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NANOTECHNOLOGY at USC ENGINEERING: WHEN LESS IS MORE Tiny Research with Big Results Published by the University of Southern California Volume I Issue 3 The 2002/2003 Freshman Class The Best and the Brightest Meet Engineering Contour Crafting Construction Technology for the Future Aviation Safety Program A Pioneer in Aircraft Accident Investigation NANOTECHNOLOGY AT USC ENGINEERING: WHEN LESS IS MORE Tiny Research with Big Results Spring/Summer 2003 don’t} let your income shrink A gift annuity will provide you with a guaranteed income stream for life while also helping to secure the future of the USC School of Engineering. An annuity to The School of Engineering will provide: 1 A guaranteed income stream for your life (and one other if desired); 2 A charitable tax deduction; 3 Scholarship and research at the School of Engineering; 4 Safety, as annuity agreements are backed by the full faith and credit of the University of Southern California; 5 Flexibility, as a gift annuity can be created with cash, securities or real estate. Age Guaranteed Age Guaranteed Payout rates are based on age. Annual Payout* Annual Payout* Here are two examples: 75 7.3% 70 6.7% 82 8.8% 75 7.3% couple of 75 & 82 6.8% couple of 70 & 75 6.3% It’show to give as good as you get. Sam Martinuzzi Director of Planned Giving 213-740-1214 www.usc.edu/plannedgiving] ] All inquiries are kept in strict confidence. * Sample based on rate schedule as of 1/1/03. Rates are set by the American Council for Gift Annuities. in thisi ssue features page 18 Nanotechnology at USC Engineering: When Less Is More Tiny Research with Big Results by Eric Mankin p page 24 The 2002/03 Freshman Class 18 The Best and the Brightest Meet Engineering by Dan Gordon page 29 Contour Crafting Construction Technology for the Future by Eric Mankin p24 page 31 USC’s Aviation Safety Program A Pioneer in Aircraft Accident Investigation by Bob Calverley page 33 Sleepy Joe Sleep Apnea Research at USC by Mark Ewing departments p29 page 3 Dean’s Page page 4 Editors’s Note page 5 Straight & To the Point Short Subjects page 34 Alumni Profile Thomas O. Gephart, BSME ’62 page 35 Alumni Profile Elaine Masako Iba, MSEE ’88 page 36 Alumni Profile Farzad Naeim, MSCE ’80, Phd CE ’82 page 38 SnapShots – Winter & Spring 2002/3 Events page 41 Calendar page 43 Class Notes PhD student Fady Morcos’s vision for p9 page 45 Alumni Recognition an interplanetary vessel for space tourism. “I believe we should make Notebook page 48 space tourism possible before this decade is Comments on Challenger over, but this won't happen unless we start to by Paul Ronney r illustration Holmes; Scott by Cohen;Adam by ant photo A. Michelle by class photo freshman H. Smith; take serious steps in colonizing the moon as a ve ntour crafting photo by Irene Fertik and space hotel drawing by Fady Morcos Morcos drawing Fady hotel by Fertik and space craftingntour Irene by photo Co co start, with other celestial bodies to follow.” Where can you hire some of the best engineers in the country? The Office of Engineering Career Services can help! Whether you need one summer intern or 25 full-time engineers, we offer many services to help you identify and hire future employees. Some of our services include: USC remains a very rich source ࡯ Internet Job Listings of highly talented and highly ࡯ Internship & Co-op Programs technical graduates who help ࡯ On-Campus Interviews shape the future of our industry. ࡯ Career Fairs USC engineering career services ࡯ Company Information Sessions has been an invaluable partner ࡯ Strategic Recruitment Planning to Microsoft College Recruiting. Their services and attention have simplified the recruiting process Help the next generation of and have helped us with Trojan Engineers get their start! targeted exposure to first-rate Contact Engineering Career Services USC students. at 213/740-4530 or [email protected]. —Jennifer Graham www.usc.edu/engcs Sr. Technical Recruiter Microsoft College Recruiting dean’sp age small things considered The cover story of this issue of USC Engineer describes the School of Engineering’s research efforts in the realm of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology promises to be one of the most exciting and important technology areas of this century. It is still in its infancy, and it is often difficult to separate real nanotechnology from the over-heated rhetoric and hype that sometimes surrounds it. The idea of nanotechnology dates from a famous 1959 lecture by the physicist Richard Feynman, in which he stated that “the principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.” Scientist Eric Drexler coined the phrase nanotechnology in his 1986 book “Engines of Creation.” It comes from “nano,” the Greek word meaning dwarf, and is a standard scientific prefix meaning “one-billionth.” The basic unit of this new science is a single nanometer, which is a billionth of a meter. This is truly small. A nanometer is to a meter as a grape is to the earth. The smallest things with which we are used to dealing are measured in millimeters. The period at the end of this sentence, for example, is approximately one tenth of a millimeter, or 100,000 nanometers, in diameter. That’s also the approximate diameter of a human hair. Biologists and computer manufacturers work at the micro level, where the unit of measurement is the micron. A micron is one millionth of a meter. A red blood cell measures about 7.5 microns, or 7,500 nanometers in diameter. The individual transistors in today’s most advanced solid-state circuits created by photolithography are now about 0.1 micron, or 100 nanometers across. Photolithography technology, governed by the wavelength of light, is approaching the limit in reducing the size of features it can produce. Today’s Pentium chip moves about a billion electrons to express a single bit of data. In contrast, single electron transistors mean nanoscale devices would use almost no power while achieving unparalleled levels of sensitivity. Our researchers are working to apply micro- and nanotechnology to bio-implants and drug delivery systems, engineered peptides and new quantum computing devices. These researchers will soon be housed in state-of-the art laboratories in the new Ronald Tutor Hall, which we will break ground on this May. Nanotechnology has proven to be one of the most interdisciplinary areas of academic research. Teams of engineers and scientists from widely differing disciplines perform the research. It is a rich stew of physics, biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, photonics and other areas of study that all blend into each other. All of the ingredients can be found at USC. We have expertise, momentum and enthusiasm, and we have a plan to exploit a specific niche where we believe we can do big things in nanotechnology. Our nanotechnology researchers are focusing on the intersection of materials science, biology and information technology, all areas of strength at the School and USC. Our research also builds on the success we have had with MEMS—micro-electromechanical systems. The only thing not small about nanotechnology is the ingenuity on display by our School’s researchers. C. L. Max Nikias Dean School of Engineering as photo by Jeff by as photo Corwin USC ENGINEER Vol. 1 No. 3 Spring/Summer 2003 Niki editor’sn ote t has once again been a busy winter and spring season for the School of Engineering Iand our alumni. In creating this magazine twice a year, my office and the communications team at the School must, like our faculty Dean C. L. Max Nikias colleagues, perform some research. We search for stories about the School that we want to Chief Executive Officer, External Relations highlight, sniff out the hot-topic research Christopher J. Stoy projects, shine a light on hot-shot faculty and Timur Taluy and I at the “Taste of uncover alumni success stories. We set about this USC” event in Ventura this February Director of Alumni Relations research with the single mission of providing Editor, USC Engineer Annette Blain our readers with the best of the best. For other excellence and drive of our alumni, and I thank schools and other publications, it may seem a these individuals for sharing their stories with Managing Editor daunting task. However, at USC Engineer, we us. I am also grateful to all of the alumni who Bob Calverley often find ourselves in the enviable position of take the time to update us about their lives with Senior Writer having too much of the good stuff to cover! class notes. We love to hear about you, right Mark Ewing Shining a light on cutting-edge, hot-topic down to the greatest successes of all, your Contributing Writers and even newsworthy research and researchers marriage or child’s birth. Bob Calverley, Rick Keir, Eric Mankin has increasingly required our light to have a very Some alumni continue to involve us in Cover Illustration broad focus. There is so much to talk about, so very direct ways. We have hosted a number of Scott Holmes many successes, indeed, too much to contain in regional alumni receptions in the past several Art Direction & Graphic Design this magazine. months. Timur Taluy (BSEE ’98), who is a Tracy Merrigan Creative USC Engineering is in the news, members member of our Dean’s Circle and Alumni of our faculty are winning awards all around the Relations Advisory Board, helped to organize We wish to acknowledge the following indi- world, our corporate partnerships are providing a successful alumni event and wine-tasting in viduals for their contributions to this issue of a leading edge for our students and our students Ventura, California this past February.
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