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Finally Ready to Graduate and Making Judgments That Effect Students’ Careers Get a Job,” He Says, with His Characteristic Dry Humor engineering Across Disciplines. Across the World® // spring 2018 USINGUSING ARTIFICIALARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEINTELLIGENCE TOTO SOLVESOLVE REAL-WORLDREAL-WORLD PROBLEMSPROBLEMS inside Martin Arthur 18 // Women & Engineering 22 // Jeff Nelson 32 From the dean // Dear friends, their careers and to be change agents both for WashU Engineering and for the entire field. Staff, Those of you who have been following the students and alumnae coordinate activities that school’s progress during the past year have provide mentoring connections, opportunities learned about our strategic planning efforts to explore difficult career and social questions, and the resulting goals that emerged. If you and leadership development. Additionally, look through the document — it’s online! — you we are working to connect current women will notice that diversity is not a single explicit student groups, including the Society of Women objective. Rather, woven throughout the goals Engineers and Women in Computer Science, with you will see diversity as being critical to educating prospective women students; our goal is to not insightful engineers, producing thought-leading only encourage them to choose engineering as a research, and providing a working and learning field of study but also to show them that WashU environment that inspires excellence. provides a unique supportive environment in In Engineering at WashU and indeed around the which to pursue their passion. country, we face a gender diversity challenge. I want to take this opportunity to thank many In the United States, women represent of you, our alumni, who have explicitly helped somewhere between 10 percent and 20 percent support this effort. We invest in the program in a of the engineering workforce, depending upon variety of ways, from hosting leadership summits domain. And while more women are enrolling as and subscribing to mentoring platforms to undergraduates in engineering — approximately enabling more students to attend conferences 20 percent of engineering students nationally such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in and 30 percent at WashU are women — there are Computing. These efforts make a difference — and additional challenges, such as women leaving the promote the diversity of thought and perspective field after starting their careers. Business as usual that is essential to be a truly world-class is not likely to make significant inroads in changing engineering institution. these statistics. Our school’s Women & Engineering program, described in this edition of the magazine, is a critical effort to support women students and Aaron F. Bobick alumnae in their efforts to not only become Dean & James M. McKelvey Professor engineers in school, but to be successful in [email protected] PODCAST Snapshot // Undergraduate students in Biomedical Engineering work on a Available on iTunes and SoundCloud senior design project that was later showcased at the annual BME Day. // Engineering Momentum devon hill spring 2018 1 In this issue // At a glance // spring 2018 THE 19 Feb 2018 @JonSilva_StL #WashUengineers Congratulations to Wandi Zhu on winning a BUZZ Biophysical Society Student dean Research Achievement Aaron F. Bobick 22 18 Langsdorf Scholars Summit Award! @WashUengineers senior associate dean & @SilvaLabWustl #BPS18 executive editor New year, new #WomenInScience Nick Benassi professor. Meet senior writer & editor Beth Miller Kimberly Parker Parker studies organic director of communications chemical reactions in & senior designer E. Brook Haley natural and engineered systems. communications specialist Suzanne Bremehr More than 60 Langsdorf Scholar alumni and students gathered April 20-21 for an inaugural 12 Mar 2018 @The_Lake_Lab web developer Vince Ruppert summit to network and share ideas. The We’re enjoying #ors2018 summit was started by two current and catching up @fffionafei cover Langsdorf students, Sydney Katz, ’18 Steve Edwards (left) and Kailin Baechle, ’18 (right). contributors Erika Ebsworth-Goold 26 Sofia Joison Diane Toroian Keaggy Why WashU? “I love being here!” Stephen Ornes Julia Evangelou Strait Judy H. Watts PhD Candidate Weimin Zhou received the Cum 16 Nov 2017 @washuengineers Engineering Momentum is cover story published by the School of Laude Poster Award Cheers to the champion Engineering & Applied Science 12 // Artificial Intelligence (first place) at the 2018 of WashU engineering at Washington University in SPIE Medical Imaging scholarships. Bill Tao’s St. Louis. Unless otherwise noted, Conference for his paper. legacy will impact WashU articles may be reprinted without faculty feature Zhou is a member of the engineers forever! permission with appropriate Computational Imaging credit to the publication, school 18 // Martin Arthur Science Laboratory and and university. in every issue a PhD candidate in the correspondence 1 // From the dean student feature Department of Electrical School of Engineering & Systems Engineering. & Applied Science 3 // The buzz 22 // Women & Engineering @laptopsofwashu Washington University in St. Louis #washuengineers edition Campus Box 1163 4 // School news One Brookings Drive alumni feature Read more about the Leadership Summit on p. 22 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 6 // Faculty news 26 // Tony & Andy Nocchiero email Women & Engineering Leadership Summit [email protected] 33 // Last word phone special feature 314-935-6350 30 // Strategic Plan website engineering.wustl.edu young alumni feature 32 // Jeff Nelson photos by whitney curtis 2 Engineering Momentum // engineering.wustl.edu spring 2018 // Engineering Momentum 3 School news // campaign gift WashU Engineering launches master’s in Computer science student Garg family’s $1 million gift cybersecurity engineering degree ‘broke’ Facebook during her WashU Engineering launches internship Alumna Gretsch pushes Engineering over High-profile cyberattacks and data breaches have made cybersecurity PhD in imaging science Grace Egbo, a computer science student, learned a takes two gold $150 million in campaign engineering one of the fastest-growing lot about Facebook during her first summer there as medals at careers in the world, yet demand for an intern. Paralympics highly qualified leaders exceeds supply: Mark Zuckerberg really does wear gray Experts predict a shortage of 3.5 million hoodies. The free cafeteria serves killer nachos. cybersecurity professionals by 2021. And “move fast and break things” is not just the To meet that demand, the School company motto; it’s a mode of operation. of Engineering & Applied Science is “During orientation, they told us to test new launching a master of science degree in faculty and experienced industry ideas and take risks,” said Egbo, now a junior in the cybersecurity engineering to train new professionals, include developing School of Engineering & Applied Science. “On the experts for this high-profile field. secure technical environments and day I broke Facebook, I realized they meant it.” Kendall Gretsch, who earned The full-time master’s program, defending against the spectrum of To be clear, Egbo didn’t actually break a bachelor’s degree in which begins in Fall 2018, is specifically cybersecurity threats. biomedical engineering in 2014, the globe’s largest social crafted to provide students with Students will learn in a robust The field of imaging science — marked by rapidly won the first-ever biathlon Venture capitalist and alumnus Gaurav Garg networking platform. the skills, knowledge and expertise technical environment in which they changing and improving technology — plays a Olympic or Paralympic gold and his wife, Komal Shah, have made a Facebook’s roughly medal for a U.S. athlete when needed to secure jobs in designing and will evaluate cyberattack vectors, critical role in applications ranging from cancer $1 million gift to the School of Engineering & 2 billion users could still she won the sitting biathlon engineering cybersecurity technology. assess cyberdefense methods, conduct Applied Science. The gift allows the school to post, like and share. diagnosis to virtual reality. With the aim of sprint March 10. She also Together Core principles throughout the research, and design and develop new training the next leaders in imaging, the School won a gold medal in women’s surpass $150 million in Leading : The But Egbo’s experiment curriculum, taught by computer science methods, protocols and techniques. of Engineering & Applied Science is offering an 12-kilometer cross-country Campaign for Washington University. crashed the company’s interdisciplinary doctoral program in imaging skiing. She also competed in Garg is managing partner of Wing Venture employee site for more the 12.5km individual biathlon, sciences beginning in the 2018-19 academic year. Capital in Silicon Valley, which builds early- than an hour. a 5km sitting and a 4x2.5km stage business technology companies. Wing Empowering high school students “I knew it was bad Designed to prepare students for careers relay mixed cross-country focuses on companies with the potential to in academic research or in industry, the skiing event. The School of Engineering & Applied Science recently when my friend in the New York interdisciplinary doctoral program will incorporate define new categories in cloud computing, hosted two unique groups of middle and high school office called and said, ‘Were you the one who broke students to empower them to pursue degrees and careers the latest imaging technologies, including mobile and big data and to provide Facebook?’ And I was like, ‘Oh
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