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CONTEXTUAL ROBOTICS INSTITUTE Engineering + Social Sciences DEAN’S COLUMN Jacobs School of Engineering SPRING 2016 CONTEXTUAL ROBOTICS INSTITUTE engineering + social sciences DEAN’S COLUMN Jacobs School of Engineering LEADERSHIP Dean Albert P. Pisano Associate Dean George Tynan Associate Dean for Students Pamela Cosman Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Welfare Ahmed Elgamal Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance Tana Troke Campana Assistant Dean for Programs and Initiatives Denine Hagen ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS Bioengineering Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein, Chair Computer Science and Engineering Rajesh Gupta, Chair Robotics Institute Launched Electrical and Computer Engineering Truong Nguyen, Chair In October 2015, we launched the trates a related controls project, which you Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Vitali Nesterenko, Chair Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San can read about on pg. 10. NanoEngineering Diego. Many people have asked about the As part of our investment in the future of Joseph Wang, Chair term “contextual robotics.” The answer is robotics, we are growing our robotics faculty. Structural Engineering both straightforward and forward-looking: The Jacobs School recently hired four new ro- P. Benson Shing, Chair context is necessary for autonomy. Robots botics professors and we are in the middle of COUNCIL OF ADVISORS that rely on context in real time will pave the three more robotics faculty searches. This is in Chair: David Schwab, (B.A. ’79), Vertical Ventures way for many safe and useful robotics systems addition to our recruitment for a faculty direc- Vice Chair: John J. Fratamico, Jr., Leidos that work up-close and personal with people, tor for the Institute, which is also in progress. Amir Abolfathi (B.S. ‘86), Sonitus Medical, Inc. and with other robots. Elder care robots and Our robotics institute builds on key Joseph “Joe” Beery, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. assisted living robots are just two examples. strengths in San Diego and the greater Claude Benchimol, Damol Technology Consulting This next generation of context-sensitive ro- CaliBaja region including wireless, defense, Linden S. Blue, General Atomics bots will transform medicine, transportation, software engineering and analytics, artificial Edward J. Brown, Jr. environmental sensing, advanced manufac- intelligence and advanced manufacturing Malin Burnham Eugenio Clariond, Grupo Cuprum turing and many other areas, thanks to their industry sectors. We are leveraging these Martha G. Dennis, Gordian Knot ability to perceive, process and act upon con- strengths on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Peter C. Farrell, ResMed text in real time. border to build a world-class center for the de- Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel, Charles Stark Draper Lab., Inc. We founded the Contextual Robotics sign, development and production of useful Steve Hart (M.A. ‘80), ViaSat, Inc. Institute as a collaboration between the robotics systems that act based on a real-time Waguih Ishak, Corning, Inc. Jacobs School of Engineering and the UC San understanding of the world. In October 2015, Irwin M. Jacobs Diego Division of Social Sciences. More than we held our second Contextual Robotics Sanjay K. Jha, Global Foundries 42 professors and research scientists from en- Forum at UC San Diego. This annual event is Carmela A. Keeney, SSC Pacific Richard Kornfeld (B.S. ’82), Grid2Home gineering and the social sciences joined the one of the ways we strengthen our regional Patrick T. Lee, Sempra Energy Institute at its launch. Their teams of profes- robotics ecosystem. Please join us in our work Thomas M. Loarie, eMedonline, Inc. sors, researchers and students will perform to propel CaliBaja forward as a world leader Scott McClendon, Overland Storage, Inc. approximately $50 million in robotics-related in robotics. Feel free to reach out to faculty Gioia Messinger (B.S. ’84), LinkedObjects, Inc. research over the next 4 to 5 years. The stu- directly via our website: ContextualRobotics. Steve Mollenkopf, Qualcomm, Inc. dents on these teams are cutting their teeth ucsd.edu or contact me at: Henry “Hank” L. Nordhoff, Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. on tough problems at the intersection of [email protected] Bahram Nour-Omid, Shelter Capital Partners Gregory M. Papadopoulos (B.A. ’79), New Enterprise sensing and perception; cognition and coor- Associates dination; and mobility and manipulation. The Ronald Reedy (Ph.D. ’83) image on the cover of this issue of Pulse illus- Andrew E. Senyei, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital James H. Thompson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Julie Meier Wright Albert P. Pisano, Dean 2 pulsemag.ucsd.edu Mark Zdeblick, Proteus Digital Health CORPORATE AFFILIATES PROGRAM EXECUTIVE BOARD Chair: David Hadacek, Solar Turbines Vice Chair: Mark Ambrose, Raytheon Amazon.com AppFolio AppFormix Arista Networks ATA Engineering Autodesk Contents BD Biosciences Bentley Systems Booz Allen Hamilton Incorporated LEARNING COMMUNITIES Broadcom Corporation Bumble Bee Seafoods 4 Student Success Initiative CISCO CliniComp Corning AGILE RESEARCH CENTERS CPC Strategy 4 Cubic Transportation Systems 5 Relevance and Excellence Cymer 6 CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials Dexcom Incorporated Facebook and Systems General Atomics 7 Center for Microbiome Innovation General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Incorporated Google Greenlee CONTEXTUAL ROBOTICS INSTITUTE Hughes Network Systems 7 Honda R&D 8 Contextual Robotics Institute iboss Cybersecurity Integrity Applications Incorporated 9 Smarter Smart Vehicles Intuit Incorporated Expression Detection IQ Analog Kleinfelder | Simon Wong Engineering 10 Robot Swarms Kyocera America Pedestrian Detector L-3 Communications Leidos 10 Lockheed Martin RESEARCH LP3 Magma 11 Nanoparticles Removal from Bloodstream Medallia Slow Eating Microsoft Mitchell International 12 Faster Fiber Optics Mitek Systems 13 Shake Table Wins $5.2M Grant Mtell 12 NAVAIR Nanotech Lab Access for Companies Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Northrop Grumman Information Systems NOVO Engineering ALUMNI AND GIVING Ntrepid Oracle 14 Mary Bui-Pham Qualcomm Shraddha Chaplot Quartus Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems 14 15 Contreras-Jones: First Wolf Scholar Rincon Research SABIC Lins Establish Endowed Chair Salesforce Samsung Sandia National Laboratories Schlumberger Scientific Research Corporation FRONT COVER SeamGen Skyworks Solutions Turtlebots and quadcopters serve as a testbed for develop- Solar Turbines ing effective human-swarm interaction techniques that al- Sony Sony Computer Entertainment America low one person to control and interact safely with a robotic SPAWAR swarm (pg. 10). Teradata Corporation Thermo Fisher Scientific UTC Aerospace Systems ViaSat Yahoo BACK COVER PULSE NEWSLETTER TEAM DANIEL KANE (EDITOR), DAVID BAILLOT, LIEZEL Engineering leaders start here. Nearly 1,800 engineers and LABIOS, DEBORAH OSAE-OPPONG, IOANA computer scientists graduated from the Jacobs School of PATRINGENARU Engineering in 2015. TO REPLY TO THE EDITOR [email protected], (858) 534-3262 9500 GILMAN DRIVE, LA JOLLA, CA 92093-0403 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering | Pulse Spring 2016 3 EXPERIENCE ENGINEERING Engineering Student Success On a Tuesday afternoon in December, The program is at a pilot stage this year, and plant? Students tackle these questions — and half a dozen engineering students huddled will expand next year. more — in the new “Engineering Applications around a table in a Jacobs Hall study room. “This is a huge university, so it’s nice to of Mathematics” module, part of the existing The group, made up of two tutors and a have a study group already set up for us,” said ENG 1-2-3 course series offered by the IDEA handful of students, mostly freshmen, was Pamella Abergas, a first-year environmental Student Center at the Jacobs school. Lectures working on intervals. engineering major. “It’s easy to feel isolated.” are reinforced with hands-on labs, where stu- Joanna Ly went over the concept, while The study group has helped her stay focused dents also learn to use MATLAB and Python. her tutoring partner Ashley Qu wrote out and accomplish her goals, she said. “If I have “It is well known that student success in engi- questions on a white board for the students. trouble in a class, I come here before I go to neering is highly dependent on student suc- “I always come in here nervous and worried office hours.” cess in math, and perhaps more importantly, that I won’t have all the answers,” said Ly, a The study groups reinforce concepts on the ability to connect and apply the math sophomore chemical engineering major. “But ahead of tests, said Aliya Kassam Pirbhai, a to the engineering,” said Michelle Ferrez, IDEA they get it and it feels great. It’s extremely re- freshman mechanical engineering major. “We Student Center Director. “Our goal is to bet- warding.” go over everything we need to know, the the- ter prepare our engineering students for the The study group is part of Learning ory and the formulas,” she said. She moved type of learning and applications that are re- Communities, a program that is itself part of from the Ivory Coast to San Diego in fall 2015. quired of them as undergraduate engineering the larger Student Success Initiative launching The Learning Communities program has students and to ensure that we provide the this year at the Jacobs School of Engineering. helped her ease in to her new life, she said. resources and opportunities for them to suc- The Student Success Initiative is a master plan “It’s very helpful.” ceed.” for student success at the Jacobs School, Math Matters LEARN MORE: IDEA.ucsd.edu which aims to increase retention and diversity. What equations do you need to build a ro- “We want to provide an atmosphere of bot’s arm? Or MIT’s cheetah robot? What math excellence and support for all our students,” do you need to run Tesla’s manufacturing said mechanical engineering professor Olivia Graeve, who is the program’s faculty lead- er. “We want to support all our students and prepare future engineers who have the skills to engage effectively with an increasingly di- verse society.” Within that framework, Learning Communities creates formal study groups. The goal is to provide students with a sup- portive environment where they can devel- op confidence while building study skills and learning the value of studying in a group set- ting.
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