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VANGUARDS OF THE FUTURE

Early career leadership in research and education wins National Science Foundation support Contents RU Engineer From the Dean I Sections

02 IMPACT Thomas N. Farris, Ph.D. d e a n Drones that fly and swim, driverless cars, hazardous waste Susan Kilduff associate dean, administration and planning disposal, energy storage, and H. Spencer Masloff more lead SoE advances. associate vice president, development

Henrik Pedersen, Ph.D. 32 FACULTY VIEW professor and associate dean, academic programs Prabhas Moghe is making Peng Song, Ph.D. Let’s Get Revolutionary connections and building associate dean, undergraduate education 10 28 alliances in engineering and health sciences. hen I came to Rutgers nearly has embarked on a plan to chart our next 150 RU i Engineer Staff seven years ago, the university years. A strategic plan outlines a series of goals editor 33 FACULTY NEWS Diane Reed was on the verge of transition. that individually encompass education, strategic SoE notables can be found director, communications and marketing A palpable change was in the air partnerships with industry, student success, among our newest and most a l u m n i e d i t o r established faculty members. Annie Nienaber which sharpened my decision to research, and a strengthened community, but director, development Wcome aboard and be part of collectively are united in 35 STUDENT NEWS a r t d i r e c t o r this dynamic community. The academic excellence. Nina Ovryn .Summer internships provide School of Engineering wrapped The premiere issue of contributing w r i t e r s a launch pad for adventure. Carl Blesch up its 150th anniversary early the School of Engineering . Caitlin Mollison SoE students are out front David Schwab last year just in time for the magazine is an opportunity and succeeding. Amy Wagner university to kick off its 250 to tell stories that touch e d i t o r i a l a s s i s t a n t 37 ALUMNI NEWS Agi Vannucci celebration year on November on each of our target goals Alumni demonstrate their 10, 2015. Founded 10 years be- and inform, enlighten, and commitment to SoE in unique fore the American Revolution, inspire. As you read through RU I Engineer Spring 2016 16 32 and personal ways. Volume 1, Number 1 Rutgers is the eighth oldest these pages, I hope you will Copyright 2016 by Rutgers University School of Engineering. Articles may institution of higher learning get a sense of the energy 40 SOE ACHIEVERS be reprinted with the permission of the Office of Communications and Marketing. in the United States. that is shaping our school For Jackelynne Silva-Martinez Please send address changes and other Features ENG’08 a mission to Mars is correspondence to: Let’s Get Revolutionary is from the achievements of just part of the job. the Rutgers charge during this yearlong com- our students and commitment of our faculty, to RU I Engineer Rutgers University-New Brunswick memoration. The revolutionary theme is easy the strength of our research and success of our School of Engineering 06 22 SOE BY THE NUMBERS 98 Brett Road, B-211 for the School of Engineering to get behind. As alumni. We are, indeed, revolutionary! Piscataway, NJ 08854 Weeks Hall Opens Doors Coming Home 848-445-2214 engineers, we are always revealing new inno- The School of Engineering is preparing to break No fewer than 20 School of Engineering soe.rutgers.edu vations and discoveries that have the power to ground on a new building designed to provide a graduates are contributing their expertise revolutionize the way we live, work, and think. gateway to engineering on the Busch campus. to Rutgers’ 600,000-square-foot College thomas n. farris Follow Rutgers School dean school of engineering PHOTOGRAPH: DENNIS CONNORS PHOTOGRAPH: Over the last few years, Rutgers Engineering , Avenue redevelopment project. of Engineering on 10 The Beauty of the BEAST 28 f a c e b o o k : Meet the BEAST (Bridge Evaluation and Team Work Rutgers University School of Engineering School of Engineering Industry Advisory Board Accelerated Structural Testing). It’s big, yellow, Working across engineering disciplines, i n s t a g r a m : Partner Goodwin Procter, LLP; Vice President, Preclinical Manufacturing and and a first among bridge research labs. SoE researchers are advancing lifesaving rutgerssoe Mark J. Abate, Esq. (ENG’84), Vice Chair I Kevin M. Bailey, Ph.D. (GSNB’83, GSNB’87) Process Development I Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; Robert Beardsley (ENG’68) President I Cypress E&P Corporation; Charles T. Chang (GSNB’75) President I Topline biomedical innovations. Products, Inc.; Peter Cherasia (ENG’84) Managing Director, Global Head of Market Strategies (Ret.) J. P. Morgan; Remo Colarusso, Jr. (ENG’83, RBSG’88) Vice l i n k e d i n : I Rutgers Engineering Society President, Manufacturing and Technical Operations I Janssen Supply Chain; Kenneth Cornew (ENG’87) Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial OfficerI ON THE COVER Exelon Corporation; President and CEO I Exelon Generation; Lt. General Charles E. Croom (ENG’73) Vice President of Cyber Security Solutions I Lockheed Martin Federal 16 Professor Deirdre O’Carroll is using Systems, Inc.; Director, Engineering Rotorcraft Systems The Boeing Company; Executive Vice President t w i t t e r : Patrick Dolan (ENG’84) I Michael Goodkind, Ph.D. (ENG’65) organic light-emitting materials (Ret.) I Alfred Benesch & Co.; Keiko Harvey (ENG’72) Principal I KT Harvey Consulting, L.L.C.; Colette Hazen (ENG’93) Director Network Operations Center-East I Verizon Leading in Energy Planning Rutgers SOE as energy-efficient alternatives to Communications, Inc.; Thomas A. Kennedy, Ph.D. (ENG’77) Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerI Raytheon Company; Robert Kuchinski (ENG’86); Tilak Lal (ENG’84) Industrial engineering professor Mohsen Jafari Senior Managing Director, Head of Risk Management I K2Advisors, LLC; Jeffrey Lowinger (ENG’83) Senior Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, In- LCD- and LED-based lighting. dustrial Sector I Eaton Corporation; Joanna L. Martinez (ENG’75, GSNB’77) Principal I Supply Chain Advisors LLC; James C. Nelson (ENG’83) Director, Project Valuation believes an energy revolution is overdue and Photograph : Bill Cardoni and Enterprise Risk Management I PSEG Services Corporation; Joseph O’Malley (ENG’82, CLAW’92) Partner and Global Chair of Intellectual Property I Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP; Scott Ogilvie (ENG’76) President (Ret.) I Bechtel Systems; Nicholas Paraskevopoulos, Ph.D. (GSNB’94) Vice President of Advanced Maritime Rutgers is well-positioned to lead the way. and IAMD Systems I Northrop Grumman Corp.; Brian P. Reilly (ENG’80), Chair Project Director, Uranium Processing Facility I Department of Energy; Peter A. Smith, Ph.D. (ENG’88, GSNB’90, GSNB’92) President, Transportation and Industrial Segment I Polypore International, Inc.; Richard N. Weeks (ENG’50) Chairman I Weeks Marine, Inc. Impact I Spring 2016

Shaping the lready one of the more successful ing techniques for pharmaceuticals. And earlier last Gifts & Grants Future of the and innovative industries in the year, Janssen Supply Chain furthered its strategic Pharmaceutical United States, the pharmaceutical partnership with the school by providing more than business is moving $6 million to expand ongoing Industry quickly to prepare for research efforts supporting a future when new medicines will be “This support that company’s introduction of A demonstrates Rutgers’ easier and less costly to manufacture, continuous manufacturing. GLENN AMATUCCI (MSE) and the Rutgers School of Engineering leadership in advanced “Continuous manufactur- High Energy Batteries pharmaceutical ($1,100,000; U.S. Government) is playing a critical role in these efforts. manufacturing and ing represents a key component In October, the U.S. Food and Drug ability to provide of advanced pharmaceutical Administration (FDA) awarded $4.9 expertise and support. manufacturing and will pro- million in grant funding to institutions ” duce significant improvements QIZHONG GUO (CEE) ~FERNANDO J. MUZZIO in a research consortium based at in quality, safety, efficiency, Marshes Creek Flood Protection the Rutgers School of Engineering to cost, and speed to market,” and Wetlands Restoration ($2,720,000; National Fish support the introduction of continuous manufactur- said Fernando J. Muzzio, director of the National and Wildlife Foundation) Science Foundation/Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) at Rutgers. “This support demonstrates Rutgers’ lead- ership in advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing and ability to provide expertise and support.” Continuous manufacturing offers a number of ASHUTOSH GOEL (MSE) Apatite and Sodalite Based Glass- significant benefits, and over time, is likely to replace bonded Ceramic Waste Forms conventional batch processing for many products; “Naviator” Drone Flies and Swims for Iodine-129 and Mixed Halide the new technology already is standard in many other Radioactive Wastes ($640,000; U.S. Department of Energy) industries. In recent years, the pharmaceutical indus- try has accelerated the transition to continuous man- HE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH HAS AWARDED RUTGERS UNIVERSITY A ufacturing, following explicit support from the FDA. grant to develop a drone equally adept at flying through the air and navigating under- But there are many technical hurdles to overcome, water. F. Javier Diez, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace which is why the agency and industry are relying on Engineering, had been dabbling with the concept for years, but when he demon- assistance from Rutgers and C-SOPS to help develop strated it to Navy research officials they almost immediately funded his work on ATHINA PETROPULU (ECE) systems and regulations to speed this transformation. new versions of the air-and-water craft. n “They told me they’d never seen anything like it,” Fellowship in Bio-electrical Engineering ($922,743; U.S. T n said Diez, who predicts many potential applications. For Department of Education) search and rescue, the “Naviator” could scan the water from above to locate missing swimmers and sailors, and upon spotting Awards & Distinctions 10M shipwreck debris could dip underwater to further examine A video of the “Naviator” took flight on social media, gaining the scene. At an oil spill site, it could map the spread of a spill INNOVATORS HONORED Recognizing a pioneer Frenkiel (left), contributed to establishing more than 10 million views and see how deep the plume reaches. An air-and-water drone in one week. Watch the video at: “prolific spirit of innovation” and discovery, WinLab’s the world’s first cell phone networks. Yarmush (right), soe.rutgers.edu/naviator ALI MAHER (CAIT/CEE) could also help engineers inspect underwater structures, such Transportation Safety Resource and Distinguished Professor holds 22 patents in the field of biotechnology and Richard H. Frenkiel as bridge and dock piers, ship hulls, and oil drilling platforms. Center ($810,000; State of Martin L. Yarmush (BME) were named National bioengineering and his work has been instrumental And in naval warfare, a fleet of drones could be station- New Jersey Department of Transportation) Academy of Inventors Fellows for 2015. Cellular in the development of breakthrough technologies. ed out of sight in an underwater base or on a submarine.

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(Hazardous) Waste Not, Want Not Aerospace Degree Takes Flight at Rutgers

N HIS SHORT TIME AS A FACULTY MEMBER AND RESEARCHER ith more than 800 Rutgers graduates faculty member who is an expert in that field, and has addi- at Rutgers, Ashutosh Goel, assistant professor of materials science working at Lockheed Martin alone, tional hires planned to expand and complement expertise and engineering, has successfully ventured into the area of radio- it makes sense that Rutgers will soon in the area. Rutgers is also involved in the Mid-Atlantic active and chemical waste disposal. With support from the Office of become the first public university in Aviation Partnership, a university consortium conducting River Protection of the U.S. Department of Energy, he is part of a New Jersey to offer research for the Federal Aviation Admin- research team contributing innovative solutions to a degree in aerospace engineering. istration to integrate unmanned aircraft I W “We’ve been working the Hanford cleanup project in Washington State— While the Department of Mechani- into the nation’s airspace. home to more than 55 million gallons of radioactive cal and Aerospace Engineering has many with our industry Among the aerospace engineering advisory board to define and chemical waste stored in 177 underground tanks. aerospace engineering experts on its fac- a profile for this degree. industries nearby that hire Rutgers gradu- The waste was generated as a result of 45 years of ulty and has offered an aerospace engi- It’s not every day you ates are Lockheed Martin in South Jersey, plutonium production in support of the nation’s de- neering certificate to its mechanical engi- design a new degree.” Boeing in Philadelphia, and Sikorsky in fense programs. n According to Goel, the research ASHUTOSH GOEL, neering students for decades, students Connecticut. Many technology companies

New Tech City team is working to increase waste loading beyond the assistant professor interested in the field have not been able ~ALBERTO CUITIÑO in the area also provide engineering prod- of materials science point where the glass crystallizes during cooling. The and engineering to earn a degree focused on aerospace en- ucts and services in the aerospace field and he future of driving is upon us and it’s formation of nepheline crystals in the glass severely gineering. Each year over 60 engineering employ Rutgers engineers. shaping up to be less Back to the Future T affects the chemical durability of the final waste form, providing a challenge students pursue certificates in the field: a critical mass and more Knight Rider. The latest electric, con- for its long-term performance in a geological repository. n “Our research of interest to support a full-fledged degree program. nected, and autonomous vehicles are designed looks at the crystallization problem in high-level waste glass and its impact “We’ve been working with our industry not to fly, but to talk to each other and the in- on the chemical durability of the final waste form,” he said. advisory board to define a profile for this degree,” frastructure around them, resulting in more said Alberto Cuitiño, department chair and professor efficient, economical, and safer travel. n At of mechanical and aerospace engineering. “It’s not every Rutgers, SoE professors Peter Jin (CEE), Marco day you design a new degree. We are building a program Gruteser (ECE), and Jingang Yi (MAE) are TOP OF THE LIST with unique features.” ILLUSTRATION: DANNY SCHWARTZ DANNY ILLUSTRATION: laying the groundwork to establish a research U.S. News & World and testing platform for innovative technolo- Report ranks One of those features will be unmanned aircraft Rutgers Univer- systems, often referred to as drones, which have signifi- gies in transportation. n The planned testing sity’s Industrial platform will be a miniature environment that Engineering cant growth potential for uses such as pipeline inspection, graduate program replicates—to the approximate size of half a among the top search-and-rescue, weather monitoring, and farming. The basketball court—an infrastructure of roads, 20 in the nation. School of Engineering recently hired Xiaoli Bai, a new buildings, traffic signals, and vehicles embedded with smartphones and sensors. The hybrid envi- ronment will include vehicle control interface, a Reading List global sensing and control system, and wireless charging stations. n “By creating a technical REAL ENGINEERS READ Each semester, around a work of fiction or nonfiction related and functioning traffic management system in scholars in the Rutgers School of Engineering Honors to science and engineering. The group is currently a scaled down form we will be able to simulate driving experiences and conduct research on Academy and interested deans and faculty members reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for RUTGERS IS HELPING DEVELOP advanced glass formulations for participate in the Rutgers Engineers Assessing a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance and delving into futuristic technologies or scenarios more safely vitrified waste that reduce the volume of glass produced, which is vital to and efficiently,” said Jin. safe and efficacious radioactive and chemical waste disposal. Literature (REAL) program, engaging in discussions the life of the famed inventor and entrepreneur.

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RICHARD WEEKS HALL OF ENGINEERING OPENS

DOORSTO A NEW ERA OF ENGINEERING AT RUTGERS

$10 million in donations honors alumnus and chairman of leading marine and construction firm, and will promote team-based learning, manufacturing, and sustainable systems research 444

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he School of Engineering inspire our students, showing them is moving forward on the construction how they too can do what Mr. Weeks of the Richard Weeks Hall of Engineer- and others have done with their Rutgers ing, the new 100,000-square-foot engineering degrees.” facility that will serve as the gateway to Farris said that the new building, engineering on Busch campus. It will expected to be completed in 2018, will house the School of Engineering’s De- make Rutgers more competitive in partment of Civil and Environmental attracting talent to the school. Engineering, as well as laboratories for “Having a state-of-the-art facility advanced manufacturing and environ- will speak very strongly to potential stu- mentally sustainable resources and dents, their parents, and the faculty we systems, classrooms, and collaborative recruit going forward,” he said. “It will workspaces. The facility is also the first also further boost our reputation among in Rutgers’ history to be named for a New Jersey’s high schools and the coun- School of Engineering alumnus. selors and teachers who encourage their With gifts of $10 million to the best students to consider Rutgers.” “One has only to look at the of the largest marine construction, dredging, foundation of the Weeks family and corporate FAMILY AFFAIR Rutgers University Foundation, the Farris also noted that the building and tunneling organizations in North America, cultures. Together with many similar family The gateway engineering T building will be named to new building will be named in honor supports the priority that Rutgers’ stra- backgrounds of almost all the performing such recent high-profile jobs as stories, these experiences go to the heart of what honor class of 1950 alumnus of 1950 alumnus Richard N. Weeks, tegic plan places on engineering, pro- recovering the stricken US Airways plane that makes the United States such a special place.” Richard N. Weeks, chair and third generation leader of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely “The role of Rutgers in carrying on this leg- chairman of Weeks Marine, one of the moting interdisciplinary research that Weeks Marine Inc., pictured leading marine construction, dredg- generates large-scale federal funding. engineering greats in our landed in the Hudson River, transporting the acy is clear,” said Richard S. Weeks. “New Jersey on opposite page with his son ing, and tunneling firms in the United These capabilities also will encourage Space Shuttle Enterprise by barge from Kenne- is a state with great diversity, truly a melting pot Richard S. Weeks, left, who serves as CEO and president States and Canada. Weeks donated $6 startup companies and established in- history to appreciate what dy Airport to its home at New York’s Intrepid for those who seek to work hard and seize oppor- of the company. This is million and another alumnus who has dustries to work with Rutgers on innova- Sea, Air & Space Museum, and dismantling the tunity. Our family wants Rutgers to be an effective the first building in Rutgers’ chosen not to be named provided $4 tions that boost their competitiveness. Seaside Heights roller coaster swept out to sea crucible as possible for all these people — a history to be named for a Rutgers does, and why a first School of Engineering alum- million as part of a challenge grant. After graduating with a mechani- by Hurricane Sandy. model of what so clearly benefited our family, over nus. The 100,000-square- “We will tell Mr. Weeks’s story in cal engineering degree in 1950, Weeks class School of Engineering Farris noted that the building’s name also and over, beginning over a century ago. One has foot facility will be built next this building, as well as the stories of joined the family business, which started honors Weeks’s father and son, both named only to look at the backgrounds of almost all the to the Biomedical Engineer- ing Building and will be the other alumni who are leaders in their in 1919 as a stevedoring firm —loading Richard. His son, Richard S. Weeks, serves as engineering greats in our history to appreciate first academic building that fields,” said Thomas N. Farris, the and unloading cargo ships. During his facility is a great investment.” the company’s president. what Rutgers does, and why a first-class School people will see when they enter the Busch campus from school’s dean. “These stories will time with the company, it grew into one ~RICHARD S. WEEKS “The roots of the Weeks family are founded of Engineering facility is a great investment.” Davidson Road. It will house in the commitments made during the progressive Richard N. Weeks has been a regular con- the School of Engineering’s era to provide excellent educational opportun- tributor to the School of Engineering, including Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Big Picture: Weeks Hall ities to all, regardless of their economic circum- a 2010 gift that funded a soil and sediment as well as laboratories for stances,” said Richard N. Weeks. “My parents, management laboratory addressing environ- advanced manufacturing and environmentally sustainable A DESIGN FOR LEARNING Magdalen Weeks, an orphan, and her husband, mentally responsible dredging to increase port resources and systems. A state-of-the-art, LEED-platinum certified facility, Weeks Hall will feature flexible learning labora- Richard B. Weeks, attended the ‘magnet schools’ capacity and accommodate larger ships. tories for advanced manufacturing and sustainable resources and systems. Students will have of their era in New York City — Townsend Total private support raised to date for the hands-on access to facilities dedicated to rapid prototyping, pilot manufacturing, urban and coastal water systems, intelligent transportation systems, and more. The building will also include smart Harris Hall, Hunter High School, and City and construction of the new engineering building classrooms, collaborative workspace, dedicated student space, and advanced technology integration. Hunter colleges. These experiences are at the is $23.8 million. SOE

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RUTGERS CAIT hat is big, yellow, and lives near the CAIT UNLEASHES THE WORLD’S pavement labs on Livingston campus? FIRST FULL-SCALE It is the BEAST—Bridge Evaluation and ACCELERATED TESTING Accelerated Structual Testing—the world’s LAB FOR BRIDGES first among bridge research labs. 10 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 W SPRING 2015 . RUI ENGINEER 11 PUNISHING CONDITIONS The BEAST consists of a giant environmental chamber that encloses a bridge test section—up to 50 x 28 feet— and a loading device, which resembles a truck chassis. The loading “cart” runs 24-7 at 20 mph with up to 60,000 pounds of load, exert- ing forces roughly equal to a dump truck rolling over the deck more than 17,500 times every day.

onceived and developed by the Center for Advanced Infra- structure and Transportation (CAIT), this unique facility aims to give bridge owners and builders a glimpse into the future as to how the choices they make today will affect the performance, durability, and longevity of U.S. bridges years from now.

“Before the BEAST, the bridge community didn’t have The Nature of the BEAST the capability to measure the combined effects of physical f the more than 610,700 bridges in the United and environmental stresses relating to complex deteriora- States, the FHWA estimates that more than tion processes without waiting decades,” said CAIT director 30 percent are already past their 50-year CAli Maher. “We knew we had to close that gap.” design life. Using rapid-cycling temperature extremes, simulated OBecause it is impractical and cost-prohibitive to precipitation and de-icing treatments, and a loading device rebuild these bridges, there is a critical need to identify that inflicts the same kind of beating as 24-7 heavy truck optimal, cost-effective preservation and rehabilitation traffic, the BEAST induces and speeds up deterioration by techniques, materials, and strategies that extend the lives as much as 30 times, allowing researchers to see, in mere of existing bridges and ensure that new bridges last well months, the effects of wear-and-tear over decades. into the next century. The construction of the BEAST was funded with $6 In building the BEAST, Rutgers CAIT—one of just five million of combined investments from CAIT; the Federal U.S. Department of Transportation National University Highway Administration (FHWA); the New Jersey Depart- Transportation Centers—and its partners are supporting ment of Transportation; and Rutgers, The State University management of our nation’s critical transportation assets of New Jersey. and giving bridge owners confidence that the choices they

Big Picture: The BEAST

BUILDING THE BEAST CAIT partnered with Applied Research Associates, the Vermont-based international scientific research and engineering firm that designed and built the BEAST. Moving the BEAST from Vermont to New Jersey was challenging. The heavy, oversized haul involved 11 trucks, special rigging, and a rear-steering dolly as part of a 10-axle combination, as well as state police escorts and special permits from every state it passed through on its 300-mile journey.

. . 12 RU ENGINEER SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF RUTGERS CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPRING 2016 RU ENGINEER. 13 I INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION, ©DREW NOEL SPRING 2016I RUI ENGINEER 14 make today will still be the right ones 10, 20, or even 30 “The real beauty of the BEAST is Associates (ARA), the Vermont-based international years from now. scientific research and engineering firm that designed “No other lab in the world can simulate real-life cli- [that] bridge owners won’t have to and built the BEAST. mate extremes and realistic loading in a compressed time The BEAST was more than five years in the making to determine how a bridge ages right before our eyes,” said from concept to installation. Actual construction began Andrés Roda, CAIT engineering research project manag- wait decades, gathering data on in September 2014 with the excavation of the foundation er for the BEAST and other bridge projects. that would be able to support the massive beams and real bridges in the real world, to get loading device that comprise the BEAST. Feeding the BEAST “It absolutely is a beast and lives up to its name,” he BEAST evolved as a result of CAIT’s role the answers they sorely need now.” Roda said. as principal investigator on the FHWA’s It was the biggest machine that ARA ever built and Long-Term Bridge Performance Program. took up its entire 67,000- “During the course of our investigations it square-foot design, fab- Tbecame clear that the ability to accelerate deterioration rication, and assembly on full-scale bridge systems would greatly enhance shop, according to David understanding of bridge performance,” Maher said. Timian, the firm’s senior “Developing a means to subject full-scale samples sim- vice president and man- ultaneously to environmental conditions and traffic ager of its automation loading became a priority.” and geosciences sector. The BEAST exposes bridge deck and superstructure “We had to move our systems to traffic loads of up to 60,000 pounds applied HVAC system and build through two closely spaced axles to replicate the stresses a section of driveway of 17,500 dump trucks rolling over the deck in a day. behind the building so At the same time, temperatures from 0 to 104 degrees trucks could maneuver Fahrenheit reproduce a range of weather conditions, these huge bridge compo- and the application of materials such as salt brine can nents,” he said. measure the impact of 15 years’ worth of seasonal It proved equally SECURE FUTURE changes over a six-month testing period. The BEAST will aid in challenging to move the BEAST from Vermont to New Data generated by the BEAST’s customized experi- identifying the best Jersey. The heavy, oversized haul involved 11 trucks, special ments will help bridge owners across the country make rehabilitation and pres- rigging, and a rear-steering dolly as part of a 10-axle com- ervation techniques, sound, empirically based decisions in order to reduce materials, and manage- bination, as well as state police escorts and special permits life cycle costs and lengthen the service lives of bridges, ment strategies to from every state it passed through on its 300-mile journey. according to Roda. maximize the service life of existing assets, “The real beauty of the BEAST is bridge owners and make new bridges Bridging the Future won’t have to wait decades, gathering data on real last longer as well. ow that the BEAST is installed in its Rutgers home, it will soon begin helping bridge bridges in the real world, to get the answers they sorely owners make proactive decisions that elim-

Big Number: The BEAST need now,” he said. inate uncertainty, lengthen the lives of their Nbridges, and save money, according to Roda. LIFE EXPECTANCY Building the BEAST “We are working together with the FHWA to identify The average age of America’s 610,700 bridges is 42 years and nearly one in four is deemed nitially, it was thought that the back of a tractor- the first test and aggressively pushing to have the BEAST functionally obsolete or structurally deficient. In fact, FHWA calculates that more than 30 percent trailer could be retrofitted to accommodate test in full operation,” he said. “We’re excited about our ca- of U.S. bridges have already exceeded their 50-year design life. The BEAST’s customized experi- ments will help bridge owners across the country make sound, empirically based decisions in samples. When the CAIT team realized this would pability and excited to be at the forefront of what bridge 610,700 SOE order to reduce life cycle costs and lengthen the service lives of bridges. I be impractical, it partnered with Applied Research research can achieve.” 14 RU ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF RUTGERS CENTER FOR ADVANCED INFRASTRUCTURE SPRING 2016 . RU ENGINEER 15 I AND TRANSPORTATION, LEFT AND TOP, ©ALLISON THOMAS; RIGHT, ©DREW NOEL I SOE I Initiative

RUTGERS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING TAKES THE HE INVENTOR OF THE RECORD PLAYER AND T THE LIGHT BULB WOULD HARDLY RECOGNIZE LEAD IN MANY OF THE CRITICAL SYSTEMS THAT HE HELPED TO CREATE AND THAT WE TAKE FOR It has been more than a century since Thomas Edison, working GRANTED. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS SEND

AND RECEIVE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA IN ENERGY MILLISECONDS. WE SLIP OUR PHONES IN OUR from his famous research lab up the road from New Brunswick, laid POCKETS AND USE THEM TO CONNECT WITH

PEOPLE AND RETRIEVE INFORMATION IN WAYS

THAT “THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK” COULD

PLANNING HARDLY IMAGINE. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO the foundation for so much of the high-tech world we know today. EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCES TO OUR POWER

GENERATION SYSTEMS, WELL…NOT SO MUCH. PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILL CARDONI

16 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 SPRING 2015 . RUI ENGINEER 17 MOHSEN JAFARI, DEPARTMENT CHAIR AND PROFESSOR OF

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, BELIEVES THAT

IF EDISON WERE ALIVE TODAY, HE WOULD BE GREATLY

DISAPPOINTED TO FIND SO FEW ADVANCES IN HOW WE MANAGE

AND DISTRIBUTE ENERGY. WHILE WE MAY BE LONG OVERDUE

FOR NEW ENERGY INITIATIVES, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT RUTGERS

IS WELL-POSITIONED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN ADVANCING NEW

TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS.

“The world and the industrial sectors of our economy are while representing a potential threat to national security. coming to the understanding that we must find a better way Rutgers’ vision is nothing less than remaking energy to design and generate energy,” said Jafari, chairman of systems in much the same way that our communications the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department and a and transportation systems have been overhauled over the by introducing a new master’s of engineering program on SMART ENERGY dents for jobs in this emerg- SYSTEMS principal faculty member and research program coordina- past century. It is no longer just about building more power energy systems for fall 2016 and by expanding a new research ing field by giving them a Moving away from our tor at the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and lines and pipelines. laboratory — Laboratory for Energy Smart Systems (LESS) current energy systems broad background rather Transportation. “We need to educate the public and build At the macro level, we need to integrate these basic — to support this program and augment existing ones. that rely on huge, cen- than a narrow focus in one of tralized generation stations the necessary technologies for this to happen.” systems with advanced information technology, commu- “Our multidisciplinary approach brings a unique and conventional distribu- the more traditional engi- And that is the problem that Rutgers plans to address. nication, and security systems, while at the micro level we perspective to this issue and is what will help to distinguish tion systems to integrated, neering fields. Energy systems that rely on huge, centralized generation need to analyze energy usage in individual office buildings this program by bringing together years of research and in- advanced information The new lab, to be housed systems will create more stations and conventional distribution systems are often and homes. And we need highly trained professionals who dustry experience in energy systems planning and control efficient, resilient, and sus- in the Weeks Hall of Engin- expensive, vulnerable to storms, and can put nations like understand how sophisticated systems work together. to build more resilient and sustainable energy systems,” tainable energy systems, eering when it opens in 2018, the United States at a significant competitive disadvantage, Jafari and his colleagues are moving to address this need said Jafari, who has helped secure more than $20 million less vulnerable to storms will be used for undergraduate and security threats. in research grants and serves as a consultant for many teaching by several depart- Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. ments. It will also support Big Picture: Academic Leader The master’s degree program will allow students from graduate teaching as part of the master’s of engineering pro- different engineering backgrounds to study a common core gram, as well as multidisciplinary research across the school. NEW MULTIDISCIPLINARY MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENERGY SYSTEMS of courses in energy systems and will include an intern- The new laboratory is important because it will allow The master’s degree program will allow students from different engineering backgrounds to study a common ship. Topics will range from smart grids, which use digital students and professors to examine issues in innovative ways. core of courses in energy systems and will include an internship. Topics will range from smart grids, which use digital communications technology to respond to local changes in usage, to green transportation and energy communications technology to respond to local changes in In fact, the new building itself will become a teaching tool storage. This interdisciplinary approach will help prepare students for jobs in this emerging field by giving them usage, to green transportation to energy storage. for energy research and for conducting energy simulations. a broad background, rather than a narrow focus in one of the more traditional engineering fields. This interdisciplinary approach will help prepare stu- For example, one of its features will be a miniature

18 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPH: NICK ROMANENKO ILLUSTRATION: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG SPRING 2016 . RUI ENGINEER 19 “INDUSTRY IS LOOKING FOR STUDENTS WHO LEARNED THEORY

[AND] KNOW HOW REAL-LIFE SYSTEMS WORK. YOU MAY LEARN

HOW A CIRCUIT BREAKER WORKS BY DOING SIMULATIONS, BUT

THESE SIMULATIONS ARE LIMITED. IN THE LAB, WE CAN SHOW

STUDENTS WHAT REAL SYSTEMS LOOK LIKE IN PRACTICE.”

energy grid, an actual power system that duplicates the LEARNING LABS and education, rather than Godrich, assistant research professor, electrical and com- functioning of a conventional power grid but on a much Rutgers’ energy-specific increasing power generation puter engineering. facilities and teaching smaller scale. expertise include a seven- to meet rising demand. “You may learn how a circuit breaker works by doing The system will include actual solar panels, a wind acre solar farm, above, and These initiatives simulations, but these simulations are limited,” she the Laboratory for Energy turbine and fuel cell generating a few kilowatts of electrical bring together expertise in said. “In the lab, we can show students what real systems Smart Systems (LESS), power, and other systems such as those that convert focusing on cyber-physical areas such as monitoring look like in practice.” energy from DC generated by the solar panels to AC power systems in energy and of energy assets, weather “There are many companies that are looking for stu- manufacturing. Materials used in homes. Students can then test how these systems science and engineering forecasting and environ- dents who are skilled in this interdisciplinary approach,” respond to different situations, something they would professor Dunbar Birnie, mental impacts, communi- said Dunbar Birnie, a professor in the Department of normally do only with sophisticated computer software. left, is an expert in battery cation technology and Materials Science and Engineering and an expert in the technology and solar- In this way, researchers and students can test “smart powered vehicles. analytics, and energy stor- latest battery technology and solar-powered vehicles. grids” or those that use computers and digital techno- age research. They will In addition, the combination of the new master’s pro- logy throughout a system to control and provide better allow Jafari and his col- gram and the new research laboratory is expected to gen- reliability and improve energy efficiency. These are also leagues to expand on research and development projects. erate more interest among students in a field of study that known as “cyber-physical systems,” or CPS, and they One significant benefit is that the Rutgers program will only become more important for the next generation. could eventually produce billions of dollars in savings. will combine theoretical study with practical experience. Over the past several years, there has already been One promising area is to build “zero-energy” build- Indeed, the energy industry needs skilled workers with this a steady increase, with some classes having doubled in ings or an entire “net-zero” community, where energy expertise, and major universities such as Rutgers that are size, according to Kimberly Cook-Chennault, associate efficiencies mean that renewable energy systems can at the cutting edge of engineering and technology are in a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace offset most energy consumption. position to train them. Engineering. Already, LESS is working closely with industry, “Industry is looking for students who learned theory In this way, Rutgers will be creating another novel with federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, but also know how real-life systems work,” said Hana form of power: brain power. SOE and with local governments. LESS will be a focus for a number of programs that already exist throughout the

university, including the Rutgers Center for Advanced Industry Partner Infrastructure and Transportation. The lab will also focus on cyber-physical systems in energy and manufacturing. LESS brings together two distinct approaches: AT WORK ON ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE Distributed Energy Resources covers energy created Rutgers is working with Siemens, New Jersey storage control and integration. One project over dozens of buildings, can more quickly by a variety of small, decentralized systems, as opposed Board of Public Utilities, California Energy is to develop tools to measure security risks in help determine where proactive maintenance Commission, Department of Energy, and oth- order to protect power grids. Another focuses is needed and improve productivity. This pro- to conventional coal-fired or nuclear power plants, and er organizations on energy-related projects, on energy savings at a large military facility. gram could be expanded to many industries, Demand Side Management covers efforts to reduce con- ranging from energy smart building automa- Closely monitoring HVAC systems, along with with potential projects examining electric sumer demand for energy through financial incentives tion, distributed energy resources, and energy lighting and light industrial operations spread vehicles and hydrogen fuel.

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SoE Alumni Bring Expertise to Rutgers Construction ew Brunswick’s Projects CollegeN Avenue Coming campus has been the face of Rutgers University for nearly 250 years. Now, a $330 mil- Home lion makeover is in the process of transforming the historic campus into an accessible, modern, and cohe- sive environment that will meet the needs of future generations of students, faculty, and staff.

ENGINEERING REUNION Twenty School of Engineering alumni are represented among the many engineering firms contributing to the College Avenue Redevelopment Project. Pictured, left to right, James Obergfell, Chris Christoforou, Alan Lothian, John Sisti, Robert McCulley, Giselle Baluyut, Timothy Conlon, Ronald Garon, and Glenn Kustera.

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Keeping it All In the Rutgers Family ccording to Paladino, while Rutgers gradu- ates make up 80 percent of the Devco staff, no conscious decision was made to hire School of Engineering alumni for the project. Rather,A the decision was made to employ a number of local engineering firms. “It is a testament to the university and the School of Engineering that these firms hire so many Rutgers graduates,” he says. “All told, there are 30 Rutgers graduates on this project — and about 20 are from the School of Engineering.” Working on the College Avenue Redevelopment Initia- tive clearly means a lot to these Rutgers alumni. “There is a raised level of enthusiasm for a project that is as personally meaningful as this one is to SCHOLARS COMMUNITY rom the very beginning, Rutgers The new Honors College, alumni,” Paladino adds. completed in 2015, is a Students have already 170,000-square-foot build- moved in to the new Honors alumni — including 20 School of ing on Seminary Place, Engineering graduates — have overlooking the Raritan College, which provides River. It provides students students from across the uni- with a unique residential been intimately involved with experience focused on versity with a unique resi- all phases of the College Avenue interdisciplinary thinking, dential experience focused hands-on research, and on interdisciplinary think- creative problem solving. Redevelopment Initiative. ing, hands-on research, and When completed, the project will have provided the campus creative problem solving. “Rutgers’ commitment to the with more than 600,000 square feet of new construction, including a residential honors program will help the university attract Fbrand new Honors College, academic building, apartment complex, the best and the brightest,” says Paladino, noting that it is a stores, and a campus green with a 600-foot outdoor screen to broad- key factor in helping students decide to attend Rutgers. cast football games and movies. New buildings are also in the works for Rutgers Hillel and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Rutgers Pride Christopher Paladino RC’82, CLAW’85 is a senior public policy construction superintendent with Law- fellow at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy renceville, New Jersey-based construction and the president of the New Brunswick Development Corpora- company Joseph Jingoli & Son, 1985 SoE tion (Devco), the private, nonprofit urban real estate development alumnus James Obergfell was tasked with organization that is overseeing the College Avenue Redevelopment supervisingA the construction of the Honors College. As Initiative. “I grew up here and went to college here, so New Bruns- a student, he used to take the bus from the stop near the wick projects have a special meaning for me because they bring grease truck lot to the Busch campus. Ironically, one of his fundamental and transformative change to a place I know so well,” first orders of business was to tear down his old bus stop. he says. “I know what it’s like to be a student at Rutgers and what He has since moved on to oversee construction of the changes students would like.” project’s University Apartment complex, a mixed retail/res- Paladino derives tremendous personal and professional satis- idential use building located at the intersection of Hamilton faction from the College Avenue project. “It’s a whole different level Street and College Avenue, that will house 440 students. of satisfaction when you realize the work you are doing will impact He is also supervising construction of the new thousands of students who will start enjoying the Honors College not 200,000-square-foot multi-story academic building. The just when it opens, but for the next 50 years or more,” he explains. first new academic building on College Avenue in more

24 RU ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPH: URBANINDUSTRIALIMAGING.COM; SPRING 2016 . RU ENGINEER 25 I RENDERINGS: ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS, COURTESY OF I NEW BRUNSWICK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (DEVCO) On The Job SoE alumni who are working on the College Avenue Redevelopment project include:

Mary Acciani ENG’79 SVP, Principal in Charge than 50 years, its summer 2016 opening is scheduled to A Special Kind of Homecoming Mechanical Engineer | PS&S

coincide with the 250th anniversary of Rutgers’ founding. orking on these new Giselle Baluyut ENG’12 Obergfell is just one of the SoE graduates who are projects is a treat and a Staff Engineer | Langan Engineering & Environmental Services working to ensure the redevelopment project’s success. homecoming of sorts “It’s good to be back at Rutgers,” he says. “I’m proud to be for me,” says School of Kevin Blankenbuehler ENG’06 Director of Energy Services part of Rutgers, building Rutgers.” EngineeringW alumnus Chris Christoforou, Concord Engineering who earned his bachelor’s degree in civil Matthew Buaron ENG’13 Paying it Back engineering in 1983 and his master’s degree Vice President/Civil and aureen Rabbitt graduated from the in 1985. Christoforou is a principal and Environmental Engineer | ReVireo School of Engineering in 2007 with a office manager of Thornton Tomasetti’s Timothy Conlon ENG’85 degree in civil engineering. Today she Newark office. Associate Principal/ Mechanical Engineer | PS&S is a senior engineer at the Louis Berger “Thornton Tomasetti is the structural Group, an internationally recognized consulting firm that engineering consultant for all three new Chris Christoforou ENG’83 M Principal/Structural Engineer is providing the redevelopment project with civil and site “Working on the campus College Avenue projects,” he explains. “I am Thornton Tomasetti engineering support, from concept through construction. leading my team — which includes struc- Danielle Ferland ENG’12 While Rabbitt’s experience includes work on landfill of my alma mater ... tural engineer Ronald Garon, an associate Civil Engineer and Environmental closure, remedial design, geotechnical engineering, eco- project manager at Thornton Tomasetti — Engineer | Louis Berger logical restoration design, and site/civil design of military means a great deal to me. and am also the engineer of record for Ronald Garon, PhD GSNB’98, ’00 facilities and airports, for the College Avenue Redevel- the projects.” Associate/Project Manager, Structural Engineer | Thornton Tomasetti opment Initiative, she worked on the design of the vapor For Christoforou, working on the design mitigation system for the new University Apartments ... I’m giving something of three different buildings — the Honors Glenn Kustera ENG’91 VP, Principal in Charge - and also performed inspections of the vapor mitigation College, the University Apartments, and the Structural Engineering | PS&S barrier during its installation. back to the school that Academic Building — has presented a unique Alan Lothian ENG’98 “It’s been great to be able to use the education I re- set of challenges. “Although in close proxim- Project Manager, Civil Engineer ceived at Rutgers and put it to use to help transform and ity to each other, they are all quite different Langan Engineering & trained me and gave me Environmental Services improve the campus,” she says. “I feel honored to be able with different functions, and with separate to work on projects at my alma mater, and I take pride in aggressive design and construction schedules Robert McCulley ENG’82 the foundation to be the Project Executive/Civil Engineer knowing I helped give back to the community.” and budgets,” he explains. “It took a complete KMS Development Partners Rabbitt’s colleague at Louis Berger, civil and environ- team and collaborative approach to overcome professional I am today.” James Obergfell ENG’85 mental engineer Danielle Ferland ENG’12, is also proud the challenges — one of which was the winter Construction Superintendent/ to be involved in the College Avenue projects. “I loved my BUILDING THE FUTURE Located at the north end of Voorhees of 2013, one of the worst winters on record.” Electrical Engineer | Joseph Jingoli & Son Mall, this August the university will cut the ribbon on the first time at Rutgers and to see it thrive and grow keeps that Yet despite the challenges, the project has Hardik Patel ENG’13 academic building to be constructed on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Electrical Engineer | PS&S pride strong — even more so knowing I was able to be a campus since 1961, coinciding with Rutgers’ celebration of the been infinitely rewarding for Christoforou. part of that process,” she says. 250th anniversary of its founding. “Working on the campus of my alma mater Maureen Rabbitt ENG’07 a good 30-plus years after graduation means a Senior Engineer / Civil Engineer Louis Berger great deal to me,” he says. “The memories are John Sisti ENG’78 Big Number: Rutgers Revitalized good, and I feel I’m giving something back Senior Project Executive, Civil Engineer to the school that trained me and gave me the KMS Development Partners foundation to be the professional I am today.” GREAT EXPECTATIONS Matt Tessier ENG’12 When completed, the project will provide the campus with more than 600,000 square feet of Christoforou’s fellow SoE grads are Designer II / Mechanical Engineer | PS&S new construction, including a new Honors College, academic building, apartment complex, stores, likely to agree with him when he says, “It feels and a campus green with a 600-foot outdoor screen to broadcast football games and movies. New Adam Thackara ENG’13 buildings are also in the works for Rutgers Hillel and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. good to be back and contributing in a visible Designer II | PS&S 6oo,ooo SOE way to the campus’ revitalization.”

. . 26 RU ENGINEER SPRING 2016 RENDERINGS: ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS, COURTESY OF PHOTOGRAPH: URBANINDUSTRIALIMAGING.COM SPRING 2016 RU ENGINEER 27 I NEW BRUNSWICK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (DEVCO) I Team Work Stealth Agents Tiny Chips Working across engineering disciplines, SoE researchers are advancing RICHARD RIMAN JOSEPH FREEMAN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR lifesaving biomedical innovations through the use of signal processing, MATERIALS SCIENCE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING nanoparticles, electroportation, and miniaturized electronics. AND ENGINEERING LALEH NAJAFIZADEH PRABHAS V. MOGHE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILL CARDONI DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING J oseph Freeman has unique expertise: He has extensive expe- Professor Prabhas V. Moghe rience in tissue regeneration. He had been thinking about how to developed new synthetic fibers use a new technology that could that had extraordinary properties, help doctors find possibly can- namely that they would move cerous tumors deep inside the when exposed to electric fields. body. He has a doctoral degree in Freeman had an idea: Could one chemical engineering and did use this emerging technology to a postdoctoral fellowship in bio- help people regain more quickly engineering at Harvard Medical the use of arms or legs whose School, so he had a good idea muscles had withered away or about what this device might be replace and regenerate them after able to do. But Moghe had little trauma? Conventional therapies expertise in areas of photonic used amputation or muscle materials that he knew would be transplants that can take many needed to bring this idea to reality. months. n Freeman contacted n So several years ago, he ap- a colleague at Rutgers, Laleh proached a colleague, Richard Najafizadeh. Her expertise includes Riman, and now they are working designing miniaturized electron- on a collaboration that could ics for biomedical applications. someday lead to the development Najafizadeh has a doctoral degree of a new device that doctors in electrical engineering, and she could use to determine if tissue did a postdoctoral fellowship at inside the body is cancerous or the National Institutes of Health, if there are potentially danger- where she worked on projects ous lesions inside the heart. related to neuroscience. n Their n Moghe’s expertise is in dev- idea is to integrate a tiny chip with eloping synthetic particles that these new fibers, which could then will bind to other proteins or be surgically implanted in an area cellular structures in the body. of the limb. The chip could be con- It is the same principal that trolled wirelessly so that it could allows medicines to find their stimulate the fibers attached to or way to the digestive tract or replacing the muscles. Cells would heart where they can deliver be placed onto the fibers and the their therapeutic effect. Riman’s electrical field and movement expertise is in materials with would aid the cells in regenerating specific light-emitting properties. muscle. It may sound simple, but ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 39 ) ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 39 )

28 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 SPRING 2016 . RUI ENGINEER 29 Lab-on-a-Chip Real-time Biopsy Waheed Bajwa and Mark Pierce arrived at Rutgers University about the same time in 2011 and shortly afterwards began talking about common areas of interest in their research. Bajwa is JERRY SHAN MARK PIERCE an expert in signal processing, while Pierce is an expert in developing optical imaging systems. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GRADUATE DIRECTOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING n Gradually, as they became more familiar with each other’s expertise, they began thinking about MECHANICAL AND ways to solve an important problem in medicine: Very often doctors must analyze tissue from AEROSPACE ENGINEERING WAHEED BAJWA the body, such as to determine if it is cancerous, and the most common way to do that is to cut ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JEFFREY ZAHN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER out a tiny portion and send the biopsy to a pathologist for examination. They wondered if they ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ENGINEERING could analyze the tissue in real time with a specially modified device ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 39 ) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

DAVID SHREIBER PROFESSOR, GRADUATE DIRECTOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

HAO LIN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Many research laboratories, especially those looking to de- velop new medicines, need to introduce DNA, therapeutics, or proteins into a cell. It is a tricky process, and what it takes to do it effectively can vary widely depending on the cells and the conditions. If research- ers could speed up this process, they could significantly speed up the time to develop and screen potential new com- pounds in the lab. One technique that is commonly employed is called electroporation, where a short, high-strength electric field causes temporary openings to form within the cell mem- brane, providing an access route for molecules to enter the cell. However, electroporation re- quires a delicate balance. If the field is too strong, the cell will suffer irreversible damage and die, but if it isn’t strong enough, ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 39 )

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a problem of significance. When you have two signifi- cantly different perspectives or domain experts coming together, and if one can cat- alyze co-mingling of ideas, CURRICULUM VITAE: you can create something National Science Foundation Early CAREER Awards . Distinguished Professor truly novel, with a more Four Rutgers Engineering faculty members were awarded the NSF’s prestigious award for research and teaching leadership Biomedical Engineering, transformative impact. Chemical and Biochem- ical Engineering Q: What do you mean by . Research Director RESEARCH: Signal Processing Through the Lens of Geometry School of Engineering– transformative? Biomedical and Health A: When you intermingle Waheed Bajwa VISION: “Recent technological advances have enabled a generation of mas- Sciences Alliances Assistant Professor two different disciplines, sive quantities of data, much of which is incomplete, mislabeled, erroneous, and Partnerships Electrical and and geographically distributed. The fallout is a data-driven world rife with then you can create a new hy- Computer Engineering big, ‘dirty,’ distributed data. Harnessing the power of this data for improved pothesis, a new vision, and inference and decision-making demands novel mathematical data models and that is what we have been able to do across multiple labs. robust computational and statistical tools.” NICK ROMANENKO Q: What do you need for this kind of collaboration to succeed? RESEARCH: Nanophotonic Radiative Decay Rate Engineering for Stable A: There are three really important ingredients. You Blue Organic Phosphorescence need to have people come together and brainstorm. Then you need people in the lab, such as research faculty or Deirdre O’Carroll VISION: “Display and lighting technologies that use organic light-emitting materials are emerging as energy-efficient, versatile alternatives to liquid-crys- graduate students, who are trained to work in several Assistant Professor Materials Science and tal displays and LED-based lighting. However, high-efficiency blue phospho- disciplines, who can bring the idea to reality. rescent organic light-emitting devices exhibit operational lifetimes that are 20 Engineering to 45 times shorter than high-efficiency green and red organic phosphores- Q: What do you like about your new role? cent devices, which limit their commercial use. By using the local electromag- netic fields around designed photonic nanostructures, intense light emission A: I like the ideation process, brainstorming, making from blue phosphorescent organic materials and devices can be stabilized.”

new connections, taking advantage of the different BILL CARDONI Prabhas V. Moghe disciplines and strengths, connecting the dots between New inter-school program is elevating research between Rutgers very bright minds who may be working in silos. There RESEARCH: Privacy-Preserving Learning for Distributed Data Engineering and Biomedical and Health Sciences, strengthening ties, is tremendous brain power throughout Rutgers, and peo- ple are doing fascinating work. This collaborative effort VISION: “Medical technologies such as imaging and sequencing make it pos- creating cross-disciplinary teams, and seeding new ideas. between engineering and biomedical and health sciences Anand Sarwate sible to gather massive amounts of information at increasingly lower cost. With Assistant Professor brings the engineering mindset to solve problems and privacy concerns around stigmatized conditions such as mental-health disorders, Electrical and Computer patient data may not be shared openly, limiting learning from data gathered in bring new inventions from the bench to the bedside. Engineering multiple studies. By designing practical privacy-preserving learning algorithms, researchers can share access to data in a way that quantifiably and rigorously protects the privacy of subjects while allowing a deeper understanding of the Q: ith a “passion for making connections,” How is Rutgers performing in this area? neurophysiological basis of mental-health disorders.” Prabhas V. Moghe has gained experience A: I think we are in an excellent position to produce NICK ROMANENKO over the past decade assembling large teams significant collaborations. We have the critical mass of of collaborating faculty. In his expanded role people, especially in the health sciences and across as research director he is building alliances the six major fields of engineering. We have great lead- RESEARCH: Capabilities in Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructures and partnerships between the School of Engineering and Rutgers ership, a history of excellence in research, and we are W Saman Zonouz VISION: “Cyber-physical critical infrastructures, like the power grid, integrate Biomedical and Health Sciences. located in a region that has a large number of biotech Assistant Professor large computational networks to provide communities with essential services. and pharmaceutical companies. SOE Electrical and Computer The failure of these systems would have a debilitating impact on economic security and public health and safety. The current protection solutions for these Q: Engineering How do you define collaboration? systems are insufficient and can’t protect against sophisticated attacks. By de- A: Collaboration happens when you have people from different To read the complete interview with Moghe, veloping intrusion prevention techniques that are mathematically rigorous and disciplines and different mindsets coming together to solve visit soe.rutgers.edu/moghe real-world deployable, we can predict and tolerate complex security incidents in computing, physical, or communication assets in a near-real-time manner.” NICK ROMANENKO 32 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL CARDONI SPRING 2016 . RUI ENGINEER 33 Faculty News I Spring 2016 Student News I Spring 2016

New Faculty Outstanding Faculty Members Honored “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” Rutgers School of Engineering Annual faculty awards recognize research and teaching excellence SoE students score competitive internships at leading corporate and research organizations welcomes the following new

faculty members: utgers Engineering faculty awards to modernizing pharmaceutical manufac- l AMANDA CHIN R are presented each year in recognition turing and dosage forms. ANUJA SARWATE Materials Science and Engineering | Research Maryam Dehnavi of achievements in scholarship, teaching, Roth’s nanomedicine research focuses Biomedical Engineering and Development Intern, TerraCycle Assistant Professor and service. This year, Fernando on systems biology and gene Intern, Goldman Sachs I absolutely loved my summer. I was surrounded Electrical and Computer by incredible people in an outrageously creative J. Muzzio, distinguished profes- silencing and has been funded My interests are biomedical Engineering engineering and software de- environment. I worked with a team of engineers to sor of chemical and biochemical by the Department of Defense, perform characteri- velopment. At Goldman this engineering, was named Faculty the NSF, and the National summer, I had the opportu- zation tests on a variety Weihong Guo of materials (specifi- Assistant Professor nity to do both back-end and of the Year and Charles M. Roth, Institutes of Health, where he cally polymers) that Industrial and Systems front-end web development

help us generate Engineering professor of both chemical and also serves as a member of using Javal and AngularJS. biochemical engineering and the Gene and Drug Delivery sustainable solutions. Franklin Moon biomedical engineering, received FERNANDO J. MUZZIO Study Section. Professor the Outstanding Engineering Other faculty awards

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty award. Recipients receive for 2015 included the Peter D. l

REVAN SOPHER monetary awards for their schol- Cherasia ENG’84 Faculty l Electrical and Computer KAUSTUBH Vishal Patel Engineering | Software arship and research activities. Scholar Award, which was DESHPANDE Assistant Professor Engineer, Coursera Inc. In 2006, Muzzio received presented to Prosenjit Bagchi, Mechanical and Aerospace Electrical and Computer As part of KPCB’s Fellows Engineering | Research Engineering National Science Foundation professor of mechanical and Program, I spent my Associate, Glenn summer working as a (NSF) funding to establish the aerospace engineering, and the Research Center, NASA CHARLES M. ROTH software engineer on Jonathan Singer I had a great summer as Engineering Research Center A. Walter Tyson ENG’52 Assis- the infrastructure team Assistant Professor a research associate for the for Structured Organic Particulate Systems tant Professorship Award, given to Mona at Coursera, building and Mechanical and Aerospace MARTI program (Multi-disci- scaling systems that Engineering (CSOPS), the world’s largest academic- Zebarjadi, assistant professor of mechani- plinary Aeronautics Research serve millions of users. based research organization dedicated cal and aerospace engineering. Team Initiative). I learned Emina Soljanin about electric machines, Professor cryogenics, space, and the Electrical and Computer Young Faculty Achievement aeronautics industry. Engineering

Jay Sy l ALEX HOBBS Assistant Professor The Air Force Office of Scientific Mechanical and Aerospace

Biomedical Engineering Engineering | Research l Assistant, Marshall Space Research (AFOSR) named mechanical ZHENNI LIN 8 Materials Science and Flight Center, NASA I worked on testing a solar George Tsilomelekis Engineering | Research Assistant Professor and aerospace engineering professor sail deployment system for Experiences for Undergrad- Chemical and Biochemical the upcoming NEA Scout uates Internship, Massachu- Engineering Xiaoli Bai among 56 scientists and engi- (Near-Earth Asteroid Scout) setts Institute of Technology I was one of 12 students ac- and lunar flashlight missions Haoran Zhang neers to receive grants through its Young cepted into a research intern- to be launched aboard Assistant Professor ship at MIT through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates pro- NASA’s new Space Launch Chemical and Biochemical Investigator Research Program. gram funded by the National Science Foundation. I synthesized and System in 2018. Engineering characterized solid-state MRI contrast agents that could potentially be used to measure pH changes inside the body at cancer tumor sites.

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Hacking Success Keeps Firefighters Safe Engineering Unique Ways to Give Back Engineering Studies Over the years, SoE alumni have been generous in their hat happens when you put 479 computer hackers from universities around the Land BME Student Making an Impact philanthropy to Rutgers Engineering. We’ve shared some stories W world in a room for 36 hours? You get innovative solutions to technological prob- Goldwater Scholarship SoE alumni gifts support students, lems and, for a group of Rutgers Engineering students, a second-place win. of giving that capture how alumni are using their time, talent, scholarships, and programs. HackHarvard, a Major League Hacking hackathon sponsored by Capital One, Face- arun Arvind, a biomedical engineer- and resources to make a difference. book, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, brought a pool of undergraduate teams together V ing junior, was named a 2015 Goldwater Nov. 13-15 at the Cambridge, Mass., campus to compete for $12,500 in prize money. Scholar, joining just 259 other students out of more than 1,200 nationwide nominees to Kevin Leung, a Rutgers electrical and computer engineering major, said that his six earn this prestigious award—and the only Firm Built by SoE Alumni Gives ship will be based both on grades years as a firefighter and EMT volunteer gave him the inspiration for the application that engineering student from New Jersey to be $25,000 Award for CEE Students and financial need, Palus said. he and his teammates built. FireFighter_Monitoring combines his passions in tech- awarded. n His research focuses on stem nology and first response. The cell differentiation and how to replicate its utgers School of Engineer- $100,000 MAE Endowment app, which was the grand prize effects to help those with traumatic injuries. ing helped provide the Pays it Forward runner-up, uses real-time infor- If his team can determine how mesenchymal R foundation for Dynamic Engi- mation monitoring to assess stem cells turn into bone and cartilage cells, neering Consultants, and now en Johnson’s long-term firefighters’ vital signs in hazar- they can begin developing synthetic materi- als that could replace weakened or damaged the firm’s principals are giving dedication to Rutgers School dous situations, allowing officers K DYNAMIC ENGINEERING is a SoE alumni- bone tissue. n “ Part of my project now is back to the school in the form of of Engineering has culminated in in charge to send an evacua- owned business that established a $25,000 to make a model. If you can model [cell] a $25,000 scholarship for civil a $100,000 endowment scholar- scholarship for civil and environmental engineer- tion signal to those in danger. behaviors in biological models [you can try and environmental engineering ship that he and his wife, Jackie, ing students. Pictured, beginning second from In addition to Leung, the to understand how they work],” said Arvind, left, John Palus, Joe Jaworski, Brett Skapinetz, students. have given to support students in Rutgers team included Jigar who plans to earn a M.D./Ph.D. while con- Jeff Spalt, and Jeff Schaumburg. The engineering and land the Department of Mechanical Bhalodia, Shawn Fong, Shivam tinuing his research. n The Barry Goldwater development firm, with three and Aerospace Engineering. Patel, and Michael Zhou. Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program, created in 1986 to honor the offices in New Jersey, one in “My wife and I jointly de- Arizona senator, recognizes and aids science, Pennsylvania, and two in Texas, signed this grant and scholarship Packaging Engineers Head to Paris math, and engineering students who plan was founded by two Rutgers program. What we were thinking is to conduct research after graduation and School of Engineering alumni, that we’d like it to be significant for become experts in their chosen fields. and four of its other principals the person receiving it,” Johnson Packaging engineering students were also all earned degrees from the said. The first scholarship is ex- school. In addition, Dynamic pected to be granted next fall to a among the top winners for student package Engineering employs multiple sophomore in the department students from Rutgers School After getting his degree from design innovations at MakeUp in NY, of Engineering as interns. Rutgers School of Engineering an industry event held in September. “The key to our success is in 1966, Johnson worked for 35 bringing in interns at the entry years in the space industry. As Lawrence Chang, whose Chap Disc won first place, level,” said John A. Palus, the leader of the GE/Lockheed Dynamic Engineering co-founder Martin astro space division in and Brian Loja, third-place finalist for his foundation KEN AND JACKIE JOHNSON wanted to help along with Jeffrey D. Spalt. East Windsor, N.J., he was part talented, high-potential but perhaps financially chal- dispenser, are headed to France in June to compete at Dynamic Engineering will of the development of America’s lenged students. Johnson has been an active alumni grant $5,000 to a full-time space program. volunteer and is a recipient of the Rutgers Engineer- ing Society’s Distinguished Engineer Award. MakeUp in Paris, the organization’s flagship contest. undergraduate each year for the “It’s kind of a dream career next five years, and the scholar- ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 38 )

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I was lucky enough to have,” ing, project management, and Making an Impact The two began talking about the proj- The team members hope to develop a pro- Johnson said. budgeting. SoE alumni gifts support students, ect two years ago, and their proposal has totype for testing within two to three years. Now, he would like to pay it “I had loved this team so scholarships, and programs. received funding from the National Science “Each of our four collaborators has forward so that other School of much, and I wanted to provide Foundation. They hope to begin testing the specific talents and strengths, so that as Engineering students might have some help,” said Selek, who was device in animals in the coming years and a group we are able to accomplish some- the same opportunities. president of the organization eventually get approval from the FDA for thing that none of us could have done by Stealth Agents SOE ourselves,” Shreiber said. “Also, you need when he was a student and now use in humans. FROM PAGE 28 smart people who are willing to collaborate Young Alumnus Turns works as a service project engi- Their idea: Bind the two together to and to admit they don’t know everything Passion for Formula Racing neer for Subaru of America. form a nanoparticle. Once in the body, these and listen to others.” SOE into Commitment Under the program, which nanoparticles will seek out specific areas has a budget of $60,000, students of the body, what Moghe calls a “stealth passion for the Rutgers design, build, and test Formula agent.” When stimulated, they will emit A University Formula SAE SAE race cars and compete against radiation, which can be gathered, analyzed Lab-on-a-Chip program inspired one young teams from other universities. by sophisticated computers, and read. This FROM PAGE 30 School of Engineering alumnus to In addition to his time, he much more detailed version of an X-ray the molecules can’t effectively enter the give generously of both his time has given money to the School of could help surgeons and pathologists deter- cell. Real-time Biopsy and money. Engineering, and his company mine if tissue is cancerous or if plaque in It was almost a decade ago that Hao FROM PAGE 31 Umur Selek, who earned a matched his donation. the wall of an artery is potentially dangerous. Lin had an idea about possibly using elec- that would combine the latest imaging bachelor’s degree in industrial Being part of the Formula They have received two National Science troporation in a novel way to make it easier system with unique signal processing engineering in 2012, serves as an SAE Racing program can help Foundation grants. Their device still needs for substances to permeate the cell mem- capabilities to conduct the biopsy without UMUR SELEK advises the Rutgers Formula rigorous testing and approval by the Food informal adviser to the Rutgers students land jobs after gradu- Race team helping students design, build, and brane while preserving the cell’s viability. removing any tissue. Formula Racing organization. ation, and the industry is very test Formula SAE race cars and compete against and Drug Administration, but it could be He didn’t know how to test his theory, so he They are working to modify an endo- He helps the team with market- rewarding, Selek said. teams from other universities. on the market within three to five years. asked David Shreiber, whose lab was in the scope, a device that can be inserted into “Our project has evolved from basic next building over. After some promising the mouth or the rectum, such as those curiosity about how living cells interact preliminary work, the two invited Jeffrey used for an endoscopy to examine a per-

Alumni Achievement Celebrated into a way to translate a potential scientific Zahn and Jerry Shan to join their efforts. son’s digestive tract. What is significant is breakthrough into medicine,” Moghe said. Together, the team is working on a lab- that they hope to modify the device using “This is the essence of true collaboration, on-a-chip device that they hope will help the latest advances in signal processing ALUMNI HONORED AT MEDAL 2015 honorees, pictured left which can result in the development of OF EXCELLENCE DINNER researchers doing basic science and drug so that it can collect far more data than Raymond Iezzi, MD novel therapies and devices.” SOE development overcome the molecular- existing devices. Distinguished Alumnus in Education ix distinguished alumni—recognized and Research Award delivery challenge. A unique feature is that They have received funding from the S leaders in infrastructure, pharmaceutical the “smart” device will be able to adapt to National Science Foundation and are build- research and development, and medicine, Benjamin Fasano, Ph.D. Rutgers Engineering Society’s the specific cell type that researchers are ing a prototype. They expect testing to biomedical, and materials innovation—were Distinguished Engineer Award working with by using electrical feedback be performed by colleagues at the Robert honored at the School of Engineering’s annual to control electroporation. Working colla- Wood Johnson Medical School. gala dinner in October. n The Medal of Ex- Tracy Espiritu Dean’s Award for Service boratively, the team draws from its individ- “Being just down the hall from each cellence event received generous support Tiny Chips ual strengths to realize the overall project other really helped because it is very from presenting sponsor Raytheon Co., along Eric Jayjock, Ph.D Young Alumnus Award FROM PAGE 29 goals, from designing and constructing important to be able to talk face-to-face with platinum sponsors AECOM, Gibbons, and PSEG, and gold sponsors Chubb Surety, Richard N. Weeks it is actually a very complex problem to the device, to developing instrumentation with people in different areas,” Pierce Constellation Energy, Horizon Blue Cross Medal of Excellence resolve precisely how to make this work, and theoretical modeling. Together, the said. “That’s the way you can build an Blue Shield, Janssen Pharmaceutical Cos. of Subhasish Roychoudhury, Ph.D. which may explain why no one has tried team has received three grants from the understanding of what the other person Johnson & Johnson, and Weeks Marine. Distinguished Alumnus in Industry this before. National Science Foundation for its work. can do.” SOE

38 RUI ENGINEER . SPRING 2016 PHOTOGRAPHS: TOP, DEREK HORTON; BOTTOM, KEITH A. MUCCILLI SPRING 2016 . RUI ENGINEER 39 SOE I Achievers SoE by the Numbers Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. It was the first time a crew did a refit mission while being in simulation. “Both of these missions simulated IN THE NEW JERSEY/ conditions you’d experience on a long- NEW YORK METRO term mission to either an asteroid or REGION, U.S. NEWS 1 of 5 Mars. We tested tools, were isolated, & WORLD REPORT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF and on MDRS, we wore spacesuits,” she RANKS RUTGERS-NEW TRANSPORTATION-DESIGNATED explains. “Mission success depended BRUNSWICK THE TOP NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on the ability to live and work with PUBLIC UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS FOR UNDERGRADU- our crewmates during this long jour- ATE ENGINEERING ney to achieve all mission objectives.” 150 A fan of The Martian, Silva- TENURED AND Martinez notes that conditions in the #1 1 of 6 TENURE-TRACK FAA-DESIGNATED TEST SITES hit movie were better than those of FACULTY FOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF her analog missions. But in depict- UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS ing the qualities needed to survive 3,650 INTO NATIONAL AIRSPACE on Mars, she thinks the movie got UNDERGRADUATES it right. “You’d have to be extremely $62K self-motivated to keep going and CLASS OF 2015 succeed. You’d need the right physical AVERAGE REPORTED SALARY 23 and knowledge tools to get the job 1,046 DISTINGUISHED done,” she says. “And, of course, you’d PROFESSORS GRADUATE STUDENTS need some common sense.” After graduating from Rutgers, Silva-Martinez worked at Lockheed DEPARTMENTS7 Jackelynne Silva-Martinez Martin Space Systems Company for three years before working at the 24% RUTGERS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING IS After graduating from Rutgers with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical and STUDENTS RECEIVING NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in aerospace engineering and Spanish, Silva-Martinez is now an aerospace engineer SOE SUPPORTED Pasadena, California. She earned a SCHOLARSHIPS in the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA. She has already completed DEGREE10 MAJORS master’s degree from Embry-Rid- two analog missions to Mars and hopes to become an astronaut one day. dle Aeronautical University and is 20,000 currently finishing a second master’s ALUMNI STRONG in aerospace engineering at Georgia AS A YOUNG GIRL IN HER NATIVE PERU, mission specialist on NASA’s latest Institute of Technology. 5 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED Jackelynne Silva-Martinez dreamed Human Exploration Research Ana- She credits SoE with planting RESEARCH CENTERS of becoming an astronaut. Today, log, or HERA, mission. “Our four- the seeds of her success. “I gained she works with the T-38 aircraft that person crew simulated a mission to the discipline I needed to accomplish astronauts train on as an aerospace conduct a geological survey of the things,” she says. “The combination engineer in the Flight Operations Geographos asteroid, where we were of a great faculty and great courses % Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space isolated for two weeks for behavioral along with outside activities helped Center in Houston, Texas. She has research and tested tools in an opera- me develop the professional skills I 80PLACEMENT RATE also recently completed two two-week tional environment,” she recalls. need to succeed.” SIX MONTHS $60 million missions that put her closer to achiev- In November 2015, she complet- POST-GRADUATION ANNUAL RESEARCH EXPENDITURES ing her lifelong goal. ed a second analog mission as the To read more about Jacky, visit In August 2015, she served as executive officer at the Mars Desert soe.rutgers.edu/silva-martinez

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