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Charles A. Buescher Jr. (center) was honored posted oct. 8, 2013 with the 2013 Volunteer social of the Year Award for Student blogs: his service to the school and community, with media What I learned Mike Perlmutter (left), alumni advisory council in the Fullbridge president, and Dean buzz Program Ralph Quatrano (right). by Brittany Edwards

“Overall, the experience of the Fullbridge Program was posted aug. 10, 2013 absolutely amazing. I was able to meet and network with What was so many interesting people, your favorite learn about business and better posted oct. 22, 2013 wustl photo understand who I am and what I engineering want for my future. This small step #1 popular post: — partaking in this program — has Dear friends, course at WUSTL made such a large impact on my life EECE students and and my future.” 2013 marks another banner year for our School »» We achieved ABET re-accreditation without any and why? sponsors at the of Engineering & Applied Science, as we made deficiencies — the first time in the school’s history. First and foremost was Transport Phenomena with Dr. Sparks scholarship dinner significant progress implementing our strategic plan. »» We announced a new building in our new engineering (Chemical Engineering). A true complex, thanks to the generous support of the Jubel »» We increased the size and improved the diversity of our genius of a man whom we got to family. Henry A. & Elvira H. Jubel Hall will become the faculty with 20 hires, or about one-quarter of our current share individual time with each new home for our Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty, across all departments since I became dean. We Friday discussing relevant topics. & Materials Science. Read more about this exciting increased the number of women faculty members by 50 A terrific learning experience. percent within the past two years, and women account development on page 4. Kevin Egan @wustlengineers Oct . 14, 2013 for half of the faculty promotions during the past year. »» Finally, we launched several new programs, such as Regional Sales Manager at Sprint We also hired the first African-American male faculty the Master of Cyber Security Management with the Rubik’s Cube member and the first two Hispanic faculty members. Olin Business School and the Discovery Competition Dr. Khomami’s transport class. Read more about the newest faculty on page 32. to promote entrepreneurial endeavors among our Never experienced a 7-hour-long Competition: midterm examination! »» We made significant progress in building a sustainable undergraduate students. #WUSTL Provost infrastructure to enable cutting-edge research in energy Heather Benedict Of course, none of these achievements would be and the environment, medicine and health and security. Chemical Engineer @holdenWU vs. Rubik’s Cube While many other schools face decreasing federal possible without the steadfast commitment and CoE 462 - senior design course for 6x6 World Champion Kevin financial support, our faculty’s research awards and support from you and the entire school community. the computer engineering degree. Hays: Who won? VIDEO: expenditures continue to climb — an acknowledgement I am grateful for your contributions, and I hope you I enjoyed it since it was practical http://ow.ly/pOBKN to their innovation. This magazine includes several enjoy reading about our progress toward becoming and hands-on. examples of our faculty’s world-changing research. one of the very best engineering schools in the world. Chris Hackmann »W» e continue to uphold the quality and selectivity Senior Software Development of our undergraduate students. With applications Sincerely, Engineer at Microsoft increasing for the fourth year in a row, we received more applications and were the most selective than posted aug. 26, 2013 ever before. Just as important, one-third of accepted prospective students chose our engineering school Orientation over any other. Now with 1,345 undergraduate students, Keep up to date with we have the largest, most diverse and academically Instagram talented undergraduate students we have ever had. Ralph Quatrano, PhD news and events Contest Winner Read about how our student athletes excel on and off Spencer T. Olin Professor & Dean engineering.wustl.edu the field on page 18. [email protected] Evan Kerr, the winner

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Written by beth miller “Three generations of the Jubel family have now earned or are earning the degrees from Washington University, and hen Henry A. Jubel came to the Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science to anchor jubel family I’m sure Henry Jubel would be honored United States from Germany business by this gift,” says Mark S. Wrighton, in the 1920s as a young boy, he W chancellor of Washington University in likely never imagined that he would start henry a. & elvira h. St. Louis. “Jubel Hall will be an excellent what has become a multimillion-dollar example of the foundation’s mission to international manufacturing company. 1961 support young people seeking to improve The aluminum die-casting company Spartan Aluminum Products is their lives through higher education.” he founded in 1961, Spartan Aluminum founded in Sparta, Ill. More than $150 million has already Products in Sparta, Ill., has flourished and been invested in new and renovated is now run by his son, Don Jubel, who is Engineering space over the past 10 years, honoring his late parents with a gift from Jubel Hall part of the school’s master plan calling the Henry A. Jubel Foundation toward for a 700,000-square-foot engineering construction of the Henry A. and Elvira H. complex on the northeast corner of the Jubel Hall for the School of Engineering & Danforth Campus. Applied Science at Washington University “The addition of Jubel Hall to in St. Louis. It’s a fitting tribute to a Whitaker, Brauer and Green halls in the man who earned a bachelor’s degree in new engineering complex will enable us to mechanical engineering from Washington attract and retain the best and brightest University in 1940 with the help of a students and the most talented faculty, scholarship and wages from cutting grass, and it will provide them with the tools translating books from German to English they need to do great work,” says Ralph and from his mother, who cleaned homes. S. Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Jubel Hall, the new home of the Engineering & Applied Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor. “A & Materials Science, will be located project such as Jubel Hall can only happen near the intersection of Brookings with the support and commitment of Drive and Hoyt Drive. As the newest many people, and we are truly grateful building in the Engineering complex at to the Henry A. Jubel Foundation and the the northeast corner of campus, it will Jubel family for making this a reality.” contain classrooms, laboratories, faculty After graduating from Washington offices and gathering and study areas. University, Henry Jubel took a position The new space will allow the department in 1941 with the Civil Service Ordnance to expand its faculty by up to 80 percent Department, from which he received the and provide the infrastructure to double highest civilian award and a cash bonus its already robust research program. In “America needs more young people who pursue of $1,000 for inventing a modification addition, it will help meet the growing of a grenade launcher that fit onto the engineering and other technical disciplines to help us demands of a top-tier program in bayonet attachment of the M-1 rifle. After mechanical engineering, the school’s compete globally. It is my hope that this new building will World War II, he went to work for Sterling second-largest major. 2013 Aluminum Products as a production create enthusiasm and attract bright students who will The gift is part of Leading Together: Spartan Light Metal Products engineer. Later, changes at Sterling led The Campaign for Washington University. has 700 employees in Illinois, serve as our leaders of tomorrow.” Mr. Jubel to purchase Sterling’s aluminum A formal groundbreaking for the new Missouri, Michigan and Tokyo. die-cut machines to establish Spartan — don jubel building will be announced at a later date. Aluminum Products. With just two

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employees, Mr. Jubel did much of the work When Spartan became the first & himself and worked long hours, sleeping in company in North America to offer about henry a. elvira h. the plant on an Army cot for an entire year. commercial magnesium die-cast products, jubel hall Henry A. Jubel When he established Spartan, Mr. Don became the initial project engineer for while a student at Space for laboratories, classrooms, Washington University Jubel aspired to develop an environment the fast-growing business. The company faculty offices and study areas where he could help create value for his continued to grow, becoming an industry customers and share success with his leader in designing and manufacturing Home for the Department of Mechanical Engineering associates by treating them fairly and aluminum and magnesium custom die- & Materials Science equitably. He believed that machinery casting products and assemblies. and technology weren’t going to build Don became president in 1991 and Space for department to expand its faculty by 80 percent the company, but that employees with chief executive officer in 1999 after innovative ideas and strong work ethics Henry’s death. Like his father, he received Building will be designed for LEED certification program would put Spartan at the forefront of the an Alumni Achievement Award from the die-casting industry. Helping customers School of Engineering & Applied Science with their problems was his first in 2008. That same year, he received the LEED: The Leadership in Energy and Environmental dedication, his family says. school’s John W. Kourik Volunteer of the Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is a “America needs more young people Year Award. In addition, he received the third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and who pursue engineering and other Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010. He operation of high-performance green buildings. technical disciplines to help us compete is an ex officio trustee as executive vice globally,” Don Jubel says. “It is my hope that chair of the Alumni Board of Governors, this new building will create enthusiasm serves on the school’s National Council, as and attract bright students who will serve chair of its Eliot Society and as a member as our leaders of tomorrow.” of the Patrons Committee. He also is a green Elvira Jubel, Karen Jubel, During his life, Mr. Jubel won a variety member and past president of the school’s whitaker Don Jubel, Henry Jubel of awards and honors, including an Alumni Alumni Advisory Council and cochaired the brauer Achievement Award in 1997 from the 35th Reunion of the Class of 1973. School of Engineering & Applied Science. The Jubel family has already given Don Jubel, who earned a bachelor’s much back to Washington University. In degree in mechanical engineering from 1998, Mr. Jubel established the Spartan Washington University in 1973, is now chief Light Metal Products Inc. Scholarship, executive of the company, today known as which endows four scholarships. Don and future Spartan Light Metal Products, which has his wife, Karen, also sponsor two annual jubel hall building 700 employees in operations in Sparta, scholarships. The family also set up the Ill.; Mexico, Hannibal and St. Louis, Mo.; Henry A. Jubel Foundation in 1998 to Detroit; and Tokyo. A major supplier to support young people seeking to improve the automotive industry, the company has their lives through higher education. annual sales of $200 million. Don and Karen’s daughter Lindsey While a student at Washington earned undergraduate and master’s University, Don Jubel worked in the Sparta degrees in mechanical engineering in plant every summer to learn all aspects 2009. Another daughter, Melissa, and of the business. After graduating from her husband, Herb Markwort, are both Washington University, he earned an MBA enrolled in the Executive MBA program from the University of Missouri-Columbia at Olin Business School. Herb Markwort before joining the family business full time earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in in 1975, commuting the one hour each way civil engineering at WUSTL in 2005. Elvira Sitting, from left: Don Jubel, Karen Jubel daily with his father to Sparta from their Recker Jubel died in May 2013 and was a Standing, from left: Lance Jubel, Melissa Jubel south St. Louis County home. very loyal friend of the university. Markwort, Herb Markwort, Lindsey Jubel

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his research is so important that President Moran works with Eric Leuthardt, MD, Barack Obama earmarked $100 million associate professor of neurological surgery and ALZHEIMER’S Tin the Fiscal Year 2014 budget for the neurobiology at the School of Medicine and of BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to help & materials science at the School of Engineering scientists and engineers find new ways to treat, & Applied Science and director of the Center for CONCUSSION cure and prevent brain disorders and injuries. Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology, who In addition, the National Academy of Engineers joined the project as a neurosurgery resident, has designated the reverse engineering of the and now works with humans who have electrodes brain as one of its Grand Challenges awaiting placed on the brain’s surface; and Kilian Weinberger, engineering solutions, and the European Brain PhD, assistant professor of computer science & SPINAL CORD Council declared 2014 the Year of the Brain. engineering. The team uses an interdisciplinary Learning how the brain works has the potential approach to restoring function to these patients by to improve life, from restoring function to using a brain-computer interface, a communication someone disabled by stroke or spinal cord injury method between the brain and an external device. to making Internet searches faster and more The team has a $2 million grant from the National INJURY accurate. And this research is not limited to the Science Foundation to create brain-machine The human brain is one of the most powerful structures known to man. School of Medicine. Many of these researchers are interface technology that allows direct control of conducting pioneering work in medicine and health external devices as if they were a natural extension Not only is it important to health and disease, but also to learning, at Washington University in St. Louis’ School of of the body. creativity and imagination, psychology, business and the arts. The brain Engineering & Applied Science in mechanical and electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, Engineering takes us makes life happen, and that’s why the world’s leading researchers are computer science and computational biology. from a research model focusing more intently on unlocking its mysteries. The brain-computer interface to understanding an When Dan Moran, PhD, was growing up, he watched “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic application that would Woman,” television shows that featured fictional otherwise not be possible. characters injured in accidents, then given “bionic” surgical implants that gave them superhuman — eric leuthardt, md HEARING LOSS abilities they used to fight injustice. As a high school baseball player, Moran watched his friend Moran has spent several years working with slide into home plate headfirst and break his neck. an animal model of a brain-computer interface, in This incident motivated Moran, now associate which subjects learn to control images on a screen PARKINSON’S professor of biomedical engineering, to study simply by thinking about moving them. The method electrical and biomedical engineering to find better has the potential to allow patients with spinal cord ways to restore function for patients with spinal injury and without use of a limb to move the limb cord injuries such as his friend. with their thoughts.

MIND MATTERS 2014 — Year of the Brain

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the structure (how the materials are put together) tissues,” Taber says. “The brain, the heart and other and data for validation. That’s what we’re providing,” organs are created by tissues growing and being Bayly says. deformed by mechanical forces.” The National Science Foundation also funds Supported by a five-year $1.6 ABCD Bayly’s work, including a project with Joel Garbow, million grant from the National F F F PhD, research associate professor of radiology Institutes of Health, Taber studies F * at the School of Medicine, using non-invasive how organs develop in the embryo, M M M M magnetic resonance elastrography (MRE) to view how they acquire their characteristic * and measure different properties of waves when shapes, what happens when things go H H H H they travel in different directions in the fibrous wrong and how the tissues adapt to materials of the brain. What they determine could distress. Zebra sh ultimately lead to new diagnostic tools for nerve “We look at how embryonic tissue and brain disorders and new insight into how responds to changes in the mechanical t = 0 5hr 5hr artificial tissue degrades over time. environment,” he says. “There are Chick Chick, Above: images of a Larry Taber, PhD, the Dennis and Barbara certain responses that most embryonic tissues have. Calyculin very early chicken Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering, We found a similar response in the heart and brain E brainH taking shape. collaborates with Bayly to study the shape of to changes in loads, and we think there may be some M H M MH H Chick the brain using a combination of computational fundamental principle there.” F eric young eric young ron klein } modeling and experiments. But instead of looking Above, top: A tiny F By implanting a 2-centimeter chip as thin direction physical waves travel. Philip Bayly, PhD, at the mature brain through imaging, Taber starts Listening well I Chick, computer chip d as plastic wrap in the brain, Moran and his team chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering t H M implanted in the at the very beginning by looking at how the brain People who wear hearing aids often complain aboutF M H Calyculin can record brain activity to make sophisticated & Materials Science and the Lilyan and E. Lisle MH } develops its shape. background noise interfering with their ability to brain records brain J activity. Bottom: computer models. Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Taber, an aerospace engineer by training, hear, particularly in loud environments such asG E Brain-controlled hand H Zebra sh “Normally, one side of the brain controls one collaborates with others in Engineering and studies how the neural tube, the embryo’s precursor restaurants. As a result, people may stop wearing M MH orthotics can help F hand, and the other side controls the other hand,” Medicine to take a closer look at the brain from a to the central nervous system, which includes the hearing aids or stop going out altogether. MH } speed stroke recovery. Center: a robotic arm Moran says. “When someone has a stroke, he or she mechanical perspective. brain and spinal cord, takes its shape using chicken Dennis Barbour, MD, PhD, associate professor like this one can be is affected on one side. With our special co-adaptive embryos as a model. The way the chicken brain forms of biomedical engineering, has an idea that may help controlled directly by algorithm and decoding, we’re not limited to that, so The world is going to learn in its first few days is very similar to humans in the people learn to overcome the background noise — Below, left: Philip the brain. Right: Dan we can have both hemispheres control both sides.” first trimester of development, Taber says. playing specially designed video games. Bayly working with Moran working with a about the basic physics of Ruth Okamoto, a senior Weinberger takes the data from the brain “The embryo undergoes dramatic changes in Barbour and Nancy Tye Murray, PhD, student in his lab. research associate. recordings and designs the algorithms that allow the brain injury, and also develop geometry through the stretching and bending of professor of otolaryngology and of audiology and Right: Larry Taber movement to take place. “When a person moves his hand to the right, approaches to prevention the data in the brain recordings shows that,” and therapy, through Weinberger says. “If you give that information to the algorithm, eventually it starts picking up the computer simulation.

patterns in the data and making predictions. Then — philip bayly, phd the patient can just think about moving the hand, and the robotic hand will move.” Earlier this year, Bayly received a five-year, While this may sound like science fiction, it’s the $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic perfect confluence of engineering and medicine. brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for “In the next five years, I see clinically approved prevention and treatment. The grant will allow Bayly brain-computer interfaces and consumer brain- and his research team to develop 3-D computer computer interfaces that will be more widely used models of brain biomechanics that will give and applied,” Leuthardt says. researchers and clinicians a better understanding about what happens to the brain during traumatic The mechanics behind it brain injury. WUSTL engineers study the brain’s various “It’s really hard to simulate the brain because mechanical properties, such as shape, strength, it’s very complicated. The necessary ingredients flexibility, how it handles force and in what for good simulations are the material properties, devon hill ron klein

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communication sciences at the School of Medicine, Engineers at Washington University are looking involved in forming plaques seen in Alzheimer’s recently received a grant from the University We train you to get better at the connections between these three devastating disease. This is an area of growing synergy between Research Strategic Alliance to create video games at listening by requiring you neurodegenerative diseases using interdisciplinary Pappu and Jan Bieschke, PhD, assistant professor of designed to help with listening training. The therapy to listen to the dialogue to approaches that involve collaborations between biomedical engineering and a member of the CBSE. is part of a field called cognitive neurotherapeutics, researchers within Engineering and clinical In neurodegenerative diseases, a protein in which the therapy targets the brain’s advance in the game and by scientists at the School of Medicine. The Center changes shape from a functional folded form into neuroplasticity, or the ability for the nerve cells giving strategies on how to for Biological Systems Engineering (CBSE) is a different fold in the polypeptide chain, taking on in the brain to compensate for injury and disease. an important catalyst for these collaborations. an amyloid structure in which multiple copies of Under the right circumstances, these nerve cells can listen well. Research within the center focuses on modeling, the same protein assemble into strong and stable adjust their activities in response to new situations predicting and designing functions of biological fibers. But the process of making the fibers is very — dennis barbour, md, phd or to changes in their environment. systems that result from integration of signals and toxic to the cells, Bieschke says. “Our strategy is to develop games that are fun responses of biomolecular and cellular networks. “In a brain with Alzheimer’s disease, there are Another game makes the player a detective to solve enough that people want to explore them,” Barbour says. Rohit Pappu, PhD, professor of biomedical big clumps of plaque made up of these fibril protein a crime and involves interviews with suspects and Blending neural engineering, cognitive engineering and director of the CBSE, delves into structures,” Bieschke says. “The challenge from the witnesses. The third game involves having to talk to neurotherapeutics and software design, the project the biophysics and engineering of intrinsically mechanistic perspective is understanding how that people at a cocktail party and pick up target words. Dennis Barbour reaches into cognitive, computational, rehabilitation disordered proteins, or proteins that lack a well- fibril formation process works, why it is toxic for the Rohit Pappu The video games will allow users to make choices and auditory fields. defined structure. These proteins often aggregate, cells and what can be done about it, since there is no as they go through the game. Based on the outcome, “We don’t know how much the deficit in listening or clump, leading to the death and disease of cure or treatment to slow the disease process.” Barbour and Tye-Murray will track how well they takes place in the brain compared to the ear,” neurons, as in Alzheimer’s disease. Bieschke is looking for proof-of-principle do, which may uncover new principles of auditory Barbour says. “We do know that about 30 million experiments for new therapeutic strategies. So far, training that researchers haven’t yet discovered. people in the United States have hearing loss, while Our overall mission is to he’s found two that derail the amyloid formation close to 70 million have a listening disability. It’s process, including one involving an antioxidant The biological systems approach possible that listening is a skill that could be taught bring quantitative tools to substance in green tea. Alzheimer’s disease is a tragic, progressive disease better with the right intervention.” Given the strong collaborative effort at in which memory loss, confusion, disorientation, studying this process in vivo, Barbour says they think the video games will be Washington University, progress in these areas is mood and behavior changes progressively get worse more effective than traditional listening training, in in cells and, in the end, in the likely to happen, Bieschke says. over time. It is the sixth leading cause of death in which users hear the same words “You have this strong Alzheimer’s disease the United States. Parkinson’s disease involves organism. over and over. clinical focus and you have the biophysics, biomedical shaking or tremor, stiffness in the limbs, slow The team has three games — jan bieschke, phd engineering and the CBSE that try to vertically movements and balance and posture issues and is in development. One involves integrate computational basic modeling, analysis and the 14th leading cause of death in the United States. running in exotic locales around His research has yielded important insights experimental studies. This is a very productive and Below: Jan Bieschke And Huntington’s disease is a genetically inherited the world. The runner runs faster regarding the molecular basis of Huntington’s collaborative environment,” Bieschke says. (right) works with a neurodegenerative disorder that has many of the if he or she performs better in disease. Pappu and his team are working to student in his lab. neuropathological features of Alzheimer’s and listening to the target words. understand the connection between Parkinson’s disease. genetic mutations in the protein huntingtin and cellular consequences Center for Innovation in Neuroscience & Technology (CINT) of huntingtin aggregation. This work, funded by the National Institutes of The CINT, an interdisciplinary group based Faculty in the CINT work to generate Health, has highlighted the importance wustl photo in the Department of Neurosurgery at the new ideas, study and validate them and of sequence and cellular contexts as Eric Leuthardt School of Medicine, has brought together translate them into technology that will leaders from the fields of medicine, help patients with neurologic disease, modulators of huntingtin aggregation. In the CINT’s first three years, engineering, law and business in an effort stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal These insights result from a combination to remove classic barriers between these cord injury. Their research includes the group engaged 32 clinical and of state-of-the-art computational fields to allow a more open exchange of neuroprosthetics, motor and speech modeling and experiment methods that ideas and insights. physiology, stroke rehabilitation and non-clinical inventors, resulting are used by Pappu and his team. Recently, Led by Eric Leuthardt, MD, director epilepsy, as well as clinical work with brain Pappu and his team have started to in nearly 50 ideas, 16 fellowships of the CINT, nearly half of the center’s mapping and inoperable brain tumors. and 12 patents, more than half of faculty are from the School of Engineering Ultimately, the technologies that are leverage their expertise to understand how networks of interactions with other which were licensed to industry. & Applied Science. born from the CINT will help solve medical problems with no current solution. abundant proteins in cellular contexts help modulate the properties of proteins ron klein

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Young-Shin Jun “My research can play a critical role in determining how to Meeting climate upscale environmental chemical systems to make a major impact on clean water and change head on energy availability.” Written by beth miller — young-shin jun, phd

n Korean culture, one’s name is selected very she studies three main areas, all related to meeting carefully, as each has a special meaning. For the world’s demands for clean water, air and energy: IYoung-Shin Jun, PhD, the meaning behind her geologic carbon dioxide sequestration, the process name — given to her by her grandfather — has of taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere formulated the philosophy she uses in life. or flue gases and storing it deep underground to Jun “Jun means complete, Young means forever reduce the impact of burning fossil fuels on climate and Shin means trust,” says Jun, associate change; the process of how nanoparticles form professor of energy, environmental & chemical and transform in natural and engineered aqueous engineering in the School of Engineering & systems; and managed aquifer recharge, a way to Young Applied Science. Her grandfather chose the name recycle stormwater or treated sewage effluent for because a woman named Young-Shin was the first non-potable and indirect potable reuse. congresswoman in Korea. At the time, there were Maintaining a sustainable energy-water few women in leadership positions in that country, connection is the world’s greatest environmental but Jun’s grandfather wanted her to be a leader. challenge, she says. Shin And she’s taken the name and the charge to heart. “My contribution to meeting this challenge is “This is a big name for me, because I think to advance our understanding of environmental that I should be a person who can trust completely interfacial reactions by providing in situ, real- Korean | Chinese forever,” she says. “I think about my name when time quantitative information from our unique I make decisions and ask myself if my decision experimental approaches,” Jun says. betrays anyone’s trust.” Her lab is using a novel process to determine whether nanoparticle transformation in in the lab wastewater treatment will introduce more Jun has many decisions to make as she has been adverse effects on the quality of the effluent adding to her roles in the Department of Energy, water from wastewater treatment systems, how Environmental & Chemical Engineering since these nanoparticles can be removed from the joining the faculty in 2008. Not only does she system or how they can be further used to better teach courses, she is principal investigator of the remove toxic contaminants. Already, her work Environmental NanoChemistry Laboratory, where in this area has provided new information on the

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formation of nanoparticles and their reactions in exclusively for women and the starting point natural and engineered water systems. for many of Korea’s female leaders. The timing “Jun is an excellent colleague and is making couldn’t have been better — Ewha launched its contributions both to the scientific community engineering program, and Jun is one of the first and the department, school and university,” says undergraduate students from Ewha’s engineering Pratim Biswas, PhD, chair of the Department of school. She also earned a master’s degree at Ewha. Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering “It was challenging, but challenge gives us and the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor. “She opportunities,” she says. “I learn more during pursues her research endeavors in environmental challenges than when things run smoothly.” nanochemistry with passion.” As a child, Jun loved to play in a creek near her Jun has added roles in the department outside home, catching fish and playing in the water. Years of research as well. In 2013, she became director later, she returned to the creek to find it filled of graduate studies for the department, as well with waste and devoid of fish. as the McDonnell International Scholars Academy “That motivated me to do something about it,” Ambassador to Seoul National University in she says. “In my PhD application, I wrote about it her home city. She is faculty adviser to the and said I wanted the next generation to be able to university’s chapter of the National Organization play in creeks and touch things the way I did.” for the Professional Advancement of Black While a graduate student, Jun took a Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and she has water chemistry course, and when she read the been recognized nationally with such prestigious textbook, it was love at first sight. awards as the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011 and the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2008. She is “I love water chemistry, but I wanted to expand currently on the editorial board of Environmental it because my ultimate and lifetime goal Science: Processes & Impacts. “As the graduate director of the department, is to develop water chemistry together with ron klein about Young-Shin Jun Young-Shin diligently directs the doctoral nanochemistry and nanotechnology.” program consisting of more than 95 students,” Biswas says. “She is an excellent mentor to her Jun’s sunny office in doctoral students, and her drive, discipline and “This book, ‘Aquatic Chemistry’ by Stumm Jun’s lab bridges Brauer Hall is filled with devotion to research is a great motivation to and Morgan, is the bible for an environmental engineering and science large potted plants, the students. At this early stage in her career, engineer,” she says, while gently holding the book as well as a variety of including a rose bush she has placed one of her PhD graduates as a she keeps at an arm’s reach in her office. “When I cultures and languages. she bought when she faculty member.” read this book, I realized that I really wanted to Her graduate students joined the faculty in do aquatic chemistry. That’s the reason I went for come from the United 2008. She has saved and my PhD.” States, Korea and China. finding her niche dried every rose that has Encouraged by her parents to study hard, Jun knew Jun chose a doctoral program at Harvard Front row, from left to right: blossomed on the plant. from a very young age that she wanted to take a University, coincidentally where the late Werner Lijie Zhang, Jessica Ray, Since Jun spends most of her long different path from her father and other family Stumm, PhD, and James J. Morgan, DSc, started Young-Shin Jun, PhD, Xuyang workdays thinking about tiny nanoparticles »» More than $2 million in Liu, PhD, Chelsea Neil in business: She wanted to be a professor. In Korean their research lab in the 1960s. Her research and molecules, when she gets away with research funding high schools, students choose to study either adviser, Scot Martin, PhD, the Gordon McKay Back row, from left to right: her husband, Jihun Ko, she likes to go big. Haesung Jung, Doyoon Kim, »» Number of published literature or science, and often girls are steered Professor of Environmental Chemistry, wanted to Yi Yang, PhD, Yujia Min, National parks are her favorite places to articles: 38 toward literature. build up the water chemistry area, and Jun was the Qingyun Li visit, and she’s visited all of them. “While I’m “I said ‘no’ to literature,” she says, perfect person to make that happen. looking at nature, I don’t need to think. I can emphatically. “I had good scores, and I wanted to “I really look hard to find a way I can just be there,” she says. go to engineering school. If someone tells me I contribute,” she says. “The passion and motivation can’t do something, I’m going to do it.” are the strongest justification of why I’m doing Jun went to Ewha Womans University in this. If you have passion, it helps to keep you

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STUDENTSTUDENT excel on, off the field Written by beth miller tudents in Washington University’s School “We are strongly encouraged to plan a class schedule of Engineering & Applied Science are known for having a rigorous curriculum and and work on things outside of football practice. for working very hard. But many of these students The coaches understand we came here for the ATHLETESATHLETES also make time to play — on one of the university’s education, and that’s our future. They take the athletic teams. Engineering is the most predominant major stance that education and school always come first.”

among the 2013 Washington University football — Colin Webb team and the cross-country and track & field teams. And these future engineers aren’t simply Webb says it’s not always easy to manage his filling a place on the roster — Engineering course load and football. students regularly receive national recognition for “I’ve gotten good at being organized,” he their athletic and academic accomplishments. says. “I have a big calendar in my room, and I Two Engineering students, Lucy Cheadle, write everything down so I can stay on top of a junior majoring in chemical engineering with assignments. It’s really about not procrastinating minors in environmental engineering and energy or wasting time and being disciplined. I go to class, engineering, and Anna Etherington, a senior go to practice, eat dinner and do homework.” Webb says there are several other mechanical 14 majoring in systems engineering with a minor in hours of practice operations and supply chain management engineering majors on the team, and they all work and team meetings through the Olin Business School, were selected together. That support system has helped make each week with for the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America the often grueling schedule much easier for Webb. Division III Men’s and Women’s Track & Field/ Mondays off Cross-country Teams. In July, both Cheadle and Etherington were Colin Webb named to the fifth annual University Athletic Association (UAA) President’s Council Scholar- Athlete Team. While these student athletes have different majors within Engineering and play different Anna Etherington sports, they have a lot in common — determination, outstanding scholarship, a passion for their sports and the ability to manage a difficult curriculum along with practices, games, meets and travel. Colin Webb, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, is a captain of the football team and plays the H-back position. During the season, 4.05 practice is 3.5 hours a day most weekdays, with meters, Etherington’s games and travel on Saturdays. Despite this personal best schedule, Webb also is a co-course director for Engineering 120, Freshman Seminar, with Christopher Coon, another member of the football team. He also is in a fraternity and directs the

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“From the outside it looks like a lot, but it’s says. “All it takes is communication — talk to the anything else being more demanding than a sport routine now,” he says. professor, and talk to the coach. Anything can be and a Wash U education.” “Our Engineering students not only thrive Etherington says managing her course load and worked out — it just takes communication among Athletes say they aren’t getting special academically and athletically, but they can do other pole vaulting takes a lot of “forward thinking. everybody.” treatment from coaches for being engineering “It’s all about time management to a T,” she Chris Lowery, who has been playing baseball majors, either. things, like community service or serving on advisory says. “I know that in the fall I’m still busy, because since he was 9 years old, is now a captain and third “The coaches are supportive, but they don’t committees. This is the type of school that you can be we still have practice, but no competitions, so I baseman on Washington University’s baseball separate engineering from other schools,” Lowery a part of. That’s what makes Wash U a special place.” take more or harder classes in the fall than I do in team. Because his spring semester is busy with says. “They know that Wash U is very demanding the spring,” she says. “But in the spring, I know I’m weekday practices and games, he takes 20 credit and are very understanding. They know we are — Jeff Stiles, Cross-country and Track & Field head coach 21:01 going to have practice every day from 4 to 6 p.m., hours in the fall and 16 in the spring. student athletes first.” “Colin represents the guys who have so I plan my homework schedule around that.” “I can push myself education-wise in the fall Because Cheadle competes nearly year-round Cheadle’s personal come before him and the guys who will Despite staying in the hotel to study when because I only have school,” says Lowery, a junior — cross-country in the fall, then track & field in best in 6K come after him in their ability to excel in the team travels to meets and not being able to majoring in mechanical engineering. “When the the winter and spring — she isn’t able to load more the engineering field and to get involved participate in clubs in the spring, Etherington says spring comes around, I’m still very swamped, but courses in a semester off from competing as those with activities on campus beyond football,” she’s not sacrificing anything. it’s half baseball, half school. Year-round, it’s in other sports do. But that’s how she works best, Kindbom says. “Colin does all those things “I just have a different experience,” she always busy and always demanding, but I’m able to she says. balance it out.” and does them well. He is a leader in a school where leaders abound. That’s what makes During the baseball season, Lowery has Why Washington University “I always say that it’s easier for me when I’m doing three-hour practices on weekdays, so he begins him not just special, but you look at him and both. It forces me to manage my time well, homework at 7 p.m. On spring weekends, the team Cheadle says she chose Washington University say, ‘Wow.’” because of the balance between school and running. Stiles says Etherington and Cheadle are the be efficient, plan ahead, prioritize sleep and has games and often double-headers, and the bus 123 trips to and from games aren’t conducive to good “I thought Wash U was a happy medium,” she “full package. Engineering “They could have gone Division 1, but they take care of my body, rather than staying up late study time. says. “I could be a very competitive athlete, but students are chose Division 3 because Wash U is right for them. “It just takes a lot of planning,” he says. “People school always came first. Running is important to currently playing studying for exams.” They love what Wash U has to offer them and keep telling me college is all about planning. A me, but I’m not going to do it competitively after on university wanted to be in this environment.” — Lucy Cheadle sport just multiplies that in infinite. I can’t see college. We do it because we really love it and have athletic teams a passion for the sport.” Washington University caters to students who And that passion goes a long way, says want to be athletes and engineers, Kindbom says. Lucy Cheadle Jeff Stiles, head coach for cross-country and track “I’ve proctored exams on the road for many & field. years, and many of those were engineering,” he “Lucy loves to run, and Anna loves to pole says. “That doesn’t happen at other schools.” vault,” he says. “The coaching staff can’t take any “We have to be flexible,” Duncan says. “That’s Chris Lowery credit for that. We recognize that they are two the nature of being a student athlete at Wash U elite young women who are brilliant and motivated — academics come first,” Duncan says. “One of the in the classroom and in track and cross-country. cool things about Wash U is that there is really no They are fostering the desire to do it, not just for question why these students are here. Baseball is themselves, but for the benefit of the team.” a huge part of the college experience, but it’s not Steve Duncan, head coach of the baseball team, their No. 1 focus.” says Lowery is one of the leaders of the team. The football program offers an informal “Chris is one of my favorite players I’ve ever mentoring program among its players who are coached,” Duncan says. “He gets it — he’s not only engineering majors beginning their freshman year, Kindbom says. Upperclassmen serve as mentors to 2:1 a good student, but a good teammate, is very coachable, has a great sense of humor, works new students to help them get adjusted. two hours of hard, is driven, and if anything, he puts too much “We know that our players are here for their practice and one pressure on himself. He is a joy to coach and is academics, but we also want to play for a national hour in the gym for universally well-liked on the team.” championship,” Kindbom says. “We let them know a typical workout Larry Kindbom, head coach of the football we value their engineering education, and we team for 24 years, says Webb is an outstanding value that they want to play at a national example of a scholar athlete. championship level.”

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“the greatest pleasure of being a vc is watching people younger, far smarter and more motivated than me grow up, defy the odds and build long-term, stand- alone businesses.” the man behind the magic gaurav garg

Written by beth miller

very time you wish the Internet were faster or want to save something “in the cloud,” there is a Washington University in St. Louis Engineering alumnus working to make that happen. EGaurav Garg, who earned bachelor’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering in 1988 and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1990, is the driving force behind early-stage, Silicon Valley startups looking to transform the way we use the cloud, mobile devices and big data. Garg and business partner Peter Wagner recently launched Wing Ventures, a new venture capital firm designed to build business technology companies. Starting with a $160 million fund, Wing focuses exclusively on early-stage companies with the potential to define new categories in cloud computing, mobile and big data and to provide entrepreneurs with the financial and strategic backing to build successful companies. Wing plans to invest about $8 million to $10 million over the life of each of its portfolio companies.

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When he’s not meeting San But Garg is doing much more for these Francisco with companies, Garg companies than writing a check. He is spends time with his passionate about being a true friend and wife, Komal Shah, and mentor to the entrepreneurs and sharing two children, ages 9 and first-hand knowledge from his own experience 11. Over the summer, the with launching a highly successful technology family took a bicycling trip in Europe, riding part startup, Redback Networks, in 1996. Redback, of the way from Prague which makes edge routing technology to help to Vienna. On the way garg helped build carriers deliver broadband, telephone, TV back to California, they stopped in Iceland. these companies and mobility services over Internet-based infrastructures, grew to $500 million in annual in silicon valley revenue and 1,300 employees in four years from inception. Gaurav was in the trenches, acting as CFO, chief recruiter, customer service, engineering and product management and doing whatever was needed. The company went public in 1999. San Mateo By mid-2000, Garg realized that his heart was in building companies from scratch into significant businesses. As a result, in 2001, Garg joined Sequoia Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm and his family room to set up their first Wi-Fi router. experience for Garg. About six weeks after Redback’s first investor. It takes about five to seven years to learn he started classes as a freshman, he felt “It was the best place to learn the art and the venture capital business, Garg says, but the exhilaration and panic at the same time. Coming science of venture capital, while doing what I business brings big rewards. from India, the pace expected of a college loved — backing seed-stage, early-stage and “You start out with these foggy, uncertain student in the United States was a bit of a shock. growth-stage emerging technology companies,” and impossibly fragile entities with promising “The level of teaching and quality of he says. ideas and watch them evolve over time,” Garg instruction and professors was off the charts,” Garg worked with Sequoia for 10 years, says. “It’s the founders who are driven, smart, Garg says. “It was an absolute investing in and working with startup agile and somewhat fanatical, who persuade all privilege and totally exhilarating.” companies, typically with one or two founders. sorts of communities to take chances on them Although Garg has three “my engineering He helped build multiple successful companies, with their careers, money, reputations and time.” degrees in engineering, he says he background including Netscaler, which was acquired by It takes a certain type of person to be an also received an excellent education taught me to Citrix; Aruba Networks; Ruckus Wireless, entrepreneur or venture capitalist. in economics at WUSTL. Mountain which went public in November 2012 and has a “It takes patience and equanimity, and above “All of the economics classes think in an View $1.5 billion market capitalization, or the total all, faith in the company,” Garg says. I took were spectacular because organized way Milpitas value of the issued shares; FireEye, which went It can take six to nine years of hard work they really opened my world Sunnydale and to relate public Sept. 20 and has a $5 billion market and long hours for the companies in which beyond engineering,” he says. capitalization; RingCentral, which went public Garg invests his time, knowledge and money “Having breadth of learning today to technical Sept. 27, with a market cap of $1.1 billion. to come to maturity and prepare for an initial is incredibly useful to me in my job, problems.” MobileIron, Jasper Wireless and Jawbone are all public offering. where you have to look at everything on a trajectory to go public as well. “I don’t think of this as a job,” he says. “It’s from every angle. I’ve become better San Jose Garg’s excitement is evident as he recalls such a privilege to watch these companies grow at figuring out first-order issues and variables when the founder of FireEye, Ashar Aziz, first from two or three people to become what they lurking in the background.” approached him with an idea. Garg says he have, in many cases public companies with “Working with early-stage companies is was immediately interested, but it took the revenue of more than half a billion dollars, and not a great business model,” Garg says. “There two of them a few months to create the right work with them over the years. You learn a lot, are easier ways to make money. All of us in the presentation for venture capital funders. And and it’s very humbling.” early-stage venture business do this because the founders of Ruckus Wireless camped out in Washington University was a new we enjoy it and love our craft.”

24 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu fall 2013 > Engineering Momentum 25 alumni news alumni achievement alumni achievement award technical strategy to support the President’s The ability to optically observe individual national security objectives and the Secretary’s nanometer-sized molecules is now having a award recipients 2013 Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz priorities. He launched a variety of department broad interdisciplinary impact, from biophysical As president of Gallaudet University in and international initiatives, including large and cellular studies of proteins, enzymes, DNA data analytics, decision support, engineering and RNA, to physical/analytical chemistry >> Watch a short video of each awardee: engineering.wustl.edu/alumniawards Washington, D.C., T. Alan Hurwitz is at the forefront of higher education for the deaf in education and electronic warfare concepts as of rare analytes, to spectroscopy of defects the United States. Hurwitz’s leadership in the future capabilities for the nation. in solids, to materials science of amorphous education of the deaf, specifically in higher materials and to single-photon sources of education, and in advocating for the rights of Mr. James V. Leonard quantum mechanical light. deaf individuals throughout the nation and In September 2012, James V. Leonard, senior the world has elevated the deaf community technical fellow at Boeing Defense Space & young alumni award and society. Security, celebrated 50 years with the company. Hurwitz spent 40 years at the National Over the course of his career, he opened the door Captain Joel Groves Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the to integrating the Harpoon missile on the F-16 U.S. Army Captain Joel Groves has boldly Rochester Institute of Technology. Hurwitz fighter by developing the Harpoon University represented his country in three tours of began at NTID as an educational specialist Launch Adapter Unit. He also designed and Afghanistan and Iraq since earning a bachelor’s and held a variety of management positions, patented new technology that has kept the degree in mechanical engineering in 2006 on a including president and chief executive Harpoon relevant and ready for the warfighter. four-year Army ROTC scholarship. officer. At the same time, he earned a Leonard is widely respected in the As a lieutenant, Groves attended U.S. doctorate in education from the University of aerospace electronics industry as an expert Army Ranger School, won the 2008 Best Sapper Rochester. Since January 2010, Hurwitz has in aircraft weapons systems integration in Competition and deployed to Iraq to lead a led a 1,600-student population at Gallaudet military aircraft. He is one of only 62 technical Route Clearance Platoon. His team proved to University, the world’s only liberal arts leaders at Boeing out of 59,000 scientists be the best in Iraq, finding more improvised university, where programs are designed to and engineers. His contributions in the field explosive devices (IEDs) than any other unit in accommodate students who are deaf or hard of weapon systems integration have had a 2009. As a result, Groves was selected among of hearing. To many of these students, Hurwitz significant technological and economic impact candidates nationwide to receive the U.S. Army Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz The Honorable Zachary Lemnios Mr. James V. Leonard is a role model. in the military weapons industry and have Forces Command 2009 Outstanding Engineer played a vital role in national security. Platoon Leader Award. The Honorable Zachary Lemnios Zachary Lemnios earned a master’s degree Dr. W. E. Moerner dean’s award in electrical engineering from Washington W. E. Moerner, PhD, is chair of the Department University in St. Louis in 1979 and is an of Chemistry at Stanford University, where Dr. Frank Yin internationally recognized leader in advanced he also is the Harry S. Mosher Professor in Frank Yin, MD, PhD, is past chair of the technologies for national security. Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Department of Biomedical Engineering at He recently took the helm as vice president Applied Physics. His research focuses on Washington University in St. Louis. Although he for research strategy at IBM, where he is physical chemistry, chemical physics, single- stepped down as chair in June, he will remain the responsible for outlining the research strategy molecule biophysics, super-resolution imaging Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Distinguished across IBM’s 12 global labs, transitioning and nanoparticle trapping. Professor of Biomedical Engineering. innovative research concepts to products and Moerner created a new field of science — Yin came to Washington University in leading the IBM Global Technology Outlook. single-molecule spectroscopy and imaging — by St. Louis from the Johns Hopkins University Previously, Lemnios served three terms being the first to perform optical detection and School of Medicine in 1997 to lead the budding in the U.S. Department of Defense. He was spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed biomedical engineering department. During confirmed as the Honorable Assistant Secretary matter in 1989. This discovery is widely seen his 15-plus-year tenure, he handpicked 18 of of Defense (Research & Engineering) by the as one of the most important developments the now 20 world-class faculty members who U.S. Senate. In this position, Lemnios was the in biophysical chemistry, physical/analytical make up the department, which has become chief technology officer for the Department chemistry and chemical physics on the one of the fastest-growing and most successful Dr. W. E. Moerner Captain Joel Groves Dr. Frank Yin of Defense and shaped the department’s nanoscopic scale during the past two decades. departments at the university.

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Carter heads international Engineering students get education & research in summer lessons outside Left: Students encouncil Engineering the classroom working in the School Dedric A. School of Engineering undergraduate of Medicine; th Carter, PhD, has students spent their summers continuing to Below: Students been named in Brisbane, learn about engineering, though outside of Australia associate dean the traditional classroom. for international Victor Irony, Jake Lyonfields, Emily 100 education & Storey and Anshu Tirumali worked anniversary research and as interns in Facilities Engineering at From left: Nick DiVincenzo, Sarah Jeu, Jeremy Veis, Michelle Lee, Nick Reim photos by ray marklin professor of the School of Medicine to further the the practice in university’s goal of becoming more The EnCouncil, a student organization the School of sustainable and reducing energy use in the focused on representing the student Engineering & Applied Science at school’s many research labs. body to the administration and bringing Washington University. The four interns went to research labs students together through social events, marked its 100th anniversary Sept. 20-21 In the newly created role, at the medical school to collect information at Washington University in St. Louis. Carter is ambassador-at-large about equipment and to record model and Alumni, faculty and current students for the McDonnell International serial numbers, amperage, wattage and celebrated the anniversary through a Scholars Academy and is developing other information. They created a database variety of events, including a happy hour, St. Louis Blues hockey game, brunch, a international research partnerships for the information they gathered to see Experience visits a different country each State of the School presentation and an with McDonnell Academy partners; how many pieces of each type of equipment summer, in collaboration with McDonnell anniversary banquet. View more photos: developing graduate, professional exist and to calculate the energy used. In Global Energy and Environment Partnership facebook.com/WUSTLengineering certificate and summer programs for Joy and Glen Stuckel Kevin Cheung, Pratik Sachdeva, Tylon Wong total, they counted and took data from partner universities, providing students with international students; and working 2,300 pieces of lab equipment. The team opportunities to learn how other countries with corporate partners to provide looked at electricity costs, operations and handle energy and environmental challenges. undergraduate and graduate practice maintenance, initial costs and how they all The trip included lectures at the University opportunities abroad. He also provides worked together to see which were the best. of Queensland and visits to area labs. support for entrepreneurship programs Seeing it in practice In late May, Frank Yin, MD, PhD, in the school, and as professor of the Students in the School of Engineering & professor of biomedical engineering, took practice, teaches a course emphasizing Applied Science learn more than how to be a group of five rising seniors majoring in the role of scientists and engineers in an engineer: They also learn to be leaders in biomedical engineering on a two-week trip policy formation. a global society. to Hong Kong and China to fit and make Carter joined Engineering July 1 Sixteen WUSTL students went to custom orthotics for young children with from the National Science Foundation Brisbane, Australia, for the International cerebral palsy in rural China. (NSF), where he was a senior adviser Experience program. The International to the director for strategic initiatives. g engineering.wustl.edu/summer2013

In this role, he was a co-creator and a Gage Crawford, Megan Tetlow, Tilo Buergel The Osgood Family senior leader of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps), a program that WUracing reaches goals at prepares scientists and engineers Michigan competition to extend their focus beyond the The 22-member team placed 43rd laboratory to broaden the impact of overall out of 120 teams that entered select NSF-funded research. the competition, held in May at the Michigan International Speedway. It also placed 15th overall for the car’s fuel economy.

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Ju to study shape analysis with methods exist for the laboratory use magnetic resonance The team will use a technique Moon receives Grand Zhang receives prestigious NSF grant bench, they’re not sensitive enough to elastrography called scanning transmission X-ray Challenges Explorations DARPA Young Faculty Award give both an image of living tissue and (MRE), a non- microscopy (STXM), which uses a high- Grant from Gates Foundation Fuzhong Zhang, reveal what’s going on in living tissue. invasive technique, powered X-ray beam focused to about PhD, has been Engineers Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene to view and 30 nanometers, providing researchers Tae Seok Moon, working to find K. Beare Distinguished Professor of measure different with nanoscale maps of the elements PhD, assistant alternative Biomedical Engineering, and Mark properties of waves and their oxidation states. professor of energy, solutions Anastasio, PhD, professor and interim when they travel in engineering.wustl.edu/iron g to replace chair of Biomedical Engineering, intend different directions in environmental petroleum. Now, to meet those challenges by adapting a the fibrous materials. & chemical Shining a little light changes he has received unique imaging technology their team is Bayly also received a three-year, engineering, metal into semiconductor will pursue an $860,000 developing. $395,000 grant from the NSF to fuzhong zhang Tao Ju, PhD, associate professor of an innovative award to use Wang and Anastasio recently measure the mechanical properties tae seok moon computer science & engineering, common bacteria to make gasoline received a four-year award from the and processes that lead to motion in global health has received a three-year, $242,020 and other chemicals derived from National Institutes of Health for nearly the cilia and flagella. The team will and development research project to grant from the National Science petroleum. $2.5 million to modify a high-speed measure the mechanics in genetically address parasite infection in people in Foundation. With the funding, Ju and Zhang, assistant professor of imaging method called photoacoustic modified flagella in algae that are close developing countries. his collaborators seek to develop energy, environmental & chemical computed tomography, or PACT, for in structure and behavior to human cilia. While there are drugs to help kill mathematical foundations and engineering, has received a Young use in research studies. The team will Their findings could lend new insight into parasite worms and eggs in the body, computational algorithms for a new Faculty Award from the Defense enhance PACT technology by combining how cilia fail in disease and ultimately to there is no long-term strategy to class of shape descriptors. These Advanced Research Project Agency laser light and sound waves. Light new diagnostic tools or therapy. prevent disease transmission. Moon descriptors will be able to characterize (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of alone can detect structures in living By blending their expertise, two has proposed to engineer probiotic higher-level shape information g engineering.wustl.edu/biomechanics Defense. He is the first faculty member tissue. But imaging methods using materials science engineers changed the bacteria that would be added to than those currently studied and at Washington University in St. Louis to light alone can lose sensitivity. Adding electronic properties of a new class of donated foods, then reproduce in the will assist in applications, including receive the award, which recognizes an sound waves tells researchers what’s Iron uptake by plants focus of materials — just by exposing it to light. intestine, where parasite eggs are shape segmentation, model retrieval elite group of scientists early in their happening in whole animals in real time. I-CARES grant With funding from I-CARES, produced, and come out of the body and analysis of biomedical images. careers at research universities. Parag Banerjee, PhD, and Srikanth with the eggs in waste. engineering.wustl.edu/labimaging Both humans and plants need iron in their In addition, the team will develop g Grand Challenges Explorations Zhang’s award funds up to three diets, or else they get sick and don’t grow. Singamaneni, PhD, and both assistant and distribute online software that (GCE) funds ideas that can break the years of research on his plan to engineer Humans can eat iron-rich foods or take a professors of materials science, implements the new algorithms. mold in how to solve persistent global bacteria to produce nonnatural fatty Bayly to study biomechanics supplement, but for plants, the process brought together their respective health and development challenges. acids, which can be easily converted to g engineering.wustl.edu/shapeanalysis with two NSF grants is more complicated, as areas of research. Singamaneni’s area Moon’s project is one of the Grand advanced biofuels and chemicals that Philip Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. iron in the soil has to be of expertise is in making tiny, pebble- Challenges Explorations Round 10 could reduce demand on the world’s Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical dissolved before the like nanoparticles, particularly gold Wang, Anastasio to adapt grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates petroleum supply. Engineering and chair of the plant can absorb it. nanorods. Banerjee’s area of expertise imaging technology for lab use Foundation. Department of Mechanical Engineering With a one- is making thin films. They wanted to see with NIH grant & Materials Science, has received a year grant from how the properties of both materials three-year, $429,222 grant from the Washington would change when combined. National Science Foundation to study University’s The research was published online NIH awards Wang Transformative Research Award directionally dependent mechanical International Center in August in ACS Applied Materials & Lihong Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor properties in muscle, white matter in for Advanced Renewable Interfaces. of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering the brain or artificial tissue. In the brain, Energy & Sustainability (I-CARES), The research team took the gold & Applied Science, has received a 2013 Transformative white matter holds the nerve fibers that Daniel E. Giammar, PhD, the Harold nanorods and put a very thin blanket of Research Award from the National Institutes of Health wire cells together. Fibers in tissue also D. Jolley Associate Professor of zinc oxide on top. When they turned on (NIH). He was one of only 10 recipients of the award, given to determine mechanical stiffness and environmental & chemical engineering, light, they noticed that the composite scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major strength and influence in which direction plans to use some high-tech methods had changed from one with metallic contemporary challenges in biomedical research. The award Sophisticated imaging techniques such waves travel during motion. But these to better understand the processes, properties into a semiconductor, a promotes interdisciplinary approaches by investigators who as CT scans and MRIs help doctors spot fibers also make it difficult to measure mechanics and interfaces that plants use material that partly conducts current. propose research that has the potential to create or overturn a host of medical problems, ranging lihong wang the properties without taking invasive to move iron from the soil, through water fundamental paradigms. from cancer to torn ligaments. Although g engineering.wustl.edu/semiconductor measures. Bayly and colleagues plan to and into the plant. miniaturized systems based on these

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Four new faculty join the School of Engineering & Applied Science Computer Science & Engineering welcomed two new faculty members and a department the last word: chair, and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science welcomed one new faculty member. Roch Guérin, PhD, joined Engineering His multiview stereo (MVS) algorithm Cybersecurity as professor and chair of Computer has been recognized as the best Science & Engineering. Guérin was 3-D reconstruction algorithm from previously the Alfred Fitler Moore calibrated photographs based on an Professor of Telecommunications evaluation conducted by Computer Mobile and Internet technology has become an integral part Networks and professor of electrical Vision researchers. The software has of our daily lives, and most of us don’t think twice about and systems engineering and computer been used in numerous academic and sending information via smartphones while out in public. and information science at the industrial settings, including several But each year, about 431 million adults worldwide University of Pennsylvania. He was visual effect companies for real roch guérin yasutaka furukawa are victims of cybercrime, costing $388 billion based installed as the Harold B. and Adelaide film-production purposes, as well as on time and monetary loss. Each of us has a part to play G. Welge Professor of Computer Science Oct. 8. at Google. Most recently, he developed and deployed state- This fall, the Sever Institute, in cybersecurity, from smartphone users to software of-the-art computer vision and graphics techniques into real partnering with the Olin Business developers to law enforcement. Sanmay Das, PhD, joins the School products at Google. He also is a pioneer in the automated 3-D School, launched a master’s degree in cyber security management Washington University in St. Louis is responding to of Engineering & Applied Science reconstruction and visualization techniques for indoor scenes. program designed to provide area the ever-increasing threats to information and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute Before joining Google, Furukawa was a research associate professionals and full-time students cybersecurity as well as the growing need for trained and State University (Virginia Tech), at the University of Washington. He earned a doctorate from with the skills needed to prepare professionals in the field. where he was associate professor the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s for and stop cyber attacks in their In October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, of computer science. His research degree from the University of Tokyo. workplace. The master’s degree is the the Professional Education program in the Henry Edwin interests are in artificial intelligence, only one in the St. Louis area and one of only a few such graduate programs Sever Institute in the School of Engineering & Applied specifically in computational social Alumna Jessica Wagenseil, DSc, joins in the country. The goal is to educate Science hosted a panel of faculty experts representing science and machine learning. Mechanical Engineering & Materials and train an effective pipeline of Engineering, Law and Business on privacy in cybersecurity, sanmay das He received a National Science Science as an associate professor. future professionals in the field. social media and big data. Foundation CAREER award in 2010 and also has received Wagenseil studies cardiovascular For more information, visit In addition, the university hosted a threat-modeling research funding from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science mechanics, specifically cardiovascular sever.wustl.edu/cybersecurity workshop in September for information security officers Foundation and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects development, extracellular matrix from Monsanto Co., Wells Fargo Advisors, Scottrade, Activity (IARPA). He has served in various roles with computer proteins and microstructurally Ameren Corp., Enterprise Bank, Emerson and other leading science organizations and at conferences in artificial based constitutive modeling. Her area corporations offering hands-on experience in the intelligence and machine learning. work is important for testing clinical jessica wagenseil best practices of countering threats to sensitive corporate Das earned a master’s and a doctorate in computer interventions for elastin-related information. Those who attended had the opportunity science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology diseases and for designing better protocols for building to take part in a model of an information security threat and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. He conducted tissue-engineered blood vessels. and learn from each other to be better prepared for the postdoctoral research at the University of California, San She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology emerging threats security professionals face daily. Diego, before joining the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic and physiology with Robert Mecham, PhD, at Washington Institute as an assistant professor in computer science with a University School of Medicine. She earned a doctorate in courtesy appointment in the Lally School of Management. biomedical engineering at Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from the University of Yasutaka Furukawa, PhD, joins the faculty from Google Inc., California, San Diego. Wagenseil joins Engineering from a where he was a software engineer and researched automated faculty appointment in biomedical engineering at Saint 3-D reconstruction and visualization techniques from images. Louis University.

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