spring 2010

Engineering Momentum across disciplines. across the world.™

>> Ralph Quatrano Named Dean 6

>> Clean Energy 16

>> Scholarship & Opportunity 26

Revolutionizing Early Cancer Detection > 10 solar energy Construction on Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall was completed in April 2010. The building was designed for LEED-gold certification, and its finishing touches included the installation of rooftop solar panels. wustl photo Contents spring 2010

in this issue school news 2 From the Dean 4 At a Glance >> Ralph Quatrano Named Dean 6 6 School News research feature 10 Cover Story 16 Research Feature >> Clean Energy 16 20 Student Feature student feature 26 Alumni Profile 30 Alumni News >> Opening Doors to the Future 20 34 Faculty News 38 Student News alumni profile 40 Tribute >> Scholarship & Opportunity 26 dean Engineering Momentum Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D. is published by the School of tribute dean-designate Engineering & Applied Science Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D. at Washington University >> Christopher I. Byrnes 40 in St. Louis. Unless otherwise associate dean & noted, articles may be executive editor reprinted without permission Nick Benassi cover story with appropriate credit communications to the publication, School, designer and University. Early Cancer Detection: Anna Aridome correspondence communications School of Engineering Imaging with Light and Sound specialist & editor & Applied Science Kristen Otto Washington University in St. Louis > 10 communications & Campus Box 1163 events coordinator One Brookings Drive Bridget Wiegman St. Louis, MO 63130 webmaster e-mail Ran Jing [email protected] art direction & design phone TOKY Branding + Design (314) 935-6350 cover illustration website David Cutler engineering.wustl.edu

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t is hard to believe that it has been two We continued to set new records in the years since Chancellor Wrighton asked quality, size, and diversity of our student me to serve as interim dean of the School body. This past fall, we welcomed our largest of Engineering & Applied Science. Having engineering freshman class ever, with an invested at that point the past 40 years of my average ACT composite of 32.8 and SAT total Iacademic career here, this was a responsibility of 1450. In biomedical engineering, our largest and honor I was happy to accept. Now, at the end undergraduate major, the ratio of freshman of my term, it is interesting to reflect on all that women to men is now equal. The quality of our has transpired over the past two years. doctoral student body remains extremely high,

wustl photo too. For fall 2009, we admitted only 20 percent salvatore p. sutera We launched several new master of engineering of the applicants, and of that group, they had an Dean, School of Engineering programs, a Master of Project Management average quantitative GRE score of 774. & Applied Science program, and interdisciplinary undergraduate minors in mechatronics and energy engineering. The most visible development from the past We welcomed ten new outstanding professors to two years is Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall, our faculty, maintaining the number of tenured which, after 21 months of construction, will open and tenure-track faculty at 81. this spring. Brauer Hall will become known as a landmark, critical to the continued development We also launched or joined several new of the departments of Biomedical Engineering significant research initiatives, including public and Energy, Environmental & Chemical health, nanotechnology, and renewable energy Engineering. We are deeply indebted to Steve and sustainability. and Kimmy Brauer for their steadfast leadership and generosity.

2 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu brauer hall Looking north from LOOKING Brookings Drive, Brauer Hall is the BACK newest addition to the School of Engineering In the past two years, & Applied Science. the School of Engineering & Applied Science launched four new master’s programs

and two interdisciplinary undergraduate minors;

added ten new professors;

launched or joined several new research initiatives; and welcomed Green Hall will attach to Brauer Hall and will provide additional research facilities that our largest are critical to the continued progress of our freshman class, with an strategic plan. average ACT score of 32.8, and an average As I prepare to hand the baton to the next SAT total of 1450. dean, Dr. Ralph Quatrano, an outstanding scientist and experienced administrator, I am LOOKING especially pleased with our School’s readiness to collaborate across disciplines and across the FORWARD world to solve many of the formidable challenges of the 21st century. I am grateful to everyone in brauer hall

the Washington University engineering family will open its doors who has helped me guide the School during the in spring 2010, green hall rice associates/dave ruiz associates/dave rice past two years. Our collective accomplishments and groundbreaking Looking southwest from the corner of Forest Park are a reflection of the innovative and tireless took place on Parkway and Skinker Boulevard. work of our remarkable faculty and staff, the April 30, 2010 for Rendering by dedication and support of our devoted alumni green hall, Groundbreaking for Preston M. Green Hall, the and friends, and the talents and abilities of our the next phase next phase of our new complex of engineering exceptional students. of our new buildings at the northeast corner of the Danforth engineering complex. Campus, occurred on April 30. Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D. Dean & Senior Professor

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spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 5 school news RRalpalph QQuatranouatrano named dean

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alph s. quatrano, ph.d., immediate “Building strong, interdisciplinary relationships past dean of the Faculty of Arts & has been an important part of my career, Sciences and the Spencer T. Olin both as a researcher in the lab and as dean Professor at Washington University of Arts & Sciences. I’ve had interaction with in St. Louis, will become dean of the engineering school, and have grants with Rthe School of Engineering & Applied Science the faculty; I’ve published with the faculty in on July 1, 2010. Quatrano succeeds Salvatore P. computer science, and I have active research Sutera, Ph.D., who has served as interim dean programs in systems biology, imaging sciences, since July 1, 2008. genomics, and informatics. I look forward to building on these synergies going forward. “Ralph Quatrano has been an outstanding academic leader at Washington University for “Engineering and the physical sciences are over a decade,” says Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. intimately related to the future of the life “Ralph assumes the deanship at a very important sciences. It is going to be very important in the period in the history of the School of Engineering next decade that the biological and medical

“The School of Engineering & Applied Science's strategic plan offers an exciting vision for the future, one that clearly calls for engineering to take an increasingly important role in critical research across all disciplines.”

& Applied Science — a school with a strong sciences integrate with engineering, and I feel vision for the future developed by the excellent that this position, looking back from engineering work of the previous and current school leaders. into the life sciences, will be exciting and I am confident that Ralph will build a community challenging for me.” where world-class teaching and research are a priority.” Quatrano was interim dean of Arts & Sciences from July 1, 2008, until June 30, 2009, following “I’m honored to be appointed,” says Quatrano. the appointment of Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., “The School of Engineering & Applied Science’s long-term Arts & Sciences dean and executive strategic plan offers an exciting vision for the vice chancellor for academic affairs, as Provost. future, one that clearly calls for engineering to take an increasingly important role in critical research across all disciplines.

6 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor, will become dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, effective July 1, 2010.

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“I worked closely with Ralph in his capacity as Internationally Known Scientist chair of biology and as interim dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences,” says Macias, the Barbara & Quatrano came to Washington University in 1998 Ralph David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts to assume the chair of one of the nation’s most & Sciences. “His leadership is a good match for highly regarded biology departments. In addition Quatrano the School of Engineering. During the course of to serving as chair, he was director from 2005 at a the search process, I have had the opportunity to to 2007 of the Division of Biology & Biomedical meet with a number of engineering faculty. I am Sciences, a university-wide consortium including Glance very impressed with the caliber of our faculty in medical, engineering, and science programs. engineering. I am indebted to those who served His research group often collaborates with as members of the search committee. Their Washington University School of Medicine >>>>> identification of Ralph Quatrano speaks highly researchers as well as with scientists from of Ralph, of course, but also of the school itself. Monsanto and the Donald Danforth Plant 1962 I think this is a wonderful outcome, and I look Science Center. forward to the next chapter in engineering’s Bachelor's in botany, Colgate University distinguished history.” He took a leadership role in a consortium of more than 100 international researchers and b “Ralph Quatrano is an excellent fit for the the Joint Genome Institute of the Department deanship because of his longstanding of Energy to sequence and annotate the moss 1964 commitment to integrating education and genome. This effort culminated in a major research between life sciences, physical Master's in botany, publication in 2008 in Science with Quatrano sciences, mathematics, and engineering,” says Ohio University as corresponding author. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D., associate b professor of biomedical engineering and co-chair Quatrano earned his bachelor’s in botany with of the advisory committee for the engineering honors from Colgate University in 1962; his 1968 dean search. “Ralph Quatrano participated in master’s in botany from Ohio University, Athens, the development of the engineering school’s in 1964; and his doctorate in biology from Yale Doctorate in biology, strategic plan, which includes areas of focus University in 1968. Yale University cutting across Engineering, Arts & Sciences, After completing his doctorate, Quatrano b and Medicine; he helped recruit faculty to build became a faculty member in botany at Oregon strength in those focus areas.” State University, Corvallis, a position he 1968—1986 held until 1986. Faculty member in botany, Oregon State During his last two years at Oregon State, he University founded and directed the university’s Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology. b “Ralph Quatrano's leadership is Quatrano moved from Oregon State to 1986—1989 DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was research manager in molecular biology for the DuPont research a good match next three years. manager in molecular biology, Wilmington, for the School of Delaware

` Engineering.” — edward s. macias, ph.d.

8 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu “Ralph Quatrano participated in the development 1989—1997

John N. Couch of the engineering school’s strategic plan, Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which includes areas of focus cutting across (Department Chair from 1992 to 1997) Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Medicine; b he helped recruit faculty to build strength 1998—2008 Chair of the Biology Department in those focus areas.” — shelly sakiyama-elbert, ph.d. and Spencer T. Olin Professor at Washington University in St. Louis

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He left DuPont in 1989 to become the first John for the National Science Foundation; on the N. Couch Professor of Biology at the University Scientific Advisory Board of the Rockefeller 2005—2007 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as Foundation International Program on Rice Director, Division of chair of the Department of Biology at Chapel Hill Biotechnology; and, from 1991 to 1998, on the Biology & Biomedical from 1992 to 1997, before joining Washington Board of Reviewing Editors for Science magazine, Sciences University as chair of the Department of Biology the publication of the American Association for b and the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology. the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Quatrano has been a visiting professor or Quatrano is a of the AAAS and the 2008—2009 investigator at many different institutions, Academy of Science of St. Louis as well as an including the University of Naples, Cambridge inaugural fellow of the American Society of Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences University, the University of Leeds, and the Plant Biologists (ASPB). Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. b In 2010, ASPB is honoring Quatrano with the Having published more than 160 research prestigious Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award for his papers, Quatrano has given invited seminars outstanding contributions in promoting plant 2010 at institutions worldwide. He has won teaching science nationally and internationally. Adolph E. Gude Jr. awards at the undergraduate and graduate levels Award, American and has mentored 20 graduate students and 40 Society of Plant postdoctoral and visiting scientists. Biologists

He was editor-in-chief for five years of the journal The Plant Cell, the premier journal of plant biology; president of the American Society of Plant Biologists; a member of the Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences Directorate

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 9 cover story

Written by candace o’connor Photos by geoff story

IMAGING WITH LIGHT AND SOUND: REVOLUTIONIZING EARLY CANCER DETECTION

or years, the field of optical imaging “2003 is the magic number,” says Wang, Ph.D., in biological tissue had languished, now the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor with few advances and no significant in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. growth. The concept was promising — “We published the first paper on functional using light to image organs, cells, and imaging using photoacoustics. That excited Fblood vessels, noninvasively and without any everybody and attracted newcomers to the field.” radiation — but it seemed impossible to obtain high-resolution images at any significant depth. Today, Wang has a chart showing the growth Then came Lihong V. Wang’s seminal paper, in research worldwide since the publication which appeared in the July 2003 issue of the of his paper, the most cited in his field. In 2003, only some 30 presentations were made journal Nature Biotechnology. on photoacoustic tomography in the largest conference on this topic, but through the following years, that number rose dramatically:

10 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu to 40 by 2004, 80 by 2007, and 132 in 2010. and functional information more safely, cheaply, early cancer detection Wang and his lab were the founders of a new area and easily than with any existing method. Lihong Wang, the Gene of scientific inquiry — one that combined light I predict that it will revolutionize our approach K. Beare Distinguished and sound to create a new form of functional to diagnosing and treating diseases and produce Professor in the Depart- imaging — with many potential applications for as-yet-unimaginable benefits to humankind.” ment of Biomedical cancer research. Engineering, conducts In an unfavorable economic climate, Wang’s work multiple collaborative “Lihong’s pioneering work is a wonderful example has attracted significant funding, particularly projects supported by the National Institutes of an innovative combination of physics, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). of Health, dedicating to engineering, and medicine,” says Frank C.P. Over the past three years, he and his group have early cancer detection Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. received some $15 million in grants, with another with the revolutionizing Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical $1.9 million in the offing. photoacoustic imaging Engineering. “Its high temporal and spatial technology. resolution will enable us to obtain structural

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optical imaging Often, they collaborate with physicians — breast Wang himself is invited to give frequent talks Research Associate surgeons, radiologists, GI specialists, and on photoacoustic tomography across the Professor Konstantin dermatologists, among others — from the United States and around the world: in Japan, Maslov and graduate student Song Hu Washington University School of Medicine. Turkey, China, Belgium, and Canada last year in the optical imaging alone. “Every time I give a talk, I find new laboratory. “The collaboration between Mallinckrodt potential collaborators or users,” says Wang, Institute of Radiology (MIR) and the Department who also has joint appointments in MIR and in of Biomedical Engineering has been terrific,” Electrical & Systems Engineering. “They are says Gilbert R. Jost, M.D., Elizabeth Mallinckrodt interested in these technologies to solve their Professor of Radiology and Director of MIR. own research problems.” “By working at the medical school, Lihong Wang has been able to explore important clinical applications of his new imaging technique.”

12 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu Using Light for Imaging In Wang’s 2003 paper, he and his colleagues showed that photoacoustic imaging could While scientists have long been interested in provide detailed images of internal structures using light for imaging, the nature of light made and overcome the problem of photon diffusion. that difficult. Fire a laser pulse into tissue, and With extraordinary clarity, their images of the light particles continue on a straight path an animal brain depicted blood vessels and for only a short distance, usually less than 100 brain function. They had higher resolution microns — approximately the width of a hair. than any other optical images of the brain ever obtained before. “Then they encounter something, such as cell nuclei, and get scattered,” says Wang. “Photons “Imaging scientists were convinced that just bounce around, making it challenging to photoacoustics really makes a difference,” says achieve high-resolution imaging at depths Wang. “This was the right way to go.” beyond approximately 1 mm.” What was Wang’s approach? After they scatter, however, the photons Converting light into sound, which continue to penetrate tissue, up to a depth of around 5 centimeters (about 2 inches). That scatters 1,000 times less than light — would make it possible to image a compressed and thus produces a dramatically breast, for example, and check for tumors. But improved optical image. how to harness the errant photons and retrieve the critical spatial information? First, the laser sends light pulses into tissue; as it is absorbed, it generates a minute temperature “If you want to image a piece of relatively thick rise, which creates an ultrasonic sound wave tissue and see the middle plane, which is the detectable by an ultrasound transducer. The hardest plane to image, the illumination and location and size of the target structure are detection photon paths will both be tortuous,” calculated by computer, using a sophisticated says Wang. “That means any feature in the middle triangulation technique. plane will be blurred out.” “You are essentially listening to an optical Photoacoustics Is Born structure,” Wang says. “You’re hearing the picture instead of looking at it.” When the field of photoacoustics first developed, it had no relation to imaging. In June 1880, With this method, they can provide a look Alexander Graham Bell tested a “photophone,” at many different aspects of physiology: an alternative to the telephone. Bell’s idea was hemoglobin, melanin, fat, even water in tissue. to encode sound into a light beam, propagate the Thus, unlike X-ray imaging, photoacoustic beam in air, then convert the beam back to sound imaging is not just structural imaging; rather, it again. However, this phone required “line of sight” is also functional imaging, able to tell whether transmission, and the idea proved impractical. tissue is alive and functioning properly by measuring its physiological parameters. The idea of adapting photoacoustics to imaging came along during the 1980s, when some With this information, physicians will be better industry scientists began using this technique able to detect cancer early, says Wang. For for non-biological-materials testing. At that instance, photoacoustic imaging can measure point, they were hunting for sub-surface cracks the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin, which in metal or ceramic materials. How to extend correlates with hypermetabolism, a hallmark this concept to three-dimensional structures? of cancer. The same thing is true of the concentration of hemoglobin, which correlates with angiogenesis — another predictor of cancer.

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Photoacoustic tomography can also do Wang’s Background molecular imaging that detects biomarkers such as integrins, a family of receptor Wang, a native of Guangshui in Hubei province, proteins that regulate cell growth and tend to China, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees overexpress in cancer. Further, it can detect from Huazhong University of Science and gene expression: Is a particular gene being Technology. Then he moved to the United States expressed in cancer? By pinpointing which gene and earned a doctorate in electrical engineering it is, can we target therapy more precisely? from Rice University in 1992.

photoacoustic Overall, this imaging method has a number He worked as a postdoctoral fellow and later as imaging of advantages over existing modalities. It is an assistant professor at the University of Texas A nanosecond pulsed nonionizing radiation, so it does not carry M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Next, he joined the laser beam is launched into an optical fiber for the risks of radiation. It provides clear, high- faculty at Texas A&M University, and by the time photoacoustic excitation quality images. To achieve deeper penetration, he left in 2006, he was the Royce E. Wisenbaker of biological tissue and scientists can substitute radio-frequency II Endowed Professor of Biomedical Engineering high-resolution imaging. waves for the light waves. Further, this is a and Electrical Engineering. “scalable method,” says Wang. As a postdoctoral fellow, he became interested “Using photoacoustic tomography, we can image in imaging — but how could he get a good image shallow, but we can also image deep: from using light alone? So he began thinking about subcellular organelles through individual cells different ways of combining ultrasound and light, all the way to organs. It is the only functional and his research team created a model of photon imaging modality that allows us to image over transport in scattering media, called the Monte so many levels of tissue structure, and that Carlo method, which is widely used today. can potentially accelerate the translation Coming to Washington University meant that he of microscopic laboratory discoveries to was much closer to a medical center than he had macroscopic clinical practices.” been at Texas A&M, where the nearest teaching hospital was 90 miles away.

14 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu “Washington University is able to provide an If we could detect the efficacy within the first excellent environment for our translational two weeks, we could save a lot of time and research,” he says. potential side effects for the patient.” imaging Today, he has a 30-person group — the largest Of course, there are still hurdles to overcome. Images of a melanoma photoacoustic tomography laboratory in the Right now, most of these applications are and blood vessels noninvasively acquired world — with more than 50 percent postdoctoral currently being tested in animals, with human in vivo with a high- fellows or faculty researchers and the rest Ph.D. trials to follow. resolution photoacoustic students. The lab built its own photoacoustic microscope. equipment, including multiple three-dimensional microscopes; some of this technology has been licensed to outside companies for commercialization.

He works with fellow biomedical engineering faculty members, including Younan Xia, Ph.D., James M. McKelvey Professor, also in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, whose laboratory invented light-absorbent gold nanocages. Together, Wang and Xia have applied these nanocages and photoacoustics to map sentinel lymph nodes noninvasively, thus reducing a patient’s exposure to radioactivity.

Through the years, he has garnered awards for his work, including the NIH FIRST Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He chairs the International Biomedical Optics Society, and is newly appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics. He has written And they need to solve the problem of imaging two textbooks, including one of the first in his through thick bone, such as the adult skull, which field, Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, attenuates the ultrasound signal and distorts which recently received the Goodman Book the image. Writing Award from SPIE and the OSA — and some 206 peer-reviewed journal articles. But the outcome of their work, Looking five years into the future, Wang they hope, will be a healthier world. says he would like to see some giant strides “Prevention of cancer would be the forward in clinical applications with the help of best solution,” says Wang, “but photoacoustic imaging: melanoma screening and lihong wang imaging, GI and colon cancer detection, neonatal the second-best solution is early Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of brain imaging, breast cancer screening and detection, because if cancer is Biomedical Engineering imaging, transrectal prostate cancer detection, identified early, it can likely be and possibly even low-cost brain cancer screening. cured. Currently, we cannot prevent “Another application that is high on my list is early cancer, so we need to focus on prediction of response to chemotherapy,” says early detection.” Wang. “Sometimes a cancer patient goes through the entire eight-week cycle of chemotherapy g labs.seas.wustl.edu/bme/wang only to find that this was not the right drug.

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 15 specialresearch feature feature clean Written by nick benassi ENERGY

the department of energy makes the largest research award in danforth campus history

n conjunction with a speech delivered PARC researchers are trying to understand by President Barack Obama at the annual the basic scientific principles that underlie the meeting of the National Academy of efficient functioning of natural photosynthetic Sciences on April 27, 2009, the White House antenna systems and how those principles can be announced Washington University in St. Louis translated into concepts that will form the basis Iwould be home to one of 46 Energy Frontier for next-generation systems for solar energy Research Centers (EFRCs) at universities, conversion. national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms. Washington University’s “We are delighted that DOE selected Washington five-year, $20 million award is the largest in the U. as the site of one of the Energy Frontier history of the Danforth Campus. Research Centers,” says Robert E. Blankenship, Ph.D., the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished EFRC work at Washington University takes Professor in the departments of Biology and place in the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Chemistry and Director of PARC. Center (PARC), which includes three School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty “We are excited about the members working to understand light harvesting and energy funneling as applied to natural research that is taking photosynthetic, biohybrid, and bioinspired antenna systems. place in PARC, which will

Photosynthetic organisms — such as bacteria, eventually contribute toward algae, and plants — use antenna systems to providing clean energy capture light energy and transfer the energy to reaction centers, where the chemistry that resources for the world.” creates energy takes place.

16 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu Blankenship leads a group of 17 scientists in washington university faculty PARC, including five from Washington University members working in parc: and five from Oak Ridge, Sandia, and Los Alamos National Laboratories. In addition, there are six other scientists from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom and one from the robert e. blankenship, ph.d. Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, which also received an Energy Frontier Research Center The Lucille P. Markey Distinguished award from the Department of Energy. Professor in the departments of Biology and Chemistry and PARC Director “For the St. Louis region to receive

two Department of Energy awards himadri b. pakrasi, ph.d. represents a great opportunity to The George William and Irene Koechig advance bioenergy research,” says Freiberg Professor of Biology, Professor Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. of Energy in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Director of the “These awards are in recognition WUSTL International Center for Advanced of the leadership roles that Renewable Energy and Sustainability wustl photos (I-CARES)

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of new energy sources.” Photos by Professor of Chemistry and PARC Associate Director The 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers were selected from a pool of approximately 260 applications received in response to a solicitation issued by the DOE Office of Science in 2008. Selection was based on a rigorous merit pratim biswas, ph.d. review process using outside panels comprising scientific experts. The Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science “As global energy demand grows over this and Chair of the Department of Energy, century, there is an urgent need to reduce Environmental & Chemical Engineering our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,” Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Ph.D., says. “Meeting this challenge will require significant scientific advances. These centers will cynthia lo, ph.d. mobilize the enormous talents and skills of Assistant Professor in the our nation’s scientific workforce in pursuit of Department of Energy, Environmental the breakthroughs that are essential to make & Chemical Engineering alternative and renewable energy truly viable as large-scale replacements for fossil fuels.”

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Research Themes:

Natural Antennas: Structure 1. & Effi ciency 2. team leader Manipulating the size of antenna systems in team leader Himadri Pakrasi cyanobacteria and green algae to see whether the Neil Hunter research team effi ciency of photosynthesis-based bioenergy research team Robert Blankenship conversion systems will be increased if the size of Pratim Biswas Richard Cogdell the light-gathering antenna is reduced by creating Robert Blankenship Neil Hunter small antenna mutants, in which photochemistry is Dewey Holten Cynthia Lo not light-saturated even at high light intensities. Cynthia Lo Gabriel Montano Gabriel Montano Dean Myles Dean Myles Richard Sayre Jeri Timlin Andrew Shreve Volker Urban Jeri Timlin Volker Urban UV

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18 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu PARC proposes a program in basic scientific The goal of this work is to elucidate the basic research aimed at understanding the principles of scientific principles that underlie the efficient light harvesting and energy funneling as applied to functioning of natural photosynthetic antenna natural photosynthetic, biohybrid, and bioinspired systems and how those principles can be translated antenna systems. into concepts that will form the basis for next- generation systems for solar energy conversion.

Biohybrid Antennas: Bioinspired Antennas: Organization & Design & Implementation 3. Characterization Controlling light absorption and energy team leader Working to create simple, robust light-harvesting migration at the nanoscale to advance the Dewey Holten systems with effi ciencies equal to or better understanding of how natural light-harvesting research team than the native photosynthetic antenna that will systems work and how to apply the lessons Pratim Biswas contribute to revolutionary advances in artifi cial learned to design proof-of-principle David Bocian systems for solar energy conversion. biohybrid architectures for energy collection P. Leslie Dutton and storage. Jonathan Lindsey Christopher Moser Andrew Shreve

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spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 19 student feature FUTUREOpening Doors to the

ashington University in St. Louis is known as a destination for the most Wacademically gifted, creative, and imaginative students our nation — and the world — has to offer. The University is committed to enrolling promising students from all economic, ethnic, and social backgrounds to strengthen the educational environment for all, and achievement in this area will set Washington University apart from other research universities.

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That is why we, who are following the “For many Washington robert gregory scholars previous generations who helped establish University alumni and From left, Joshua Lykes, Washington University’s financial security, students, their time of B.S. ‘09, Zeynip Esin must now add to it; in this case, to build the learning was directly and Skyler Wills, both financial resources needed to attract and retain subsidized by scholarship members of the Class of the most promising students. funds, and gifts from 2011. Joshua majored in alumni and friends that chemical engineering; Zeynip is a systems In fall 2009, Washington University announced enable the University to a fundraising initiative to increase support science major; and Skyler wustl photo enroll the finest and most is majoring in electrical for students. Opening Doors to the Future: promising young people to be found anywhere, engineering. Dr. and Mrs. The Scholarship Initiative for Washington regardless of their financial circumstances,” Santanu Das, M.S. ‘73, has a goal of raising $150 million, D.Sc. ‘73, established University says Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. including $15 million for School of Engineering the Robert Gregory Endowed Scholarship & Applied Science students, to support Robert L. Virgil, DBA, in honor of Professor scholarships and fellowships. executive chair of the Gregory. Dr. Das received scholarship initiative, says, a scholarship to attend The effort will last until June 30, 2014. “Scholarships transform Washington University. lives. Many deserving students just need an opportunity to turn their extraordinary potential

wustl photo into achievement."

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Virgil says, "Their future is our future — and a A significant aspect of the scholarship initiative scholarship is an investment that benefits us all is a $2 million challenge grant, intended to en- for years to come.” courage new and increased annual scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students from Virgil is a trustee of the University, former alumni, parents, and friends. dean of the Olin Business School, and retired partner in the St. Louis-based investment It was established by John F. McDonnell, firm of Edward Jones. former chairman and now vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, member of the Engineering Opening Doors to the Future will help create National Council, and retired chairman of the more scholarships for both undergraduate and board of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. graduate students. The initiative will encourage contributions of both endowed and expendable The McDonnell Challenge scholarship funds. In addition, it will promote encourages donors to support for stipends and financial aid for establish new annual students pursuing internships, summer research scholarships or to opportunities, and study-abroad programs. increase their current annual scholarship gifts. Today, more than half of WUSTL’s undergraduate A minimum gift of $5,000 students receive some kind of financial will establish a named assistance, which may include grants, loans, and

courtesy photo courtesy annual scholarship. work-study. Almost 22 percent of those students qualified for assistance totaling more than the “Washington University students cost of tuition. all share extraordinary potential to make a difference in the world, and I am happy to Last year, undergraduate students were awarded support their efforts,” McDonnell says. approximately $70 million in financial assistance. Income from the University’s endowment Gifts of more than $5,000 can provide support provided only 17.6 percent of that amount, and to students who may have needs that range the rest came from expendable gifts and other from $5,000 to full tuition, room and board, and University resources. other expenses; these gifts can also support multiple students. More than 1,300 endowed scholarship and fellowship funds already have been established, To qualify for the match, a gift must meet but many more are needed to enable the certain criteria, which are available from the University to continue to recruit talented Office of Alumni and Development Programs. students from a wide range of backgrounds. The challenge will continue until June 30, 2014, or until all of the matching funds have been expended.

“Washington University students all share extraordinary potential to make a difference in the world, and I am happy to support their efforts,” McDonnell says.

22 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu > Engineering’s Initiative

The School of Engineering & Applied Science created its scholarship program in 1974, the first school at Washington University to create such a program, under the visionary leadership of Dr. James M. McKelvey, dean from 1964 to 1991, and Dr. William K.Y. Tao, a distinguished alumnus and member of the Engineering National Council.

Maryland, and she is the Elvira Jubel Scholar. Jessica is the first in her family to pursue a four-year degree, and she hopes to be able to give back one day and inspire other women and students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter technical fields.

geoff story geoff “Receiving a scholarship has given me so much more than the opportunity to pursue Photo byPhoto photo courtesy higher education; it has let me experience an McKelvey and Tao are once again lending environment that fosters well-rounded, open- their support for engineering scholarships. minded thinking. Being part of the Washington McKelvey is serving as co-chair of the School’s University community has encouraged me to Scholarship Initiative Committee, and Tao is take an interest in those around me, to become a serving as the chair emeritus. Peter Leemputte, leader among my peers, and to effect change in an alumnus and member of the Engineering my community.” National Council, is also serving as co-chair.

The $15 million for engineering students that McKelvey, Tao, Leemputte, and others are raising will support undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, study-abroad scholarships, and McKelvey undergraduate research fellowships for students like Jessica Stigile, Reed Essick, Lauren Shuler, Paul Northrop, and Alice Ndikumana. jessica stigile

Jessica, who enrolled at Washington University at the age of 16, is a systems science and engineering student from Silver Spring, story geoff Photo by

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 23 student feature

“This unique opportunity has inspired me to work across a story geoff by Photos

reed essick lauren shuler paul northrop

Reed is a National Merit Scholar and a Lauren is a civil engineering student Paul, who was a National Merit Scholar mechanical engineering student from from Washington, D.C., and she is the and a Calvin M. Woodward Scholar as an Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He is also a recipient recipient of the Gloria & Rubin Feldman undergraduate student at Washington of the Calvin M. Woodward Fellowship, Family Study Abroad Scholarship, which University, is currently a graduate a merit-based award named after the enabled her to visit Korea as part of the student in the Department of Energy, School’s first dean and created to Department of Energy, Environmental Environmental & Chemical Engineering attract the top students to Washington & Chemical Engineering international from Spring, Texas. University. experience trip in summer 2009. “I am grateful for my Sproul Family “My scholarship allowed me to attend “Because of my scholarship, I was able to Graduate Fellowship so I can focus on Washington University and follow experience a new culture and create a my coursework and research, instead my passion of studying engineering goal of working on issues related to water of worrying about finances and working with other interests like physics and quality and wastewater treatment.” outside of Washington U.” economics. Washington U. has so many options for students to combine studies and cross boundaries, but without scholarships, many students like me wouldn’t be able to attend this great university.”

24 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu disciplines to make a difference for our world. — alice” ndikumana

Scholarship Initiative Committee

Mr. William Abbott Dr. Harold Y.H. Law San Francisco Committee Mr. Peter Leemputte Dr. Lilia Abron Co-Chair Washington, D.C. Committee Mrs. Ellen Leemputte Mr. Charles Buescher, Jr. Chicago Committee

Dr. Paul Chandeysson Mr. Steven Lowy Washington, D.C. Committee Dr. Richard Mattione Mrs. Ruth Chandeysson Boston Committee Washington, D.C. Committee

campus in focus Dr. James McKelvey Mrs. Anne Chivetta Co-Chair Photo by Mr. William Coad Dr. Anna Patterson alice ndikumana San Francisco Committee Mr. Marc Cohen Alice is a biomedical engineering student New York Committee Dr. Stanley Proctor, Jr. from Amherst, Massachusetts, and she Past Chair is a James M. McKelvey Undergraduate Mr. Gaines Coleman Research Scholar, a unique program that Los Angeles Committee Mr. Stephen Sands provides undergraduate students the New York Committee Mr. Marshall Curtis opportunity to conduct research with Washington, D.C. Committee Mr. Robert Scharringhausen faculty from engineering, medicine, or the sciences to solve grand challenges, like Mr. Thomas Feichtinger Mr. Harold (Hank) Schreimann heart disease. Detroit Committee Mr. Sanford Silverstein “I’m thankful my scholarship provided Mr. Michael Franke me with the opportunity to conduct Chicago Committee Mr. Charles Simmons undergraduate research in Professor San Francisco Committee Igor Efimov’s lab. We focused on Mr. Robert Heider Dr. William K.Y. Tao cardiac bioelectricity, with the hope of Mr. R. Joseph Kannapell Chair Emeritus understanding heart disease and designing more effective and reliable therapies. Mr. Craig Kaufman Dr. John Tomich This unique opportunity has inspired Atlanta Committee Houston Committee me to work across disciplines to make a difference for our world.” Mr. Steven Kramer Mr. Peter L. Young International Committee g scholarshipinitiative.wustl.edu

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 25 alumni profile

26 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu scholarship Opportunity &Written by julia evangelou strait Photo by geoff story From product development to finance, one alumnus’s engineering degree meant a door open wide to opportunity. Now he hopes to open that door for others.

eter leemputte loves a good Today, he serves as senior vice president and challenge. After receiving his chief financial officer of Mead Johnson Nutrition chemical engineering degree from Company, a multibillion-dollar global business Washington University in 1979, his that makes and sells pediatric nutrition products, first job was in product development including the Enfamil infant formula brand. From Pfor Procter & Gamble. There, he worked to build a diapers to infant formula, his long career seems better diaper. First working on a brand designed to have brought him full circle. “I’m just working for adults and specific populations, such as on the input side now, not the output,” he says the handicapped, he liked the idea that he was with a laugh. helping people. Later, he worked on Pampers. “My job was to improve diaper containment for After business school, Leemputte held positions breastfed newborns,” he says with a laugh. in finance and consulting across a wide range of industries. “I love the diversity of trying But the product development challenge also something new and learning a new business. carried a business constraint — designing new The technical skills that you need to be a CFO diapers that could be made with the company’s can apply to almost any industry,” he says. existing manufacturing assets. After two years at Procter & Gamble, Leemputte switched gears Indeed, his first financial positions included and went to business school, earning an MBA stints at BP Amoco, an oil company; FMC from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School Corporation, a chemical company; and Armco Inc., of Business. a steel producer.

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 27 alumni profile

“At FMC, I was the financial director for their agricultural chemical business. It was a fun job In working hard to tackle because I could use my chemistry background and I understood the product,” Leemputte says. big challenges, Leemputte also knows the value of education. After Armco, he moved to Mercer Management Consulting, where he helped clients improve their One of the first in his family to business practices. Next, he served as CFO at go to college, he is grateful for Chicago Title Corporation. the scholarships he received from There, he orchestrated his first initial public offering, or IPO, taking Chicago Title public on Washington University. the New York Stock Exchange.

1979 1979–81 1981–83 1983–96

Leemputte receives After graduating, he Leemputte leaves Procter Upon completing his his Bachelor of Science in becomes a product & Gamble to pursue an master’s degree, he holds Chemical Engineering from development engineer for MBA from the financial positions Washington Procter & Gamble. University of Chicago’s School with BP Amoco, FMC University in The assignment: to build a Corporation, and Armco Inc. St. Louis. better diaper. of Business.

>> Leemputte His last position before Mead Johnson was senior While his career may be in finance, Leemputte vice president and chief financial officer of credits his chemical engineering education with is the co-chair Brunswick Corporation, a company famous for giving him skills in problem solving, an ability to of the School’s its leisure-time products, including recreational work well with people, and experience in specific $15 million boats, yachts, pool tables, and bowling alleys. industries that have helped him along the way.

scholarship Leemputte’s broad finance experience led “The engineering degree developed my initiative. Mead Johnson to recruit him to manage its analytical skills better than any other own transition into a standalone, independent undergraduate curriculum ever could have,” company. Until February 2009, Mead Johnson he says. “Even in my finance job, the skill of was a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the looking at a problem and breaking it down into pharmaceutical maker. “When you’re taking a manageable pieces is a necessity. company onto the New York Stock Exchange for "I learned that skill at Washington University the first time, you end up in a teaching role,” he and it has served me well throughout my career. says. “You spend a lot of time helping potential I could have gotten a finance undergraduate shareholders understand what drives the degree, and I don’t think I would be as successful business.” The IPO proved to be one of the most as I’ve been as a chief financial officer. successful of 2009, and Mead Johnson’s stock Engineering taught me a certain discipline to price has almost doubled over the past year. problem solving.”

28 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu leemputte family Left to right: Danny (16),

courtesy photo courtesy John (18), Peter (20), Mary (24), Ellen, and Peter.

1996–98 1998–2000 2000–08 2008–today Leemputte currently Working as a Earns a leadership role Works as senior serves as the senior vice consultant, at Chicago Title vice president and CFO of president and CFO of Corporation, where he

Leemputte helps clients Brunswick Corporation, Mead Johnson improve their business takes the whose product offerings Nutrition, practices at Mercer company public include recreational boats, a company that creates Management Consulting. on the New York Stock yachts, pool tables, pediatric nutrition products. Exchange. and bowling alleys.

From his early years working weekends and Today, in addition to serving on the School of summers to pay the tuition at his Jesuit high Engineering & Applied Science’s National school in Chicago, to studying hard throughout Council, Leemputte is the co-chair of the the chemical engineering program at Washington School’s $15 million scholarship initiative. University, to taking Mead Johnson public on the Along with his wife, Ellen, who also serves on New York Stock Exchange, Leemputte knows the the initiative’s committee, he is working to rewards of hard work. help extend the same educational opportunities to more students. And in working hard to tackle big challenges, Leemputte also knows the value of education. “It used to be that you could go to college and One of the first in his family to go to college, he work during the summer and save enough money is grateful for the scholarships he received from to help cover a respectable amount of the cost Washington University. of the education for the year. That’s impossible now for most people,” he says. This scholarship “Washington University was very good to me,” he initiative, Leemputte says, will give Washington says, and now, he wants to give back and help University students the ability to get an current and future students receive their own excellent education that will serve them well opportunities. throughout life.

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 29 alumni news Alumni Achievement Awards

william eatherton marija ilic

>> The School of MSEE ’99 DScSSM ’79, MSSM ’79 Engineering & Applied young alumni award Ilic is a professor at Carnegie Mellon Eatherton is a distinguished engineer University. She also is the Honorary Chaired Science held its annual and director of engineering at Cisco Professor for Control of Future Electricity Systems Inc. He leads engineering for Network Operations at Delft University of Alumni Achievement the ASR 1000 router at Cisco Systems, Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. Awards dinner a project that bridges seven sites Her main interest is in the systems aspects worldwide and involves hundreds of of operations, planning, and economics of the February 18, 2010. engineers. His technical innovations electric power industry. She has co-authored havehave earnedearned hihimm more ththanan 25 patents, several books in her field of interest manymany bebeforefore the agagee ooff 330.0. and is aann IEEE FFellow.ellow. panganamala ramana kumarmar

DScSSM ’78, MSSSM ’77

Kumar is the Franklin W. Woeltgee Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, a research professorr in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Information Trust Institute, and affiliate professor of computer science. Kumar is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineerseers (IEEE) Fellow, the recipient of thee Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council,uncil, the IEEE Field Award, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEEEE Communications Society.

Photos by adam fischer

30 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edugineering wustl edu christopher chivetta janet holloway jack bodine

BSME ’84, MBA ’86 MSAMCS ’83 BSIE ’49, MBA ’55

Chivetta is president of Holloway is senior vice president dean’s award Hastings & Chivetta Architects and chief of staff for Monsanto Co., Bodine retired in 1990 as executive Inc. and managing partner of managing the office of the chairman vice president and co-owner of Bodine 8760 Engineering LLC, a firm and CEO. She is a 26-year veteran Aluminum Inc., a manufacturer of sand specializing in energy conservation of the company and also provides and permanent mold aluminum castings and sustainable design. executive oversight for Monsanto’s headquartered in St. Louis. As president of Hastings & Chivetta, community relations activities, Bodine has played leadership roles he is credited with expanding the corporate facilities, and business in the St. Louis chapters of the Non- firm’s national reputation and services. Ferrous Founder’s Society, the American design studios to meet the needs In addition to her services as Foundrymen’s Society, and the American of educational clients.ents. a member ofo the School of Association of Industrial Management. Chivetta and his wwife,ife, Anne, fund EngineeringEngineerin & Applied Science’s A devoted member of the School of an engineeringgg undergraduatedergraduateg NationalNational Council,Co Holloway also Engineering & Applied Science Alumni student scholarship.scholarship. supportssupports the James M. McKelvey AdvisoryAdv Council, Bodine served as UndergraduateUndergraduate Research presidentpres in 1996. A lifetime member ScholarsScholars ProgramProgram.. of thet William Greenleaf Eliot Society and sponsor of a term-endowed scholarship,scho he also is an active member of Engineering’sE National Council, the Eliot Society,Soc and scholarship committees.

zacharyza lemnios (Not Pictured)

MSEEMSE ’79

LemniosLem is the director of defense researchrese and engineering for the U.S. DepartmentDep of Defense. He serves as the chief technology officer for the DefenseDef Department and is charged withwith the development and oversight of technologyt strategy. The goal of his positionpos is to extend the capabilities of currentcurr war-fighting systems, develop breakthroughbrea capabilities, and hedge againstaga an uncertain future through a set of scientifics and engineering options and counter-strategiccou surprise. Previously, LemniosLem was the chief technology officeroffi of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’sTec Lincoln Laboratory.

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 31 alumni news new scholarships in 2009

the olin w. & laverne c. kriege Boeing FIRST Robotics James I. & Cora Swift endowed engineering scholarship Scholarship Miller Scholarship

Steve & Kim Carlson Scholarship MiTek Industries Engineering/ The Olin W. & LaVerne C. Kriege Endowed Engineering MBA Scholarship Scholarship was established through an estate gift by Chin Family Scholarship (Joseph & Carol Kannapell) Olin Kriege, a 1936 alumnus, and LaVerne Kriege. The (Kevin Chin) gift of more than $975,000 established undergraduate Anthony L. Olasov scholarships and graduate fellowships in biomedical Demsky/Rohan Family Memorial Scholarship engineering and environmental engineering. Endowed Scholarship (William & Christine Olasov and (Howard & Jamie Demsky) Friends of Anthony Olasov) r. joseph kannapell & carol j. kannapell Fenner Dunlop Americas Ononye Family Scholarship Scholarship (Ike & Gloria Ononye) In celebration of the Washington University Scholarship Initiative, Joe and Carol Kannapell established a new Gloriod Family Study Abroad Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Payne scholarship to support engineering students seeking an Scholarship Endowed Scholarship MBA from Washington University. “Carol and I have been (Terry & Jean Gloriod) Professor Ervin Y. Rodin blessed by Washington University — not only via the Kitty & Hanford Gross Endowed Scholarship generous scholarships we received, but most notably by Scholarship (Rich & Yasuko Mattione and having found each other,” says Joe Kannapell. Together, friends of Dr. Rodin) Joe and Carol have supported an annual scholarship for Robert F. Henry Memorial engineering students for more than six years in the name of Endowed Scholarship David Rossetti & Jan Avent MiTek Industries, where Joe serves as senior vice president. (Anthony Thompson) Merit Scholarship steven r. lowy Ishida/Stout Endowed Stephen & Maxine Sands Scholarship (Calvin Ishida) Scholarship More than 35 years ago, Steve Lowy joined William K.Y. Olin W. & LaVerne C. Kriege Simmons Family Study Abroad Tao and Dean Jim McKelvey when the School launched Endowed Scholarships Scholarship in Electrical & the Engineers’ Scholarship Program. “This is an excellent Systems Engineering Peter & Ellen Leemputte program that warrants the support of all alumni and (Charles & Julie Simmons) Scholarship provides great personal satisfaction for those who participate,” he says. Today, Lowy supports endowed Ude Family Scholarship W. Garnett Maddox and annual scholarships for students studying computer (Roland & Melody Ude) Endowed Scholarship science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and (Marjorie Patton) Carl F.H. & Shirley C. Ullmann chemical engineering. Endowed Scholarship Robert D. McClure Memorial gaines coleman Endowed Scholarship William R. Watts Foundation Scholarship McKelvey Undergraduate Recently retired from St. Jude Medical, Gaines Coleman Research Award sponsored by Frank & Grace Yin Graduate has worked in the medical technology industry for more Janet & James Holloway Fellowship in Biomedical than 20 years. In 2004, he established an annual fund Engineering scholarship for a deserving engineering student. Gaines McKelvey Undergraduate took his passion to support students with financial need Research Award sponsored by Young Family Study Abroad to the next level when he began funding an endowed the Isaac I. Foundation Scholarship in Biomedical scholarship in 2009. Engineering (Peter & Lin Young)

32 Engineering Momentum > engineering.wustl.edu silver sponsors: >> On October 5, 2009, alumni, students, McClure Engineering, Eric Schactman and friends participated in the Engineering Guarantee Electrical Company, Rick Oertli player sponsors: Open Golf Scramble, which raised funds for The Kwame Building Group, Castle Contracting, engineering scholarships. Anthony Thompson Richard Ledbetter

bronze sponsors: Carrollton Bank, Thomas Hough Planning Event Sponsors: SiGNa Chemistry, Michael Lefenfeld Committee: dinner sponsor: Benefactors:

Walter May William Tao & Associates, Engineering Dynamics Intl., McEagle Properties, Richard Janis Tic Weissenberger Christopher Chivetta Paul McKee beverage cart sponsors: platinum sponsors: Tarlton Corporation, Donald Jubel Robert Elsperman Fred Weber Inc., Daniel Logan Hastings & Chivetta Thomas Dunne Jerry Brasch Architects, Jennifer Markwardt Christopher Chivetta Husch Blackwell Sanders Robert Stupp LLP, John McNearney Spartan Light Metal Processing, Donald Jubel

gold sponsor:

McCarthy Building Companies, Paul Hartwig

2009 Engineering Open golf scramble & scholarship initiative

spring 2010 > Engineering Momentum 33 faculty news

New Faculty john cunningham, ph.d. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Cunningham will join the faculty after jung-tsung shen, ph.d. he completes his postdoctoral training under Professor Zoubin Ghahramani Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Systems and Professor Carl Rasmussen in the Engineering Computational & Biological Learning Lab at the . J.T. Shen joined the facu