Annual Report 2012-2013
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school of electrical, computer Breaking the final barrier: and energy room-temperature electrically engineering powered nanolasers page 12 New mobile app enables research, education endeavors page 14 ASU spinoff takes on obesity challenge page 16 Annual Report 2012-2013 Christi Mendoza, education the fulton schools and outreach coordinator for Quantum Energy of engineering and Sustainable Solar school of biological school for Technologies (QESST), and health systems engineering of works with students engineering matter, transport and building solar cars in Marco Santello, School Director energy enrollment 930 Kyle Squires, School Director Fulton Engineering’s undergraduate 771 enrollment 2,983 BEST program. graduate 159 undergraduate 2,402 graduate 581 DEGREE PROGRAM biomedical engineering DEGREE PROGRAMS (Harrington Bioengineering program) aerospace engineering chemical engineering school of computing, materials science and informatics, and engineering decision systems mechanical engineering engineering solar energy engineering and Ronald G. Askin, School Director commercialization enrollment 2,872 undergraduate 1,908 school of sustainable graduate 964 engineering and the built environment DEGREE PROGRAMS G. Edward Gibson, Jr., School computer engineering Director computer science enrollment 1,201 computer systems undergraduate 938 engineering graduate 263 engineering management industrial engineering DEGREE PROGRAMS informatics civil, environmental and sustainable engineering school of electrical, construction engineering computer and energy construction management engineering (Del E. Webb School of Stephen M. Phillips, School Construction program) Director enrollment 2,003 undergraduate 906 graduate 1,097 10,253 fall 2013 enrollment DEGREE PROGRAMS computer engineering electrical engineering $79.7M research expenditures FY2013 estimated Faculty honors and recognition ............................3 year in Recent books by faculty ..................................5 review Research faculty ..........................................6 Affiliate faculty ...........................................7 Adjunct faculty ...........................................7 Undergraduate honors and scholarships (fall 2013) ........8 student Enrollment ................................................8 news Notable achievements .........................................8 IRA A. FULTON SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING Graduate student awards .................................9 School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Doctoral graduates P.O. Box 875706 Summer 2012 ...........................................10 Tempe, AZ 85287-5706 Fall 2012 ................................................10 Spring 2013 .............................................11 For more information about ASU, the Ira A. Fulton Palais Award ............................................11 Schools of Engineering, or the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE), please visit us online at: Room-temperature electrically powered nanolasers .......12 feature New mobile app enables research, education endeavors ..14 ecee.engineering.asu.edu stories ASU, USAIP work to advance solar energy solutions ......15 Monarch Power aims to take solar mobile ................15 Annual Report 2012-2013 Gift honors engineering professor's mentorship ...........15 This publication is written, designed and produced by the ASU spinoff takes on obesity challenge ..................16 Expanding our capacity: new faculty ......................17 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for distribution to selected Online electrical engineering degree program .............18 alumni, industry partners and colleagues worldwide. Alumni news and honors .................................19 Outreach programs ......................................20 Contributing writers Joe Kullman Center for Applied Nanoionics ...........................22 Natalie Pierce Connection One .........................................23 Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) ..24 Photography research Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies Jessica Slater centers Engineering Research Center (QESST) ...................25 Rosie Gochnour Sensor, Signal and Information Natalie Pierce Processing Center (SenSIP) .............................26 ASU NanoFab ...........................................27 Flexible Electronics and Display Center ...................28 © 2013 Arizona State University. All rights reserved. The sunburst logo is a registered trademark, and the Arizona State University word mark is a trademark ASU LightWorks .........................................29 of Arizona State University. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Information in this document is for informational purposes only and is Faculty directory .........................................30 subject to change without notice. In memoriam ............................................53 faculty Be a part of Electrical Engineering .......................54 directory Faculty and staff recognition .............................54 ECEE.ENGINEERING.ASU.EDU table of contents continued strength and research stipends for all levels of students provided by gifts from generous alumni, corporations Our faculty, students and staff continued their and friends. collaborate efforts to strengthen and grow our Enrollment in our academic programs has grown programs in the ECEE School and its programs this significantly over the past few years from about past year. These efforts have provided continued 1,200 seven years ago to more than 2,000 in fall strength in research performance, growth in student 2012. This includes an all-time high enrollment of enrollment at all levels and the rollout of innovative new more than 300 Ph.D. students. This enrollment level academic programs. is an average of more than five Ph.D. students per Annual research tenured or tenure-track faculty member. This large expenditures continue Ph.D. enrollment is consistent with our growth in to grow, although only research expenditures as well as the faculty focus modestly over last on student recruiting and the improving reputation of year’s level due in part Annual research our programs. Our graduate programs remain highly to the effects of the recognized with our EE graduate program ranked 31 federal sequester. Our expenditures by US News and World Report and ranked in the top expenditures of just 20 by the National Research Council. over $30 million for the exceeded $30 million This fall we launched the online delivery of our B.S.E. 2 fiscal year ending June for the fiscal year program. This new delivery mechanism for our existing 2013 is more than triple program is the first bachelor’s level engineering Stephen M. Phillips the expenditure level of ending June 2013. program available in a 100 percent online format that eight years ago when is listed as accredited by ABET. This increased access the expenditures had not exceeded $10 million. This is more than triple has helped grow our bachelor’s program enrollment to The $30 million total represents about $500,000 the expenditure level more than 900. We are looking forward to leveraging in expenditures per tenured or tenure-track faculty online tools to provide an improved experience for all member. This expenditure level is also the highest of eight years ago. of our students. of any school, department or academic unit at the We continue to accelerate our progress through university. Key to achieving these results are the aggressive faculty hiring. The extraordinary efforts of contributions of several large research centers our dedicated faculty, staff and students continue to described later in this report. drive the success of our school. Our primary focus is the education of students and they play prominent roles in our research. The majority of our research expenditures includes funding for students in our research program. In addition to graduate students working on sponsored project research, we engage Stephen M. Phillips, Ph.D., P.E. undergraduates and even some high school students Professor of Electrical Engineering Director of the School of Electrical, Computer in our research labs. In addition to external sponsored and Energy Engineering projects, we have a variety of fellowships, scholarships ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING message from the director 32 30.2 30.5 sponsored 28.1 28.0 28 research 25.4 expenditures 24 20.1 20 16 15.6 13.5 dollars in millions 12 9.9 3 8 4 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 fiscal year end faculty honors NAE Members 2 IEEE Fellows 21 NSF CAREER 12 DoD/ONR – YIP 5 ECEE.ENGINEERING.ASU.EDU 2012-2013 annual report Three named IEEE Fellows Professors Lina Karam, Cun- Engineering Vijay Vittal, the Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor, was Zheng Ning and Antonia selected to receive the Herman Halperin Electric Papandreou-Suppappola leadership earns Transmission and Distribution Award from the Institute have been elected Fellows of of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). the Institute of Electrial and Vittal prestigious The award recognizes his contribution to “development Electronics Engineers (IEEE). honor of power system stability assessment methods leading Karam is recognized for to the maximum utilization and increased reliability of contributions to human perception- transmission lines.” Vijay Vittal based visual processing, image The IEEE technical field honors are awarded