Fall 2007 McCormick Northwestern Engineering

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Northwestern University

Eureka! McCormick research solves a sticky problem Cover story 2 Eureka: Phil Messersmith’s lab solves a sticky problem

Features Achenbach and Marks receive National Medal of Science 6

X-ray specs: McCormick tackles a health care challenge 8

Vadim Backman shines a light on pancreatic cancer 10

A numerical sensation: Alex Yee breaks world’s record 12

Preventing gravity from keeping research down 13

EECS faculty receive NSF CAREER awards 14

Career paths 16

Tingye Li • Brian and Emily Muly Schmidt

EDC students help realize school principal’s dream 18

People and progress 20 Giving report 22 McCormick is published by the Robert R. McCormick School Class notes 30 of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, for its Student profile 32 alumni and friends. Megan Greenfield On the cover When developing a new type of adhesive, Phil Messersmith was inspired by two classic natural adhesion models: gecko and mussel.

Editors: Gina Weber Myerson, Tom Fredrickson Designer: Vickie Lata Writers: Kyle Delaney, Megan Fellman, Michele Hogan, Gina Myerson, Lina Sawyer, Leanne Star, Susan White

Photos: Marcia Achenbach, Steve Anzaldi, Andrew Campbell, Sam Levitan

© 2007 Northwestern University. All rights reserved. Produced by University Relations. 11-07/23.5M/TF-VL/10977 from the dean

Greetings from McCormick

The transformation of McCormick continues. We are initiating new undergraduate and graduate curricular options, and supporting increased faculty cross-departmental and cross-school collaboration that is resulting in groundbreaking faculty research. On the cover of this magazine is an image from Phil Messersmith’s research in bio­materials that also appeared on the cover of Nature in July. That cover is among the more than 70 high-impact journal covers that we have framed in two hallways of the Technolog­ ­ical Institute (see photo at left) — evidence that our faculty is publishing in more prestigious research journals than ever, and one of many indicators we use to measure our progress as an institution. Faculty hiring is another sign of progress. I am pleased to report that we have had considerable success in that area over the past two years. The importance of hiring the right faculty cannot be overstated. Hiring is a very competitive process among top univer- sities, and the success we have seen signifies that McCormick continues to be a top desti- nation for talented faculty. About 80 percent of McCormick’s offers to new faculty were accepted last year, and the acceptance rate is 93 percent this year. With these new hires, McCormick will have seen a 16 percent change in faculty over the past two years — a process that is accelerating the transformation of the school. Significantly, these new hires are not all junior faculty members; many are distinguished researchers who are well known in their fields. I am also pleased to report that we have seen a considerable increase in media coverage. Our national and international print, web, and broadcast coverage has spanned a range of topics, including several stories featured in this issue of McCormick magazine. From Vadim Backman’s pioneering work in detecting pancreatic cancer to Peter Voorhees’s research in space, our faculty members continue to be featured for their innovative research. The nation’s most prestigious science award, the National Medal of Science, was recently given to Jan Achenbach and Tobin Marks at the White House. They are North­ western’s first recipients of the award, and Jan is one of few individuals who have been honored with both the National Medal of Technology and the National Medal of Science. McCormick continues to be a destination for top students, such as the two profiled in this issue. Alex Yee, a sophomore in computer science, recently made headlines for set- ting a new record for computing a mathematical constant. Megan Greenfield, a graduate student in chemical and biological engineering, was cocreator of a new organization to improve the University’s graduate student community. These are excellent examples of the tremendous talent found in our undergraduate and graduate programs. After two years of rapidly developing and implementing new initiatives to take McCormick to the next level of excellence, we are now focusing on keeping our momen- tum and institutionalizing change. The support of McCormick alumni and friends is critical to this process, and I’m pleased to be able to take this opportunity to thank the many donors to the McCormick School in this issue (see “Giving Report,” pages 22–29). I hope you enjoy this issue of McCormick magazine. It’s an exciting time to be part of the McCormick community, and I’m pleased to share our progress with you. fall  fall

Julio M. Ottino, Dean | November 2007 McCormick

1 Cover Story

Eureka! Phil Messersmith’s lab solves a sticky problem

Anyone who has taken a swim while wearing an adhesive bandage knows

that however tightly such a dressing may cling when dry, it performs poorly

when wet. Coating it with a waterproof adhesive might solve the problem,

but it would make it excruciating, if not impossible, to remove. Imagine,

then, the advantages of an adhesive material that is easy to remove and

reapply and that stays put, even underwater. fall  fall

McCormick

2 Far left Phil Messersmith Near left When developing a new type of adhesive, Phil Messersmith was inspired by two classic natural adhesion models: gecko and mussel.

Phil Messersmith, professor of biomedical engineer- What if… ing, imagined just such a material — with potential How do researchers come up with ideas? “I like to move applications extending far beyond the everyday adhesive in the fringes of established fields, where totally different patch. His idea was to mimic and unite the adhesive fields interact,” says Messersmith. “That’s where the properties of two different species: geckos and mussels. opportunities are.” To transform his idea into reality Messersmith sought Messersmith’s background — an undergraduate help from a few members of the diverse crew of postdoc- degree in life sciences, a master’s degree in bioengineer- toral fellows and graduate students that forms his ing, and a PhD in materials science — allows him to research group. The result, achieved in a little less than travel comfortably from one discipline to another and two years, was “geckel,” a revolutionary biomimetic seize those opportunities. “I tell my students that I’m not material that caught the attention of the international particularly interested in being mainstream. I’d like to do press and won a spot on the cover of the July 19 issue something different from everyone else.” of the journal Nature. The reality of research, however, is that you have to Not every brilliant idea enjoys such relatively quick have funding, says Messersmith, whose geckel work was success. Messersmith, who joined the Northwestern funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and faculty in 1997, says, “In my career, for every 10 ideas, NASA. “To write a grant, you usually have an application maybe one works well.” The success of geckel might in mind. But a grant is not a contract. It allows us to not be the norm, but the discovery process that pursue things we don’t necessarily propose. If all we do Messersmith’s lab undertook to create geckel is replicated in my lab is accomplish what we say in the proposal, I every day in every lab around the world: Researchers consider it a failure. You find new things, you recognize dream up ideas, test them, learn from mistakes, and opportunities — perhaps even in a failed experiment — arrive at solutions. and generate a new idea from that.” For example, says fall  fall Messersmith, “Geckel wasn’t even on the radar when McCormick

3 I wrote the proposal [to the NIH for mimicking mussel adhesive Making it happen proteins]. The word ‘gecko’ didn’t appear once.” To test his idea Messersmith approached one of his graduate students, What happened was that in the midst of his lab’s research on Haeshin Lee, whom Messersmith describes as an exceptional student mussel adhesive proteins, Messersmith read a scientific paper that capable of managing several projects simultaneously. Messersmith quantitatively compared gecko adhesion in air and water. “Always says he made a couple of sketches and asked Lee, “Wouldn’t it be neat survey the literature,” Messersmith tells his students. “You can’t know if we could do this?” your place in the research world without the knowledge of what “It took me only a couple minutes to realize that Phil was talking everybody else is doing.” about an excellent idea,” says Lee. “I was also happy to study a totally On land, geckos can cling to almost any surface, even skittering different field during my PhD work,” he adds, sounding a little like upside down across a ceiling. This remarkable ability to adhere to a his mentor. Since completing his undergraduate degree in biological surface and, just as easily, detach from it derives from a mechanical sciences in his native South Korea in 1997, Lee had studied drug principle known as contact splitting. The pad of a gecko’s foot is delivery systems and wanted “to study something different but related densely packed with very fine hairs split at the ends into spatulae to proteins.” He had also learned how to measure the binding force of — filaments as small as 200 nanometers in diameter. Each of those proteins at the single-molecule level, a skill that would prove essential clings to a surface by means of weak attractive forces such as capillary to his work on geckel. and van der Waals forces. Multiplied across millions of hairs, those Lee, who will complete his PhD work by early spring, says that forces increase significantly. Flies, bees, and other insects use this when he joined Messersmith’s lab in 2003 he was pleasantly surprised strategy; geckos are the largest creatures to do so. by the amount of freedom his research adviser gave him. “Instead of The paper Messersmith read noted a dramatic drop in adhesion telling me what to do, he guides me in the right direction,” says Lee, for geckos in water, something that had been long observed and was who found plenty of help available. “Phil’s input is everywhere, and I now measured. That, he says, really got him thinking: “Geckos are the am surrounded by very talented postdocs and graduate students who classic model for scientists studying dry adhesion in nature, whereas have answers for my questions almost all the time.” mussels are the classic model for wet adhesion” — a phenomenon Lee gives Messersmith full credit for the idea of an adhesive based apparent to anyone who has tried to pry a mussel from a wet rock. on geckos and mussels — “It would never have occurred to me,” he Messersmith’s lab was already studying mussel adhesives, focusing on says — while Messersmith credits Lee with implementing it. “It’s one the proteins excreted by the common blue mussel. Other labs had thing for me to tell a student what to do,” says Messersmith. “It’s tried to replicate the holding power of geckos’ spatulae by fabricating another for me to just plant a seed and watch him transform it. Until polymers and multiwalled carbon nanotubes, although their efforts you do the experiment, you can never tell how good an idea is.” This had not worked for more than a few contact cycles and had not been is a lesson Messersmith learned during his own graduate work: “I was

fall  fall tested underwater. Messersmith wondered if there might be a way to handed a project that was loosely defined. I failed for a couple years, combine the adhesive properties of both the gecko and the mussel. and then I got it to work in a new form. It was valuable experience.” The work on geckel proceeded with relatively few setbacks. The

McCormick first step was to fabricate an array of nanoscale pillars to mimic the

4 Haeshin Lee and Phil Messersmith

split hairs on the pads of geckos’ feet. To do this, the researchers it from the Nature web site. It is the adhesion force measurement used electron-beam lithography to create a pattern of holes on a with the highest resolution ever.” thin film of acrylic supported on a silicon wafer; this would serve What does geckel feel like on human skin? “As you would as a mold, with a liquid polymer cast into the holes. Once the poly- expect, it is sticky,” says Lee, who confesses that he tested a sample mer cured, it was lifted from the mold to reveal something resem- on his own skin, an experiment he won’t repeat because it would bling the bristles on a nanoscale brush. After fabricating arrays with exclude the sample from further experiments. Messersmith and pillars ranging from 200 to 600 nanometers in diameter and from Lee are currently experimenting with changing the shape of the 600 to 700 nanometers in height, the team tested the adhesion of tips of the pillars for maximum contact area. “In a gecko the ends pillars 400 nanometers in diameter and 600 nanometers high. are shaped like a spatula,” says Messersmith. “The closest we can The next step was to coat the pillars — the gecko part of the fabricate is a mushroom shape.” hybrid — with a synthetic polymer that mimics the proteins excreted As tightly as geckel adheres, it is also easy to detach. Messersmith by mussels. Here the team was able to build on earlier work in which and Lee accomplished this by controlling the composition of the poly- Messersmith’s research group had created mussel-mimetic polymers. mer. Messersmith compares removal to peeling away a sticky note: “As Because the “glue” proteins of mussels have a high concentration of a you pull it away from a surface, the closest points of connection are catecholic amino acid — 3,4-L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) — under the highest stress. You literally pull away the bonds, one by one.” the project required a polymer with a high DOPA content as well as low water solubility. That poly- mer was synthesized by Bruce P. Lee, a former I like to move in the fringes of graduate student of Messersmith’s and senior scientist at Nerites Corporation, a biotechnology “established fields, where totally company in Madison, Wisconsin, where Messersmith serves as chief scientific adviser. different fields interact. That’s where The arrays were then dip coated to deposit a thin film, less than 20 nanometers, over the pillars. the opportunities are. The result was a one-square-centimeter —Phil Messersmith patch of material that, says Messersmith, “you ” might mistake for a piece of flat tape.” In their Nature article Haeshin Lee, Bruce Lee, and Messersmith write, “We refer to the resulting flex- Taking it to the next level ible organic nanoadhesive as ‘geckel,’ reflecting the inspiration from This detachability makes geckel a promising candidate for medical both gecko and mussel.” uses: to replace sutures for wound closure or to enable follow-up sur- gery; for drug-delivery patches; or for everyday bandages that would Testing, testing allow patients to bathe. Military and industrial uses might include Testing of the fabricated material came at several stages: the adhesion creating an unmanned vehicle capable of crawling on the ocean floor. of the uncoated and the coated pillar arrays was measured both in The researchers have applied for a patent on the new material. air and underwater. Measurement at the nanoscale level meant using How quickly these potential applications are realized may an atomic force microscope to determine the force of adhesion — depend on the involvement of industry. “We’ve demonstrated a gauged not by how tightly a material sticks to something but rather concept,” says Messersmith, “but it will be necessary to develop by how much force is needed to pull it away from an object. In the a patterning approach that works on a large scale so that geckel case of geckel, researchers used a tipless cantilever to make contact can be mass produced in a cost-effective way.” with an array of pillars and then retracted it, measuring the force Meanwhile Messersmith’s lab is engaged in six or seven lines of versus distance needed to separate the cantilever from the array. research. The group’s latest success, published in Science, is another The results were dramatic: the pillar arrays coated with the mussel-inspired project: a two-step, room-temperature method that mussel-mimetic polymer improved wet adhesion 15 times over the allows a coating to be applied to material of any size, shape, or type, uncoated pillar arrays. Furthermore, after 1,100 contact cycles the including traditionally difficult-to-clad materials such as Teflon®. wet- and dry-adhesion power of the geckel patch was only slightly For this work Haeshin Lee and Messersmith collaborated with diminished. Previously, other gecko-mimetic adhesives had stayed William Miller, professor of chemical and biological engineering, and sticky for only a few contact cycles, and none had been shown to graduate student Shara Dellatore. “It’s an astonishingly simple and work underwater. versatile approach to functional surface modification of materials,” It was in the measurement of the adhesion forces that Haeshin says Messersmith. “The ability to form self-assembled monolayers fall  fall

Lee says he experienced a true “Eureka!” moment: “The data showed on nonmetal surfaces is the biggest part of this.” simultaneous loading and detachment of up to six geckel nanopillars. What research project will be next for Messersmith? “Who I made a short video clip because it looks cool — you can download knows?” he asks. “I wasn’t doing gecko research two years ago.” —Leanne Star McCormick

5 Achenbach and Marks receive National Medal of Science

Two McCormick faculty members — Jan Achenbach and Tobin Marks — were awarded the 2005 National Medal of Science at a July 2007 ceremony at the White House. Marks and Achenbach are the first Northwestern recipients of the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research. The National Medal of Science hon- ors individuals for pioneering scientific research in a range of fields — including physical, biological, mathematical, social, behavioral, and engineering sciences — that enhances our understanding of the world and leads to innovations and tech- nologies that give the United States its global economic edge. The National Science Foundation administers the award, which was established by Congress in 1959. “Jan Achenbach and Tobin Marks exemplify the best that McCormick has to offer: of complex structures and has developed pioneers who have made strong methods for flaw detection and characteriza- contributions to their field and to tion by ultrasonic scattering methods. He our world. We are proud to count also has achieved valuable results on earth- them as members of our faculty,” quake mechanisms, the mechanical behavior says Dean Julio M. Ottino. of composite materials under dynamic load- ing conditions, and the vibrations of solid Jan Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor propellant rockets. and Distinguished McCormick School Achenbach is the founder of North­ Professor of the Departments of Mechanical science in technological applications,” says western’s Center for Quality Engineering Engineering, Civil and Environ­mental Achenbach. and Failure Prevention, a state-of-the-art Engineering, and Engineering Sciences and Achenbach joined Northwestern in laboratory for quality control in structural Applied Mathematics, was honored for his 1963. He is a preeminent researcher in solid mechanics that has had a profound impact seminal contributions to engineering mechanics and quantitative nondestructive on the aircraft industry, particularly the research and education in the area of wave evaluation and has made major contribu- monitoring of aging aircraft. propagation in solids and for pioneering tions in the field of propagation of mechani- Achenbach was awarded the 2003 the field of quantitative nondestructive­ cal disturbances in solids. National Medal of Technology, the nation’s evaluation. Achenbach’s work has been both analyt- highest honor for technological innovation. “Applied science is the lifeblood of ical and experimental. He has achieved He was elected to the National Academy of modern society. I have found it very reward- fall  fall important results in quantitative non­ Engineering in 1982, the National Academy

ing to work at the interface of science and destructive evaluation of materials, damage of Sciences in 1992, and the American engineering and to use known and new mechanisms in composites, and vibrations Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. In McCormick

6 Jan Achenbach and Tobin Marks “exemplify the best that McCormick has to offer: pioneers who have made strong contributions to their field and to our world. We are proud to count them as members of our faculty. —Dean Julio M. Ottino ”

Above Jan Achenbach, Tobin Marks, University President Henry S. Bienen, and Patrick G. Ryan, chair of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees Right Jan Achenbach and President George W. Bush (White House photo by Eric Draper)

1999 he was made a corresponding member Marks’s research focuses on the design, that self-assemble into, or spontaneously of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He synthesis, and in-depth characterization of form, structures that can conduct electricity, is also an honorary member of the Ameri­can new substances having important chemical, switch a light on and off, detect light, and Society of Mechanical Engineers and a fellow physical, and/or biological properties. His turn sunlight into electricity. These struc- of the American Society of Mech­an­ical work is credited with having major impact tures could lead to the world’s most versatile Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, on contemporary catalysis, with seminal and stable light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and Society of Engineering Science, American research in the areas of organo-f-element to flexible “plastic” transistors. Academy of Mechanics, and the Amer­ican­ homogeneous catalysis, metal-ligand bond- During his career Marks has received Association for the Advance­ment of Science. ing energetics, supported organometallic numerous awards, including some of the His awards include the Timoshenko Medal catalysis, and metallocene polymerization most prestigious national and international and the William Prager Medal. catalysis. awards in the fields of inorganic, catalytic, Marks, who joined Northwestern in materials, and organometallic chemistry. Tobin Marks, professor of materials 1970, is a leader in the development and Recent honors include the American science and engineering at McCormick understanding of single-site olefin polymer- Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, the and Vladimir N. Ipatieff Research Professor ization catalysis (now a multibillion dollar John C. Bailar Medal from the University of Chemistry in the Weinberg College industry) as well the study of new materials of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Sir of Arts and Sciences, was honored for having remarkable electrical, mechanical, Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship of the his pioneering research in the areas of interfacial, and photonic properties. He British Royal Society of Chemistry, and the homo­geneous and heterogeneous catalysis, designed a cocatalyst that led to what is now Karl Ziegler Prize of the German Chemical organo-f-element­ chemistry, new electronic a standard process for producing better Society. and ­photonic materials, and diverse areas of polyolefins, including polyethylene and Marks also is recipient of three Amer­i­can coordination and solid-state chemistry. polypropylene. Found in everything from Chemical Society national awards and the “I’m fascinated by the knowledge- sandwich wrap to long underwear, these ver- ACS Chicago Section’s 2001 Josiah Willard based design of striking new substances to satile and inexpensive plastics are lighter in Gibbs Medal, regarded by many as the high- perform heretofore impossible functions weight and more recyclable than previous est award given to chemists next to the Nobel

that ultimately improve the quality of plastics. Prize. He was elected to the National  fall human life. To my students and me, scien- In his molecular optoelectronics work Academy of Sciences and the American tific research is an exciting adventure,” Marks designs arrays of “smart” molecules Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. says Marks. —Gina Myerson McCormick

7 X-ray specs

McCormick students and faculty tackle health care challenge in the developing world

Imagine breaking your arm in an accident and running to the nearest biomedical engineering and adviser for Hoaglin’s project. “Many health clinic. Dizzy with pain, you know your arm is broken, but rural clinics don’t have anything. X-rays are basic technology needed getting it put back in place may be harder than it seems. Without an for trauma and tuberculosis, but they’re just not available.” X-ray to visualize the break, your doctor promises to give it her “best shot” at setting it properly. From final report to first steps As unsettling as this may sound, it’s the situation that many As part of a senior design project, Hoaglin and fellow student Aaron patients in developing countries face when dealing with an injury. Eifler (biomedical engineering ‘06) studied the problem and deter- It’s estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that two- mined that a low-cost digital system would be the best solution thirds of the world’s population lacks access to conventional X-ray for expanding the availability of X-rays. They focused on modifying equipment. And for those who do have access, getting those X-rays an existing low-cost system, the World Health Imaging System– developed and interpreted can be a long and difficult process. It’s a Radiology (WHIS-RAD), developed by WHO. Their client for the problem that students and faculty in the McCormick School and the project was John Vanden Brink, an assistant district governor for Feinberg School of Medicine and across the University, along with a Rotary International who has been leading a group of Rotarians in host of other collaborators, are teaming up to solve. an effort to deploy WHIS-RAD systems. Nongovernmental organiza- Mike Hoaglin (biomedical engineering and electrical engineering tions, including Rotary clubs, have deployed about 1,500 of these ’06) saw the problem firsthand as a student on Northwestern’s Global machines throughout the world, but there are issues with the sustain- Health Technologies study abroad program in 2006. able use of the system — particularly with the recurring costs associ- “We saw a guy who had tried to open a bottle with his teeth ated with film and chemicals. and had a bottle cap lodged in his throat,” Hoaglin says. “Once he Hoaglin and Eifler developed an in-depth report, which served had been x-rayed, he had to take his films and travel several miles as the beginning of a new partnership. After circulating the report on a bumpy road in order to find a radiologist who could interpret among his peers, Dave Kelso, professor of biomedical engineering the films and determine how the bottle cap should be extracted.” and chair of the Center for Innovation in Global Health Tech­nol­o­ Hoaglin describes another clinic with limited storage, causing gies, called a meeting to determine how to take Hoaglin and Eifler’s staff to throw out X-rays after less than a year, despite laws that work to the next level. He joined forces with contacts at the Uni­ require clinics keep them for three to five years. Other clinics had versity of Cape Town, Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, defunct X-ray machines covered in cobwebs and locked in closets, Rotary clubs, the Kellogg School of Management, and others to create and those that were functional were running at minimal capacity the World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA). The group is now a fall  fall due to the cost of film and developing chemicals. certified nonprofit organization in the state of Illinois, dedicated to “There’s a great need in the developing world for X-rays that’s bringing X-ray technology to the areas of the world that need it most. simply not being met,” says Matt Glucksberg, professor and chair of Michael Diamond, an adjunct professor in the global health McCormick program at the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and

8 Left Mike Hoaglin, Matt Glucksberg, David Channin, and Michael Diamond Below WHIA team members examine imaging equipment

Combining expertise In order to adequately handle the variety of expertise needed to address needs assessment, research and development, funding, and deployment, WHIA is drawing on a wide array of experts. Students and faculty at Kellogg will research the market, economics students in Weinberg College will study the economic impact of better X-ray technology on improv- ing health and productivity, and students and faculty from the Feinberg School of Medicine­ will work on training and medical informatics issues. Leading the effort at Feinberg is David Channin, associate professor of radiology. A specialist in imaging informatics, Channin was the principal technical architect behind the filmless imaging environment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Working under an entirely How do you choose different set of user needs, Channin and his between cost and team hope to create a robust system with lower Sciences, serves as WHIA’s executive “ built-in costs. “The software used in digital sys- director. He hopes that by creating performance and tems is a large component of the overall cost,” lower-cost equipment, the group can justify the ethics? he says. “In addition to providing lower-cost better serve areas of the world that are software, we can also simplify the device and of less interest to high-end corporate —Matt Glucksberg provide functionality that commercial systems manufacturers. “Our view is that by ” wouldn’t have.” partnering with manufacturers, we’re expanding their options and A prototype is being built and tested at Northwestern using creating a higher level of demand,” Diamond says. “We believe there donated imaging equipment from SEDECAL and a computed radiog- is a very large market because the economics are so different for a raphy system from Carestream-Kodak, and the group hopes to deploy low-cost machine, and these machines will increase economic up to five of the systems for field testing within two years. Graduate productivity by restoring people to health more rapidly and with less students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s new master’s burden of recurring health problems.” degree program with a focus in global health technology will work WHIA is trying to ensure that all of the components work in on the prototype before spending two quarters in South Africa to accordance with the standards established by the WHO and that they conduct field research. (The program recently received a grant from are easy to use with interoperable parts. With so many systems on the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Sustainable the market, the group will determine how these combined low-cost Vision Grant Program funded by the Lemelson Foundation.) systems will meet these standards, which is a tricky task. “How do Building the X-ray system and software is only the first step; the you choose between cost and performance and justify the ethics?” group must also determine how patient files should be handled, how Glucksberg asks. “If you can provide an X-ray machine that will work they can be viewed without purchasing extensive digital equipment, well enough for tuberculosis and broken bones but won’t pick up and how health care workers can be trained to use the system. tumors, is that a problem?” Despite the many challenges that lie ahead, the group is confident In addition to designing a system whose initial cost is low, they will meet the challenge. WHIA is keenly aware of the issues of maintenance and recurring “It’s not inventing new technology,” says Glucksberg. “It’s design- costs. “The big question is how to implement these systems into ing a system. There’s a difference between invention and design: The an existing infrastructure and ensure that it’s a sustainable model,” components are there, but we need to put them together in a smart Diamond says. “We’ve seen far too many examples of donated equip- way, deploy them in a smart way, with a sustainable business model. ment that’s broken and been tossed aside.” We can come up with a product made from existing components that fall  fall

will provide digital X-rays at a reasonable cost. In essence, what we think we’re doing is bringing engineering and design sensibility to the problem.” McCormick —Kyle Delaney

9 Shining a light on pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is a silent killer, difficult to detect and difficult to Field effect treat. It rarely causes symptoms until it’s too late, and only 5 percent Using the same optical technology that has been proven successful of those diagnosed with it live beyond five years — and most die in detecting early-stage colon cancer (see spring 2006 By Design), within the first two. It killed 33,000 Americans last year alone and Backman’s research team has detected nanoscale cellular changes in was the cause of death for Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Billy Carter, the duodenum that indicate the presence of pancreatic cancer. M. Scott Peck, Joseph Cardinal Bernadin, and Luciano Pavarotti. “We can take measurements safely in the duodenum and use a Though pancreatic cancer is the 10th most prevalent cancer among biological phenomenon called the ‘field effect’ to our advantage,” American men and women, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer Backman says. “If you have a precancerous or cancerous lesion in the deaths. pancreas, even tissue that looks nor- One major reason for the grim mal and is away from the lesion will survival rates is the lack of an effec- have molecular and other kinds of tive diagnostic tool for early-stage abnormal changes. No one can detect pancreatic cancers. Patients don’t these changes earlier than we can.” become symptomatic until they The field effect is a phenomenon develop advanced stages of the dis- Backman first used in developing ease, and the pancreas is vulnerable optical techniques to detect colon to a variety of complications when cancer. The basic premise is that can- examined. Now optical technology cerous cells make bad neighbors: — developed by Vadim Backman, Their presence causes submicrosco- professor of biomedical engineering, pic changes in all of their surround- and tested in collaboration with ing cells. In the case of colon cancer, doctors at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare — shows promise for Backman’s research team has shown the ability to detect cancer by identifying pancreatic cancer using minimally invasive techniques. taking measurements at the base of the colon in the rectum. Their There is currently no effective screening method for pancreatic new work in pancreatic cancer differs in that it takes measurements cancer. Most cancers in the pancreas originate from the main pancre- in a neighboring organ. atic duct, a 10-centimeter-long duct that perforates the duodenum, “In many regards, this initial effort was somewhat of a fishing the first and shortest part of the small intestine. Examining the pan- expedition,” Backman says. “When we began this research, there was creatic duct is a difficult and risky procedure, with a 20 percent no scientific evidence that cells in the duodenum would indicate the fall  fall

chance of serious complications. And, since the pancreas produces presence of pancreatic cancer.” several vital enzymes and hormones, including insulin, removal of Even without previous studies to help establish a proof of the organ is not a viable option. concept, the National Science Foundation saw the potential in the

McCormick research. “We were so encouraged by the successes with colon cancer

10 Far left Vadim Backman Left Researchers can look at how light bounces off human tissue to detect subtle changes potentially caused by cancer. The spectral image that results is like a fingerprint for disease. Illustrations by Zina Deretsky and Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation.

research that we decided to drive the research in a different direc- “We also found that the diagnostic performance of the technique tion,” says Leon Esterowitz, the NSF program officer who funded the is not compromised by risk factors in the patients,” says Liu, who is initial research. “For pancreatic cancer, it’s not only critical to detect now a senior scientist at Johnson & Johnson Consumer and Personal it early, or even before it becomes cancerous, but in many cases it is Products Worldwide. “The markers don’t depend on age. They do not really the only hope.” change if the patient is a smoker, and they do not change with the In order to develop the clinical trial of the technology, which location, stage, or size of the tumor in the pancreas.” was also funded by the National Institutes of Health, Backman and While the survival rate for patients diagnosed with late-stage can- graduate student Yang Liu teamed with Randall Brand, a gastroenter- cers is low, treatment options are much better for early-stage cancers. ologist with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare who specializes in If detected early, when a tumor can be removed, the survival rate is pancreatic cancer and an associate professor of medicine at North­ anywhere from 50 to 100 percent. western’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and Hemant Roy, director Clinical use of the technology is at least three to five years away, of research for the section of gastroenterology at Evanston North­ and further trials need to be conducted. “Besides improving upon the west­ern Healthcare and associate professor of medicine at the technology, we need to determine whether other medical conditions Feinberg School. The team took biopsies from the duodena of 51 — including other cancer types or diseases of the pancreas, such as patients — 19 already diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 32 chronic pancreatitis or acute pancreatitis — can be distinguished without the disease. The biopsies were taken using standard low-risk with our technology from pancreatic cancer,” says Brand. “It is also endoscopic techniques. While all of the biopsies appeared normal important for us to validate our prediction rule on a larger number using traditional microscopy, optical tests detected differences of pancreatic cancer cases as well as on different control groups.” between normal and cancerous tissue. The results of the first clinical trial were published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research in August. Larger clinical trials involving Early-stage success approximately 200 patients are under way at Evanston Northwestern During the optical testing, a xenon lamp shines intense white light Hospital, and addition clinical trials for the colon cancer work are through a series of filters and lenses onto the tissue. The light refracts ongoing. Backman has also founded a company, American BioOptics through the outermost layer of the tissue and scatters into a spectro- Inc., to fully develop the technology for commercialization. graph, which separates the light into its component wavelengths and Backman and his research team are also studying whether their measures them. Another sensor then captures the results for analysis biophotonic approach can be used to detect other types of cancer, by a computer. such as lung and breast cancer. “Our hope is that biophotonics will In the trial, the researchers were able to use the same optical change the way we screen for cancer and allow for early detection and fall  fall

markers used in their colon cancer research to differentiate cancerous improved treatment options,” Backman says. and normal biopsies with nearly 100 percent accuracy. The clearest If Backman and his team are successful, a simple ray of light will results came from patients with early-stage cancer. become a powerful tool that will save thousands of lives.

—Kyle Delaney McCormick

11 A numerical sensation McCormick sophomore Alex Yee breaks mathematical world record

Most students find finals week to be one of the most stressful times Yee spent all of his free time between October and December of the year. They spend late-night hours cramming for exams and refining the program to better calculate the constant. Once finals week finishing up projects, looking forward to the end of the quarter. But came around, Yee didn’t need his laptop for classes and could devote the stresses of finals didn’t stop Alex Yee, a sophomore majoring in the four days needed for the program to calculate the constant. computer science, from finishing a project he’d been working on After 38 hours of computation and 48 hours of verification, Yee since high school — and breaking a world record in the process. determined that he had broken the record. “I just stood there in dis- Yee made headlines around the country early this year by calcu- belief,” he says. “Finally I picked up the phone to call my dad and told lating the Euler-Mascheroni constant to more than 116 million digits, him that I had done it.” easily surpassing the previous record of 108 million set in 1999. The If it wasn’t impressive enough for Yee to break the record as a achievement was the summation of a project Yee started as a senior college freshman, he also did it on an ordinary laptop — and not at Palo Alto High School in California. The assignment for his AP a supercomputer or server typically required for this kind of work. computer science class was to create a program that would add, sub- “My program is a lot faster and more efficient than other existing tract, multiply, and divide large numbers. Yee completed the assign- programs for laptops,” he says. ment, but that was only the beginning of his work. “The result itself doesn’t have great practical use, but the method “After the homework was due, I carried on with the project to the he used to compute it is what’s really interesting,” says Robert Dick, point that I could do everything that a graphing calculator could do, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. except much faster and with much larger numbers,” Yee says. “At “The program and the methods he used to calculate this are a real some point I put in the capability of computing constants, and then contribution.” I started running down the list of constants.” In the months since Yee’s achievement became public, other Around October of 2006, Yee found that his program could mathematicians have already claimed to have broken his record. compute the Euler-Mascheroni constant with unusual speed. The That doesn’t bother Yee — in fact, he anticipated it. “At the time I constant is considered to be the third most famous constant, behind broke the record it had been standing for seven years, but I knew pi and e. While the calculation may be beyond the comprehension that it could probably be broken again soon,” he says. “But I’m not of most people, it is commonly used in numbers theory and high- sure that anyone has broken it using a laptop. It would most likely

fall  fall level mathematics. “I saw that my program could compute it about be done on a really fast computer.”

as fast as some of the commercial products available, and I knew Yee hasn’t spent his time defending his record but has moved that I could make it faster,” he says. “I realized that the record of on to something he describes as “more practical” — research on 108 million was beatable.” compression algorithms with Robert Dick. McCormick —Kyle Delaney 12 Preventing gravity from keeping research down

“Our two greatest problems are tailor the mechanical properties the samples are flushed with water to dra- gravity and paperwork,” Wernher of materials, but no one under- matically slow the coarsening process. In all, von Braun, one of the key figures in the stands exactly how fast the process occurs,” astronauts ran five cycles of the experiment space race, is credited as saying. “We can lick says Voorhees. “From a materials standpoint, to study the process over different lengths gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is we want to know how fast this process of time. overwhelming.” occurs so that we can predict what’s going to Another NASA shuttle will retrieve the Peter Voorhees, professor and chair of happen to a product, which is especially samples from the International Space materials science and engineering, under- important for products like a turbine blade.” Station in February. The samples will be stands that sentiment better than most. While coarsening occurs in a wide vari- quickly returned to Voorhees’ lab for analy- Voorhees has spent more than 20 years work- ety of materials, solid-liquid systems are ideal sis. Using a serial sectioning process, ing on a materials science experiment with from an experimental standpoint. Unfor­ researchers will remove thin layers from NASA — one he started as a postdoctoral tunately, when using these systems research- each sample and take digital images to create researcher in 1984. After creating quite a bit ers have run into a key limitation on Earth: a series of images representing each layer of of paperwork documenting every nut, bolt, gravity. Just like ice in a glass of water, the the sample. Researchers will use this data and screw back to its original source, he has solid particles float to the top of the sample. make a three-dimensional representation to seen his experiment defy gravity and make its Working in the low-gravity conditions avail- compare to representations formed using way to the International Space Station. able in the Inter­national Space Station, coarsening theories. Voorhees is the principal investigator researchers are able to study how on one of the two experiments that NASA’s the process works when the par- Glenn Research Center sent on the space ticles are evenly distributed shuttle Endeavor’s August launch. The exper- throughout the liquid. iment, which NASA named Coarsening in “We’re trying to study the Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2, is designed to learn fundamental forces that drive more about the fundamental science that coarsening — the actual interac- drives the coarsening process. Understanding tions between the particles,” says that process is key to the science of making Amber Genau, a graduate student stronger, more predictable alloys. in Voorhees’s lab. “We want to get Coarsening occurs in nearly every mate- rid of all possible confounding rial composed of two crystals, and Voorhees factors, and gravity is the biggest points to Italian salad dressing as a classic one. Conducting this experiment demonstration of the process: After shaking in space allows us to better iden- the bottle of dressing, droplets of oil merge tify those driving factors.” into larger droplets and eventually separate Genau and Voorhees pre- Peter Voorhees and Amber Genau into a layer separate from the vinegar. The pared 20 samples of a lead-tin total surface area of two droplets is greater mixture to send on the shuttle Endeavor. “Once we analyze information about than one larger droplet, causing the droplets Once the samples reached the International how fast the coarsening process occurs in to continue to merge until they reach their Space Station, astronauts placed furnaces space, we can test our theories and refine lowest possible surface area. Coarsening of holding the samples into the glove box of our models to make them more predictive,” raindrops can occur in clouds and takes the station. The furnaces were specifically Voorhees says. “This could help us in fall  fall place in a wide variety of materials, such designed for this experiment and are iso- designing all kinds of materials — from as the high-temperature alloys used in jet thermal to less than a hundredth of a steels to aluminum alloys.” engine turbine blades and aluminum alloys degree. Once the lead-tin mixture melts, the —Kyle Delaney

used in bicycles. “Coarsening is used to remaining spherical tin particles are allowed McCormick to coarsen for a set amount of time before 13 The beginning of an excellent CAREER

Four assistant professors in the McCormick School’s Department Five McCormick faculty members also received CAREER awards of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) — Fabian in 2006: Hooman Mohseni and Seda Memik, both assistant profes- Bustamante, Dongning Guo, Russell Joseph, and Bryan Pardo — sors of EECS; Guillermo Ameer, assistant professor of biomedical have received 2007 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) engineering; Bartosz Grzybowski, assistant professor of chemical awards from the National Science Foundation. engineering; and Pablo Durango Cohen, assistant professor of civil The CAREER program offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards and environmental engineering. for new faculty members. It recognizes and supports the early career- For the EECS department, the high concentration of recent development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely CAREER award winners is a strong indicator of future success. “This to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER level of achievement for young faculty is indicative of the exciting prog- awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development ress that the department has made over the past two years,” says Dean plans that effectively integrate research and education within the Julio M. Ottino. “The CAREER award recognizes outstanding teaching context of the mission of their institution. The minimum CAREER and research, and is an important recognition for junior faculty.” award is $400,000 over a five-year period. —Kyle Delaney

Fabian Russell Joseph Bustamante Russ Joseph’s research Fabian Bustamante focuses on computer archi- researches the design, tecture and power-aware deployment, and evalua- computer systems, includ- tion of large-scale distrib- ing techniques for moni- uted systems in both toring, characterizing, and wide-area and mobile optimizing performance networks. His primary and power consumption. focus is globally distrib- techniques for monitoring, uted services designed characterizing, and opti- following a cooperative, mizing performance and self-organizing model. power consumption. Examples of such systems Making the best use of include peer-to-peer data components such as tran- storage, group communi- sistors, logic gates, and cation infrastructures, and memory elements, his multiplayer games. Cooperative data storage services, for example, group works to develop next-generation processors that will allow for aggregate the often underutilized disk space and network bandwidth improved computing performance without overheating, wasting of existing desktop computers to provide a self-scaling, universally energy resources, or failing during critical computations. accessible storage system. Joseph will use his CAREER award to develop microarchitectural “Most large-scale systems — such as sets of hundreds, thousands, and system software models as well as methodology and enhance- or even a million interconnected computers — are designed to regu- ments to improve the power, performance, and reliability of multi- larly and independently measure their environment for adaptation,” core microprocessors. He aims to identify ways to overcome two says Bustamante. “As these systems grow in popularity, redundant important obstacles to future microprocessor implementation: man- measurements will result in an unsustainable degree of monitoring ufacturing defects and variations that prevent silicon from being pro- and restrict the variety, number, and span of these services. I believe duced as intended; and in-field degradation and failure, which causes that any solution to systems problems in this context must be carefully parts of the processor to stop working shortly after production. crafted so as not to impose unbearable demands on the environment Joseph calls this a “new paradigm” of probabilistic architectures, or the systems administrators at risk of curtailing further growth.” which proposes hardware and software support that enable the Bustamante will use his CAREER award to define and explore a design and management of these high-level microprocessors. “We are

fall  fall new model, called “3R,” for the design and implementation of dis- investigating techniques that allow us to overcome these challenges

tributed systems. 3R focuses on reducing aggregated control and by modeling and designing resilient hardware and software that administrative overhead by strategically reusing and recycling envi- monitors, makes a diagnosis, and adapts the processor to recover ronmental information gathered by ubiquitous services such as con- from variation, degradation, and potential failure,” he says. “This is a McCormick tent distribution networks and some peer-to-peer systems. rather ambitious goal, and this award allows us to examine this topic 14 in some detail over a five year period.” The beginning of an excellent CAREER Four EECS faculty members receive prestigious National Science Foundation awards

Dongning Guo Bryan Pardo When the One Laptop Per As digital music databases Child program distributes continue to grow expo- low-cost laptops to chil- nentially, finding ways to dren in the developing automatically index, label, world, users will find an and access multimedia interesting approach to content in meaningful networking. Each laptop is ways is of paramount constantly in communica- importance. For instance, tion with others around it, online consumers may despite a lack of central struggle to identify a song infrastructure. This con- heard on the radio if they nectivity allows users to don’t know the name of chat and share files and the artist or song. Finding networks without being other methods of identi- directly connected to the fying the music — per- Internet. haps by melody or timing The connections create a mobile ad hoc network, an area studied — could improve the way consumers, performers, and academics uti- by Dongning Guo. His work concerns the fundamental capacity of lize the growing archives of digital music. communication systems and the design of practical systems for Bryan Pardo develops new ways to search for and identify digital achieving that capacity. Guo’s CAREER award will allow him to content by applying machine learning, probabilistic natural language explore the relationships between information theory and estimation processing, and database search techniques to auditory user interfaces theory and their application to wireless networks. for human-computer interaction. He takes a broad view of natural “The current state of the art for mobile ad-hoc networks is language, including timbre and prosody (timing, pitch contour, loud- rudimentary, providing a data rate that is orders of magnitude ness), with an emphasis on music and speech prosody, and hopes to worse than networks with infrastructure,” Guo says. “It’s important — per the title of his award proposal — make “Music Documents to improve these networks because they are critical for the military Accessible in Musical Terms.” Pardo will use his CAREER award to and for other applications, such as disaster relief.” develop source separation and score alignment, two key technologies “Our work is unique in that it bridges the engineering and required to automatically find, label, and manipulate important fundamental science of information transmission,” Guo says. “We musical structures in audio recordings of music. hope to unveil the boundary between what is physically possible and “For scholars, musicians, and even casual listeners, the music impossible given all constraints and assuming the best design of a document is only the beginning, a tool to initiate the task at hand. communications network.” Musicians may be interested in remixing a musical recording, schol- One major project in Guo’s research group is a joint effort with ars may wish to analyze the harmonies in a piece, and others may six other research institutions aimed at an overall theoretical founda- want to remove the sound of an unwanted cell phone ring from a tion for mobile ad-hoc networks. These networks allow wireless recording of their daughter’s flute recital.” Pardo says. “Systems able terminals — such as laptops or phones — to communicate and self- to reliably access audio features, annotate the audio with new infor- organize into efficient Internet-like networks without preexisting mation, and integrate the annotated audio with lyrics and musical infrastructure. scores would represent a fundamental improvement in our ability to access and manipulate music documents, allowing a number of new musical applications and interactions for the expert and novice alike.” fall  fall

McCormick

15 career paths

Lightwaves, lattes, and Xboxes

Tingye Li: Lightwave pioneer awards for his various contributions, here in the United States. “If we don’t pay While most people are happy to ease into a including the 1981 Northwestern Alumni close attention, we will lag behind,” he says. comfortable retirement by age 76, Tingye Li Merit Award. “The politicians worry about jobs going would find a traditional retirement anything “This is a field of never-ending interest,” overseas now, but I worry about jobs com- but comforting. Instead, the renowned says Li. “It involves fundamental science, ing back in the future should we ever scientist continues to work long hours — it involves high tech, and it involves the become a provider of cheap labor. The often until 2 or 3 in the morning, particu- innovation to turn fundamental science source of innovation in my field has been larly when tackling a compelling book into technology that can be used to benefit in the United States, but as time goes on project or absorbed in some new endeavor. society and humankind.” this will migrate elsewhere as developing Now an independent consultant in To that end Li serves on the boards of countries progress rapidly and as the the field of lightwave communications, several optical component and systems com- smarter students in this country go into Li worked for Bell Laboratories/AT&T for panies and as a volunteer for many profes- financial fields where the rewards are better.” 41 years before retiring in December 1998. sional societies, as well as pursuing a zealous Li believes that the U.S. government Since the late 1960s he has been engaged dedication to higher education. needs to better support higher education, The son of a encourage bright young students toward diplomat, Li was science and technology fields, and fund born and raised in innovative research. “We need to press this China until age 11. point very hard, and unfortunately there is His mother, who only a minority of politicians speaking out died last year at the on these issues,” he says. age of 105, was a His commitment to education is “foremost feminist reflected in the generous charitable gift and very much annuity he and his wife, Edith Wu Li, ahead of the move- established earlier this year to support ment, ” Li says. A an endowed fund for graduate fellowships scholarship in her at McCormick. “I think Northwestern is name has been doing the right things, as most outstanding established at her universities here are,” Li says. alma mater in His ties to Northwestern are exception- China. Li himself ally strong, and Li is quick to give credit to earned an under- his professors here. His wife’s connection to graduate degree at Northwestern runs equally deep: Not only the University of did she earn an undergraduate business Witwatersrand in degree from what was then known as the in pioneering research on lightwave technol- Johannesburg, South Africa, where, he says, School of Commerce, but she and her sister ogies and systems. During the 1990s he led rigorous training in mathematics, science, came to Northwestern at the suggestion of the work on amplified wavelength-division- and engineering served him well. In 1958 he Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who served multiplexed (WDM) transmission systems, earned a PhD in electrical engineering from as their guardian while they were in school which he and his colleagues innovated, the McCormick School. and who was a good friend of their father, a and he advocated for a massive (and cost- Li has been involved in education in prominent Chinese politician who served as effective) upgrade of the transmission China, having been named an honorary pro- a mayor of Shanghai and later as a governor capacity of telecommunications networks. fessor at 12 of the country’s major universi- of Taiwan. Optical fiber (lightwave) WDM systems are ties. He travels to China regularly to give While Li hopes to help draw attention to now deployed worldwide. In short, Li’s work seminars and to meet with professors and the issues of higher education and advanced has had a revolutionary impact on lightwave students; he is not shy about speaking his technology, he continues to work and stay communications, which continues to meet mind — as, for example, on the direction of abreast of the latest research in the pursuit fall  fall the growing demands of the information research, the processes of funding research, of innovation. “It has been a very exciting society. curricula that lead to specialization too soon, career, and it will never end until I finally Li is a member of the National Acad­ issues of ethical behavior, and other matters. close my eyes and leave the world. As long as

McCormick emy of Engineering and has garnered many Another of Li’s concerns is the state of I can use my brain, I will keep pursuing what higher education in science and technology intellectually stimulates and challenges me.” 16 —Susan White Brian and Emily Muly Schmidt: Traversing disciplines Brian and Emily Muly Schmidt of Bellevue, Washington, can honestly say their workdays consist of coffee and video games. Brian has made a career composing music and I really wanted an engineering advancing the quality of audio in the gam- degree“ — to go deeper and master ing industry. Emily is currently a technical project leader for Starbucks Coffee Com­ the fundamentals of technology and pany. Though they can’t say that engineering brought them together (they met during the processes behind them. Emily’s sophomore year at a fraternity dance where Brian’s band was playing), they do —Brian Schmidt credit the McCormick School with establish- ” ing the foundation for their careers. Xbox and Windows game audio and media When she received her bachelor’s Brian entered Northwestern as a tuba for Microsoft, where he has worked since degree in computer science in 1991, Emily major and soon shifted his focus to music 1998, Brian uses his unique blend of joined her father, Emil (electrical and com- theory and composition. He also had a hands-on composition, sound design experi- puter engineering ’58, PhD ’62), and strong interest in computer science. “I could ence, and deep technical knowledge to fur- mother, Faye Ochsenhirt Muly (chemical have received a liberal arts degree in music ther the state of the industry. He worked as a engineering ’61), as McCormick alums. In and computer studies,” he says. “But I really freelance consultant with such interactive fact, Emily and her mother were the first wanted an engineering degree — to go entertainment companies as Sega and Sony mother and daughter to both earn engineer- deeper and master the fundamentals of before joining Microsoft and has composed ing degrees from McCormick. technology and the processes behind them.” music for more than 120 interactive games, As she began her career, Emily discov- Because he was attending Northwestern, including John Madden Football, Jurassic ered the value of combining her engineering which has excellent engineering and music Park, and the Star Wars Trilogy. He also suc- training with broader experience, and she schools, Brian was able to merge his pas- cessfully helped lobby to make video game understood that McCormick had been an sions, create a new interdisciplinary pro- music eligible for a Grammy award; in 2000 ideal place to foster cross-disciplinary study. gram, and pursue dual degrees in music and games were added to the film/TV category. The most rewarding part of her position at technology. He says his courses in material Emily participated in Northwestern’s Starbucks is, she says, “being able to apply science, chemistry, and physics taught him National High School Institute (the summer technology to business and helping people to think like an engineer and understand the Cherub program) and says the experience understand the technology. It is really satis- concepts of process and control. He was also completely sold her on both the McCormick fying.” inspired to combine music and computer school and Northwestern. “It provided the While their workdays may be filled science by the work of Gary Kendall, now ideal atmosphere for learning and exposure with coffee and video games, these two associate professor of music technology, who to the kinds of things I could be studying.” McCormick graduates have clearly wasted at the time was creating the curriculum and Emily says her McCormick course work gave no time in turning their passions into building a studio for a new computer music her a solid education in math and science productive careers. program. “I really feel like I got the best and exposure to subjects like civil engineer- —Michele Hogan and Lina Sawyer from both schools,” says Brian. “Seeing how ing and thermodynamics. At the same time, the professors from both schools worked she wanted more than a strictly technical together on my behalf was really huge.” experience. Brian earned bachelor’s degrees in “I loved that I had friends who were music composition and computer science radio/TV/film program and journalism in 1985 and went on to get a master of majors,” she says. “Looking back, I can say science degree in computer applications in you can’t underestimate the value of seeing fall  fall music in 1988. As the program manager for people doing other things and how it can relate to your field.” McCormick

17 EDC students design new multimedia center/library Principal’s dream realized

When Rosalie Musiala, principal of Evanston’s Pope John XXIII School, called Fuko Tsuruta, Chris Wong, and Giovanni Wuisan to her office in August 2006, they went quickly and gladly. The McCormick seniors were eager to see what Musiala, their former client, wanted to show them at the school, about a mile south of Northwestern. The multi­ media center/library that the Northwestern students had designed for the school as freshmen in 2004 was now a reality. “We were in awe that it actually happened,” says Wong. “To see a room — something you can walk into, sit in, and read in — that is of your own design and creation was great.” The school’s old library was in an annex, not in the school’s main building, and it was too small: There was only enough room for books used by students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Now students from kindergarten through eighth grade take advan- tage of the bright and spacious new library — reading alone, check- Tsuruta, Wong, and Wuisan — who met during their first day of ing out books, studying, listening to stories, or learning in an honors classes at Northwestern and became friends — chose to work together algebra class. The library has 8,800 volumes — twice as many as the on Musiala’s project during the spring quarter of their freshman year. old one — and 20 laptop computers with wireless Internet connec- That was in 2004. At the time, no one knew if money would be available tions. And it is located in the school’s main building. to build Musiala’s library. She told the team not to worry about a specific “This has been my dream, and we are very proud of it,” says budget; she wanted their best ideas — as long as they were practical. Musiala, who is in her 10th year as principal of Pope John XXIII. “I’m While tackling the design issues of the multimedia center/library, a big proponent of reading, and books are integral to an elementary Tsuruta, Wong, and Wuisan also learned how to become more effective school. The library needed to be where the kids are.” communicators. The three first-year students spent 10 weeks acting like engineers in industry: They conducted user interviews with students An inspiring client and teachers, brainstormed ideas, wrote memos and proposals, revised After conceiving the idea of a new multimedia center/library five their designs, built prototypes, and made a final oral presentation to years ago, Musiala approached the McCormick School with her proj- their client, Musiala, along with three teachers. ect. She signed on as a client for the school’s Engineering Design and “This was a good way of introducing the engineering design con- Communication (EDC) program, required of all engineering stu- cept to freshmen,” says Wong, who graduated in June 2007 with a BS/ dents. Each spring EDC teams work to solve nearly 100 real-world MS in materials science and engineering and is now working for Dow design problems brought to them by individuals, not-for-profit orga- Corning. “Mrs. Musiala was so happy to help during the process that nizations, entrepreneurs, and industry. This was not Musiala’s first the project went very smoothly.” time as an EDC client. A few years ago EDC students designed a safe “We wanted to do our best to meet the requirements of our client, traffic-flow pattern that is still used during student pick-up and not just get a passing grade in the class,” says Tsuruta, a fifth-year senior drop-off times at Pope John XXIII. And last spring another EDC studying civil engineering and music performance. “The good relation- team planned a renovation of the school’s science laboratories that ship we had with Mrs. Musiala helped us cultivate this attitude. In this was completed in time for the new school year. But the multimedia way, EDC taught us something that no other required class did but that center/library has been the biggest project at the school. is essential for any engineer: how to work closely with a client. There’s “I’m a big fan of Northwestern,” says Musiala, who has two no greater satisfaction than the pride we have in the good work we did sons who are alumni of the University. “I am always impressed with and its effect on others — in this case, students and teachers of Pope

fall  fall Northwestern students. They are intelligent, thorough, ask the right John XXIII.”

questions, and do their research. The student teams we’ve worked Wuisan, who is studying mechanical engineering and economics, is with have been excellent.” also is a fifth-year senior. Both he and Tsuruta are participating in

McCormick McCormick’s Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program. 18 Understanding the requirements The McCormick students first set out to understand the requirements for the school’s multimedia center/library. The school wanted a flexi- ble space with half designed for younger students and half for older students; unobstructed views for the librarian; space for computers; a Left Fuko Tsutura, Chris Wong, and Giovanni Wuisan screen and whiteboards for classes and presentations; the ability to Above A model of the multimedia center/library produced by the conduct two classes or meetings at one time; and space for twice as EDC students (top) and the real thing (bottom). many books as the old library. Tsuruta, Wong, and Wuisan then proposed a number of designs to Musiala and got her feedback. They combined all of this informa- tion into a new design and identified the best location for the library: two unused rooms on the second floor of the school. In addition to room layout, the students had to consider any potential structural problems. Because the blueprint of the school building could not be J. Howard and Helen M. Reed and part of a $1 million bequest from located, the students were unable to determine if the wall separating Marion Chase, the J. Howard and Helen M. Reed Multimedia Center the two rooms — which, according to their plan, would have to come is now in its second school year of operation. down — was load bearing or non–load bearing. They provided an “When I was down, thinking the new library might never estimate and plans for both alternatives. The team also talked to the happen, I bought sculptures,” says Musiala. “I packed them away — Evanston Fire Department to learn of any potential hazards with a wish box for when the library was finished.” construction. Those pieces of art, of different styles and sizes, now are scattered For their final 20-minute oral presentation to Musiala and three on shelves across the multimedia center/library, nestled among and teachers, Tsuruta, Wong, and Wuisan built a large, detailed scale above the fiction, nonfiction, and picture books — Musiala’s personal model of the proposed multimedia center/library out of cardboard, stamp on her dream come true. colored paper, and wire. Musiala and her team gathered around to For more information on participating as an EDC client, visit discuss their opinions of the design. Musiala then took the model and www.segal.northwestern.edu/edc. placed it in the school’s lobby so all students, teachers, and parents —Megan Fellman could see it.  fall

The next challenge was Musiala’s — finding the funds to make the plan a reality. Thanks to $100,000 in seed money from McCormick

19 people and progress

Chaired Professor of the Departments of Thematic Conference on and computer science, partici- professorships Mechanical Engineering, Civil Model­ing of Heterogeneous pated in the National Academy and Environmental Engineering Materials with Applications in of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers Justine Cassell, AT&T and Engineering Sciences, and Construction and Biomedical of Engineering Symposium, Research Professor Applied Mathematics, received Engineering in Prague and at held in September at Micro-­ Katherine Faber, Walter P. the 2005 National Medal of the Army Solid Mechanics soft Research in Redmond, Murphy Professor of Materials Science. Conference in Baltimore. Washington. Science Vadim Backman, professor Fabian Bustamante, assistant David Dunand, James N. and Lincoln Lauhon, Morris E. of biomedical engineering, professor of electrical engineer- Margie M. Krebs Professor in Fine Junior Professor in presented a plenary lecture at ing and computer science, was Materials Science and Engi­ Materials and Manufacturing the American Association for invited to serve on the advisory neering, was elected a fellow Paul Leonardi, Allen K. and Cancer Research Conference. board of Neokast, a start-up of the ASM International. Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Zdene˘k Baz˘ant, Walter P. company that focuses on sup- Katherine Faber, Walter P. Professor of Design Murphy Professor of Civil and porting cooperative live video Murphy Professor of Materials Hani Mahmassani, William A. Environmental Engineering streaming. Science and Engineering, Patterson Distinguished Pro­ and professor of materials Yan Chen, assistant professor received a Faculty Award from fessor of Transportation science and engineering, was of electrical engineering and Northwest­ern’s Women’s Center Marco Nie, Louis Berger elected an honorary member computer science, won the Air as part of a celebration of the Junior Professor of the American Society of Force Office of Sponsored center’s 20th anniversary. Don Norman, Allen K. and Civil Engineers. Research Young Investigator Bartosz Gryzbowski, Johnnie Cordell Breed Senior Ted Belytschko, Walter P. Award. associate professor of chemical Professor in Design Murphy Professor of Mechan­ Robert Dick, assistant profes- and biological engineering, ical Engineering, presented ple- sor of electrical engineering and received a 2007 Camille Dreyfus Faculty honors nary lectures at the European computer science, won a 2007 Teacher-Scholar Award. Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Congress on Computational Computerworld Horizon Award. Mark Hersam, professor Murphy Professor and Disting­ Methods in Applied Sciences Peter Dinda, associate pro­ of materials science and engi- uished McCormick School and Engineering (ECCOMAS) fessor of electrical engineering neering, received the 2007

New EECS chair I/O systems and software and their applications, and scientific computing. Choudhary has pub- Professor Alok Choudhary is the new lished more than 300 papers as well as a book chair of the Department of Electrical and several book chapters. Engineering and Computer Science. From He was the founding director of the Center 1989 to 1996 he was on the electrical and for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Sec­ computer engineering faculty at Syracuse ur­ity and is a member of the Center for Genetic University, where he received a Pres­i­den­ Medicine at Northwestern. He was cofounder tial Young Investigator Award form the and vice president of technology of Accelchip National Science Foundation. He has also Inc., which was eventually acquired by Xilinx. received an IEEE Engineering Foundation Choudhary teaches marketing and technol- Award and was among the first recipients ogy industry management at the Kellogg School of the Excellence in Research, Teaching, of Management and is the academic director of and Service Award from McCormick. the Executive Program on Managing Customer fall  fall

His research interests are in high- Relationships for Profit in Kellogg’s Executive performance computing, data-intensive Education Program. computing, scalable data mining, com­

McCormick puter architecture, high-performance

20 Young Alumni Achievement Teaching Excellence at North­ one of 24 rising stars in micro- engineering, presented a ple- Award from the Department western and was selected to systems research to receive a nary lecture at the ECCOMAS of Elec­tri­cal and Computer take part in the Defense Science Young Faculty Award from the Thematic Conference on Engineering at the University of Study Group. Defense Advanced Research Modeling of Heterogeneous Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tobin Marks, professor of Projects Agency. Materials with Applications in Dean Ho, assistant professor materials science and engineer- Brian Moran, chair and profes- Construction and Biomedical of biomedical engineering and ing and Vladimir N. Ipatieff sor of civil and environmental Engineering in Prague. mechanical engineering, was Research Professor of Chemistry engineering and professor of David Seidman, Walter P. invited to be a visiting professor in the Weinberg College of mechanical engineering, was Murphy Professor of Materials at Peking University. Arts and Sciences, received the elected to the board of directors Science and Engineering, pre- Russ Joseph, assistant profes- Amer­ican Chemical Society of the Society of Engineering sented a plenary lecture at the sor of electrical engineering Award for Distinguished Service Science. Israel Society for Microscopy and computer science, received in the Advancement of Inor­ Justin Notestein, assistant meeting at the Weizmann Insti­ a CAREER award from the ganic Chemistry and the 2005 professor of chemical and bio- tute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. National Science Foundation. National Medal of Science. logical engineering, received Surendra Shah, Walter P. Aggelos Katsaggelos, Thomas Mason, professor of a 2007 Camille and Henry Murphy Professor of Civil and Ameritech Professor of Infor­ materials science and engineer- Dreyfus Foundation New Environmental Engineering, mation Technology, gave distin- ing, received the Edward C. Faculty Award. was named one of the 10 most guished lectures at Hong Kong Henry Award for best paper Greg Olson, Wilson-Cook influential persons in the con- Baptist University, Hong Kong published in the Journal of the Pro­fessor of Engineering crete industry by Concrete Polytechnic University, and Design, presented a plenary Construction. He also presented American Ceramic Society in the Universidad Carlos III de lecture at the International the Della Roy Lecture at the 2006. Madrid in June. Conference on Metal Coatings 109th Annual Meeting of the Phil Messersmith, associate Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Thin Films. American Ceramic Society in professor of biomedical engi- assistant professor of electrical Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Detroit. neering and of materials science engineering and computer professor of materials science Randy Snurr, professor of and engineering, gave invited science, received a Cisco Uni­ and engineering and of chemi- chemical and biological engi- talks in Switzerland at the versity Research Program Grant. cal and biological engineering, neering, presented a plenary Symposium for Regenerative Rob Linsenmeier, professor was appointed to the National lecture at the Ninth Inter­na­ Medicine at the University of biomedical engineering, Research Council Committee tional Conference on Fun­da­ Hospital Zurich, the Institute received the 2007 Theo C. on Research Forefronts in the mentals of Adsorption in of Bioengineering, Ecole Pilkington Outstanding Edu­ Physical and Life Sciences. Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy. Poly­technic de Fédérale de cator Award from the Bio­ Aaron Packman, associate Allen Taflove, professor of Lausanne, the Centre Suisse engineering Division of the professor of civil and environ- electrical engineering and d’Electronique et de Micro­ American Society for Engi­neer­ mental engineering and of computer science, presented a technique in Neuchatel, the ing Education. mechanical engineering, pre- keynote lecture at the Photonics Robert Mathys Foundation in Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. sented a keynote lecture at the North 2007 Symposium in Murphy Professor of Mechan­ Bettlach, the EMPA Research Sixth International Symposium Ottawa, Canada. ical Engineering, received the Institute in St. Gallen, and the on Ecohydraulics in Christ­ John Torkelson, Walter P. John von Neumann Medal from Ciba Lecture Series at Ciba church, New Zealand. Murphy Professor of Chemical the U.S. Association for Com­ Specialty Chem­icals in Basel. He Neelesh Patankar, associate and Biological Engineering and pu­tational Mechanics and the also participated in the Physics- professor of mechanical engi- of Materials Science and Engi­ Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Chemistry Kolloquium at the neering, presented a keynote neering, was elected to the Award from American Society University of Mainz lecture at the International board of directors of the Engi­ of Mechanical Engineers. and Max-Planck Institute for Conference on Multiphase neering Properties and Struc­ Kevin Lynch, associate profes- Polymerforschung in Mainz, Flow in Leipzig, Germany. ture Division of the Society of Germany.  fall sor of mechanical engineering, John Rudnicki, professor Plastics Engineers. was named a Charles Deering Hooman Mohseni, assistant of civil and environmental McCormick Professor of professor of electrical engineer- engineering and of mechanical

ing and computer science, is McCormick

21 giving report

Dear McCormick alumni Society has encouraged the support of curriculum enhancements and friends, such as Engineering First®, projects such as Biomedical Engineering Design for Global Healthcare, and initiatives from our outstanding On behalf of the Walter P. Murphy student organizations like McCormick’s Society for Women Engineers. Society, I would like to thank you for your support of the Robert R. Once again, Murphy Society members in 2007–08 will also be McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science during recognized as members of the Northwestern University Leadership academic year 2006–07. We are grateful for the contributions of Circle, a pan-university giving society composed of Northwestern’s and partnership with the more than 400 members of the Murphy most loyal friends and alumni. Society and hundreds of other donors whose names are listed on Please know how much your gifts to McCormick are appreciated, the following pages. To those who are not currently Murphy Society and best wishes for the coming year. members or donors, please consider joining us and making a gift to the McCormick Annual Fund this year. Sincerely,

As you know, the Murphy Society honors the legacy of Walter P. Murphy, the benefactor whose gifts supported the construction of Northwestern’s Technological Institute. Murphy Society members make annual gifts of $1,000 or more and have a unique opportunity David A. Eckert ’77 to assist the dean in making decisions to fund faculty and student Chairman, Walter P. Murphy Society projects through Murphy Society grants. In past years the Murphy Chairman, McCormick Advisory Council

Murphy Society Donors Patrick G. Ryan ’59 and Donald N. Frey Thomas C. Tyrrell ’67 and Shirley Welsh Ryan ’61 John S. Gardner ’51 and Melanie Tyrrell Gordon I. Segal ’60 and Donna M. Gardner Todd M. Warren ’87 and Life Fellows Carole Browe Segal ’60 James F. Gibbons ’53 and Ruth Warren Life Fellows are recognized for their Benjamin W. Slivka, BSAM ’82, Lynn Krywick Gibbons ’54 Robert P. Wayman ’67, MBA ’69 extraordinary support of the mission BSCS ’82, MS ’85 and Emil L. Hanzevack ’69, PhD ’74 and Susan H. Wayman and goals of the school through their Lisa Wissner-Slivka ’85 and Theresa W. Long gifts of $500,000 or more. William M. Smedley ’38, MS ’40 James R. Lancaster ’55 and Innovators Harold B. Smith, MBA ’57 and Patricia Christensen Lancaster William R. Blackham ’52 $5,000 to $9,999 Denise Smith Leslie Lee Johnnie Cordell Breed, H ’97 Chu Tull Tingye Li, MS ’55, PhD ’58 Stanton R. Cook ’49, H ’85 Elizabeth Toof Anderson, MSED ’59 William J. White ’61 and and Edith Wu Li ’54 Lester Crown ’46 Jeffrey R. Beir ’80 Jane Schulte White Stella Mah John A. Dever ’51 David W. Cugell and Karen Hanzevack Martin ’72 James N. Farley ’50 and Christina Enroth-Cugell D. Eugene Nugent ’51 and Nancy J. Farley Dean’s Circle Lee A. Dayton, Sr. ’65 and Bonnie L. Nugent ’49 Robert J. Fierle ’45 $10,000 or more Mrs. Lee A. Dayton David L. Porges ’79 Wilbur H. Gantz and William T. Jones ’72, MMgt ’75 and Warren W. Rasmussen ’53, MBA ’56 Linda Theis Gantz James S. Aagaard ’53, MS ’55, Susan Kraus Jones ’71, MSJ ’72 and Nancy Petersen Rasmussen Lavern Norris Gaynor ’45 PhD ’57 and Mary-Louise Vaughn A. Koshkarian ’67, MBA ’68 ’53 Leonard G. Ginger ’39, ’66 Aagaard and Stella M. Koshkarian Erick A. Reickert ’58 Richard C. Halpern and S. George Bankoff and John E. Kranjc ’77 David A. Sachs ’81 and Madeline Halpern ’77, MSJ ’86 Elaine F. Bankoff Michael P. Lidrich ’72, MS ’79 Karen R. Sachs Melville H. Hodge ’52 and Bruce A. Bradburn ’64 John A. McQuown ’57 Charles F. Scholl Jane K. Hodge ’52 James Charles Brailean, PhD ’93 Gregory John Merchant, PhD ’90 Robert E. Shaw ’70, MMgt ’81 James N. Krebs ’45 and Karen Brailean Estate of Michael J. Minbiole ’01* and Charlene J. Shaw ’70 Estate of George H. Martin, June E. Brewer ’34 Donald P. Monaco ’74, MS ’74 and

fall  fall Alfred C. Eckert III ’71 John A. Smith ’58 and Patricia Kiefer Monaco PhD ’55* Luciola A. Smith Richard S. Pepper ’53 and David Alan Eckert ’77 Kenneth J. Porrello ’78, MMgt ’82 William A. Streff Jr. ’71, JD ’74 Roxelyn Miller Pepper ’53 Scott H. Filstrup ’65, MBA ’67 and Sherry L. McFall ’78 and Margaret M. Filstrup and Kathleen Streff McCormick

22 Philip D. Robers, PhD ’68 and Ronald M. Saidikowski ’70 and Michael Corcoran ’78, MIT ’02 Mark R. Jicka ’82, MMgt ’92 Sandra Robers Anne Melanie Huff ’72 and Margaret B. Corcoran Donald L. Jones ’50 Samuel A. Sperry ’65 and Stephen B. Schwartz ’57 and Elaine Costakis Troy R. Karlsson ’84 Susan J. Sperry Nancy Astrof Schwartz James Ellis Crenshaw, PhD ’98 Dale A. Keister ’62 Michael Sutton ’75 Gregory M. Stanley, MS ’74, James A. Cunningham ’61, MS ’63 James W. Kerrigan ’59, MBA ’61 Alan R. Swanson ’71 and PhD ’77 and Linda Wang Stanley, and Beverly Cunningham and Tricia Ann Kerrigan Janet E. Rassenfoss MMgt ’76 Richard G. Cunningham ’43, Robert J. Kiep ’88 Hugo L. Vandersypen, MS ’69, Derek A. Steelberg ’86 and MS ’47, PhD ’50 and Suzanne W. Donald Kingsley ’57 and PhD ’73 Maria Vignali Steelberg ’87 Cunningham ’45 Barbara Palicke Kingsley ’58 Alan Wolfson ’80 Robert B. Taggart ’67, MS ’68 and Mary Jo Curran ’76 Kenneth C. Kirsch ’75, MS ’78, Estate of Arthur G. Zimmerman Donna Bledsoe Taggart Irene H. De Sanctis PhD ’80 ’33* James E. Van Ness, MS ’51, PhD ’54 Peter F. Decker ’59 Jack A. Koefoot ’46 and Mary Ellen Van Ness Donald A. Dobson ’50, PhD ’55 P. Jeffrey Kohler ’80 and Designers Alan J. Wasserstrom ’62 Richard K. Dompke ’55 and Barbara A. Kohler ’78 $2,500 to $4,999 Sheldon M. Wecker, MS ’70, Gayle M. Dompke ’58 Edward F. Kondis, PhD ’69 PhD ’73 and Gail E. Wecker William R. Drake ’77 Tom C. Krejcie ’74 Thomas P. Anderson ’69 Richard V. Westerman ’63 and Raymond H. Ellis, MS ’66, PhD ’68 Gary Kremen ’85’85 Eric R. Barnett ’94 Carla Westerman and Susan H. Ellis Prem Kumar and John W. Blieszner ’74 and Charles S. Williams, MS ’80 Robert B. Fairley ’69 and Susan Wascher-Kumar Constance K. Blieszner ’74 Howard B. Witt ’63 and Paula Housh Fairley ’68 Robert T. Langan ’71, MA/MS ’74, Peter S. Castro ’51, MS ’56, PhD ’59 Marilyn A. Witt Robert C. Feldmann ’76 MS ’80 and Susan L. Griesbach and Patricia Ludeman Castro ’59 William L. Firestone, PhD ’52 ’80, MS ’84 Edla D’Herckens Members Michael A. Fitzgibbons ’81 David B. Larimore ’68 Elizabeth K. Dean $1,000 to $2,499 Robert J. Fryml ’72 John Lazar ’48 Gregory Allan Fraser ’77, MS ’78 Marilyn Otto Goll ’46 Harvey Y. Lee ’88 and Linda C. Fraser Anthony L. Abbattista ’85 and Alvin L. Gorman James A. Lee ’88 Stephen D. Garrity, MS ’76, PhD ’81 Elizabeth H. Abbattista Philip H. Graham ’60 and Jeffrey Richard Lefebvre MS ’86, Leonard L. Garver ’56, MS ’58, Theodore D. Ahlgren ’57, MS ’65, Linda H. Graham ’60 PhD ’92 and Julie A. Lefebvre ’87 PhD ’61 PhD ’67 and Marjorie R. Ahlgren Eric P. Granberg ’82 Peter B. Leichliter ’95 Michael N. Goodkind, PhD ’73 Dongchan Ahn, MS ’94, PhD ’97 Alan K. Greene ’58 Robert E. Leigh ’54, MS ’59 and and Mary E. Goodkind, MS ’70, and Debra J. Ahn James E. Greenlee ’66, MD ’70, Elaine Leigh MMgt ’81 Albert M. Anderson Jr. ’57, GMER ’76 and Raylene J. John C. Lieske ’82 Gene M. Handel ’68 MMgt ’65 Greenlee ’69 Jonathan S. Lock ’01 Warren R. Haug, MS ’63, PhD ’65 Teruaki Aoki, PhD ’70 Kevin John Gross ’77 and Richard J. Long ’65 Henry G. Herzing ’59 Jiraphant Asvatanakul and Susan Luerssen Gross ’79 Robert A. Long ’81 and Clarence L. Irving Jr. ’76 and Sutepee Asvatanakul Ronald H. Haas ’61, MS ’62 and Sheryl Loyd Long ’81 Leslie A. Wiley ’79 George E. Bailie ’48 and Catherine E. Haas Frank W. Luerssen and Charles Kettering III and Virginia Louise Bailie Jeffrey A. Halpern and Joan Luerssen Lisa Kettering Keith G. Barrett ’56, MS ’57 Elissa Cohen Halpern Lydia Hoffman Lund ’50 P. Noel Kullavanijaya ’82, MS ’85, Robert E. Basta ’53 and Steven J. Hampton and John Luther ’80 and MMgt ’86 and Wendalyn M. Mary Keller Basta Margaret M. Bertelsen Hampton Lori Terrien Luther ’81 Williams ’84, MD ’86 Ralph W. Behrens ’62 ’80, MMgt ’84 Herbert Malin, MS ’51 Donald R. Lee ’63, MS ’65 and Michael W. Belin Andrew J. Handwerker ’86 Arlene R. Martin ’95 Charlene M. Lee Laverne S. Brown ’45 Edward T. Harley ’49 Joseph S. Martinich ’72, PhD ’80 Sek-Hon A. Leung ’80 and Michael C. Brown ’72 Gilbert A. Harter ’52, MS ’54 and and Vicki Lynn Sauter ’75, Jenny Leung Norman W. Carlson ’81, Miriam Knox Harter MS ’77, PhD ’80 Michael S. Lurey ’67 MA/MS ’83, PhD ’86 and John H. Heckmueller ’70 and Anne M. Mayes, PhD ’91 Ethan Meister and Susan J. Carlson ’87 Virginia Hemelt Thomas C. Mazarakis ’93 Mary Cheang Meister ’98 David L. Carney, MS ’68, PhD ’72 Clyde E. Henderson ’73 Roy F. McCampbell ’76 Daniel D. Mickelson ’63 and and Carol R. Carney Walter H. Hickel ’52 Mark W. McGlothlin ’77, MEM ’81 Sandra P. Mickelson Stephen H. Carr and Virginia David C. Hinton ’95 Myron J. McKee Jr. ’48 Robert F. Norman ’84 and McMillan Carr, MS ’71, PhD ’76 Kary Hisrich ’98’98 Gregory W. McKinney, MS ’81’83 Kathie Z. Norman ’86 Kooyoung Chung, PhD ’93 Carl J. Holdampf ’51 and Margaret and Nancy Lubich McKinney John Edward Olesky ’76 Brian G. Cleland, MS ’64, PhD ’67 Miller Holdampf ’51 Charles S. McNeer ’50 William B. Olson ’51 and and Sharon Cleland ’69 Roy Y. Hori, MS ’73, PhD ’81 Joel D. Meyer and Enid Meyer Jeanne Olson ’50 James A. Clifton III ’79 James E. Hovis ’67, MS ’69 and William M. Miller Donald J. Rippert and Annette Alan S. Cohen, MS ’69, PhD ’71 Catherine Hovis Guy Sinclair Mills ’89 Rei Fong Hsu and Pei Mei Hsu David Mintzer and Justine Mintzer Nicosia Peterson ’86, MMgt ’94 and Natalie Krewitsky Cohen ’68,  fall Peter M. Rub ’72, MMgt ’75 and MA ’71 Paul A. Humiston Jr. ’60 James J. Morreale ’84 and Monique Troglia Rub ’76 Edmund U. Cohler ’49, MS ’51, Arthur P. Hurter ’56, MS ’58, Patricia A. Morreale ’83 Michael J. Rusinko ’84 and PhD ’53 and Marilyn Dixler PhD ’62 and Florence E. Hurter Mark J. Morton ’66

Mary L. Rusinko Cohler ’51 Hina T. Jaffery ’96, MEM ’01 Philip E. Novak ’57 McCormick

23 Donald S. Olexa Jr., MEM ’88 Burton L. Streicher ’72 Donors to the Eric Flamm and Jill Kim G. Ooi ’80 Iren Suhami, MS ’77, PhD ’80 McCormick School Martz Flamm ’79 Fred J. Osborne ’83’83 Laddie E. Suk ’75, MS ’76 John E. Flinn, MS ’67 J. M. Ottino and Alicia I. Loffler Kia Swan-Moore ’92 $500 or more Richard L. Francis, PhD ’67 Terry L. Overbey ’72 and Antti P. Talvitie, MS ’68, PhD ’71 Michael T. Abbene Jr. ’70 William S. Galliani ’84, Lynette Pudvin Overbey ’71 Gary F. Teletzke ’78 and Trish Maloney ’88 and Carolyn Garo A. Partoyan ’59 Edward R. Teske ’45, MS ’48 Abbene ’71 McPadden Galliani Robert L. Peskin, MS ’75, PhD ’77 John M. Torkelson Rashad M. Al-Arifi ’82 ’84, MS ’88 Gerald T. Petersen ’57, ’74 and Paul D. Ulland ’66 and Judy Ulland Donn R. Armstrong ’62 Vernon George ’61 Carol Krametbauer Petersen ’56 Theodore W. Van Zelst ’45, MS ’48 Kishore Atit, MS ’63 Michelle M. Gerhard ’82 Robert A. Phillips ’63, MS ’65, and Louann Hurter Van Zelst ’49, Robert A. Bailey ’69, Steven Gilbert, MS ’86 PhD ’72 MA/MS ’51 MS ’71, PhD ’74 Mark Gitomer and Susan Chad B. Pierce ’44 Jerome E. Vielehr ’57 and Emily Bailey Warner Gitomer Robert J. Piros ’49, MS ’79 Edward F. Voboril ’65 and Melanie Denyse Dohler Baker ’87 Russell T. Glazer Stephen T. Gonczy, Robert J. Plaschke ’85 and F. Voboril ’64 Clay T. Barnes ’88, MEM ’92, MBA ’92 PhD ’78 Elizabeth Tweedie Plaschke ’85 Estate of Harvey E. Wahls ’54, and Karen Griffin William J. Gorge ’87, Robert J. Polito ’70 and MS ’55, PhD ’61* Barnes ’88 MEM ’92, MBA ’92 Patricia R. Polito Samuel A. Walker III, MS ’71 and Jay A. Behrens ’85 Marc Gosse, MS ’88 Nicholas G. Polydoris ’54 and Joanne Walker James W. Belardi ’57 Barbara T. Grabowski, Gloria Polydoris Samuel Chih-Hung Wang, MS ’75, Roland Gunther Bizanek, MS ’79, PhD ’85 Thomas F. Powers ’52 PhD ’79 and Sujane Chang MPD ’06 Adaire Atkinson Griffin David M. Poydock ’71 Wang, MS ’78, PhD ’81 John L. Broan ’57 ’78 Vivek Ragavan ’74 and Stephen M. Ward Jr. and Lori B. Ilene Spergel Brostrom Steven Abraham Gross Nilima Ragavan Ward ’80 ’76 and Julia L. Winston Donald E. Rathbone, MS ’57 Jeffrey D. Warren ’97 Timothy M. Brown ’88, MMgt ’94 and Erika Carolyn Larson Harman Donald E. Rome ’77 Sharon Sue Warsaski ’84, MS ’90 McCord Brown ’88 ’48 Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Daina Wasserstrom Ann Lisa Burgarella, Howard N. Henry ’71, Katherine T. Faber Henry Arthur Weber ’77, MMgt ’78 MS ’84 MMgt ’78 William E. Rosner ’75, MMgt ’76 and Leslie Weber Taras A. Bursztynsky ’67, Richard N. Herman ’55, and Linda Rosner Howard J. Weiss, MS ’73, PhD ’75 MS ’69 MS ’59 Steve Sanghi and Lucia Beck Weiss Bruce Campbell and Simon T. Ho ’95 Adam W. Saxler ’94, MS ’95, James T. West ’48 Cannon Quigley Jeffrey N. Hoffner, PhD ’98 Arthur R. Whale ’45 and Roberta D. Campbell MS ’73 Timothy J. Scale, MS ’75, PhD ’80 Whale Huachen Chen, MS ’81 Lewis Hofstein and Victoria Chester Alan L. Scharff ’46 and Kirk Richard Wheeler ’75 Fu-Min Chu ’97 Hung-Kuang Chung, Hofstein ’79 Sandra Scharff James N. White ’85 and Patricia PhD ’82 Robert A. Iehl ’47 Paul H. Schipper, MS ’75, PhD ’77 White C. Clair Claiborne, Hakan Ipekci ’99 Logan H. Schlipf ’51 Ronald Emil Widitz, MIT ’07 PhD ’84 and Gregory J. Johnson ’69 Arnold L. Schmidt ’54 and Roger G. Williams and Molly W. Patricia A. Claiborne and Brenda E. Ann Schmidt Williams ’63 Floyd E. Coleman ’82 Johnson Joseph L. Schofer, MS ’65, PhD ’68 Donald R. Wilson ’46 Sean Lawrence Corcoran, R. Douglas Johnson ’62, and Nancy L. Schofer Adam E. Winter ’97 and Jessica O. MS ’97 MS ’65, PhD ’68 and James A. Schuyler ’68, MS ’71, Winter ’97 Eugene M. Cummings Jeannette Seloover PhD ’73 Ying-Hon Wong ’79’79 ’63 Johnson, MA/MS ’63, PhD ’66 Arnold M. Schwartz ’76 William A. Woodburn, MS ’75 Charles F. Davis Jr. ’48, MS ’49 and Josetta I. Jones ’92 Stephen L. Schwartz ’74, MMgt ’76 Dean A. Worrell ’77 Patricia L. Davis Jenifer Serafin Kennedy, Gregory H. Simon ’82 Marla L. Wright ’93 Linden A. Davis Jr. ’69 MS ’89, PhD ’91 Verneta Simon, MS ’93 Barry L. Yang, PhD ’84 and Jean C. Lawrence B. Dumas and Kraiwood Kiattikomol, Michael H. Sitko, MS ’89 Yang Janet Sally Dumas PhD ’72 John T. Slankas, MS ’70 and Peter S. Yohalem ’77’77 Dorothy Dunlop, Vasin Kiattikomol Margaret C. Slankas Ava Harth Youngblood ’79 PhD ’90 Bradley C. Kiefaber ’94 Alice Zajakala Sloma Jonathan F. Zeschin, MMgt ’90 and William E. Dunn ’61 and Laura Plaza George R. Smith ’53 and Kathryn Anne Zeschin, MMgt Charles B. Dunne III ’69 Kiefaber ’96 Lois M. Smith ’80 Gordon C. Ebling ’54 Janet E. Klein ’81 Raymond Krauchunas Thomas M. Sprague and Allan B. Edwards ’56, MS ’57 and Nancy ’71, MMgt ’79 Laurie J. Anderson ’80 Huebner Edwards ’54 Aaron D. Krawitz ’66, David J. Spreutels ’71 and Edward A. Euler ’65, PhD ’72 Judith A. Spreutels ’72 fall  fall PhD ’68 Victor J. Kremesec Jr.,

Jeffrey Staab ’83 and Larry G. Evans, MS ’71 MS ’72, PhD ’75 Sara Hippe Staab ’84 Christian M. Fernholz Robert J. Kudder, MS ’72, Michael J. Stark ’78 ’93 PhD ’78 Maximillian D. Fiore Robert M. Kunimura ’82 McCormick Todd Eugene Steyer, PhD ’93 ’77’77 24 Michael T. Lee ’84 and B. Joshua Rosen, MS ’77 Stephen M. Zavoluk, Tsu-Wei Chou, MS ’66 Michael M. Frerker ’91 Daniel L. Isaman ’81 and Denise Skelton Lee Melvyn L. Rumerman, MS ’70 and Nancy Alvin F. Chow ’85, and Allison Park ’91, Ann J. Atkinson ’81 ’84, MS ’86 MS ’65, PhD ’68 and Ehrenberg Zavoluk, MMgt ’94 MIT ’03 Joshua J. Jacobs ’77 and Gary Francis Leung Millie Rumerman MSED ’68 Edison C. Chu ’94 Richard A. Gaggioli ’57, Faye R. Jacobs ’88’88 and Ma. Thomas E. Ryan ’81, James L. Zydiak, PhD ’89 Edward M. Cikanek ’64 MS ’58 Michael R. James, Bethzaida Ladisla MMgt ’93 and Nancy and Katrina L. Sanford Cohen ’58 James L. Gallagher and PhD ’77 Steve Liao ’92 L. Butler-Ryan Helmkamp ’87, Roger E. Cole ’77 and Vera Gallagher Paul A. James ’70 and Lori Ann Long ’81 Kanji Sahara, MS ’59, MMgt ’92 Patricia Bendick Cole Bryan C. Gannis ’76 Pamela Butler James Wei Louie PhD ’61 ’77 Chester S. Gardner, ’71 Paul J. Matijevic, MIT ’07 Takeo Sakai, PhD ’73 $250–499 Gregory S. Collins ’88 MS ’71, PhD ’73 Robert B. James Jr. ’69, and Judith W. Farouk Salahi and Maral Randall E. Collins ’74 Philip T. Gibson, MS ’64 MS ’79 and Ann Hope Matijevic Salahi Beata J. Abbs ’72 and Karen David S. Gillel and ’87 James, MA ’69 J. Robb Mayo ’66 Gilbert T. Satterly Jr., M. Salah Abdelhamid, Lilianstrom Collins Robert J. Girardot ’81 Joseph A. Jarosz ’84, John A. McComb, MS ’65 PhD ’75 and Zahera A. ’75 Jane Camplejohn DDS ’87 PhD ’70 and William E. Saul, PhD ’64 Abdelhamid Zayna Marie Connor, Glandorf ’85 Christopher Louis Jelen Mary Anne McComb Paul F. Scarpa ’96’96 and J. D. Achenbach and PhD ’00 Todd Elliot Goldman ’88, ’93, PhD ’98 ’68 Molly A. Gleason ’96 Marcia Fee David J. Conville ’60, MMgt ’94 James L. Jersild ’64 Terence J. McGovern, John H. Schmertmann, Achenbach, MA ’65 MBA ’67 Michael J. Gordon ’92 Richard C. Johnson, MS ’68, PhD ’70 MS ’54, PhD ’62 Kimberly Malm Adelberg William Harrison Cory and Amy Gatewood MS ’60 and Mona Arthur S. Mehner, MS Ronald G. Schultz, ’94 ’81 and Carol Whiting Gordon ’91 Davisson Johnson ’60 ’68 and Kay Mehner MS ’54 Todd S. Alwart ’95 Cory ’79 John Andrew Gregor II, Navin Johri, MIT ’07 Kenneth J. Mesec ’62, Daniel R. Scott ’89 Paul George Andersen, Harold M. Cota, MS ’61 MS ’81 Michael E. Karabin Jr. MBA ’67 and Patricia Robert W. Semmler ’50 PhD ’76 and Judy Cota Jerome E. Greuel ’53 and Lynette M. Felker Mesec ’64 Ralph E. Sieben ’49 Janice K. Anderson, Bruce W. Crawford ’59 Wendell A. Grogan ’78, Karabin, PhD ’85 Gaylord M. Messick ’61 James C. Skelton ’64 PhD ’73 Dries J. Darius ’00 MD ’80, GMER ’84 Walter R. Keevil ’68 Brian D. Miller ’78 J. Howard Speer Jr. ’53 Steven Arenson ’76, Radharani D. Dasi ’93 and Sandra Shaner Matthew C. Keller ’91 Lyle F. Mockros ’56, and Catherine Kerins MS ’78 Larry E. Davis ’65 Grogan ’79 Daniel M. Kemper ’88 MS ’57 and Glenda H. Speer ’52, MA/MS ’53 Mark E. Axl and ’86, John L. De Angelis ’73 Russell H. Hackett and and Laura H. Kemper Mockros John Lee Starks ’75, MS ’90 Elmer C. De La Cruz ’93, Marilyn Hackett ’86 John K. Montgomery, DDS ’79 and Adam W. Aylor ’91 MIT ’01 Erich G. Hagenlocher Jin-Keun Kim, PhD ’85 PhD ’03 Jenness Starks Richard O. Ayres ’79 Guy H. Deboo ’76 and John Franklin Hagey, Sung K. Kim ’83 and Philip David Murray ’78, Michael E. Stern ’86 and Robert L. Bacallao ’76 Susan Mary Franzetti MEM ’94, MBA ’94 Caroline M. Kim MS ’78 Belinda Caputo Stern and Carol A. Bacallao ’76 Stephanie Smith Byron W. Kinney ’49 and Donald S. Nelson ’86 and ’86 Lawrence A. Ball ’82, Andrew Charles Dickson, Hagstrom ’85 Frances Eshbach Sandra Theis Nelson David H. Stieber ’49 MMgt ’86 and MIT ’05 James R. Hague ’78 Kinney ’48, MS ’49 ’86 Stuart Stock ’77, MS ’78 Elizabeth Riley Ball Paul Michael Didier ’88 Jeffrey S. Hamon and Kenneth E. Knutel ’62, John R. Nikolich ’86 and and Marie Janicke ’84 David A. Dixon ’63, Julie A. Hamon MS ’64 Annette Ryks Nikolich Stock ’79, MD ’81 Sujata Bansal MS ’64, PhD ’66 Robert M. Handy, Stephen John Kras, ’88, MSJ ’90 Theodore A. Struve ’57, Eugene M. Barker ’61 George V. Dodd ’43 MS ’58, PhD ’62 MME ’96 Scott G. Norquist ’95 and MS ’64, PhD ’65 and Kay Howard Barney ’47, Anthony J. Dominguez Douglas R. Hansen and Matthew Steven Kreiner Penny L. Norquist ’96 Gail Reinholtzen MS ’49 ’80 Carol M. Hansen ’02 Kristin Guy Norton ’91 Struve ’57 Mary-Sonja Aasen Douglas J. Dorsey ’82, Richard R. Harold ’85, Jay G. Kremer ’58 Daniel H. O’Brien, MS Chun Man Sung, Beasley ’87 MMgt ’84 MS ’88 George F. Kroker ’71 ’72 MIT ’07 Paul D. Berndt ’84 Joshua S. Dranoff Fred Harris ’65 Matthew (Lake) Kubilius Regina M. O’Connor ’79, Joe Sutanto and Delfo Bianchini ’79 Dana Becker Dunn, Alexandros Hasson ’04, ’04 MMgt ’84 Julia Trisnadi David F. Bidinger, MS ’85 MS ’76 and Anne C. Clark, James A. Kukla, MS ’73 Christopher Oermann Satya P. Tiwari ’00 Charles Bischof and Mark R. Dunn ’81 and MS ’85 Kenneth R. Kusel, ’85 William C. Trotter ’58 Mary Jean Bischof Elizabeth Seager, Robert B. Hastie ’48 MEM ’87 Leslie Mongin Olds, John W. Van Ness ’59 Karl Edward Blalock, MBA ’93 C. Craig Hedberg, Sinlap Edward Law ’83, MS ’91 Juan C. Villa-Fernandez, MEM ’84 Robert M. Eiseman ’83 MS ’70 MS ’84, PhD ’89 and Fon-Tsao Pai and MS ’86 Robert E. Bodenheimer, Phillip G. Ellison, Frederick G. Heineken ManKuen Susie Chen Hsiao-Shu Hung Ira Wagner and PhD ’65 MS ’81, PhD ’83 ’62 ’84, MS ’86 Jitendra G. Patel, PhD ’73 Marcia Wagner Andre L. Bolden ’98 John R. Eshbach ’46, Eliot N. Heller ’84 and Kim James Lawler ’77, Scott W. Pector ’78, Robert W. Waldele ’72 Jeffrey K. Braun ’65 and MS ’47 Bridgette Proctor GMER ’88 and Laura MS ’80 and Elizabeth George Wang ’77 Ellen Piller Braun ’65 Estate of Richard B. Falk Heller ’83, MMgt ’85 Tamayose Lawler ’76 Fichtner Pector ’79 Nina Joag Waranica ’85 Vincent A. Bridgeforth ’51* Alfred A. Hendrickson, Nathan V. Le ’96, ’96 David Primiano and Jeffrey S. Waterman ’95, ’75 William S. Farley ’91 PhD ’60 Kathryn E. Lee ’00 Janet Primiano MSED ’06 and Thomas E. Brinkman ’77 Thomas Neal Farris, Warren A. Hensen ’81 Gregory P. Lemense ’85 George M. Reynolds ’57 Paula Chambers and Diane K. MS ’84, PhD ’87 Herbert Herman, MS ’58, Shih-Chuan Lin, MS ’73 and Jean Tennes Waterman ’97 Brinkman, MS ’81 Dennis P. Flanagan, PhD ’61 James W. Lingle, MS ’72 Reynolds ’56 Bruce W. Wessels Richard F. Cantwell Jr. MS ’80, PhD ’81 and William J. Hillegas, Nathan A. Lockwood ’97 Anthony J. Risica, MS ’81 Bryce White, MIT ’05 ’76 Theresa C. Flanagan MS ’67, PhD ’68 and Daisy P. Cross ’97 Paul O. Roberts Jr., Edward R. Williams Jr. Patricia Scott Catterson Todd N. Flolo ’86 Michael R. Hilton ’82, Jacquelyn Lucas-Murphy

MS ’66 and ’83 and ’53 John M. Foglesong ’02 MS ’84 ’88  fall

Mary Jane Roberts Mary B. Williams Robert K. Chen ’55 Charles H. Fox ’50 and James Holt ’75 Michael C. Madsen ’68 Jerry L. Robertson, Walter Wundrow ’80 and Shu-Chen Y. Chen, Marion S. Fox Robert D. Holtz II, Grayson W. Marshall Jr., PhD ’62 and Almeta Diane Wundrow PhD ’01 Norman J. Franz ’57, PhD ’70 PhD ’72, DDS ’86 and Robertson Chiu Yeung and Sau Lo Yung Chuan Chen, MS ’58 Sally J. Marshall ’70,

Norman E. Houtz, McCormick Warren M. Rohsenow ’41 PhD ’75 Edward C. Frelka ’73 MS ’58 PhD ’75 John J. Chlapik ’79 Roger J. French ’69 25 Richard B. McFarland Jr. Eileen M. Schmidt ’94 Susan Wright ’73 ’68 Deborah Lee Schuh ’82 Alden Thayer Wulff ’48 Harry A. Meier ’65 William Scully, Sr. ’47 and Elizabeth Glen D. Merfeld ’94 Paul T. Shannon ’55 and Williams Wulff ’48 Tsuyoshi Mifune, Patricia B. Shannon Byeongtek Brian Yu, PhD ’69 Gregory D. Showalter ’83 PhD ’93 Arthur L. Miller ’92 Greg Sibley ’86 Hubart B. Zaremba ’49 Matthew M. Nakanishi Philip J. Spalding ’89 Joseph S. Zelasko, MS ’93 and Akemi Mariel Spalter ’89 ’63, PhD ’66 Matsukubo Nakanishi Thomas J. Sparrow, Frank Zhang and Helen Andrew Horn (mechanical engineering, ’99), ’93 MS ’70 Yuan Edward Newman, Jim Stallman Julius W. Zuehlke ’80, project manager, Evanston, Illinois MEM ’04 Stephen P. Stanley ’74 MMgt ’84 Richard F. Nielsen ’64, Richard L. S. Stec ’56 James G. Zwissler ’70, On his career: As a project manager with the Rise Group, MBA ’70 William R. Steitz ’49 and PhD ’76 Stephen L. Nielsen ’67 Dorothy Peterson Horn provides program and project management services in the Ellen Eshbach Nordby Steitz ’49 construction industry. ’67 Randall L. Stine, $100–249 Carl R. Norlander ’49 MEM ’99 David E. Novitski ’69, Allen Taflove ’71, MS ’72, Terence M. Abad Why McCormick: It was one of the top engineering schools JD ’72 PhD ’75 and Sylvia H. Dennis A. Adams in the country, the director of the minority engineering program William I. Nowicki ’79 Taflove W. Gene Adams made him feel welcome, and Northwestern offered the best and Elizabeth R. Christopher J. Tarapata Glen K. Adaniya financial aid among the schools Horn was considering. Nowicki ’97 and Tara Haas Joseph B. Adeyeri Burks Oakley II ’71 Tarapata ’95 Dennis M. Adkesson and Michael R. Oran ’80 Korol A. Taylor ’93 D. Ann Adkesson How McCormick helped his career: Horn says working Timothy J. Orr ’90 Troy D. Tepp ’90 Mark Adler and in engineering teams and study groups was very helpful. “In Robert M. Packer ’81 Dominick A. Testa ’80 Diane Adler Jang-Sik Park and Russell V. Theiss ’59, Gregory M. Agami one class, our team created a plastic injection-molded key ring. Kyeung-Eun Kim MS ’60 Robert A. Agnew This experience provided a hands-on, collaborative opportunity Paula Wolfe Parker ’86 Sherry Thomas-Cantrell Nael Al-Attia and to problem solve. This is now especially beneficial for me as Paul A. Peller ’86 and Kim L. Thornton ’81 Haifa Dia I work on teams with many different personality types.” Marci Zapolsky Peller Steven A. Threefoot ’79 John E. Allers ’86 and Kathrine Abbat Andrius K. Alsenas and Mark T. Perin ’69, Threefoot ’79 Leanne Kleinmann His connection to McCormick: As a freshman Horn MMgt ’75 and George E. Tillquist ’52 Denise K. Ambre worked in the Engineering Records Office. He also represented Monica Wilch Perin Adam Varrenti and Ellen Dretzka Anderson ’70, MSJ ’72 Diane Varrenti John E. Anderson McCormick at the National Society of Black Engineers confer- Bradley J. Peterson ’83 Vinod N. Velakaturi ’87 Salvador Angel ences as a member and delegate. As an alumnus he serves on a Phillip A. Pfeiffer, Robert W. Vermane ’82 Nasreen N. Ansari panel that assists postgraduate students with their careers in PhD ’87 and Linda M. Michael S. Anthony Daniel Phillips ’76 Donohue ’83 C. Richard Antonson engineering. “I also represent the Rise Group at the Society for Ruben D. Plaza ’94 and Tom E. Virding ’83, Richard J. Appeldoorn Women Engineers’ Industry Day and attend the yearly EXCEL Jane Schneller Plaza MS ’85 James A. Armstrong picnic. My main involvement as an alum, however, is with ’95 L. Eugene Voelker, Nicholas S. Armstrong ReJOYce in Jesus Campus Fellowship at Northwestern.” Richard H. Pratt, MS ’65 MS ’68, PhD ’69 Michael G. Asbury Harold S. Primack, Sidney P. Wagner Jr. ’70, Leslie R. Axelrod MS ’74 MS ’75 and Gerald L. Bader III Why continued involvement is important: “I’m very inter- Wilfried A. Puscher ’74 Susan Carver Wagner Taran Sang-Yong Bae ested in being a part of the process to help future leaders excel.” and Barbara Puscher ’71, MS ’75 Daniel Bailey Sridhar Reddy, PhD ’93 Bruce Nolan Wahl, Kevin J. Baker John S. Reilly ’95 and MA ’90 and Kathryn Pamela Baker Words of advice: Horn encourages students to stay as con- Cynthia L. Mount ’95 Anderson Wahl, William Paul Baker nected to McCormick as they can. “Alumni always have some- Robert D. Reilly ’47 PhD ’92 Thomas F. Baltutis Gary R. Reynolds ’65 Mark W. Wales, MS ’81, James Edward Banaszak thing to give to current students: their experience. I believe I Robert N. Rice ’63, PhD ’88 Mark R. Banham have a responsibility to mentor students in the same way that MS ’65 Sherwin Jay Wang, Pronob Bardhan I was mentored." Alice S. Rim ’86 MS ’80, PhD ’84 Howard S. Barnett and Amy Moore Robison ’83 Glenn C. Wanha ’85 Susan Blum Barnett —Lina Sawyer Mark Alan Ross ’75 Darryl S. Weiman ’74 John P. Barrett William D. Ross ’45 and Robert A. Weiss ’72 and Robert W. Barsch Nancy W. Ross Lucinda Honig Weiss Ahsan Basha Alexander Roussev ’72 Jesse E. Bass

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Arup Saha, PhD ’04 Charles A. Wentz Jr., Melissa M. Beauvais Gregory J. Santoro, PhD ’62 Eugene J. Beckman MEM ’92, MBA ’92 Bruce Larry Wilkoff ’76 William A. Beckman and Mary Elizabeth P. Larry M. Wolfrum ’73, Joseph H. Bell McCormick Santoro, MSED ’92 MS ’79 Marilyn Bendixen 26 Dwight A. Beranek Eugene L. Chez and Gary M. Del Nero Keith E. Fix and Rhea Arthur B. Green Randall A. Hollingsworth David Adkins Bergman Doris Chez Paul Michael Deluca Borysiak-Fix Martin A. Green Hilary A. Holmes Paul C. Bettinger Charles Chiang David W. Demeter Jr. Mark J. Fobel Catherine Greener Jack M. Holt Robert W. Bickes Jr. Hue Duong Chiang and Cheryl McHugh Abigail M. Foerstner Greenberg Paul N. Holt James H. Bickley Frances Cheung Chin Demeter Mildred T. Ford Jennifer R. Greenstreet William Leonard Honig Matthew Biggerstaff Devi Garimella Chiravuri Steven J. Demilliano Everett G. Foreman John H. Grimson and Janet R. Hopper F. Joseph Bindeman III Steven S. Chiu Scott M. Demuth Sarah G. Forrestal Mariana D. Grimson William A. Horin Bruce M. Bingman and Kenneth Chlapik Roger D. Dennett and Deborah Urich Frank Arvid K. Grinbergs Joseph J. Hosanna Jr. Jane T. Teague Eugene Choi Joann Temple Joseph P. Fredrick and Dean C. Gross Koji Hosomi William P. Birkemeier Dennis H. Chookaszian Dennett Barbara Bliss Fredrick James W. Grossman and Beth A. Houck and Helen T. and Karen M. Douglas L. Denton Scott A. Free Cheryl T. Grossman Jack R. Houlette Birkemeier Chookaszian Walter R. Derlacki and Todd M. Freestone Terry Grove and Laurette Thomas H. Howard Benjamin F. Blair Jr. Ming Chow Joyce Bratton Derlacki William A. Freivald Grove and Mrs. Thomas H. Theodore E. Blaszak Bruce James Christensen Tim A. Derouin Lambert Ben Freund James E. Grunst Howard Jeffrey S. Blatnik and and Renee Jesse Oscar D. Despe Michael E. Friduss and H. Brandon Guest Thomas Joseph Howell Michelle Foltz Blatnik Christensen Thomas Edward Stephanie Romm Charles R. Guinn Lilli K. Howse John Joseph Blum Dennis L. Christiansen Dickenson Friduss Amit Gupta Robert L. Hsieh Lee A. Bode and Gayla E. Andrew J. Diez and Justin B. Friedrichs and Howard E. Guthermann Eric Huang Jack H. Bornhoeft and Christiansen Miriam D. Diez Erica Brown and Deborah Mass Gwo-Long Jules Huang Betty Mell Bornhoeft Barry R. Christopher Joseph J. Diponio Friedrichs Guthermann Pung-Pung Huang Aron D. Borok Mark C. Chu Mark Allen Dixon Richard N. Frisbie and Violetta E. Gutowska Joshua A. Hubbard John L. Bowen and Narisa Nan-Yee Chu Richard D. Doctor Margaret M. Frisbie Frank C. Haeger and Jane Donald K. Huber Derwent C. Bowen Richard E. Cichanski Cheryl Fossey Dornberg Eric J. Fues and W. Haeger Craig A. Huckelbridge Richard Francis Bowen Christopher S. Clancy James A. Doubler Liza Goldberg Fues Doreen C. Hagerty and Katherine Meyer Helene M. Brennan Kirk R. Clark and Frank William Doyle John E. Fulenwider and Art W. Hall and Huckelbridge Stephen O. Brennom Nadine Elise Bolger William E. Drummond Cynthia Peirce Catherine Rudel Hall Philip P. Humphrey and Norman Lee Bridge Russell J. Clayton Theodore V. Dudley and Fulenwider Jason C. Hammer and Sara N. Humphrey Peter C. Brink Sharon Eisel Clemons Mary Hill Dudley James L. Funk Kristin M. Hammer Vincent Hung David M. Brod Paul J. Clymer Patrick L. Dumbauld Deborah Rigling Douglas M. Hansen Frank A. Hunleth and Edward S. Brosius and Bob A. Cockrell William Fellows Dumler Gallagher Richard M. Hansen and Christina A. Hunleth Theresa A. Brosius Michael Cohen and Martha Burnett David M. Garden Kandra Hansen John R. Hurlock Jerad D. Browdy and Michael P. Cohen Dumler James M. Garnett III and Scott R. Hanson and Richard A. Ilari Barbara Kandelman Mark P. Colananni William L. Dyson Audrey M. Garnett Karen Hanson Henry J. Ingram Jr. Browdy Thomas R. Coldren Susan Raterman Easley Tim W. Gaylord Nathan H. Harada and Ryo Inoue Bruce C. Brown Christopher C. Cole Robert M. Easter and Gordon H. Geiger and Elizabeth Cheang James P. Irving Courtney M. Brown George H. Coleman Linda Lee Brennan Ann Davis Geiger Harada Liela S. Isa Paul J. Brown and Brion S. Collins and Cynthia Hogan Edwards Peter W. Gerdine Douglas A. Hardy Janet L. Isaacson Lisa D. Brown Jennifer M. Collins Roger W. Ehrich and Joseph K. Gerwin and Terrell J. Harris Hitoshi Ishii Stephen P. Brown David Colson Marion F. Ehrich Carolyn Klemme Wendell Wade Harris Darold W. Jackson Robert H. Bryant Maria Comninou Matthew A. Eisenstein Gerwin William L. Harrod Patricia A. Jacobs John C. Bullock Jr. Calvin D. Conrod Timothy V. Eley Thomas H. Getz Harold F. Hartman Jr. Alice M. Jandrisits Leroy H. Busker and Robert R. Cook John R. Ellis Bill Gibbons Donald E. Hartung Scott B. Jantz Diane K. Busker Derek H. Cornforth Donald E. Elson Mary Donna Gillette Nausherwan Hasan Daniel R. Jarzemsky and Jeremy Douglas Busse Benjamin R. Corotis Mehdi T. Emrani and Christopher Glaeser Dan E. Hasenwinkel and Paula Jarzemsky James R. Butz Jennifer Sellinger Corry Rosamond Elizabeth Scott S. Glait and Diane Julie M. Hasenwinkel Robert E. Jelinek Jr. Harold M. Butzloff Rebecca Cortez Carr M. Glait Jessica E. Hayden David Ross Jenkins Robert C. Cagle and Richard J. Coser Michael E. Endres Stephen D. Glasscock Eric C. Hazeldine Vicki E. Jenkins Karen Dombro Cagle Joanne M. Coury G. Brad Ewing Terry Glenn Judy Hellman Christine J. Jensen Lawrence B. Cahill Collette Danielle Cowan Joseph P. Fagan M. Fred V. Glock Jr. and James H. Henderlite William T. Jensen III Matthew M. Cain Janel Guehler Cox Herbert S. Falk III Holly Kuruce Glock Thomas P. Henry Jau Scott Jin David W. Cameron Sabrina Cox Thomas William Fanter John B. Goddard Omar G. Hernandez Bernard F. Johnson Carelyn E. Campbell James Crane and and Carin Faber David M. Goldberg Matthew Joseph Hertko Delmar R. Johnson Donald E. Carlson and Kathleen J. Crane Fanter Richard Goldstein Paul H. Herzing James L. Johnson and Rachel Gutheridge Phylis A. Crook Scott Farrell Robert D. Goltz and Jorgen Hesselberg Ann P. Johnson Carlson Robert J. Curzi Vincent Fayne Sherry Waldman Dale E. Hewitt Lloyd Johnson and Susan Baker Carroll Mary C. Daly Alfred Feingold Goltz Donald L. Hey Kim M. Johnson Robert K. Catterson and Kurt P. Dammermann Peter C. Feng and Charles A. Gooding Russell C. Hibbeler and Daniel R. Johnston and Patricia J. Catterson Richard J. Danielak Christine A. Feng Keith E. Gorlen Cornelie G. Hibbeler Margaret S. Johnston Michael A. Cavalenes Loren A. Darling Suzanne Schadel Fenton J. Richard Goss Jay H. Higgins Stephen S. Jones William J. Chambers Jr. John Dash Anthony S. Ferraro Rahul Goyal and Jenny Michael Higgins Richard E. Judd Hoyoung Chang and Daniel A. Davis and Estate of Elaine H. Wang Goyal Algie Richard Hill Jr. Hartmut A. Kaffenberger Myong Chang Amy Charnes Davis Filstrup* Paul C. Grabow and Abby Jean Hillyard Henry J. Kalmus Jr. and Jung-Jae Chao Donald R. Davis Susannah T. Finch Cretal Suzan K. Grabow David M. Hipfel Mary Robinson

Daniel Chen R. Lee Davis Rachel E. Fine John S. Grabowski Allen T. Hjelmfelt Jr. Kalmus  fall

Huei-Chiao Chen and Richard F. Davis Jeffrey A. Finlay and David Lawrence Graham Ginger Moores Hlebasko Tina Kao Jeng-Horng Chen Robert J. De Angelis Joann Schmalenberger and Pamela M. Anthony Joseph Hlinak Kevin Kar and Marie Sidney Y. Chen and Didier De Fontaine Finlay Graham Ann Kahlow Hobbs Robinson Kar Sandra Lee Chen Robert H. Dean and David G. Fitzgerald III Roland Gray Jr. and Stephen Shalom Karp

Michael J. Hoffman McCormick Barbara Little Dean Elizabeth A. Gray Brian David Hofrichter Bruce Kaskubar 27 Ron Kaspi and Richard H. Kruse Thomas R. Mantz Dora Ke Nathanson Joseph J. Perona Elysia Root Susan P. Kaspi Cyril S. Ku Francisco S. Manuel Barbara Nazzaro Steven P. Perrin Gregory E. Rose Richard H. Kaung and John P. Kuklinski Michael Marchese Hilton Ladd Neal Rudolph J. Pesut Jr. Geoffrey Brian Rosenthal Annie Tan-Kaung Harold H. Kung and Harris L. Marcus and Gregg Marshall Nelson Louis J. Petrovic and Chip Ross and Carol Mark Lawrence Kay Mayfair Chu Kung Leona G. Marcus Louis G. Neudorff II Judith A. Petrovic Want Ross and Susan E. Kay Ching-Chung Kuo James G. Marks Charles J. Neuhauser Jaspere A. Petrucci Robert L. Rothman Richard C. Kazmar David A. LaBrot Richard J. Marks Donald W. Neukranz Charles W. Pfingsten Robert V. Rouse and Michael D. Keer Warren V. Lapham Aaron David Markworth Randall C. Newman Richard A. Phelan and Bichtien Rouse Daniel L. Kegan Gregory D. Lapin and Richard James Matyi Kim Nee Newton Edith Phelan Brad H. Rovin Dan B. Keith and Jill G. Lapin and Rita Matyi Michael Niecestro and David R. Phillips III Robert E. Rozak Melanie A. Namkoong John N. LaPlante Jeffrey Scott May Karen Niecestro Eshe N. Pickett Paul Rula and William H. Keltner Theodore C. Larson III Robert R. May Ralph Niemann Charles J. Pieper Stephanie Rula Kathryn G. Kempton and Susan Hopkins Thomas G. May Frank M. Nigh and Nicholas R. Platta John E. Rumel Amaral Larson Thomas J. McBlain Valerie Swett Nigh Joseph David Plunkett Whitney Charles Sagan Patrick James Kennedy Laurie E. Lasseter Lori Anderson McClellan Janie Jefferson Nneji Marianne Pniewski Tetsunosuke Sakurada and Leigh Couch James R. Laughlin III Kenneth F. McCoy Stephen M. Nolan and Edward Poa and Jennifer Coon Salem Kennedy Kirsten Laurin-Kovitz Michael P. McCoy Marie Zack Nolan Christine Lim Poa Andrew E. Samuels Paul S. Kennedy Albert W. Lee William McGaw Thomas A. Nowicki Stanley J. Polcyn Paul George Sanders Edward L. Kern Dongyun Lee Thomas E. McGee Peter J. Nowobilski Geralyn Allen Polk and Jennifer Louise Frank B. Kern Jr. Jeffrey N. Lee John R. McKarns Daniel R. Noyd Steven N. Polydoris and Sanders Arthur J. Kerr Jr. Jia-Sheng Jason Lee William H. McLaughlin John Robert Nuckols Tina Vulgaris Julius Saslow Robert D. Kersten Julia C. Lee John A. McMahon and Robert P. Nupp and Polydoris Kurt L. Sauer George J. Kidd Jr and Kevin Pui-Kei Lee Christine McMahon Molly M. Nupp Susan E. Pommer Jovica Savic Judith Tetlow Kidd Peter D. Lee Jack M. McNicol Timothy A. Nustad and Marie-Noelle A. Pons Mark H. Scheibe and Eric C. Kilby Robert J. Lee Karen Elizabeth McShane Deborah D. Nustad Robert O. Posniak Margaret R. Scheibe Robert J. Kilian Simon Shyh-Kaai Lee Frederick McWilliams Carl Nutzman and Mark S. Potter and Thomas Mark Scheiber Myung Jun Kim Elizabeth D. Lempereur Gregory C. Mears Louise F. Nutzman Nancy E. Potter Elmer L. Scheuerman Shari L. Kimura Christina W. Leong Susan L. Meathe Robert B. O’Rourke Anthony R. Powell Don B. Schiewetz Irene R. King Henri K. Lese Zhu-Song Mei Dennis M. Malcolm M. Preston and Fred Schindler and Eric S. Kirby and Jennifer Richard L. Lewandowski Robert Stanley Meinig O’Shaughnessy Susan R. Preston Mary A. Schindler Martens Kirby Gregory A. Lewis and Daniel A. Mendelsohn Gary A. Obst and Bradford R. L. Price William H. Schlosberg Wayne K. Kittelson Tracey Plaisted Lewis Shiv Mendiratta and Alice F. Obst Mark D. Price and Peter J. Schmidt David T. Klein and Ann Scott B. Lewis Veena B. Mendiratta Robert L. Oetting Stephanie Larson John K. Scholvin Elizabeth Kerbs Ching-Chung Li and Janice H. Merl David G. Olson Price William P. Schonberg David E. Kleiner Hanna Wu Li Ralph H. Mertz Jr. Craig M. Ono and Eric W. Prosnitz and Steven M. Schorr and Peter C. Klingeman and Hung-Jiun Liao Steve R. Michaels Claire Watanabe Ono Gabrielle C. Prosnitz Joy Schorr Nancy W. Klingeman Kenneth K. Lin Ronald E. Michalak Lucien G. Osborne Maurice C. Prottengeier Linus Schrage William L. Knight Richard C. Linden Lawrence V. Migliazzo Jonathan H. Owen and Vera Lee Quinn Dean Schraufnagel Takuji Kobayashi Lowell J. Lindstrom and and Patricia A. Susan Hesse Owen Ronaldo Racinez and and Mary Nissen Howard A. Koch and Jennifer Lindstrom Migliazzo E. James Owens Sheila Jo Racinez Schraufnagel Helen Wensley Koch Robert A. Linsenmeier Paul Henry Milenkovic Devan V. Padmanabhan Marshall Rafal Jeffrey Schriesheim Paul Nathan Koch and and Joan A. Richard Millar and Suchita John Ragalis Donald J. Schroeder Raye Koch Linsenmeier Aaron Miller Padmanabhan Dilip Rajagopalan and Anne Sampson Schuerger Michael G. Koehler and Terrence J. Linz and Holmes E. Miller Thomas C. Paisley Lini S. Rajagopalan William E. Schultz Helen R. Minciotti Courtney S. Lim Kristen Kyunghea Miller Andrea A. Pappajohn Alan F. Raphael David L. Schwartzbard Koehler Don M. Lipkin William R. Miller and V. R. (Sivan) Mark Warren Rasmussen and Michelle R. Mary Videka Koester Andrew Liscow and Peggy Cox Miller Parameswaran Roger F. Rasmussen Schwartzbard Barry M. Kogan Nancy Liscow Bryan Taylor Mills and and Thangam Carl E. Rathmann Joseph Elmer Seitz and Lowell E. Kohlrust Jennifer L. Lisiak Alexis Marie Kuncel Parameswaran Prashanth Ravi-Shankar Holly K. Seitz Kenichi Kojima Chang-Chi Liu Joanna Mirecki Martin M. Parker and Christine D. Raymo Joseph E. Shipley Stephen C. Kolesar Kevin T. Logal Millunchick Carole J. Parker Michael J. Reddy Charles E. Silverblatt and Marvin Kolodzik Lester A. Longley and Craig Minbiole and Charles S. Parmele Michael T. Reeves Ellen A. Silverblatt Leigh W. Koops and Jean V. Longley Barbara J. Minbiole Luis D. Pascual John G. Reinke Jr. and Brian James Skelton Kathleen S. Koops Carlos C. Lopes Mary Ellan Minbiole Paul V. Pastorek Jr. Nancy Kollman Ronald Skoglund John Kou and Lynn Tsai James R. Love Carol J. Mizuno David E. Patchen and Reinke Stephen H. Slabach Alexander Kouo and Steven Lowenthal James Mobed Nancy Hardy Patchen Adam S. Rentschler Arthur O. Smith III Chih-ho Kouo Pao-Sun Lu Ronald L. Moeller Benjamin L. Paterson Benjamin P. Richardson Howard W. Smith Walter W. Kovalick Jr. Craig Alan Ludtke Lee R. Moffitt Timothy J. Patronik and Roger A. Rieckman Kerry M. Smith Joseph T. Krafick Vincent K. Luk and Sean A. Mollohan Mary Scott Patronik Kim Bald Riley Randall W. Smith Scott G. Kramer Joyce O. Luk Jonathan S. Montgomery Gaige R. Paulsen David Joel Rink and Dennis M. Smithyman Stanley C. Kranc Charles Luley Mark A. Moore Stephen M. Pawlowicz Susan J. Rink and Rosemary Porter Carl W. Kreiter and Ann Donald A. Lund Emre Ilkay Motan Vartan Paylan Marshall Alan Robers Smithyman Werner Kreiter Fang-Chen Luo Larry G. Mugler David J. Pedrazzani Allen J. Robertson Carol Kramer Smorch

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and Mary Cornelius Nancy C. Lyons Michael J. Muilenburg Michelle Riley Richard T. Roche Gino Sovran Kretschman Carol C. Lytle Joseph F. Murphy Pendleton Charles G. Rogalske Hans C. Sowa Herbert P. Krog Colin Angus MacKay Thomas Murray Anthony Pennington and Charles L. Rogers Ronald A. Spanke and Raymond G. Kroker James G. Manegold Gina M. Myerson and Heather Pennington Jutta W. Spanke

McCormick John J. Rohr Louis A. Krull Shareen Mani Roger B. Myerson Michael R. Perlewitz Paul R. Rom Steven M. Spar 28 Nagaraja R. Srivatsan and Jean Y. Togikawa Jack L. Wert Shanthi Ganeshan Jennifer Kimiko Toguri Donna H. West Chester A. Stanley James Edward Tollar M. Clem West and Mark Stavropoulos and Gregory K. Tomita Dolores Morvice West Laurie R. Hernandez Bruce E. Tonn and John David Westwood Michael V. Stein Diana K. Tonn Randall J. Whalen George F. Steiner and Eric Edward Torgersen Tsung-Chuan Whang Ruth Emery Steiner K. Tibor Toth and and Lai Yu-Fen Timothy J. Stelly Jennifer Cushing Toth Whang Peter W. Stemwedel Alan R. Traut Yong Whang Leonard I. Stiel William J. Tronsen Dan W. Wheeler Richard H. Stiller Benjamin I. Truck Allen P. White Sara Staab (applied mathematics, ’83), Laurence O. Stine Catherine Gwynn Robert C. White and and Jeff Staab (chemical engineering, Julie M. Stoltz Trueblood Irene Ledesma White ’83), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Bruce Stone and Brian P. Tumpowsky Jon B. Whitehurst Susan Stone Mark Harold Turner Michael James Douglas A. Stone Robert A. Turner Wickmann On their careers: After graduating from McCormick, Marcel Strebel Amy Sato Tylock James H. Wilkinson and Sara worked as a programmer for a firm that produced auto- Ann Leslie Stuart Bruce R. Ukockis Dorothy A. Wilkinson mation software for fabricators of concrete-reinforcing steel. James L. Sues Dennis B. Ulrich Bruce T. Williams Daniel D. Sullivan Ahmad Z. Usmani John L. Williams Jeff is an associate professor of psychiatry in the departments Stephen T. Sutton Stephen F. Utley Jr. Roger J. Williams and of psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat), Olgerts J. Svilans and James M. Utterback and Tara F. Williams family medicine, and community health at the University of Valentina T. Svilans Margaret Utterback Dudley R. Willis and Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. In spring David G. Swanson Jr. Alex Vaillancourt Janese Ray Willis John Charles Swarts Michel Varrin Richard M. Wilson 2008 he will move to the Mayo Clinic to expand his work on Ross F. Sweeny Jr. Semyon Vaynman and Frank T. Wimmer chronic dizziness and psychosomatic medicine. Irwin S. Sylvan Dora Vaynman Eric Frank Winakur Jennifer S. Taff James Michael Venetos Jeffrey G. Witwer Gazel Manette Tan Enrique R. Venta Richard B. Wodnik How McCormick helped their careers: Sara cites her John C. Tanaka and Dick Verduin Gregory A. Wojcicki applied mathematics major as being helpful in her job as a Joan M. Tanaka Davis P. Viprakasit Donald K.O. Wong programmer, where she used matrix algebra to manipulate Richard S. Tankin Richard A. Volz and Thomas T.Y. Wong Dieter E. A. Tannenberg Mary J. Volz Paul H. Woodhouse data tables in a tag-printing program. Jeff’s research into and Ruth Tannenberg John G. Vornbrock Benjamin Y. Wu medical and psychiatric causes of chronic dizziness and Rodney D. Tansimore Paul J. Wade Peter C. Wu imbalance has made it clear to him that engineering and David R. Tapley Mark E. Wadrzyk Patsy Ann Wylie behavior coincide. “The brain solves the inverted pendulum Ronald R. Tarica John R. Wagner Eric Y. T. Yang and Christopher Victor Richard B. Wagner Shirley Chou Yang problem every moment that humans are upright,” he says, Tartaglia Ronald J. Waicukauski James M. Yeakley “while simultaneously managing eye precision. The psych­ Russell P. Taub and Karla Yale Harold Y. Yin and Susie iatric component of this is threat detection and response Stephen L. Taylor Donald T. Waldoch Jr. Hsieh Yin Gustavo E. Tellez Caroline R. Walton Jeff K. Yoon systems (fear and vigilance) and how it is integrated with Cyril B. Tellis Francis D. Wambi-Buesso Andrew B. Youel balance and eye-movement control. Balance is essentially Matthew J. Ter Molen Paul Wangenstein and Jeanne Marcotte Young an engineering challenge.” and Jennifer D. Ter Kathleen Wangenstein Lawanda Young Molen Chris D. Wanha Suzanne Unger Young Bimal V. Thakkar Charles E. W. Ward and Daniel Young-Dixon and Their connection to McCormick: The Staabs contribute Ethan P. Theis and Ann L. Ward Nancy Young-Dixon to the Walter P. Murphy Society because of its immediate Megan Theis Gene Charles Warman Cynthia L. Yuen benefits for engineering education at McCormick, particularly David J. Theobald and H. Lee Watson Jr. James R. Zagel Jeanne F. Theobald Kalvin W. Watson Alan I. Zagoria through annual grants to faculty. As a professor, Jeff under- Scott W. Therrien Theodore R. Watson and Howard I. Zauberman stands the difficulty of advancing human knowledge while Charles Thomas Emma Ann McGraw William J. Ziegler and seeking funding. “The Murphy Society provides a yearly infu- Allan G. Thompson Jr. Watson Paula J. Ziegler and Corinne Sir Kyle Steven Weber Craig A. Zimmerman sion of venture capital for innovative faculty projects,” he says. Thompson Stephen E. Weber Louis Zitnay John Denton Steven John Weber and David S. Zuby Words of advice: “The future of Northwestern and Throckmorton Sharon H. Weber Gerald Thurer and Theodore R. Wedell McCormick is in our hands as alumni,” says Sara. “We’ve been Diane Thurer Andrew T. Wedepohl fortunate to allow our children to attend the universities of Norman R. Tiedemann Ted C. Wedepohl and their choice without direct support from their institutions. and Mary Irene Carolyn J. Wedepohl Not all McCormick students have this opportunity, so it is Buckett Johannes Weertman and  fall

Matthew V. Tirrell III Julia R. Weertman essential that we give so that the University’s endowment will and Pamela Anne Roland George Weiss grow to offset future expenses and assist the next generation of Lavigne William B. Weissbard students.” Benedict Tiseo Stuart H. Wemple McCormick —Lina Sawyer

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1940s plumbing and heating supply John J. Frieders (’90) is William Hightower (’01) was Maurice C. Prottengeier business, for 33 years. He and sales and operations manager an intern at Evanston North­ (’44) retired from his work as his wife, Suzi, have been mar- for lighting and plumbing western Healthcare and began an administrator in the Pontiac, ried 31 years. They have two at Turner Construction. an anesthesiology residency Michigan, School District in children, Kenny and Corey. Yusuf Pisan (’92, PhD ’98) is at Stanford University. 1986. He and his wife, Marian, Thomas J. Riordan (’78) taking a sabbatical from Wor­ Michael Korcuska (MS ’02) have traveled through Europe became president and chief cester Polytechnic Institute. is executive director of the Sakai and visited friends in Great operating officer of Terex Joseph Barr (’95) is deputy Foundation, a consortium for Britain. Cor­poration in Westport, director of policy, technology, technology in higher education. Con­nec­­ticut, in January. and management for New York Matthew Weber (’02) 1950s City’s Department of Transpor­ is a doctoral student at the David S. Urey (’58) retired 1980s tation and is project manager Annen­berg School of Com­ after more than 40 years in the Karla Middlebrooks (’80) for the city’s Bus Rapid Transit munication at the University field of patent and licensing law. was promoted to vice president project. of Southern California, where He and his wife, Donna, enjoy for product, procurement, and Aminuddin Khan (’95, ’96) he is researching organizational golf, skiing, participating in cost-management finance at is president of AKCOMPLISH, communication and new com- local government, and visiting Chrysler LLC. an independent computer- munication technology. their two grandsons. Joseph J. Rencis (MS ’82), consulting firm. He created Polina Liberman (’03), an professor and chair of mechani- PCRunLog software for runners engineer in training, was pro- 1960s cal engineering at the University and is currently consulting at moted at Woodard & Curran’s Robert Kersten (’61) dean of Arkansas in Fayetteville, was Siemens in Princeton. Cheshire, Connecticut, office and professor emeritus at the the first recipient of the 21st- Eric Steffe (’95) is a director in January. She specializes in University of Central Florida, Century Leadership Chair in with the corporate services municipal water and wastewater was named an honorary mem- Engineering. He also received group of Grubb & Ellis Co. projects. She is earning a mas- ber of the American Society the 2007–08 Cambridge Who’s Andrew Liteplo (’96) is ter’s degree in engineering and of Civil Engineers, the society’s Who Professional of the Year in an attending physician in the applied science at Yale Uni­ver­sity. highest accolade. Mechanical­ Engineering award. emergency department of David Fang (’04) is attending Peter C. Nelson (MS ’86, Massachusetts General Hospital. the University of Michigan 1970s PhD ’88), professor and head Medical School. Dennis Adkesson (’70), a of the computer science depart- 2000s Aaron Gooze (’04) is corpo- process engineer with Tate & ment at the University of Matthew Fortney (’01) joined rate pricing manager with Lyle NA/A. E. Staley Manu­fac­ Illi­nois at Chicago, has been the law office of Quarles & Brady Pacific Continental Shippers, a turing Company, in Decatur, appointed interim dean of in the real estate practice group. transportation brokerage com- Illinois, was named one of the 22 the College of Engineering. Jesse Hercules (’01) gradu- pany in Everett, Washington. Heroes of Chemistry at the 2007 ated summa cum laude from Jeffrey Schell (’04) partici- American Chemical Society 1990s the University of Mississippi pated in an exchange program national meeting in Boston for Robert Abboud (MS ’90), School of Law in May 2006 and at University College Dublin, his role in developing DuPont’s mayor of Barrington Hills, was admitted to practice law where he studied Euro­pean environmentally friendly polyes- Illinois, and owner of nuclear in Tennessee. He also passed Union intellectual property and ter production process. component and development the patent law bar in November international trade law. He

fall  fall Richard Brenner (’72) has company RGA Labs Inc., has 2006 and will specialize in both returned to the United States to

been running Consumers announced his candidacy for patent law and aviation law. participate in the Harvard Supply, his family’s wholesale Congress. College China–India Develop­ ment and Relations Symposium. McCormick

30 Joel D. Marvil, 72, a McCormick graduate and life member of the McCormick Advisory Council, died November 20, 2006. Born in La Grange, Illinois, Marvil received his BS in chemical engineering in 1957, attending Northwestern on an ROTC scholarship. After graduation he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and served as a line officer on destroyers. In 1960 he joined Ames Rubber Corporation in Hamburg, New Jersey, as In memoriam a project engineer and worked his way up to become pres­ James B. Wilkie, ’34 ident, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board. In 1993 Ames received the Douglas R. Byth, ’36 Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award for Small Business, considered America’s Robert A. McCord, ’42 highest honor for business excellence. In presenting the award, President Bill Clinton Edwin M. Monsell Jr., ’43 noted that “at Ames, it’s not unusual to find second- and third-generation employees James M. Murphy, ’44 with the company. The atmosphere is like a family and like a team. Workers even call Norbert E. Pentz, ’44 each other teammates. … Joel Marvil has made his company a model in applying Russell G. Attridge Jr., ’45 quality management.” He remained chairman of Ames after retiring in 2000. Marvil Jack R. Halvorsen, ’45 received of the 2003 Alumni Merit Award from the Northwestern Alumni Association. Bruce G. Pollock, ’45 He is survived by his wife, Bonnie Ellis Marvil; a son, Timothy D. Marvil, and his wife, Earl P. Whitson, ’45 Meg; a brother, Richard A. Marvil; and three grandchildren. Thomas H. Burke, ’46 Merton E. Hill, ’46 David F. Schulz, 58, founding executive director of the Robert L. Young, ’46, ’48, ’53 Infrastructure Technology Institute (ITI) and adjunct Leonard R. Fergin, ’48 professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Robert E. Brach Jr., ’49 McCormick School, died October 7 after an extended Gordon S. Browne Jr., ’49 illness. Donald W. Dooley, ’49 “Dave Schulz was central to Northwestern’s world-class William D. Badger Jr., ’50 work in transportation,” said McCormick School Dean Kenneth B. Cox, ’51 Julio Ottino. Endrik Noges, ’54, ’56, ’59 Schulz received his undergraduate degree in civil Joel Marvil, ’57 engineering from Purdue University and earned an MBA in public management from Cedric E. Leer, ’58 Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management while he pursued graduate studies in Kenneth E. Houtz. ’59 transportation engineering at Northwestern. A transportation engineer and planner, Vernon A. Reisenleiter Jr., ’60 Schulz joined Northwestern in 1992 as the first director of ITI. Kenneth J. DeWitt, ’62, ’65 “Dave brought faculty and staff together to make a broad impact on the field of Fredrick E. Johnson, ’62, ’64 continuous remote monitoring of civil infrastructure systems,” added Joseph L. Schofer, Michael F. Elliott, ’63 professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean for strategy and David A. Lennert, ’63 communications. “Through his leadership of ITI he facilitated its people, giving them Anthony Sances Jr., ’64 the freedom to discover, achieve, and excel. He was a devoted teacher, an expert on Daniel E. Benson, ’66 transportation and public management, and an articulate spokesman for civil engi­neer­ Glenn A. Ousterhout, ’73 ing and infrastructure. Dave was the expert that the media turned to first for a clear and Bruce I. Terman, ’74 informed understanding of contemporary transportation and infrastructure issues.” Thomas P. Kisala, ’80 Schulz was elected Milwaukee County executive in a landslide April 5, 1988, after William J. Spyhalski, ’85 previously serving as Parks Department director in Milwaukee. He also served on Eric M. Kos, ’01 transportation planning agencies in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Schulz also served as deputy public works commissioner and budget director of the city of Chicago. He is survived by his wife, Joann, and a son, Robert. fall  fall

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31 student profile

Megan Greenfield works to connect graduate students across McCormick and Northwestern

What’s your current research? departments. We wanted to change that, so I study the self-assembly of small molecules we organized a group that plans academic, into materials that can be used in regenera- professional, and social events for all tive medicine. Specifically, I study the role of McCormick graduate students. electrostatic interactions in peptide amphi­ The group consists of two cochairs and phile self-assembly with the aim of exploit- two representatives from each department. ing these interactions to make nanofiber This year Binoy and I are no longer cochairs, networks that can direct cell behavior and which I think is our crowning achievement. faceted vesicles that can be used as drug- It’s exciting to see people step up and take delivery vehicles. I spend a lot of my time over the leadership of the organization. This in the Biological Imaging Facility — their fall 150 students showed up for our first equipment is perfect for my work. I’m their event — quite a change from last year! biggest fan! What are your other activities? Why McCormick? I’m president of the Graduate Student I decided to come to Northwestern because Association, which represents all the stu- of the many opportunities to collaborate dents in the Graduate School and advocates across departmental and even school lines for improved health care and child care, pro- on biomaterials research. Once I was here, tection of student rights, and better housing I saw Monica Olvera de la Cruz give a very resources. We also hold financial seminars passionate talk about the role of electrostat- and social events, like the recent GSA 5K ics, and once we figured out how to set up Run/Walk. This year we are rolling out a an experimental collaboration with Samuel comprehensive department representative While Megan Greenfield is a graduate student Stupp, I was sold. I enjoy being part of two program to increase our communication in the Department of Chemical and Biological research groups because you have plenty of with students, especially those in smaller Engineering, her advisers, Monica Olvera opportunities to learn about areas outside programs. de la Cruz and Samuel Stupp, are professors of your primary focus, and we have a lot My longest-standing involvement at in the Department of Materials Science and of collaborations. Northwestern has been with the Women’s Engineering. She collaborates with students Center. I help plan Northwestern’s extensive and faculty across the sciences — and is Tell us about MGLC. Take Your Daughter to Work Day program; working to build a graduate student network Last spring Dean Ottino held a reception each year I strive to add more math, science, at Northwestern. for graduate students that very few people and engineering sessions to encourage the As cofounder of the McCormick Graduate attended. It was there that I met Binoy girls to become engineers. I’m also involved Leadership Council (MGLC), Greenfield has Shah (a graduate student in mechanical in intramural sports and just finished my helped create an organization whose goal is to engineering), and together we discussed first triathlon as part of the Leukemia and build the graduate student community at how we could improve graduate student Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training pro- McCormick. She now serves as president of life in McCormick. Over the course of the gram to raise money in support of two of Northwestern’s Graduate Student Association, next few months we worked with Bruce my friends who are battling blood cancer. which connects graduate students across the Lindvall [assistant dean for graduate studies] campus. She also works extensively with the and Gina Myerson [assistant dean and

fall  fall Women’s Center at Northwestern, which has director of marketing] to put MGLC honored her for her efforts in encouraging together. Previously, most events were and mentoring women at the University. department specific, and graduate students

McCormick rarely interacted with students outside their

32 McCormick products are available online. See the entire line of McCormick products at http://northwestern.bkstore.com. You can find the McCormick products in the Campus Shop section of the site. Fuko Tsuruta and Nicholas Sze, students in the Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program, work for the Rise Group in Chicago’s financial district. Learn more about Tsuruta’s engineering design and communications project for the design of a library in an Evanston grade school on page 18.

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