ENGINEERING Alumni Inducted

INSIDE Dean’s Message...... 2 ENGINEERING Alumni inducted...... 3 RoMeLa wins RoboCup...... 4 CAREER awards...... 6 Foundry dedicated...... 8 news VIRGINIA TECH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SPRING 2012

Feng unveils HokieSpeed, a supercomputer for the masses okieSpeed, the new super another in and across large metal computer from Virginia racks, each roughly 6.5 feet tall, to Tech’s College of Engineer- create a single supercomputer that Hing, debuted in December 2011 occupies half a row of racks in a vast under the guidance of Wu Feng, as- university computer machine room. A sociate professor with the computer majority of the supercomputer’s fund- science and electrical and computer ing came from the National Science engineering departments. He said Foundation. HokieSpeed was Virginia Tech’s lat- Feng sees HokieSpeed as a est war horse in the research arena. tool that one day will be readily avail- “This instrument will empower fac- able to the public. In particular, small ulty, students, and staff across disci- businesses and researchers from plines to tackle problems previously smaller universities can gain access viewed as intractable or that required to technology previously available heroic efforts and significant domain- only to well-funded corporations or specific expertise to solve.” universities. The supercomputer, as of press “The next frontier is to take time, boasted a single-precision high-performance computing, in Wu Feng, associate peak of 455 teraflops, or 455 trillion particular supercomputers such as professor of computer operations per second, and a dou- HokieSpeed, and personalize it for science and electrical and ble-precision peak of 240 teraflops, the masses,” he said. computer engineering, or 240 trillion operations per second. HokieSpeed is 22 times faster spearheaded design and That was enough computational ca- and yet a quarter of the size of Sys- construction of HokieSpeed. pability to put HokieSpeed at No. 96 tem X, the first major supercomputer on the latest Top500 List, the indus- developed at Virginia Tech. That try-standard ranking of the world’s using less energy to do more. Feng Located at Virginia Tech’s Cor- machine, debuted in 2003, placed 500 fastest supercomputers, and No. also heads the Green500 List, with co- porate Research Center, the $1.4 mil- the university among the world’s top 11 on the Green500 List, a compila- founder Kirk W. Cameron, associate lion machine contains 209 nodes, or computational research facilities and tion of supercomputers that excel at professor of computer science. separate computers, connected to one garnered national headlines.

Duma’s helmet impact research expands, gains national attention During the past year, Stefan Duma expanded his derstanding of child brain biomechan- research of football helmet impacts and the prevention ics and will lead to improvements in of concussions from the college level to youth football, youth practice and game techniques and launched a new helmet safety ranking system. He as well as the development of im- also announced a new study to instrument and map proved helmets specifically designed head impact exposures of youth football players ages for children. Each team will receive 6 to 18 years, starting with a program that will instru- new helmets outfitted with special ment more than 240 helmets on six different teams in impact sensors, similar to those used North Carolina and Virginia. by the Virginia Tech football team The new program, announced in late February, since 2003, and then again with the comes on the heels of the first-ever publication of data 2011 study that focused on the 7- and on head impacts from youth football players. That 8-year-old players of Montgomery paper was published in a recent Annals of Biomedical County’s Auburn Elementary School Engineering, available online for free download. The football team. Each time a player im- manuscript includes the details of more than 700 head pacts his head during play or practice, impacts measured on 7- and 8-year-old youth football data is recorded and wirelessly down- Stefan Duma tests football helmets in his lab at Virginia Tech. players, and was previewed in a Jan. 30, 2012, epi- loaded to a computer on the sideline. sode of ABC’s “The View” featuring television journalist “This new study for 2012 allows for dramatically Duma predicts more than 50,000 head impacts Stone Phillips. Its findings: some impacts endured by increased sample size and head exposure mapping will be recorded through 2012 as part of the KIDS the children reached magnitudes considered high even for all age groups,” said Duma, professor of biomedical study. Findings from the 2011 Auburn study, in which for college players. engineering and head of the Virginia Tech – Wake For- researchers collected data on more than 750 hits. The Duma says the new study, called the Kinematics est University School of Biomedical Engineering and highest recorded impact was measured at 100-g, as in of Impact Data Set (KIDS), will greatly enhance the un- Sciences. See Helmet, page 8

Signature Engineering Building scheduled for 2013 opening The Signature Engineering Building has been a dream project of the College of Engineering since 2005, designed to alleviate crowded academic space for our undergraduate engineering students and provide state-of- the-art, highly specialized laboratories that will support hands-on problem solving and active learning in the engineering disciplines. In 2011, the building became reality. In April, we received a university-record single private donation of $25 million, architecture plans were finalized, and ground was broken in September. In fall 2013, we will open the doors of the Signature Engineering Building and welcome a new class of future engineers, scientists and leaders. For more on the Signature Engineering Building, turn to Page 2. newsENGINEERING CC OO LL LL EE GG EE NN OO TT EE SS Dean’s Message Signature Engineering Building, new programs on the horizon The past year has brought This is $50 million more than our $155 million target. ready have held several conversations with faculty, staff, much excitement at the College of Speaking of finances, in our annual report to the and administrators that produced five themes central to Engineering of Virginia Tech. American Society of Engineering Education, we report- our future growth: 1) provide a high quality environment After years of planning and ed $152.7 million in research expenditures for fiscal year for teaching, learning, and research; 2) recruit, educate, fundraising, construction of our new 2011. This is a college record, and up 13 percent from and graduate a high-quality and diverse undergraduate $100 million Signature Engineering $134.8 million in fiscal year 2010. student body; 3) recruit, educate, and graduate a high- Building began in September 2011. There is much else to tell from the past year, and to quality and diverse graduate student body; 4) address If you’ve been to campus during talk about for the coming years. problems of regional, national, and global importance; the past six months, or watched the In November 2011, the Virginia Tech Board of Visi- and 5) support a diverse community of faculty, staff, and constant live web camera at tors approved a nuclear engineering program for mas- students. www.eng.vt.edu/seb, you have ters and doctoral degrees. As well, two new undergradu- During the past six years the College of Engineer- seen the frame of the building rise Richard Benson ate minors, biomedical engineering, and interdisciplinary ing has been well served by the 2006-2012 strategic from the ground in just a few short engineering and science, are currently working their way plan. In that period we have seen great growth in the months. As of this writing, we were three weeks ahead through university governance. productivity and external reputation of the college, of schedule, thanks in part to a mild winter. After the The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied sometimes in the face of great economic adversity. I am facility opens, it will serve as the centerpiece of the col- Science (ICTAS), under the leadership of Roop Ma- confident that we will create a strategic plan for 2012- lege, and a teaching tool for our students. hajan, expanded its facilities in 2011 to include ap- 2018 that will be of equal value in setting an enhanced The efforts of several present and past members proximately 7,000 new square feet in the new Virginia 21st Century course for the College of Engineering. of the College of Engineering Advisory Board during the Tech Research Center in Arlington. The location is a As you read the following pages, you will see we past five years helped spur this building to reality. Their short distance from many leading federal science and already are blazing great new trails for the future. From efforts ranged from fundraising to helping gain attention research agencies and many high-technology compa- engineering electric cars to building robots that can fight and support for the building from the Virginia General nies. This new facility is in addition to the three buildings fires aboard ships, making the sport of football safer for Assembly and Governor’s Office. Our success was truly ICTAS occupies on campus, including the ICTAS head- players from the elementary school level to the NFL, our based on a team effort. Our message for support of quarters at the corner of Turner and Stanger streets, the students and faculty are the shining example of Virginia the building and for our college as a whole was and is Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Lab at Vir- Tech’s mantra: Invent the Future. simple and constant: engineering is a driver in the well- ginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center, and the newer Sincerely, being and future enhancement of the state’s economy, ICTAS-II in the university’s life sciences corridor. and we are the engine behind that drive, graduating Looking toward the future, the College of Engineer- more engineers per year than all other Virginia universi- ing is preparing a strategic plan for 2012-2018. We al- Richard C. Benson ties combined. A special acknowledgment must be paid to our former board chair, , for his efforts in Art McKinney Signature Engineering bringing the Signature Engineering Building to life. We Building, northeast engaged McKinney and Company to help with the architectural planning, and as a result we were able to re- corner view. duce the cost of the building by almost $30 million. Art’s influence on the design was also a persuasive factor in the gift of $25 million from an anonymous donor for the building. This lead gift is the largest ever received from a single individual or family in Virginia Tech’s history. Additionally, Michael Quillen, another distinguished alumnus, along with his family, donated $3 million to the building. Every gift is much appreciated. And simultaneously we announced the University’s largest bequest from a single donor, a gift of $17 million from engineering alumnus Bobby Hord to fund scholarships and pro- fessorships in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing and the Department of Chemical Engineering. This support is humbling and signifies the unfading pride Hokies have in their College of Engineering, es- pecially given the economic turmoil that has hampered the nation for the past several years. Related, support for the university as a whole has been tremendous, as well. The university surpassed its $1 billion Campaign U.S. News ranks undergraduate program as among best for Virginia Tech goal by $111 million in November 2011, Virginia Tech’s College of En- held for several years. The Charles 2012” survey, the College of Engi- and the College of Engineering itself raised $205 million. gineering again ranked 24th in the E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and neering ranked 15th in the nation. nation, according to U.S. News and Environmental Engineering’s civil It ranked seventh among public World Report’s America’s Best Grad- engineering program ranked eighth, universities in the survey, released in uate Schools 2013 survey released with the environmental side ranked September 2011. 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It held the same ranking seventh. ranked in the top 10 nationally in for graduate school programs in the Additional program rankings: their respective categories, with in- 2012 survey, released in spring 2011. aerospace ranked 13th, computer dustrial engineering at seventh, and news The College ranked among the engineering ranked 23rd, electrical civil engineering at 10th. top 15 public American universities. engineering ranked 21st, materials Other rankings: aerospace Dean, College of Engineering: Richard Benson Editor / Writer: Steven Mackay Among departments, the Grado engineering ranked 24th, and me- at 15th, electrical and computer Contributing Writer: Lynn Nystrom Department of Industrial and Sys- chanical engineering ranked 18th. engineering at 14th, environmental Designer: David Simpkins tems Engineering ranked third, a In U.S. News and World Re- engineering at 12th, and mechanical Photographers: Roy Feldman, Derek Lahr, Steven move up from the No. 4 slot it has port’s “America’s Best Colleges at 13th. 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A L U M N I N O T E S College honors new academy members, young alum The College of Engineering in 2011 motors. Holds several patents. inducted eight members into its Acad- Don Powers, electrical engineer- emy of Engineering Excellence, an elite ing, 1959. Helped grow IBM into one of group that now consists of 105 people the world’s technology giants during a out of its more than 55,000 living alumni. 28-year career, developing software and The 2011 academy inductees: hardware for large computer mainframes. Paul Barbery, mining engineering, He later helped turn Control Data Corp. 1959. Employed with A.T. Massey for and Empros Systems International into 18 years and also served as chairman multi-million-dollar successes. of Elk Run Coal Co., a subsidiary of A. Warner Robins, aeronautical Massey. He later served as vice presi- engineering, 1949. Joined NASA’s pre- dent and general counsel of the Cline decessor, the National Advisory Commit- Resources Co., where he concentrated tee for Aeronautics as an aeronautical on coal and energy legal matters. engineer, and later helped lead research Charles Gordon Jr., industrial of supersonic aircraft at the federal engineering, 1969. Joined the family’s space agency. furniture manufacturer business, helped John White, Jr., industrial engineer- double its size from less than 200 to ing, 1966. Academic career started at more than 400 employees in 15 years. Georgia Tech and eventually moved to Charles E. Harris, aerospace en- University of Arkansas where he served as chancellor. In the private sector, gineering, 1972; engineering science Members of the Academy of Engineering Excellence and the Outstanding masters, 1972; and mechanics doctor- Young Alumna, Class of 2011. From left to right, are: Laurie McNeill, Richard started logistics consulting company ate, 1983. Spent his entire career at Benson, dean of the College of Engineering, Don Powers, Don Pemberton, SysteCon. NASA Langley, where in 2000, he was Charles Harris, Art McKinney, Paul Barbery, Warner Robins, John White, and The 2011 Outstanding Alum is Lau- promoted to the deputy directorship of Charles Gordon. rie McNeill, doctoral degree, civil and Structures and Materials Competency. environmental engineering, 2000. Now Earned Presidential Rank of Meritorious 30 years ago, building mostly big box gineering, 1956. Spent his career at an associate professor of civil and envi- Executive in 2005. manufacturing facilities, then focused on Reynolds Metals, starting as a mainte- ronmental engineering at Utah State Uni- Art McKinney, architectural en- life science centers and other high-tech nance foreman, eventually working in its versity. She won 2010 Carnegie Founda- gineering, 1966. Started his own full- buildings. research division to test concepts such tion for the Advancement of Teaching service design and construction firm Don Pemberton, electrical en- as outer aluminum housing for electric – Utah Professor of the Year. Alumni honored for work, lifetime philanthropy efforts The College of Engi- Commonwealth Edison. He sold in 1992, but has neering in 2011 honored He married, became a father, and enrolled in busi- continued as a member of Dan Carson as its Dis- ness school at Lynchburg College to earn an MBA, his its board. tinguished Alumnus and eyes set on a management position at the power com- He used his compa- Joseph Collie with a Dis- pany. Four years later, in 1981, he moved north to earn a ny’s success to better the tinguished Service Award. master’s of science degree in management at Massachu- Virginia Tech Department Both men were honored setts Institute of Technology. Carson returned first to Roa- of Chemical Engineering, for their vital industry ca- noke as an assistant manager for six months, and then giving a $1 million gift in reers and a strong ethic moved to Abingdon, Va., to become a division manager. 1995 to establish a chaired for community involvement In 1992, Carson was appointed to a vice-presi- professorship dedicated and volunteerism. dent’s position at American Electric, with responsibility to developing an inter- Carson, the 2011 Dis- for the company’s rates and contracts, accounting, and disciplinary program in tinguished Alumnus, was government affairs functions. The latter meant acting as chemical distribution and born in Pulaski County, a lobbyist. He thrived in the position. Several years later, marketing. The position is Va., enjoyed a long career Dan Carson he returned to Appalachian Power, serving at the top of awarded every two years, Joe Collie at Appalachian Power, the company that provides electricity to his home town. and is unique to a College starting in 1970. In 2010, he retired. of Engineering. By the next year, Carson was working as a de- Collie remains an active member of the chemi- signer on a then-innovative 765,000-volt transmission Joseph Collie graduated from Virginia Tech’s chem- cal engineering advisory board, and he and his wife, line grid for Appalachian. “We built entire networks ical engineering department in 1950, a few short years Barbara, recently established another endowment, analogous to the interstate highway system,” he said, after he served in the trenches of World War II. the Joseph and Barbara Collie Undergraduate Schol- referring to the under-construction I-81 route now vi- He joined chemical giant DuPont, and then worked arship. tal to U.S. motorists. Records show the first 765,000- for a smaller company, before breaking out on his own, He is a member of the Virginia Tech Ut Prosim volt interconnection occurred between Appalachian’s forming Southchem Inc., a Durham, N.C.-based chemi- Society, and also has served on the university’s then-parent company, American Electric Power and cal distribution company he built into a thriving business. Foundation Board.

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS

• Regina Dugan, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the Lean Advancement Initiative at the Henriques joined director of the engineering from Virginia Tech, is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in 2007. Ynvis- federal Defense sole inventor on a patent for refueling Her research interests include: health- ible develops new Advanced Re- satellites in orbit. care systems performance improve- technologies in search Projects • Wiljeana J. ment and the integration of organiza- printed electronics. Agency, spoke Glover received tions within enterprises. • Cyrus Nejat, who February 29th at a $15,000 Phil- • Inês Henriques, a earned a mas- the world-famous anthropic Educa- master’s and doc- ter’s degree in TED conference Regina Dugan tion Organization toral graduate of aerospace and Cyrus Nejat in California. TED Scholar Award civil and environ- ocean engineer- is a global conference hosted by the for 2011-2012. mental engineering in 2006, won the Yuri Gagarin American private nonprofit Sapling Glover earned ing in 2002 and Achievement Gold Medal Award from Foundation, formed to disseminate her master’s and Wiljeana Glover 2006, respectively, the Cosmonautics Federation of Rus- “ideas worth spreading.” Past speakers doctoral degrees was named CEO sia. The group honored Nejat’s for two include Bill Gates, James Cameron, in industrial and systems engineering of Portugal-based Inés Henriques recent research papers written while at Al Gore, and Virginia Tech’s own Den- from Virginia Tech, and as of press YD Ynvisible the University of Southern California, nis Hong. Dugan, who earned her time was a post-doctoral associate with S.A., a subsidiary of YDreams, which where he is a master’s student.

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RoboCup puts RoMeLa in forefront of humanoid robot field

RoMeLa team members celebrate in the moment of victory with the DARwIn humanoid robots winning the RoboCup tournament. Left to right, all wearing black shirts, are Dennis Hong, Viktor Orekov, Bryce Lee, and Jeakweon Han.

t was another stellar year for Dennis too. Wired wrote a story on its website. It soon will be on display at Virginia Tech’s the ball and strategize a goal kick or a Hong and the graduate and under- Time named CHARLI 2 one of the 50 Randolph Hall for the next year. steal a ball from an opposing player, with graduate students at the Robotics and Best Inventions of the Year. The robot was At the forefront of the wins were rules mirroring human soccer. The tour- IMechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa). The flown to New York to shake hands with CHARLI 2, and six DARwIn-OPs, 18-inch ney’s long-term goal: build human-sized team in July 2011 traveled to Istanbul Matt Lauer and company on NBC’s “Today autonomous humanoid robots, all devel- robots that can play professional human where they dominated the RoboCup 2011 Show.” The Washington Post ran a full oped by Virginia Tech graduate and under- footballers by 2050. The end goal is much soccer competition – including winning the Sunday feature on Hong and the work by graduate students focusing in mechanical more: build humanoid robots that can per- coveted grand prix Louis Vuitton Humanoid his students, with the article being circulat- engineering or electrical engineering. Team form dangerous or mundane tasks, every- Cup – against dozens of other countries, ed around the world, from The Guardian in DARwIn was assisted with software devel- thing from fighting those shipboard fires to including tech powerhouses Japan and England, to papers in Arizona, Illinois, and oped by students and faculty from Univer- lifting immobile elderly patients from beds Korea, and soccer-obsessed nations such Oregon in the United States. Forbes also sity of Pennsylvania. Team CHARLI was all to a wheelchair. as England and Germany. Its victory was a wrote about Hong’s work and the future of Virginia Tech. Federal agencies are pouring money first for the United States. robots. Korea Broadcasting System and Al Doctoral student Jeakweon Han, into humanoid robotics research and de- The win catapulted Virginia Tech to Jazeera also filmed long-format stories. chief mechanical architect of CHARLI 2 velopment. RoMeLa has been at work on a new world stage. When CHARLI 2 – a A month after the RoboCup won, and its predecessor, CHARLI-L, tied the a project to build a human-sized robot pat- sequel to the first untethered, autonomous, Hong, associate professor of mechanical win to teamwork. “Every member had a terned after CHARLI to be called SAFiR for adult-sized, walking, humanoid robot with engineering and director of RoMeLa, said crucial task,” Han, of Seoul, Korea, said. the U.S. Navy. Its mission: fight onboard four moving limbs and a head, built in the he was still wowed by the victory. “This has “We all thought same thing, ‘If I fail some- ship fires in areas deemed too dangerous United States at Virginia Tech in March a significant symbolic meaning, showing thing, it will screw up what we have done for people with humanoid robots. Funding 2010 – kicked a winning penalty goal, the the shift in the leaders in humanoid robot- so far.’ It made me focus on my task.” for SAFiR is now at $3 million. RoMeLa team said the indoor arena erupt- ics in the world.” RoboCup is annual tournament that If later demos are successful, devel- ed in chants of “USA! USA!” That never Japan had the coveted trophy – worth brings together robotists from around opment funding could top $100 million. happened before either. some $50,000 – for seven consecutive the world. The soccer playing robots use “Top Navy brass have seen early proto- Media around the world took notice, years, with Germany taking it for two years. autonomous Artificial Intelligence to hunt types and are very impressed,” Hong said.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Three doctoral students from the Center for research fellowship to Nikolaos Apsilidis, a doctoral president of its Robotics Club. Human-Computer Interaction won the 3D User Inter- student in civil and environmental engineering. He faces Grand Prize competition at the 2011 Institute of traveled to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Reisha Maria Parham, a Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium. This Development Center’s Waterways Experiment Station chemical engineering student marks the second win in a row for in Vicksburg, Miss., to collect data and perform large- from Chesapeake, Va., received the “Fighting Gobblers,” comprised scale experiments to better understand the physical a 2011-12 American Institute of of Felipe Bacim of Porto Alegre, processes of scouring around bridge piers. Chemical Engineers’ Minority Brazil; Bireswar Laha of Kon- Scholarship Award based on her nagar, India; and Cheryl Stinson Mechanical engineering major work as part of a tissue engineer- of Ottawa, Canada. The team won Melissa Hughes of Blacksburg, ing research group and her overall Reisha Parham via a video they prepared for the Va., became the first Virginia Tech academic achievements. contest, held in Singapore. The undergraduate to intern with Rolls competition required teams to Royce in the United Kingdom un- Hari Pyla, a doctoral student in computer science, develop a 3D user interface for a Felipe Bacim der the auspices of the new part- received the John Vlissides Award at the 2011 meet- difficult virtual interaction task, in nership between the company and ing of the Systems, Programming, this case solving a cube-shaped 3D puzzle in a virtual the Commonwealth of Virginia. Languages, and Applications: environment. She was assigned to the Ad- Melissa Hughes Software for Humanity, the premier vanced Manufacturing Research conference in object-oriented pro- Three mining and minerals engineering students Center in Sheffield, England, dur- gramming languages and systems. won the Carlson Software’s National Senior Mine ing the summer 2011. Pyla, of Vizag, India, also won the Design Competition, marking the fifth consecutive first place in the Association of year Virginia Tech dominated the event. Class of 2011 Computer science freshman Computing Machinery’s student seniors Erich Dohm of Gainesville, Ga., and Wilson Elena Nadolinski, of Fairfax, Va., research competition. Lin and Jason Yeager, both of Manassas, Va., won was invited in December 2011 to Hari Pyla with their project titled “Flat Creek Quarry,” a proposed the White House as a winner of Virginia Tech awarded its 2010 greenstone hard rock quarry located in Virginia’s south the National Council for Women in Outstanding Dissertation Award for Sciences and Engi- central Piedmont region. Information Technology Award for neering to Mehdi Nikkhah, who earned his doctorate Elena Nadolinski Aspirations in Computing. At W.T. in mechanical engineering that same year. Awards are The Consortium of Universities for the Advance- Woodson High School, Nadolinski based on originality of the idea, contributions to the field, ment of Hydrologic Science Inc. awarded a $5,000 was vice president of the Computer Science Club, and presentation of the ideas, and the quality of writing.

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Virginia Tech’s EcoCAR, named VT-REX for Virginia Tech Range Extended Crossover, lets loose at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s Smart Road. Cool fact: that’s Virginia Tech President Charles Steger behind the wheel.

An estimated 66 graduate and Re-engineered car wins undergraduate students spent international competition three years re- engineering a 2009 irginia Tech’s Hybrid Electric Ve- including 10 First Place finishes: The General Motors hicle Team won the international NeXt Challenge: Best Vehicle Testing crossover SUV into EcoCAR Challenge, a three-year Complete Presentation, Shortest Brak- a hybrid electric designV competition that sought to inspire ing Distance, Lowest Fuel Consumption, vehicle boasting science and engineering students to Best Dynamic Consumer Acceptability, the equivalent of build more energy-efficient “green” auto- National Instruments Most Innovative 82 miles per gallon, mobiles. Use of Graphical System Design Award, and despite the cut Lynn Gantt, a newly graduated master’s student in Competition awards were presented Best Progress Reports, and Fastest Au- in fuel dependency, mechanical engineering from Yorktown, Va., shows U.S. in Washington, D.C., after a two-week tocross ‘Fun Run’ Time. maintained con- Secretary of Energy Steven Chu the engine of the HEVT finale at General Motor’s Milford Proving Several individual awards also were sumer acceptability, car, as members of the media capture the moment. Gantt Grounds in Milford, Mich., and then the presented, including for team member stock appearance, will now work for General Motors, a major co-sponsor of U.S. Department of Energy’s headquar- Patrick Walsh, who bested General Mo- and safety. the EcoCAR event. ters in the nation’s capital. tors’ own drivers with a quicker run time Along the way Virginia Tech won 14 awards, during an autocross test event. team members gained in-the-field train- refinement of our vehicle for efficiency, ing, connecting with professional engi- driveability, and reliability,” said Doug neers and opening doors to new careers. Nelson, faculty adviser of the HEVT for “I, along with five other students from the 17 years and a professor of mechanical Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team, are go- engineering. ing to go work for General Motors,” said Added Walsh, who earned a mas- Lynn Gantt, student team leader who ter’s degree in mechanical engineering earned a master’s degree in mechani- in spring 2011 and is now a research cal engineering. “Several other students engineer at Argonne National Labora- have secured jobs in the automotive tory, an EcoCAR organizer, in Chicago: industry for suppliers.” “It was an intense 2.5 years for me, but Of the 16 teams from the United in the end I am a far better engineer States and Canada in competition, only because of the experience that EcoCAR six finished all of the dynamic events at and HEVT provided me.” Members of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team take the stage at the EcoCAR the June event. “The team did a great At the start of them 2012-2012 year, Challenge finale event at the Thomas Jefferson Building, home of the Library job of getting things done in time to a new Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Congress, with event sponsors. be able to do testing, and in particular, formed for EcoCAR 2, a new challenge.

Students develop safety lock for ATVs n 2009, an estimated 32,400 children under the age George; and Kelly Miller and Clayton Harvey, both of 16 were treated at emergency rooms for injuries of Lynchburg, Va., all majors in industrial systems and and 61 were killed in All-Terrain Vehicle accidents, engineering who graduated in May 2011. They designed accordingI to statistics from the U.S. Consumer Product several ignition locking systems from combination press/ Safety Commission. In 2011, four Virginia Tech College toggle switches on the throttle to a weighted spring on of Engineering students designed a child-proof ignition the back seat, and a pedal switch. The students imple- locking system the agency says one day could help mented the system on a discarded ATV donated by save lives. Miller’s father. The ignition safety lock system is multi-tiered – The gist: the three-step system requires a rider to based on weight, cognitive ability and sitting position be at least 90 pounds and sit far back on the seat, thus – making it virtually impossible for a child 10 years old pushing the cushion down to activate a magnetic switch. or younger to start the vehicle by himself or herself. From there, the user must press down and pull a toggle Commission staff came to Virginia Tech’s Grado De- switch, while also pressing a foot pedal. All three department of Industrial Systems and Engineering with a vices must be simultaneously activated for the ignition to proposal for an ignition safety lock in September 2010, start, said Ioannou. said Tonya Smith-Jackson, a professor within the de- The project’s biggest challenge: do it cheaply, for Left to right, are Alexia Ioannou, Jeff Howell, Kelly partment and the faculty adviser on the capstone senior $500 or less, so that ATV manufacturers might voluntari- Miller and Clayton Harvey, who graduated in May 2011 design project. ly incorporate the safety system into future models if the after majoring in industrial systems and engineering. “The students designed a somatically redundant in- process can be shown as cost effective. No regulatory terlock ignition system for all-terrain vehicles to prevent requirement is in place or planned for such a device on bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial and sys- children from starting ATVs that are made for adults,” ATVs, but Commission employees and ATV manufactur- tems and engineering in 2002 and 2005, respectively. said Smith-Jackson. “There are many child-deaths each ers regularly communicate on safety measures. Working with her at the commission is Hope Nesteruk, year, and the [Consumer Product Safety Commission] “We had been brainstorming for a while, discuss- also a two-time Hokie, earning a bachelor’s in math from sponsored this team’s efforts to design an effective and ing why don’t we do something on ATVs, make them a the College of Science in 1996 and a master’s in indus- reliable interlock. The students have come upon a fea- bit more complicated to get them started, whether it be trial and systems engineering in 2001. Both specialize in sible and effective design.” cognitively or physically, so a child could not operate it,” human factors engineering. The four students working on the project were said Sarah Brown of the commission. This is the second year the agency has worked with Alexia Ioannou of Centreville, Va.; Jeff Howell of King Brown is a two-time Virginia Tech alumna, earning Virginia Tech students.

VISIT WWW.ENG.VT.EDU FOR THESE STORIES AND MORE • ENGINEERING NEWS 2012 • 5 newsENGINEERING FF AA CC UU LL TT YY AA CC HH II EE VV EE MM EE NN TT SS Engineering faculty spearhead earthquake studies at home and abroad From the devastating earthquake that struck north- the next day. ern Japan in March 2011, to the Aug. 23, 2011, earth- The investigative team was comprised quake that originated in northern Virginia and rattled the of members of the Geotechnical Extreme entire East Coast, such events have been on the minds Events Reconnaissance Association. It of people the world over. At the College of Engineering, coordinated investigation efforts with key experts in studying the effects of earthquakes on struc- agencies such as the Earthquake Engineer- tures and nature itself were dispatched to lend help, and ing Research Institute, U.S. Geographical Left to right, Virginia Tech’s Martin Chapman, Russell Green, gather new research data. Survey, Virginia’s state Geological Survey, Matthew Eathrton, and James Martin are pictured inspecting After the Mineral, Va.-centered and the Departments of Transportation in the North Anna Nuclear Plant a week after the earthquake, Aug. 23 event that measured 5.8 Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., August 2011. on the Richter magnitude scale, among others. James R. Martin II, a professor of The earthquake also triggered the shut- Washington, D.C., as both landmarks sustained damage civil and environmental engineer- down of the nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power during the Aug. 23 trembler. ing, was tasked by the National Plant located near the epicenter, in Louisa County, Va., Martin also spent several weeks during 2011 in Science Foundation to lead a team after the loss of electric power. Generators restored northern Japan, studying after-effects of the massive, un- of U.S. scientists and engineers in power, according to media reports. Inspecting the plant derwater 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that registered a magni- investigating and documenting its for damage, Martin was joined by fellow Virginia Tech tude 9.0. The devastating event and a resulting tsunami after-effects. The quake – which James Martin civil and environmental engineering faculty members killed approximately 16,000 people, and damaged or damaged several landmarks in rela- Matthew Eathrton and Russell Green, and Martin destroyed scores of buildings and homes, literally re- tively nearby Washington, D.C. – was felt as far south as Chapman of the College of Science’s Department of shaping the landscape of the region. Martin expects to Georgia and as far north as New Hampshire. Geology. The plant suffered only minor damage. visit Japan several more times in the near future. Martin’s team had to move fast in taking samples, As of press time, Martin’s investigation continues. “The Japan Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami have creating maps and photographing damage to subsur- The National Science Foundation in February 2012 been the catastrophic event of our generation,” Martin face and infrastructure locations. Martin was tasked as gave preliminary approval to an $80,000 grant for Martin said. investigative leader on Aug. 26. Hurricane Irene, with and his team to “identify the specific mechanisms that Green, an associate professor, spent large portions flooding rains and high winds, made landfall in Virginia led to damage at the Monument and the Smithsonian” in See Earthquake, page 8

Several College of Engineering assistant professors received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Engineering faculty Program (CAREER) award during the past year. The grants are the NSF’s most prestigious award for creative junior faculty considered win CAREER awards as future leaders in their respective academic fields. Douglas Bish of the Raffaella De Vita, Shane Ross of Chao Wang, of Grado Department director of the engineering science electrical and com- of Industrial and Mechanics of Soft and mechanics, will puter engineering, Systems Engineer- Biological Systems use his $420,000 will use his $478,000 ing will his $400,000 Laboratory, will use award to develop grant to help solve award to create her $473,000 award better tools to better the ever-complex mathematical-based to study pelvic floor predict fluid motions. problem of debug- computer models disorder in women, What often appears ging computer that one day could including the pain- to be a random flow software. Detecting, help emergency ful pelvic organ of particles can be finding and repairing Douglas Bish management Raffaella De Vita prolapse, or the Shane Ross characterized more Chao Wang software defects are officials to better literal collapse of the effectively, allow- becoming extremely plan, train, and carry out the logistically uterus into the vagina following natural ing scientists and engineers to better labor-intensive because of the rapidly complex task of evacuating hospitals or child births or other major stresses on the understand and control, say, the spread increasing size and complexity of today’s entire coastal communities under threat pelvic area. She will use ligament and of airborne disease agents. Examples software. It’s also costly: Software bugs of hurricane or other widespread threats. organ samples culled from sows to study include the flow of blood through a body, are estimated to cost the U.S. economy Computer modeling such efforts is the the elastic and viscoelastic properties of and pollution and pathogens in the air, or $59.5 million annually. Software glitches best option to study such evacuations as two major ligaments supporting the uterus oil from a spill moving and spreading in have been blamed for the 2003 electrical full-scale, real-life drills would be logisti- and vagina, with an eye toward using the water. Ross will work with fellow engineer- blackout that spooked much of the north- cally impossible and cost-prohibitive. Bish findings to form new medical treatments. ing faculty Rafael Davalos and Pavlos ern United States and portions of Canada. also will study communication efforts – be Vlachos who have used fluid flow meth- “The situation is exacerbated by the in- it TV, Internet, cell phone, or radio – re- Holly Matusov- ods in developing new treatment methods creasingly widespread use of multicore quired to disseminate evacuation plans. ich, of engineer- for cancer and heart disease. processors, or central processing units,” ing education, will said Wang. Rafael Davalos of study how students As new faculty the Virginia Tech– are motivated to member John E. Yaling Yang, also Wake Forest School learn engineering Taylor was mov- of electrical and of Biomedical En- practices, including ing from Columbia computer engineer- gineering and Sci- relearning concepts University to Virginia ing, will use her ences will use his that are false that Tech’s Charles E. $450,000 award to $450,000 award to they previously Via Jr. Department spearhead the sort- continue his trail- Holly Matusovich thought true. Her of Civil and Environ- ing of cross-layer in- blazing research in $438,000 award will mental Engineering, compatibility issues using irreversible allow her to work with not just engineer- he was notified of that slow wireless Rafael Davalos electroporation to ing students at Virginia Tech, but pupils John E. Taylor his CAREER award computer network- treat diseased cells from across the nation, as well as faculty. of $400,000. An Yaling Yang ing delivery over with and without adjuvant chemothera- “Researchers and educators alike know associate professor, Taylor will conduct the Internet. The peutic agents or radiation. The work is that engineering students enter under- multi-scale experimentations and simula- problem: many network designs strayed based on a collaborative research project graduate programs with misconceptions tions in the built environment to achieve from straight one layer building blocks to by Davalos where he successfully treated about critical engineering concepts,” she sustained energy conservation. He seeks more complex multi-layer designs, and a seven-year-old spayed female Labrador said. In the classroom, some students “to understand, improve and predict the delivery problems occurred, or the blocks retriever that suffered from a cancerous thrive upon learning new concepts which dynamics that occur in networks of build- no longer fit. The study seeks to create tumor. invalidate what they thought they knew. ing occupants when individuals in these restriction-compliant protocol designs, Davalos will look at the possibility Others, though, shut down and reject new networks can view energy utilization of making sure cross-layers are uniform, and of using his treatment method to shrink knowledge. their peers.” His research addresses the networks carry the data packets unen- or even eradicate special tumors called grand challenge of reducing building en- cumbered. glioblastoma multiforme, the most com- ergy consumption and associated green- mon and aggressive type of primary brain house gas emissions. tumor in humans.

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the subject in Envi- Studies for the College of Engineering. Padma Rajagopalan, associate professor The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors at its ronmental Science & of chemical engineering, is leading two March 2012 meeting made the following Technology. Dietrich Thurmon Lockhart, recent grants. As part of a team including appointments: Stefan Duma, head of also is part of a team associate professor of T.M. Murali, she will use a $1.12 million the biomedical engineering department, studying the loss industrial and systems grant to study the human cell as a deliv- received the Harry Wyatt Professorship of taste among the engineering, is devel- ery system. As part of separate $750,000 in Engineering; Wu Feng, associate pro- elderly, particularly oping a portable fall grant, she will research drug/alcohol toxic- fessor of computer science, received a the taste of metal in prediction monitoring ity effects on the liver. five-year Turner Fellowship;Jason Lai, drinking water. system for the elderly. professor of electrical and computer en- His team includes Marissa Nichole Rylander, associate gineering, received the James S. Tucker Panos Diplas, pro- Dong Ha, profes- professor of mechanical engineering, was Andrea Dietrich Professorship; Shashank Priya, associ- fessor of civil and sor of electrical and awarded the 2012 Y.C. Fung Young Inves- ate professor of mechanical engineering environmental engineering, was awarded computer engineering, tigator Award by the American Society of Thurmon Lockhart and materials science and engineering, the 2012 Hans Albert Einstein Award and and Karen Roberto, Mechanical Engineering. received a five-year Turner Fellowship; was part of a team receiving the 2012 Karl professor of human development. and Naren Ramakrishnan, professor of Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize, both from John Shewchuk, associate professor of computer science, received the Thomas the American Society of Civil Engineers. Peizhen Kathy Lu, associate professor industrial and systems engineering, was L. Phillips Professor of Engineering. of materials science and engineering, was awarded the Institute of Industrial Engi- The American Institute of Steel Construc- awarded the 2011 Friedrich Wilhelm Bes- neers’ 2011 Lean Teaching Award. tion awarded its 2012 Educator Special sel Research Award by the Alexander von Stephanie Adams Achievement Award to W. Samuel East- Humboldt Foundation. Lu was invited to Sunil Sinha, associate professor of civil was named the new erling, department head of civil and envi- spend a year collaborating on a research and environmental engineering, debuted head of the Depart- ronmental engineering. project at the Technische Universität WATERiD – short for WATER Infra- ment of Engineer- Darmstadt in Germany. structure Database, a national database ing Education. She Marc Edwards, the Charles Lunsford compiling locations and conditions of previously was on Professor of Civil and Environmental En- Gerald Luttrell, the Massey Professor in underground water and wastewater pipes faculty at Virginia gineering, is spearheading an interdisci- the Department of Mining and Minerals throughout the nation. Commonwealth Uni- plinary graduate engineering and science Engineering, was awarded the Robert H. versity. ethics course co-developed by Yanna Richards Award from the Society for Min- Pavlos Vlachos, Lambrinidou, adjunct assistant professor ing, Metallurgy and Exploration. associate professor Masoud Agah, with the College of Liberal Arts and Hu- of mechanical engi- Stephanie Adams director of the Micro- man Sciences. Roop Mahajan, director of the Institute for neering, was part of electromechanical Systems Laboratory, Critical Technology and Applied Science, a team to won the led a study that showed ovarian cells of The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval War- was named the Lewis A. Hester Chair in 2011 Lewis F. Moody mice are stiffer and more viscous when fare System Center Pacific awardedTroy Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Award for outstanding benign. The findings were published in Henderson, assistant professor of aero- Visitors. original paper from trade journal Nanomedicine. space and ocean engineering, a $3 million The American Society cooperative agreement grant to study T.M. Murali, associate of Mechanical Engi- Pavlos Vlachos Hassan Aref, former dean of the Col- communications, reconnaissance, and professor of computer neers. The paper in- lege of Engineering, posthumously re- information operations. science, is leading a troduced a method to estimate uncertainty ceived the honorary degree of “doctor university-wide $2.13 in a specific type of flow measurement. technices honoris causa” from Techni- The Department of Mining and Minerals million National Insti- cal University of Denmark. Aref died in Engineering’s Mario Karfakis, Michael tutes of Health study Bevlee Watford, associate dean for September 2011. Karmis, and Erik Westman, are collabo- to study complex cel- academic affairs, was awarded the 2012 rating on a $1.25 million National Institute lular systems within Presidents Award by the National Associa- Kenneth Ball, head of the Department for Occupational Safety and Health grant yeast. tion of Multicultural Engineering Program of Mechanical Engineering, accepted the to support coal industry experts and im- Advocates. dean’s position at George Mason Univer- prove mine safety. Karmis also is leading Pamela Murray-Tu- T.M. Murali sity’s Volgenau School of Engineering, an $11.5 million Department of Energy ite, assistant profes- Jules White, assistant professor of elec- effective Aug. 10, 2012. study on possible effects from injecting sor of civil and environmental engineering, trical and computer engineering, created carbon dioxide into coal seams. led a study of mass evacuation efforts software that would wipe sensitive data Professor Robert Canfield was named from a transportation engineering and clean from smart phones and other hand- interim head of the Department of Aero- Erdogan Kiran, professor of chemical social sciences perspective. held computer devices if they were carried space and Ocean Engineering, taking engineering, was named editor of a new out of a secure room. over a position left vacant by Chris Hall, book series on supercritical fluid science Doug Nelson, professor of mechanical now at the University of New Mexico. and technology from Dutch-based Else- engineering, was elected as a Fellow Jason Xuan, associate professor of elec- vier BV. He also is editor-in-chief of the by the Society of Automotive Engineers. trical and computer engineering, will use Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil and Journal of Supercritical Fluids. He was selected for his work to educate $1.56 million National Institutes of Health environmental engineering, is collaborat- students and the engineering community grant to create computer models to find as ing with Masoud Agah to study toxins Jack Lesko, professor of engineering about alternative vehicle propulsion tech- yet unknown estrogen receptor-signaling and impurities that enter the human body science and mechanics, was named As- nologies for sustainable mobility. networks to help women who are thus far via breathing. They published a paper on sociate Dean for Research and Graduate resistant to breast cancer treatments. Müller study: Bats show ability to change ear shape Rolf Müller, associate alter his ear shape significantly in ways that would suit dif- tation and identify insect prey under difficult conditions. professor of mechanical engi- ferent acoustic sensing tasks,” Müller added. “As a result Acting as biosonar receiving antennas, the ears of neering, and a team of research of these shape changes, the shape of the animals’ spatial bats perform a critical function in bringing about these students have discovered that hearing sensitivity also undergoes a qualitative change.” ultrasonic sensing capabilities. certain bats can deform the Bats are well known for navigating and pursuing their Using high-speed stereo vision and high-resolu- shapes of their ears in a way that prey in darkness. By tion tomography, Müller’s team was able to reconstruct changes the animal’s ultrasonic emitting ultrasonic the three-dimensional geometries of the outer ears hearing pattern. The findings ap- pulses and listen- from live horseshoe bats as they deform. They later peared in Physical Review Let- ing to the returning learned that ultrasonic hearing spotlights associated ters, a prestigious peer-reviewed echoes, they obtain with the different ear configurations could suit different journal of the American Physical Rolf Müller detailed information hearing tasks. Hence, the ear deformation in horse- Society. on their sur- shoe bats could be a substrate for adapting the spatial “Within just one tenth of a second, these bats roundings. hearing of the animals on a very short time scale. are able to change their outer ear shapes from one Horseshoe bats, The research piggybacks earlier work led by Mül- extreme configuration to another,” said Müller, whose in particular, can ler that provided key insights into the various shapes team included: Li Gao of Shandong, China, and a doc- use their sonar of bat ears among the different species, and toral student, and Sreenath Balakrishnan of Thrissur, systems illustrated how the differences could affect how Kerala, and a master’s candidate with the Department to maneu- their navigation systems worked. Müller says of Mechanical Engineering, as well as Weikai He and ver swiftly aspiration in teaching and research is to bridge Zhen Yan, of the School of Physics at Shandong Uni- through the gap between disciplines such as biology versity in China. Shandong’s engineering college is a dense vege- and engineering. partner program with that of Virginia Tech’s. “In about 100 milliseconds, this type of bat can A bat is pictured with the landmarks on the ear, recorded by a high-speed camera.

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NN EE WW SS RR OO UU NN DD -- UU PP New, state-of-the-art foundry named for Kroehling The College of En- board member for the Department of Materials gineering once again Science and Engineering, provided the initial The Kroehling Advanced showed its commitment to funds of $500,000 for the foundry, overseen by Materials Foundry, a metal hands-on, minds-on edu- the Virginia Tech Foundry Institute for Research casting facility. cation with the April 2011 and Education (VT-FIRE) program. dedication of the Kroeh- Virginia Tech previously had one laboratory ling Advanced Materials in the basement of Whittemore Hall in which Foundry, a metal casting small aluminum castings were made in an intro- facility located just off the ductory level course. Kroehling’s gift kick-started main campus on Planta- monetary equipment donations from several cor- John Kroehling tion Road. porations. Construction began in spring 2010. “I The 4,500-square-foot, $1.7 million facility think it will help this country to do more casting, includes a 125-kilowatt induction furnace ca- very high-tech casting, and this foundry is very pable of melting aluminum, copper and bronze, state of the art,” Kroehling said. iron and steel, various mold making equipment Kroehling spent 20 years at DuPont, work- including no-bake and ceramic shell, a rapid ing in metal foundries and the refractories prototype, and other high-tech equipment that industry, and later founded his own company, students likely will use on the job, post-gradu- J.H. Kroehling Associates Inc., which he still ation. operates. On hand for the dedication were John Alan Druschitz, associate professor of Kroehling, a decorated World War II veteran materials science and engineering, now serves and 1948 graduate of the College of Engineer- as director VT-FIRE, overseeing the foundry’s ing, and his wife, Joan. Kroehling, an advisory operations.

Helmet from page one Tailgates: Engineering is a contact sport gravitational force. That’s concussion ter- ing Super Bowl XLVI, ESPN dedicated an ritory, said Duma. Another significant find: hour-long show to helmet safety among Most of the highest head impacts were young football players, and featured recorded during practice. Duma’s research. Duma’s development of an adult “How the game is played is chang- football helmet star rating system – ing as we modify coaching and practice ranked 1 to 5 stars – that ranks a hel- schedules to reduce head impacts, as met’s ability to sustain heavy blows while well as rule changes and game officiat- protecting the player also made headlines ing,” said Duma. “Those changes are the in 2011. Duma has dubbed this develop- most important, and beyond that we want ment just the start of what he calls the to have the best helmets possible.” National Impact Database, a full testing facility and ranking system that will cover he College of Engineering invites you to join enjoy free food, bever- other sports that use helmets. Earthquake Tages and entertainment at our 2012 pre-game tailgate celebrations This biomechanical impact data from page six for alumni and friends during another thrilling Hokie football season. All study on helmets represents the first time of 2011 investing trembler after-effects events will be held at the Duck Pond end of the Drillfield. researchers have provided the public with as well. He spent weeks in Christchurch, Let us know if you’re coming and RSVP before game day to Carolyn comparative test results, with no prior New Zealand, documenting the effects Bain at (540) 231-5753 or [email protected]. More details at http://www.eng. ranking stem having existed. Duma has of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that oc- vt.edu/alumni. We look forward to seeing you back on campus this fall! compared it to the safety-testing of auto- curred on Feb. 22, 2011, as part of the • September 3: Hokies vs. Georgia Tech mobiles, once considered impossible by National Science Foundation-sponsored • September 8: Hokies vs. Austin Peay industry heads and now required. Geo-engineering Extreme Events Recon- • September 22: Hokies vs. Bowling Green In addition to Phillips’ January report naissance Team. • October 13: Virginia Tech and College of on “The View,” Dumas’s research has re- Green was on an earlier recon- Engineering Homecoming / Hokies vs. Duke ceived heavy national coverage from the naissance team that investigated the • November 8: Hokies vs. Florida State New York Times, Time magazine, USA September 2010 magnitude 7.1 Darfield Today, and on CNN. In the days preced- earthquake, also in New Zealand.

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