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The Fall 2009 includes features on realistic human simulation; advanced techniques to study ancient civilizations; an outreach program to raise middle and high school students' interest in science and engineering; a leadership program for emerging clean technology; and a profile of alumnus Aaron Cohen, co-founder of National Technical Systems, Inc. The issue also includes news on students, alumni, faculty and recent UCLA Engineering events.
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fall 2009, issue no. 22
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Virtual anatomy
> ancient art unraveled
> alumnus aaron Cohen ’58
> Clean-tech leaders
UCLA Engineer.3.indd 2 9/30/09 8:25 PM
At the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science, we are committed to interdisciplinary
scholarly work in emerging areas. And throughout the
school, more and more of this work is happening outside
of traditional engineering disciplines.
This commitment is highlighted by two feature stories
in this issue. The cover feature on Demetri Terzopoulos
introduces his many years of progress in human simulation and computer
modeling — work that was first popularized as special effects in
Hollywood films earning Terzopoulos an Oscar, but now has applications
in medicine, security and other fields. A second feature on Ioanna Kakoulli
details her research and analysis of ancient art and artifacts using
advanced engineering techniques.
One of my priorities as dean has also been to increase diversity in both
the student population and among faculty at UCLA Engineering. In the
past few years, we have recruited some exceptional women to the faculty
and some of their work has been included in this issue. Terri Hogue is
leading an outreach program that helps to get young students excited about
science; Yu Huang received a 2009 PECASE Award, the nation’s highest
honor for young researchers, for her work in renewable clean energy;
Diana Huffaker has created a leadership program in clean technology;
and I have already mentioned the feature on Ioanna. Also, of our six new
faculty hires for 2009, three are women.
Engineering has historically been a male-dominated field. But this is
changing. And we are proud to be playing a significant role in this move-
ment, with women who set the highest standards for excellence in the
classroom, in innovative research, and in serving the community.
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
DeanVijay K. Dhir
associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs
Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources
assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer
Department chairsTimothy J. Deming Bioengineering
Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adnan Darwiche Computer Science
Ali H. Sayed Electrical Engineering
Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering
Adrienne Lavine Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDTimothy J. DemingVijay K. DhirWilliam GoodinAdrienne LavineMary OkinoRichard D. Wesel
externaL affairs commUnicationsMatthew Chin Communications Manager
Wileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing
Joseph DonahooExecutive Director of Development
office of externaL affairs310.206.0678www.engineer.ucla.eduuclaengineering@support.ucla.edu
design: Leslie Baker Graphic Design
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DeanVijay K. Dhir
associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs
Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources
assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer
Department chairsTimothy J. Deming Bioengineering
Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adnan Darwiche Computer Science
Ali H. Sayed Electrical Engineering
Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering
Adrienne Lavine Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDTimothy J. DemingVijay K. DhirWilliam GoodinAdrienne LavineMary OkinoRichard D. Wesel
externaL affairs commUnicationsMatthew Chin Communications Manager
Wileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing
Joseph DonahooExecutive Director of Development
office of externaL affairs310.206.0678www.engineer.ucla.eduuclaengineering@support.ucla.edu
design: Leslie Baker Graphic Design
6 realistic human simulation
8 stimulus funds help start program to create clean-tech Leaders
10 entrepreneur makes a Life of giving Back
6 2 research summaries
4 faculty news
16 school news
20 student news
24 alumni news
30 2008-09 annual report
14
ngineer
12 middle and high school students in Los angeles Learn from UcLa science and engineering experts
14 advanced techniques to study ancient civilizations
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Mice with the glyoxylate shunt that were fed the same high-fat diet for six weeks remained skinny,
compared with the mice without the shunt.
2
Wileen Wong Kromhout
W hile recent research advances and treatment
methods have had little effect in reducing
obesity levels, UCLA Engineering researchers,
in collaboration with the David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA, may have discovered a completely new way to
approach the problem.
In a study published in the June 3 issue of the journal
Cell Metabolism, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering professor James Liao, associate
professor of human genetics and pediatrics Katrina Dipple
and their research team demonstrate how they successfully
constructed a non-native pathway in mice that increased
fatty acid metabolism and resulted in resistance to diet-
induced obesity.
“When we looked at the fatty-acid metabolism issue, we
noted there are two aspects of the problem that needed to
be addressed,” Liao said. “One is the regulation; fatty acid
metabolism is highly regulated. The other is digestion of
the fatty acid; there needs to be a channel to burn this fat.”
“We know plants and bacteria digest fats differently
from humans, from mammals,” said Jason Dean, a gradu-
ate student on Liao’s team and an author of the study. Plant
seeds usually store a lot of fat. When they germinate, they
convert the fat to sugar to grow. The reason they can digest
fat this way is because they have a set of enzymes that’s
uniquely present in plants and bacteria. These
enzymes are called the ‘glyoxylate shunt’ and are missing
in mammals.”
To investigate the effects of the glyoxylate shunt on fatty
acid metabolism in mammals, Liao’s team cloned bacteria
genes from Escherichia coli that would enable the shunt,
then introduced the cloned E. coli genes into the mitochon-
dria of liver cells in mice; mitochondria are where fatty
acids are burned in cells.
They found that the glyoxylate shunt cut the energy-
generating pathway of the cell in half, allowing the cell to
digest the fatty acid much faster than normal. They also
found that by cutting through this pathway, they created
an additional pathway for converting fatty acid into carbon
dioxide. This new cycle allowed the cell to digest fatty acid
more effectively.
The team also found that the new pathway decreased the
regulatory signal malonyl-CoA. When malonyl-CoA levels
are high, a signal is released that tells the body it is too
full and that it needs to stop using fat and begin making it.
Malonyl-CoA is high after eating a meal, blocking fatty acid
metabolism. The new pathway, however, allowed for fat
degradation even when the body was full.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/obesity_liao.htm
EnginEEring mEtabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity
rEliEs on an EntirEly nEw typE of imaging
research summaries
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uniquely present in plants and bacteria. These
enzymes are called the ‘glyoxylate shunt’ and are missing
in mammals.”
To investigate the effects of the glyoxylate shunt on fatty
acid metabolism in mammals, Liao’s team cloned bacteria
genes from Escherichia coli that would enable the shunt,
then introduced the cloned E. coli genes into the mitochon-
dria of liver cells in mice; mitochondria are where fatty
acids are burned in cells.
They found that the glyoxylate shunt cut the energy-
generating pathway of the cell in half, allowing the cell to
digest the fatty acid much faster than normal. They also
found that by cutting through this pathway, they created
an additional pathway for converting fatty acid into carbon
dioxide. This new cycle allowed the cell to digest fatty acid
more effectively.
The team also found that the new pathway decreased the
regulatory signal malonyl-CoA. When malonyl-CoA levels
are high, a signal is released that tells the body it is too
full and that it needs to stop using fat and begin making it.
Malonyl-CoA is high after eating a meal, blocking fatty acid
metabolism. The new pathway, however, allowed for fat
degradation even when the body was full.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/obesity_liao.htm
in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity
relies on an entirely new type of imaging
u ltrafast, light-sensitive video cameras are needed
for observing high-speed events such as shock-
waves, communication between living cells, neural
activity, laser surgery and elements of blood analysis. To
catch such elusive moments, a camera must be able to
capture millions or billions of images continuously with a
very high frame rate. Conventional cameras are simply not
up to the task.
Now, UCLA Engineering researchers have developed a
novel, continuously running camera that captures images
roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conven-
tional camera.
In a paper published in the April 30 issue of Nature,
Keisuke Goda, Kevin Tsia and team leader Bahram Jalali
describe an entirely new approach to imaging that does
not require a traditional CCD (charge-coupled device) or
CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) video
camera. Building on more than a decade of research on
photonic time stretch, a technique for capturing elusive
events, the team has demonstrated a camera that captures
images at some 6 million frames per second.
One of the applications the team envisions for the cam-
era is flow cytometry, a technique used for blood analysis.
Traditional blood analyzers can count cells and extract
information about their size, but they cannot take pictures
of every cell because no camera is fast and sensitive enough
for the job.
“To find these rogue cells — needles in the haystack —
you need to analyze billions of cells, the entire haystack,”
said Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering. Ultra-high-
speed imaging of cells in flow is a potential solution for
detection of rare abnormal cells.”
The new imager operates by capturing each picture with
an ultrashort laser pulse — a flash of light only a billionth
of a second long. It then converts each pulse to a serial
data stream that resembles the data in a fiber optic
network rather than the signal coming out of a cam-
era. Using a technique known as amplified dispersive
Fourier transform, these laser pulses, each contain-
ing an entire picture, are amplified and simultane-
ously stretched in time to the point that they are slow
enough to be captured with an electronic digitizer.
“Our serial time encoded amplified microscopy
(STEAM) technology enables continuous real time
imaging at a frame rate of more than 6 MHz, a shut-
ter speed of less than 450 ps and an optical image gain
of more than 300 – the world’s fastest continuously
running camera, useful for studying rapid phenomena
in physics, chemistry and biology,” said research co-
author Keisuke Goda, a postdoctoral researcher.
The study was funded by the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Depart-
ment of Defense’s central research and development
organization.
The complete news release and YouTube video
demonstrating the camera are available at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/camera_
jalali.htm
Wileen Wong Kromhout
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Yu Huang receives HigHest Honor
facultY news
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Bioengineering
Professor Gerard C.L. Wong
Ph.D. — UC Berkeley
Gerard Wong’s research program is centered on
studying self-organization in biological and biomedi-
cal systems using state-of-the-art techniques from
physics and chemistry. Current interests include an-
timicrobials, sociomicrobiology of bacterial communities, and
high-resolution diffractive imaging techniques using synchro-
tron x-ray and electron scattering.
Prior to joining UCLA, Wong was a faculty member of the
Materials Science, Physics, and Bioengineering departments
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He held
two postdoctoral appointments, one at the FOM Institute for
Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam, and one at UC
Santa Barbara. He is a recipient of the Apker Award from the
American Physical Society, the Beckman Young Investiga-
tor Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and Xerox Faculty
Research Awards.
civil and environmental engineering
Assistant Professor Shaily Mahendra
Ph.D. — UC Berkeley
Shaily Mahendra’s research interests include environ-
mental toxicology and applications of nanomateri-
als; applications of molecular and isotopic tools in
environmental microbiology; and biodegradation of
emerging water contaminants.
Prior to joining UCLA, Mahendra was a research scientist at
Rice University.
computer science
Assistant Professor Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Ph.D. — University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan’s research interests are in
machine learning, computational economics, social
network theory, and algorithms, all of which she stud-
ies using techniques from theoretical computer science.
Vaughan will spend one year as a Computing Innovation Fel-
low at Harvard University before arriving at UCLA in 2010.
electrical engineering
Professor Suhas Diggavi
Ph.D. — Stanford University
Suhas Diggavi’s research interests are in information
theory, wireless networks, and signal processing. His cur-
rent work is in cooperative information flow over wireless
networks; network data compression; network secrecy; and large
scale data analysis algorithms.
Diggavi has been on the faculty of the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne Switzerland. Before that, he was principal
member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratory. Diggavi is
a recipient of a IEEE Donald Fink Prize Paper Award, a IEEE VTC
Best Paper Award, and the Okawa Foundation Award. He is an edi-
tor for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transac-
tions on Information Theory.
Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek
Ph.D. — UC Berkeley
Lara Dolecek’s research interests are broad and span
information and probability theory, graphical models,
combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational
methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for
data processing, communication, and storage.
Prior to joining UCLA, Dolecek was a postdoctoral researcher at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
mecHanical and aerospace engineering
Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki
Ph.D. — Purdue University
Tetsuya Iwasaki’s research interests include neuronal
control mechanism of animal locomotion, nonlinear
oscillators, and robust/nonlinear control theory and its
applications to mechanical, aerospace, and electrical systems.
Prior to joining UCLA, Iwasaki was a faculty member at the
University of Virginia. He had previously held a faculty appointment
at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has served as an associ-
ate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems
and Control Letters, and IFAC Automatica and has received a NSF
CAREER Award.
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Yu Huang receives HigHest Honor
Y u Huang, an assistant professor of materials science
and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a
recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United
States government to young engineers and scientists at the out-
set of their professional careers.
Huang, whose research interest centers on the interface of
functional nanosystems and biosystems, was nominated for the
award by the Department of Defense’s Army Research Office
for her work on the biomolecule-regulated synthesis and assem-
bly of nanocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis systems, which
could one day lead to solutions in renewable clean energy.
At the heart of the artificial photosynthesis process, Huang
said, is photocatalytic water splitting, in which solar energy
is used to split water and produce hydrogen fuel. Huang’s
group is developing highly active and selective nanocatalysts
for this purpose.
M.C. Frank Chang has been named the holder of the Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering.
The chair was made possible by the support of Hyley Huang,
chairman of Wintek Corp., a leading maker of LCD panels.
Chang is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
elected for the “development and commercialization of GaAs
power amplifiers and integrated circuits.”
Alan Willson has been named holder of the Charles P. reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering.
The chair was made possible by a gift from alumnus Charles
P. Reames MS ’80, Ph.D. ’85, senior director of broadband
systems engineering at Broadcom Corp.
Most recently Willson was named the 2009 Distinguished
Lecturer, by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and
received the IEEE Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.
Symantec, a global leader in providing security, storage and
systems management solutions has endowed the Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science to support the teaching and research
of a distinguished junior faculty member.
The endowment will attract promising scholars to the school
who can advance research of technologies to secure and manage
information.
“It’s usually very difficult for young faculty to explore
new areas of research. It is a great honor to be recognized
with the PECASE,” said Huang, who was awarded $1 mil-
lion in support of her work for the next five years. “Now our
research group can take a significant step toward addressing
the increasing challenges related to global warming.”
Huang is among this year’s 100 recipients, who will be
invited to participate in a special White House ceremony in
the fall. She is also one of four UCLA Engineering faculty
members to have received the PECASE in the last five years.
“We are extremely proud of Yu and her research accom-
plishments,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.
“We take great pride in knowing that her work in nanoscale
technology will contribute to the important area of renew-
able energy, and it is gratifying to see one of our faculty
recognized at a national level once again.”
Wileen Wong Kromhout
for Young EnginEErs
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electrical engineering
Professor Suhas Diggavi
Ph.D. — Stanford University
Suhas Diggavi’s research interests are in information
theory, wireless networks, and signal processing. His cur-
rent work is in cooperative information flow over wireless
networks; network data compression; network secrecy; and large
scale data analysis algorithms.
Diggavi has been on the faculty of the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne Switzerland. Before that, he was principal
member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratory. Diggavi is
a recipient of a IEEE Donald Fink Prize Paper Award, a IEEE VTC
Best Paper Award, and the Okawa Foundation Award. He is an edi-
tor for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transac-
tions on Information Theory.
Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek
Ph.D. — UC Berkeley
Lara Dolecek’s research interests are broad and span
information and probability theory, graphical models,
combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational
methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for
data processing, communication, and storage.
Prior to joining UCLA, Dolecek was a postdoctoral researcher at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MecHanical and aerospace engineering
Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki
Ph.D. — Purdue University
Tetsuya Iwasaki’s research interests include neuronal
control mechanism of animal locomotion, nonlinear
oscillators, and robust/nonlinear control theory and its
applications to mechanical, aerospace, and electrical systems.
Prior to joining UCLA, Iwasaki was a faculty member at the
University of Virginia. He had previously held a faculty appointment
at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has served as an associ-
ate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems
and Control Letters, and IFAC Automatica and has received a NSF
CAREER Award.
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nEw facultY chairs
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The biomechanical human model: In these images, the soft tissue simulator produces realistic deformations of the (right) visualization geometry and (left) the embedded volumetric muscles
images courtesy of Demetri Terzopoulos
i n his distinguished
career in computer
science, Demetri
Terzopoulos has
evolved from simulat-
ing real-world objects, to creating
comprehensive simulations
of reality.
In the late 1980s,
while working as a sci-
entist at a Schlumberger
Research center in Sili-
con Valley, Terzopoulos
helped pioneer physics-
based computer graphics
techniques to simulate
how cloth and other
nonrigid objects move,
such as a flag flapping
in the wind.
These techniques were soon incorporated as special
effects in Hollywood films. So today, whether it’s a
completely computer-animated movie like Toy Story
or Monsters, Inc., or a film that incorporates computer
generated effects like the Harry Potter or Star Wars
franchises, Terzopoulos’ pioneering work helped set
the stage for some of those films’ amazing images and
special effects. And this work earned Terzopou-
los a 2005 Academy Award for Technical
Achievement.
Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-
puter Science, has been working on the profound
challenge of realistic human simulation.
This includes emulating complex human activ-
ity in urban environments, which has resulted in
computer models featuring autonomous virtual
pedestrians. These models are more than simple
crowd simulations; rather, they are comprehensive
artificial life models of individual human appear-
Matthew Chin
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These techniques were soon incorporated as special
effects in Hollywood films. So today, whether it’s a
completely computer-animated movie like Toy Story
or Monsters, Inc., or a film that incorporates computer
generated effects like the Harry Potter or Star Wars
franchises, Terzopoulos’ pioneering work helped set
the stage for some of those films’ amazing images and
special effects. And this work earned Terzopou-
los a 2005 Academy Award for Technical
Achievement.
Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-
puter Science, has been working on the profound
challenge of realistic human simulation.
This includes emulating complex human activ-
ity in urban environments, which has resulted in
computer models featuring autonomous virtual
pedestrians. These models are more than simple
crowd simulations; rather, they are comprehensive
artificial life models of individual human appear-
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ance, locomotion, behavior, and cognition. Each virtual hu-
man can independently sense and interpret the environment,
then make decisions based on several different factors, and
perform the appropriate actions.
This work has applications not just in the motion picture
and interactive game industries, but also in simulating the be-
havior of groups of people in different settings—for example,
predicting what a crowd in a train station will do in some
specific emergency situation.
“We have already simulated some nontrivial social interac-
tions among pedestrians through the use of decision net-
works,” said Terzopoulos, adding that “There remain many
fascinating open problems to investigate, but as a next step,
we hope to model some relevant aspects of human verbal
communication so that the social interactions of our virtual
pedestrians will be much more lifelike.”
Terzopoulos, his Ph.D. student Sung-Hee Lee, and post-
doctoral researcher Eftychios Sifakis, have also developed
and continue to refine a comprehensive biomechanical model
of the human body. This computer model includes a skeleton
with 75 bones and 165 jointed degrees of freedom, plus a
staggering 846 muscle actuators. Surrounding the muscle-
skeletal framework is a 3D finite-element mesh that simulates
the realistic deformation of soft tissues.
The highly detailed model, for which Lee received the 2009
UCLA Computer Science Outstanding Ph.D. Award, can po-
tentially facilitate advances in medical technology or surgical
techniques, among many other applications.
According to Terzopoulos, enabling such an elaborate
biomechanical model to control itself remains a big challenge.
“We have successfully developed a neuro-muscular controller
that can be trained to actuate the neck muscles so as to balance
the head in gravity atop the cervical column and to synthesize
voluntary head movements that are essential to many aspects
of human behavior,” he said. “And we are now endeavoring
to generalize our approach with the hope of controlling the
order-of-magnitude greater number of muscles in the complete
biomechanical body model.”
So, what is the big picture in realistic human simulation? “My
long-term objective is a computer simulated world that ap-
proaches the complexity and realism of the real world, inhabited
by virtual humans that look, move, and behave as much as pos-
sible like real people,” said Terzopoulos. “Such a reality emula-
tor could be used in revolutionary ways across multiple scientific
disciplines.”
Terzopoulos’ ongoing work on realistic human simulation was
recognized in April with a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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program to create clean-tech leaders
As the country presses forward in developing green energy and Los Angeles strives to become a hub of clean technology, UCLA electrical engineering professor Diana Huffaker noticed there was one thing still missing: a program to train the future leaders of the environmental industry in L.A.
So she created it — and, working with about 20 other
professors, won support for it: $3 million in stimulus
funding via a highly competitive grant from the Na-
tional Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate
Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) award.
The Clean Energy for Green Industry Fellowship,
designed to develop leaders in environmental energy,
could start as soon as the upcoming winter quarter. It
will grant Ph.D. students a $33,000 stipend for pursuing
coursework in the science, business and policies of clean
technology.
“Over the course of the five-year program, we’ll
graduate 33 Ph.D.s with expertise in energy storage, en-
ergy harvesting and energy conservation,” Huffaker said.
“They’ll be in existing Ph.D. programs, such as chemis-
try or engineering, and for our fellowship they’ll take a
series of five classes, including lab research and policy.
The program is the first of its kind in the L.A. basin.”
The fellowship will be the only program in Los Ange-
les to teach the science and business of clean technology
with a goal of boosting the clean-tech economy and
creating green-collar jobs, she said.
UCLA recently joined the city, two other universities
and several local agencies in creating CleanTech Los
Angeles, an effort to make the city the global capital of
clean technology. The partnership intends to turn the
city into a center of green technology, green jobs and
green manufacturing, with a research and manufactur-
ing corridor near downtown Los Angeles.
The IGERT fellowships will help UCLA fulfill its
role in the partnership, Huffaker said.
Huffaker, an electrical engineering professor with a
background in engineering physics and nanotechnol-
ogy, arrived at UCLA two years ago.
Her own clean-energy specialty is energy harvest-
ing, focusing on collecting waste heat with thermal
photo-voltaics — like solar panels for heat instead of
sunlight. But Huffaker’s gift was in reaching out to
other disciplines, said Magali Delmas, a management
professor with the Institute of the Environment (IOE)
who studies how green products are marketed and
what works.
“She had this vision, which is so unique, about
bringing policy and management to the program,”
said Delmas, who is working with an IOE colleague,
economics and public policy professor Matthew Kahn,
to develop the curriculum for one of the IGERT fellow-
ship’s five classes.
Alison Hewitt
StimULUS fUnDS HeLp StArt
Diana Huffaker
Over the course of the five-year program, we’ll graduate 33 ph.D.s with expertise in energy conservation.
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program to create clean-tech leadersAngeles, an effort to make the city the global capital of
clean technology. The partnership intends to turn the
city into a center of green technology, green jobs and
green manufacturing, with a research and manufactur-
ing corridor near downtown Los Angeles.
The IGERT fellowships will help UCLA fulfill its
role in the partnership, Huffaker said.
Huffaker, an electrical engineering professor with a
background in engineering physics and nanotechnol-
ogy, arrived at UCLA two years ago.
Her own clean-energy specialty is energy harvest-
ing, focusing on collecting waste heat with thermal
photo-voltaics — like solar panels for heat instead of
sunlight. But Huffaker’s gift was in reaching out to
other disciplines, said Magali Delmas, a management
professor with the Institute of the Environment (IOE)
who studies how green products are marketed and
what works.
“She had this vision, which is so unique, about
bringing policy and management to the program,”
said Delmas, who is working with an IOE colleague,
economics and public policy professor Matthew Kahn,
to develop the curriculum for one of the IGERT fellow-
ship’s five classes.
“It’s important that the students understand that just be-
cause we can find wonderful new technologies, that doesn’t
mean that it will make money or that anyone will even adopt
it,” Delmas said. “We’ll talk about what gets adopted, what
the incentives are, how government policies affect it. Under-
standing the economic and social aspects of innovation will
make the students stronger in their careers.”
Students will also learn about some of Los Angeles’
unique policy issues, Huffaker said. In addition to Delmas
and Kahn’s class on the economics and politics of climate
change and environmentalism, IGERT fellows will take four
other classes.
Two classes will be combined in a three-part lecture series
team taught by three professors. The first section will focus
on energy harvesting, via solar cells, heat recovery and wind
energy. Next, the students will learn about energy storage,
such as in bio fuel-cells and super-capacitors. Finally, the
lectures will turn to conservation methods, including archi-
tectural designs that can save energy in buildings, and car
designs that can save fuel. These two-classes-in-one will be
complemented by a third: a lab course at a new clean energy
test facility to be built at UCLA’s California NanoSystems
Institute (CNSI), supported by NSF funding and matching
dollars from UCLA, where students can experiment with
energy collection and storage.
UCLA Anderson School of Management will teach the
final class, looking at small-company development and intel-
lectual property law, giving students the basis to start a busi-
ness or sell an idea to a business, Huffaker said.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Laurent
Pilon, who researches ways to turn heat into energy and
algae into fuel, will help develop curriculum for the fellow-
ship’s lab course.
Pilon noted that in addition to the IGERT award for
this training fellowship, UCLA’s Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science recently received
Department of Energy funding to host an Energy Frontier
Research Center, which will use nanoscale materials to
convert solar energy into electricity, store electrical energy,
and capture and separate greenhouse gases.
StimuluS fundS help Start
Over the course of the five-year program, we’ll graduate 33 ph.d.s with expertise in energy conservation.
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National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) may not be a household name but its long list of impressive clients, The Boeing Company, Honeywell, Caterpillar, Verizon, NASA, are. With humble beginnings in 1961 involving a UCLA Engineering alumnus and a $5,000 chamber for testing aluminum windows and doors, NTS today has evolved into the largest publicly traded business that provides engineering, product testing and evaluation services to a variety of industries including: aerospace, defense, transportation, electronics, power, com-puters and telecommunications. Its sales last year were 119 million dollars.
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ENTrEprENEUr MAkES A LIfE of giving back
“I never could have envisioned the company becom-
ing what it is today,” said UCLA Engineering alum-
nus, Aaron Cohen ’58, co-founder of the company
and current vice chairman of the board of directors.
“Within a month of starting the business in my
garage, we had tested all the windows and doors
on the West Coast, and needed to find something
else to do,” he said of those early days. “So we
bought a leak detection company that tested various
hardware for minute leaks using helium gas, again
for $5,000 and started competing with my former
employer for work by bidding for similar contracts.”
Today, with testing facilities throughout the U.S.
and in countries like Japan, Vietnam and Canada,
NTS offers services such as extreme environmental
testing with 50-foot diameter centrifuges, 5,000 cu-
bic foot acoustic chambers, 1,500 cubic foot space
simulation chambers and 10 meter EMI chambers.
The company has worked on major space pro-
grams including the Space Shuttle, the International
Space Station, the Mars Rover and continues to test compo-
nents for helicopters, submarines, and aircraft carriers, just to
name a few.
Sitting with Cohen, it is easy to see how proud he is of his
company and how much he enjoys his job. It is also obvious
that he holds a deep passion for life and for people. Everyone
at his company calls him by his first name and he knows all of
them by their first names too.
Cohen also believes deeply in the importance of education
and shows off his Bruin pride as often as possible, driving a car
with a UCLA Engineering license frame surrounding a plate
that states “58UCLA.” It is no wonder he found his second
calling in life just a decade after establishing his business.
In the ’70s, NTS began doing high rise construction in-
spection on buildings in Century City and in downtown Los
Angeles, and needed to hire more inspectors. But there was a
lack of qualified inspectors so the company contacted a welding
school in Downey that was graduating students who learned to
weld metals and who could then be certified by the city of Los
Angeles to become building inspectors.
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“We decided to buy the school and produce our own
inspectors. The school also had a branch in Anaheim and
that’s when we fell into the school business,” said Cohen.
But it quickly became much more than training qualified
inspectors for the company.
“We were enrolling mostly inner city kids who really
had no hope, no job, no education, not even a high school
diploma. Many of them had come from jail and rehab pro-
grams. We taught them how to be welders and inspectors
and we were getting them jobs at many different compa-
nies. I found that very gratifying,” said Cohen.
NTS purchased its first two schools in 1975. By 1981, the
company had acquired eight schools, bringing in revenues
of $5 million a year. The schools taught vocational subjects
like nursing, dental assisting, medical assisting, court re-
porting, auto and aircraft mechanics, and welding.
“Jack Lin, my business partner and I felt this was a
great business. We were really helping people help them-
selves. We felt good about that and proud of the students,”
said Cohen.
NTS’ schools also led to the development of software
needed to help run the schools. Being the engineer that he
is, Cohen quickly found people to create what he needed
and discovered there was also a great market for it among
other school systems.
In the next seven years, his “school” business, now Unit-
ed Education & Software, grew to 35 schools throughout
the country with 20,000 students enrolled annually. The
schools’ graduates, in aircraft mechanics, for example, were
being hired by American Airlines, Delta, United and other
airlines and soon represented 20 percent of the aircraft
mechanics entering the work force each year in the U.S.
“We helped thousands of kids,” said Cohen. “I received
so many letters from students that graduated saying we got
them off welfare and found them jobs. They thanked us for
helping them turn their lives around.”
Just as Cohen was getting into the business of education,
UCLA came calling too.
“I got a call asking me to come down and join a small
alumni group that met regularly to try to help the dean. I
tried it and got hooked” remembered Cohen. “We used to
put on events like the annual alumni awards dinner that
still takes place today. I love helping the school.”
Unfortunately in December of 1989, United Education
& Software had to file for bankruptcy. A new federal law
eliminated certain government funding for students with-
Space Station, the Mars Rover and continues to test compo-
nents for helicopters, submarines, and aircraft carriers, just to
name a few.
Sitting with Cohen, it is easy to see how proud he is of his
company and how much he enjoys his job. It is also obvious
that he holds a deep passion for life and for people. Everyone
at his company calls him by his first name and he knows all of
them by their first names too.
Cohen also believes deeply in the importance of education
and shows off his Bruin pride as often as possible, driving a car
with a UCLA Engineering license frame surrounding a plate
that states “58UCLA.” It is no wonder he found his second
calling in life just a decade after establishing his business.
In the ’70s, NTS began doing high rise construction in-
spection on buildings in Century City and in downtown Los
Angeles, and needed to hire more inspectors. But there was a
lack of qualified inspectors so the company contacted a welding
school in Downey that was graduating students who learned to
weld metals and who could then be certified by the city of Los
Angeles to become building inspectors.
out a high school diploma. Half of the students enrolled at their
schools did not have a high school diploma.
Today as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, Cohen sees
opportunities to continue to help students and give back to the
school he cherishes.
“I wish I had someone that could have mentored me when I
was going to UCLA. My real motivation is to help people and I
look forward to making a difference as a mentor, a donor, a role
model,” said Cohen, whose company likes to give UCLA Engi-
neering students their first break.
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I n an effort to improve science education at the middle
and high school levels as well as raise students’ aware-
ness and interest in the area of science and engineer-
ing, UCLA has established the Science and Engineering of
the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA). The program,
which has received $3 million over five years from NSF’s
Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 (GK-12) Education
Program, pairs graduate fellows from UCLA with sci-
ence teachers in the Los Angeles and Culver City unified
school districts.
SEE-LA focuses on the environment of Los Angeles.
Issues such as urbanization, global and regional climate
change, drought, floods, fires, earthquakes, pollution,
transportation, preservation, biodiversity, energy and
water use confront the students of L.A. on a daily basis.
Graduate fellows, with research interests in the above
or related areas, contribute to the professional develop-
ment programs of the science departments of the schools.
Students at the schools also benefit from fellows through
an enriched learning experience with more individualized
attention in the classroom and by having an opportunity
to directly interact with fellows.
“This year there will be four fellows from the engineer-
ing school and six from the physical and life sciences.
These fellows basically serve as scientists in residence,”
said Terri Hogue, director of SEE-LA and professor of
civil and environmental engineering. “Like many of the
artists in residence programs, our fellows serve as science
experts in the classroom. With their help, students will
get exposed to things that they’ve never heard of or seen.
We want to get them excited about science.”
Specifically, graduate fellows are partnered with two
teachers from Emerson Middle School, University Senior
High School, Culver City Middle School, or Culver City
High School. Fellows spend two full days per week at
their assigned schools and ten hours per week engaged in
classroom activities.
“The students love having the fellows in the class-
room,” said Kris Kaiser, a senior graduate fellow return-
ing to the program. “For most of them, we are the only
scientists they will ever meet. In many cases, the kids are
SEE-LA Fellows left to right: Megan Burke, civil and environmental engineering; professor Terri Hogue; Gloria Perez, pathology and lab medicine; Tina Wey, ecology and evolutionary biology; Kimberly Cross, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Warren Essey, physics and Katie Bulgrin, mechanical engineering. photo by Todd Cheney
left inset: Fellow Helen Jung, of civil and environmental engineering with environmental science students from Emerson Middle School in Yosemite National Park.right inset: Fellow Kris Kaiser, of ecology and evolutionary biology, with earth science students from Culver City Middle School, exploring stream organisms in Ballona Creek. photo by Kathy Scherling, Culver City High School
fairly limited in their understanding of what they can be
when they grow up. They have virtually no understanding
of the wide range of paths science can take them in.”
Fellows also spend an additional five hours per week
in non-classroom activities such as planning with their
teachers, researching and preparing lessons, meeting with
the GK-12 management team, going through program
evaluations, or attending workshops.
A primary goal of the SEE-LA program is to also help
graduate fellows improve their communication, team-
work, teaching, and public outreach skills through active
collaborations with not only their assigned teachers, but
also with UCLA faculty and through interactions with
their students.
“The NSF has recognized that a lot of us are very good
at research, but we get rather narrowly focused. What
we really need, if we’re going to make on impact on
society, is to learn to step back and think about the
bigger picture and be able to communicate with the
general public,” said Hogue.
“We also want to get graduates interested in doing
long-term outreach to the community. As they become
scientists or engineers in academia, research centers or
other venues, we want them to stay interested in outreach
that has broader impacts on the community.”
Feedback regarding the program from teachers, stu-
dents as well as the graduate fellows themselves has been
very positive.
Kaiser explained that though she wanted to improve
her communication skills and improve as an educator, she
never considered working with high school students.
“But by the end of the year, I realized I was going to
miss the kids the most! I’m amazed at how much I loved
interacting with the students at this level,” said Kaiser.
“Last year, we had 24 graduate fellow applicants and
this year we had 45. Word got out that the graduate
students have been really happy with the program. At the
end of the year we also get to see the impact in the class-
rooms. Many of our fellows received letters and thank
you notes from their students. It’s very rewarding for all
of us,” said Hogue.
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AdvAnced techniques
the ucLA campus is virtually split into two parts — a fact many students learn at freshman orientation. north campus — the realm of visual and performing arts, humanities, and social sciences — and south campus — the domain of engineering, physical and biological sciences, and medicine.
These labels are often only for convenience. UCLA is
home to innovators who cross disciplines, combining
advanced technology with classical scholarship to create
new knowledge.
One great example of this type of scholar is Ioanna
Kakoulli, who works in the emerging field of archeometry,
an integration of science and archeology.
Kakoulli is an associate professor of materials science
and engineering, with a joint appointment at the UCLA/
Getty Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation
Program and the Cotsen Institute of Archeology.
Kakoulli’s research includes the continuing study of an-
cient Greek painting and color technology, using advanced
analytical techniques and synchrotron light source to
decipher the materials ancient artists used.
At the height of the Late Classical to Hellenistic Period
(~400 to 100 BC), painting was particularly significant,
since it was not confined to a specific area, nor to a specific
ethnic group. Art became the lingua franca among differ-
ent groups of people, from the Balkans to the Levant, and
as far as India, throughout which ideas and goods flowed
freely. Greek painters had perfected techniques and manu-
facturing of materials that resulted in lasting, beautiful art.
Painting during this period went beyond the alluring
composition of beautiful colors. Pliny the Elder (1st Cen-
tury AD) provides the most significant insight in ancient
Greek art, mentioning Agatharchos from Athens (5th
Century BC) as the first artist to introduce perspective in
painting, and Apollodoros, a vase painter, as the one who
expressed realism and introduced shading that was
extensively used by acclaimed Greek painters, Zeuxis
and Apelles.
“Pliny further refers to Polygnotus from Thasos ‘...who
first depicted women with see-through clothing...’ Scien-
tific studies of surviving examples from this period have
shown how pictorial representations — something like
what we understand of paintings today — was born in this
period,” said Kakoulli.
“Using modern technology, we are unmasking the
secrets of ancient Greek painters and explaining, both in
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to Study ancient civilizationS
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advanced techniques
extensively used by acclaimed Greek painters, Zeuxis
and Apelles.
“Pliny further refers to Polygnotus from Thasos ‘...who
first depicted women with see-through clothing...’ Scien-
tific studies of surviving examples from this period have
shown how pictorial representations — something like
what we understand of paintings today — was born in this
period,” said Kakoulli.
“Using modern technology, we are unmasking the
secrets of ancient Greek painters and explaining, both in
historical and technical terms, the development of pictorial
means, such as, the use of shading, three-dimensionality,
spatial perspective, transparency, and gilding - innovations
that characterize the Hellenistic period.”
Creating these works required more than just a keen eye
and skilled hand. Scientific techniques have revealed these
ancient artists used local and imported natural minerals,
dyes and plant gums, because of their luster and material
characteristics. They also used artificial composites such as
high fired ceramics glass frits and organo-metallic complexes
with the desired properties.
One of the works Kakoulli has analyzed extensively is the
marble throne that decorates the tomb of Eurydice Sirra,
Queen of Macedonia in the 4th Century BC, and better
known as the grandmother of Alexander the Great.
The free-standing throne is the most outstanding feature
of the tomb. The legs and armrests are decorated with female
figures, lions and deer, and mythological creatures like grif-
fins. The most impressive part of the throne is the painted
‘picture panel’ representing a painting of Pluto and Perse-
phone on a four-horse chariot.
“For the study of this unique and archaeologically significant
artifact, a variety of techniques were used. These included,
broadband imaging from the ultraviolet to near infrared; opti-
cal and electron microscopy; infrared and x-ray spectroscopy,
as well as chromatographic techniques,” said Kakoulli.
According to Kakoulli, the analysis has shed new light
on the technology of ancient painted monuments, including
highly sophisticated techniques using a variety of natural
(local and imported) and synthetic materials.
Though the technology of the ancient Greeks remains Kak-
oulli’s primary research interest, she also collaborates with
other UCLA researchers.
She is the co-director of a project that examines Pre-
Columbian mummified human remains in Northern Chile’s
Tarapaca Valley. This project incorporates modern medicine,
as well as natural and forensic science to examine organic
materials — to the molecular level — that can deduce the
types of diseases they may have had, and the types of drugs
they may have used.
More recently, she is leading a research project on unique
12th Century Byzantine murals at the monastery of St. Neo-
phytos in Paphos, Cyprus.
Kakoulli teaches students in the UCLA/Getty conservation
program and in the materials science department through
hands-on research projects.
“Our students are really very fortunate to have access to
state-of-the-art facilities with advanced instrumentation at
UCLA and the Getty Villa. Undoubtedly, UCLA and the
Getty offer a unique educational and research platforms that
enable and enhance learning and discovery. Our approach
exposes students to critical and creative thinking that helps
prepare them for successful careers,” said Kakoulli.
More information on Ioanna Kakoulli’s research is available
online at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/archaeogroup/
Details from the painting decorating the throne in the ’Tomb of Eurydice’ at Vergina, Greece. left: A photomicrograph of a mauve color used in the painting. The stratigraphy of the sample shows the precipitation of the organic colorant on calcite crystals.middle: The painter used gum arabic as the binding medium, and lakes (organometallic complexes) to create the illusionistic effect of transparency, clearly visible in the area where the gold bracelet is.right: This photo was taken with oblique illumination, enhancing the surface texture of the painting. photos courtesy of Ioanna Kakoulli
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Wileen Wong Kromhout
A leader in research on sustainable energy and
clean technology, the UCLA Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science is
now the home to a new multimillion-dollar Energy
Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE).
The Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials
(MEEM) center, which the DOE will to fund at $11.5
million over five years, will focus on the creation and
production of nanoscale materials for use in converting
solar energy into electricity, electrical energy storage,
and capturing and separating greenhouse gases.
“A center for energy research is something we’ve
been trying to establish for a long time,” said Vidvuds
Ozolins, UCLA professor of materials science and en-
gineering and the new center’s director. “We want the
center to provide revolutionary breakthroughs, game-
changing solutions, and we want to carry the research
into real life. By bringing together several faculty across
campus who have already done significant work in
multimillion-dollar energy research center
DepArtment of energy to funD
energy production, energy storage and carbon capture,
we’ll be able to hit the ground running.”
The center, whose goal also is to increase societal
awareness of sustainable energy issues through an inte-
grated program of research, education and outreach, will
be collaborating with scientists at the DOE’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Eastern Washington Uni-
versity, the University of Kansas and UC Davis.
Global energy demands will only continue to grow, and
the center’s work will be essential in helping to make alter-
native and renewable energy a viable resource for the 21st
century,” said UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir.
UCLA’s center will be one of 46 new EFRCs across
the country. These new centers will bring together groups
of leading scientists to address fundamental issues in a
variety of fields, including solar energy, biofuels, trans-
portation, electricity storage and transmission, clean coal,
carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/EFRC.htm
ZIFs are zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs). They feature high surface area and high thermal stability, and unusually high chemical stability. They have been shown to selectively absorb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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multimillion-dollar energy research center
Department Of energy tO funD
energy production, energy storage and carbon capture,
we’ll be able to hit the ground running.”
The center, whose goal also is to increase societal
awareness of sustainable energy issues through an inte-
grated program of research, education and outreach, will
be collaborating with scientists at the DOE’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Eastern Washington Uni-
versity, the University of Kansas and UC Davis.
Global energy demands will only continue to grow, and
the center’s work will be essential in helping to make alter-
native and renewable energy a viable resource for the 21st
century,” said UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir.
UCLA’s center will be one of 46 new EFRCs across
the country. These new centers will bring together groups
of leading scientists to address fundamental issues in a
variety of fields, including solar energy, biofuels, trans-
portation, electricity storage and transmission, clean coal,
carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/EFRC.htm
Wileen Wong Kromhout
Chemical and biomolecular engineering profes-
sor Vasilios Manousiouthakis has been awarded
$2.1 million in grant funding to build a state-of-
the-art hydrogen fueling station on the UCLA campus.
A $1.7 million grant from the California Air Re-
sources Board (CARB) and a $400,000 grant from the
state’s Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review
Committee (MSRC) will go toward the construction of
one of the largest hydrogen fueling stations in Cali-
fornia, with a capacity to produce 140 kilograms of
hydrogen a day for use in hydrogen-powered vehicles.
“The grants will enable UCLA to achieve a number
of its long-term goals for promoting sustainability, both
on campus and in the greater Los Angeles region,”
said Michael Swords, executive director of Strategic
Research Initiatives at UCLA. “The development of
this hydrogen fueling station will also provide our
students with a state-of-the-art learning and research
facility where they can study and evaluate the logistics
of hydrogen generation, distribution and supply.”
The station, which will be available for use by the
public, will be run by UCLA Engineering’s Hydro-
gen Engineering Research Consortium (HERC),
which Manousiouthakis directs. The consortium
was established in 2005 after UCLA partnered with
Professor awarded $2.1m to build hyDrOgen fueling statiOn at uCla
DaimlerChrysler Corp. and global energy company BP
to help demonstrate elements of the hydrogen economy
infrastructure.
“The proposed fueling station will show that we can
effectively utilize the existing natural gas infrastructure
to deliver hydrogen on-site. We won’t have to build new
pipelines for hydrogen,” Manousiouthakis said.
UCLA has been at the forefront of hydrogen-related
research since the 1970s, first with its student-built
hydrogen-fueled car, which won the national Urban Ve-
hicle Design Competition, and more recently with its novel
cycle to produce hydrogen through the thermochemical
decomposition of water.
Manousiouthakis, a systems engineering expert who
focuses on the development of novel hydrogen production
methods, believes that hydrogen production based on the
reforming of natural gas — a process that involves the
endothermic transformation of natural gas and water into
hydrogen and carbon dioxide — is the most economical
route for hydrogen production today.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/hydrogen_
fueling_station.htm
Vasilios Manousiouthakis in a prototype hydrogen fuel cell car. photo by Don Liebig
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UCLA nAmes soon-shiong executive director of Wireless HealtH institute
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sChooL news
Wileen Wong Kromhout
D r. Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder and chair-
man of Abraxis BioScience and executive
chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health, was
appointed executive director of the UCLA Wireless
Health Institute. He also accepted a position as a
visiting professor of bioengineering and of microbiol-
ogy, immunology and molecular genetics.
The Wireless Health Institute (WHI), established
in 2008, is a community of UCLA experts and in-
novators from a variety disciplines — including engi-
neering, medicine, nursing, pharmacology and public
health — dedicated to improving the timeliness and
reach of health care through the development and ap-
plication of wireless, network-enabled technologies
integrated with current and next-generation medical
enterprise computing.
A leading institute in this emerging field, the WHI
has created partnerships with industry to bridge the gap
between available wireless information technologies and
their translation into successful, widely adopted products
and services.
“We are at a unique point in history, where the conver-
gence of medical science, computer science and engineer-
ing could truly transform health care in this country,”
Soon-Shiong said. “The Wireless Health Institute will
harness the collective scientific talent in the nation, from
every discipline involved in the complex supply chain
of medicine, to address the urgent imperative to reform
health care.”
Soon-Shiong has made important innovations in sev-
eral areas of medicine, including the first protein-bound
nanoparticle chemotherapeutic for breast cancer.
Since 2006, Soon-Shiong has devoted his attention to
addressing health care delivery in the United States, with
a specific focus on issues related to disparities in care,
the need for data sharing and health integration, and the
pursuit of evidence-based, outcomes-driven medicine.
The WHI was developed at UCLA by co-directors Dr.
Denise Aberle, professor and vice chair of radiological
sciences; Dr. Lillian Gelberg, professor of family medi-
cine and a health services researcher; William Kaiser,
professor of electrical engineering; and Majid Sarrafza-
deh, professor of computer science. The institute contin-
ues to lead the development of cutting-edge wireless solu-
tions, including personal communication and monitoring
devices, wireless wearable sensors, and a variety of other
innovative technologies, for a wide array of health care-
related applications.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-wireless-
health-institute-92756.aspx
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executive director of Wireless HealtH institute
U CLA has been awarded a $10 million grant
by the National Science Foundation’s Expedi-
tions in Computing program to develop high-
performance, energy efficient, customizable computing
that could revolutionize the way computers are used in
health care and other important applications.
In particular, UCLA Engineering researchers will
demonstrate how the new technology, known as
domain-specific computing, could transform the role of
medical imaging and hemodynamic simulation, provid-
ing more cost-effective and convenient solutions for
preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and
dramatically improving health care quality, efficiency
and patient outcomes.
In an effort to meet ever-increasing computing needs
in various fields, the computing industry has entered an
“era of parallelization,” in which tens of thousands of
computer servers are connected in warehouse-scale data
centers, said Jason Cong, the Chancellor’s Professor of
Computer Science and director of the new UCLA Center
for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), which will
oversee the research. But these parallel, general-purpose
computing systems still face serious challenges in terms
of performance, energy, space and cost.
Domain-specific computing holds significant advan-
tages, Cong said. While general-purpose computing
relies on computer architecture and languages aimed
at any type of application, domain-specific comput-
ing utilizes a customizable architecture and custom-
oriented, high-level computer languages tailored to a
particular application area or domain — in this case,
medical imaging and hemodynamic modeling. This
customization ultimately results in much less energy
consumption, faster results, lower costs and increased
productivity.
“In regards to medical imaging and hemodynamic
modeling, we’ll be able to see inside the brain and fa-
cilitate real-time surgery, for example,” he said. “Also,
doctors will be able to do preventative procedures
much faster with automatic analysis and diagnosis of
MRIs and CT scan images.”
Research being conducted by the CDSC is a collab-
orative effort among faculty from UCLA’s engineer-
ing school, medical school and applied mathematics
program, as well as faculty from Rice University, Ohio
State University and UC Santa Barbara.
The CDSC will integrate research with education,
exposing graduate, undergraduate and high school
students to the new concepts and research from this
project through several new courses jointly developed
and shared by researchers from all four universities.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineer-
ing-awarded-10-million-97818.aspx
to create cUstomized compUting technologyWileen Wong Kromhout
nsf aWards ucla $10 million
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A leading institute in this emerging field, the WHI
has created partnerships with industry to bridge the gap
between available wireless information technologies and
their translation into successful, widely adopted products
and services.
“We are at a unique point in history, where the conver-
gence of medical science, computer science and engineer-
ing could truly transform health care in this country,”
Soon-Shiong said. “The Wireless Health Institute will
harness the collective scientific talent in the nation, from
every discipline involved in the complex supply chain
of medicine, to address the urgent imperative to reform
health care.”
Soon-Shiong has made important innovations in sev-
eral areas of medicine, including the first protein-bound
nanoparticle chemotherapeutic for breast cancer.
Since 2006, Soon-Shiong has devoted his attention to
addressing health care delivery in the United States, with
a specific focus on issues related to disparities in care,
the need for data sharing and health integration, and the
pursuit of evidence-based, outcomes-driven medicine.
The WHI was developed at UCLA by co-directors Dr.
Denise Aberle, professor and vice chair of radiological
sciences; Dr. Lillian Gelberg, professor of family medi-
cine and a health services researcher; William Kaiser,
professor of electrical engineering; and Majid Sarrafza-
deh, professor of computer science. The institute contin-
ues to lead the development of cutting-edge wireless solu-
tions, including personal communication and monitoring
devices, wireless wearable sensors, and a variety of other
innovative technologies, for a wide array of health care-
related applications.
The complete news release is available online at:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-wireless-
health-institute-92756.aspx
Jason Cong
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2009 senior dinner 6
1 Terry Heinrich ‘08 served as the Master of Ceremonies for the 2009 Engineering Senior Class Dinner.
2 A group shot of the newly inducted seniors into the Order of the Engineer
3 Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Christopher Lynch
4 Alex Chapman ‘09, 2009 Senior Class Campaign Chair
5 Jammie Peng ‘09
6 Bill Goodin MS ‘71, PhD ‘75, ME ‘82
7 Tracy Jordan ‘09
8 (l to r) Frank Chen ‘08, Bill Goodin, Sarkis Khachatryan ‘09
9 The 2009 Senior Class Campaign Committee presents their gift to Dean Vijay K. Dhir.
10 Engineering seniors check in at the registration desk for the Order of the Engineer ceremony.
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4 alex chapman ‘09, 2009 Senior class campaign chair
5 Jammie Peng ‘09
6 Bill Goodin MS ‘71, PhD ‘75, ME ‘82
7 Tracy Jordan ‘09
8 (l to r) Frank chen ‘08, Bill Goodin, Sarkis Khachatryan ‘09
9 The 2009 Senior class campaign committee presents their gift to Dean Vijay K. Dhir.
10 Engineering seniors check in at the registration desk for the Order of the Engineer ceremony.
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Since 2004, a team of students from the graduating class of ucla Engineering undertakes a campaign to raise money to give back to the school. Each year has grown more successful than the last.
What makes this initiative exceptional is that ucla Engineering is the only school on campus where graduating undergraduates have their own campaign to give back to their school. adding to the uniqueness is that each year the committee determines a particular use for the fund – something they can revisit again and again when they return to campus as alumni. Past examples include a renovation of the SEaS café and new electronic displays throughout the school. This year, the funds will provide upgraded display cases for student teams and projects that will proudly display the groups’ successes and contri-butions to the community.
The class of 2009’s campaign committee was particularly successful in inspiring support from its peers. “In the beginning of the year, the goal of get-ting 75 classmates to give to the school seemed daunting. But in the end, close to 200 of us gave to ucla. It was truly an amazing experience to have been a part of this gift to the school,” says alex chapman, chair of the 2009 ucla Engineering Senior class campaign committee.
Dean Vijay Dhir adds, “I am so proud of our students. Earning an engineering degree is not easy. The fact that these students go above and beyond to give something back to the school is a testament to their dedication. I hope they are an inspiration to our alumni to match their level of commitment.”
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1 Master’s degree candidates outside Pauley Pavilion.
2 Associate Dean Rick Wesel congratulates a doctoral candidate.
3 Bachelor’s degree candidates during the ceremony.
4 Candidates descending the stairs into Pauley.
5 Dean Vijay K. Dhir with commencement speaker John J. Tracy, senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology and chief technology officer for The Boeing Company.
6 Bachelor’s degree candidates before the ceremony.
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New Fellowships For GRADuATE STuDEnTS
UClA eNgiNeeriNg 2009 COMMEnCEMEnT
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New Fellowships For Graduate StudentS
Two UCLA Electrical Engineering alumni have each cre-
ated $500,000 fellowships for graduate students. In fall
2010, graduate students will have extra financial help thanks
to the generosity of Mukund Padmanabhan, M.S. ’89, Ph.D.
’92, and Fang Lu M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’92.
“Alumni support is crucial to the growth of our depart-
ment and I am proud to see such commitments at a time
when we need support most,” says Ali Sayed, chair of the
department of electrical engineering. Lu and Padmanab-
han join a unique group of donors to the school. Many of
UCLA Engineering’s most generous gifts have come from its
electrical engineering alumni, many of whom studied in the
Integrated Circuits & Systems Lab. Both of the fellowships
will support students studying in this same area of research.
The Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship in Electrical
Engineering, funded by Padmanabhan, will support students
who - like he and Dean Vijay K. Dhir - received an under-
graduate degree in electrical engineering from top Indian In-
stitutes of Technology (IIT). The Living Spring Fellowship
in Electrical Engineering, made possible by Lu and his wife
Jui-Chuan Yeh, will be awarded to students with electri-
cal engineering degrees from National Taiwan University,
where Lu received his undergraduate degree; National Ts-
ing Hua University, or National Chiao Tung University.
Padmanabhan previously worked on speech recognition
at IBM’s Watson Research Center, from 1992 to 2001,
where he managed the Telephony Speech Algorithms
group. Currently, Padmanabhan is researching statistical
financial modeling, and works for hedge fund management
company, Renaissance Technologies.
Lu is a fellow and technical director at Broadcom
Corporation where he has contributed to over 25 issued or
pending U.S. Patents, primarily in the areas of the algo-
rithm and architecture of digital signal processing, and
high-speed analog and digital integrated circuit designs.
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alumni news
Where can an engineer look for work?The government has plans for increased spending in
infrastructure, which has helped offset the dramatic slow-
ing in homebuilding. Many engineers have transferrable
skills for infrastructure work. One can redraft a resume to
demonstrate how their skills are right for civil and related
infrastructure work.
What has made your business successful?To be successful, I have found one needs to either be
smarter than your competition, or work harder; I work
hard, and I read as many magazines and journals related to
my work as possible. It is hard to stay on top of the latest
technologies, so I also work closely with Professors Scott
Brandenberg and Jonathan Stewart in UCLA’s Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department.
Why work with UCLA?I work with UCLA for two reasons: loyalty and expertise.
First I am loyal to UCLA because it prepared me well for
my career, and second, expertise that is mutually beneficial.
Jon and Scott — and their students — are excellent con-
sultants; they help me approach problems in new ways and
provide independent thinking. UCLA also benefits because
I can offer insight into how our profession works in the real
world and why — technical challenges, budget and schedule
constraints, client expectations, etc.
What would you recommend to someone starting a business?There is a fundamental truism to running your own business:
Love what you do, and do what you love. I said it takes hard
work for most of us, and if someone has to put in very long
hours — sixty hours or more in a week — you have to love
what you are doing.
Any other advice?You never know where help may come from. Return phone
calls. Do not be afraid to give where you can. Jon reached
out to me, and I am glad I am involved with UCLA Engineer-
ing — and I am happy it helps us both.
PrinciPal of Diaz • Yourman & associates speaks about new opportunities
For engineering graduates
With the latest recession, ucla engineering sat down with allen m. Yourman, Jr., Pe, a principal of orange county-based Diaz • Yourman & associates, a privately held geotechnical consulting services corporation that provides services to owners, public agencies, and other organizations involved in the design, construction, environmental and legal fields. Yourman shared with us some bright spots in the economy that may offer new opportunity to engineers displaced in the downturn.
Joseph Donahoo
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1940sEdward L. Braun ’47 (Physics), MS ’54, ME ’97 has had
numerous accomplishments in the field of engineering.
Among those, he is responsible for 2 patents for his funda-
mental developments in the commercial banking industry.
1950sGeorge Bekey ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’62 has co-authored and is
the editor of a new book, Robotics: State of the Art and
Future Challenges. He is a research scholar and part-time
faculty member of the College of Engineering at Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo.
Tom Shiokari ’50 helped in the replacement of a monument
in Lancaster commemorating the Japanese American fami-
lies who live in the Antelope Valley.
Robert S. Gaylord ’56, MS ’61 is pursu-
ing his first love, creative writing, after
a career developing launch vehicles and
spacecraft systems. He is president of the
Plateau Area Writers’ Association based in
Buckley, Wash.
Jack Blumenthal ’58, MS ’59, PhD ’63, CERT ’82 retired in
1998 from TRW after 36 years, and for the past eleven
years has been a full-time high school math and science
teacher at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena. He is the
only member of the National Academy of Engineering that
is a full-time high school teacher.
William J. Bowers ’58 has been retired from his own start
up business for 21 years and is enjoying traveling and
being with his family.
The Class of 1959 held their 50th Reunion at the Faculty Center at UCLA in May 2009.
1960sKenneth I. Friedman ’61 is the author of two books
about World War II naval history: Afternoon of the
Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf and Morning of
the Rising Sun: The Heroic Story of the Battles for
Guadalcanal. For more information, please go to
www.battlesforguadalcanal.com.
Robert Morrison MS ’61 has been retired for 20 years.
James “Jim” Postle ’62 sold his construction company in
2004 and is enjoying retirement. “My engineering educa-
tion at UCLA positioned me well to run such a company. I
will always be an enthusiastic BRUIN.”
Neal Pepper ’63, PhD ’71 has twin sons who will be
freshmen at UCLA this fall.
Charles Holloway MS ’64, PhD ’69 is a professor at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business where a chair
was endowed in his name last year.
Marc Z. Jeric MS ’65, PhD ’68 has been retired since 1995
and is now living in Las Vegas.
Michael Schlesinger ’65, MS ’70, PhD ’76 was one of the
contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize together
with Al Gore.
Roger Webb ’65, MS ’67 joined Defense Group, Inc. as
Senior Vice President, Government Communications and
Information Technology. He resides in Carlsbad, Calif.
Martin “Marty” Soll ’67 retired from Boeing in June 2009.
Thomas J. Stone ’67, MS ’69 is serving as president of De-
sertXpress Enterprises.
Mary Ann Kass ’68 will be retiring from Northrop Grum-
man after 30-1/2 years of service. She was a logistics
manager for the last 10 years.
Ron Sugar ’68, MS ’69, PhD ’71 co-authored Strategic Business
Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Shaping the Future
of Your Business which was released in February 2009.
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my career, and second, expertise that is mutually beneficial.
Jon and Scott — and their students — are excellent con-
sultants; they help me approach problems in new ways and
provide independent thinking. UCLA also benefits because
I can offer insight into how our profession works in the real
world and why — technical challenges, budget and schedule
constraints, client expectations, etc.
What would you recommend to someone starting a business?There is a fundamental truism to running your own business:
Love what you do, and do what you love. I said it takes hard
work for most of us, and if someone has to put in very long
hours — sixty hours or more in a week — you have to love
what you are doing.
Any other advice?You never know where help may come from. Return phone
calls. Do not be afraid to give where you can. Jon reached
out to me, and I am glad I am involved with UCLA Engineer-
ing — and I am happy it helps us both.
PrinciPal of Diaz • Yourman & associates SpEAkS AbOUT NEw OppOrTUNITIES
FOr ENgINEErINg grAdUATES
With the latest recession, ucla engineering sat down with allen m. Yourman, Jr., Pe, a principal of orange county-based Diaz • Yourman & associates, a privately held geotechnical consulting services corporation that provides services to owners, public agencies, and other organizations involved in the design, construction, environmental and legal fields. Yourman shared with us some bright spots in the economy that may offer new opportunity to engineers displaced in the downturn.
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1970sIra S. Kalb ’70, MBA ’72 received a 2009 USC Marshall
Golden Apple Teaching Award, an award that is presented
every year to the professors who have had the greatest
impact on their students, as determined by the members of
the graduating class.
George H. Smith MS ’70 retired from the Federal Senior
Executive Service in 1995 where he was a technical director
for the Navy’s electronic warfare systems and engineering
test development. He has since formed and headed Geos-
mith, Inc. where he continues to serve as a consultant to the
Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is also a real estate
developer in southern Arizona as a managing member of
Barrio Ventures LLC, building homes and developing com-
mercial properties (barriodetubac.com).
Rand Hulsing MS ’72 retired from L3 Communications in
2005 to start a new company with his business partner—
Gladiator Technologies. With 66 patents in the field of
inertial sensors, his education at UCLA has allowed him to
reach his full potential.
Ami Israel Goldman ’73 opened his company, GOLDMAN-
TEC (www.goldmantec.com.br), a few years ago and it has
become the leading Brazilian company in the audio and
video conference marketplace.
Stephen Sherman ’73 has been promoted to vice president
of quality assurance and service at Gear6.
Van N. Schultz ’74, MS ’75 completed the Executive Pro-
gram at UCLA Anderson School of Management in April
2009 obtaining a certificate in general management. He
has been elected chair-elect for the UCLA Alumni Associa-
tion and will serve as chair beginning July 2010.
Ghassem Jaberipur MS ’76 misses so many of his UCLA
friends from all around world. “I’ll soon celebrate my 30th
year in academia. Good old friends, please visit my homep-
age (http://faculties.sbu.ac.ir/~jaberipur/) and drop me a
message ([email protected]).”
Sean Leonard ’79, president of S.L. Leonard & Associates,
was awarded the project management contract for The
Museum of Ventura County. For more information, please
visit www.slleonard.com or call 805-445-4668.
1980sHagop Panossian ENG ’80, PhD ’81, a technical fellow at
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and an adjunct professor at
California State University, Northridge, has been elected
as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
of Armenia.
Armando Tovar ’81 completed 20 years of service with the
Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in August.
Aurelio Cruz ’82 has a son who will be studying computer
science at UCLA this fall
Steve Pomush ’82 (Math-Computer Science), MS ’86
is working at RAND.
Gary Kinghorn ’83 is the product marketing manager for
security products at 3COM based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Allen Simen ’83 is a program manager at Moog Space
& Defense Group in Chatsworth, Calif.
Harry Tarnoff ’83 created the PrefixSuffix application for
the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
Hisako Muramatsu ’84 has become a real estate broker
for Keller Williams Realty / Westside in Westwood.
She would love to hear from old friends. Please contact
her at www.LisaTheRealtor.com, 310-869-7159 or at
George A. Lesieutre MS ’86, PhD ’89 was elected a fellow
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
and received their Sustained Service Award. He has served
as head of the department of aerospace engineering at Penn
State for five years, and is now getting involved in wind
energy technology, “which is fun and interesting.” He also
ran a personal record of 3:12 in the Boston Marathon.
Ken Levit t ’86 lives in Minnesota with his wife,
Christina, and their three daughters, who are avid ice
hockey players. He works at Dorsey & Whitney as an
attorney for technology companies, and would love to
hear from fellow classmates.
Catherine F. Pieronek ’87 has been named Assistant Dean
for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at the
University of Notre Dame.
Lan Ru Saadatnejad ’87, after 20 years of working in trans-
portation engineering, has obtained her Project Manage-
ment Professional certification. She is a registered profes-
sional civil engineer in California and has experience in
both public and private sectors.
alumni news
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1990srex Black ’90 has finished work on the third edition of
his first book, Managing the Testing Process, which was
released in August 2009.
Michael Stiber MS ’90, PhD ’92 has been promoted to
professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, where
he is the interim director of the Computing and Software
Systems Program.
Doug Walters ’90 completed his 7-day,
545-mile bicycle ride from San Fran-
cisco to Los Angeles on June 6, 2009.
He raised nearly $16K in the fight to
end AIDS and help people live longer
and stronger. For more information,
please visit www.tofighthiv.org/goto/Doug.Walters.
David Wang ’91 is country manager of China for
RF Micro Devices, Inc. and has also been promoted to
director of Asia sales. He has been elected to the Council
of China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA)
and serves as vice chairman of CSIA’s IC assembly and
testing branch.
Hani Alexander MS ’93, PhD ’98 joined Alvarez & Marsal as
a senior director in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles.
Corey Bennett MS ’95, PhD ’00 is a staff scientist at Law-
rence Livermore National Lab, where he has been continu-
ing his work on temporal imaging which he started as a
graduate student. His team recently won the 2009 R&D
100 Award for this technology.
J.J. Blumenkranz ’95 was invited to join the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Clement Cheng ’95 is celebrating 10 years of private prac-
tice in intellectual property.
Joel Elad ’95 is co-authoring a book, Starting an iPhone
Application Business For Dummies with Damien Stolarz ’03.
Frank J. Shih MS ’95, MS ’97, PhD ’02 was granted tenure
and promoted to associate professor at Seattle University.
robert g. Trazo ’95, a principal engineer at Southern Cali-
fornia Geotechnical, Inc. and his wife, Viengxong Gimo
(Chanphianamvong) Trazo ’94 (Art) recently welcomed the
birth of their daughter, Olivia Audrey Trazo on February
12, 2009. Their son, Grant Luke Trazo, was born
on September 1, 2006.
Julian Hsu ’97 (Japanese), MS ’00, MBA ’08 and Vanessa
Dang Hsu ’97 (Japanese) welcomed their third daughter,
Alyssa Yukiko Hsu, who was born on June 24th, 10:45am,
in Laguna Hills, Calif.
gaurav Bhasin MS ’98, MBA ’06 is currently a vice president
at Pagemill Partners where he focuses on mergers and ac-
quisitions, divestitures, strategic capital raises, and private
placements. He is interested in meeting with technology
companies and may be reached at [email protected].
Vincent gau MS ’98, PhD’01, founder and
CEO of GeneFluidics, Inc., writes that its
Proteus Robotic System has received the
New Product Award from the Association
for Laboratory Automation at LabAutoma-
tion2009.
Wesley negus ’98, MS ’00 was recently elected chair of the
Surfrider Foundation’s West Los Angeles / Malibu Chapter
and also continues to run his surfboard company 9:Fish.
See more at http://www.9fishsurf.com.
ramanan Thiagarajah ’98, MBA ’09 graduated with honors
from UCLA Anderson.
Brian Crossman MS ’99 was appointed Director of
Installation Engineering at Thales In-Flight Systems
in Irvine, Calif.
2000sgerard Au ’00 worked on “Making ‘IT’ Green” at UCLA.
In addition, he is currently president-elect of the UCLA
Staff Assembly and a junior delegate on the Council of UC
Staff Assemblies.
naomi (Strauss) Azulai ’00, MS ’01 has been working in
Houston, Texas since 2002, and earned her professional
engineering license in 2005. In March 2008, she received
the “Emerging Leader Award” from the Water Environ-
ment Association of Texas. Currently, she is staying at
home with her infant son.
Yuval Zukerman ’00 graduated as Class Marshall from
Harvard University Extension pro, earning a master’s in
information technology with a specialization in software
engineering. “UCLA gave me an excellent springboard for
learning and fed my drive to progress on my career.” He
is currently a senior technical architect with Molecular,
based in Boston, Mass.
Tim Diep ’01 is an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.
1980sHagop Panossian Eng ’80, PhD ’81, a technical fellow at
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and an adjunct professor at
California State University, Northridge, has been elected
as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
of Armenia.
Armando Tovar ’81 completed 20 years of service with the
Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in August.
Aurelio Cruz ’82 has a son who will be studying computer
science at UCLA this fall
Steve Pomush ’82 (Math-Computer Science), MS ’86
is working at RAND.
gary Kinghorn ’83 is the product marketing manager for
security products at 3COM based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Allen Simen ’83 is a program manager at Moog Space
& Defense Group in Chatsworth, Calif.
Harry Tarnoff ’83 created the PrefixSuffix application for
the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
Hisako Muramatsu ’84 has become a real estate broker
for Keller Williams Realty / Westside in Westwood.
She would love to hear from old friends. Please contact
her at www.LisaTheRealtor.com, 310-869-7159 or at
george A. Lesieutre MS ’86, PhD ’89 was elected a fellow
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
and received their Sustained Service Award. He has served
as head of the department of aerospace engineering at Penn
State for five years, and is now getting involved in wind
energy technology, “which is fun and interesting.” He also
ran a personal record of 3:12 in the Boston Marathon.
Ken Levit t ’86 lives in Minnesota with his wife,
Christina, and their three daughters, who are avid ice
hockey players. He works at Dorsey & Whitney as an
attorney for technology companies, and would love to
hear from fellow classmates.
Catherine F. Pieronek ’87 has been named Assistant Dean
for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at the
University of Notre Dame.
Lan ru Saadatnejad ’87, after 20 years of working in trans-
portation engineering, has obtained her Project Manage-
ment Professional certification. She is a registered profes-
sional civil engineer in California and has experience in
both public and private sectors.
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alumni news
Anargyros “Roger” L. Panayotopoulos ’01 received his mas-
ter’s in mechanical engineering in 2003 from UC Berkeley.
He has worked as lead applications development engineer
at KLA-Tencor from 2004-2007, after which he moved
to his current role—marketing of LED capital equipment
laser isolation systems.
Bong-Chieh Benjamin Chu ’02, PhD ’06 was promoted to
technology transfer officer at the UCLA Office of Intellec-
tual Property, handling licensing of UCLA technologies in
engineering and physical sciences.
Hojung Ju MS ’02 has retired from Samsung Electronics
after 7 years. He has been busy preparing to go back to
UCLA to pursue his doctorate this fall.
Pei-Wen “Vincent” Seah MS ’02, PhD ’06 developed a mod-
el that predicts online user behavior for a music social net-
working portal site. In his personal time, he also designed
a unique race car data logging system that integrates both
a data monitoring and a feedback control feature.
Fan Yang PhD ’02 was promoted to associate professor at
the University of Mississippi in July, and received the 2009
Donald G. Dudley, Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award
from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He
received a NASA grant of $750,000 to conduct research on
reconfigurable antennas and reflect array antennas.
Brandon Florian ’03, after graduation, worked for General
Dynamics as a spacecraft systems engineer while pursu-
ing his MBA at Pepperdine. Shortly after, he worked
at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in business
management. He has recently been assigned as a subsystem
business manager.
Mike Pratt ’03 passed the professional engineer exam in
Texas and is working as an assistant research engineer at
the Texas Transportation Institute.
Thomas Rau ’03 is a resident physician in radiology at
the University of Colorado, Denver. He also was the lead
author on a research article “Hemodynamic Effect of Un-
equal Anterior Cerebral Artery Flow Rates on the Anterior
Communicating Artery Bifurcation: A Computational
Fluid Dynamics Study” which was published in Modelling
and Simulation in Engineering.
Damien Stolarz ’03 recently co-authored iPhone Hacks:
Pushing the iPhone and iPod touch Beyond Their Limits.
He’s also co-authoring another book, Starting an iPhone
Application Business For Dummies with Joel Elad ’95.
Lisa Zieve ’03 married Greg Parker in July.
Xuanlai “Nicholas” Fang PhD ’04 received a NSF CAREER
award and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ 2009
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He
was also nominated among 2008’s Young Innovators Un-
der 35 by Technology Review.
Jessica (Hoeck) Agte ’05 married Aaron Agte ’05 (Applied Mathematics and Philosophy) in 2007.
Zhara Ghofraniha ’05 and Ryan Gerard ’05 have married.
Victor Jonathan Jovancevic MS ’05 is a real estate invest-
ment analyst working in Paris.
Cathy Leong ’05 and Ryan Fong ’05 have married.
Alex Nazarchuk ’05 is a construction manager for the City
of Santa Monica.
Kaori Noguchi ’05 has married.
Ricardo Oliveira MS ’05, PhD ’09 received the 2009 Cisco
Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UCLA
Department of Computer Science.
Sarah (Tobin) Rosen ’05 and her husband,
Chad ’05 (Hebrew), welcomed the birth
of their daughter, Adena Shira, on
May 26, 2009.
Peter Durojaiye ’06 has been accepted to UCLA’s master’s
online program in engineering with a focus on systems
engineering and domain in information-based systems.
Subhan Ali ’07 received his master’s from Stanford Universi-
ty with an emphasis in sustainable design and construction.
Anthony Chen MS ’07 has been working at United Airlines
as a structural repair engineer for 1-1/2 years. He also
passed the engineer-in-training exam and plans to pursue a
professional engineer’s license.
Ben Chiang ’07 made the move into venture capital
with Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto Calif. Feel free
to reach out to him the next time you’re working on
the next Google.
Jinsong Huang PhD ’07 has been an assistant professor in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of
Nebraska, Lincoln since August 2009.
Sean Mikha ’07 was promoted to the role of solution
architect at one of the top 4 data warehouse vendors in
the world.
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Jason Poulos MS ’07 will complete his PhD at UCLA this
fall and has just started a company based on his research
at UCLA. He has received a Small Business Innovation
Research grant to continue his work which involves
creating a disposable platform for high throughput ion
channel studies. If you are interested in learning more,
please contact [email protected]
Cen Kwang ge ’08 is a software engineer at Candelis, Inc,
a medical software company.
Bunga Setiawan ’08 is working on her master’s
degree in materials science and engineering at UCLA.
Louis Worth ’08 is currently enrolled in UCLA as a
master’s student in mechanical engineering, and
will be graduating fall 2009.
Jonathan Wang ’09 will begin his graduate work in envi-
ronmental engineering at Stanford this fall.
EnginEEring DEsign group rEunion
in MEMoriaM
LEgaCiES
James r. Chambers ’51
James Welton MS ’64
nadine Tran ’85 (Math-System Science), David Tran ’09 (missing Dan Tran ’83)
arlene (Koster) Horwitz ’78 (Communi-cation Studies), Matthew Horwitz ’09, Dennis Horwitz ’76, MS ’81
John Jordan ’84, Tracy Jordan ’09, Karen (Yee) Jordan ’83 (Cybernetics)
It has been 46 years since our engineering design group graduated
from ucla. There were eight of us: six started in February 1959
and two transferred in their junior year. Our senior year engineer-
ing project consisted of the design, construction and testing of a
“High Pressure cesium Thermionic Energy converter,” a device
that converts heat into electricity. The project was a success and
we were fortunate enough to win the “Engineering Faculty-Friends
Prize” for best project by a student group. The design group
included the following members: Evan Barmache ’63; Louis Bodnar ’63, MS ’69; allan Feinstein MS ’64; gary Fisher ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’71; James gordon ’63, MS ’66, PhD ’72; neal Pepper ’63, PhD ’71; Walter Sainio ’63, MS ’64; and Donald Urfrig ’63.
after graduation we all went our separate ways. Some of
us went on to master’s and doctoral programs and others went
to work in various fields. Some of us stayed in touch but others
drifted away and none of us have been together since we com-
pleted the project more than four decades ago.
When the ucla Engineering alumni Directory was issued in
2006, I took the initiative and contacted everyone. all of us still
lived in california: seven of us were still in the los angeles area,
while one lived in Oakland. all of us were in reasonably good
health, and everyone was enthusiastic about a reunion.
after many e-mail exchanges, we finally reunited at Jim
Gordon’s house in December 2006 with our wives. This year will
be our fourth Engineering Design Group reunion.
—Evan Barmache
Picture details, left to right: Gary Fisher, Donald Urfrig, James Gordon, Evan Barmache, Walter Sainio, Neal Pepper, Allan Feinstein, Louis Bodnar
Do you have an update to share? If so, please e-mail Grace Coopman, Director of Alumni Relations, at [email protected].
Lisa Zieve ’03 married Greg Parker in July.
Xuanlai “nicholas” Fang PhD ’04 received a NSF CAREER
award and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ 2009
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He
was also nominated among 2008’s Young Innovators Un-
der 35 by Technology Review.
Jessica (Hoeck) agte ’05 married aaron agte ’05 (applied Mathematics and Philosophy) in 2007.
Zhara ghofraniha ’05 and ryan gerard ’05 have married.
Victor Jonathan Jovancevic MS ’05 is a real estate invest-
ment analyst working in Paris.
Cathy Leong ’05 and ryan Fong ’05 have married.
alex nazarchuk ’05 is a construction manager for the City
of Santa Monica.
Kaori noguchi ’05 has married.
ricardo oliveira MS ’05, PhD ’09 received the 2009 Cisco
Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UCLA
Department of Computer Science.
Sarah (Tobin) rosen ’05 and her husband,
Chad ’05 (Hebrew), welcomed the birth
of their daughter, Adena Shira, on
May 26, 2009.
Peter Durojaiye ’06 has been accepted to UCLA’s master’s
online program in engineering with a focus on systems
engineering and domain in information-based systems.
Subhan ali ’07 received his master’s from Stanford Universi-
ty with an emphasis in sustainable design and construction.
anthony Chen MS ’07 has been working at United Airlines
as a structural repair engineer for 1-1/2 years. He also
passed the engineer-in-training exam and plans to pursue a
professional engineer’s license.
Ben Chiang ’07 made the move into venture capital
with Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto Calif. Feel free
to reach out to him the next time you’re working on
the next Google.
Jinsong Huang PhD ’07 has been an assistant professor in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of
Nebraska, Lincoln since August 2009.
Sean Mikha ’07 was promoted to the role of solution
architect at one of the top 4 data warehouse vendors in
the world.
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EnrollmEnt 2008-09Undergraduate 3,006Master’s 681PhD 821Total 4,508
DEgrEEs AwArDED (2009 projEctions)Undergraduate 504Master’s 298PhD 143Total 945
Full-time Faculty: 161
phd:Faculty ratio: 5.1:1
gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose (2008 – 09): $18,003,194
publications (2008 – 2009): UCLA Engineering faculty published 14 books, 18 chapters, 394 journal articles and 403 articles in conference proceedings.
Editorial postions (2008 – 09): UCLA Engineering faculty held 35 editorships at professional journals and 55 associate editor positions.
research Expenditures (2008 – 09): $93,332,083.30
2008-09 ANNUAL REPORT
fAcULTy AwARds 2008-09
DollArs by pUrposE 2008-09
programs/research 47%
capital 24%
students 11%
Faculty 13%
Discretionary 5%
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UCLA Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Leonard Kleinrock was presented with the prestigious National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony in September 2008. He received the medal for his “fun-damental contributions to the mathematical theory of modern data networks, for the functional specification of packet switch-ing which is the foundation of Internet Technology, for mentoring generations of students and for leading the commercializa-tion of technologies that have transformed the world.”
Two faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions award-ed to engineers. deborah Estrin, a professor of computer science with a joint appointment in electrical engineering, and John Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engi-neering, were among 65 members and nine foreign associates elected in 2009.
yu Huang, assistant professor of materials science, was awarded the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United States government to young engineers and scientists at the outset of their professional careers.
demetri Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, received a 2009 Gug-genheim Fellowship. Terzopoulos’ research encompasses computer graphics, computer vi-sion, medical image analysis, computer-aided design and artificial intelligence/life.
Puneet Gupta, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Terri s. Hogue, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and dejan Markovic, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering have each received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The awards program supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through
outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Two faculty members were awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to “exceptional young researchers” based on their “outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.” The recipients are Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of computer science and human genetics, and yi Tang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineer-ing. Tang also will receive the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by the Amer-ican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Electrical engineering professor Abeer Alwan was selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and will serve in 2009-10. ISCA is the largest speech science and engineering interna-tional society.
annual report 2008-09
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EnrollmEnt 2008-09Undergraduate 3,006Master’s 681PhD 821Total 4,508
DEgrEEs AwArDED (2009 projEctions)Undergraduate 504Master’s 289PhD 143Total 945
Full-time Faculty: 161
phd:Faculty ratio: 5.1:1
gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose (2008 – 09): $18,003,194
publications (2008 – 2009): UCLA Engineering faculty published 14 books, 18 chapters, 394 journal articles and 403 articles in conference proceedings.
Editorial postions (2008 – 09): UCLA Engineering faculty held 35 editorships at professional journals and 55 associate editor positions.
research Expenditures (2008 – 09): $93,332,083.30
DollArs by pUrposE 2008-09
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outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Two faculty members were awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to “exceptional young researchers” based on their “outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.” The recipients are Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of computer science and human genetics, and Yi Tang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineer-ing. Tang also will receive the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by the Amer-ican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Electrical engineering professor abeer alwan was selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and will serve in 2009-10. ISCA is the largest speech science and engineering interna-tional society.
Women in Technology International (WITI) has named computer science professor Deborah Estrin, holder of the Jon Postel Chair in Com-puter Networks and the founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, (CENS) as one of five women in its 2008 Hall of Fame Class. The honor recognizes contri-butions to science and technology, the ability to shape the next generation of scientists and technologists, and making the world a better place through science and technology.
Electrical engineering professor chand Joshi was selected to receive the 2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of particle accelerator science and technology.
James liao, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will receive the James E. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Biological Engi-neering and the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research from AIChE. Liao will also receive this year’s divisional Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology.
aydogan Ozcan, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering, was one of 15 researchers across the country to receive a 2009 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. The program received nearly 200 proposals. Ozcan also was selected to receive the 2009 IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Soci-ety Young Investigator Award from the IEEE Society for Photonics.
Electrical engineering professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, was selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propaga-tion Society.
The American Society of Gene Therapy has honored Tatiana Segura, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, as an Outstanding New Investigator in the field of gene therapy research.
Paulo Tabuada, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering, has been selected to receive the 2009 Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory.
Electrical engineering professor alan Willson will receive the 2010 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for his “exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of PhD student research in the area of circuits and systems.”
Computer science professor lixia Zhang, whose research on several important Internet innova-tions have led to improved protocol designs and security, received the 2009 IEEE Internet award. The annual award honors exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications.
Panagiotis D. christofides, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and professor of electrical engineering, was elected as a Fellow of IEEE, for “contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear and distributed parameter processes.” Christofides also was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Young Re-searcher Award, given by the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE.
Three affiliated faculty members were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are: UCLA Chancellor Emeritus albert carnesale, who holds appointments in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and in the School of Public Affairs; alan c. Kay president of Viewpoints Research Institute and an adjunct professor of computer science; and Xiang Zhang, professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and adjunct pro-fessor at UCLA of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering pro-fessor Yoram cohen has been elected as a fellow of AIChE. Cohen has also been appointed as a UCLA Luskin Scholar in the Luskin Center for Innovation.
Computer science professor Jason cong was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was recog-nized for “contributions to electronic design automation.”
Civil and environmental engineering professor Jiann-Wen Woody Ju was elected as a fellow of the American Concrete Institute. Fellows are recognized for outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of educa-tion, research, development, design, construc-tion, or management.
Suneel Kodambaka, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the inaugural Paul Holloway Award from the American Vacuum Society.
Kang l. Wang, the Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Electronics, received the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, for his relevant work addressing the significant challenges the semiconductor industry is facing.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering profes-sor Mohamed abdou was elected as chairman to the US Council of Energy Research and Edu-cation Leaders (CEREL). CEREL consists of leaders of college and university-based energy centers and programs.
Eric P. Bescher, an adjunct professor of materials science and engineering, has been appointed as the Distinguished Professor of the Zhejiang California International NanoSystems Insti-tute. The institute is a joint effort between the Zhejiang Provincial Government, Zhejiang University, and UCLA’s California NanoSys-tems Institute (CNSI).
Materials science and engineering professor Bruce Dunn, holder of the Nippon Sheet Glass Chair, was honored as a Distinguished Lec-turer at Case Western Reserve University for his work on three-dimensional batteries.
Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor chih-Ming Ho, of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, received an honor-ary research chair professorship from National Taiwan University, his alma mater.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering profes-sor ann Karagozian was elected as vice-chair of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics. In subsequent years, Kara-gozian will serve as chair-elect, then chair of the division.
Webb Marner, adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was recently ap-pointed Secretary and Treasurer of the Ameri-can Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) by the Board of Governors of the Society.
Materials science and engineering professor King-Ning Tu received the 2008 K.T. Li Chair Professor Award by National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
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Alumni Academic AppointmentsGeorge Akingba PhD ’05 Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery Indiana State University School of Medicine (Advisor: Carlo Montemagno)
Philip Brisk PhD ’06 Computer Science and Engineering UC Riverside (Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh)
Ben Davis PhD ’09 Chemical Engineering Cooper Union (Advisor: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis)
Shalabh Gupta PhD ‘09 Electronic and Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay, India (Advisor: Bahram Jalali)
Yu Hu PhD ’09 Electrical Engineering University of Alberta, Canada (Advisor: Lei He)
Helen Jung PhD ’09 Civil Engineering California Baptist University (Advisor: Terri S. Hogue)
Yu-Fu (Paul) Ko PhD ’05 Civil Engineering California State University, Long Beach (Advisor: J. Woody Ju)
Bo-Cheng (Charles) Lai PhD ’07 Electronics Engineering National Chiao-Tung University (Advisor: Ingrid Verbauwhede)
Anne Lemnitzer PhD ’09 Civil & Environmental Engineering California State University, Fullerton (Advisors: John Wallace and Jonathan Stewart)
Yanbao Ma PhD ’05 Mechanical Engineering UC Merced (Advisor : Xiaoling Zhong, Postdoctoral Advisor Chih-Ming Ho)
Shane Markstrum PhD ’09 Computer Science Bucknell University (Advisor: Todd Millstein)
Tammara Massey PhD ’09 Senior Professional Staff/Systems Engineer Applied Information Sciences Department Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh)
Fernando Pereira PhD ’08 Computer Science Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (Advisor: Jens Palsberg)
Changsoon Rha PhD ’06 College of Architecture Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea (Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)
Patrick Schaumont PhD ’04 Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech (Advisor: Ingrid Verbauwhede)
Kevin (Kin-man) Tsia PhD ‘09 Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Hong Kong (Advisor: Bahram Jalali)
Shiqiang Wang PhD ’04 Materials Science and Engineering University of North Texas (Advisor: Nasr M. Ghoniem)
Hao Yu PhD ’07 Electrical Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Advisor: Lei He)
Wenjun Zhang PhD ’09 Chemical Engineering UC Berkeley (Advisor: Yi Tang)
Other Academic AppointmentsPierre Ganty Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies (Postdoctoral Advisor: Rupak Majumdar)
Byung-Woo Hong Computer Science Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)
Seok-tae “Steve” Kang Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Alberta, Canada (Postdoctoral Advisor: Eric M.V. Hoek)
Soon-Yong Kwon Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Suneel Kodambaka)
Haibin Ling Computer Science Temple University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)
Hyunggon Park Electrical and Computer Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Postdoctoral Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar)
Giordano Pola Electrical Engineering University of L’Aquila, Italy (Postdoctoral Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)
Arun Prakash Civil Engineering Purdue University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)
Tae-sik Yoon Department of Nano Science and Engineering Myongji University, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ya-Hong Xie)
Jixun Zhan Biological & Irrigation Engineering Utah State University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Yi Tang)
Endowed Chair HoldersBen Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technology Chih-Ming Ho
Jon Postel Chair in Networking Deborah Estrin
Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science Bruce S. Dunn
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences Carlo Zaniolo
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electro-Magnetics Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering Tatsuo Itoh
annual report 2008-09
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Soon-Yong Kwon Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Suneel Kodambaka)
Haibin ling Computer Science Temple University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)
Hyunggon Park Electrical and Computer Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Postdoctoral Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar)
Giordano Pola Electrical Engineering University of L’Aquila, Italy (Postdoctoral Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)
arun Prakash Civil Engineering Purdue University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)
Tae-sik Yoon Department of Nano Science and Engineering Myongji University, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ya-Hong Xie)
Jixun Zhan Biological & Irrigation Engineering Utah State University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Yi Tang)
Endowed chair HoldersBen Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technology chih-Ming Ho
Jon Postel Chair in Networking Deborah Estrin
Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science Bruce S. Dunn
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences carlo Zaniolo
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electro-Magnetics Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering Tatsuo Itoh
Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair in Electrical Engineering Eli Yablonovitch
Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering Kang Wang
Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering H. Thomas Hahn
Rockwell International Chair in Engineering J. John Kim
William Frederick Seyer Endowed Chair in Materials Electrochemistry Jane chang
Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering M.c. Frank chang
ucla Engineering Dean’s advisory councilcO-cHaIRS
Sam F. Iacobellis MS ’63 Deputy Chairman (Retired) Rockwell International Corporation
Henry Samueli ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 Co-founder Broadcom Corporation
MEMBERS
Madhavan Balachandran Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Amgen Inc.
William F. Ballhaus, Jr. CEO (Retired) The Aerospace Corporation
Janice chaffin MBa ’81 Group President, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation
M.c. Frank chang Professor Electrical Engineering UCLA
Derek cheung Professor Director, Institute for Technology Advancement UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
aaron S. cohen ’58 Vice Chairman and Founder National Technical Systems
lucien “al” couvillon, Jr. ’62, MS ’66 Vice President Integration and Knowledge Sharing Boston Scientific Corporation
Richard a. croxall Vice President and Chief Engineer (Retired) Northrop Grumman Corporation
Vijay K. Dhir Dean UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Roy Doumani ’57 Professor Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA
James l. Easton ’59 Chairman and President Jas D. Easton, Inc.
B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68 President & CEO (Retired) PLG, Inc.
Eugene c. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67 Vice President National Security Research RAND Corporation
William a. Jeffrey President and CEO HRL Laboratories, LLC
Jon c. Jones ME ’83 President Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
linda P. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84 Chancellor University of California, Davis
leonard Kleinrock Professor Emeritus Computer Science UCLA
leslie M. lackman Director, Industrial Relations Director, Institute for Technology Advancement UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jeff lawrence ’79 President and CEO Clivia Systems
Steven D. liedle Project Manager Bechtel Power Corporation
Rajeev Madhavan Chairman and CEO Magma Design Automation, Inc.
Joanne M. Maguire MS ’78, cERT ’89 Executive Vice President Lockheed Martin Space Systems Group
Pankaj Patel Senior Vice President and General Manager Cisco Systems, Inc.
Gregory J. Pottie Professor, Electrical Engineering UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Rami R. Razouk ’75, MS ’75, PhD ’80 Senior Vice President Engineering and Technology The Aerospace Corporation
Edward K. Rice Chairman CTS Cement Manufacturing Company
Kevin Riley President Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
Dwight c. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86 Vice President Microelectronics Technology Northrop Grumman Corporation
Ronald D. Sugar ’68, MS ’69 PhD ’71 Chairman and CEO Northrop Grumman Corporation
lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61 Electronics Consultant Tannas Electronics
Murli Tolaney Chairman MWH Global, Inc.
Stephen Trilling cERT ’00 Vice President Security Technology and Response Symantec Corporation
Nicholas M. uros ME ’84, cERT ’93 Vice President Advanced Concepts and Technology Raytheon Systems Company
David a. Whelan MS ’78, PhD ’83 Vice President, General Manager, and Deputy to the President The Boeing Company
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Faculty Patents 2008–09Gregory Carman, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Dong Lee, were awarded a patent for energy harvesting using a thermoelectric material.
Jane Chang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Trinh Van, Tony Chiang, Chandra Deshpandey, and Karl Lesser, were awarded a patent for controlled nano-doping of ultra thin films.
Yong Chen, professor of mechanical and aero-space engineering, was awarded a patent for nanoscale electromolecular lithography.
Wesley Chu, professor of computer science, Zhenyu Liu, and Qinghua Zou, were awarded a patent for a knowledgeable-based approach for scenario-specific content cor-relation in a medical digital library.
Vijay Gupta, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was awarded a patent for laser-generated stress waves for stiction repair in mems structures and devices.
Vijay Gupta, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Vassil Kireev, were awarded a patent for glass-modified stress waves for adhesion measurement of ultra thin films and nanoelectronics device fabrication.
Tatsuo Itoh, professor of electrical engineer-ing, Christopher Caloz, I-Hsiang Lin, and Hiroshi Okabe, were awarded a patent for composite right/left couplers.
Itoh, Cheng-Jung Lee, and Kevin Leong, were awarded a patent for meta material bases resonant small antenna.
Itoh, Kevin Leong, and Alexandre Dupuy, were awarded a patent for a power combiner.
Bahram Jalali, professor of electrical engineer-ing, Chia-Jen Hsu, and Bijani Houshmand, were awarded a patent for non-electronic radio front-end technology.
Chang-Jin Kim, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Brandon Uichong Yi, were awarded a patent for complete transfer of liquid drops by modification of nozzle design.
Harold Monbouquette, professor of chemical
and biomolecular engineering, and Miguel
Garcia-Garibay, were awarded a patent for
surface nanopatterning.
Ali Sayed, professor of electrical engineering,
and Mansour Aldajani, received a patent
for closed loop power control techniques.
Sayed, and Naofal Al-Dhahir, were awarded
a patent for mimo equalization.
Kris J.V. Tiri and Ingrid Verbauwhede, adjunct
professor of electrical engineering, received
a patent for CMOS logic with input signal
independent power consumption.
Jiangtao Wen, John Villasenor, professor
of electrical engineering, and Jeong-hoon
Park, were awarded a patent for video
codec method in error resilient mode
and apparatus.
Mary Eshaghian-Wilner, Alexander Khitun,
and Kang Wang, professor of electrical engi-
neering, were awarded a patent for methods
to efficiently interconnect nanoscale compu-
tational components with spin-waves.
Wang, and Fei Liu, were awarded a patent
for telegraph signal microscopy for single
atom, molecule, spin characterization.
Wang, Filipp Baron, and Yaohui Zhang were
awarded a patent for vertical gate-depleted
single-electron transistors.
Wang, Roman Ostroumov, and Aleksandr
Khitun were awarded a patent for a logic
device using spin wave bus for information
exchange.
Kang Ting Nell, Shunichi Kuroda, and Ben Wu, associate professor of bioengineering,
were awarded a patent for one expression
systems and neuroprotective activity of nell2.
Larissa Rodriguez and Wu, were awarded
a patent for adipose derived stem cells for
reconstruction of the urinary tract.
Ya Hong Xie, professor of materials science
and engineering, and Tae-Sik Yoon, were
awarded a patent for dislocation engineer-
ing in silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer grown
on Si substrate as a virtual substrate.
Xie was awarded a patent for an innovative
substrate for mixed-signals integrated circuit applications.
Aliazam Abbasfar, Dariush Divsalar, Christopher Jones, Samuel Dolinar, Jeremy Thorpe, Kenneth Andrews, and Kung Yao, professor of electrical en-gineering, were awarded a patent for accumulate-repeat-accumulate LDPC codes.
Daniel Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Shih-Hsi Tong, were awarded a patent for an algorithm for flowrate synthesis of lobe pumps.
Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-neering, and Richard Kaner, professor of chemi-cal and bimolecular engineering, were awarded a patent for AU nanoparticles doped polyaniline nanofiber non-volatile memory device.
Yang, Liping Ma and Jun He, were awarded a patent for three-terminal organic memory devices.
Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for bottom insulating gate vertical organic transistor-bigvot.
Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for rewritable nano-surface organic electrical bistable services.
The Boelter SocietyThe Boelter Society is the leadership giving
society of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science. Members of
this prestigious giving society, who contrib-
ute $1,000 or more annually, show incredible
leadership and vision by generously supporting
the school. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowl-
edges gifts made to the Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,
2008 to June 30, 2009.
Degrees listed include engineering alumni and
parents of current engineering students only
Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more
James Easton ’59
Henry ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 and Susan Samueli
Dean’s Ambassadors— $100,000 to $999,999
Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92
and Jui-Chuan Yeh
Mukund Padmanabhan
MS ’89, PhD ’92
annual report 2008-09
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Xie was awarded a patent for an innovative
substrate for mixed-signals integrated circuit applications.
Aliazam Abbasfar, Dariush Divsalar, Christopher Jones, Samuel Dolinar, Jeremy Thorpe, Kenneth Andrews, and Kung Yao, professor of electrical en-gineering, were awarded a patent for accumulate-repeat-accumulate LDPC codes.
Daniel Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Shih-Hsi Tong, were awarded a patent for an algorithm for flowrate synthesis of lobe pumps.
Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-neering, and Richard Kaner, professor of chemi-cal and bimolecular engineering, were awarded a patent for AU nanoparticles doped polyaniline nanofiber non-volatile memory device.
Yang, Liping Ma and Jun He, were awarded a patent for three-terminal organic memory devices.
Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for bottom insulating gate vertical organic transistor-bigvot.
Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for rewritable nano-surface organic electrical bistable services.
The Boelter SocietyThe Boelter Society is the leadership giving
society of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science. Members of
this prestigious giving society, who contrib-
ute $1,000 or more annually, show incredible
leadership and vision by generously supporting
the school. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowl-
edges gifts made to the Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,
2008 to June 30, 2009.
Degrees listed include engineering alumni and
parents of current engineering students only
Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more
James Easton ’59
Henry ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 and Susan Samueli
Dean’s Ambassadors— $100,000 to $999,999
Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92
and Jui-Chuan Yeh
Mukund Padmanabhan
MS ’89, PhD ’92
Charles MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85
and Deborah Reames
Eugene ’68 and Marilyn Stein
Lawrence ’59, MS ’61
and Carol Tannas
Yechiam Yemini PhD ’79
Dean’s Scholars - $50,000 to $99,999
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
Joseph Boystak
Robert ’72 and Judy Green
Gerry Hall ’06
Kevin Hall
Linda Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84 and
Spyros Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84
Jonathan and Rica Orszag
Edward and Linda Rice
Boelter investors - $25,000 to $49,999
Aaron ’58 and Nancy Cohen
Ralph ’50 and Marjorie Crump
Vijay Dhir
James ’68 and Jean Doane
Marjorie Friedlander
Armond Hairapetian ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93
Sandro and Eleanor Lee, Parents ’10
The Family of Professor T.H. Lin
Asad ’69, MS ’72 and Gowhartaj Madni
Pankaj Patel
Paulene Popek
Simon Ramo
Charles ’52 and Janet Seim
Bernard Shyffer ’49, MS ’63
Edwin PhD ’61 and Jo Ann Stear
Monte and Ruthellen Toole
William PhD ’53 and Clare Van Vorst
Allen ’76, MS ’78 and Kimberley Yourman
Boelter Fellows—$10,000 to $24,999
Charles Baker MS ’63, PhD ’67
Chih-Hsing Cheng MS ’92, PhD ’95
Dorothea Frederking
Qingjie Guo MS ’98, MS ’02
Eric and Peggy Johnson, Parents ’11
Rosita Mal
Benjamin Wang
Feng Wang
Robert ’57, MS ’63, PhD ’67 and
Dorothy Webb
Tien-Tsai PhD ’68 and Jane PhD ’71 Yang
Russell and Anne Yee
Boelter Sponsors—$5,000 to $9,999
Andrew Africk
David Banks ’80, MS ’81 and Judith
Blaski-Banks, Parents ’12
Paul Baran MS ’59
James Barrie ’83, MS ’85, PhD ’88 and
Leslie Momoda ’85, MS ’87, PhD ’90
Mark MS ’92, PhD ’95 and Sharon Berman
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Alan Cutter ’61
Dennis Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82
Bob English and Anna Zara
Leslie Lackman
Carey Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95
Jerry Ogawa ’69
Garrett PhD ’66 and June Paine
Marvin Rubinstein ’53
Justin Sobaje ’99, MS ’00
Peter and Haya Sender, Parents ’09
Ryan and Jessica Steelberg
George PhD ’64 and Adele Stern
Lee Stewart ’67
Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999
Robert ’68 and Ildiko Barker
Allan Billings ’56
Gary ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93 and Sherry Burdorf
Bovornrat Darakananda, Parents ’11
Navin and Pratima Doshi
Steven and Catherine Fink
Ken Friedman ’61
Stephen ’55 and Suzanne Gilbert
William Goodin MS ’71, PhD ’75, ME ’82
and Caroline Dockrell
Paul Griffin ’53
Eugene Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67
Ernest Harris ’49
John Haworth
Carl Hess and Tracy Pirnack, Parents ’11
Vincent ’90 and Amanda Hoenigman
Jeffrey and Monica Houck, Parents ’11
George Jurica ’72
Randall Kam and Lesley Brey, Parents ’10
William Kingsley ’72, MS ’73, PhD ’79
Michael Kopp
Jeff Lawrence ’79 and Diane Troth MS ’81
Craig Moles MS ’89
Kenneth Oliver
Kenneth ’77, MS ’80 and Nancy ’78 Privitt
John Pruett ’78 and Donna Lee-Pruett
Thomas MS ’82, ENG ’84, PhD ’85
and Carrie Sabol
Thierry and Rita Sanglerat, Parents ’12
Jacquelyn Schoell
Owen Shea and Marina Naito, Parents ’10
Akira Shinoda ’67
Tom Shiokari ’50, MS ’60
Ning and Minda Sizto, Parents ’10
William and Judy Snow, Parents ’11
David Triolo ’80
John and Ann Wasson, Parents ’11
Ben and Betty Wu
Boelter Contributors— $1,000 to $2,499
John Adams ’62
Darren ’89 and Angela Aghabeg
Song-Haur An MS ’81, ENG ’83, PhD ’86
Richard and Cynthia Arnell, Parents ’12
Ethan PhD ’71 and Barbara Aronoff
William and Jane Ballhaus
Lisa Barker ’84
John MS ’70, PhD ’78 and Mary Barr
Richard PhD ’70 and Linda Baty
Benton and Wanlyn Bejach
Glen Boe ’60
Richard and Liz Bordow, Parents ’09
Ernst Brinkmeyer
Scott Campbell ’04
Paul Chandler MS ’74
Nan-Rong MS ’85, ENG ’87, PhD ’90
and Ming Chen
Chii-Fa Chiou, Parent ’07, ’10
Ajit Choudhury MS ’67, PhD ’69
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Wesley Chu
Abraham Chuang ’97
Larry Collins
Carter Copeland
Douglas Corbett ’73
Karal ’60 and Ann Cottrell
James and Elizabeth Cox, Parents ’09
Barbara Cudzillo-Szafranska
Curtis Dahlberg ’73
Andrea Daly
Vincent Darcy PhD ’73
Patrick ’76, MS ’78 and Nancy Dennis
Paul Eggert MS ’77, PhD ’80
and Stacey Byrnes
Sai-Wai and Beatrice Fu, Parents ’11
Arnold Gaunt ’86
John and Christa Gerretsen, Parents ’09
Rodney MS ’66, PhD ’69 and Nancy Gibson
Albert Glassman PhD ’71
Thomas Goebel PhD ’69
Lawrence Gratt ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69
Gagandeep ’93 and Ramanjit Grewal
L. C. Guthrie ’48
Richard Guy MS ’87, PhD ’91
and Jill Hughes
Arnold Hackett
Frank Hanzel MS ’81
Adam Harmetz ’05
Jerre Hitz ’58, MS ’61
Wai Ho ’78, MS ’79
Linden Hsu ’91
William Huber ME ’75
Andrew and Helen Hyman, Parents ’10
Stephen Ishmael MS ’76
Reginald MS ’80 and Kathryn Jue
David Julifs and Roxann
Marumoto ’85, MS ’87
Stefan Kampe ’84
Andrew ’69 and Denise Katz
Don Kendall MS ’85, PhD ’89
Yong MS ’83, PhD ’87 and Elizabeth Kim
David Kim ’98, MS ’01
Eugene Korney and Patty Boyle
George ’62, MS ’68 and Eulalia Kunkel
Robert ’70 and Patricia Leamy
Robert Lepore ’76, MS ’78
Kenneth Ma MS ’84
Gary MacDougal ’58
Brian Mc Innis ’95
John and Cindy McCauley, Parents ’10
Anthony and Brigid Mills
James Murray ’70, MS ’71 and Carol Donald
Don Myers ’64
Mas Nagami ’53
Kenneth Nam, Parent ’10
Richard ’58, MS ’60, PhD ’63
and Rose Marie Nesbit
Andrew Newman MS ’95, PhD ’05
and Amy Lam
Howard ’71, MS ’72, PhD ’76
and Deborah Nussbaum
Seiki Ogura MS ’67, PhD ’69
Donald O’Neal ’82
Sallie O’Neill
William PhD ’81 and Rita Overman
Daniel Pappone ’77 and Syndie Meyer
Brian Pasion ’98, MS ’00
David Patterson MS ’70, PhD ’76
Christopher Peak and Jacquelyn
Weber, Parents ’12
John MS ’66, PhD ’68 and Pat Peller
Daniel ’80 and Lisa Peterson
Gregory Pottie
Steven Powell ’00
Chulanur and Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10
Alfonso MS ’63, PhD ’70 and Dolores Ratcliffe
Joseph ’88 and Monica Rice
George and Lynn Rossmann
Van ’74, MS ’75 and Susan Schultz
Takashi Shiozaki ’69
Michael ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80
and Charlene Sievers
Yet Siu ’53
Bart Sokolow ’70, MS ’73 and Harriet Scharf
Craig Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82
Alex ’70 and Anne-Marie Spataru
Jeremy ’98 and Midco Switzer
Leonard ’76 and Elvira Tucker
Robert Vitali ’76, MS ’78
Bruce MS ’77, PhD ’83 and Vickie Walker
Philip Wong ’67
William Wong ’90
Mark Yarvis ’91, MS ’98, PhD ’01
Ty and Wei Chen Yeh
We have made every effort to ensure the
completeness and accuracy of this Honor
Roll. If you discover an error or omission,
please contact Leti McNeill, Director of
Development in the Office of External
Affairs, at (310) 206-0678 or email
annual report 2008-09
OCTOBER 16–18 Parents’ WeekendUCLA Campus
OCTOBER 17Boelter Society Bruin Game Day PartyRose Bowl, Pasadena OCTOBER 29 40th Anniversary of the InternetCovel Commons – UCLA Campus
UCLA Engineering 2009–10 Event HighlightsNOVEMBER 6 Engineering Awards DinnerThe Beverly Wilshire – A Four Seasons Hotel
APRIL 3 Scholarship BrunchCovel Commons – UCLA Campus
For more information, please go to: www.engineer.ucla.edu/events/
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Chulanur and Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10
Alfonso MS ’63, PhD ’70 and Dolores Ratcliffe
Joseph ’88 and Monica Rice
George and Lynn Rossmann
Van ’74, MS ’75 and Susan Schultz
Takashi Shiozaki ’69
Michael ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80
and Charlene Sievers
Yet Siu ’53
Bart Sokolow ’70, MS ’73 and Harriet Scharf
Craig Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82
Alex ’70 and Anne-Marie Spataru
Jeremy ’98 and Midco Switzer
Leonard ’76 and Elvira Tucker
Robert Vitali ’76, MS ’78
Bruce MS ’77, PhD ’83 and Vickie Walker
Philip Wong ’67
William Wong ’90
Mark Yarvis ’91, MS ’98, PhD ’01
Ty and Wei Chen Yeh
We have made every effort to ensure the
completeness and accuracy of this Honor
Roll. If you discover an error or omission,
please contact Leti McNeill, Director of
Development in the Office of External
Affairs, at (310) 206-0678 or email
AreAs• Advanced Structural Materials• Aerospace Engineering• Computer Networking• Electronic Materials• Integrated Circuits• Manufacturing and Design• Mechanics of Structures• Signal Processing and Communications • Systems Engineering
Distinctive FeAtures oF the ProgrAm• 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 primary purpose of this program is to enable employed engineers and computer scientists to enhance their technical education beyond the Bachelor of science level, and to enhance their value to the technical organizations in which they are employed.
Additional Information and Online Applications Available at www.msengrol.seas.ucla.edu
ucLA engineering 2009–10 event highlightsnovemBer 6 Engineering Awards DinnerThe Beverly Wilshire – A Four Seasons Hotel
APriL 3 Scholarship BrunchCovel Commons – UCLA Campus
For more information, please go to: www.engineer.ucla.edu/events/
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