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Download Article (PDF VOLUME 32 NUMBER 2 FALL 2009 arizonaengineer Published by the College of Engineering • Online at www.engineering.arizona.edu/news INSIDE THIS EDITION Awards trifecta for 3 SIE’s industrial engineering group Good competition 5 season for MAV and Baja Racing clubs College of Engineering/Pete Brown No Pressure­­—Walter Seaman (left) and Matthew Leavy scrutinize their test apparatus, which they and their teammates designed to test how equipment seals withstand a simulated lunar environment. Sponsors Award $10,000 in Prizes at Engineering Design Day 2009 Senior capstone project sponsors awarded a chance to apply four years of engineering San Xavier mine goes more than $10,000 in prizes for senior education to a project that has real benefit.” 6 above and beyond for engineering projects presented at Engineering mine safety “It’s an exciting time that validates all the Design Day 2009. work we have done with the students during This year’s Design Day was held May 5 the preceding four years,” Goldberg added. in the Student Union Memorial Center’s “What I like about it is that it’s a warm-up. Grand Ballroom, and drew a crowd of about These students are about to go out into 800. Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems industry and do this for real. It massively sponsored the event. increases their chances of being successful in the next project.” “Design Day is the end of a year-long Alumni Echoes: experience that involved students working The UA student projects covered a wide 13 Where are they and on real problems with real clients,” said Jeff range of engineering disciplines related what are they doing? Goldberg, dean of the College of Engineering. to, among other things, space exploration “The program gives engineering students CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 DEAN’S VIEWPOINT You Win Some, You Lose Some This will be a year of progress and growth for the College of Engineering, despite some grim budgetary and personal news In this issue of Arizona Engineer you Glenn Schrader as associate dean for president of the University of Southern will get an impression of the amount of research, Pierre Deymier as director of California. Lee was quick to help the change and successful projects under the School of Sustainable Engineered College and me whenever he could and way in the College of Engineering. That Systems, and Jeff Jacobs as head of his family set up a scholarship fund change includes building the best team aerospace and mechanical engineering. to honor his father. Sadly, Lee passed possible to further our research and We have created a biomedical away in July. He is sorely missed teaching missions. We have added engineering department, headed by and I would like to offer our heartfelt Jennifer Barton, and Wolfgang Fink condolences to his family. joins us as the Edward and Maria Sad news aside, we are off to a great Keonjian distinguished professor, start this year. Our freshman class with appointments in electrical and is 10 percent larger than last year, computer engineering and biomedical and student quality and diversity are engineering. Even in these times of both up. We now give out more than budgetary difficulty, the College has $600,000 in donor-funded student to move forward and look for areas of scholarships annually. On the research growth and investment. I am not a fan side, our award total for the first quarter of sitting around and waiting for things was $11 million, double the amount for to happen. the first quarter of 2008. Our faculty, During the past five months, I have had staff, and students are all working hard the great pleasure of meeting many of to be successful. It is imperative that our College partners and I value highly we are successful because the College the help and advice I have received is critical to much needed economic from people all over Arizona. In development in Arizona and the nation. April one of our best friends, Lee Bear Down! Matsch, suggested that I read The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, the outstanding book by Steven Sample, Arizona Engineer is published twice a year arizona engineer for alumni and friends of the University of Arizona College of Engineering. fall 2009 • volume 32 number 2 Arizona Engineer is now available online at All contents © 2009 Arizona Board of The University of Arizona Regents. All rights reserved. www.engineering.arizona.edu/news College of Engineering The University of Arizona is an Many stories in this print edition have been P.O. Box 210072 equal opportunity, affirmative action edited for length, and it is not feasible to Tucson, AZ 85721-0072 institution. The University prohibits include related multimedia material such discrimination in its programs and activities as video and audio files, and hyperlinks to editor/designer pete brown on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, related Web sites. telephone 520.621.3754 national origin, age, disability, veteran status, Ae To get the full story, look for the story e-mail [email protected] sexual orientation or gender identity, and is number by the Ae icon embedded in committed to maintaining an environment the article, then go to the online edition and www.engineering.arizona.edu free from sexual harassment and retaliation. enter the story number in the search box. 2 arizona engineer 32:2 fall 2009 AWARDS Courtesy of Young-Jun Son Three Cheers­­—Associate professor Young-Jun Son (center), and PhD students Seungho Lee (left) and Nurcin Celik celebrate their awards at a reception at the IIE Conference and Expo in Miami. Industrial Strength Associate Professor Young-Jun “Receiving prestigious awards College of Engineering/Pete Brown Son and two of his students, and being recognized by our Pool Player­­—Mechanical engineering senior Ae FULL STORY Seungho Lee and major society is truly exciting and Justine Schluntz at Engineering Design Day 2009. Number 48 Nurcin Celik, all encouraging,” Son said. “This is of the department of systems great motivation for our team to Engineering Honors Senior and industrial engineering, won keep up the good work.” three awards June 1 at the 2009 Wins Robie Gold Medal Son’s group has been applying Annual Conference and Expo of behavior-modeling techniques Engineer and competitive swimmer Justine the Institute of Industrial Engineers to attempt to predict how people Schluntz, who graduated summa cum laude in Miami. react to disasters, such as a bomb with honors with a bachelor’s Ae FULL STORY Son and PhD candidate Seungho exploding on a city street. The Number 44 degree in mechanical Lee took the best paper award in the group created the city area affected engineering, won a Robie Gold Medal Award area of modeling and simulation, by the explosion in a virtual reality in 2009. The medal and cash award were for their paper titled Dynamic environment, and human subjects founded by UA graduates Wendell Robie of Learning in Human Decision donned VR goggles and hit the the class of 1917 and Inez Robie of the class Behavior under the Extended Belief- virtual city streets in the aftermath of 1916. The awards are given each year to Desire-Intention Framework. of the blast. one male and one female student who show Doctoral student Nurcin Celik, Researchers then watched how personal integrity, initiative, cooperativeness, whom Young-Jun advises, the subjects reacted to virtual enthusiasm, humility, well-rounded interests, received the best master’s smoke pouring out of buildings, active participation in student affairs, service thesis award for her thesis titled emergency vehicles hurtling by with to the University and willingness to give Dynamic-Data-Driven Adaptive sirens blaring, panicked crowds more than required, and show a love of God Multi-Scale Simulation (DDDAMS) rushing toward them, helicopters and country. Schluntz will be a research for Planning and Control of buzzing overhead, and dozens of assistant with professor Jeff Jacobs, studying Distributed Manufacturing other disorienting stimuli. These Enterprises. Celik also won best observations were then incorporated experimental fluid dynamics. In addition, PhD scientific poster award in the into intelligent evacuation she is looking forward to representing the conference’s PhD colloquium. management software programs. Wildcats in the pool for one more year. 32:2 fall 2009 arizona engineer 3 APPOINTMENTS Glenn Schrader is New Deymier Accepts Position as Head of New Associate Research Dean School of Sustainable Engineered Systems Professor Glenn Professor Pierre Deymier is the new L. Schrader, who director of the recently established has been head of School of Sustainable Engineered the department Systems, or SSES. of chemical and SSES unites the departments of chemical environmental and environmental engineering, engineering since FULL STORY Glenn Schrader Ae civil engineering and he joined UA in Number 51 engineering mechanics, 2006, is the College of Engineering’s materials science and engineering, Pierre Deymier new associate dean for research. mining and geological engineering, and Before joining UA, Schrader spent systems and industrial engineering. is a unique opportunity to establish a center of excellence in interdisciplinary more than 25 years on the faculty Deymier has been associate head of research and education in the College of the department of the department of materials science Ae FULL STORY of Engineering.” Number 55 chemical engineering and engineering since 2001, and is at Iowa State University, where he on the faculty of the BIO5 Institute, Deymier has research collaborators became a professor in 1984. He the applied mathematics graduate across the UA campus as well as national returned to his undergraduate alma interdisciplinary program, and the and international partners, and he mater in 1980 after a period as an biomedical engineering program. He intends to bring that local to international joined the department of materials scope to the new school.
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