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Engineering Momentum Across Disciplines spring 2013 Engineering Momentum across disciplines. across the world.™ Security Innovators inside >> Meet the New CSE Chair >> Alumni at SpaceX >> Abigail Cohen >> Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert Contents spring 2013 dean Ralph Quatrano, PhD associate dean & 6 8 executive editor Nick Benassi senior writer & editor 2013 Beth Miller 14 View more EnWeek photos communications at engineering.wustl.edu/ designer & art direction 20 30 wustl photo engineersweek E. Brook Haley EnWeek communications manager Kristen Otto communications & events coordinator 18 Bridget Wiegman webmaster Ran Jing special feature contributors Frank Yin, MD, PhD 6 >> Roch Guérin Engineering Momentum is in every issue edward jung, published by the School of cover story founder of Engineering & Applied Science intellectual at Washington University in 2 >> From the Dean 8 >> Security Innovators ventures St. Louis. Unless otherwise noted, articles may be chad williams 3 >> At a Glance reprinted without permission faculty feature with appropriate credit to 26 >> School News the publication, school and 14 >> Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert university. 28 >> Faculty News correspondence student feature School of Engineering 33 >> The Last Word & Applied Science 18 >> Abigail R. Cohen Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1163 alumni feature One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 20 >> SpaceX email [email protected] special feature phone (314) 935-6350 30 >> Frank Yin website engineering.wustl.edu Printed on recycled paper 10% total recovered fiber/all post-consumer fiber mythbusters’ tory belleci and grant imahara in graham chapel spring 2013 > Engineering Momentum 1 chad williams wustl photo from the dean at a glance Why engineering? Growth during the past 10 years Why now? Why us? 2003 2013 1/2 tripled of the current faculty the number of faculty from joined the school & underrepresented groups 92% increase in undergraduate applications Engineering graduate he School of Engineering & Applied Science partner in India, IIT Bombay, we conducted a multi- students meet with alumnus (SEAS) is in a period of tremendous growth. institutional symposium focused on energy and the Zach Lemnios (fifth from Building on the firm foundation we have environment (see page 26), and last year, we joined a left), former assistant secretary of defense for enjoyed since the school was established $125 million U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research research and engineering Tin 1857, we are uniquely positioned to leverage our and Development Center to expand our global reach for the U.S. Department strengths and achieve our goal of being ranked in solar energy research. of Defense, and Dean among the top 25 engineering schools in the country. Quatrano (third from right). We want you to be part of our vision for the future We continue to attract the very best faculty, and and to help us continue our momentum. Since prospective undergraduate students are applying to releasing our strategic plan last fall (engineering. 56% SEAS in record numbers. For the 2013-14 academic wustl.edu/vision), we have made exceptional increase in annual year, we received nearly 6,200 applications for progress toward achieving our goals, some of research expenditures approximately 250 openings, up more than 20 which are highlighted in this magazine. I hope you percent from last year. Additionally, we received enjoy reading the following stories and will visit more than 1,000 applications for faculty positions. our website at engineering.wustl.edu for additional From this pool of faculty candidates, we experienced content. As always, I encourage you to send me your an unprecedented yield, with 10 of the 12 finalists ideas and feedback. choosing Washington University, including a new chair of Computer Science & Engineering and the SAT Math 738 increase in average SAT Math 762 associate director of the new Institute of Materials SAT verbal and math and Science & Engineering. SAT Verbal 683 SAT Verbal 722 ACT scores for admitted Certainly, our new state-of-the-art facilities have ACT 31.5 undergraduate students ACT 33.3 helped us attract our exceptional faculty and Ralph Quatrano, PhD students, but so has our international reputation Spencer T. Olin Professor & Dean for research. For example, in collaboration with our [email protected] continued on page 4 2 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu spring 2013 > Engineering Momentum 3 at a glance everyday tips from our experts stay Growth during the past 10 years connected: #wustlengineers: 2003 2013 “The ability to write simple computer programs is a skill that is increasingly important across all fields. Tools like Looking 1 Glass (lookingglass.wustl.edu) can provide a fun way to introduce kids to the basics.” Caitlin Kelleher, PhD Hugo F. & Ina Champ Urbauer Career Development 20% Assistant Professor increase in alumni to 22,946 Kelleher is helping to carry out her mission to make computer programming fun with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. g engineering.wustl.edu/sloan facebook.com/ WUSTLengineering “Kids love to touch new things, to pull on them, to pry them apart and to ask questions all along the way. This natural $ million curiosity easily leads to the fun aspects of science and twitter.com/ 150 WUSTLengineers engineering, the ‘wow’ and ‘aha’ moments. If we can work invested in new and renovated space opportunities for creativity exploration and even destructive 2003 whitaker hall testing into their everyday life, kids will come to see a future Search for Washington in engineering as the next step in the game.” University School of Engineering & Applied Young-Shin Jun, PhD Science Assistant Professor of Energy, Environmental 2 & Chemical Engineering 2010 brauer hall youtube.com/ WUSTLEngineering Engineering undergraduate students are putting this into practice each week by hosting a Young Engineers Club at Brittany Woods Middle School. g engineering.wustl.edu/brittanywoods instagram.com/ wustlengineers 2011 lopata gallery & stanley’s cafe “Kids need to see the relevance of math and science to pinterest.com/ engineering as they are learning it. They need to see wustlengineers how they can use it. Schools can have demonstrations, 2011 green hall contests and more interaction with professionals in the field to get kids interested in engineering.” wustlengineering. Ikenna Odinaka tumblr.com 3 Doctoral student, Electrical & Systems Engineering The engineering school offers local high school juniors and seniors interested in math and science the opportunity to apply to a free, one-day, hands-on introduction to engineering called Explore Engineering. Students will see how math and science can be applied to solve problems. g engineering.wustl.edu/explore >> engineering.wustl.edu 4 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu spring 2013 > Engineering Momentum 5 special feature Q: Why Washington University? solving them depends on understanding Q: You’ve talked about medicine What attracted you here? how to compute things and doing it and health. How would Computer efficiently on new platforms. I think A: It’s a great department and a great Science & Engineering relate to we are very well positioned to play an school, and I knew several people here the other pillars of the school: important role in all these areas, with a — Jon Turner (PhD, the Barbara J. and energy and environment, caveat that if you look at predictions of Roch Guérin Jerome R. Cox, Jr. Professor of Computer entrepreneurship and security? the future, most of them are wrong. It Science), Patrick Crowley (PhD, associate A: With energy and environment, we New Department Chair of may well be that the place where we make professor) and Raj Jain (PhD, professor). only need to look at smart grids. We need a really big impact will be something that Computer Science & Engineering That played a big role. The second thing new technology to produce energy, but will emerge from informal interactions, is both in terms of potential for growth we also need computers and algorithms and that’s the beauty of academia. of the department and the vision that the to drive the computer networks and dean has for the school, I felt that this was sophisticated control systems these an opportunity to be a part of something Academia is really, technologies will require. These things that would be exciting. more than any other make it clear that computer science and computer engineering have a big Q: What is your vision for the place, a place where role to play. department? success is a function of On the environment front, we now A: First and foremost, academia is really people. There’s nothing also have a plethora of sensors that an environment where people count. create massive amounts of data that I think it would be foolish to say I’m a more important than the need to be processed and analyzed. chair coming in with a vision and that’s people you hire except Computer and communications systems what’s going to happen. I think it’s going for your students. again play a vital role in realizing this. to be the vision of the department, and The topic of smart grids also in some sense, it’s my job to nudge it dovetails with security. We have Q: What are your first priorities? here or there and help it evolve. I think sophisticated control loops, and if computer science as a whole has gone A: In some sense, my first priority is someone tampers with these systems, through an incredible story over the past not to mess it up (Laughs). The first bad things happen, so there is clearly a 20 years and is going to go through even priority of any department chair is to make strong link. more for next 20 years. This department sure we hire the best people. The second I see entrepreneurship on two has the opportunity to play a significant priority is making sure that at all levels, levels: one, how do we prepare students role in that area.
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