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Developing Tools for Space ExplorationEngineers Create Handheld Blood Test Unit

No-slip Condition at the NanoscaleBreakthrough Focuses Attention on Fluid Behavior

Researchers Discover High Levels of Bacteria at L.A. Area Beaches

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DeanVijay K. Dhir

Associate DeansStephen Jacobsen - Academic and Student Affairs

Gregory Pottie - Research and Physical Resources

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DesignVince Rini Design

As educators of the next generation of engineers and

computer scientists we have a unique responsibility.

We must prepare our graduates not only for their

careers immediately after graduation, but also for

their work several decades from now.

However, the rapid pace of technological change

means that even 10 years has become a lifetime in

engineering, and this makes it difficult to accurately

predict what our graduates will be working on as their careers progress.

At the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, we

believe in educating our students how to be ethical engineers, creative

thinkers, and flexible, innovative problem solvers.

True to the vision of founding Dean Llewellyn Boelter, we challenge our

students in the classroom to prepare them for success in the workforce.

We provide them with a fundamental understanding of mathematics, the

sciences, and engineering that can serve as a trustworthy foundation for

their future, wherever it takes them.

To help our alumni thrive in their careers, we are launching a new online

Master of Science in Engineering program this year with courses taught by

our world-renowned faculty. The program will serve highly-qualified

engineers who are interested in deepening their knowledge of cutting-edge

engineering and technology.

With economic globalization comes increased competition – both in the

marketplace and in terms of intellectual capital. To maintain our position as

a leader in engineering, we must continually reassess our programs and

focus on our strengths. Our dynamic research and educational programs

in bio-nano-info technology will spur new discoveries and ensure that the

School remains on the frontiers of engineering knowledge.

As Dean, I take great pride in the high quality of our programs, our faculty,

and students. As we move forward, I hope you will all remain engaged in

our mission of education, research, and service to society.

Sincerely,

Vijay K. Dhir

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Saturday, September 30, 2006UCLA Engineering Bruin Game Day Party UCLA vs StanfordRose Bowl, Pasadenahttp://www.engineer.ucla.edu/events/gameday.html

Tuesday, October 10, 2006WINMEC RFID ForumUCLA Campushttp://www.winmec.ucla.edu/

October 27, 2006CENS 4th Annual Research ReviewTom Bradley International Hall, UCLAhttp://www.cens.ucla.edu/portal/4th_Annual_RR.html

Friday, October 27 – Sunday, October 29UCLA Parents’Weekend 2006UCLA Campushttp://www.parentsweekend.ucla.edu/

Friday, November 3, 20062006 UCLA Engineering Awards DinnerRegent Beverly Wilshire HotelBeverly Hills, CAhttp://www.engineer.ucla.edu/events/awardsdinner.html

Friday, November 6 to Tuesday, November 14, 2006Area Alumni Receptions with Dean Vijay K. DhirTaipei,Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong KongFor more information, please email hsseasevents@support.ucla.eduor call 310-206-0678

Thursday, May 17, 2007Student Projects ReceptionJames West Alumni Center, UCLA

Please visit http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/events/ for updated information and additional events.

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Conceived and directed by Mel Shapiro,acting professor of theater at UCLA’sSchool of Theater, Film and Television(TFT), “The Bloggers Project” drew ona unique collaboration with the UCLAHenry Samueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science.

The text of “The Bloggers Project” wasculled from real-life weblogs combinedwith historical and literary material.Artists and engineers from UCLA’sCenter for Research in Engineering,Media and Performance (REMAP)collaborated to create the accompanyingvisuals.

Prompted by the show’s material andgame-like concept, REMAP researchersexplored how the power of a moderngame engine might be harnessed tocreate a uniquely fluid world of mediafor a live event. During its three brief

Original video segments were placed,together with found images, in EpicGame’s Unreal engine to create anavigable three-dimensional collage.This became the “world” from whicheach scene’s visuals were taken duringthe rehearsal process. The raw materialwas composited and layered onto anotherworldly architecture created byREMAP researchers. Simultaneously,software was created to enable playbackof the video footage within the 3Dworld and allow the game engine’sperspective, movement and media to becontrolled remotely in real-time by anoperator watching the production.

To read more about the production,please visit http://bigriver.remap.ucla.edu/remap/index.php/Blogger_Project.

UCLA Engineers Collaborate on Multimedia PerformanceBy David Chute

New Silicon Optical Amplifiers Generate Electrical Power by Harvesting Energy

By Melissa Abraham

months of pre-production, this effortbrought together a team of students and alumni from computer science,theater, animation, cinematography, andarchitecture, led by REMAP executivedirector Jeff Burke.

discovery. It was Jalali’s lab that, in 2004,demonstrated the first silicon laser, adevice that took advantage of Ramanamplification.

The amount of information that can besent through an optical wire is relateddirectly to the intensity of the light. Inorder to perform some of the keyfunctions in optical networking — suchas amplification, wavelength conversion,and optical switching — silicon must beilluminated with high-intensity light totake advantage of its nonlinear proper-ties. One example is the Raman effect, aphenomenon that occurs at high opticalintensities and is behind many recentbreakthroughs in silicon photonics,including the first optical amplifiers andlasers made in silicon.

In a study presented earlier this year,UCLA Engineering researchers reportedthat not only can optical amplification insilicon be achieved with zero powerconsumption, but that power can nowbe generated in the process.

The team’s research shows that siliconRaman amplifiers possess nonlinearphotovoltaic properties, a phenomenonrelated to power generation in solar cells.

“After dominating the electronicsindustry for decades, silicon is now onthe verge of becoming the material ofchoice for the photonics industry,the traditional stronghold of today’ssemiconductors,” said Bahram Jalali, theelectrical engineering professor who ledresearcher Sasan Fathpour and graduatestudent Kevin Tsia in making the recent

Building on a series of recent break-throughs in silicon photonics, researchersat the UCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Science havedeveloped a novel approach to silicondevices that combines light amplificationwith a photovoltaic — or solar panel —effect.

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A fundamental challenge in siliconphotonics is that the material stops beingtransparent at high optical intensities,keeping light from passing through.

“As light intensifies in silicon, itgenerates electrons through a processcalled two photon absorption. Excesselectrons absorb the light and turn it intoheat. Not only is the light and the data-carrying capacity lost, the phenomenonexacerbates one of the main obstacles inthe semiconductor industry, which isexcessive heating of chips. The opticalloss also makes it all but impossible tocreate optical amplifiers and lasers thatoperate continuously,” Jalali said.

In previous attempts to deal with thischallenge, a diode attached to the chiphas been used to “vacuum” out theelectrons that block light.This approachpresents further problems, however,because the vacuum adds an additionalwatt of heat onto the chip — nearly amillion times the power that a singletransistor consumes in a digital circuit.

“In the past, two-photon absorption insilicon has resulted in significant loss forhigh power Raman amplifiers and lasers,reducing efficiency and necessitatingcomplex mitigation schemes. UCLAEngineering’s new development willenable recycling power that wouldotherwise be lost. In space and militarylaser systems, the impact of deviceefficiency on electrical power andthermal management is a primeconsideration,” said Dr. Robert R. Rice,senior scientist at Northrop GrummanSpace Technology’s Laser and SensorProduct Center.

Silicon photonics technology has thepotential to use the power of opticalnetworking inside computers and tocreate new generation of miniaturizedand low-cost photonic components,among other applications.

Read more about this research at http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2006/silicon amplifiers.html

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The collapse of a portion of the upperdeck of the San Francisco–Oakland BayBridge following the Loma Prieta earth-quake in 1989 was a dramatic illustrationof the critical need for seismic safety onbridges across California.

Now, a group of engineers from theUCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Science areshaking things up in Los Angeles in thename of earthquake safety.

In August, civil and environmentalengineering professors Jonathan Stewartand John Wallace and their team ofresearchers laterally loaded a full-scale $1 million bridge foundation near LosAngeles International Airport (LAX) tothe point of failure in a quest to improveengineers’ knowledge about howbridges react in earthquakes.

“These kinds of tests show us howbridges actually behave under realisticconditions, so we can use what we learnto help develop safer future designs,”Stewart said.“Lots of previous tests havebeen conducted with reduced-scalemodels, but with those, you’re still essentially guessing at how the real thingwill react. Many full-scale tests have alsobeen conducted, but not to the point offailure, which is what did here.”

The concrete bridge foundation, whichstands five feet above ground and reaches 25 feet into the ground below,is surrounded by 6-foot hydraulic cylinders that have a stroke (or push-and-pull range) of plus or minus threefeet, and can move about 450,000

pounds each.The cylinders, which exertroughly 2.4 million tons of force, canmimic a small quake or can push thestructure to endure “the big one.”

“We’ve built this full-scale bridge foun-dation and employed sophisticatedinstruments so we can better understandwhat happens when we load it todestruction,” Stewart said.“Our team hasbeen working on loading the foundationfor some time, and so far we have onlymoved it about a quarter of an inch.We expect that as we continue to load itwith more aggressive simulated earth-quakes that it will give about four inches, which is substantial when you’retalking about buildings or bridges reacting to a temblor.”

Structural loads develop due to earthquake shaking and cause stresses,deformations and displacements instructures, which are then analyzed toimprove future building designs.Overloading of the structure during anearthquake is common, but the level ofdamage that results depends on thestructural design. Ultimately, Stewart andWallace hope their earthquake researchwill help all bridges to be designed moresafely and economically.

“Knowing exactly how we need todesign bridges to withstand earthquakestakes much of the guesswork out of it,which means we can fine tune howengineers build,” Stewart said. “We cansave lives, and secondly, save money.”

The bridge foundation earthquakeresearch has been ongoing for the past five years and is being conducted in conjunction with CalTrans, which funded the project. Students andresearchers from UCLA Engineering’sGeorge E. Brown, Jr. Network forEarthquake Engineering Simulation, orNEES, also have participated.

To read more about research in NEES,please visit http://nees.ucla.edu/.

Full-Scale Bridge Foundation Demolished forEarthquake Safety Research

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Sunbathers heading for a day atthe beach in Southern Californiathis summer had more to worryabout than sunscreen.A study by

researchers at the UCLA Henry SamueliSchool of Engineering and AppliedScience showed that bacteria known asEscerichia coli and enterococci are prevalentin the top layer of sand at some of thearea’s most popular beaches, even whenthe surrounding ocean water tests clean.

UCLA civil and environmental engineering professor Jennifer Jay andgraduate researcher Christine Leeconducted a survey of beaches in theSanta Monica Bay, ranging fromRedondo Beach to Malibu. Theirresearch study, published in the June 21issue of the journal Water Research, showsthat while the water bacteria levels atarea beaches may meet state healthstandards, the sand itself may act as a

source of bacteria. More disturbing,however, is that the bacteria were foundin their highest concentrations in thesand of enclosed beaches often favoredby parents with toddlers because of their lack of surf and more protectedcoastline.

Usually associated with feces, bothEscerichia coli and enterococci bacteria levels are used routinely to determine

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Bacteria is rife in sand at some of Southern California’s most popular

beaches, with highest concentrations at enclosed beaches favored by

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Study by UCLA Engineering ResearcherShows High Levels of Unhealthy Bacteria

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the quality of water at recreationalbeaches, and both are used as indicatorsof the possible presence of other harmfulmicroorganisms. But while water qualityat local beaches is monitored on a dailybasis by local city officials, the microbialquality of beach sand is continuouslyoverlooked.

“Southern Californians are aware ofswimming advisories and beach closingsdue to contamination of the water. Butwhat is startling about our findings isthat even when the water shows lowbacteria levels, there are still high levelsof bacteria that persist in the sand,” Jaysaid.

“This is particularly relevant when we’retalking about sheltered beaches such asMother’s Beach and the enclosed part ofCabrillo Beach, for example, whichappear to be more conducive to the per-sistence of these bacteria. The levels ofenterococci were approximately 1,000times higher than the levels observed atthe beaches open to the ocean,” Jay said.

Other high offenders included theenclosed portion of Cabrillo Beach inSan Pedro, and Topanga Beach, just northof Topanga Canyon Road in Malibu.High levels of bacteria also were foundat Santa Monica Beach near the pier.Both Malibu’s Surfrider Beach andRedondo Beach showed lower levels ofbacteria relative to the other test sites.

“Due to their enclosed nature, pocket orenclosed beaches show the highest levelsof bacteria present in the sand. Thesemore enclosed locations are, for goodreason, popular with families.As a parentof two young infants, I know firsthandchildren tend to put things in theirmouths, including sand,” Jay said. “Thatconcerns me.”

Because health standards for beachsediments have not been developed,there is no strict standard to evaluateexactly how much of a health risk thesebacteria actually pose.

“The survival of these indictor bacteriaorganisms in sand points to thepersistence of other disease-causingorganisms in the sand, which could bevery significant,” Jay said. “But we don’tyet have enough data to know how

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significant. More research needs to bedone in this area.”

“What this study ultimately shows is theimportance of monitoring bacteria inthe sand as well as the water, particularlyat enclosed recreational beaches,” Jaysaid.

The beaches tested by the UCLAEngineering include Malibu’s SurfriderBeach, Topanga, Will Rogers Beach,Santa Monica (north and south),Dockweiler, Venice Beach, ManhattanBeach, Redondo Beach, Cabrillo (openand enclosed) and Mother’s Beach(enclosed).

Jay and her researchers are now workingon a second study that will focus on thepersistence of viruses in beach sediments.

For more information on research inJay’s lab, please visithttp://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/jay.htm.

“The survival of these indictor bacteria organisms in

sand points to the persistence of other disease-causing

organisms in the sand, which could be very significant.”

Reed HutchinsonProfessor Jennifer Jay and researcher Christine Lee

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Ateam of mechanical and aero-space engineers at UCLA isdeveloping the tools neededto support NASA’s vision

of manned space flights to the Moon and beyond.

Professor Chih-Ming Ho and graduatestudent researchers Nan Li andCharlotte Kwong in the NASA-spon-sored Institute for Cell Mimetic SpaceExploration are developing a systemhere on Earth for monitoring astronauts’health on manned space flights.

“As we travel farther into space, the needfor smaller, lighter tools becomes evenmore critical,” said Ho. “Current bloodtesting systems are too bulky for spacetravel, so astronauts have to take sampleswhile still in space and bring them backto Earth for analysis.”

The collaborative project, funded by theNASA National Space BiomedicalResearch Institute is led by Ho, professorYu-Chong Tai at the California Instituteof Technology, and Harvey Kasdan PhD’71, chief scientist at IRIS International,Inc.

Current methods for analyzing bloodchemistry require bulky equipment, labtechnicians and several milliliters ofblood. None of which are possible onboard a space craft for routine healthmonitoring or diagnosis of disease.

The size of a cell phone or PDA, thefully-automated testing system underdevelopment will require only a drop ofblood and provide real-time clinicalanalysis. Such a lab-on-a-chip integratesall of the required laboratory functionsonto a single integrated circuit that canbe housed in a handheld unit.

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UCLA Engineers PioneerLab-on-a-chip Blood Test

Nan Li, Charlotte Kwong, and Professor Chih-Ming Ho

The UCLA researchers are developingtools to measure the distribution ofwhite blood cells in humans—there arefive different types—as a way to gaugethe health of astronauts during spacetravel. Members of Ho’s lab are develop-ing a micromachine system, whichincludes two main sub-systems, tomanipulate the cells—one to removeions from the sample so that the fluidcan be manipulated with an electricalfield and another to differentiate andcount different groups of blood cells.

“The prototype microdeionizer we havenow is capable of removing more than90 percent of the ions in about 20minutes,” said Kwong. “The two keyelements in the device are a carbon aero-gel electrode and a dialysis membrane.”

After a current is applied to theelectrodes, an electric field is created thatforces the ions into the buffer channelsalong the electric field. By developingan active method of ion extraction,Kwong has substantially reduced theamount of time needed to remove ionsfrom a blood sample.

“Ion removal can be done solely bydiffusion, which is passive, but it will takehours, if not days, to reach the desiredion concentration,” she noted.“And we

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chose carbon aerogel for our electrode material because it allows us to design acompact deionizer instead of having tobuild a huge tank.”

Carbon aerogel offers a significantlyincreased surface area in a compactsystem. For example, a 1.7 squaremillimeter of carbon aerogel paper hasan equivalent surface area of 12 squaremeters.

Her colleague Li is using hydrodynamicsto move the cells into a narrow channelso that only one cell at a time can movepast an integrated micro impedancedetector to distinguish among the fivetypes of white blood cells in a sample.

In analyzing blood chemistry, cell count-ing and differentiation of the varioustypes of white blood cells is a useful tool.To limit errors in analysis, however, theteam needs to ensure that only one cellis scanned at a time.

“We used a hydrodynamic focusingtechnique in our device to focus theblood sample into a seven to 10 microm-eter stream,” explained Li. “This is thedimension of white blood cells, andguarantees that only one can passthrough the detecting zone at a time.”

Unlike conventional fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) methods,which require cell labeling and acomplex optical system, the UCLAsystem uses impedance spectroscopy,which applies a fast impedance scanwithin a wide frequency range todifferentiate the cells. It is a non-invasive and label-free method that is compatiblewith micromachining technology.

Having developed several workingprototypes, the UCLA team is develop-ing a method to accurately differentiatebetween white blood cells with verysimilar electrical properties.

“We also need to find a way to treat thesurface of the microfluidic device wherethe blood droplet is deposited to avoidcontamination and inaccurate results,”added Ho.

To complete the lab-on-a-chip bloodtest system, Caltech is developingmicrofluidic devices to separate red cellsfrom white cells. Kasdan is leading theIRIS team on system components andapplying the company’s expertise toassemble the devices into a singleworking system.

Once developed, the system will haveapplications on Earth as well. Because ofthe small quantity of blood required andsystem portability, the unit may be usedin neonatal units, as well as in remotelocations. The collaborators also areinterested in developing other lab-on-a-chip units for DNA analysis andother uses.

For more information on research inHo’s lab, please visithttp://ho.seas.ucla.edu/.

Photos:Todd Cheney, UCLA Photography

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UCLA engineers working onthe development of a newultra-slippery nano-engi-neered surface have

challenged a long-held concept in fluiddynamics—the no-slip condition.Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor CJ Kim and graduate studentChang-Hwan Choi have proven thattheir nano-architectured surface in effectdefeats the fundamental notion of no-slip by a considerable margin, even inpractical flow conditions.

The no-slip condition states that fluidsstick to surfaces past which they flow,and there is no movement where a fluidtouches the surface of a solid. Most

challenges to this condition thus far havecome from scientific interests becausethe amount of measurable slip has beentoo small to be useful. The advent ofmicro and nano technologies, however,has refocused attention on slip flows andthe need to measure slip accuratelybecause microfluidic applications can beaffected by even a relatively small slip.

Since the amount of drag reductioncaused by the internal slip surface of apipe is determined by pipe size and flowconditions as well as the surface itself, arather complex scientific value called sliplength should be used to objectivelydescribe the slip as a pure surfaceproperty, according to Kim.

Until recently, most of the reported sliplengths were less than one micrometerand prone to measurement errors. Kimand Choi expected to measure tens ofmicrometers of slip length on their newsurface, and so considered a slip of lessthan one micrometer as no slip. “Westarted with the no-slip assumption on aflat surface in testing our slip length,”said Choi, “and in most instances itremains true.”

Consider, for instance, water dropletsmoving along a glass surface and along aTeflon surface. Compared to therelatively sticky (i.e., hydrophilic) glasssurface, water beads and moves moreeasily on non-stick (i.e., hydrophobic)

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surface, such as Teflon. Droplets, whichmove mostly by a rolling motion, areunaffected by surface slip, although theymove more easily along a morehydrophobic surface.

The primary question, however, is themovement of liquid in continuous flows,where it must slip on a surface to flowmore easily. To determine if surfacewettability would make a difference tocontinuous flow in microchannels, Choimeasured the slip length on a planarhydrophobic surface while at BrownUniversity, and found it to be about 20-30 nanometers, or thousands of timessmaller than the width of a human hair.

The nano-engineered material Kim andChoi have created at UCLA has a denseforest of sharply tipped nanoposts, whichgreatly limits contact between a liquidand the surface of the solid. The heightof the posts, their shape, and the largenumber in a small space combine tocreate a thick layer of air beneath theliquid and to keep it from filling the gapsbetween the posts.

“We’re using surface tension to keep theliquid out of the gaps, and in most prac-tical flow conditions (e.g., pressurizedflows) those gaps need to be very, verysmall,” explained Kim. “So we’ve creat-ed a surface with a high density of sharp-tipped posts – submicron density – andthen treated them to be hydrophobic.”

At the suggestion of their colleague,UCLA mechanical and aerospace engi-neering professor Pirouz Kavehpour,Choi used a rheometer—a commercialtool used to measure viscosity—to trackslip length along their surfaces.Although reliable and accurate, therheometer lacks the precision to measureconventional miniscule slip lengths. Butit may work for the very large slip Kimand Choi have on the nano-architec-tured surface.

“The rheometer gave us repeatableresults, very quickly,” said Kim. “And itshowed that the nano-engineered sur-face had a 20-30 micrometer slip length,a thousand times larger than on a con-ventional hydrophobic surface. We wereexpecting the results in this range basedon our analysis and others’, but were still

surprised and very pleased to see it vali-dated in testing.”

When the UCLA Henry SamueliSchool of Engineering and AppliedScience researchers published theirresults in Physical Review Letters earlierthis year, they received considerableresponse from the physics community.

“Fluid dynamics is a classical field, andwhile our results do not change a long-held belief about the behavior of movingliquids where they touch solids, we haveworked around the assumption bycreating a surface with a minimal liquid-solid contact,” noted Kim. “The sliplength along the new surface is far morethan what was previously assumedpossible for flows under pressure. Thisdegree of slip is now large enough to beuseful for engineering applications andnot just limited to the microscale.”

In addition to developing a low-frictionsurface for use in fluidic applicationssuch as underwater vehicles and tools for DNA analysis and real-time, on-sitetesting and monitoring for earlydetection of hazardous materials, UCLAresearchers are exploring new uses forthe innovative surface.

Kim and Choi also are working withbioengineering professors Ben Wu andJames Dunn on the fabrication of newsurfaces for cell growth.

“We know cells grow well under certainconditions, but at the nanoscale most ofthe changes to date have been in thechemical conditions; little attention hasbeen paid to the physical conditions,”said Kim. “We’re approaching it from anew direction and fabricating differentsurfaces. We’re able to make the surface

as elaborate as needed, which is basicallya new capability at the nanoscale.”

In addition to addressing basic scientific questions about the physicalmanipulation of cell growth at thenanoscale, Dunn and Wu hope to use theprocess for advances in medicine.

“There are many potential applicationsfor this work,” explained Dunn, “one istissue engineering. If we’re able tochange the cells’ orientation using thenano-textured surface, we can make thecells line up in a particular way to formthe shape and structure of the tissues thatwe need.”

Added Wu,“We are currently investigat-ing the molecular basis of the cells’interactions on different nanostructures.If we are successful, we can use thisknowledge to control the surfaces toregulate cell behavior. Our research inthis area is really just the tip of theiceberg.”

To create the well-regulated nano-engineered surfaces, Kim and Choi useinterference lithography to etch thepattern on a silicon substrate, followedby deep reactive ion etching. To makesharp tips on the posts, they heat thesilicon, creating silicon oxide, which isthen removed.

The current method of manufacturing ispractical for small area applications, butthe UCLA researchers are exploringpolymer as an alternative material todecrease costs for large volume areaapplications, as on the surface of atorpedo. They also are exploringapplications for the silicon material infield emission displays and tips foratomic force microscopes.

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Professors Timothy Deming and Adrienne Lavine were appointed as chairs of theDepartments of Bioengineering

and Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering, respectively, effective July1, 2006.

“We are privileged to have strong,dynamic faculty leading ourdepartments, and I am pleased to addTim and Adrienne to their ranks,” saidVijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA HenrySamueli School of Engineering andApplied Science. “I am certain that bothwill guide their departments well withintegrity and vision.”

Deming received his PhD in chemistryfrom the University of California,Berkeley in 1993, and joined UCLA in2004 as a professor in the departments of bioengineering and chemistry.Previously, he was a professor in thematerials and chemistry departments atthe University of California, SantaBarbara.

“I wasn’t expecting to become chair sosoon after arriving at UCLA, but thehigh quality of our faculty and theirunanimous support made it the rightdecision for me,” said Deming. “Wehave a very good group of active,energetic young faculty, with a strong,cohesive focus in biomaterials. We’re ayoung department, which means we

have a lot of work ahead of us –developing courses, building ourresearch programs, recruiting talentedstudents – but everyone is workingtogether very effectively, and we have astrong undergraduate program withexceptional students.”

Deming’s lab is exploring new, practicalchemical routes for the synthesis ofbiological and biomimetic materials,which can be prepared from renewableresources. By using techniques fromboth chemistry and biology to preparesynthetic materials with targetedproperties, the researchers are leveragingstrengths from both disciplines to forgeexciting new approaches.

Asked about his plans for the future,Deming replied, “We’re finalizing the courses in our undergraduatecurriculum. This is our first year withseniors, so we’ll be teaching all of theclasses this year. We’re also working onraising our department’s profile in the bioengineering community. We recently hosted the UC SystemwideBioengineering conference, which wentvery well, and are focusing on recruitinga widely-respected senior facultymember. Later this year, we are reallylooking forward to moving into the newengineering building. Having all of our faculty and laboratories in onelocation – not scattered throughout theengineering complex – will help buildstronger collaborations within thedepartment.”

Lavine, the first woman to serve asdepartment chair in the School, has beenpart of the mechanical and aerospaceengineering faculty since 1984, afterreceiving her PhD in mechanical engi-neering from University of California,Berkeley. In 2005-06, she served as chairof the UCLA Academic Senate.

“I am excited at the prospect of workingwith colleagues and staff to improve ourdepartment. The foundation that TomHahn established will make my job

much easier, and I greatly appreciate his four years of service as chair,”said Lavine. “The responsibility ofdepartment chair is awe-inspiring, and Itake the responsibility very seriously.There are a number of people in thedepartment who would be very effectivechairs, so I feel humbled to have beenselected.”

Lavine’s field of research is heat transfer and her interests include thethermomechanical behavior of shapememory alloys, thermal aspects ofmanufacturing processes, and thermalcontrol of nano-manufacturing systems.

When asked about her priorities as chair,Lavine responded, “The most importantjob of a department chair is to supportthe faculty, and to recruit excellent newfaculty. We’re fortunate to have a reallystellar faculty in place and are in a period of growth, so recruiting additional faculty in key areas is one ofmy primary goals. Another criticalelement to the department’s strength isour students, and we want to work evenharder to attract top-caliber graduatestudents. I think our undergraduates arean underutilized resource; they’re greatstudents with a lot of energy and we’dlike to involve them more in thedepartment and their own education.For instance, senior students could offerworkshops to younger students on topicslike the use of different computer software packages. Lastly, I want to makesure that we build on past efforts tostrengthen ties with industry andincrease our interaction with ourindustrial affiliates.”

She also is director of education and outreach for the UCLA Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano-manufacturing, an NSF-funded Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center at UCLA whose mandate is to establish an array of new nano-manufacturing technologies.

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Mechanical and AerospaceProfessor Emeritus D.Lewis (Tino) Mingori, thefirst in his family to attend

college, is reaching out to students at hisformer high school and middle school.

A graduate of Hamilton High School inLos Angeles, Mingori was inspired by hisupcoming 50th reunion to visit thecampus. He recalled, “My parents didnot complete high school, but theyalways encouraged me to study hard.My teachers at Louis Pasteur Jr. High(now the Los Angeles Center forEnriched Studies) and at Hamilton Highprovided the knowledge and guidancethat brought a university educationwithin reach. That education began in1956 when I enrolled as a freshman inengineering at UCLA.”

Last fall, Mingori began tutoringstudents at Hamilton in math once perweek, working with a few students oneach visit. Soon after, he also begantutoring at the Los Angeles Center forEnriched Studies (LACES).

“In addition to working with thestudents on their math, I’m encouragingthem to consider attending college and perhaps studying engineering or science,” Mingori said. “It’s very

“I don’t necessarily work with the samestudents each week,” noted Mingori,“soI haven’t gotten to know them as well asat Hamilton, but it’s still very rewarding.The administration and teachers are veryinvolved in the program and are verysupportive.”

An alumnus of both Hamilton HighSchool and Louis Pasteur Junior High,Mingori has strong ties to the LosAngeles area.

“There are changes at both schools, butmany of the buildings and rooms are as I remember them,” Mingori noted. “It’snice to go back and see the campuses.”

Formerly chair of the mechanical andaerospace engineering department at theUCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Science,Mingori also is a Fellow in the AmericanInstitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,the world’s preeminent society foraerospace professionals.

rewarding—I feel like I’m making adifference at a critical time in thesestudents’ lives. At the end of the semester,one of the students sent an email stating,‘You helped me accomplish my goal.’”

At Hamilton, teachers and counselorsrefer students to Mingori on a semi-informal basis. Over the course ofthe year, he found himself working withseveral students on a regular basis.

“I tutored two young Latina studentsregularly who were really eager to learn,and it was quite satisfying to see theirprogress over the year,” said Mingori.“There wasn’t too much time to talkabout future plans, but I feel confidentthat these students will soon beattending college and doing well. Theyhave another year of high school duringwhich they can work to make that goala reality.”

Students come from all over the city toattend LACES, which has a strong focuson academics. Earlier this year, theschool launched “Homework Haven,” anafter-school tutoring program held threeafternoons each week, where Mingorivolunteers. Because the school does not receive supplemental funding fortutoring and intervention programs, itmust rely on volunteers and schoolfaculty to staff the program.

Dr. Margaret Kim, principal of LACES,said, “We’re very lucky to have Dr. Mingori come in to share hisexpertise—he’s a natural teacher. Lastyear he was there to help with mathevery Wednesday, and the students feltvery comfortable asking questions. As aprofessor at UCLA, he’s also a great rolemodel.”

At LACES, Mingori circulates andanswers questions from students workingon their math homework. Over theyear, the number of students attendingHomework Haven grew from just over20 to approximately 80.

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Chauncey Starr, dean of the Schoolfrom 1967 to 1973, received theGeorge C. Lawrence Pioneering Awardfrom the American Nuclear Society in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in thenuclear safety arena.

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The strength of any great engineering program lies in its people, and the educators and researchers at the UCLAHenry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are vital to the School’s continued success. A number oftalented individuals will join the School’s faculty, coming to UCLA from institutions across the country.

UCLA Engineering Adds Talented New Faculty

Bioengineering

Assistant Professor Andrea KaskoPhD – The University of Akron, 2004 http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/facultyresearch/facultyprofiles/kasko.html

Professor Andrea Kasko’s research applies structural hierarchy to the design of new materials for biomed-ical applications. She is interested in designing new materials from the nanoscale to the macroscale, withcontrol over the chemical and physical properties at multiple levels, to better replicate the critical aspectsof physiological materials and processes.

Prior to joining UCLA, Kasko was a post-doctoral research associate with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, working at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Professor Yunfeng LuPhD – University of New Mexico, 1998

Professor Yunfeng Lu is researching nanostructures that often endow materials with unique and superior mechanical, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. He is especially interested in the synthe-sis and self-assembly of nanostructured materials for device applications.

Previously, Lu was the Brown Chair Professor in the department of chemical and biomolecularengineering at Tulane University.

Computer Science

Assistant Professor Eleazar EskinJoint appointment in the Department of Human GeneticsPhD – Columbia University, 2002

Professor Eleazar Eskin’s research interests are in the relationship between genetic variation and disease inhumans at the intersection of genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. Through computational analyses ofhuman variation data, he is working to understand the genetic basis of human disease.

Prior to joining UCLA, Eskin was an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Computer Science andEngineering department at the University of California, San Diego. He is also affiliated with CaliforniaInstitute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

Electrical Engineering

Assistant Professor Dejan MarkovicPhD – University of California, Berkeley, 2006http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty/bios/markovic.htm

Professor Markovic’s research is focused on power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits and VLSIarchitectures for wireless communications, including optimization methods and supporting CAD flows.

While at UC Berkeley, he was part of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

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Assistant Professor Paulo TabuadaPhD – Institute for Systems and Robotics,Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty/bios/tabuada.htm

Professor Paulo Tabuada’s research focuses on correct-by-design methods for real-time, networked,embedded control systems. He works at the interface between control theory and computer sciencedeveloping automated design techniques, addressing real-time, networking, control and softwarespecifications in an integrated fashion. He also maintains an interest in mathematical systems andcontrol theory.

Tabuada comes to UCLA from the University of Notre Dame’s electrical engineering department.

Assistant Professor Benjamin WilliamsPhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003http://www.ee..ucla.edu/faculty/bios/williams.htm

Professor Benjamin Williams’ research interests include the development of terahertz quantum cascadelasers, and the development of terahertz components based of subwavelength dimension for use in beam control, sensing, and imaging. Also of interest is the development of intersubband and intersublevel devices in low-dimensional nanostructures for electronic and optoelectronicapplications.

Prior to joining UCLA, Williams was a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Laboratory ofElectronics at MIT.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Assistant Professor Eric P.Y. ChiouPhD – University of California, Berkeley, 2005http://www.mae.ucla.edu/academics/faculty/chiou.htm

Professor Eric Chiou’s research interests include bio- and nanophotonics, microfluidics, and lab-on-a-chip systems. His invention of optoelectronic tweezers (OET) has enabled a new way tomanipulate fluids, cells, and biomolecules using direct optical images.

Chiou received his MS from UCLA in electrical engineering.

Computer Science Professor Receives

Academy Award

Computer science professor Demetri Terzopoulos (third row, secondfrom right at the Academy Awards Technical Achievement ceremonies)was honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his“pioneering work in physically accurate techniques to simulate realisticcloth for motion pictures.” Chancellor’s Professor Terzopolous shares theaward with colleagues at Pixar and Microsoft.

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Former UCLA engineering professor Thomas Connolly diedApril 3 at a retirement commu-nity in Saratoga, CA, following a

long illness. He was 83.

Connolly was hired as a member of theUCLA engineering faculty by DeanL.M.K. Boelter in 1950, and taught atUCLA for nine years before leaving forStanford University.

“It was here at UCLA that Tom’s interest in nuclear engineering crystallized,” recalled UCLA professoremeritus William Van Vorst. “He had thebackground from his work at LosAlamos, but he was very interested inUCLA getting a reactor on campus.”

Later in his career, Connolly contributedto the design of safe and reliable nuclear

Standard of Indiana, before being draftedinto the Army. He was later transferredto Los Alamos, New Mexico duringWorld War II, where he helped purifyuranium for the atomic bomb.

After the war, Connolly continued hisstudies, earning a master’s degree inchemical engineering from CarnegieTechnical Institute in 1947 and adoctorate in chemical engineering fromthe California Institute of Technology in1950.

Connolly is survived by his wife Helen;sons Mark, Steven, and James, daughterM. Kari, and two granddaughters.

reactors, and he was elected a fellow ofthe American Nuclear Society for his“contributions to various areas ofnuclear engineering, for his outstandingteaching and for his wise and reasonedcontribution to public understanding ofnuclear issues.”

In a 1996 oral history interview,Connolly reflected on the influenceBoelter had over his career and teachingstyle, including a more unified approachto teaching engineering. Added Van Vorst, “Tom was particularly conscientious in teaching—he wasalways very well prepared.”

Connolly was born in Syracuse, N.Y., in1923, and received his bachelor’s degreein chemical engineering from SyracuseUniversity in 1943. After graduation, hebegan working at an oil refinery for

George John Tauxe, a formersenior lecturer in the civiland environmental engineer-ing department at the UCLA

Henry Samueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science, passed away July 9at his home in Santa Monica ofrespiratory failure. He was 92.

Beginning in 1946, Tauxe taught atUCLA Engineering for 32 years on awide variety of topics includingdynamics, strength of materials,structural analysis, soil mechanics, andcomputer programming, among others.He also served as the faculty advisor tothe UCLA Amateur Radio Group.

“In the early days, UCLA Engineeringwas crowded for space, and faculty usedto ask Boelter for an office. He had a

A Pacific Palisades resident since 1954,Tauxe met his wife of nearly 70 years,Wilma, in an English literature class atGlendale Junior College in 1933. Thecouple married in 1936.

Prior to his time with UCLA,Tauxe taught civil engineering at theUniversity of Wisconsin and served inthe U.S. Navy during World War II. Heremained an active member of the U.S.Naval Reserves until 1969.

Tauxe is survived by his wife, grand-daughter Lianne, and grandson John.

work desk in his office that he’d offer,and that was usually the end of that. ButGeorge was so serious, he took him upon it and moved in to share Boelter’soffice,” said professor emeritus WilliamVan Vorst.

Tauxe retired from teaching in 1978, butremained active in the local communityas a consultant to individual landownerson landslide problems for nearly 20years. In addition, he served on thePacific Palisades American Associationfor Retired Persons board and theMethodist adult fellowship group, andenjoyed traveling with his wife in theirRV. He greatly enjoyed music, was an accomplished saxophone and fluteplayer, and also a member of thePalisades Oom PaPa band.

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Marking another milestoneyear of growth, the UCLAHenry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied

Science held a school-wide ResearchReview in May. Focusing on theconvergence of bio-nano-info technolo-gies, the event highlighted breakthroughresearch in the School, as well as newsfrom industry and government.

“Our annual review is an opportunityfor us to showcase the School’s researchaccomplishments. It is this research, doneby our exceptionally talented faculty andstudents, along with collaborations withother top institutions, industry, andgovernment that make us one of the top10 public engineering schools in thecountry,” said Dean Vijay K. Dhir. “Wewere pleased to share our exceptional

work with alumni and our partners ingovernment and industry.”

More than 300 people attended the day-long event, where they heard plenary presentations in the morning,participated in a venture capital paneldiscussion at lunch, and enjoyed a rangeof focused technical sessions and a postersession in the afternoon.

Earlier this year, the UCLAHenry Samueli School ofEngineering and AppliedScience co-hosted the 7th

World Congress on ComputationalMechanics with Northwestern Universityat the Hyatt Regency Century PlazaHotel.

More than 1,800 people attended theJuly event, coming to the Congress frommore than 60 countries around theworld. As the largest and finest world-wide scientific event held to date in thefield of computational mechanics, theCongress offered 460 technical sessionsand several short courses over the courseof the seven-day event, and more thantechnical 2,000 papers were presented.

“The Congress serves as recognition ofUCLA’s reputation in computationalmechanics around the world,” saidCongress co-chair and UCLA Civil and

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Environmental Engineering ProfessorJ.S. Chen. “The field spans all disciplinesin computational engineering andscience, and that breadth is reflected inthe Congress’ five themes.”

The event’s technical themes—computational mathematics, computa-tional bioscience, computational nan-otechnology, computational materialsscience, and high performance comput-

ing—showcased the many applicationsof computation mechanics to scientificresearch and industrial development.

“There were a lot of people whoworked very hard to make the Congressa big success,” said Chen. “I was fortu-nate to work with such a talented group:Cassandra Rigmaiden, professors J.W. Ju,E.Taciroglu, and W. Klug at UCLA, andprofessors W. K. Liu and T. Belytschko atNorthwestern University.”

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Scholarship recipients, alumni, representatives from industry, friends, faculty,and staff gathered at a luncheon hosted by Dean Vijay K. Dhir to celebrate the accomplishments of UCLA engineering students and the generosity of ourdonors. Gifts from individuals and companies help support the academicgoals of talented engineering students and recognize their hard work.

2006 Scholarship Luncheon

Photos:Todd Cheney, UCLA Photography

The distinctive features of this program are:

• Each course is fully equivalent to the corresponding on-campus course

and taught by the faculty members who teach the on-campus course.

• The online lectures are carefully prepared for the online student.

• The Master of Science in Engineering program allows for combinations of

courses in different areas and thereby for multidisciplinary emphases.

New! Master of Science in Engineering, an Online Program.

The primary purpose of this new program is to enable employed engineers and computer scientists to

enhance their technical education, beyond the Baccalaureate level, and to enhance their value to the

technical organizations in which they are employed.technical organizations in which they are employed.

Areas to be Offered First:

• Communications and Telecommunications

• Signal Processing and Communications

• Computer Networking

• Mechanics of Structures

• Manufacturing and Design

For complete information, please visit http://MSENGROL.seas.ucla.edu

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Nearly 6,500 guests and students from the UCLAHenry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied

Science gathered at Pauley Pavilion onSaturday, June 17, to hear Internet pioneer and Google vice presidentVinton G. Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72 deliverthe 2006 commencement address.

Widely known as a “father of theInternet,” Cerf encouraged graduates to“find an engineering career that youtruly love. Such work can nourish andsustain in ways that must be experiencedto appreciate.”

Cerf also shared some very personaladvice, telling students not to be afraid totake on a challenge that might result in failure. “The challenging, risky roadmay also be the most productive andsatisfying. If you have a choice, take theriskier one, you will not regret it for theexperience if nothing else,” Cerf advised.“What doesn’t kill you makes youstronger!”

and the continued growth of theInternet. Cerf, together with RobertKahn, co-designed the basic architectureof the Internet and the very first TCP/IPprotocols. Both were awarded the U.S.National Medal of Technology in 1997,and, in 2005, the highest civilian honorbestowed in the United States for theirpioneering work: the Presidential Medalof Freedom.

Early in his career, Cerf worked withUCLA computer science professorLeonard Kleinrock on the developmentof ARPANET, the beginning of what istoday’s Internet.

Now a vice president at Google, Cerfcontinues to identify new enablingtechnologies and applications on theInternet and other platforms for thecompany, and along with his VP post,holds the title of “chief Internetevangelist” for the company.

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As a humorous aside, Cerf, citing theleaning tower of Pisa in Italy and aSwedish warship called the VASA, whichcapsized after its impressive gunportsfilled with water, advised the futureengineers of “another important, ifperhaps dubious life lesson. If you aregoing to screw up in engineering, try todo it big time.The results will become atourist attraction in the centuries tocome and therefore contribute to thegeneral economic welfare of the localpopulation, if not to the reputation ofthe engineering profession.”

The approximately 1,000 combinedundergraduate and graduate studentscelebrating graduation received somefinal advice for the future from one ofthe nation’s most influential technologypioneers. On a serious note, Cerfreminded graduates that “with theoccupation of engineer comes a moralresponsibility, if not also a legal one, todo the best you can at the job and to bevery cognizant of the side-effects of yourwork. People’s lives may depend on it.”

Throughout his career, Cerf hascontributed significantly to the creation

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UCLA Engineering welcomes Jeanine Moreno, theSchool’s new Education Coordinator. Moreno comesto the School from the UCLA Brain ResearchInstitute (BRI) where she most recently served asthe Student Affairs Officer for the InterdepartmentalUndergraduate Program for Neuroscience.While atthe BRI, she also worked for their administrative

offices, the Interdepartmental Graduate Program for Neuroscience, andcoordinated the Neuroengineering Summer Research Program.

She will be responsible for coordinating internships for UCLA Engineering,as well as outreach and retention programs designed to increase the numberof women pursuing degrees in engineering and computer science. Morenoalso will direct the School’s Engineering Science Corps, a volunteer tutoringprogram for local high school students.

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The UCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied ScienceCenter for Excellence in Engineeringand Diversity (CEED) has beencommitted to diversity in engineeringfor more than 20 years, deliveringprograms that help educationallydisadvantaged and underrepresentedstudents achieve success in math, scienceand engineering.

Earlier this year, Enrique Ainsworth,CEED director, received a 2006 Fair andOpen Academic Environment Awardfrom the UCLA Academic Senate for his“contributions beyond the call of dutyinvolving auspicious success in further-ing a fair, open, and diverse academicenvironment at UCLA.”

He talks more with UCLA Engineerabout CEED’s programs and the needfor outreach to underrepresentedcommunities.

What is the purpose behind theCenter for Excellence in Engineeringand Diversity?

CEED works with a community ofpartners to ensure equity and parity in the K-20 pathways that lead toengineering and computing degrees. Wehelp develop leaders for California’sdiverse technical workforce.

California—if it were a country—hasthe eighth largest economy in the world.The demographics in the state havechanged considerably since I joinedCEED 15 years ago—if you look at thenumbers, more than 50 percent of thestudents enrolled K-12 are underrepre-sented students—and they’re the fastestgrowing segment of the population.For the long-term economic strength ofthe country we need this significantpopulation to fully participate in scienceand engineering. As we now know, ofthe 4,900 freshman entering UCLA engineering this fall only 96 are AfricanAmerican students—a 33-year low. Thenumber of Mexican American studentsis also beginning to decline.

Given that the economic drivers forCalifornia are technology and science,we cannot exclude more than 50 percentof the future workforce. All of the majorindustries for the state, from agricultureto aerospace and from entertainment toelectronics, are driven by advancementsin engineering and the sciences. Andthese industries are well aware of theseshifts in populations in their customerbase.

It is critical for university-level eng-ineering programs to be involved in thecommunity—to serve as a source forexplaining frontier technologies and toengage teachers, students, and theirparents. We’re committed to ensuringthat young students are exposed to thekind of technology they’ll encounter 10

to 15 years down the road, and have thechance to acquire a solid educationalbackground in science and mathematics.

Why are outreach and retention programs for underserved populationsimportant to the engineering field?

If you look at national data, only 38 ofevery 100 underrepresented freshmenenrolling in an engineering program willfinish—that is a tremendous waste oftalent. And California is a net importerof technical workers, which means we’renot spotting talent and developing it inthe numbers needed to serve companiesin the state. CEED’s freshman cohortretention is close to ten percentagepoints of the overall HSSEAS retentionof 66 percent.

The U.S. is holding on as the leader intechnology and innovation, but othercountries are making significantimprovements to their technologicalinfrastructure, and the global competi-tion for talented engineers is tremen-dous. If the U.S. is to retain its leadershipposition, its best resource is growing theeducated human capital base.

We hear over and over that the morediverse a field the more creative itbecomes. To keep pace with othercountries I believe the U.S. will need tofocus on creativity and innovation. Andif we’re going to add large numbers ofnew engineers to the pool, they willhave to come from underserved groups.

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How have the retention programschanged over time?

One recent development is that we areleading several new regional partnershipsto increase participation in engineeringand computing. We have more than 20years of success, so we’re sharing whatwe’ve learned with our colleagues inchemistry, physics, and mathematics, andwith our partners at community collegesand the Cal State universities.

We have received an NSF STEP UP grant to support our work withcommunity colleges and the CSUs, andwe’re working together on best practicesfor intervention, academic developmentprograms, and undergraduate retentionstrategies.

Approximately 272,000 students areenrolled in the 15 community collegesin the greater Los Angeles area, and more than 51 percent of those students arefrom underrepresented populations andcommunities. But only a fraction ofthose students are transferring into UCs—that is a major disconnect that needsto be addressed. Many are smart,knowledgeable, capable students whocan make a real impact as middle-uppermanagement in industry or as dynamiccreative engineers and computer scientist.

How can our alumni and friends inindustry become more involved withCEED’s mission?

There are over 850 HSSEAS alumniwho were recruited, developed, andutilized CEED support programs. Agood way for all alumni to make asubstantial difference in our mission andthe School’s is to make a gift to supportour programs. A lot of companies willmatch charitable gifts, turning a gift of$50 into $100. And if just 10 of ouralumni make a gift at that level, that’s$1,000, which can have a major impacton our outreach and retention programs.

A lot of our CEED alumni are stillyoung, and they are still very involvedwith our partner student organizations –the American Indian Science andEngineering Society, the NationalSociety of Black Engineers, and theSociety of Latino Engineers andScientists. We would love for them toget involved in other ways: acting asrepresentatives for their company,coming back to campus for mockinterview sessions and resume work-shops, and serving as mentors to currentstudents. Many do offer their services inCEED programs but not enough yet.Their experiences in the work force areinvaluable, and they could provide a lotof good advice to our students.

For additional information on waysyou can become involved withCEED’s mission, please contactEnrique Ainsworth at 310-206-6493or rique@ea.ucla.edu.

What are the greatest challenges youroffice will face over the next five to 10years?

There are three major challenges that weface: Legally, the California publicuniversities cannot compete with privateand out-of-state universities withrecruitment trips, scholarships offers, andother incentives to attract the top under-represented students. The high schoolstudents participating in our math andscience programs are heavily recruitedby out of state and private universities.The students’ talent and potential arebeing recognized, and we’re losing themto universities who can offer them full scholarships. Hence, increasing thenumbers of underrepresented students atthe UCs and engineering in particular isa serious challenge. Dean Vijay Dhir isworking with us on this problem.Extramural funding is key to our presentsuccess—matching corporate andfoundation funding agencies to supportour programs is a continuing challenge.

In part because of the increasedcompetition, all engineering schools are having difficulties increasing thenumbers of underrepresented students inscience and engineering at the UCs.Our retention programs are verysuccessful and we’re developing excep-tional students, but we have to exploreand develop new student resources—including community colleges—tolocate, develop and recruit increasednumbers of what Dr. Shirley Jackson,President of RPI calls the “underrepre-sented majority” of students.

Lastly, funding is always a challenge.Extramural funding accounts for 70percent of CEED’s budget—the fundsfrom our corporate partners, UCOP,federal programs, and other sources. Tomaintain and strengthen our programs,we must identify and secure additionalsupport for outreach and retention.

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California schools were selected. Thestudents had four months to completetheir designs, from conception toexecution.

The 2006 seismic design challenge wasto build a three-story, scale-model wooddormitory meeting specific land size andcost requirements. All of the modelswere tested on the shake table withground motions recorded duringmedium and large earthquakes—withthe large one this year mirroring theNorthridge quake at its epicenter.UC San Diego’s winning building metthe pre-set design criteria and costparameters, and emerged with the leastamount of damage after the “big one”hit. Cal Poly Pomona placed second,and UCLA third in this competition.

The competition was hosted bynees@UCLA, an equipment site special-izing in the field testing and monitoringof structural performance. The lab ispart of the NSF George E. Brown, Jr.Network for Earthquake EngineeringSimulation, a national, network ofgeographically-distributed, shared-useexperimental research equipment sites.

On March 31, an earthquakemeasuring magnitude 6.7on the Richter scale shookstudent dormitories in Los

Angeles. And if the building architectsfound the shuddering eerily reminiscentof 1994’s Northridge temblor, that’sbecause the movements from thissimulated quake were exactly the same asthat frightening natural disaster.

During the 2006 Pacific SouthwestRegional Conference of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE),students had the chance to test out theirscale-model dormitory buildings againstthe Northridge quake—as replicated bythe recently completed “Shake Lab” atthe UCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Science.

The annual student conference, whichran from March 30 to April 1, was hosted by UCLA Engineering andbrought nearly 500 civil engineeringundergraduates from Southern Califor-nia, Arizona and Nevada to Los Angelesto engage in tasks that include designingand building an earthquake-safe build-ing, constructing and racing concretecanoes, and erecting a model steelbridge. A key highlight of the conferencewas the relatively new seismic designchallenge for which teams from seven

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UCLA Mini Baja Achieves Best Finish to Date

By Nick Herron, UCLA Mini Baja Team

The race events—acceleration, hillclimb, maneuverability, and rock crawl—were just beginning and UCLA wasready to tackle them with full force.Our dynamic event placing—22nd in acceleration, 34th in hill climb,and 48th in maneuverability—were decent enough to maintain good overall placement. Unfortunately,engine problems and minor driver errors resulted in scores that were notindicative of the capabilities of thevehicle. However, the final event, rockcrawl, went very well. We snagged ourvehicle in the same place every otherteam did on the first attempt. However,on the second attempt we adjusted ourapproach angle and attacked the rocksvery aggressively. The suspension anddrive train really shone on this event fora ninth place finish.

On the third day of competition theendurance race began. Unfortunately, wesuffered in the endurance race for oursuccess on the rock crawl, andcompleted only eight laps (compared tothe high of 30). After our first five lapsthe right side, grade eight rod-end that

connected the lower front A-arm to theknuckle sheared off, most likely due tothe stress placed on it during the rockcrawl. We quickly replaced that and re-entered the race. Next the belly pancame loose, which we quickly rivetedback on. Then the right rear trailing armbent pretty severely which sent us backto our trailer. We heated the flange, bentit back into place, re-welded it, and gotback on the track. After one half lap itbent again, which marked the end of therace for the Bruins.

This was the best year yet for the UCLAteam; we were more prepared mentallyand mechanically then ever before. Thisresulted from the most focusedengineering and testing efforts ever put forth by the team. We’re excited to build on this year’s experience andsuccess, and know that next year we’ll doeven better!The 2006 Society of Auto-

motive Engineers Mini-Bajacompetition went well.UCLA—which placed 38th

out of the 80-plus teams that competed—recorded its best overall finish yet.

The UCLA chapter has beenparticipating in the Mini-Baja projectfor seven years, and continually improvesits sophistication and organization. Eachteam designs, manufactures, and tests anoff-road buggy, which is then unveiled tojudges by careening over desert dunes orflying through twisty motocross tracks.

The three-day 2006 Mini Baja Westcompetition began with design and salespresentations. The day unfolded verysmoothly for our team. The top ten carsfor day one were announced first thingthe next morning. In eighth place,muchto the Bruins’ delight, was UCLA, itsfirst top ten finish after day one! Thiswas a combination of an eighth placefinish in design, comprised of a writtenreport and oral presentation, along witha 11th place finish for the sales presenta-tion, both team bests.

Photos courtesy of the UCLA Mini Baja team

from outreach and support programs to annual design competitions and races. There are more than 25 activeundergraduate student organizations inthe School.

“The generosity of our alumni and theircommitment to our students is over-whelming,” said UCLA EngineeringDean Vijay K. Dhir. “We are trulyprivileged to have their friendship andongoing support. The long-term impactof such a gift is considerable, and ourstudents will benefit from this gift formany years to come.”

For additional information on ways tosupport UCLA engineering students,please contact Molly Ann Mroczynski,executive director of external affairs,at 310-206-0678 or mollyann@support.ucla.edu.

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Engineering Student Groups to Benefit from New Endowment

By Marlys Amundson

Engineering student organiza-tions for generations to comewill benefit from the newlyestablished the Richard Gay

Endowment Fund for Student Projects.

The fund honors three-time alumnusRichard Gay (BS ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76),a tireless supporter of engineeringstudent organizations at UCLA.

Each year, dozens of UCLA engineeringgroups receive financial support from theAlumni Fund for Student Projects. Thisnew fund will provide much-neededsupplementary support for engineeringstudent activities and allow additionalstudents to gain hands-on engineeringexperience through extracurricularactivities.

“Our engineering student organizationsoffer a variety of ways for our students togain real-world experience in design,project management, and teamwork,”said UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K.Dhir. “This endowment will providecritical support to our students.”

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Senior Cho Mon Kyaw applied for theCENS summer program after she saw iton the National Science Foundationwebsite. An undergraduate at UCBerkeley during the year, Kyaw isoriginally from Burma.

“The program here deals with realthings. It’s very practical. It embodies alot of different fields and views onresearch,” shared Kyaw.

The research experience is purposefullystructured. Undergraduate womenwork closely in groups that also includemen (after all, if the groups aren’t co-ed,the experiences aren’t authentic), on avariety of interconnected projects in the fields of engineering and computerscience that actually benefit CENS’long-term research.

Connecting closely with faculty andgraduate student mentors, in addition totheir research projects, students alsoattend bi-weekly meetings led by guestspeakers that address topics from thedownright practical – getting intograduate school, to the more intangible,like gender equity and ethics. Theprogram also allows students to attend animmersion Tech Camp at the beginningof the summer, GRE courses, and otherprofessional development and socialactivities.

The project assigned to Kyaw involvedthe challenge of finding new ways tonetwork image sensors placed in theenvironment so that the sensors can communicate data. Kyaw helped to deploy the sensors at CENS field

location at the James Reserve in the SanJacinto mountains.

“I really love my project,” says Kyaw,“and I really want to make it work. Afterthe summer program ends, I’m going totry to continue working on it. This wassuch a great summer for me. It wasproductive as far as my research, but I learned so much about being inengineering as well.”

Says Kim, “This was really the modelyear for us – the third year of our three-year funded program. We were able toput into practice all of the things we’velearned. One of the aims of the programwas really to connect these researchers toCENS for the long-term, to create a lifelong connection to the center andthe research, and I like to think we’vedone that for many of our students.”

As Kim and the CENS team put togeth-er their data, they hope that what they’velearned from studying women who dochoose engineering research opportuni-ties and by creating a supportive but notisolated science environment will lead tofuture successes for women at otherscience and engineering institutions.

“Although science and engineering hasmade progress in opening the field towomen, females still lag far behind theirmale counterparts, especially at the doc-toral level,” explains Kim. “CENS reallyenvisions a world where researchers,students, industry and government –both men and women equally – routine-ly use distributed sensor and actuatornetworks to understand and controlboth natural and artificial systems.”

Kim expects the data from the Women atCENS program to be available in thenext six to twelve months.

For more information on the Women at CENS program, visitwww.cens.ucla.edu.

At a time when equalitybetween women and men isthought to be increasing,statistics from the U.S.

Department of Education show thenumber of girls interested in studyingscience and technology is actuallyshrinking.

One summer program geared towardgiving women new opportunities at theUCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Science aimsto change those numbers, and provide amodel based on the outreach to otherprograms around the country that wantto do the same.

The Center for Embedded NetworkedSensing (CENS) has for the past threeyears hosted a program called “Womenat CENS.” The program, funded by theNational Science Foundation, recruitsten talented undergraduate women fromacross the nation to participate in aneight-week internship opportunity thatallows them to conduct research withdirect societal implications – in otherwords, environment, safety or educationareas.

“In general, women tend to feel morevested in the areas of research wherethey feel they are making an impact,”says Karen Kim, the education directorfor CENS.

That need fits the CENS’ mission perfectly. Headquartered at UCLAEngineering, CENS develops wirelesssensor systems and applies the revolu-tionary technology to critical scientificand social applications. These large-scaledistributed systems, composed of sensorsand actuators, can be applied to nearlyevery aspect engineering, from monitor-ing soil and atmospheric changes in an environment, to monitoring waterpollution, or even monitoring buildingstructures.

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Graduating Seniors Pledge Integrity in their Careersin Order of the Engineer Ceremony

At the 2006 Engineering SeniorDinner, the UCLA HenrySamueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science revived

a long dormant tradition – the Order ofthe Engineer ceremony. Students at thedinner had the opportunity to take anoath to practice engineering with highstandards and integrity. More than 200young engineers pledged to servehumanity and to uphold the dignity ofthe engineering profession.

The ceremony was led by StephanieAugust (BA ’72, MS ’85, PhD ’91), aprofessor of computer science at LoyolaMarymount University, and RaymondPon (BS ’01, MS ’03), a research fellowat Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory.

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Ensuring Support for Future Engineering Students

By Marlys Amundson

plan Engineers Week at UCLA.“Getting away from the engineeringbooks was the best thing I could havedone – I gained a new perspective onthings and got to know some of theprofessors really well.”

While at UCLA, Phelps received somefinancial assistance from universityprograms; first a small stipend as part ofthe departmental scholar program, andlater a research fellowship through hisgraduate work with Stephen Jacobsen,now dean of academic student affairs.

“There have been other high points inmy life – like the birth of my daughter –but for pure fun and hard work, my yearsat UCLA were the best,” recalled Phelps.“The rivalry between Tau Beta Pi andthe Engineering Society, UC [ESUC]really stands out. Our chapter’s bentarrived while I was there, and we kept itin our office while polishing the roughcast. The ESUC guys would steal it andhide it around the engineering complexfor us to find. One time, they threadeda line through a drain pipe from the roofof Engineering I and hung it half waydown the side of the building, leaving usto figure a way to get it back up to theroof.”

Starting with the core engineeringcourses in his junior year, Phelps becamepart of a group of friends, knownamongst themselves as the Front Four.“Greg Rich, John Ripley,Tom Stone andI would sit in the front row of our classes– not to impress the teacher, but becauseit was the best place to sit. There was noone in front of us and we could see theboard. However, it got Greg in hotwater with Professor Viswanathan oneday, when he decided to read the DailyBruin during class.”

Phelps also formed strong ties withseveral of his professors. “I got to knowRichard Stern, an acoustics expert, well

on a personal basis. He taught me a lotabout going through graduate school atUCLA. Professor Jacobsen was the type of teacher who made you thinkabout everything you were doing. Hedemanded his students’ attention, andwas a great teacher.”

After completing his master’s in 1971,Phelps worked at the Naval UnderseaCenter in San Diego as a generalengineer, where he conducted researchand development in anti-submarineacoustic warfare.

In 1975, he moved to Denver to join SAI(now SAIC), where he designed and programmed computer models forcustomers at the U.S. Department ofDefense. Phelps had become an AssistantVice President of SAIC by the time he leftDenver for another position with SAIC inWashington, D.C. He was in his officeinside the Pentagon when the buildingwas struck on September 11, 2001.

The following year, Phelps took an earlyretirement and moved to Arizona to becloser to his daughter and granddaughter.

By establishing a new scholarshipthrough a planned gift, he is helpinginspire and support a new generation ofengineering students at UCLA, andencouraging them to think outside theconfines of their studies. “I hope thescholarship will provide assistance to astudent each year, but also be an honorin which he or she can take pride,”Phelps added.

Planned gifts are a great way to giveback to your School and support itsfaculty and students. If you are considering making a planned gift tohelp support UCLA Engineering inthe future, please contact Molly AnnMroczynski at 310-206-0681 ormollyann@support.ucla.edu.

“It was easy for me to decide to make aplanned gift to UCLA Engineering,”said Michael Phelps BS ’71, MS ’71.“The five years I spent at UCLA werethe best years in my life, and I wanted togive back to the School.”

After reviewing his finances and trust,Phelps determined that he had enoughto leave his daughter, and wonderedwhat he could do for his alma mater.

“Endowed scholarships really aren’t thatexpensive, and I realized I could do this,”he explained.

Now mostly retired from ScienceApplications International Corporation(SAIC), where he worked for nearly 28 years, Phelps has a comfortableretirement package that will fund thescholarship from his estate.

After it is created, the scholarship will beavailable to all undergraduate studentswho have a good balance betweenacademics and extracurricular activities.

“I really grew beyond being just astudent when I got involved in studentorganizations,” said Phelps, who servedwas president of Tau Beta Pi, participatedin SEAS Advisory Councils, and helped

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noted. “At UCLA, we learned not onlyprogramming language constructs but,more importantly, how to pick up anyother language.The capacity to learn andevolve quickly is critical in today’s fastmoving technology era.”

Cheng joined IBM in 1977, and wasnamed the company’s first female IBMFellow in 2000. She worked with Dr. Pat Selinger to establish the firsttechnology institute in IBM, and holds27 patents. Cheng also has worked atIBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory, whereshe was responsible for embedded data-base technology and pervasive e-businessin data management.

“What I am most proud of is the workdone by my Linux team in China,” saidCheng. “We worked with 14 universi-ties and a dozen primary and secondarypilot schools in China to create educa-tional applications on an open platformwith open source middleware. Theintent is to deliver education at less costto the poor western regions in China,and more than 20 million students inChina will benefit from our work.”

Cheng, who received the Asian Engineerof the Year award in 2003, is also anactive mentor and role model forwomen and Asians, and often speaks toK-12 students about careers in engineer-ing and computer science.

Katehi was drawn to UCLA by itsexcellent electromagnetics program, andbegan her graduate studies aftercompleting her BS in electrical engi-neering at the National TechnicalUniversity of Athens, Greece in 1977.

“I knew I wanted to be an electricalengineer at the age of 14,” Katehi said.“I was impressed by the NASA Apolloprogram and wanted to be like theengineers in NASA’s control room—touse technology to transform ideas intoreality.”

While a member of then electrical engi-neering professor Nicolaos Alexopoulos’lab at UCLA, Katehi’s research providedthe foundation for the development of atheory and algorithm for the design ofmicrowave integrated wave circuits.

Katehi is now Provost and ViceChancellor for Academic Affairs at theUniversity of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she is responsible foracademic and budgetary issues. “UCLAprepared me to become a very successfulfaculty member,” noted Katehi, a Fellowof IEEE. “However, what I treasuremost about my time there are the inter-actions I had with faculty members inthe electrical engineering department.They were all very dedicated to theirteaching. My advisor was my mentorand has stayed one for many years.”

After receiving her PhD, Katehi joinedthe University of Michigan in 1984 as anassistant professor in the department ofelectrical engineering and computerscience, and was quickly promoted toassociate professor, then to professor. In1998, she became associate dean forgraduate education, and associate deanfor academic affairs the following year.In 2002, Katehi joined PurdueUniversity as the John A. EdwardsonDean of the Schools of Engineering.

“I became interested in the big issuesthat challenge higher education: thepursuit of institutional quality, sustaininghigher education’s research mission, anddelivering on our institutions’ obligationto contribute to improving people’squality of life,” she recalled. “The abilityto influence how institutions addressthese challenges lured me away from thetraditional faculty life that I love somuch.”

Katehi and Cheng join 33 other UCLAengineering and computer sciencealumni as members of the NationalAcademy of Engineering.

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National Academy of Engineering Elects Two UCLA Engineering Alumnae

By Marlys Amundson

Earlier this year, two exceptionalalumnae of the UCLA HenrySamueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science were

elected to the National Academy ofEngineering, the highest professionaldistinction awarded to an engineer.Josephine Cheng BS ’75, MS ’77 waselected for “sustained leadership andcontributions to relational databasetechnology and its pervasive applicationsto a wide range of digital operationalsystems,” and Linda P. B. Katehi MS ’81,PhD ’84 was honored for “contributionsto three-dimensional integrated circuitsand on-wafer packaging and toengineering education.”

Now Vice President of IBM’s ChinaDevelopment Laboratories, Cheng isresponsible for software development,hardware development, and lab servicesin the Greater China Group, whichincludes more than 2,000 engineers inTaipei, Shanghai and Beijing. At UCLA,she was a member of computer scienceprofessor Richard Muntz’s lab.

“I fell in love with programming in myfirst computer science class.” “Byutilizing computer’s capacity to store andsynthesize information, scientists like meare able to improve the quality of ourdaily lives.”

Well-known for creating new databasetechnologies and products in the areas ofpervasive computing and the Internet,Cheng acquired her foundation forlearning and adapting to new technologyin the IT industry at UCLA. “As wehave seen, the programming languages Ilearned 20 years ago are not popularlyused programming languages today,” she

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It’s not often that four members ofthe same family earn their degreesin one field, especially an area aschallenging as engineering. But

four Martinez siblings—Henry ’77,Rene ’83, Rosanna ’84, and Melissa’92—can lay claim to a unique record: allfour of them earned undergraduatedegrees in engineering from UCLA.

Henry, inspired by the early spacelaunches that he watched on televisionwith their father, opted for engineeringas his major, specializing in digitalelectronics relating to computing andcontrol.

“UCLA’s engineering school seemedlike a smaller college within the largeruniversity, and the Engineering Societyoffered a nice way to meet other under-graduate engineers,” he recalled. “WhenI arrived at UCLA, the microprocessorchip was just coming out of thelaboratories. It was a wonderful time tobe an electrical engineer and computerscientist. And, as you can imagine ourparents are quite proud that their fourkids are all Bruin engineers.”

His younger brother Rene also opted for engineering, explaining, “I pickedengineering because I enjoyed math and science and the ability to create andexamine. When my older brother wentto UCLA I became a big Bruin fan. Iwatched the basketball games on TV on

channel 5 and would sometimes see mybrother on TV. After all that I couldn’tgo anywhere else.”

Rosanna entered UCLA as a biochem-istry major, but later transferred toengineering, recognizing it as a field thatwould be not only a challenge, but alsouseful and interesting. She noted,“I thought engineering could prepareme for a career that would keep meupdated on the latest practical scientificdevelopments and give me a chance tocontribute.”

Like her older sister, Melissa (now de laPeña) changed majors—from materialsscience to civil and environmentalengineering after her first civil engineer-ing class, which appealed to herarchitectural leanings. “UCLA reallyseemed like home, and I could seethrough my siblings’ experience, howfulfilling and well-rounded their edu-cation and college-life was. The prestigeof the faculty and university didn’t hurt,either,” said Melissa.

Now Chief Technology Officer at VisionSolutions, Henry is in charge of research,engineering, technical publications andproduct management. The company,which produces software that ensurescustomers can always access their data,was able to assist many businesses afterHurricane Katrina. He holds two U.S.patents, and his brother Rene, one.

“Every time the space shuttle lands, itruns a computer program that I wrote,long ago, for Garrett AiResearch,”Henrynoted. “When I left UCLA, I wasresponsible for delivering digital controlsfor many different kinds of things. Withthe broad-based knowledge I received atUCLA, I was able to design optimalcomputer controls for each applicationbecause I already had an awareness of itsbasic principles. This really distinguishedme and helped me quickly succeed inmy career.”

Added Henry, “I firmly believe that the Boelter-style curriculum is veryimportant in these days of off-shoring.As the world outsources more and morecommodity niche skills, the value of abroad engineering background increases.People with such training are better ableto synthesize solutions across a widerrange of problems and manage theproject components, whether the workis done at home, abroad, or both.”

Rosanna, a process specialist in photoli-thography on specialized substrates atHRL Laboratories in Malibu, has alwaysbeen involved in microelectronics work.At UCLA, she discovered that “it helpedto learn to have the right problemsolving approach but also have the rightattitude when dealing with difficultiesand challenges from day to day.”

An assistant program manager atNorthrop Grumman,Rene is responsiblefor ensuring that the necessary hardwareis produced to meet customer require-ments and delivery dates. Although hereceived the broad engineering degree,his area of expertise was chemicalengineering. “The labs in chemistry andchemical engineering were verydemanding,” Rene said. “It was therethat I learned how to plan and execute aproject and how to analyze the data—the lab experience has helped methroughout my career.”

Melissa is a project engineer and groupleader at CH2M HILL for theTransportation Business Group in Los Angeles. She worked previously atParsons Brinckerhoff and Caltrans,where she gained experience in manyfacets of the transportation field, fromconstruction to highway geometrics.

Since it welcomed its first class in 1945,UCLA Engineering has been home togenerations of engineers. But few out-side of the Martinezes can claim fourBruin engineers in one family.

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1970sRichard Little BS ’70 has joinedDATAllegro as chief financial officer.

Gabe Moretti MS ’72 is the site editorfor EDA DesignLine whose website waslaunched by CMP Media’s EE Times inAugust.

Robert P. Stearns ME ’70 has retiredfrom SCS Engineers, a company whichhe co-founded.

Stephen M. Fry MS ’73, PhD ’76 hasjoined BioMedical Innovations Manage-ment as managing partner.

Badar Baqai MS ’75 has been appointedvice president engineering of IPProducts and Solutions at LSI LogicCorporation.

Henry Samueli BS ’75, MS ’76, PhD’80, co-founder of Broadcom Corpora-tion, was named one of the “mostpowerful people in Southern California”by The Los Angeles Times. He was rankedseventh and was the youngest person inthe top 10.

Bahram Ghaderi MS ’78, Eng ’80,PhD ’81 has been promoted to vice president of engineering and productdevelopment at EXAR Corporation.

Joanne M. Maguire MS ’78 was namedexecutive vice president of LockheedMartin Space Systems and will beresponsible for all business operationsand activities of the corporation’s $7 billion unit.

1980sHenry T. Nicholas III BS ’82, MS ’85,PhD ’98, co-founder of BroadcomCorporation, was named one of the“most powerful people in SouthernCalifornia” by The Los Angeles Times.

Brian P. Wong BS ’83 has beenappointed as president and CEO ofD2Audio Inc., an audio semiconductorcompany headquartered in Austin,TX.

Eitan Zeira BS ’83, MS ’84, founder of Polysun, Inc., has joined KonarkaTechnologies, Inc. as director of organicelectronic printing technology.

Levent Ozcolak MS ’85 has beenpromoted to vice president of marketingfor interface products for EXARCorporation.

Ruth Fragoso BS ’87 and Jaime WaydoMS ’05 served as keynote speakers at theCollege of the Canyons’ Women’sLeadership Conference in April 2006.

Lloyd K. Snyder BS ’88 has been promoted to vice president and seniorproduct manager of the food andbeverage division at Woodard & Curran.

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1960sJohn Brooks Slaughter MS ’61,president and chief executive officer ofthe National Action Council forMinorities in Engineering Inc. deliveredthe K-State College of EngineeringEyestone Lecture “Engineers forTomorrow:An Imperative for America.”

Lawrence J. Fogel PhD ’64, president ofNatural Selection, Inc. in La Jolla,California, became the first recipient ofthe IEEE Frank Rosenblatt TechnicalField Award in July.

Melvin L. Riley BS ’65 was a candidatefor the Zachary City (Louisiana)Council from District 5 in theSeptember 30 primary election.

David Nagel BS ’66, MS ’68 has beenappointed to the board of directors forEpocrates Inc., provider of mobile andonline clinical applications for healthcareprofessionals.

Donald J. Marshall ME ’67 received the2006 Martin F. Stein VolunteerExcellence Award from the CitizensDevelopment Corps in Washington,D.C. on July 21.

J. Gerry Purdy MS ’68 has beenappointed vice president and chiefanalyst, mobile and wireless at Frost &Sullivan.

Ron Sugar BS ’68, MS ’69, PhD ’71received honorary membership in the Society of Manufacturing Engineersin 2006.

Asad M. Madni BS ’69, MS ’72 waselected a Fellow of the Society ofAutomotive Engineers and was also therecipient of the “2006 LifetimeAchievement Award” from the WorldAutomation Congress.

2006 Young Alumni Reunion UCLA Engineering Reception

Annual FundDid you know you can fund an engineering scholarship for only $50?Gifts from new donors to the Engineering Annual Fund this academic year will be pooled to establish a new scholarship in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.Help support deserving students as they pursue their academic goals – a gift of just $50 will make an enormous difference in their lives!

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1990sRex Black BS ’90 has completed his fourth book, Software TestingFoundation, with three coauthors, to be published in October. In addition,his third book, Effective and EfficientSoftware Testing, will be published inJapanese by Nikkei BP.

Blake Krikorian BS ’90, co-founder andCEO of Sling Media, was named one ofBusiness 2.0’s 50 People Who MatterNow for “enabling people to remotelywatch programming streamed from theirhome TVs.”

Michael Morhaime BS ’90, co-founderand president of Blizzard Entertainment,was named one of Business 2.0’s 50People Who Matter Now for creatingthe gaming phenomenon, World ofWarcraft.

Fabio Marino MS ’91 has joinedOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.

Evelyn Cortez-Davis BS ’92 publishedher book, December Sky: Beyond MyUndocumented Life.

Ron Faibish BS ’93, MS ’97, PhD ’01has been named director of the PurdueUniversity-Calumet Water Institute.

Raymond J. Toal PhD ’93 received the2006 Loyola Marymount UniversityPresident’s Fritz B. Burns DistinguishedTeaching Award. Toal, a professor ofcomputer science, has been teaching atLoyola Marymount since 1986.

Winn Hong BS ’93, MS ’96 has beenpromoted to the position of vicepresident, corporate development atORFID Corporation.

Michael Jensen PhD ’94 has beennamed chairman of the department ofelectrical and computer engineering atBrigham Young University. He holds theNewman and Zeneth Ward EndowedChair in Electrical Engineering.

Christopher Cadou PhD ’96 hasreceived tenure and a promotion toassociate professor of aerospace engi-neering at the University of Maryland.

Mason Peck MS ’99, PhD ’01, anassistant professor of mechanical andaerospace engineering at CornellUniversity, received one of only 11grants given this year by the NASAInstitute for Advanced Concepts.

2000sTzung (John) Hsiai PhD ’01 has beenappointed to the Robert G. and Mary G.Lane Early Career Chair in theDepartment of Biomedical Engineeringat USC.

Damien Phelan Stolarz BS ’03 justfinished his third book on emergingtechnology, Videoblogging and Podcasting.

Share your personal and professional milestones with classmates and friends! Send us your news by e-mail (gcoopman@support.ucla.edu) or online at http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/alumni/alumnews.html.

Sameer Sharma BS ’04 and ChristineMyers BA ’04 (anthropology) areengaged and are planning a summer2007 wedding.

Legacy

Caitlin L. Gomez ’06 and her fatherDavid P. Gomez BS ’78, MS ’82 at the 2006 UCLA EngineeringCommencement ceremonies.

In MemoriamPhillip L. Jones BS ’71, MS ’74, PhD ’77 Carol Hermann Tate MS ’72, PhD ’75Kerri Anne Piccinich MS ’02

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Through the efforts and support of ourfaculty, staff, students, alumni and friends,the UCLA Henry Samueli School ofEngineering and Applied Sciencereached new heights in 2005-06. Strongcollaborations with all of our stakehold-ers hone and enhance our trifold missionof education, research and service.

The accomplishments of our faculty,students, and alumni have a direct impacton our continued success, and reflect ourtradition of excellence. In the previousacademic year, our faculty secured morethan $91 million in gifts, contracts,and grants to support interdisciplinaryresearch activities. Fifteen UCLAEngineering alumni received newacademic appointments at institutionsaround the world, using their knowledgeand experience from UCLA to educatefuture engineers and scientists.

In keeping with our tradition ofinnovation, we continue to partner withcolleagues across the campus and aroundthe world on exciting new areas ofresearch. In addition, more than 20 ofour faculty hold joint appointments in other disciplines, creating anenvironment that fosters a free exchangeof ideas and new discoveries in both the laboratory and the classroom.

Defining Engineering Excellence

New CENS facility

New and upgraded facilitiesA new facility for the Center forEmbedded Networked Sensing wascompleted in June. The building willprovide researchers from multipledisciplines with a space that supportsinteractivity among faculty, students,staff, and embedded systems.

Slated for completion later this year,the Engineering IB replacementbuilding will house the departments ofbioengineering and materials scienceand engineering. The building isdesigned to spur increased interactionamong faculty and students, and sharedlabs in the facility will support new waysof research.

Our students are also making keycontributions to our infrastructure. Theclass of 2006 raised more than $4,300 tohelp renovate SEAS Café, and gifts fromstudents this year were more than doublethe previous year’s campaign.

Research centers and initiativesOver the last four years, the School has secured six major externally-funded interdisciplinary research centers.Focusing on issues critical to SouthernCalifornia’s future, UCLA Engineeringhas also established seven multidiscipli-nary research centers in areas such asalternative energies, water reclamation,information security, and the entertain-ment industry.

Educational milestonesCommitted to providing our studentswith an education that will prepare themfor success in their careers, the Schoolhas recently completed a thoroughreview and revision of its undergraduatecurricula in all departments. Among thechanges, the reduction of the number ofrequired units and the addition of three-course breadth requirement.

In addition, we are expanding oureducational programs to better serve ouralumni. The School’s online Master ofScience in Engineering degree programwill launch in Spring Quarter 2007,offering classes taught by our world-classfaculty members.

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UCLA Engineering at a Glance2005-06 Statistics

PublicationsUCLA Engineering faculty published 19 books, 25 chapters,357 journal articles and 456 articles in conference proceedings.

Editorial PositionsUCLA Engineering faculty held 39 editorships at professionaljournals and 46 associate editor positions.

Contracts and Grants Received $80,970,741

Gifts to UCLA Engineering $22,922,972

EnrollmentUndergraduate 2,269Master’s 474PhD 782Total 3,525

Degrees Awarded (2006)Undergraduate 529Master’s 294PhD 142Total 965

Full-time Faculty 155

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Five faculty members received

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CAREER Awards in 2006

18 PhD and postdoctoral fellows

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appointments in 2005-06.

Materials science and engineeringprofessor emeritus Alan Ardell has beenselected to receive the Albert SauveurAchievement Award for 2005 “forpioneering experimental and theoreticalresearch on the roles of elasticity andvolume fraction in the kinetics ofcoarsening and microstructures ofdispersed phases in two and threedimensional systems.”

Civil and environmental engineeringprofessor J. S. Chen has been elected as a Fellow of the U.S. Association forComputational Mechanics for hiscontributions in “nonlinear finiteelement and meshfree methods,stabilized meshfree methods, and recent-ly in multi-scale materials modeling.”

Computer science assistant professorJunghoo (John) Cho has received a 2005IBM Faculty Award. The award is anannual grant given to select facultymembers based on the quality and theimportance of their work.

Chemical engineering professor YoramCohen has been elected vice chair of theAIChE Separations Division.

Computer science professor JasonCong’s research group garnered the2005 Best Paper Award of the ACMTransactions for the Design Automationof Electronic Systems. The group paperpresents a novel FPGA architecturebased on k/m-macrocells, with in-depthquantitative architecture design and evaluation.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor Nasr Ghoniem has beenselected as one of five members of the International Advisory OversightCommittee for the European Project“PERFECT: for Prediction ofIrradiation Damage Effects on ReactorComponents.” PERFECT is developingpredictive tools for reactor pressurevessels and internal structures.

Mechanical and aerospace professorVijay Gupta has been elected a fellow ofthe American Society of MechanicalEngineers. The Fellow grade recognizesexceptional engineering achievementsand contributions to the engineeringprofession.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor H. Thomas Hahn has beenelected President of the InternationalCommittee on Composite Materials for a two-year term. ICCM is an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit, scientific and engineeringorganization dedicated to compositematerials.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor Chih-Ming Ho has beenelected to the Johns Hopkins Society ofScholars. The society inducts formerpostdoctoral fellows and junior orvisiting faculty at Johns Hopkins whohave gained marked distinction in theirfields of physical, biological, medical,social or engineering sciences or in thehumanities.

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Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA HenrySamueli School of Engineering andApplied Science, has been elected intothe National Academy of Engineering –the highest professional honor accordedto an American engineer – for his workon boiling heat transfer and nuclearreactor thermal hydraulics and safety.He also received the 2005 AmericanNuclear Society Thermal HydraulicsDivision’s Technical Achievement Awardfor his contributions to the field.

Computer science professor DeborahEstrin has been chosen as the recipientof the first Association for ComputingMachinery’s Athena Lecturer Award.Estrin was nominated for this award bySIGMOBILE, who selected just twonominees from a list of 14 top women inthe field of computer science.

Computer science professor emeritusGerald Estrin has received the IsraeliSoftware Industry Pioneer Award, pre-sented by the Israeli high-tech industry“in recognition of the entrepreneurship,leadership, hard work and outstandingachievements put forth in creating thefirst computer in Israel.”This award alsorecognizes his integral role in the estab-lishment of the Israeli high-tech industryand the strengthening of Israel’s econo-my, security, and scientific capabilities.

Celebrating Excellence

2005-06 Faculty Awards and Honors

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The 2005 American Control Confer-ence in June honored the life andcontributions of computer scienceadjunct professor Boris Kogan with aspecial session, honoring him as “one ofthe premier controls researchers of theformer Soviet Union.”

Eddie Kohler, assistant professor ofcomputer science, was named one ofTechnology Review’s TR35, a group ofthe world’s top young innovators.Kohler also received an NSF CAREERAward that will support his work indeveloping a new component-baseddesign for file systems and disk storagewith particular focus on file systemconsistency. Additionally, he received aMicrosoft Research New FacultyFellowship.

Chemical and biomolecular engineeringprofessor James Liao was awarded 2006W.N. Lacey Lectureship in ChemicalEngineering by the California Instituteof Technology. He also has beenawarded an “Honorary Epistar ChairProfessorship” for 2006 by the Collegeof Engineering at National Tsing HuaUniversity in Hsin-chu,Taiwan.

Jia-Ming Liu, professor of electricalengineering, received a prestigious 2006Guggenheim Fellowship, among themost coveted honors accorded toscholars, artists and writers. Liu will usehis Guggenheim Fellowship to conductresearch on three-dimensional intracel-

lular laser nanoscopy – using lasers to seestructures inside a cell with a resolutionon the scale of only nanometers.

Lutz Mädler, visiting researcher andlecturer in chemical and biomolecularengineering, has received the 2005Smoluchowski Award from theGesellschaft für Aerosolforschung(Association for Aerosol Research) inrecognition of his research in aerosolreaction engineering.

Assistant professor Rupak Majumdar,computer science, received an NSFCAREER Award that will support hiswork in exploring new ideas to extendthe capabilities of modern softwareverification tools to handle largerprograms and more complex properties.

Todd Millstein, assistant professor ofcomputer science, was selected to receivean NSF CAREER Award to investigatea framework that allows programmers toeasily document, enforce, and validaterelied-upon programming disciplines,which provide important additionalstructure on programs.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringadjunct associate professor Neil Morleyreceived the 2005 Excellence in FusionEngineering Award from the FusionPower Associates for his outstandingtechnical contributions to fusion devel-opment in areas such as high heat fluxcomponents, liquid walls and MHDfluid flow and heat transfer.

Computer science professor Richard R.Muntz has been awarded the 2006Association for Computing MachinerySIGMETRICS Achievement Award inrecognition of his pioneering contribu-tions to performance modeling.

Yu Huang, assistant professor of materi-als science and engineering, was named awinner of the second annual Nano 50™

Awards, which recognize the top 50technologies, products, and innovatorsthat have significantly impacted - or areexpected to impact – the state of the artin nanotechnology.

Electrical engineering professorBahram Jalali and Ozdal Boyraz (at UCIrvine) have been named amongScientific American’s prestigious annual“Scientific American 50” list for theirinnovative work with silicon lasers.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor Ann Karagozian has beenchosen to chair a new, high level studyfor the Air Force Scientific AdvisoryBoard on “Technology Options forImproved Air Vehicle Fuel Efficiency.”

Computer science professor LeonardKleinrock has been awarded the presti-gious Computer and CommunicationsPrize from Nippon ElectronicsCorporation, along with co-winnersRobert E. Kahn and Lawrence G.Roberts.The award recognizes pioneersin the fields of computing and commu-nications technologies. Kleinrock alsohas received an honoris causa degree of“Honorary Laurea Specialistica inIngegneria Telematica” from thePolitecnico di Torino. This is the firstsuch honorary degree awarded in thisspecialty of Internet technology.

Electrical engineering associate professorFernando Paganini recently became aSenior Member of the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers.Membership requires at least ten years inprofessional practice and significantperformance over a period of at least fiveof those years.

The Association of Uncertainty inArtificial Intelligence 2006 Best StudentPaper Award was awarded jointly to Ilya Shpitser and Judea Pearl for theirpaper “Identification of ConditionalInterventional Distributions.”

Electrical engineering professor YahyaRahmat-Samii has received a NASAInventions and Contributions BoardAward for “Fan Beam Patterns Radiatedfrom a Parabolic Reflector Antenna.”Awards are given in recognition ofcontributions to the National SpaceProgram and to the mission of the JetPropulsion Laboratory.

Electrical engineering professor andchair Ali Sayed received the 2005Frederick Emmons Terman Award fromthe American Society for EngineeringEducation. The Terman Award isbestowed annually upon an outstandingyoung electrical engineering educator inrecognition of the educator’s contribu-tions to the profession.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor Jeff Shamma has been electedas a Fellow of the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers “for contribu-tions to feedback control and systemstheory.”

Materials science and engineeringprofessor King-Ning Tu has received a2007 Electronic, Magnetic and Pho-tonic Materials Division DistinguishedScientist Award from the Minerals,Metals & Materials Society. He also hasbeen honored with the 2005 AppliedMaterials Lecture Award at NationalCheng Kung University,Taiwan.

Electrical engineering assistant professorMihaela van der Schaar has received a2005 IBM Faculty Award. The award isan annual grant given to select facultymembers based on the quality and theimportance of their work.

Electrical engineering professor EliYablonovitch delivered the prestigiousbiannual UCLA Faculty ResearchLecture on “The End of theSemiconductor Roadmap:The Collisionof Physics, Economics, and Sociology.”The lecture program honors theuniversity’s most distinguished scholarsin science, the arts, humanities and socialdisciplines.

Computer science professor LixiaZhang has been elected as a Fellow ofthe Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers “for contributions to thearchitecture and signaling protocols inpacket switched networks.”

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Civil and environmental engineeringprofessor Michael Stenstrom has beenawarded the 2005 Water Quality Awardfrom the Los Angeles Regional WaterQuality Control Board for his study,“Alternative Approaches to StormwaterQuality Control.” The Water QualityAwards honor individuals, organizations,businesses and public agencies that haveworked tirelessly and successfully toprotect or restore water quality in LosAngeles and Ventura Counties.

Ertugrul Taciroglu, assistant professor ofcivil and environmental engineering,received an NSF CAREER Award tosupport the development of a computa-tional platform for analysis and simula-tion of structural responses duringextreme events such as explosions andhigh velocity impacts.

Assistant professor Yi Tang, chemical andbiomolecular engineering, received anNSF CAREER Award for his work instudying the metabolic pathway, themolecular assembly, and the combinato-rial potential of tetracycline biosynthesis.

The Academy of Motion Picture Artsand Sciences has named computerscience and engineering professorDemetri Terzopoulos as the recipient of an Academy Award for TechnicalAchievement. The award, whichTerzopoulos shares with colleagues atboth Pixar and Microsoft, was given forhis “pioneering work in physicallyaccurate techniques to simulate realisticcloth for motion pictures.”

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringlecturer Shih-Hsi Tong received aProfessional Development Award forNon-Senate Faculty Members from theOffice of the Chancellor, FacultyDiversity. The award offers funding toassist with professional developmentprojects such as curriculum develop-ment, books, software, or other items.

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In an interview with USA Today, computerscience professor Rafail Ostrovsky said theCIA and the National Security Agency areevaluating a program of his that would letintelligence analysts search huge batches ofintercepted communications for keywordsand other criteria, while discarding messagesthat don’t apply. The research also was covered by the Associated Press, MSNBC,The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, TheSydney Morning Herald, and numerous others.June 18, 2006

The Los Angeles Times reports onenvironmental engineering professor JenniferJay’s research on the dangers of bacteria inthe sand at beaches, even when the water isclean. Her lab’s work was also covered byABC, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post,National Public Radio, Forbes, and manyother outlets. May 23, 2006

PC World (Australia) reports on UCLA’sspin-wave pioneers, adjunct professor MaryMehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, professorKang Wang, researcher Alexander Khitun,and graduate researcher Roman Ostroumov,who believe that the creation of “spin-wave”nano-packets can be used to build a fullyinterconnected network of processors on asingle chip. May 5, 2006

Popular Mechanics features musclebotresearch by bioengineering professor CarloMontemagno’s lab. May 2006

In a feature on Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLAEngineering, IndUS Business Journalhighlights his accomplishments. “He hasalready made an impression on both thecomputer chip and nuclear industries withhis work on boiling heat transfer and nuclearreactor thermal hydraulics and safety.” April15, 2006

Ivanhoe Broadcast News, a subscriptionservice for major national TV news outletsacross the U.S., covered new technologiesdeveloped by CENS researchers anddeployed in the wilderness: a fleet of roboticsensors to monitor environmental changes.April 2006

The New York Times interviewed LeonardKleinrock, a computer scientist at UCLAwho did pioneering research in data packetswitching, the fundamental techniqueunderlying networks, about an internationaldispute over control of the Internet. –November 14, 2005

National Public Radio affiliate KPCCfeatured electrical engineering professorAbeer Alwan’s computer speech research,focusing on an experimental languageevaluation program in development withLAUSD to assess children’s language skills.October 17, 2005

ABC National News covered a neworganic photovoltaic cell developed bymaterials science professor Yang Yang and hislab that uses a polymer, or plastic, material ina unique way. Their research also was fea-tured by the Associated Press, National PublicRadio, MIT Technology Review, UPI Wire,InovaçÇo Tecnológica and numerous otheroutlets around the world. October 11, 2005

The Los Angeles Times interviewed members of UCLA’s Golem Group, whichcompeted in the DARPA Grand Challenge,a race of autonomous ground vehicles.October 5, 2005

Mechanical and aerospace professor RajitGadh was interviewed by The Wall StreetJournal about microwave as an alternativefor wireless voice and data transmission.September 22, 2005

Time Magazine interviewed civil engineer-ing professor Jonathan Stewart about thelevees in New Orleans following HurricaneKatrina. He also was interviewed by KNX1070 News Radio, Cleveland Plain Dealer, andby other outlets. September 12, 2005

Computer science professor LeonardKleinrock was interviewed by The NewYork Times about a new network test bed that would allow scientists to makemeasurements and test new design ideas.August 29, 2005

Scientific American featured electricalengineering professor Bahram Jalali’s novelsilicon laser research.August 2005

The Seismic Design Challenge, a highlight ofthe American Society of Civil Engineersstudent conference hosted by UCLAEngineering was featured on CNNHeadline News. The competition was alsocovered by ABC News, NBC News, CBSNews, Fox News, and many other local andnational outlets.April 1, 2006

Electrical Engineering Times covered thelaunch of the Western Institute ofNanoelectronics a new center at UCLA thatwill advance research of spintronics. UCLAEngineering is partnering with Stanford,UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara on atechnology that could lead to computers thatbegin working as soon as the power comeson. Also covered by UPI Wire, CNET.news,San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles BusinessJournal, and numerous other outlets. March 9,2006

USA Today interviewed mechanical andaerospace engineering professor Vijay Guptaabout runway conditions at Chicago’sMidway International Airport on December8 when a Southwest Airlines jet crashed.March 2, 2006

A collaborative effort between mechanicalengineering professor Greg Carman andpediatric cardiologists at Mattel Children’sHospital at UCLA was featured in TheEngineer. The team is using thin film nitinol to develop a collapsible heart valve forchildren. This research also was covered innumerous national medical trades. February15, 2006

KABC 7 TV interviewed chemical andbiomolecular engineering chair VasiliosManousiouthakis about hydrogen fueloptions as part of their coverage of PresidentBush’s State of the Union Address. February2, 2006

UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir wasinterviewed by The Chronicle of HigherEducation about the decline in enrollmentsof foreign students. He stressed theimportance of foreign students in bringingnew perspectives to difficult problems andsaid it must be made easier for students tostudy in the US for the country to remaincompetitive. November 18, 2005

2005-06Top 20 Media Hits

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(Po Hao) Adam Huang PhD ’06Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas (Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho)

Roozbeh Jafari PhD ’06Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Texas, Dallas(Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh)

Laura Jarboe PhD ’06Chemical and Biological EngineeringIowa State University (Advisor: James Liao)

Katy Kao PhD ’05Chemical EngineeringTexas A&M University(Advisor: James Liao)

Abhijit Mukherjee PhD ’04Mechanical EngineeringMichigan Technological University(Advisor:Vijay K. Dhir)

Vijay Raghunathan PhD ‘05Electrical and Computer EngineeringPurdue University(Advisor: Mani Srivastava)

Aditya Ramamoorthy PhD ’05 Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University(Advisor: Rick Wesel)

Lizhi Sun PhD ’98 Civil and Environmental EngineeringUC Irvine (Advisor: J.W. Ju)

Thomas Szkopek PhD ’06 Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University(Advisor: Eli Yablonovitch)

Jennifer L.Wong PhD ’06 Computer Science State University New York, SUNY(Advisor: Miodrag Potkonjak)

Pak Kin Wong PhD ’05 Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Arizona (Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho)

Patents

16 patents were awarded toUCLA Engineering faculty in2005-06.

Professor M-C Frank Chang, electricalengineering, was jointly awarded apatent for a CMOS imager having aJFET adapted to detect photons andproduce an amplified electrical signal.

Mechanical and aerospace engineeringprofessor Robert T. M’Closkey andEugene Grayver PhD ’00 were jointlyawarded a patent for integrated lowpower digital gyro control electronics.

Professor Qibing Pei, materials scienceand engineering, was jointly awardedpatents for electroactive polymers,electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid, and electroactive poly-mers transducers and actuators.

Professor Miodrag Potkonjak, computerscience, was awarded a patent for amethod and systems for identificationof circuits and circuit design. He alsowas jointly awarded patents for a multi-resolution Viterbi decoding techniqueand design and optimization methodsfor integrated circuits.

Electrical engineering professor Ali Sayed and Nabil R.Yousef PhD ’01were awarded a patent for a methodand apparatus for resolving multipathcomponents for wireless location finding.

Professor Stefano Soatto, computerscience, was awarded a patent for amethod and system for selecting anddesigning eyeglass frames.

Electrical engineering professorMihaela van der Schaar was jointlyawarded a patent for a method andapparatus for a reconfigurable multi-media system.

Professor John Villasenor, electricalengineering, was jointly awarded apatent for a method and apparatus fortransmitting and receiving wirelesspacket.

Electrical engineering professor KangL.Wang and Jianlin Liu PhD ’03 wereawarded a patent for relaxed SiGe filmsby surfactant mediation. Wang also wasjointly awarded a patent for a horizontalcurrent bipolar transistor and fabricationmethod.

Adjunct electrical engineering professorMing Wu and Pei Yu Chiou MS ’04were awarded a patent for systems andmethods for optical actuation of micro-fluidics based on opto-electrowetting.

Professor Ya-Hong Xie, materials science and engineering, was awarded apatent for a method for fabricatingshallow trenches.

Materials science and engineering professor Yang Yang, researcher LipingMa, and Jie Liu PhD ’01 were awardeda patent for organic bistable device andorganic memory cells.

Alumni Academic Appointments

15 alumni and three postdocsjoined the faculty at institutionsaround the world.

Chen Avin PhD ’06 Communication Systems EngineeringBen-Gurion University of The Negev (Advisor: Judea Pearl)

Sauvik Banerjee PhD ’03Parks College of Engineering,Aviation, and TechnologySt. Louis University (Advisor:Ajit Mal)

Yong Cao PhD ’05Computer Science Virginia Tech(Advisor: Petros Faloutsos)

Christina Fragouli PhD ’00Computer and Communication SciencesEPFL, Lausanne Switzerland(Advisor: Rick Wesel)

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Postdoctoral AlumniAppointments

Paolo FavaroHeriot-Watt University in Edinburgh,Scotland(Advisor: Stefano Soatto)

Emmanuel PradosINRIA and the University of Grenoble,France(Advisor: Stefano Soatto)

Srdjan CapkunSwiss Federal Institute of Technology inZurich (Advisor: Mani Srivastava)

Endowed Chairs

Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences - Carlo Zaniolo

Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics - Chih-Ming-Ho

Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair inMaterials Science - Bruce Dunn

Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave and Millimeter WaveElectronics - Tatsuo Itoh

Northrop Grumman Opto-ElectronicsChair in Electrical Engineering - Eli Yablonovitch

Ralph M. Parsons Chair in ChemicalEngineering - Sheldon Friedlander

Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking- Deborah Estrin

Raytheon Company Chair inManufacturing Engineering - H.Thomas Hahn

Rockwell International Chair inEngineering - J. John Kim

William Frederick Seyer Chair inMaterials Electrochemistry - Jane Chang

UCLA Engineering Dean’s Cabinet

Dr. Henry Samueli, Chair (BS ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80)Broadcom Corporation

Dr. Frank ChangElectrical Engineering, UCLA

Mr. Aaron S. Cohen (BS ’58)National Technical Systems

Mr. James L. Easton (BS ’59)Easton Sports, Inc.

Dr. B. John Garrick (MS ’62, PhD ’68)PLG Inc. (retired)

Mr. Sam Iacobellis (MS ’63) Rockwell International Corporation

Dr. Leonard KleinrockComputer Science, UCLA

Mr. Rajeev MadhavanMagma Design Automation

Mr. Jeff Lawrence (BS ’79) Clivia Systems

Dr. Greg Pottie Associate Dean, UCLA Engineering

Mr. Edward K. RiceCTS Cement Manufacturing Company

Dr. Dwight C. Streit (MS ’83, PhD ’86)Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dr. Eli YablonovitchElectrical Engineering, UCLA

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