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THE HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Engineering the Future Dean’s Corner
Dear Friends, The School would also like to introduce five new faculty members, including A. Lee Welcome to the third edition of Innovations from Swindlehurst, Ph.D., professor in electrical The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at engineering and computer science, Elliot UC Irvine. I would like to take this opportunity Botvinick, Ph.D., and Bernard Choi, Ph.D., to highlight recent faculty and student assistant professors in biomedical engineering, accomplishments, congratulate our 2007 and Lorenzo Valdevit, Ph.D., and Manuel graduates, and also welcome our incoming Gamero-Castaño, Ph.D., assistant professors in 2007-08 engineering class. This year promises mechanical and aerospace engineering. Each many new research initiatives for students and faculty member brings a new talent and faculty, focusing on advancements in all engineering fields strength to their respective department and discipline, and we through interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. look forward to having them as part of the Samueli School.
To begin, the Samueli School is pleased to announce that UC Finally, we are pleased to announce that the planning and Irvine has created a center for the study of micro- and nano- construction phase of the new Engineering 3 building is fluidics – the science and technology of preparing and handling progressing well. “E3” is scheduled to open in 2009 and will small amounts of fluids on microchips. Professor Abraham Lee, primarily house the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ph.D., is leading the Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus Department, as well as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Center (MF3), which brings together 17 leading micro- and and photonic laboratories for the Biomedical Engineering nano-fluidics faculty members from 10 universities nationwide. Department, offices for faculty and students, administrative The participating scientists and researchers represent many offices, and a spacious 350-seat lecture hall. different disciplines, including biomedical, mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as chemistry. Center applications I look forward to sharing the many new research advancements, and research areas will include health care, electronics, and student and faculty achievements, alumni successes, and environmental and food monitoring. upcoming Samueli School events in this edition of Innovations, and wish you a successful fall. MF3 is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the amount of $4.3 million, and Sincerely, more than a dozen company sponsors will contribute nearly $2.9 million to the Center over three years.
UC Irvine also celebrates the grand opening of its automobile hydrogen fueling station – the first of its kind in Orange County, Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos and the first in California capable of dispensing hydrogen at 700 bar, or 10,000 pounds per square inch. The station provides leading-edge fueling technology to meet the demands of the vehicle development programs, and is directly involved with the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), directed by Professor Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D., P.E. Proposed design of the future Engineering 3 building
Innovations is published twice annually by the Office of Development and External Relations at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Dean Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos
Associate Dean for Student Affairs John C. LaRue
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dimitri Papamoschou
Assistant Dean for Planning and Administration Janice M. Holstein
Department Chairs Biomedical Engineering – Steven C. George Chemical Engineering and Materials Science – Stanley B. Grant Civil and Environmental Engineering – Masanobu Shinozuka Electrical Engineering and Computer Science – Jean-Luc Gaudiot Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – Roger H. Rangel
Development and External Relations Assistant Dean for Development and External Relations – Pamela Gesme Miller Director of Development – Jamie Stewart-Marsh Assistant Director of Development – Courtney Billing
Communications Director of Communications – Christy Boyer Communications Specialist – Erin Knapp
Research Development Director of Research Development – Goran Matijasevic
Special Events Event Coordinator – Sheila Hayden
Design Vince Rini Design Table of Contents
Photography Paul Kennedy Photography
Engineering Advisory Board CALENDAR 2 Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. AeA Orange County Council The Aerospace Corporation ions ENGINEERING NEWS 3 Benjamin and Carmela Du Foundation The Boeing Company Broadcom Corporation t RESEARCH 8 Ceradyne, Inc. Conexant Systems, Inc. Dartbrook Partners, LLC FACULTY 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Emulex Corporation a Fjord Ventures, LLC STUDENTS 15 Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Inc. Irvine Sensors Corporation SCHOLARSHIP Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP 18 The Massiah Foundation v Microsoft Corporation ALUMNI 19 Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. Newport Corporation Nexgenix, Inc. GIVING 21 Nicholas Enterprises Northrop Grumman Corporation OCTANe o The Opus Foundation Parker Hannifin Corporation Powerwave Technologies, Inc. Printronix, Inc. James P. Spoto
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth n Unisys Corporation Versant Ventures, LLC Western Digital Corporation
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 1 in Calendar : News in Brief
SEPTEMBER UC Irvine Engineering Advances in Rank on 2008 U.S.News and World Report Best Graduate Schools List 2007 Welcome Week Alumni Panel and Ice Cream Social Sept. 24, 2007, 2 - 3:30 p.m. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering advanced its standing California Institute for Telecommunications and Information among the country’s best engineering schools, placing 37th on Technology Atrium, UC Irvine the 2008 U.S.News and World Report’s annual rankings of graduate schools in the nation’s leading public and private For more information, please email Courtney Billing, universities. The Samueli School, which was ranked 41st on last [email protected] or call 949.824.8546 year’s list, has improved more than 20 spots in this national ranking system within the last decade. OCTOBER
The Second Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Hispanic Business Magazine Ranks The Henry Samueli Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and School of Engineering’s Graduate Program Fifth in the Dynamics Country Oct. 22 - 26, 2007 Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Hispanic Business magazine recently recognized The Henry UC Irvine Department of Biomedical Engineering Samueli School of Engineering as the fifth top engineering school Sponsored by Carl Zeiss Inc., the University of California, Irvine, in the nation for Hispanic students. UC Irvine shares the top 10 and Globals Software for Spectroscopy and Images list with engineering programs at schools such as Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, please visit http://www.lfd.uci.edu/workshop/ Detailed information regarding this study can be found at: http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=45433 NOVEMBER Middle School Affiliated with UC Irvine’s MESA Program 8th Annual Alumni Career Night Wins National Competition Nov. 8, 2007, 5 – 7 p.m. UCI University Club The Roosevelt Middle School team representing Compton For more information, please contact Courtney Billing at Unified School District won first place at the MESA U.S.A. [email protected] National Engineering Design Competition on June 23, 2007. Roosevelt, which is affiliated with UC Irvine’s MESA program, also placed first in four out of five competition categories. OCTANe Second Annual California Medical Device Forum MESA, which stands for Mathematics, Engineering, Science Nov. 15, 2007, 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. Achievement, works with educationally disadvantaged students Westin South Coast Plaza interested in those academic areas. 686 Anton Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 The New Face of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering For more information, please visit http://www.octaneoc.org The Henry Samueli School of Engineering monument sign was recently unveiled on East Peltason Drive, completing the Oct. 19, JANUARY 2000 formal dedication and naming of the engineering school after Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder, chief technical International Colloquium on Environmentally Preferred officer and chairman of the board of Broadcom Corporation, Advanced Power Generation (ICEPAG) Jan. 29 - 31, 2008 a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless Fairmont Newport Beach communications. 4500 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach, CA 92660
Organized by: The U.S. Department of Energy, the United Nations, the European Union, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, and the Pacific Rim Consortium on Energy, Combustion, and the Environment
The colloquium will be preceded by an optional half-day fuel cell hybrid tutorial short course at the National Fuel Cell Research Center on Jan. 28, 2008.
Watch for details at http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu
2 innovations www.eng.uci.edu Engineering News : Energy and the Environment Headlines the 6th Annual “California: Prosperity Through Technology” Industry Research Symposium
Internationally acknowledged academic experts, industry, and government leaders collaborated to discuss California’s leadership role pertaining to energy and the environment
Photos: Dean Nicolaos G.Alexopoulos and Professor F.Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate, UC Irvine (left); Fuel cell hydrogen vehicle on display in front of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (right)
The focused theme, “energy and the environment,” aerospace and environmental engineering, and Soroosh attracted more than 300 participants to the sixth annual Sorooshian, Ph.D., director of the Center for Hydrometeorology “California: Prosperity Through Technology” Industry and Remote Sensing and distinguished professor of civil and Research Symposium, hosted by The Henry Samueli School environmental engineering and Earth system science, addressed of Engineering on May 15 - 16, 2007. the following topics:
Internationally acknowledged faculty and academic visionaries, ■ California’s leadership role and responsibility in creating together with key industry leaders, legislators, and government environmentally preferred technologies and policies to meet representatives attended this dynamic event, developed to future world energy requirements for electrical and create an interactive forum to discuss and explore California’s transportation power leadership in addressing the global connectivity and conflict between the quality of the environment and the energy demand ■ The effect of power generation, distribution, and utilization for electricity and transportation. on the global environment
The two-day symposium was held at the Arnold and Mabel ■ The global energy and hydrology cycles Beckman Center of the National Academies, in Irvine, Calif., and was supported by 28 sponsors from leading companies in ■ The status of advanced observation technologies for Orange County. monitoring the hydroclimatic processes of Earth.
The event’s sessions, organized by the symposium program committee chairs, Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D., P.E., director of the Continued National Fuel Cell Research Center and professor of mechanical,
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 3 Attendees also had the unique opportunity to hear from a prominent guest speaker during the symposium, Larry Smarr, Ph.D., director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
Smarr, who is also the Harry E. Gruber professor of computer science and engineering at UC San Diego, spoke about how David Smith, civil engineering student and all-American middle blocker, Calit2 was developed as an interdisciplinary research institute, UC Irvine men’s championship volleyball team, and Executive Vice focusing on technological advancements and studies across a Chancellor and Provost, Michael R. Gottfredson, UC Irvine multitude of disciplines, which will all be affected by information technology and telecommunications, including the water cycle Session speakers included: and energy systems.
Following Tuesday’s symposium events, the School also held its May 15 – The Environment annual dinner and awards banquet at the Engineering Plaza on campus in honor of selected outstanding faculty members and Donald Dabdub, Ph.D., UC Irvine students.
James S. Famiglietti, Ph.D., UC Irvine UC Irvine’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Michael R. Gottfredson, Ph.D., gave the keynote address, and talked about Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Ph.D., UC Irvine the overall relevance of the event’s theme, energy and the environment, as it relates to many research activities, advance- Thomas R. Karl, National Climatic Data Center ments, and leading-edge, proactive technology occurring at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. He also discussed how Eric Rignot, Ph.D., Jet Propulsion Laboratory energy and the environment currently has, and will continue to have, a significant impact on California’s prosperity and growth. William B. Rossow, Ph.D., The City University of New York/The City College Gottfredson was then honored and thanked for his numerous contributions to the university community and The Henry F. Sherwood Rowland, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate, UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering. An avid volleyball fan, he was presented with a jersey, signed by the UC Irvine 2007 NCAA Soroosh Sorooshian, Ph.D., UC Irvine Championship men’s volleyball team, by David Smith, a civil engineering student and an all-American middle blocker on the Graeme Stephens, Ph.D., Colorado State University team.
Three guests of honor were also acknowledged with prestigious awards; Dr. Henry and Susan Samueli were recognized for their May 16 – Energy numerous contributions to UC Irvine and worldwide philanthropy, with the Engineering the Future Award, and John J. Tracy, Ph.D., R. Daniel Brdar, FuelCell Energy, Inc. ’87, senior vice president of engineering, operations and technology at The Boeing Company, was presented with the Jamison Janawitz, General Electric Energy Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award.
Martha Krebs, Ph.D., California Energy Commission “I am pleased to have the opportunity to honor three outstanding individuals Per F. Peterson, Ph.D., UC Berkeley who have truly impacted UC Irvine and their surrounding communities Pana Ratana, Shell Hydrogen LLC with their tremendous contributions in education, research, engineering William N. Reinert, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. science, and philanthropy,” said Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Ph.D., dean Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D., P.E., UC Irvine of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Harrison W. Sigworth, Jr., P.E., Chevron Energy Technology Company
Byron Washom, Spencer Management Associates
4 innovations www.eng.uci.edu Samueli School Honors Outstanding Faculty at Annual Awards Banquet
Selected engineering professors received Fariborz Maseeh best teaching and research awards
Three outstanding faculty members were recognized for their Engineering the Future and numerous contributions in teaching and research at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering’s annual awards banquet, held Outstanding Alumnus of the on May 15, at the Engineering Plaza on campus. The banquet Year Awards Celebrated at took place following the first day of the 6th annual “California: Prosperity Through Technology” Industry Research Annual Engineering Industry Symposium, themed “energy and the environment.” Research Symposium Michael Green, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engi- neering and computer science, received the Fariborz Maseeh Prominent community and philanthropic leaders Dr. Henry Best Teaching Award, and Maria Feng, Ph.D., professor of civil and Susan Samueli, and The Boeing Company Senior and environmental engineering, and Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D., Vice President, John J. Tracy, Ph.D., honored for their professor of electrical engineering and computer science and exceptional contributions deputy director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, were each honored with the Fariborz Maseeh Three remarkable individuals were recognized at The Henry Best Faculty Research Award. Samueli School of Engineering’s annual awards program on May 15, 2007. Dr. Henry and Susan Samueli, honored for their Professor Green - Fariborz Maseeh numerous contributions to UC Irvine and philanthropy world- Best Teaching Award wide, were given the Engineering the Future Award, and Green’s current research is in analog/ John J. Tracy, Ph.D., ’87, senior vice president of engineering, mixed-signal integrated circuit design, operations, and technology at The Boeing Company, was particularly for applications in high- presented with the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. speed broadband communications. His work in this field has had “I am deeply honored to recognize these three impressive significant impact in the efficacy of leaders on behalf of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. the infrastructure of optical communi- Henry and Susan Samueli, and John Tracy, have dedicated and cation networks, including the development of the contributed their time, innovative ideas, and generous resources first complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated to our School, UC Irvine, and their surrounding local and circuits used in optical communications that operate at 10 international communities,” said Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Ph.D., Gigabits per second. His other areas of expertise include dean of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. design of integrated filters and theory of nonlinear circuits.
Professor Feng - Fariborz Maseeh 2007 Engineering the Future Award Best Faculty Research Award Feng is considered one of the pioneers Dr. Henry and Susan Samueli in structural health monitoring research, developing innovative fiber optic For Their Continued Leadership in and other advanced sensors, as well the Advancement of Education and as sophisticated health diagnosis Research, and Their Instrumental algorithms and software. She joined the Support to The Henry Samueli UC Irvine faculty in 1992, and has a School of Engineering at UC Irvine Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo. and Philanthropy Worldwide Her primary research interest is the safety and security of civil infrastructure systems, focusing on multidisciplinary science and technology in smart structures, advanced sensors and nondestructive evaluation devices, structural health Dr. Henry Samueli and Dean monitoring, and damage detection. Nicolaos G.Alexopoulos (Dr. Susan Samueli not pictured) Professor Jafarkhani - Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award 2007 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award Jafarkhani currently focuses his research on the theoretical and practi- John J. Tracy, Ph.D., ’87 cal challenges of designing systems that use multiple antennas. He has also For His Continued Dedication to been involved in developing data The Henry Samueli School of compression algorithms, especially for Engineering at UC Irvine and image and video coding, and his recent His Exemplary Professional and work in this field concerns the transmission of multimedia Personal Achievements in the information over wireless networks and the Internet. He is the Field of Engineering Science author of the book “Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice.” Jafarkhani received a bachelor’s degree in electron- ics from Tehran University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at Dean Nicolaos G.Alexopoulos and College Park. Dr. John J.Tracy
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 5 transport in a microchannel with a moving microcantilever, also International Research referred to as a microflap.
Collaboration Key to Tackling Four students have participated as part of the program, two from Global Health Issues UC Irvine and two from IIT Kharagpur. Madou plans to continue sending students to India to advance their research projects in both countries, and to promote the spirit of global interdisciplinary work.
Three Samueli School Faculty Receive Prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) (From left to right) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kanpur Director, Award Professor Sanjay Dhande; Former IIT Kharagpur Professor Amitabha Ghosh; Marleen Madou; Professor Marc Madou, UC Irvine; Professor Ashutosh The Henry Samueli School of Engineering is pleased to Sharma, IIT Kanpur; Genis Turon, UC Irvine graduate student. Not pictured: announce that three assistant professors have been recognized Ruth Lambert, UC Irvine graduate student and each given a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award of a $400,000 grant during 2006-07. This grant is one of the most prestigious Marc Madou, Ph.D., chancellor’s professor of mechanical and awards given by the NSF in support of early career development aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemical activities for selected teachers and scholars “who most engineering and materials science, is already quite the world effectively integrate research and education within the traveler; now he can add a meeting with Malaysia’s prime context of the mission of their organization.” minister and a seventh visit to India to his overseas journeys. Syed Jafar, Ph.D., assistant professor Madou embarked upon a five-week travel spree last winter to of electrical engineering and computer visit his UC Irvine students participating in the National Science science, was honored for his research Foundation’s (NSF) Indo-U.S. Program at the Indian Institutes of on wireless networks, specifically Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Kharagpur, and to give 12 invited the “Capacity of Wireless Networks lectures at seven universities and five conferences, as well as with Side Information – Theory and meet with prominent government officials in both India and Applications.” Malaysia to discuss his research and technology in Bio-Micro- Electro-Mechanical System (Bio-MEMS) advancements being developed at UC Irvine. Daniel Mumm, Ph.D., assistant profes- Involved in numerous international multidisciplinary projects, sor of chemical engineering and Madou began his trip with a stop in Malaysia, where he met with materials science and director of the Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and other government Zeiss Center LAB at the California ministers to discuss collaboration opportunities with UC Irvine in Institute for Telecommunications and combating dengue fever and diabetes. Information Technology, was selected for his research on surface degra- While overseas, Madou also traveled to India to visit two of his dation in fuel cells, specifically, the students participating in the NSF Indo-U.S. Program; Genis “Dynamics of Interfaces in Electro- Turon, a third-year Ph.D. student in mechanical and aerospace chemical Ceramic Systems.” engineering; and Ruth Lambert, a fifth-year mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. student. Andrew Putnam, Ph.D., assistant pro- fessor of biomedical engineering and Designed to encourage interdisciplinary research between U.S. chemical engineering and materials and Indian scientists, the Indo-U.S. Program was initiated in science, was recognized for his research 1997 and cooperating agencies include the Department of with tissue engineering and capillary Science and Technology (DST) in India and the NSF in the U.S. bed growth, specifically, “Defining the Biomechanical Role of the Extracellular Turon spent three months at IIT Kanpur, working in association Matrix in Capillary Morphogenesis: with Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Ph.D., investigating cell An Interdisciplinary Plan Integrating responses to microscale and nanoscale carbon structures. Research and Education.” Lambert attended IIT Kharagpur, where she worked with Professor Suman Chakraborty, Ph.D., and his students on a numerical model designed to study mass
6 innovations www.eng.uci.edu Engineering Administration The Orange County Great Celebrates Accomplishments Park Class Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Ph.D., dean A ‘real life’ study in sustainability of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and professor of electrical Aspiring engineers and would-be policymakers worked directly engineering and computer science, has with the architects, engineers, and public officials shaping the been elected to the National Academy of future of the largest public park in the United States as part of an Engineering, one of the most prestigious innovative graduate course held at UC Irvine. By class end, the professional lifetime distinctions awarded professionals acknowledged having learned a thing or two about to an engineer. He is one of 64 new sustainability from the student teams. members and nine foreign associates to join this distinguished group of scholars, in recognition of his The 10-week multidisciplinary class was offered by the outstanding contributions to “microwave circuits, antennas and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering under structures for low observable technologies, and for contributions the name “Sustainable Power Generation” and the Department in engineering education.” of Social Ecology as “The Great Park and Urban Sustainability.” Nine student teams, consisting of one engineering student and John C. LaRue, Ph.D., professor of one social ecology student, participated with the goal of mechanical and aerospace engineering, demonstrating how vital one discipline is to the other. The was re-appointed for his twelfth year primary objective was to explore energy technologies and public as associate dean of student affairs. policy options associated with sustainable urban design. In this capacity, LaRue will continue to work with students, staff, and faculty The class was the brainchild of Professor Scott Samuelsen, to facilitate processes and program Ph.D., P.E., director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center; development at the undergraduate and Sarah Catz, J.D., director of the Center for Urban Infrastructure graduate levels, including admissions, at the UC Irvine Institute of Transportation Studies; and Wally developing sources of scholarship funding, and interacting with Kreutzen, an assistant city manager in Irvine and, at the time the numerous campus entities. class was offered, the chief executive officer of the Orange County Great Park Corporation. Dimitri Papamoschou, Ph.D., professor of mechanical and aerospace engineer- A trio of students from the class was invited to Irvine City Council ing, has been appointed associate dean Chambers on Sept. 28, 2006, to present to the Orange County for academic affairs, and is charged Great Park board of directors. Afterward, Great Park senior with conducting a thorough analysis of environmental designer Byron Stigge told a reporter for The the academic personnel actions for Orange County Register that plans for the park may well include faculty appointments, merit increases, 10 to 20 Stirling solar dishes – a direct result of class input. and faculty promotions in order to provide a recommendation to the dean. Papamoschou conducts research in the areas of high-speed turbulent flow and jet noise suppression.
Janice M. Holstein, assistant dean for planning and administration, celebrated her 10th anniversary as a staff member at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and also her 25th year of service to the University of California system. Holstein is responsible for the administration and management of all functions that support the instructional and research programs for the School. She works directly with the dean in defining and prioritizing specific Samueli School needs related to the academic mission, and in developing objectives and strategies to meet these needs. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering would like to congratulate its 2007 engineering graduates, and extend a special thank you to the alumni who participated in the Pamela Gesme Miller joins the Samueli commencement ceremony as banner carriers: School as the new assistant dean of development and external relations, (From left to right) Goran Matijasevic (M.S., ’85, Ph.D., ’91), Jeannie managing development, stewardship, Shen (’91), Eric Shen, (’93, M.S. ’95), Darryl Sato (Ph.D., ’96) and alumni and community relations, and Patrick Hong (’95). marketing and communications for the School. Prior to joining UC Irvine, Miller Rob Peirson (’83, M.B.A. ’84) also served as mace carrier. was director of development and external relations for Portland State Photo courtesy of Eric Shen University’s Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science in Portland, Ore. www.eng.uci.edu innovations 7 Research :
UC Irvine Establishes Center to Study Small-Scale Fluidic Behavior
Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus Center receives $7.2 million over three years to advance science believed key to unlocking vast array of new technologies
BY ENGINEERING AND UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
With the support of $7.2 million over three years, UC Irvine possible, leading to future consumer products such as point-of- has created a center for the study of micro- and nano- care diagnostic machines for detecting disease. The Center also fluidics – the science and technology of preparing and will work to create advanced health monitoring devices that handling small amounts of fluids on microchips. provide patients continuous and proactive assistance in managing their health. The Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus Center (MF3) brings together 17 leading micro- and nano-fluidics professors “The promise of fluidics technology is broad and exciting,” said from 10 universities nationwide to advance the basic science Abraham Lee, Ph.D., principal investigator of MF3 and professor and applications of a field seen as key to creating a vast array of of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace new technologies. With scientists representing the disciplines of engineering at UC Irvine. “In the health sciences, it can allow for biomedical, mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as the automated collection of fluid samples, such as water or chemistry, research is expected to apply to areas such as health blood; or the separation and detection of biological components care, electronics, and environmental and food monitoring. such as cells, proteins or DNA; and chemicals such as toxins or pollutants. In a field like heat management, fluidics can facilitate In health care, MF3 may be critical to creating new instruments the more efficient transport of fluids.” that directly interact with the human body in ways not currently
8 innovations www.eng.uci.edu Additionally, MF3 will provide graduate students the opportunity to interact with researchers and professors from multiple fields. These students will learn the skills necessary to design modular micro- and nano-fluidic components and handheld, portable devices, as well as build the technology cost-effectively. Students also will collaborate with industry partners, and develop ways to easily manufacture the products and test new technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability possible before it becomes available to consumers.
“Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary center that propels the science of microfluidic chip technology, while encouraging industry participation and exploring how to commercialize the technology developed at MF3,” Lee said.
The center is a spin-off of activities completed at the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, an interdisciplinary research laboratory in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering that focuses on work with a broad range of nanoscale systems. MF3 is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the amount of $4.3 million, and more than a dozen company sponsors will contribute nearly $2.9 million to the center over three years. For more information, visit the MF3 center Web site at www.inrf.uci.edu/mf3/.
“Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary center that propels
the science of microfluidic chip technology, while
encouraging industry participation and exploring how to commercialize
the technology developed at MF3.”
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 9 UC Irvine Celebrates Grand Opening of Hydrogen Fueling Station
First of its kind in Orange County, the facility is acclaimed as a foothold to the future
BY JENNIFER FITZENBERGER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
UC Irvine celebrated the grand opening of its through noninterchangeable nozzles. An electronic screen automobile hydrogen fueling station – the first of its kind in provides step-by-step fueling instructions, similar to a retail Orange County, and the first in California capable of gasoline dispenser. The station has a capacity of 25 kilograms of dispensing hydrogen at 700 bar, or 10,000 pounds per hydrogen per day – enough for five to 10 fill-ups, depending on square inch, which in some cases can nearly double a vehicle capacity. It takes three to six minutes to fuel a vehicle, at vehicle’s driving range. either pressure. The station also can monitor tank temperature and pressure during the fueling process. Automakers Toyota, Nissan, Honda, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler are Along with providing additional support for expected to use the station to fuel the growing number of fuel cell vehicles in demonstration vehicles that are not yet Southern California, the station provides commercially available. The station provides opportunities to learn more about fueling the newest in fueling technology to meet system efficiencies, hydrogen demand, fill the demands of the vehicle development times, supply and storage logistics, and programs. operator experiences and fill patterns.
“The world looks to California as the testing According to the California Fuel Cell ground for next-generation automobile Partnership, 23 hydrogen stations exist technologies. The shift to a hydrogen statewide, and 14 more are planned. In all, economy is not an incremental change to more than 165 fuel cell vehicles operate in society, but rather a dramatic and fundamental shift in the way California. Fuel cell-powered vehicles are not yet available for that individuals will operate their vehicles in the future,” said purchase by the general public, as adequate infrastructure does Scott Samuelsen, Ph.D., P.E., director of UC Irvine’s National not exist nationwide to support the new technology. But this Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC). “UC Irvine has played an infrastructure is growing, and automakers have indicated they integral role in leading this transformation, and we are excited to may begin selling fuel cell vehicles to consumers by 2010. be taking an important next step with the opening of this state- of-the-art hydrogen refueling station.” When used to deliver energy, hydrogen produces zero or very low emissions. The emissions from a hydrogen fuel cell-powered The NFCRC and Air Products of Allentown, Pa., designed, vehicle contain only water vapor. Hydrogen today is produced engineered and installed the station with funding from the U.S. efficiently from natural gas and also can be produced from non- Department of Energy and California’s South Coast Air Quality petroleum sources, thereby potentially reducing the country and Management District. The station is operated by the NFCRC and state’s dependence on petroleum. The ultimate goal is for maintained by Air Products. Planning is under way for the hydrogen to be produced through a variety of clean and addition of a separate liquid dispensing unit that can directly fill renewable energy sources. vehicles from BMW that carry liquid hydrogen on board as a fuel. “Hydrogen is emerging as the principal candidate for meeting the The station features dual-pressure technology that allows drivers needs of next-generation transportation systems in response to to select the pressure at which to refuel their hydrogen vehicles. two major environmental challenges – global climate change and Fuel cell vehicles can achieve a greater range between refuelings urban smog. It also addresses the national goal of fuel by using hydrogen at higher pressures. Since January 2003, UC independence and its inextricable link to national security,” Irvine has had the ability to dispense hydrogen at 350 bar, or Samuelsen said. “Enthusiasm for hydrogen is high because it 5,000 pounds per square inch. Air Products completed would allow the public to maintain the freedom of movement installation of a new 350 bar system in August 2006 and recent- made possible by automobiles while addressing these critical ly added the 700 bar system. environmental and geopolitical challenges.”
The facility looks like a gas station, with stand-alone dispensers that deliver pure gaseous hydrogen at discrete pressures Photo courtesy of Air Products
10 innovations www.eng.uci.edu UC Irvine Engineers to Enable Multiple Frequency “Intelligent”Antennas
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department granted $1.3 million to develop new low-cost, high performance antenna systems for aircraft
BY CHRISTY BOYER
This new concept, called Software Defined Antenna (SDA), uses Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) machines, which lead to the fusing of mechanical and electronic technologies at the micro level to perform the switching functions in the antenna.
The SDA enables antenna parameters such as frequency of operation, radiation pattern, and polarization, to be defined in real-time by the user and dynamically changed as required within milliseconds.
“This allows an individual antenna to provide multiple services, just as a computer works to simultaneously operate different programs. The software will decide which pixels to connect together, much like linking different Lego pieces,” De Flaviis added.
Utilizing leading-edge MEMS technology developed at the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, an interdisciplinary research laboratory in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering that focuses on work with a broad range of nanoscale The Henry Samueli School of Engineering’s Electrical systems, the proposed switched-beam system will operate over Engineering and Computer Science Department received a frequency bands around 4.7 GHz and 7.5 GHz, and provide $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Air Force as part of the selections among four independently controlled circularly Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), Test and polarized beams, each of which may radiate different information. Evaluation/Science and Technology (T&E/S&T) Program, to develop a new low-cost, high-performance antenna array “Rather than utilize traditional semiconductor materials, these system, using a collection of small metallic patches intelligent antennas rely on MEMS switches to perform electrical designed to radiate information in a desired direction, while interconnections between different parts of the antenna. MEMS minimizing it in other directions. switches have superior performance compared to more expen- sive semiconductor devices, and are ideal to be integrated into Intended to replace traditional antennas in aircraft used for these reconfigurable antenna surfaces,” De Flaviis said. “The telemetry applications, this new “intelligent” antenna array will advancements made with this MEMS technology allows us to enable radios to switch between two or more frequencies, create innovative antenna architectures that combine multiple permitting several systems to communicate with a ground antenna functions on a single board, resulting in significant station without frequency jamming. weight and size reduction.”
Together with his colleagues, Franco De Flaviis, Ph.D., associate De Flaviis’ team is currently professor of electrical engineering and computer science, developing a prototype of the explains that this project focuses on the integration of novel array and the associated materials and visionary technologies in electromagnetic circuits control circuits, and will initiate and antennas to establish intelligent wireless communication a test flight in November 2007. systems, potentially leading to future aircraft models that have the capability to identify antennas at any location on platform surfaces after receiving specific software instructions.
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Samueli School Welcomes New Faculty
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Elliot Botvinick, Assistant Professor Botvinick’s research focuses on the relationship between mechanical stresses on cells and molecular signaling, or cellular mechanotransduction. His lab is currently investigating the role of the glycocalix in the transduction of fluid shear stress at the wall of blood vessels, and is constructing an instrument to study the scale of mechanical induction of vascular inflammation. Botvinick received his B.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego, after which he worked as an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Fellow.
Bernard Choi, Assistant Professor Choi’s research interests include the development and application of in vivo optical imaging methods for novel therapy discovery, with current collaborations in dermatology and neurobiology. He also leads research efforts on the use of chemical agents to reduce the optical scattering of biological tissue. Choi received his B.Sc. degree from Northwestern University, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. After completing an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Fellowship at UC Irvine, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, Beckman Laser Institute.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
A. Lee Swindlehurst, Professor Swindlehurst’s research interests are in the application of detection and estimation theory to problems in signal processing and wireless communications. Currently, he is working on problems with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications, including space-time characterization of indoor and outdoor radio frequency propagation, channel estimation and performance analysis for time-varying MIMO links, downlink beamforming in multiuser MIMO systems, and space-time processing for ad hoc networks. He also has a new National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research effort on “smart” sensing using miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
Swindlehurst received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Brigham Young University in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1991. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he was a faculty member in Brigham Young University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he began his academic career in 1990, and most recently held the position of full professor and department chair. He also served as vice president of research for ArrayComm LLC, a San Jose-based company working on smart antennas for wireless communications applications.
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Manuel Gamero-Castaño, Assistant Professor Gamero-Castaño’s main research interest is colloidal propulsion, an electric propulsion technology for precision formation flying and small spacecraft. He joined Busek Co. Inc., in Maryland in 1999 as a research scientist, where he developed and directed the company’s colloid thruster program. Gamero-Castaño joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004 as a senior engineer, where he worked on colloidal technology for the Disturbance Reduction System-Space Technology 7 and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna missions. Other research areas of interest include the modeling of stationary plasma hall thrusters; the development of aerosol diagnostic techniques; and the study of a variety of phenomena associated with the electrospraying of liquids.
Gamero-Castaño received his B.S. in chemical engineering at Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 1995), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Yale University (1999). He received the Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research in 2001.
12 innovations www.eng.uci.edu MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING (Continued)
Lorenzo Valdevit, Assistant Professor Valdevit’s research is in the general area of mechanics of materials and structures. He has worked on the optimal design of multi-functional sandwich structures for aerospace applications (hypersonic vehicles in particular), and the thermo-mechanical characterization of organic substrates for the electronics packaging industry (in collaboration with IBM Research). Beyond these topics, his current interests include the design and fabrication of high-authority micro-scale morphing structures and the development of analytical and experimental techniques to probe the bio-mechanical behavior of mammalian cells.
Valdevit received his M.S. degree (Laurea) in materials engineering from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 2000, and his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 2005.
IN MEMORIUM
Remembering Dr. Hideya Gamo
Hideya Gamo, Ph.D., professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, passed away Sept. 17, 2006. Gamo’s research interests focused on work with quantum electronics and optics, with emphasis in nonlinear optical processes in organic ferroelectric thin films, squeezed states in degenerated parametric amplifiers and applications to interferometry, electron waves in heterojunctions, and unconventional imaging optics.
During his many years at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, he was involved with a variety of committees and activities, including the Materials Science Program Committee, the Undergraduate Study Committee (as the electrical and comupter engineering representative), the Faculty Research and Travel Committee, and the Graduate Study Committee (chair, 1975-77). He also participated in UC Irvine’s Academic Senate, the University Speaker’s Bureau, the Japanese Industrial Research Activities for UC Irvine Research Park and served in the Associated Students of UC Irvine (ASUCI) as a Japanese Student Association adviser, as well as interviewed candidates as part of the education abroad program for Japan.
Remembering Marion Kirschner Murphy
Marion Kirschner Murphy, the first staff member to join the School of Engineering, passed away on Oct. 11, 2006 at the age of 95. Kirschner Murphy was hired in 1964, before the UC Irvine campus was officially opened, and spent more than a decade with the School as both an executive administrative assistant to Engineering’s first dean, Robert Saunders, and as a student counselor and adviser. After retiring in the mid-1970s, Kirschner Murphy enjoyed traveling, as well as volunteering at Hoag Hospital and Sherman Gardens in Orange County. She also worked as an Ombudsman for long-term care patients for the California Department of Aging.
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Harut Barsamian, adjunct professor in electrical engineering and Research Facility, which is dedicated to the development of small- computer science, was elected an Institute of Electrical and scale systems, and he leads the LifeChips graduate program, Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Life Fellow in recognition for his focused on micro- and nanotechnology in the life sciences. outstanding contributions to computer architecture, dynamic microprogramming, and associative search algorithms. Throughout Ayman Mosallam, professor in residence of civil and environmental his career, Barsamian has been active in the IEEE Computer Society, engineering and director of the Structural Engineering Testing Hall, and his contributions have been recognized by numerous awards. was presented the 2007 Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty of the Year Award by the Engineering Student Council, the official Zhongping Chen, professor of biomedical engineering and student government for The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. electrical engineering and computer science, has been selected as a He also received an Outstanding Research Award at the 14th Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was honored International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering in specifically for his pioneering contributions to the development of recognition of his pioneering contributions and research achievement functional optical coherence tomography, (OCT) including Doppler, in the area of advanced composites in construction. The Orange polarization-sensitive, phase-resolved and second-harmonic OCT. County Engineering Council highlighted Mosallam with the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award during its 2007 honors Bernard Choi, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and awards banquet. was awarded the 2007 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for distinguished fostering of Roger Rangel, professor and chair of the Mechanical and undergraduate research. He was selected as the Samueli School Aerospace Engineering Department, received the Narcis Monturiol recipient. Medal in Catalonia, Spain, awarded “for distinction in science and technology, and for contributions to the scientific development Rui de Figueiredo, research professor of electrical engineering and of Catalonia.” Rangel is the UC Irvine director of the California- computer science and mathematics, was invited by the president of Catalonia Engineering Program, an international collaboration the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to chair the between UC Irvine, the Catalan Government, and selected Foundation’s Panel on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. universities and research facilities in Catalonia, Spain. The panel met in Lisbon, Portugal on May 14-16, 2007, to finalize decisions on Foundation funding for projects from the universities Soroosh Sorooshian, distinguished professor of civil and and research centers in Portugal. He is also chairing the environmental engineering and Earth system science, and director of 2007 International Association of Science and Technology for the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, has been Development Conference on Signal and Image Processing in appointed to the National Research Council Space Studies Board. Honolulu, Hawaii on August 20-22, 2007. The Board provides an independent, authoritative forum for all aspects of space science and applications, and serves as the focal James Earthman, professor of chemical engineering and materials point within the National Academies for activities on space research. science and biomedical engineering, has been appointed associate vice chancellor for research by Susan V. Bryant, Ph.D., vice Bruce Tromberg, director of the Beckman Laser Institute and chancellor for research. Earthman will undertake a variety of projects Medical Clinic at UC Irvine and professor of biomedical engineering for the Office of Research, with a special emphasis in the areas of and surgery, is among 56 new Fellows of the International Society for research development and organized research. He will be chairing Optical Engineering honored for significant scientific and the Research Advisory Committee and working with faculty technical contributions in biomedical optics. Tromberg has made interested in forming new centers and institutes. major contributions to the field of biomedical optics including tissue optical spectroscopy, frequency-domain photon migration, Payam Heydari, associate professor of electrical engineering and non-linear microscopy and photodynamic therapy. computer science, and a California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology academic affiliate at UC Irvine, has won H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, the Henry Samueli endowed chair and this year’s prestigious Guillemin-Cauer Award from the Institute of professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Circuits and Systems recognized by Scientific American magazine as part of their 2006 Society. He was also the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Scientific American 50 – the magazine’s prestigious annual list Systems Society Darlington Award, which puts him in an elite group recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and of only seven researchers who, in the nearly 40-year history of the technology from the past year. Wickramasinghe was recognized in awards, have received both. Heydari was recognized for his paper the business category for his contributions in rapidly sorting DNA “Model-Order Reduction Using Variational Balanced Truncation with fragments. He was also the keynote speaker at the 2007 Orange Spectral Shaping,” which was published in the IEEE Transactions on County Engineering Council’s honors and awards banquet. Circuits and Systems, Vol. 53, April 2006. Brian Wong, professor of biomedical engineering, otolaryngology Hamid Jafarkhani, professor of electrical engineering and and surgery, and an investigator at the Beckman Laser Institute, was computer science, and deputy director of the Center for Pervasive named among the “Top Doctors in Orange County” as published Communications and Computing, has been selected as an Institute in Orange Coast magazine’s January 2007 issue. Physicians on for Scientific Information (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher and will appear the “Top Doctors” listing are chosen on an annual basis by a on Thomson Scientific’s ISIHighlyCited.com, in recognition of his selection committee who reviews nominations for the Orange exceptional citation count in the field of Computer Science, and con- County Medical Association’s Physicians of Excellence program. tributions to this field as shown by the high number of citations his Wong's basic research is focused on reshaping living tissues – in publications have received from fellow scientists. particular, facial cartilage - and on optical imaging.
Chin C. Lee, professor of electrical engineering and computer Fan-Gang Zeng, professor of biomedical engineering and director science and director of the Materials and Manufacturing Technology of the Hearing and Speech Research Lab at UC Irvine, presented a graduate concentration, was presented the 2007 Exceptional study Feb. 13 at the Middle Winter Research Conference for Technical Achievement Award by the Components, Packaging and Otolaryngology in Denver that identified an effective way to treat the Manufacturing Technology Society of the Institute of Electrical and symptoms of tinnitus – a form of hearing damage typically marked by Electronics Engineers. Lee was recognized for his pioneering high-pitched ringing – by using a low-pitched sound applied by a contributions in fluxless soldering and bonding technology. simple MP3 player to suppress and provide temporary relief from symptoms. Zeng also teamed-up with Chinese researchers to study G.P. Li, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, the complexities of language processing and to shed light on why biomedical engineering, and chemical engineering and materials cochlear implant users have difficulty understanding tonal languages science, has been named director of the UC Irvine division such as Mandarin Chinese. The study appeared in Proceedings of of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information the National Academy of Sciences. Technology. Li is also director of the Integrated Nanosystems
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The Week of the Engineer UC Irvine Hosts a PEER Faculty, staff, students, and alumni celebrate National Scholars Course for Civil Engineers Week Engineering Students In February, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering hosted Course focused on structural dynamics and highlighted faculty, staff, students, and civil and environmental engineering research alumni during UC Irvine’s 34th celebration of National Engineers Week, or E-Week. Social events, competitions, the EngiTECH Career Fair and the annual awards banquet were coordinated by the Engineering Student Council (ESC) to highlight the importance of engineering in our society. Photo courtesy of Brian Dang The week kicked-off with the Dean’s Breakfast, which saw professors test their culinary skills by preparing pancakes. Students also had the opportunity to participate in numerous competitions throughout the week, including the Popsicle Bridge contest, the Rube Goldberg competition - where students designed an intricate contraption to perform a simple task - and the Catapult competition.
The EngiTECH Career Fair welcomed 56 engineering and From October 13-15, 2006, the Department of Civil and technical companies, the most ever participating organizations Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine hosted the Pacific for this event. The Samueli School also hosted 75 students from Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center’s Scholars Dominguez Hills, Centennial, and Compton High Schools as Course, designed to educate selected undergraduate students part of High School Shadow Day on Feb. 22. The students in four significant earthquake engineering topics: seismology, visited UC Irvine as part of the Mathematics Engineering Science geotechnical engineering, structural dynamics, and public policy. Achievement Program (MESA), which prepares educationally Each topic was covered on a different weekend throughout the disadvantaged students for college while developing academic fall term at various institutions; course participants attended four and leadership skills. sessions held at Stanford University, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, and UCLA. This year’s Scholars Course at UC Irvine was High School Shadow Day was capped-off by the E-Week organized by Farzin Zareian, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil barbeque, which was also open to UC Irvine students, faculty and environmental engineering. and staff. Engineering student design teams exhibited their projects, including Design/Build/Fly, UCISAT-1 Satellite project, a Headquartered at UC Berkeley, the PEER Education Program Formula Society of Automotive Engineers cargo airplane, and educates students about, and enables them to contribute to, the UCI Rocket. Various student organizations, including the the earthquake engineering profession. The course provides American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the a professional environment in which graduate education ESC, hosted the barbeque, which was also the setting for programs at PEER core institutions, including UC Irvine, Cal several of the week’s competitions. Tech, and USC, are introduced to highly-motivated, senior undergraduate students. The program attracts those dedicated FUSION, a student organization dedicated to supporting to earthquake engineering early in their academic career and students in technical majors by fostering a social, academic, and ideally maintains their interest throughout graduate study. Host professional balance, while actively engaging individuals in a schools present research on selected earthquake engineering growing multicultural community, sponsored the ConFUSION areas, conduct tours of their laboratories and facilities, and Conference themed “True Life: I’m an Engineer. An Insight into highlight local sights during the students’ stay. Engineering After College.” The conference provided students a glimpse of the various career paths and educational UC Irvine course attendees included 25 students from several opportunities available to them following graduation. universities across the nation, who were selected based on academic merit and preparation. E-Week concluded with the annual awards banquet held at the University Club on campus. Awards were given to outstanding students and faculty in all five Samueli School departments, and Susan Toler Carr, director of project management at Gary Ward Construction and a former Disney Imagineer, delivered the keynote address.
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 15 EECS Graduate Student MAE Undergrad Coordinates Presents at International IEEE Live Radio Link with Astronaut Conference Matt Bennett helps connect Mission Viejo High School students with International Space Station Jesper Eklund traveled to Kobe, Japan to explain and demonstrate micro glass blowing technology “NA1SS, this is K6UCI, do you copy?” Matt Bennett, an undergraduate mechanical and aerospace engineering student, asked over the radio.
“Loud and clear! How about me?” Astronaut Michael Lopez- Alegria replied. Bennett and his team breathed a sigh of relief as the Mission Viejo High School students quietly cheered. They had established radio contact with Lopez-Alegria, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS).
Jesper Eklund, a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. Bennett, along with his team of 11 UC Irvine Satellite Project and degree in electrical and computer engineering, recently K6UCI Amateur Radio Club members, and 20 students from presented a paper entitled, “Spherical Rubidium Vapor Cells Mission Viejo High School, connected with Lopez-Alegria for Fabricated by Micro Glass Blowing,” at the 20th annual Institute seven minutes while the ISS was in orbit and “visible” in the of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) International Orange County sky. Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2007, in Kobe, Japan. It was through Amateur Radio on the ISS that Bennett connected with Mission Viejo High School. The program Eklund’s paper was one of only 43 submissions - from 611 coordinator contacted Bennett, a long-time Ham Radio - or received - selected for an oral presentation, which he gave to amateur radio-enthusiast, to arrange an amateur radio satellite more than 600 conference attendees. His presentation station at the school. demonstrated glass blowing on a micro-scale, which is intended to advance the development of a nuclear magnetic resonance “We’ve never spoken to an astronaut in orbit before, so this was gyroscope - a precision instrument for measuring the rotational exciting,” said Bennett, the lead assistant in organizing the radio motion of a structure or vehicle. link. “It was an honor, especially because Lopez-Alegria is such a prestigious astronaut who holds a world record for space Conventional, but expensive, gyroscopes have been used for operations.” more than half a century in navigation systems in ships and airplanes. Over the last two decades, interest has increased in Lopez-Alegria, who has been an astronaut since the early 1990s, developing smaller, low-cost gyroscopes. Today, these micro- holds the American record for the most spacewalks and the total machined gyroscopes, or microgyroscopes, are used in many time spent on spacewalks. He has been on 10 spacewalks for consumer products, such as anti-rollover systems and stability a total of more than 67 hours. control in cars, stabilization systems in camcorders and cameras, video game controllers, and the Segway Personal Bennett and his team spent more than 16 hours before contact Transporter. organizing and setting-up the equipment: a 16-foot-long beam antenna; a radio frequency (RF) amplifier; a computer-controlled Together with his faculty adviser, Andrei Shkel, Ph.D., associate antenna rotator; and a computer with specific software to track professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and and point the antenna at the ISS. electrical engineering and computer science, as well as director of the UC Irvine MicroSystems Laboratory, Eklund is working to The ISS only passes a particular area on Earth a few times per improve the performance of micromachined gyroscopes by day, at a velocity of 7.7 km/s, or about 17,224 mph, and an developing a highly sensitive gyroscope based on nuclear average altitude of 330 km, or about 205 miles. While Bennett’s magnetic resonance (NMR), the main principle behind magnetic team could only maintain contact with the ISS for a matter of resonance imaging, commonly know as an MRI, used in minutes each pass of the space station in orbit, NASA maintains hospitals. constant contact with the station using strategically placed ground stations around the world and their Tracking and Data This technology was developed as part of the Navigation-Grade Relay Satellite network. Integrated Micro Gyroscope program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The The participating high school students had 13 of their 20 project is a collaborative effort between the MicroSystems pre-approved questions answered, and more than 400 people Laboratory at UC Irvine and the Time and Frequency Division of around the world tuned in to the live Internet audio stream of the the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, interview. Colo. To hear a recording of the interview with Lopez-Alegria, please visit http://ucisat.eng.uci.edu/uplink. 16 innovations www.eng.uci.edu Student Briefly
Linh Dinh, a 2007 graduate with a bachelor's degree in Cesar Ruiz, a chemical engineering undergraduate student chemical engineering and materials science, was given the at UC Irvine, was selected as the Hispanic Engineer National Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) Scholar of the for engineering at the 2007 Undergraduate Research Week for Feb. 19 - 25, and featured on www.henaac.org. Symposium. Working under Farghalli Mohamed, Ph.D., Scholar of the Week highlights outstanding Hispanic students professor of chemical engineering and materials science, majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Dinh and her team members presented “Processing of Ruiz currently researches the structure and thermostability of Nanocrystalline Nickel Using Pulsed Electrodeposition,” a certain proteins to determine their effectiveness as a scaffold - or research project focusing on the design of a pulsed current a protein whose main function is to bring other proteins electrodeposition unit, which can be used to produce together for them to interact - for the molecular encapsulation nanostructured materials. of substances in drug delivery systems with Szu-Wen Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials Satoru Emori and Allison Zemek were both awarded the Barry science and biomedical engineering. He has been honored on M. Goldwater Scholarship, and Danielle Issa, Jung Park, and the Dean’s List, and is a member of the American Institute of Joy Trujillo received National Science Foundation Graduate Chemical Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Fellowships. They were among 15 UC Irvine affiliates who won Engineers, and the Society of Mexican American Engineers 16 of these competitive academic awards. and Scientists. In 2006, he was a HENAAC/NASA scholarship recipient. Peter Esh, a senior civil and environmental engineering student, has been awarded the $2,000 J. Thomas Miles Memorial Adam Schofield, a third-year mechanical and aerospace Scholarship, and was honored at the Civil and Environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate, spent July 2006 in Barcelona, Engineering Affiliates Winter Quarterly Meeting on March Spain, participating in the California-Catalonia Alliance for 16, 2007. Created in 2005, the J. Thomas Miles Memorial Miniaturization Science and Engineering. He spent his time at Scholarship is a joint award sponsored by the CEE Affiliates and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), sharing the latest the Society of American Military Engineers. Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) related research from the MicroSystems Lab at UC Irvine with Jasmina Casals, a Mat Garcia was named the 2007 Orange County Aerospace former UC Irvine student and California-Catalonia Engineering Student of the Year by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Program participant who is now on faculty at UPC Terrassa, Astronautics (AIAA) Orange County Section. Garcia, a fifth-year and Andreu Fargas, another former UC Irvine student who is aerospace engineering student, was selected because of his currently pursuing his Ph.D. in MEMS-related research. leadership of the student AIAA branch at UC Irvine and his role as student chief engineer of UC Irvine’s entry in the AIAA annual Aswathi Sreedharan, who is majoring in biomedical engineering Design/Build/Fly competition - sponsored by Raytheon, Cessna, and international studies with a minor in conflict studies, was one and the AIAA organization - for the last two years. of two students selected by UC Irvine to receive the first XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Scholarship. This scholarship honors students Cyrus Michael Ghajar, John Matthew Thomas, Lindsey R. who display a commitment to ethics and leadership on campus VanSchoiack, and Jessie R. Weber were named 2006-07 and in the community. Together with the other recipient, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Sreedharan was able to spend time with His Holiness in Scholars. ARCS is a national volunteer women’s organization September in Pasadena at a private audience, and received a that provides scholarships to the best and brightest students $7,500 scholarship and $2,500 funding to pursue projects who are studying the natural sciences, medicine, and engineer- related to ethics and leadership. ing, and contributing to the worldwide advancement of science and technology. John Matthew Thomas, a civil and environmental engineering graduate student, received an Engineering and Land Max Perez, a fifth-year Ph.D. student, was honored by the Surveying Graduate Scholarship for $5,000 from the Consulting Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Sensors Council Engineering and Land Surveyors of California. Thomas was one with the 2006 Sensors Research Graduate Scholarship Award, of three graduate students and four undergraduate students sponsored by General Electric, for his “outstanding graduate from the state to receive this scholarship. student research in sensing technology.” Under the advisement of Andrei Shkel, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical and Roman Vaisman, who graduated June 15 with a bachelor’s aerospace engineering, Perez has been conducting research degree in electrical engineering, was the project leader for on inertial sensors that measure motion, such as acceleration the UCI Rocket Project. With 28 students from different or rotation. More specifically, he has been working on engineering disciplines, the project team successfully launched high precision accelerometer technology that uses optical their rocket, Anteater 1, on June 9. The rocket, measuring six techniques to detect small changes in inertial sensors. Such inches in diameter and nine feet tall, used an M-Class solid type technology could be used to detect small changes in movement propellant to reach an altitude of 11,562 feet before being in bridges and buildings. safely recovered. The rocket also carried a CanSat type payload, developed as part of the project, and had an active roll control, Jeremy Roth was named an Outstanding Engineering Student data acquisition, and video systems. The rocket was launched by the Orange County Engineering Council, a non- during the RocStock event at Dry Lake Lucerne. For photos and profit umbrella organization established in 1962 to promote and video, please visit http://www.ucirp.org. improve the image of engineers and scientists as professionals, at their 2007 annual honors and awards banquet. Roth, a mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering graduate, is a member of Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Golden Key International Honour Society and the UC Irvine mountain bike team, and is also co-founder and chair of MatSci, the materials science society at UC Irvine.
www.eng.uci.edu innovations 17 Engineering Student Poster Fariborz Maseeh Best Student Poster Awards David Beerer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Winners Announced at Annual Competition Category: All Research Areas Poster Title: “Experimental Study of Ignition Delay for Samueli School Awards Banquet Application to Hydrogen and Syngas Fired Lean Premixed Gas Turbine Engines” Eight engineering students recognized for outstanding Advisers: Scott Samuelsen and Vince McDonell research project posters Xiaofang Chen, Cyrus Ghajar, Anna Aledia, and Craig Griffith, Biomedical Engineering Competition Category: All Research Areas Poster Title: “Prevascularizing an Implantable Engineered Tissue Accelerates Functional Anastomoses with Host Vasculature” Advisers: Steven George, Andrew Putnam, and Christopher Hughes
Kevin Olson, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Competition Category: All Research Areas Poster Title: “AFM Image Reconstruction” Adviser: Martha Mecartney
Marc Carerras-Sospedra, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Competition Category: Energy and the Environment On May 15, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering recog- Poster Title: “Air Quality Impacts of Distributed Generation of nized eight student recipients of the 2007 Fariborz Maseeh Best Electricity in Southern California” Student Research Poster competition. Advisers: Donald Dabdub and Jack Brouwer
Winners were chosen from among 58 entries as part of two Behnaz Khakbaz, Civil and Environmental Engineering engineering student poster sessions held during the School’s Competition Category: Energy and the Environment “California: Prosperity Through Technology” 6th Annual Industry Poster Title: “Hydrologic Modeling for Flood Forecasting: Research Symposium, providing both undergraduates and A Distributed Modeling Experiment” Adviser: Soroosh Sorooshian graduates an opportunity to prominently display their research.
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The Henry Samueli School of Engineering would like to congratulate all students who received their degrees at the 42nd annual commencement ceremony on June 15, 2007. The School would also like to recognize the following undergraduate students who received engineering scholarships during their student careers at UC Irvine.
2006-07 Engineering Scholarship Recipients LINC Biomedical Engineering Scholarship Irena Aleksieva Christine Jones Memorial Scholarship Henry Chu Stacia Bloom Shehreen Dheda Maria Siu Andrew Kyungmo Kang Kristine Velasco Pei-Yu Lee
Gregory Bogaczyk Memorial Scholarship Deborah and Peter Pardoen Memorial Endowed Scholarship Brian James John Clanton Adam De-Nyangos Haggai Memorial Endowed Scholarship Danielle Issa Mohammad Haris Qamar Parker Hannifin Scholarship Henry Samueli Endowed Scholarship Jorge Dell'Aquila Phillip Haralson Hong-Hoa Do Toviah Hirschberg Salvador Mayoral
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Engineering Alumni Advisory Celebrating the 7th Annual Council Completes Second Engineering Career Night
Successful Year The Henry Samueli School of Engineering hosted its 7th Annual Engineering Alumni Career Night on Nov. 7, 2006. The event The Henry Samueli School of gave students a rare opportunity to speak with UC Irvine Engineering’s Alumni Advisory alums from a variety of engineering backgrounds in a Council (EAAC) has completed more informal and interactive atmosphere. More than 65 its second successful year, undergraduate and graduate students asked working engineers planning and participating in candid questions about what the future potentially holds various activities to strengthen after graduation. Students chose from 11 topics ranging from and support the Samueli School’s attending graduate school, to pursuing an M.B.A., to finding the growing alumni community. The right internship during school. Eric Shen, ’93, M.S., ’95, served council, comprised of alumni from as the evening’s emcee. Students were treated to door prizes, all areas of industry and expertise, courtesy of the evening’s sponsors. has contributed to a year of fun activities and field trips that have Alumni volunteer panelists were a key component in making this sparked the interest of more than event a success. Panelists included: Kelsie Anderson, ’04; 100 engineers. Eddie Arslanian, ’95; Matt Bao, ’00; Elsa Chen, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’96, M.B.A. ’05; Mark Lee, ’06; David Maradiaga ’00; Mark Samueli School alums enjoy tour of In October, Council Member McDannel ’75, M.S. ’79; Jessica Muncy, ’01; Carl Padgett, ’05; the Commerce Refuse-to-Energy Patrick Hong, '95, led a group of Rob Peirson ’83, M.B.A. ’84; Eric Shen, ’93, M.S., ’95. Facility 22 alumni on a rare, behind-the- scenes tour of Road & Track magazine’s Newport Beach offices. The Samueli School extends a special thanks to the 7th Annual Hong, senior technical editor at Road & Track, received his Engineering Alumni Career Night sponsors: bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Samueli School. Participants were able to tour the magazine’s facilities, Britta’s Café including the art design studios, and witness the different Trader Joe’s production stages of the magazine, including how ideas are UC Irvine Bookstore taken from page to concept-design, and finally to publication.
EAAC members also visited the campus engineering house, where they spoke to 18 undergraduate students about their past experiences as engineering students. Members shared personal Mechanical and Aerospace stories, including what it was like to be a freshman at UC Irvine, how they choose their major and discipline of study, and how Engineering Alumni Return they chose to get involved with the School. The group also discussed the many challenges and successes of pursuing to Campus engineering as a profession over slices of pizza and dessert. The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering In February, more than 3,000 alumni, students, and friends (MAE) hosted its annual alumni night on Nov. 13, 2006, affording returned to campus for UC Irvine’s Homecoming weekend. The graduates the unique opportunity to view current incarnations of record-setting crowd was treated to In-N-Out Burgers, free their previous senior design projects. MAE undergraduates games, prizes, and giveaways at the pre-game family fun-zone. exhibited the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Afterwards, guests cheered on the UC Irvine men’s basketball race car, the UCISAT-1 Satellite project, the UCI Rocket, and team, who handed Cal State University Northridge a 75-66 loss the Design/Build/Fly airplane. More than 90 students, at the Bren Events Center. faculty, and alumni attended the exposition.
In April, alumni peeked into the inner-workings of the Commerce Refuse-to-Energy Facility, a plant that processes 360 tons per day of trash and generates 10 megawatts of electricity for sale to the Southern California electric grid. The group toured the facility, viewing key plant components such as the 1,200-ton capacity refuse receiving pit, the boiler where refuse is combust- ed, and the air pollution control systems. The EAAC would like to acknowldege Mark McDannel, ’75, M.S. ’79, and Matt Eaton, supervising engineers, Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, for leading the tour.
The EAAC looks forward to another successful year of planning and participating in alumni meetings and activities. If you are interested in joining the EAAC and learning more about their role, please contact Courtney Billing, assistant director of development, at [email protected] or 949.824.8546.
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Annual Awards Banquet Mark Lee, ’06, felt nostalgic during his first National Engineers Week The Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC), a non-profit since graduating with a bachelor’s umbrella organization established in 1962 to promote and degree in computer engineering. It improve the image of engineers and scientists as professionals, felt different being on campus for honored five outstanding UC Irvine alumni at their 2007 annual the event as an alumnus instead honors and awards banquet. of a student, but he found it easy to fall back into a comfortable Young Engineer Award routine. Lee, a past Engineering Roger Chung, ’99, VA Consulting, Inc. Student Council (ESC) president, Lawrence Esguerra, ’04, Tetra Tech, Inc. attended E-Week as a participant Dianne M. Kam, ’04, The Boeing Company and a recruiter at the EngiTECH Hazel Vilchez, ’01, The Boeing Company Career Fair. Daniel Low, UC Irvine Outstanding Engineering Merit Award Daniel Low, a fifth-year mechanical Nam Chiang, ’85, M.S. ’86, The Boeing Company mechanical engineering student, and Mark Lee,‘06 engineering student, had a more demanding role at E-Week 2007. Low, the 2006-07 ESC president, and his team began prepara- tion for E-Week almost six months prior to the event, which was Patrick Hong Honored as rewarded with excellent attendance and a successful career fair.
Distinguished Alumnus at UC Low said that a key component of his positive E-Week and ESC experiences was Lee’s continual support and encouragement. Irvine’s 2007 Lauds and Laurels Low describes Lee as a big brother figure who gives advice and offers help. “Mark gave me the confidence to take on the ESC Ceremony presidency last year,” he explained. “I’m grateful for his support, as well as the contributions of many other alumni.” Patrick Hong, ’95, was selected as The Henry Samueli School of While the Samueli School places significant emphasis on Engineering’s Distinguished Alumnus students and fostering their academic achievements, alumni also at the 2007 UC Irvine Lauds and play an important role in student development. In addition to Laurels ceremony. He was one of 16 recruiting for their employers, alumni also offer a unique alumni, faculty, staff, students, and perspective on how to improve the School and help guide friends recognized for their ongoing current students through their academics, professional career contributions to the University during search, and life in general. the 37th annual ceremony, held May 10, 2007. Lee chose to become involved with ESC as a sophomore. Thinking about post-graduation, he wanted to immerse himself Hong received his bachelor’s degree in activities that would assist in his transition from student to in mechanical engineering from UC engineering professional. In his first year with the Council, he Irvine in 1995. He continued his education and received his became vice chair of corporate affairs, laying the foundation for master’s in aerospace engineering in 1997 from the University of his future involvement with the group. Southern California, and is currently pursuing an executive master’s of business administration degree at UCLA. He is Low also began his association with ESC as a sophomore. known, and respected nationally and internationally, for his Wanting to be more engaged on campus, he thought ESC would contributions as senior technical editor at Road & Track magazine. be a good opportunity to get involved specifically with the engineering school. In addition to his dedication and many contributions to the Samueli School and the University in the past twelve years, Hong Lee and Low both look forward to ongoing connections with has been instrumental in the creation and establishment of the the Samueli School as alumni. Lee plans to continue to mentor Engineering Alumni Advisory Council. He remains a supportive and support ESC members, and Low’s ESC ties inspire him to and engaged member of the group, most recently coordinating follow Lee’s example in mentoring future engineering students and hosting a tour of Road & Track for the School’s alumni and after graduation. professors. Hong has worked consistently towards bettering the educational experience of UC Irvine’s engineering students, and “I think it’s important to give back to your school, because is an integral part of the School’s vibrant alumni community. college sets your path in life,” said Low. “I know how hard it is to be a student, and want to share my experiences and wisdom to help make college life easier for future engineering undergraduates.”
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James and Cathy Spoto Spoto’s personal financial adviser introduced him to the concept of the CRUT as part of his estate planning. “We were attracted Growing up in the 1960s, James Spoto knew exactly what to the tax benefits and the regular and growing income stream, career path he wanted to take. guaranteed for the rest of our lives. It made the most sense for us in supporting the School’s growth,” Spoto said. “Watching the emergence of the space program, I desperately wanted to be an astronaut,” Spoto said. “But, as I grew older Based on his experiences, Spoto encourages individuals to get and found out I couldn’t go on many amusement park rides involved with supporting the Samueli School at whatever level without getting motion sickness, I realized my chances of they can. “You don’t have to personally contribute cash or assets becoming an astronaut were slim.” to have a positive impact,” Spoto added. “You can have your company become more active with the School. You can be more Deciding engineering was “the next best thing,” he enrolled in the active in recruiting new graduates from UC Irvine, or attending University of Florida’s electrical engineering program, where he the School’s seminars and open lectures. Your involvement will earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. As his career not only help the School, but it will also expand your knowledge progressed and he turned his attention to research, Spoto and network.” recognized the value of industry tapping into local university networks for research, recruits, and other benefits. In the The Spotos’ gift will be used to create an endowment mid-90s, at the request of former boss Dwight Decker, Ph.D., at in engineering science, a fellowship, or an endowed chair in Conexant Systems, Inc., Spoto, the recently retired president engineering, in the name of James Spoto. and CEO of Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR) and an independent investor, became involved at the University of “Over my years of working with UC Irvine, I’ve become very California, Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering. connected to the engineering program and the people there,” Spoto said. “There are many reasons why I want to do “We felt UC Irvine was positioned to become a leader in whatever I can to see UC Irvine grow and prosper as a quality electronic research and education, and I shared Dean Nicolaos institution.” Alexopoulos’ vision of growing the school into a quality institution,” Spoto said. He was tasked to work closely with Prior to AWR, a high frequency electronic design automation the dean to seed and fund the Center for Pervasive supplier, Spoto was senior vice president of platform Communications and Computing, and the California Institute for technologies at Conexant Systems, a spin-off of the Telecommunications and Information Technology. Semiconductor System Group of Rockwell. He was responsible for the development of the core technology portfolio for Today, Spoto and his wife, Cathy, are avid supporters of The Conexant, including semiconductor processes, packaging, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and recently chose design automation, and intellectual property reuse. Spoto was a unique way to contribute to the School’s development – a also vice president of engineering and co-founder of the analog charitable remainder unitrust (CRUT). division of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Tau Beta Pi. A charitable remainder unitrust is a gift plan designed to supplement income, while establishing a lasting legacy for the For more information about supporting The Henry Samueli benefit of an organization. It enables the donor to make a School of Engineering through charitable remainder unitrusts, or significant gift of appreciated assets, such as securities or real other types of legacy planning gift options, please contact estate, while enjoying immediate charitable tax deductions and Pamela Gesme Miller, assistant dean of development and exter- retaining an income stream from the asset as it sits in the trust. nal relations, at 949.824.6563 or Jamie Stewart-Marsh, director of development, at 949.824.5396. A donor transfers the asset into a specifically designed trust, which sells the asset and reinvests the proceeds. The trust is not required to pay any upfront capital gains tax on the sale of the appreciated property. The donor is guaranteed a fixed
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