulate electrons via their spinand not so much their charge, sothat the electrons don’t dissipate asmuch electricity. And now that Ihave kids and think more aboutwhat the planet will be like whenthey are grown, it’s not just a theo-retical problem. It hits home. Weneed to do better to make ourimpact sustainable.”
In her spare time: “I spend timewith my kids. We like to take walksor go hiking. I used to play the vio-lin, and I’d like to take it up again.Maybe in 10 years.”
Best thing about her job: “I get tohelp undergraduates learn how tothink and help graduate studentsbecome scientists. Once you’re outin the real world, it’s not as muchabout knowing the material as it isabout being able to think and gothrough an analytical process.”
In March, BioE/ChemE professor Jay Keaslingwas named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “100Agents of Change.” Keasling was chosen for hiswork engineering microbes to produce cheapmalaria drugs, synthesizing biofuels and advancingthe field of synthetic biology. Other honoreesincluded Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., BillGates and President Barack Obama. Get all thedetails at www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26754176/the_rs_100_agents_of_change.
Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year bythe Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, Collegeof Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadlineis 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication.
Rachel Shafermanaging editor and writer
Megan Mansell Williamsreporter
S. Shankar Sastrydean
Karen Rhodesexecutive director, marketing and communications
University of CaliforniaEngineering News312 McLaughlin HallBerkeley, California 94720-1704Phone: 510 642.5857Fax: 510 643.8882
www.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/publications/engineering-news
APRIL 23, 2009
Rock star professor
An interview with MSE professor Yuri Suzuki
Y
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
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Geoff Theiss, ChemE senior
“Main lecture room at theGoldman School of PublicPolicy. The chairs swivel
nicely, and there’s a slopeto the room so you don’t
have to worry about seeingover people.”
Jacob Neal, Eng.Sci. junior
“If it’s just me withfriends, Dwinelle. You canhave your own space withyour own chalkboard, andthey always have rooms
available.”
Tara Srinivasan, BioE sophomore
“For GSI-held review ses-sions, 105 Stanley is a nicebig lecture hall with a pro-jector screen and boardspace. People can come
and go easily.”
Brian Yeh, IEOR junior
“101 O’Brien. The roomis not so good, but they
have this guy there namedJeff Strahl who holds the
best math review sessions.He’s the bomb.”
His next thrill ride
im Jacobi(M.S.’08 ME)
adores hurtlingthrough the air,whipping aroundhairpin turns andfeeling his stomachdo loops. The Dec-ember graduate is aroller coaster junkiewho put his gradu-ate studies on tem-porary hiatus in2004 to join a smallcadre of mechani-cal engineers whospecialize in amuse-ment park rides.Now employed atthrill ride manufac-turer S&S World-
wide, Jacobi designs roller coasters. “I always thought coasters were cool,” says
Jacobi, recalling the excitement of his first rideaboard a suspended coaster known as the Hang-man at the now-shuttered Opryland theme parkin Nashville, Tennessee.
AN ENGINEER’S DELIGHT: Rollercoaster engineer Tim Jacobi rec-ommends the Medusa coaster atSix Flags Discovery Kingdom inVallejo for its bending track andsophisticated control system.
What’s
the best place
to hold a review
session?
Continued on page 2
APRIL 23, 2009 VOL. 79, NO. 7S
PHOTOCOURTESY
OFTIM
JACOBI
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
GAME ON: Engineers from EECS and BioE face off, part of an
Engineering Week basketball tournament that ended with
mechanical engineers winning the championship. E-Week activi-
ties such as sports competitions and a wine and cheese party
persuaded students to suspend coursework for a bit to socialize,
meet others and have fun.
PASS/NO PASS
ME alum twists roller coasters into a satisfying career
T
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