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Boise State University, College of Engineering, Fall 2010 NewsletterTRANSCRIPT
College of EngineeringEngineering and Technology Building1910 University DriveBoise, Idaho 83725-2100126A100004
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College of EngineeringDean: CHERYL B. SCHRADER
(208) 426-1153
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs:JANET CALLAHAN(208) 426-1450
Assistant Dean for Research & Infrastructure:REX OXFORD(208) 426-5744
Development Director:MELINDA SEEVERS(208) 426-5470
Civil EngineeringChair: ROBERT HAMILTON
(208) [email protected]
Computer ScienceChair:MURALI MEDIDI
(208) [email protected]
Construction ManagementChair: TONY SONGER(208) 426-3716
Electrical & Computer EngineeringInterim Chair: NADER RAFLA
(208) [email protected]
Instructional &Performance Technology
Chair: DON STEPICH(208) 426-1312
Materials Science & EngineeringChair: DARRYL BUTT(208) 426-2283
Mechanical & Biomedical EngineeringChair: JAMES FERGUSON
(208) [email protected]
College of Engineering
William Kamkwamba, the author of “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the BSU campus readbook for the 2010-2011 academic year, joined forces with engineering students on campus with ahands-on wind power activity for all Boise State students.
Students in the Introduction to Engineering courses led by Professor Carol Sevier and the 24students in the Engineering Residential College led by Associate Dean and Faculty-in-Residence JanetCallahan built circuits by hand (as William did in the book!) which students across campus could use tobuild and test a small hand-held windmill. The popular activity was one of several hands-on options ondisplay at the BSU Quad during the author’s visit.
Kamkwamba also shared the inspiring story about his search for knowledge and community activism in a free public event at the MorrisonCenter. He is currently pursuing his dream to become an engineer.
NewsletterNewsletter
COEN remainsamong the top-rankedpublic, comprehensiveengineering programs inthe annual U.S. News &
World Report ranking. Here is the list of the top 16 programs with theirscores:
1. US Military Academy, West Point, NY – 4.1
2. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA – 4.0
3. US Air Force Academy, CO – 4.0
4. US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD – 4.0
5. California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA – 3.5
6. US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT – 3.5
7. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ – 3.2
8. The Citadel, Charleston, SC – 3.2
9. US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY – 3.2
10. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO – 3.2
11. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA – 3.2
12. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA – 3.1
13. University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, MI – 3.1
14. California State University – Los Angeles, LA, CA – 3.0
15. Miami University – Oxford, Oxford, OH – 3.0
16. Boise State University, Boise, ID – 2.9
Boise State Students Learn to Harness the Wind
Fall 2010
William Kamkwamba, left, visits with construction management students Josh Folger, Tucker Robb andDaryn Giddings at an interactive fair on the Quad.
COEN Ranks 16th among Public, Comprehensive Engineering ProgramsApril 15, 2011 – CM Alumni Golf Tournament
April 16, 2011 – 30th Anniversary Celebration
Save the Dates!
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From the Dean’s Desk
The start of fall semester isalways a time of promise andnew beginnings. First yearstudents arrive full ofenthusiasm and wonder.Returning students come back toclassrooms and labs ready fornew discoveries. New andreturning faculty membersprepare lessons and continue
challenging research with large numbers of undergraduateand graduate students.
Again this fall, we have an increase in enrollment with1,556 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of2,021 including students with engineering minors andgraduate students. These numbers are up from 1,450undergraduate students in fall of 2009 and 1,881 overallstudents that same year.
Thanks to the hard work of faculty, staff and students, ourCollege continues to achieve success in many ways:
• Research awards in 2010 totalled more than $9.3million, up from $3.9 million just two years ago.
• Graduate student enrollment continues to climb with463 students conducting research in sevendepartments.
• Undergraduate student Mallory Yates, MBE, wasnamed NASA’s Co-op Student of the Year at theJohnson Space Center in Houston. After spendingthe summer working in professor Don Plumlee’smicropropulsion lab, she is back in Houston thissemester working again for NASA.
• New visualization capabilities help us “see” what waspreviously undiscoverable. Whether we are studyingwind energy, biomedicine, or Mars, or training futureengineers and scientists, this technology opens newworlds of connection, investigation andunderstanding.
• Well deserved promotions highlight exceptionalfaculty contributors.
• Notable success in engineering education researchlays Boise State’s foundation for enhanced STEM(science, technology, engineering and math) teachingand learning at all levels.
• Construction Management begins its next thirtyyears as an academic program.
• And, the College again ranks among the nation’s bestpublic, comprehensive engineering schools.
After seven years at Boise State University, I remainconsistently impressed by the creativity, diligence,ingenuity and entrepreneurship of our students, staff andfaculty. What a truly great place to learn and live.Join us!
Cheryl B. Schrader
Dean and ProfessorCollege of Engineering
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CS Student Mark Stewart Wrote 30,000 Lines of Code and Started aCompany
Computer Science undergraduate studentMark Stewart Jr. spenthis summer vacation writing software code for his new company,ScheduleTailor, an online web application that helps companies manageemployee schedules. Stewart came up with the idea for the onlinescheduling tool to help roommate, Trevor Shephard, set up employeeschedules for the Dawson’s coffee shop in the Multipurpose Building atBoise State which is run by College of Business and Economics students.
One thing led to another for the duo, and ScheduleTailor was born.After winning the People’s Choice Award at Idaho Tech Connect’s TechLaunch competition for new tech ideas in May, the two students tooktheir $5,000 prize and began to develop their company’s beta version inearnest.
“We are in the pre-release stage now and we’re looking for a betauser,” Stewart said. “Beta customers will help us learn what people wantand where the glitches are. We’ve come a long way but we still have along way to go,” the 24-year-old Stewart says.
ScheduleTailor is also working with Nebula Shift, a local softwaredevelopment group, to further develop the company. Stewart also creditsRick Ritter of Idaho Tech Connect as a “real mentor to us about how toget this business off the ground.”
Stewart says his most important lesson was discovering whatmatters in the business world. “I learned from a manager's view what itmeans when youshow up late or whenyou do things thatare bad for thecompany and thebottom line. Now Iknow that what reallymatters is being aperson who benefitsthe company in asignificant way andwho makes peoplearound them feelhappy.”
What did you do this summer?Visualization Cluster Display Gives Researchersa Powerful New Toolby Erin Ryan
The College of Engineering ishome to a new visualization clusterdisplay — 16 linked monitorspowered by layers of highperformance computers and manymillions of pixels that turn the nakedeye into a precision researchinstrument.
It’s all about programmableGPUs (graphics processing units),according to Inanc Senocak, anassistant professor in theDepartment of Mechanical &Biomedical Engineering. The clusteris part of his project on integratedsupercomputing and visualizationfor aerodynamics analysis, and hesaid testing its capabilities has beeneye opening.
“This is more detail at a muchhigher resolution than you would get on a high-end computer,” Senocak said, pointing tothe cluster’s crisp projection of minutiae in the electric swirl of the Messier 51 “Whirlpool”Galaxy. “Whether you’re studying biomedicine on a microscope slide or looking at aphotograph for clues to past water activity on Mars, displays like this enable a moresophisticated level of investigation and understanding.”
The hardware combines the processing power of multiple computers into a single“many-core” system, supporting complex scientific computation and the visualization ofmassive datasets that are too unwieldy to analyze on small screens and degrade if blown upon big screens. Senocak primarily is using it to conduct computational fluid dynamicssimulations. From modeling the dispersal of airborne pollutants in urban environments toidentifying favorable wind conditions for energy generation over complex terrain, he saidthe cluster is essential for fast computations and sensitive analysis.
Senocak’s long-term goal is to build a facility that surpasses the resolution of NASA’s128-screen, 256 million-pixel “hyperwall-2,” which would make Boise State a destinationfor scientific computing and visualization research. Joining him in this endeavor arecomputer systems administratorMartin Lukes and computer science graduate studentsDana Jacobsen and Brad Baker.
MSE Undergraduate Student EarnsSummer Scholarship in Germany
Steven Livers, MSE, was awarded a summerscholarship from the International MaterialsInstitute to work in one of the most prestigiousgroups dealing with nano-ionic non-volatilememory devices in the world at the Rhein-Westvalishe Technische Hochschule (RWTH)Aachen, Germany. ECE ProfessorMariaMitkova helped Livers with his application.
Student Club Aims To Build World’sFastest Vegetable Oil-Powered Vehicle
Boise State is home to more than 200 student clubs, but never hasthere been one quite likeGreenspeed. Fueled by theintrepid vision of six studentsand two recent graduates in theCollege of Engineering, itspurpose is to design, build andrace the world’s fastestvegetable oil-powered vehicle atUtah’s famed Bonneville SaltFlats during Speed Week 2011.
Founder Dave Schenker is amechanical engineering studentwhose own car is modified to runon vegetable oil. For the pasttwo years he has been recruitingfor Greenspeed, which became asanctioned university organization in June. The club comprisesengineering undergraduates Jozey Mitcham, Adrian Rothenbühler andAdam Spiegelman, graduate student Cory Sparks, alumni John Pasleyand Jason Brotherton, and former Boise State student Brett Keys, whohelped found the project and remains a contributor.
visit: http://news.boisestate.edu/update/2010/08/31/student-club-aims-to-build-world%E2%80%99s-fastest-vegetable-oil-powered-vehicle/
(from left) Graduate students Dana Jacobsen andBrad Baker stand with assistant professor InancSenocak and computer systems administratorMartin Lukes in front of the new visualizationcluster display in the College of Engineering. Itsprojection of the Messier 51 “Whirlpool” Galaxyreveals more detail at a much higher resolutionthan a high-end computer could.
Inanc Senocak, an assistant professor in theDepartment of Mechanical & BiomedicalEngineering, observes a high-resolution image ofthe Majestic Sombrero Galaxy. Thanks to themany-core computing architecture connected to the16-monitor display, he can see a lot more thanwould otherwise meet the eye. In addition tovisualization research, the technology also supportshigh-level scientific computation.
Turf busterSeth Kuhlman, MSME ‘07, ME ‘05 alumnus and lab
manager for the university’s Center for Orthopaedic andBiomechanics Research (COBR), is pictured changing a cleat totest on the surface of the turf in the Caven-Williams indoorpractice facility. Kuhlman is leading a recently contractedresearch project for a major golf spike producer. The companywants to move into the football market, and Kuhlman is usingBoise State’s “Turf Buster” to test its new cleat design against theindustry standard. Kuhlman built the 1,200-pound instrument foran NFL-funded study on stadium surfaces that was proposed andoverseen by COBR co-directors Michelle Sabick, an associateprofessor in the Department of Mechanical & BiomedicalEngineering, and Ron Pfeiffer, chair and professor in theDepartment of Kinesiology.
“The technologybenefits research andapplications in fluid
dynamics, climate modeling,wind energy, astrophysics,biology, chemistry and
materials, to name a few,”“This surge in
computational power, fueledby the programmable many-core GPUs, is expected tolead scientific discovery in
the years to come.”– Inanc Senocak, an assistantprofessor in the Department of
Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
by Margaret Scott
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Sona Andrews, Boise State’s provost and vicepresident for academic affairs, as well as theprincipal investigator of the initiative.
The underlying theme of the project isstudent self-authorship, an educational frameworkin which students immerse themselves in genuineexperiences such as research, teaching K-12students, and intellectually engaging with peersand faculty. Personally identifying as a scientist,engineer, mathematician or STEM teacherenhances student learning and success. The STEMCentral STATION will involve faculty acrosscampus by promoting and supporting facultyunderstanding of student-centered teachingmethods in STEM courses and the inclusion ofstudents in research.
In addition to Andrews, the project’sinterdisciplinary team of co-principal investigatorsincludes Sharon McGuire, vice provost forundergraduate studies, Louis Nadelson, assistantprofessor of education, Cheryl Schrader, dean ofthe College of Engineering, and Karen Viskupic,education program manager for the Departmentof Geosciences.
Barbara Morgan, Boise State’s distinguishededucator in residence, said the increasing focus onhelping teachers master new thinking aboutSTEM education should be at the core of thenation’s response to this issue.
“Teachers hold the key in creating ournation’s next generation of scientists andengineers,” said Morgan, a former NASA astronautand Idaho elementary school teacher. “Only bygiving them the tools they need to do their jobwill we become successful in this crucial effort.”
Patricia Pyke, previously the director ofeducation research in Boise State’s College ofEngineering, will direct STEM Central STATION.
“The STEM Central STATION will providestudents and faculty with routes and directions toreach their teaching and learning destinations,”said Pyke. “On our journey, our team will study theeffectiveness of learner-centered curricular andextracurricular activities on student success andfaculty engagement.”
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1990sRudy Arzumanov, EE ‘98Senior Hardware Engineerfor DGE, Inc. in Michigan.
Brent Rasumussen, ME’99, Project Manager forSiemens in Boise.
2000sBrenda Erskine, EE ‘00loves her job at AlaskaNative Tribal HealthConsortium in Anchorage,Alaska. She flies all overAlaska overseeingmaintenance andimprovement projects atthe Native clinics andhospitals. She is pictured atPoint Barrow, the farthestNorth you can go in theUnited States.
Jenny (Harman) Bush, CE’02 was named the YoungEngineer of the Year at theIdaho Society ofProfessional Engineersannual meeting in June.The award recognizesyoung members who havemade outstandingcontributions to theengineering profession andtheir communities early intheir careers. Picturedbelow is Dylan Wyatt Bush,born in March.
Torin E. Ford, CS ‘02Angela R. Stewart andTorin E. Ford welcome theirson and future Bronco,Jackson D. Ford, born on
November 15, 2009. Heweighed in at 8 lbs. 2 oz.
Jake Brinkerhoff, EE ’04has been working at MicronTechnology Inc. in Boise for6 years on NAND Flashproducts in the Quality andReliability Assurancedepartment. Married to hiswife Kristi for 5 years, theyare pictured hiking in SanLuis Obispo.
Matt Heath, CM ‘ 04started a new job in GrandJunction Colorado as aGeneral Manager atSouthwest Electric Inc. Thefirm specializes in low voltelectrical andcommunication in thenatural gas and oil industryin Western Colorado. Healso welcomed a new son,Hudson Bennett Heath, onAugust 9th. (picturedbelow)
Nora Lindberg, MS IPT '04,has been promoted toCompany TrainingCoordinator at W RSystems, Ltd,headquartered in Fairfax,VA. She and husband Boblive and work in VirginiaBeach when they're not attheir farm in the Blue Ridgemountains. (Note: Ponies toarrive any day...)
Jeremy Tucker, ME ‘04has been a ManufacturingEngineer at ECCO in Boisefor the last 6 years. Jeremyand his wife Debbie havefour sons.
Kevin Turner, EE ‘04is working for Hewlett-Packard as a firmwareengineer in the Boise R&DLab. He is the proud fatherof a second boy, Jesse, bornon April 14th, joining olderbrother, Braden who is twoand a half years old.
Dan Russell, ME ‘05works as a HVAC SystemsDesigner, Energy Analyst atEngineering Incorporatedin Boise.
Chris Hale, EE '06is an SSD Product Engineerat Micron Technology Inc.Chris and his wife have ason named Vincent(pictured) and areexpecting their secondchild.
Michael Stephens, ME ‘06works in the OceanEngineering Department atPuget Sound NavalShipyard. He is primarilyresponsible for themechanical and hydrauliccomponents for the
secondary propulsionsystem on Seawolf classsubmarines, and onoccasion gets to work onmechanical components fordeep submergenceapplications.
Joshua Martin, CM ‘07works for MarCon Inc. inMeridian as a ProjectManager. Joshua and hiswife, Charmolita, have aone year old son namedRowen. (pictured below)
Kelli Olsen, CM ‘07is working for Kiewitcurrently at the WestClosure Pump Station inNew Orleans, LA, buildingthe largest pump station inthe world as a fieldengineer. This pumpstation will be able topump 9,000,000 gallons ofwater a minute. Currently,she is working on drivingH-Pile, concrete Pile, andsheet pile.
David Denton, CM ‘09,employed at WashintonRiver Protection Solutionsin Richland, WA as aPlanner/Scheduler.
C.W. Franz, EE ‘09,works for PacificCorpEnergy in Salt Lake City.
Scott Freeman, CM ‘08and Julie Freeman, ME ‘09,are the proud parents ofMabel Jo Freeman, bornJuly 23, 2010. Mabel
weighed 6 lb 6oz. Scottworks for O-K Gravel Worksin Cascade.
Shatakshi Goyal, EE ‘10is one of the three finalistsnationally for the HKNOutstanding ECE StudentAward. She is employed atHewlett-Packard in Boise.
Bryce Simpson, ECE ‘10is employed by SchweitzerEngineering Labs in Boise,and will start working onhis master's degree at BoiseState in the fall.
STEM Education Research Gets Boost From $1.25Million NSF Grantby Mike Journee
Innovative methods to educate the next generation of scientists, engineers and teachers ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are the focus of a five-year, $1.25million grant awarded to Boise State University by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The award – one of only 15 given nationally by the NSF – is in response to Boise State’swide-ranging initiatives to enhance STEM teaching and learning at all levels – K-12 throughgraduate education. This new grant will allow project teams across the Boise State campus,Idaho and the region to join forces and elevate the priority, visibility, scope and effectiveness ofSTEM education research.
“Everywhere you turn in the world of K-20 education, STEM is at the forefront. It is an areaof national focus that not only has the attention of the highest levels of our nation’sgovernment, but also our education leaders here in Idaho,” said Boise State President BobKustra. “In anticipation of this national urgency, Boise State has been quietly putting intensefocus on this issue through a wide range of initiatives that include research, communitypartnerships and institutional realignments.”
The funding will be used to create the STEM Central STATION at Boise State, a new officefor coordinating NSF-related and other STEM programs on campus and throughout Idaho. In theinitial three years of the award, the grant is in the amount of $750,000. An additional$500,000 NSF allocation is planned the fourth and fifth years of the award, pending a progressreview and available funds, making the anticipated total funding $1.25 million.
Through the STEM Central STATION office, Boise State and the NSF hope to research andfurther develop emerging STEM education best practices to help overcome a national dearth ofqualified teachers in STEM-related subjects and entice more students to pursue those areas ofstudy.
“Boise State’sposition as anemerging researchuniversity providesan ideal laboratoryto studyinstitutionaltransformation inSTEM educationand become amodelmetropolitanuniversityrecognized forintegratingteaching, learningand research,” said
COEN Faculty Members ReceivePromotion/Tenure
Promoted to Professor:
Yonnie Chyung, Department of Instructional & Performance Technology
Bill Knowlton, Department of Materials Science & Engineering andDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Amy Moll, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Tony Songer, Department of Construction Management
Promoted to Associate Professor and Granted Tenure:
Megan Frary, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Tony Marker, Department of Instructional & Performance Technology
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Mechanical engineering seniorMo Nguyencan’t stop smiling when she talks about hersuccessful summer internship at NASA’s LangleyResearch Center in Virginia. She worked in theAdvanced Materials and Processing Branch of theAeronautics Research Mission Directorate withstudents from the University of Alabama Huntsville,Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, andNew York University among others.
Along with researcher Karen Taminger,Nguyen worked on assembling the secondgeneration portable Electron Beam FreeformFabrication (EBF3) system. She said the process issimilar to rapid prototyping in the College ofEngineering except it works with metals likealuminum, titanium and iconel. The team proposedbringing the process onto the International SpaceStation in 2013.
“The highlight of my summer was when mymentor talked to me about wanting to hire me as a
junior engineer after I graduate to design/build the EBF3 system for the space station,” she said. “Working for NASA is my dream job so hearing thatmade me feel that all the effort I put into the summer was worth it.”
Computer science senior Jake Forsberg is reallyexcited about autonomous vehicles. That’s because hespent the summer working with nine other students fromschools including MIT, Vassar, Virginia Tech, WesternKentucky and the University of Virginia on amultidisciplinary team at NASA’s Langley Research Centerin Virginia.
Forsberg worked with microcontrollers, low-costelectronics, and developed navigation control software foraerial vehicles, including multiple vehicles operatingautonomously. His team's final presentation in a Langleytheatre involved a live demonstration of the system for alarge group of students and NASA researchers. It was sosuccessful that the NASA Edge web channel filmed asecond demonstration a few days later, which is currentlyairing on iTunes and the NASA website.
With the help of mentor Garry Qualls, the NASAengineer who helped design the ARES plane, Forsberg saidhe and the other students developed a very strong passionfor what they wanted to accomplish during the summer.
“Everything came together at a rapid pace. Quallswould give us a problem and a few suggestions for how tosolve it and then, like a professor, just step back and let usgo for it,” Forsberg said. "I felt like I had an academicmentor giving me problems beyond the classroom. Quallshad a vision for a research lab for autonomous vehicles atNASA, and I'm so thankful I got to be a part of its first steps.”
Forsberg will finish his undergraduate degree in December and hopes to spend the spring semester back at Langley working on the project. He wantsto make the setup more robust and also focus on vehicle collision avoidance software. He plans to attend graduate school in the fall.
Ellen Rabenburg, MSE ‘09 spent her summer building anddestroying thermally fail-safe composite materials, all in the nameof science. She says she still can’t believe she was accepted for thesummer internship program at NASA’s Langley Research Center.The first year materials science graduate student worked in theAdvanced Materials and Processing Branch creating a materialthat would resist heating when used in a high temperatureenvironment up to 2000°F.
“We fused carbon fiber fabric and a polymer resin to fabricatethe panels which can be used for shielding applications,” she said.After they were built, the strength of the panels were tested usinga four-point bend test where they were pushed in at the center.“For me the testing was really fun because when it broke, piecesflew everywhere,”
Although she is a self-described “Air Force brat” who grew upeverywhere, the time at Langley was her first East Coastexperience. Rabenburg spent weekends touring the area. One tripof note was the Washington, D.C. area, where she managed tosnag Buzz Aldrin’s autograph at a D.C. book signing during a tourof the Air and Space Museum.
When she finishes her master’s degree in May 2012,Rabenburg hopes to go back to work for NASA in one of Langley’smaterials centers.
After spending the summer working for NASA’s Langley ResearchCenter, Trevor Engman , a junior majoring in physics and materialsscience and engineering, is very excited to be headed back to Virginiain early November to attend TEDx NASA – an event he helped puttogether.
TED (originally for technology, entertainment and design) is aglobal set of conferences held annually since 1984 to promote “ideasthat are worth spreading.” Topics are diverse and potentiallygroundbreaking, speakers are by invitation only, and each speakergets a maximum of 18 minutes to share some pretty complex ideas.The TEDx events are organized by schools, businesses, libraries andother entities like NASA to host similar events.
Even before his NASA internship, Engman was a huge TED fanand watched the presenters on the web faithfully. “I was such an avidTED follower and I got lucky to be paired with a mentor whoorganized the first NASA TEDx event the previous year,” he said. “Iwas part of a team of four or five NASA administrators who metweekly to put this event together. “
Engman also conducted research about creativity and innovationat Langley. He interviewed dozens of NASA employees about howthey were taking an idea and turning it into something productive. Headmits the research was very hard to quantify when it came time towrite his final report but credits his time spent on the autonomousvehicle team with fellow Boise State intern Jake Forsberg for helpingform his results.
“I was able to observe how they worked with new ideas and to see what kind of environment was very conducive to creative thoughts,” he said.Explaining his final conclusion, Engman says, “Autonomy is one of the most important things necessary for creativity to occur.”
College of Engineering Newsletter | Fall 2010
Sweet Success at NASA
MoJake
Trevor
Ellen
by Margaret Scott
4 5College of Engineering Newsletter | Fall 2010
Mechanical engineering seniorMo Nguyencan’t stop smiling when she talks about hersuccessful summer internship at NASA’s LangleyResearch Center in Virginia. She worked in theAdvanced Materials and Processing Branch of theAeronautics Research Mission Directorate withstudents from the University of Alabama Huntsville,Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, andNew York University among others.
Along with researcher Karen Taminger,Nguyen worked on assembling the secondgeneration portable Electron Beam FreeformFabrication (EBF3) system. She said the process issimilar to rapid prototyping in the College ofEngineering except it works with metals likealuminum, titanium and iconel. The team proposedbringing the process onto the International SpaceStation in 2013.
“The highlight of my summer was when mymentor talked to me about wanting to hire me as a
junior engineer after I graduate to design/build the EBF3 system for the space station,” she said. “Working for NASA is my dream job so hearing thatmade me feel that all the effort I put into the summer was worth it.”
Computer science senior Jake Forsberg is reallyexcited about autonomous vehicles. That’s because hespent the summer working with nine other students fromschools including MIT, Vassar, Virginia Tech, WesternKentucky and the University of Virginia on amultidisciplinary team at NASA’s Langley Research Centerin Virginia.
Forsberg worked with microcontrollers, low-costelectronics, and developed navigation control software foraerial vehicles, including multiple vehicles operatingautonomously. His team's final presentation in a Langleytheatre involved a live demonstration of the system for alarge group of students and NASA researchers. It was sosuccessful that the NASA Edge web channel filmed asecond demonstration a few days later, which is currentlyairing on iTunes and the NASA website.
With the help of mentor Garry Qualls, the NASAengineer who helped design the ARES plane, Forsberg saidhe and the other students developed a very strong passionfor what they wanted to accomplish during the summer.
“Everything came together at a rapid pace. Quallswould give us a problem and a few suggestions for how tosolve it and then, like a professor, just step back and let usgo for it,” Forsberg said. "I felt like I had an academicmentor giving me problems beyond the classroom. Quallshad a vision for a research lab for autonomous vehicles atNASA, and I'm so thankful I got to be a part of its first steps.”
Forsberg will finish his undergraduate degree in December and hopes to spend the spring semester back at Langley working on the project. He wantsto make the setup more robust and also focus on vehicle collision avoidance software. He plans to attend graduate school in the fall.
Ellen Rabenburg, MSE ‘09 spent her summer building anddestroying thermally fail-safe composite materials, all in the nameof science. She says she still can’t believe she was accepted for thesummer internship program at NASA’s Langley Research Center.The first year materials science graduate student worked in theAdvanced Materials and Processing Branch creating a materialthat would resist heating when used in a high temperatureenvironment up to 2000°F.
“We fused carbon fiber fabric and a polymer resin to fabricatethe panels which can be used for shielding applications,” she said.After they were built, the strength of the panels were tested usinga four-point bend test where they were pushed in at the center.“For me the testing was really fun because when it broke, piecesflew everywhere,”
Although she is a self-described “Air Force brat” who grew upeverywhere, the time at Langley was her first East Coastexperience. Rabenburg spent weekends touring the area. One tripof note was the Washington, D.C. area, where she managed tosnag Buzz Aldrin’s autograph at a D.C. book signing during a tourof the Air and Space Museum.
When she finishes her master’s degree in May 2012,Rabenburg hopes to go back to work for NASA in one of Langley’smaterials centers.
After spending the summer working for NASA’s Langley ResearchCenter, Trevor Engman , a junior majoring in physics and materialsscience and engineering, is very excited to be headed back to Virginiain early November to attend TEDx NASA – an event he helped puttogether.
TED (originally for technology, entertainment and design) is aglobal set of conferences held annually since 1984 to promote “ideasthat are worth spreading.” Topics are diverse and potentiallygroundbreaking, speakers are by invitation only, and each speakergets a maximum of 18 minutes to share some pretty complex ideas.The TEDx events are organized by schools, businesses, libraries andother entities like NASA to host similar events.
Even before his NASA internship, Engman was a huge TED fanand watched the presenters on the web faithfully. “I was such an avidTED follower and I got lucky to be paired with a mentor whoorganized the first NASA TEDx event the previous year,” he said. “Iwas part of a team of four or five NASA administrators who metweekly to put this event together. “
Engman also conducted research about creativity and innovationat Langley. He interviewed dozens of NASA employees about howthey were taking an idea and turning it into something productive. Headmits the research was very hard to quantify when it came time towrite his final report but credits his time spent on the autonomousvehicle team with fellow Boise State intern Jake Forsberg for helpingform his results.
“I was able to observe how they worked with new ideas and to see what kind of environment was very conducive to creative thoughts,” he said.Explaining his final conclusion, Engman says, “Autonomy is one of the most important things necessary for creativity to occur.”
College of Engineering Newsletter | Fall 2010
Sweet Success at NASA
MoJake
Trevor
Ellen
by Margaret Scott
6
Sona Andrews, Boise State’s provost and vicepresident for academic affairs, as well as theprincipal investigator of the initiative.
The underlying theme of the project isstudent self-authorship, an educational frameworkin which students immerse themselves in genuineexperiences such as research, teaching K-12students, and intellectually engaging with peersand faculty. Personally identifying as a scientist,engineer, mathematician or STEM teacherenhances student learning and success. The STEMCentral STATION will involve faculty acrosscampus by promoting and supporting facultyunderstanding of student-centered teachingmethods in STEM courses and the inclusion ofstudents in research.
In addition to Andrews, the project’sinterdisciplinary team of co-principal investigatorsincludes Sharon McGuire, vice provost forundergraduate studies, Louis Nadelson, assistantprofessor of education, Cheryl Schrader, dean ofthe College of Engineering, and Karen Viskupic,education program manager for the Departmentof Geosciences.
Barbara Morgan, Boise State’s distinguishededucator in residence, said the increasing focus onhelping teachers master new thinking aboutSTEM education should be at the core of thenation’s response to this issue.
“Teachers hold the key in creating ournation’s next generation of scientists andengineers,” said Morgan, a former NASA astronautand Idaho elementary school teacher. “Only bygiving them the tools they need to do their jobwill we become successful in this crucial effort.”
Patricia Pyke, previously the director ofeducation research in Boise State’s College ofEngineering, will direct STEM Central STATION.
“The STEM Central STATION will providestudents and faculty with routes and directions toreach their teaching and learning destinations,”said Pyke. “On our journey, our team will study theeffectiveness of learner-centered curricular andextracurricular activities on student success andfaculty engagement.”
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1990sRudy Arzumanov, EE ‘98Senior Hardware Engineerfor DGE, Inc. in Michigan.
Brent Rasumussen, ME’99, Project Manager forSiemens in Boise.
2000sBrenda Erskine, EE ‘00loves her job at AlaskaNative Tribal HealthConsortium in Anchorage,Alaska. She flies all overAlaska overseeingmaintenance andimprovement projects atthe Native clinics andhospitals. She is pictured atPoint Barrow, the farthestNorth you can go in theUnited States.
Jenny (Harman) Bush, CE’02 was named the YoungEngineer of the Year at theIdaho Society ofProfessional Engineersannual meeting in June.The award recognizesyoung members who havemade outstandingcontributions to theengineering profession andtheir communities early intheir careers. Picturedbelow is Dylan Wyatt Bush,born in March.
Torin E. Ford, CS ‘02Angela R. Stewart andTorin E. Ford welcome theirson and future Bronco,Jackson D. Ford, born on
November 15, 2009. Heweighed in at 8 lbs. 2 oz.
Jake Brinkerhoff, EE ’04has been working at MicronTechnology Inc. in Boise for6 years on NAND Flashproducts in the Quality andReliability Assurancedepartment. Married to hiswife Kristi for 5 years, theyare pictured hiking in SanLuis Obispo.
Matt Heath, CM ‘ 04started a new job in GrandJunction Colorado as aGeneral Manager atSouthwest Electric Inc. Thefirm specializes in low voltelectrical andcommunication in thenatural gas and oil industryin Western Colorado. Healso welcomed a new son,Hudson Bennett Heath, onAugust 9th. (picturedbelow)
Nora Lindberg, MS IPT '04,has been promoted toCompany TrainingCoordinator at W RSystems, Ltd,headquartered in Fairfax,VA. She and husband Boblive and work in VirginiaBeach when they're not attheir farm in the Blue Ridgemountains. (Note: Ponies toarrive any day...)
Jeremy Tucker, ME ‘04has been a ManufacturingEngineer at ECCO in Boisefor the last 6 years. Jeremyand his wife Debbie havefour sons.
Kevin Turner, EE ‘04is working for Hewlett-Packard as a firmwareengineer in the Boise R&DLab. He is the proud fatherof a second boy, Jesse, bornon April 14th, joining olderbrother, Braden who is twoand a half years old.
Dan Russell, ME ‘05works as a HVAC SystemsDesigner, Energy Analyst atEngineering Incorporatedin Boise.
Chris Hale, EE '06is an SSD Product Engineerat Micron Technology Inc.Chris and his wife have ason named Vincent(pictured) and areexpecting their secondchild.
Michael Stephens, ME ‘06works in the OceanEngineering Department atPuget Sound NavalShipyard. He is primarilyresponsible for themechanical and hydrauliccomponents for the
secondary propulsionsystem on Seawolf classsubmarines, and onoccasion gets to work onmechanical components fordeep submergenceapplications.
Joshua Martin, CM ‘07works for MarCon Inc. inMeridian as a ProjectManager. Joshua and hiswife, Charmolita, have aone year old son namedRowen. (pictured below)
Kelli Olsen, CM ‘07is working for Kiewitcurrently at the WestClosure Pump Station inNew Orleans, LA, buildingthe largest pump station inthe world as a fieldengineer. This pumpstation will be able topump 9,000,000 gallons ofwater a minute. Currently,she is working on drivingH-Pile, concrete Pile, andsheet pile.
David Denton, CM ‘09,employed at WashintonRiver Protection Solutionsin Richland, WA as aPlanner/Scheduler.
C.W. Franz, EE ‘09,works for PacificCorpEnergy in Salt Lake City.
Scott Freeman, CM ‘08and Julie Freeman, ME ‘09,are the proud parents ofMabel Jo Freeman, bornJuly 23, 2010. Mabel
weighed 6 lb 6oz. Scottworks for O-K Gravel Worksin Cascade.
Shatakshi Goyal, EE ‘10is one of the three finalistsnationally for the HKNOutstanding ECE StudentAward. She is employed atHewlett-Packard in Boise.
Bryce Simpson, ECE ‘10is employed by SchweitzerEngineering Labs in Boise,and will start working onhis master's degree at BoiseState in the fall.
STEM Education Research Gets Boost From $1.25Million NSF Grantby Mike Journee
Innovative methods to educate the next generation of scientists, engineers and teachers ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are the focus of a five-year, $1.25million grant awarded to Boise State University by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The award – one of only 15 given nationally by the NSF – is in response to Boise State’swide-ranging initiatives to enhance STEM teaching and learning at all levels – K-12 throughgraduate education. This new grant will allow project teams across the Boise State campus,Idaho and the region to join forces and elevate the priority, visibility, scope and effectiveness ofSTEM education research.
“Everywhere you turn in the world of K-20 education, STEM is at the forefront. It is an areaof national focus that not only has the attention of the highest levels of our nation’sgovernment, but also our education leaders here in Idaho,” said Boise State President BobKustra. “In anticipation of this national urgency, Boise State has been quietly putting intensefocus on this issue through a wide range of initiatives that include research, communitypartnerships and institutional realignments.”
The funding will be used to create the STEM Central STATION at Boise State, a new officefor coordinating NSF-related and other STEM programs on campus and throughout Idaho. In theinitial three years of the award, the grant is in the amount of $750,000. An additional$500,000 NSF allocation is planned the fourth and fifth years of the award, pending a progressreview and available funds, making the anticipated total funding $1.25 million.
Through the STEM Central STATION office, Boise State and the NSF hope to research andfurther develop emerging STEM education best practices to help overcome a national dearth ofqualified teachers in STEM-related subjects and entice more students to pursue those areas ofstudy.
“Boise State’sposition as anemerging researchuniversity providesan ideal laboratoryto studyinstitutionaltransformation inSTEM educationand become amodelmetropolitanuniversityrecognized forintegratingteaching, learningand research,” said
COEN Faculty Members ReceivePromotion/Tenure
Promoted to Professor:
Yonnie Chyung, Department of Instructional & Performance Technology
Bill Knowlton, Department of Materials Science & Engineering andDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Amy Moll, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Tony Songer, Department of Construction Management
Promoted to Associate Professor and Granted Tenure:
Megan Frary, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Tony Marker, Department of Instructional & Performance Technology
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From the Dean’s Desk
The start of fall semester isalways a time of promise andnew beginnings. First yearstudents arrive full ofenthusiasm and wonder.Returning students come back toclassrooms and labs ready fornew discoveries. New andreturning faculty membersprepare lessons and continue
challenging research with large numbers of undergraduateand graduate students.
Again this fall, we have an increase in enrollment with1,556 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of2,021 including students with engineering minors andgraduate students. These numbers are up from 1,450undergraduate students in fall of 2009 and 1,881 overallstudents that same year.
Thanks to the hard work of faculty, staff and students, ourCollege continues to achieve success in many ways:
• Research awards in 2010 totalled more than $9.3million, up from $3.9 million just two years ago.
• Graduate student enrollment continues to climb with463 students conducting research in sevendepartments.
• Undergraduate student Mallory Yates, MBE, wasnamed NASA’s Co-op Student of the Year at theJohnson Space Center in Houston. After spendingthe summer working in professor Don Plumlee’smicropropulsion lab, she is back in Houston thissemester working again for NASA.
• New visualization capabilities help us “see” what waspreviously undiscoverable. Whether we are studyingwind energy, biomedicine, or Mars, or training futureengineers and scientists, this technology opens newworlds of connection, investigation andunderstanding.
• Well deserved promotions highlight exceptionalfaculty contributors.
• Notable success in engineering education researchlays Boise State’s foundation for enhanced STEM(science, technology, engineering and math) teachingand learning at all levels.
• Construction Management begins its next thirtyyears as an academic program.
• And, the College again ranks among the nation’s bestpublic, comprehensive engineering schools.
After seven years at Boise State University, I remainconsistently impressed by the creativity, diligence,ingenuity and entrepreneurship of our students, staff andfaculty. What a truly great place to learn and live.Join us!
Cheryl B. Schrader
Dean and ProfessorCollege of Engineering
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CS Student Mark Stewart Wrote 30,000 Lines of Code and Started aCompany
Computer Science undergraduate studentMark Stewart Jr. spenthis summer vacation writing software code for his new company,ScheduleTailor, an online web application that helps companies manageemployee schedules. Stewart came up with the idea for the onlinescheduling tool to help roommate, Trevor Shephard, set up employeeschedules for the Dawson’s coffee shop in the Multipurpose Building atBoise State which is run by College of Business and Economics students.
One thing led to another for the duo, and ScheduleTailor was born.After winning the People’s Choice Award at Idaho Tech Connect’s TechLaunch competition for new tech ideas in May, the two students tooktheir $5,000 prize and began to develop their company’s beta version inearnest.
“We are in the pre-release stage now and we’re looking for a betauser,” Stewart said. “Beta customers will help us learn what people wantand where the glitches are. We’ve come a long way but we still have along way to go,” the 24-year-old Stewart says.
ScheduleTailor is also working with Nebula Shift, a local softwaredevelopment group, to further develop the company. Stewart also creditsRick Ritter of Idaho Tech Connect as a “real mentor to us about how toget this business off the ground.”
Stewart says his most important lesson was discovering whatmatters in the business world. “I learned from a manager's view what itmeans when youshow up late or whenyou do things thatare bad for thecompany and thebottom line. Now Iknow that what reallymatters is being aperson who benefitsthe company in asignificant way andwho makes peoplearound them feelhappy.”
What did you do this summer?Visualization Cluster Display Gives Researchersa Powerful New Toolby Erin Ryan
The College of Engineering ishome to a new visualization clusterdisplay — 16 linked monitorspowered by layers of highperformance computers and manymillions of pixels that turn the nakedeye into a precision researchinstrument.
It’s all about programmableGPUs (graphics processing units),according to Inanc Senocak, anassistant professor in theDepartment of Mechanical &Biomedical Engineering. The clusteris part of his project on integratedsupercomputing and visualizationfor aerodynamics analysis, and hesaid testing its capabilities has beeneye opening.
“This is more detail at a muchhigher resolution than you would get on a high-end computer,” Senocak said, pointing tothe cluster’s crisp projection of minutiae in the electric swirl of the Messier 51 “Whirlpool”Galaxy. “Whether you’re studying biomedicine on a microscope slide or looking at aphotograph for clues to past water activity on Mars, displays like this enable a moresophisticated level of investigation and understanding.”
The hardware combines the processing power of multiple computers into a single“many-core” system, supporting complex scientific computation and the visualization ofmassive datasets that are too unwieldy to analyze on small screens and degrade if blown upon big screens. Senocak primarily is using it to conduct computational fluid dynamicssimulations. From modeling the dispersal of airborne pollutants in urban environments toidentifying favorable wind conditions for energy generation over complex terrain, he saidthe cluster is essential for fast computations and sensitive analysis.
Senocak’s long-term goal is to build a facility that surpasses the resolution of NASA’s128-screen, 256 million-pixel “hyperwall-2,” which would make Boise State a destinationfor scientific computing and visualization research. Joining him in this endeavor arecomputer systems administratorMartin Lukes and computer science graduate studentsDana Jacobsen and Brad Baker.
MSE Undergraduate Student EarnsSummer Scholarship in Germany
Steven Livers, MSE, was awarded a summerscholarship from the International MaterialsInstitute to work in one of the most prestigiousgroups dealing with nano-ionic non-volatilememory devices in the world at the Rhein-Westvalishe Technische Hochschule (RWTH)Aachen, Germany. ECE ProfessorMariaMitkova helped Livers with his application.
Student Club Aims To Build World’sFastest Vegetable Oil-Powered Vehicle
Boise State is home to more than 200 student clubs, but never hasthere been one quite likeGreenspeed. Fueled by theintrepid vision of six studentsand two recent graduates in theCollege of Engineering, itspurpose is to design, build andrace the world’s fastestvegetable oil-powered vehicle atUtah’s famed Bonneville SaltFlats during Speed Week 2011.
Founder Dave Schenker is amechanical engineering studentwhose own car is modified to runon vegetable oil. For the pasttwo years he has been recruitingfor Greenspeed, which became asanctioned university organization in June. The club comprisesengineering undergraduates Jozey Mitcham, Adrian Rothenbühler andAdam Spiegelman, graduate student Cory Sparks, alumni John Pasleyand Jason Brotherton, and former Boise State student Brett Keys, whohelped found the project and remains a contributor.
visit: http://news.boisestate.edu/update/2010/08/31/student-club-aims-to-build-world%E2%80%99s-fastest-vegetable-oil-powered-vehicle/
(from left) Graduate students Dana Jacobsen andBrad Baker stand with assistant professor InancSenocak and computer systems administratorMartin Lukes in front of the new visualizationcluster display in the College of Engineering. Itsprojection of the Messier 51 “Whirlpool” Galaxyreveals more detail at a much higher resolutionthan a high-end computer could.
Inanc Senocak, an assistant professor in theDepartment of Mechanical & BiomedicalEngineering, observes a high-resolution image ofthe Majestic Sombrero Galaxy. Thanks to themany-core computing architecture connected to the16-monitor display, he can see a lot more thanwould otherwise meet the eye. In addition tovisualization research, the technology also supportshigh-level scientific computation.
Turf busterSeth Kuhlman, MSME ‘07, ME ‘05 alumnus and lab
manager for the university’s Center for Orthopaedic andBiomechanics Research (COBR), is pictured changing a cleat totest on the surface of the turf in the Caven-Williams indoorpractice facility. Kuhlman is leading a recently contractedresearch project for a major golf spike producer. The companywants to move into the football market, and Kuhlman is usingBoise State’s “Turf Buster” to test its new cleat design against theindustry standard. Kuhlman built the 1,200-pound instrument foran NFL-funded study on stadium surfaces that was proposed andoverseen by COBR co-directors Michelle Sabick, an associateprofessor in the Department of Mechanical & BiomedicalEngineering, and Ron Pfeiffer, chair and professor in theDepartment of Kinesiology.
“The technologybenefits research andapplications in fluid
dynamics, climate modeling,wind energy, astrophysics,biology, chemistry and
materials, to name a few,”“This surge in
computational power, fueledby the programmable many-core GPUs, is expected tolead scientific discovery in
the years to come.”– Inanc Senocak, an assistantprofessor in the Department of
Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
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William Kamkwamba, the author of “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the BSU campus readbook for the 2010-2011 academic year, joined forces with engineering students on campus with ahands-on wind power activity for all Boise State students.
Students in the Introduction to Engineering courses led by Professor Carol Sevier and the 24students in the Engineering Residential College led by Associate Dean and Faculty-in-Residence JanetCallahan built circuits by hand (as William did in the book!) which students across campus could use tobuild and test a small hand-held windmill. The popular activity was one of several hands-on options ondisplay at the BSU Quad during the author’s visit.
Kamkwamba also shared the inspiring story about his search for knowledge and community activism in a free public event at the MorrisonCenter. He is currently pursuing his dream to become an engineer.
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COEN remainsamong the top-rankedpublic, comprehensiveengineering programs inthe annual U.S. News &
World Report ranking. Here is the list of the top 16 programs with theirscores:
1. US Military Academy, West Point, NY – 4.1
2. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA – 4.0
3. US Air Force Academy, CO – 4.0
4. US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD – 4.0
5. California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA – 3.5
6. US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT – 3.5
7. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ – 3.2
8. The Citadel, Charleston, SC – 3.2
9. US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY – 3.2
10. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO – 3.2
11. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA – 3.2
12. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA – 3.1
13. University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, MI – 3.1
14. California State University – Los Angeles, LA, CA – 3.0
15. Miami University – Oxford, Oxford, OH – 3.0
16. Boise State University, Boise, ID – 2.9
Boise State Students Learn to Harness the Wind
Fall 2010
William Kamkwamba, left, visits with construction management students Josh Folger, Tucker Robb andDaryn Giddings at an interactive fair on the Quad.
COEN Ranks 16th among Public, Comprehensive Engineering ProgramsApril 15, 2011 – CM Alumni Golf Tournament
April 16, 2011 – 30th Anniversary Celebration
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