ucla engineer fall 2009

fall 2009, issue no. 22

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Virtual anatomy

> ancient art unraveled

> alumnus aaron Cohen ’58

> Clean-tech leaders

UCLA Engineer.3.indd 2 9/30/09 8:25 PM

At the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and

Applied Science, we are committed to interdisciplinary

scholarly work in emerging areas. And throughout the

school, more and more of this work is happening outside

of traditional engineering disciplines.

This commitment is highlighted by two feature stories

in this issue. The cover feature on Demetri Terzopoulos

introduces his many years of progress in human simulation and computer

modeling — work that was first popularized as special effects in

Hollywood films earning Terzopoulos an Oscar, but now has applications

in medicine, security and other fields. A second feature on Ioanna Kakoulli

details her research and analysis of ancient art and artifacts using

advanced engineering techniques.

One of my priorities as dean has also been to increase diversity in both

the student population and among faculty at UCLA Engineering. In the

past few years, we have recruited some exceptional women to the faculty

and some of their work has been included in this issue. Terri Hogue is

leading an outreach program that helps to get young students excited about

science; Yu Huang received a 2009 PECASE Award, the nation’s highest

honor for young researchers, for her work in renewable clean energy;

Diana Huffaker has created a leadership program in clean technology;

and I have already mentioned the feature on Ioanna. Also, of our six new

faculty hires for 2009, three are women.

Engineering has historically been a male-dominated field. But this is

changing. And we are proud to be playing a significant role in this move-

ment, with women who set the highest standards for excellence in the

classroom, in innovative research, and in serving the community.

Sincerely,

Vijay K. Dhir

Dean

DeanVijay K. Dhir

associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs

Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources

assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer

Department chairsTimothy J. Deming Bioengineering

Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering

Adnan Darwiche Computer Science

Ali H. Sayed Electrical Engineering

Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering

Adrienne Lavine Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDTimothy J. DemingVijay K. DhirWilliam GoodinAdrienne LavineMary OkinoRichard D. Wesel

externaL affairs commUnicationsMatthew Chin Communications Manager

Wileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing

Joseph DonahooExecutive Director of Development

office of externaL affairs310.206.0678www.engineer.ucla.eduuclaengineering@support.ucla.edu

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DeanVijay K. Dhir

associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs

Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources

assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer

Department chairsTimothy J. Deming Bioengineering

Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering

Adnan Darwiche Computer Science

Ali H. Sayed Electrical Engineering

Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering

Adrienne Lavine Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDTimothy J. DemingVijay K. DhirWilliam GoodinAdrienne LavineMary OkinoRichard D. Wesel

externaL affairs commUnicationsMatthew Chin Communications Manager

Wileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing

Joseph DonahooExecutive Director of Development

office of externaL affairs310.206.0678www.engineer.ucla.eduuclaengineering@support.ucla.edu

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6 realistic human simulation

8 stimulus funds help start program to create clean-tech Leaders

10 entrepreneur makes a Life of giving Back

6 2 research summaries

4 faculty news

16 school news

20 student news

24 alumni news

30 2008-09 annual report

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14 advanced techniques to study ancient civilizations

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Mice with the glyoxylate shunt that were fed the same high-fat diet for six weeks remained skinny,

compared with the mice without the shunt.

2

Wileen Wong Kromhout

W hile recent research advances and treatment

methods have had little effect in reducing

obesity levels, UCLA Engineering researchers,

in collaboration with the David Geffen School of Medicine

at UCLA, may have discovered a completely new way to

approach the problem.

In a study published in the June 3 issue of the journal

Cell Metabolism, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering professor James Liao, associate

professor of human genetics and pediatrics Katrina Dipple

and their research team demonstrate how they successfully

constructed a non-native pathway in mice that increased

fatty acid metabolism and resulted in resistance to diet-

induced obesity.

“When we looked at the fatty-acid metabolism issue, we

noted there are two aspects of the problem that needed to

be addressed,” Liao said. “One is the regulation; fatty acid

metabolism is highly regulated. The other is digestion of

the fatty acid; there needs to be a channel to burn this fat.”

“We know plants and bacteria digest fats differently

from humans, from mammals,” said Jason Dean, a gradu-

ate student on Liao’s team and an author of the study. Plant

seeds usually store a lot of fat. When they germinate, they

convert the fat to sugar to grow. The reason they can digest

fat this way is because they have a set of enzymes that’s

uniquely present in plants and bacteria. These

enzymes are called the ‘glyoxylate shunt’ and are missing

in mammals.”

To investigate the effects of the glyoxylate shunt on fatty

acid metabolism in mammals, Liao’s team cloned bacteria

genes from Escherichia coli that would enable the shunt,

then introduced the cloned E. coli genes into the mitochon-

dria of liver cells in mice; mitochondria are where fatty

acids are burned in cells.

They found that the glyoxylate shunt cut the energy-

generating pathway of the cell in half, allowing the cell to

digest the fatty acid much faster than normal. They also

found that by cutting through this pathway, they created

an additional pathway for converting fatty acid into carbon

dioxide. This new cycle allowed the cell to digest fatty acid

more effectively.

The team also found that the new pathway decreased the

regulatory signal malonyl-CoA. When malonyl-CoA levels

are high, a signal is released that tells the body it is too

full and that it needs to stop using fat and begin making it.

Malonyl-CoA is high after eating a meal, blocking fatty acid

metabolism. The new pathway, however, allowed for fat

degradation even when the body was full.

The complete news release is available online at:

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/obesity_liao.htm

EnginEEring mEtabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity

rEliEs on an EntirEly nEw typE of imaging

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uniquely present in plants and bacteria. These

enzymes are called the ‘glyoxylate shunt’ and are missing

in mammals.”

To investigate the effects of the glyoxylate shunt on fatty

acid metabolism in mammals, Liao’s team cloned bacteria

genes from Escherichia coli that would enable the shunt,

then introduced the cloned E. coli genes into the mitochon-

dria of liver cells in mice; mitochondria are where fatty

acids are burned in cells.

They found that the glyoxylate shunt cut the energy-

generating pathway of the cell in half, allowing the cell to

digest the fatty acid much faster than normal. They also

found that by cutting through this pathway, they created

an additional pathway for converting fatty acid into carbon

dioxide. This new cycle allowed the cell to digest fatty acid

more effectively.

The team also found that the new pathway decreased the

regulatory signal malonyl-CoA. When malonyl-CoA levels

are high, a signal is released that tells the body it is too

full and that it needs to stop using fat and begin making it.

Malonyl-CoA is high after eating a meal, blocking fatty acid

metabolism. The new pathway, however, allowed for fat

degradation even when the body was full.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/obesity_liao.htm

in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity

relies on an entirely new type of imaging

u ltrafast, light-sensitive video cameras are needed

for observing high-speed events such as shock-

waves, communication between living cells, neural

activity, laser surgery and elements of blood analysis. To

catch such elusive moments, a camera must be able to

capture millions or billions of images continuously with a

very high frame rate. Conventional cameras are simply not

up to the task.

Now, UCLA Engineering researchers have developed a

novel, continuously running camera that captures images

roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conven-

tional camera.

In a paper published in the April 30 issue of Nature,

Keisuke Goda, Kevin Tsia and team leader Bahram Jalali

describe an entirely new approach to imaging that does

not require a traditional CCD (charge-coupled device) or

CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) video

camera. Building on more than a decade of research on

photonic time stretch, a technique for capturing elusive

events, the team has demonstrated a camera that captures

images at some 6 million frames per second.

One of the applications the team envisions for the cam-

era is flow cytometry, a technique used for blood analysis.

Traditional blood analyzers can count cells and extract

information about their size, but they cannot take pictures

of every cell because no camera is fast and sensitive enough

for the job.

“To find these rogue cells — needles in the haystack —

you need to analyze billions of cells, the entire haystack,”

said Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering. Ultra-high-

speed imaging of cells in flow is a potential solution for

detection of rare abnormal cells.”

The new imager operates by capturing each picture with

an ultrashort laser pulse — a flash of light only a billionth

of a second long. It then converts each pulse to a serial

data stream that resembles the data in a fiber optic

network rather than the signal coming out of a cam-

era. Using a technique known as amplified dispersive

Fourier transform, these laser pulses, each contain-

ing an entire picture, are amplified and simultane-

ously stretched in time to the point that they are slow

enough to be captured with an electronic digitizer.

“Our serial time encoded amplified microscopy

(STEAM) technology enables continuous real time

imaging at a frame rate of more than 6 MHz, a shut-

ter speed of less than 450 ps and an optical image gain

of more than 300 – the world’s fastest continuously

running camera, useful for studying rapid phenomena

in physics, chemistry and biology,” said research co-

author Keisuke Goda, a postdoctoral researcher.

The study was funded by the Defense Advanced

Research Project Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Depart-

ment of Defense’s central research and development

organization.

The complete news release and YouTube video

demonstrating the camera are available at:

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/camera_

jalali.htm


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Yu Huang receives HigHest Honor

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Bioengineering

Professor Gerard C.L. Wong

Ph.D. — UC Berkeley

Gerard Wong’s research program is centered on

studying self-organization in biological and biomedi-

cal systems using state-of-the-art techniques from

physics and chemistry. Current interests include an-

timicrobials, sociomicrobiology of bacterial communities, and

high-resolution diffractive imaging techniques using synchro-

tron x-ray and electron scattering.

Prior to joining UCLA, Wong was a faculty member of the

Materials Science, Physics, and Bioengineering departments

of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He held

two postdoctoral appointments, one at the FOM Institute for

Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam, and one at UC

Santa Barbara. He is a recipient of the Apker Award from the

American Physical Society, the Beckman Young Investiga-

tor Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and Xerox Faculty

Research Awards.

civil and environmental engineering

Assistant Professor Shaily Mahendra


Shaily Mahendra’s research interests include environ-

mental toxicology and applications of nanomateri-

als; applications of molecular and isotopic tools in

environmental microbiology; and biodegradation of

emerging water contaminants.

Prior to joining UCLA, Mahendra was a research scientist at

Rice University.

computer science

Assistant Professor Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Ph.D. — University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Wortman Vaughan’s research interests are in

machine learning, computational economics, social

network theory, and algorithms, all of which she stud-

ies using techniques from theoretical computer science.

Vaughan will spend one year as a Computing Innovation Fel-

low at Harvard University before arriving at UCLA in 2010.

electrical engineering

Professor Suhas Diggavi

Ph.D. — Stanford University

Suhas Diggavi’s research interests are in information

theory, wireless networks, and signal processing. His cur-

rent work is in cooperative information flow over wireless

networks; network data compression; network secrecy; and large

scale data analysis algorithms.

Diggavi has been on the faculty of the Ecole Polytechnique

Federale de Lausanne Switzerland. Before that, he was principal

member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratory. Diggavi is

a recipient of a IEEE Donald Fink Prize Paper Award, a IEEE VTC

Best Paper Award, and the Okawa Foundation Award. He is an edi-

tor for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transac-

tions on Information Theory.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek


Lara Dolecek’s research interests are broad and span

information and probability theory, graphical models,

combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational

methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for

data processing, communication, and storage.

Prior to joining UCLA, Dolecek was a postdoctoral researcher at

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

mecHanical and aerospace engineering

Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki

Ph.D. — Purdue University

Tetsuya Iwasaki’s research interests include neuronal

control mechanism of animal locomotion, nonlinear

oscillators, and robust/nonlinear control theory and its

applications to mechanical, aerospace, and electrical systems.

Prior to joining UCLA, Iwasaki was a faculty member at the

University of Virginia. He had previously held a faculty appointment

at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has served as an associ-

ate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems

and Control Letters, and IFAC Automatica and has received a NSF

CAREER Award.

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Yu Huang receives HigHest Honor

Y u Huang, an assistant professor of materials science

and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School

of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a

recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists

and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United

States government to young engineers and scientists at the out-

set of their professional careers.

Huang, whose research interest centers on the interface of

functional nanosystems and biosystems, was nominated for the

award by the Department of Defense’s Army Research Office

for her work on the biomolecule-regulated synthesis and assem-

bly of nanocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis systems, which

could one day lead to solutions in renewable clean energy.

At the heart of the artificial photosynthesis process, Huang

said, is photocatalytic water splitting, in which solar energy

is used to split water and produce hydrogen fuel. Huang’s

group is developing highly active and selective nanocatalysts

for this purpose.

M.C. Frank Chang has been named the holder of the Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering.

The chair was made possible by the support of Hyley Huang,

chairman of Wintek Corp., a leading maker of LCD panels.

Chang is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,

elected for the “development and commercialization of GaAs

power amplifiers and integrated circuits.”

Alan Willson has been named holder of the Charles P. reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering.

The chair was made possible by a gift from alumnus Charles

P. Reames MS ’80, Ph.D. ’85, senior director of broadband

systems engineering at Broadcom Corp.

Most recently Willson was named the 2009 Distinguished

Lecturer, by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and

received the IEEE Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.

Symantec, a global leader in providing security, storage and

systems management solutions has endowed the Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science to support the teaching and research

of a distinguished junior faculty member.

The endowment will attract promising scholars to the school

who can advance research of technologies to secure and manage

information.

“It’s usually very difficult for young faculty to explore

new areas of research. It is a great honor to be recognized

with the PECASE,” said Huang, who was awarded $1 mil-

lion in support of her work for the next five years. “Now our

research group can take a significant step toward addressing

the increasing challenges related to global warming.”

Huang is among this year’s 100 recipients, who will be

invited to participate in a special White House ceremony in

the fall. She is also one of four UCLA Engineering faculty

members to have received the PECASE in the last five years.

“We are extremely proud of Yu and her research accom-

plishments,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.

“We take great pride in knowing that her work in nanoscale

technology will contribute to the important area of renew-

able energy, and it is gratifying to see one of our faculty

recognized at a national level once again.”


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electrical engineering

Professor Suhas Diggavi

Ph.D. — Stanford University

Suhas Diggavi’s research interests are in information

theory, wireless networks, and signal processing. His cur-

rent work is in cooperative information flow over wireless

networks; network data compression; network secrecy; and large

scale data analysis algorithms.

Diggavi has been on the faculty of the Ecole Polytechnique

Federale de Lausanne Switzerland. Before that, he was principal

member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratory. Diggavi is

a recipient of a IEEE Donald Fink Prize Paper Award, a IEEE VTC

Best Paper Award, and the Okawa Foundation Award. He is an edi-

tor for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transac-

tions on Information Theory.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek


Lara Dolecek’s research interests are broad and span

information and probability theory, graphical models,

combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational

methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for

data processing, communication, and storage.

Prior to joining UCLA, Dolecek was a postdoctoral researcher at

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MecHanical and aerospace engineering

Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki

Ph.D. — Purdue University

Tetsuya Iwasaki’s research interests include neuronal

control mechanism of animal locomotion, nonlinear

oscillators, and robust/nonlinear control theory and its

applications to mechanical, aerospace, and electrical systems.

Prior to joining UCLA, Iwasaki was a faculty member at the

University of Virginia. He had previously held a faculty appointment

at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has served as an associ-

ate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems

and Control Letters, and IFAC Automatica and has received a NSF

CAREER Award.

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nEw facultY chairs


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The biomechanical human model: In these images, the soft tissue simulator produces realistic deformations of the (right) visualization geometry and (left) the embedded volumetric muscles

images courtesy of Demetri Terzopoulos

i n his distinguished

career in computer

science, Demetri

Terzopoulos has

evolved from simulat-

ing real-world objects, to creating

comprehensive simulations

of reality.

In the late 1980s,

while working as a sci-

entist at a Schlumberger

Research center in Sili-

con Valley, Terzopoulos

helped pioneer physics-

based computer graphics

techniques to simulate

how cloth and other

nonrigid objects move,

such as a flag flapping

in the wind.

These techniques were soon incorporated as special

effects in Hollywood films. So today, whether it’s a

completely computer-animated movie like Toy Story

or Monsters, Inc., or a film that incorporates computer

generated effects like the Harry Potter or Star Wars

franchises, Terzopoulos’ pioneering work helped set

the stage for some of those films’ amazing images and

special effects. And this work earned Terzopou-

los a 2005 Academy Award for Technical

Achievement.

Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-

puter Science, has been working on the profound

challenge of realistic human simulation.

This includes emulating complex human activ-

ity in urban environments, which has resulted in

computer models featuring autonomous virtual

pedestrians. These models are more than simple

crowd simulations; rather, they are comprehensive

artificial life models of individual human appear-

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Realistic HumanSimulation

Cover Feature


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These techniques were soon incorporated as special

effects in Hollywood films. So today, whether it’s a

completely computer-animated movie like Toy Story

or Monsters, Inc., or a film that incorporates computer

generated effects like the Harry Potter or Star Wars

franchises, Terzopoulos’ pioneering work helped set

the stage for some of those films’ amazing images and

special effects. And this work earned Terzopou-

los a 2005 Academy Award for Technical

Achievement.

Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-

puter Science, has been working on the profound

challenge of realistic human simulation.

This includes emulating complex human activ-

ity in urban environments, which has resulted in

computer models featuring autonomous virtual

pedestrians. These models are more than simple

crowd simulations; rather, they are comprehensive

artificial life models of individual human appear-

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ance, locomotion, behavior, and cognition. Each virtual hu-

man can independently sense and interpret the environment,

then make decisions based on several different factors, and

perform the appropriate actions.

This work has applications not just in the motion picture

and interactive game industries, but also in simulating the be-

havior of groups of people in different settings—for example,

predicting what a crowd in a train station will do in some

specific emergency situation.

“We have already simulated some nontrivial social interac-

tions among pedestrians through the use of decision net-

works,” said Terzopoulos, adding that “There remain many

fascinating open problems to investigate, but as a next step,

we hope to model some relevant aspects of human verbal

communication so that the social interactions of our virtual

pedestrians will be much more lifelike.”

Terzopoulos, his Ph.D. student Sung-Hee Lee, and post-

doctoral researcher Eftychios Sifakis, have also developed

and continue to refine a comprehensive biomechanical model

of the human body. This computer model includes a skeleton

with 75 bones and 165 jointed degrees of freedom, plus a

staggering 846 muscle actuators. Surrounding the muscle-

skeletal framework is a 3D finite-element mesh that simulates

the realistic deformation of soft tissues.

The highly detailed model, for which Lee received the 2009

UCLA Computer Science Outstanding Ph.D. Award, can po-

tentially facilitate advances in medical technology or surgical

techniques, among many other applications.

According to Terzopoulos, enabling such an elaborate

biomechanical model to control itself remains a big challenge.

“We have successfully developed a neuro-muscular controller

that can be trained to actuate the neck muscles so as to balance

the head in gravity atop the cervical column and to synthesize

voluntary head movements that are essential to many aspects

of human behavior,” he said. “And we are now endeavoring

to generalize our approach with the hope of controlling the

order-of-magnitude greater number of muscles in the complete

biomechanical body model.”

So, what is the big picture in realistic human simulation? “My

long-term objective is a computer simulated world that ap-

proaches the complexity and realism of the real world, inhabited

by virtual humans that look, move, and behave as much as pos-

sible like real people,” said Terzopoulos. “Such a reality emula-

tor could be used in revolutionary ways across multiple scientific

disciplines.”

Terzopoulos’ ongoing work on realistic human simulation was

recognized in April with a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.


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program to create clean-tech leaders

As the country presses forward in developing green energy and Los Angeles strives to become a hub of clean technology, UCLA electrical engineering professor Diana Huffaker noticed there was one thing still missing: a program to train the future leaders of the environmental industry in L.A.

So she created it — and, working with about 20 other

professors, won support for it: $3 million in stimulus

funding via a highly competitive grant from the Na-

tional Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate

Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) award.

The Clean Energy for Green Industry Fellowship,

designed to develop leaders in environmental energy,

could start as soon as the upcoming winter quarter. It

will grant Ph.D. students a $33,000 stipend for pursuing

coursework in the science, business and policies of clean

technology.

“Over the course of the five-year program, we’ll

graduate 33 Ph.D.s with expertise in energy storage, en-

ergy harvesting and energy conservation,” Huffaker said.

“They’ll be in existing Ph.D. programs, such as chemis-

try or engineering, and for our fellowship they’ll take a

series of five classes, including lab research and policy.

The program is the first of its kind in the L.A. basin.”

The fellowship will be the only program in Los Ange-

les to teach the science and business of clean technology

with a goal of boosting the clean-tech economy and

creating green-collar jobs, she said.

UCLA recently joined the city, two other universities

and several local agencies in creating CleanTech Los

Angeles, an effort to make the city the global capital of

clean technology. The partnership intends to turn the

city into a center of green technology, green jobs and

green manufacturing, with a research and manufactur-

ing corridor near downtown Los Angeles.

The IGERT fellowships will help UCLA fulfill its

role in the partnership, Huffaker said.

Huffaker, an electrical engineering professor with a

background in engineering physics and nanotechnol-

ogy, arrived at UCLA two years ago.

Her own clean-energy specialty is energy harvest-

ing, focusing on collecting waste heat with thermal

photo-voltaics — like solar panels for heat instead of

sunlight. But Huffaker’s gift was in reaching out to

other disciplines, said Magali Delmas, a management

professor with the Institute of the Environment (IOE)

who studies how green products are marketed and

what works.

“She had this vision, which is so unique, about

bringing policy and management to the program,”

said Delmas, who is working with an IOE colleague,

economics and public policy professor Matthew Kahn,

to develop the curriculum for one of the IGERT fellow-

ship’s five classes.

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Diana Huffaker

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program to create clean-tech leadersAngeles, an effort to make the city the global capital of

clean technology. The partnership intends to turn the

city into a center of green technology, green jobs and

green manufacturing, with a research and manufactur-

ing corridor near downtown Los Angeles.

The IGERT fellowships will help UCLA fulfill its

role in the partnership, Huffaker said.

Huffaker, an electrical engineering professor with a

background in engineering physics and nanotechnol-

ogy, arrived at UCLA two years ago.

Her own clean-energy specialty is energy harvest-

ing, focusing on collecting waste heat with thermal

photo-voltaics — like solar panels for heat instead of

sunlight. But Huffaker’s gift was in reaching out to

other disciplines, said Magali Delmas, a management

professor with the Institute of the Environment (IOE)

who studies how green products are marketed and

what works.

“She had this vision, which is so unique, about

bringing policy and management to the program,”

said Delmas, who is working with an IOE colleague,

economics and public policy professor Matthew Kahn,

to develop the curriculum for one of the IGERT fellow-

ship’s five classes.

“It’s important that the students understand that just be-

cause we can find wonderful new technologies, that doesn’t

mean that it will make money or that anyone will even adopt

it,” Delmas said. “We’ll talk about what gets adopted, what

the incentives are, how government policies affect it. Under-

standing the economic and social aspects of innovation will

make the students stronger in their careers.”

Students will also learn about some of Los Angeles’

unique policy issues, Huffaker said. In addition to Delmas

and Kahn’s class on the economics and politics of climate

change and environmentalism, IGERT fellows will take four

other classes.

Two classes will be combined in a three-part lecture series

team taught by three professors. The first section will focus

on energy harvesting, via solar cells, heat recovery and wind

energy. Next, the students will learn about energy storage,

such as in bio fuel-cells and super-capacitors. Finally, the

lectures will turn to conservation methods, including archi-

tectural designs that can save energy in buildings, and car

designs that can save fuel. These two-classes-in-one will be

complemented by a third: a lab course at a new clean energy

test facility to be built at UCLA’s California NanoSystems

Institute (CNSI), supported by NSF funding and matching

dollars from UCLA, where students can experiment with

energy collection and storage.

UCLA Anderson School of Management will teach the

final class, looking at small-company development and intel-

lectual property law, giving students the basis to start a busi-

ness or sell an idea to a business, Huffaker said.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Laurent

Pilon, who researches ways to turn heat into energy and

algae into fuel, will help develop curriculum for the fellow-

ship’s lab course.

Pilon noted that in addition to the IGERT award for

this training fellowship, UCLA’s Henry Samueli School

of Engineering and Applied Science recently received

Department of Energy funding to host an Energy Frontier

Research Center, which will use nanoscale materials to

convert solar energy into electricity, store electrical energy,

and capture and separate greenhouse gases.

StimuluS fundS help Start

Over the course of the five-year program, we’ll graduate 33 ph.d.s with expertise in energy conservation.


National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) may not be a household name but its long list of impressive clients, The Boeing Company, Honeywell, Caterpillar, Verizon, NASA, are. With humble beginnings in 1961 involving a UCLA Engineering alumnus and a $5,000 chamber for testing aluminum windows and doors, NTS today has evolved into the largest publicly traded business that provides engineering, product testing and evaluation services to a variety of industries including: aerospace, defense, transportation, electronics, power, com-puters and telecommunications. Its sales last year were 119 million dollars.

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ENTrEprENEUr MAkES A LIfE of giving back

“I never could have envisioned the company becom-

ing what it is today,” said UCLA Engineering alum-

nus, Aaron Cohen ’58, co-founder of the company

and current vice chairman of the board of directors.

“Within a month of starting the business in my

garage, we had tested all the windows and doors

on the West Coast, and needed to find something

else to do,” he said of those early days. “So we

bought a leak detection company that tested various

hardware for minute leaks using helium gas, again

for $5,000 and started competing with my former

employer for work by bidding for similar contracts.”

Today, with testing facilities throughout the U.S.

and in countries like Japan, Vietnam and Canada,

NTS offers services such as extreme environmental

testing with 50-foot diameter centrifuges, 5,000 cu-

bic foot acoustic chambers, 1,500 cubic foot space

simulation chambers and 10 meter EMI chambers.

The company has worked on major space pro-

grams including the Space Shuttle, the International

Space Station, the Mars Rover and continues to test compo-

nents for helicopters, submarines, and aircraft carriers, just to

name a few.

Sitting with Cohen, it is easy to see how proud he is of his

company and how much he enjoys his job. It is also obvious

that he holds a deep passion for life and for people. Everyone

at his company calls him by his first name and he knows all of

them by their first names too.

Cohen also believes deeply in the importance of education

and shows off his Bruin pride as often as possible, driving a car

with a UCLA Engineering license frame surrounding a plate

that states “58UCLA.” It is no wonder he found his second

calling in life just a decade after establishing his business.

In the ’70s, NTS began doing high rise construction in-

spection on buildings in Century City and in downtown Los

Angeles, and needed to hire more inspectors. But there was a

lack of qualified inspectors so the company contacted a welding

school in Downey that was graduating students who learned to

weld metals and who could then be certified by the city of Los

Angeles to become building inspectors.


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“We decided to buy the school and produce our own

inspectors. The school also had a branch in Anaheim and

that’s when we fell into the school business,” said Cohen.

But it quickly became much more than training qualified

inspectors for the company.

“We were enrolling mostly inner city kids who really

had no hope, no job, no education, not even a high school

diploma. Many of them had come from jail and rehab pro-

grams. We taught them how to be welders and inspectors

and we were getting them jobs at many different compa-

nies. I found that very gratifying,” said Cohen.

NTS purchased its first two schools in 1975. By 1981, the

company had acquired eight schools, bringing in revenues

of $5 million a year. The schools taught vocational subjects

like nursing, dental assisting, medical assisting, court re-

porting, auto and aircraft mechanics, and welding.

“Jack Lin, my business partner and I felt this was a

great business. We were really helping people help them-

selves. We felt good about that and proud of the students,”

said Cohen.

NTS’ schools also led to the development of software

needed to help run the schools. Being the engineer that he

is, Cohen quickly found people to create what he needed

and discovered there was also a great market for it among

other school systems.

In the next seven years, his “school” business, now Unit-

ed Education & Software, grew to 35 schools throughout

the country with 20,000 students enrolled annually. The

schools’ graduates, in aircraft mechanics, for example, were

being hired by American Airlines, Delta, United and other

airlines and soon represented 20 percent of the aircraft

mechanics entering the work force each year in the U.S.

“We helped thousands of kids,” said Cohen. “I received

so many letters from students that graduated saying we got

them off welfare and found them jobs. They thanked us for

helping them turn their lives around.”

Just as Cohen was getting into the business of education,

UCLA came calling too.

“I got a call asking me to come down and join a small

alumni group that met regularly to try to help the dean. I

tried it and got hooked” remembered Cohen. “We used to

put on events like the annual alumni awards dinner that

still takes place today. I love helping the school.”

Unfortunately in December of 1989, United Education

& Software had to file for bankruptcy. A new federal law

eliminated certain government funding for students with-

Space Station, the Mars Rover and continues to test compo-

nents for helicopters, submarines, and aircraft carriers, just to

name a few.

Sitting with Cohen, it is easy to see how proud he is of his

company and how much he enjoys his job. It is also obvious

that he holds a deep passion for life and for people. Everyone

at his company calls him by his first name and he knows all of

them by their first names too.

Cohen also believes deeply in the importance of education

and shows off his Bruin pride as often as possible, driving a car

with a UCLA Engineering license frame surrounding a plate

that states “58UCLA.” It is no wonder he found his second

calling in life just a decade after establishing his business.

In the ’70s, NTS began doing high rise construction in-

spection on buildings in Century City and in downtown Los

Angeles, and needed to hire more inspectors. But there was a

lack of qualified inspectors so the company contacted a welding

school in Downey that was graduating students who learned to

weld metals and who could then be certified by the city of Los

Angeles to become building inspectors.

out a high school diploma. Half of the students enrolled at their

schools did not have a high school diploma.

Today as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, Cohen sees

opportunities to continue to help students and give back to the

school he cherishes.

“I wish I had someone that could have mentored me when I

was going to UCLA. My real motivation is to help people and I

look forward to making a difference as a mentor, a donor, a role

model,” said Cohen, whose company likes to give UCLA Engi-

neering students their first break.

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I n an effort to improve science education at the middle

and high school levels as well as raise students’ aware-

ness and interest in the area of science and engineer-

ing, UCLA has established the Science and Engineering of

the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA). The program,

which has received $3 million over five years from NSF’s

Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 (GK-12) Education

Program, pairs graduate fellows from UCLA with sci-

ence teachers in the Los Angeles and Culver City unified

school districts.

SEE-LA focuses on the environment of Los Angeles.

Issues such as urbanization, global and regional climate

change, drought, floods, fires, earthquakes, pollution,

transportation, preservation, biodiversity, energy and

water use confront the students of L.A. on a daily basis.

Graduate fellows, with research interests in the above

or related areas, contribute to the professional develop-

ment programs of the science departments of the schools.

Students at the schools also benefit from fellows through

an enriched learning experience with more individualized

attention in the classroom and by having an opportunity

to directly interact with fellows.

“This year there will be four fellows from the engineer-

ing school and six from the physical and life sciences.

These fellows basically serve as scientists in residence,”

said Terri Hogue, director of SEE-LA and professor of

civil and environmental engineering. “Like many of the

artists in residence programs, our fellows serve as science

experts in the classroom. With their help, students will

get exposed to things that they’ve never heard of or seen.

We want to get them excited about science.”

Specifically, graduate fellows are partnered with two

teachers from Emerson Middle School, University Senior

High School, Culver City Middle School, or Culver City

High School. Fellows spend two full days per week at

their assigned schools and ten hours per week engaged in

classroom activities.

“The students love having the fellows in the class-

room,” said Kris Kaiser, a senior graduate fellow return-

ing to the program. “For most of them, we are the only

scientists they will ever meet. In many cases, the kids are

SEE-LA Fellows left to right: Megan Burke, civil and environmental engineering; professor Terri Hogue; Gloria Perez, pathology and lab medicine; Tina Wey, ecology and evolutionary biology; Kimberly Cross, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Warren Essey, physics and Katie Bulgrin, mechanical engineering. photo by Todd Cheney

left inset: Fellow Helen Jung, of civil and environmental engineering with environmental science students from Emerson Middle School in Yosemite National Park.right inset: Fellow Kris Kaiser, of ecology and evolutionary biology, with earth science students from Culver City Middle School, exploring stream organisms in Ballona Creek. photo by Kathy Scherling, Culver City High School

fairly limited in their understanding of what they can be

when they grow up. They have virtually no understanding

of the wide range of paths science can take them in.”

Fellows also spend an additional five hours per week

in non-classroom activities such as planning with their

teachers, researching and preparing lessons, meeting with

the GK-12 management team, going through program

evaluations, or attending workshops.

A primary goal of the SEE-LA program is to also help

graduate fellows improve their communication, team-

work, teaching, and public outreach skills through active

collaborations with not only their assigned teachers, but

also with UCLA faculty and through interactions with

their students.

“The NSF has recognized that a lot of us are very good

at research, but we get rather narrowly focused. What

we really need, if we’re going to make on impact on

society, is to learn to step back and think about the

bigger picture and be able to communicate with the

general public,” said Hogue.

“We also want to get graduates interested in doing

long-term outreach to the community. As they become

scientists or engineers in academia, research centers or

other venues, we want them to stay interested in outreach

that has broader impacts on the community.”

Feedback regarding the program from teachers, stu-

dents as well as the graduate fellows themselves has been

very positive.

Kaiser explained that though she wanted to improve

her communication skills and improve as an educator, she

never considered working with high school students.

“But by the end of the year, I realized I was going to

miss the kids the most! I’m amazed at how much I loved

interacting with the students at this level,” said Kaiser.

“Last year, we had 24 graduate fellow applicants and

this year we had 45. Word got out that the graduate

students have been really happy with the program. At the

end of the year we also get to see the impact in the class-

rooms. Many of our fellows received letters and thank

you notes from their students. It’s very rewarding for all

of us,” said Hogue.

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AdvAnced techniques

the ucLA campus is virtually split into two parts — a fact many students learn at freshman orientation. north campus — the realm of visual and performing arts, humanities, and social sciences — and south campus — the domain of engineering, physical and biological sciences, and medicine.

These labels are often only for convenience. UCLA is

home to innovators who cross disciplines, combining

advanced technology with classical scholarship to create

new knowledge.

One great example of this type of scholar is Ioanna

Kakoulli, who works in the emerging field of archeometry,

an integration of science and archeology.

Kakoulli is an associate professor of materials science

and engineering, with a joint appointment at the UCLA/

Getty Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation

Program and the Cotsen Institute of Archeology.

Kakoulli’s research includes the continuing study of an-

cient Greek painting and color technology, using advanced

analytical techniques and synchrotron light source to

decipher the materials ancient artists used.

At the height of the Late Classical to Hellenistic Period

(~400 to 100 BC), painting was particularly significant,

since it was not confined to a specific area, nor to a specific

ethnic group. Art became the lingua franca among differ-

ent groups of people, from the Balkans to the Levant, and

as far as India, throughout which ideas and goods flowed

freely. Greek painters had perfected techniques and manu-

facturing of materials that resulted in lasting, beautiful art.

Painting during this period went beyond the alluring

composition of beautiful colors. Pliny the Elder (1st Cen-

tury AD) provides the most significant insight in ancient

Greek art, mentioning Agatharchos from Athens (5th

Century BC) as the first artist to introduce perspective in

painting, and Apollodoros, a vase painter, as the one who

expressed realism and introduced shading that was

extensively used by acclaimed Greek painters, Zeuxis

and Apelles.

“Pliny further refers to Polygnotus from Thasos ‘...who

first depicted women with see-through clothing...’ Scien-

tific studies of surviving examples from this period have

shown how pictorial representations — something like

what we understand of paintings today — was born in this

period,” said Kakoulli.

“Using modern technology, we are unmasking the

secrets of ancient Greek painters and explaining, both in

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advanced techniques

extensively used by acclaimed Greek painters, Zeuxis

and Apelles.

“Pliny further refers to Polygnotus from Thasos ‘...who

first depicted women with see-through clothing...’ Scien-

tific studies of surviving examples from this period have

shown how pictorial representations — something like

what we understand of paintings today — was born in this

period,” said Kakoulli.

“Using modern technology, we are unmasking the

secrets of ancient Greek painters and explaining, both in

historical and technical terms, the development of pictorial

means, such as, the use of shading, three-dimensionality,

spatial perspective, transparency, and gilding - innovations

that characterize the Hellenistic period.”

Creating these works required more than just a keen eye

and skilled hand. Scientific techniques have revealed these

ancient artists used local and imported natural minerals,

dyes and plant gums, because of their luster and material

characteristics. They also used artificial composites such as

high fired ceramics glass frits and organo-metallic complexes

with the desired properties.

One of the works Kakoulli has analyzed extensively is the

marble throne that decorates the tomb of Eurydice Sirra,

Queen of Macedonia in the 4th Century BC, and better

known as the grandmother of Alexander the Great.

The free-standing throne is the most outstanding feature

of the tomb. The legs and armrests are decorated with female

figures, lions and deer, and mythological creatures like grif-

fins. The most impressive part of the throne is the painted

‘picture panel’ representing a painting of Pluto and Perse-

phone on a four-horse chariot.

“For the study of this unique and archaeologically significant

artifact, a variety of techniques were used. These included,

broadband imaging from the ultraviolet to near infrared; opti-

cal and electron microscopy; infrared and x-ray spectroscopy,

as well as chromatographic techniques,” said Kakoulli.

According to Kakoulli, the analysis has shed new light

on the technology of ancient painted monuments, including

highly sophisticated techniques using a variety of natural

(local and imported) and synthetic materials.

Though the technology of the ancient Greeks remains Kak-

oulli’s primary research interest, she also collaborates with

other UCLA researchers.

She is the co-director of a project that examines Pre-

Columbian mummified human remains in Northern Chile’s

Tarapaca Valley. This project incorporates modern medicine,

as well as natural and forensic science to examine organic

materials — to the molecular level — that can deduce the

types of diseases they may have had, and the types of drugs

they may have used.

More recently, she is leading a research project on unique

12th Century Byzantine murals at the monastery of St. Neo-

phytos in Paphos, Cyprus.

Kakoulli teaches students in the UCLA/Getty conservation

program and in the materials science department through

hands-on research projects.

“Our students are really very fortunate to have access to

state-of-the-art facilities with advanced instrumentation at

UCLA and the Getty Villa. Undoubtedly, UCLA and the

Getty offer a unique educational and research platforms that

enable and enhance learning and discovery. Our approach

exposes students to critical and creative thinking that helps

prepare them for successful careers,” said Kakoulli.

More information on Ioanna Kakoulli’s research is available

online at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/archaeogroup/

Details from the painting decorating the throne in the ’Tomb of Eurydice’ at Vergina, Greece. left: A photomicrograph of a mauve color used in the painting. The stratigraphy of the sample shows the precipitation of the organic colorant on calcite crystals.middle: The painter used gum arabic as the binding medium, and lakes (organometallic complexes) to create the illusionistic effect of transparency, clearly visible in the area where the gold bracelet is.right: This photo was taken with oblique illumination, enhancing the surface texture of the painting. photos courtesy of Ioanna Kakoulli

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A leader in research on sustainable energy and

clean technology, the UCLA Henry Samueli

School of Engineering and Applied Science is

now the home to a new multimillion-dollar Energy

Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE).

The Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials

(MEEM) center, which the DOE will to fund at $11.5

million over five years, will focus on the creation and

production of nanoscale materials for use in converting

solar energy into electricity, electrical energy storage,

and capturing and separating greenhouse gases.

“A center for energy research is something we’ve

been trying to establish for a long time,” said Vidvuds

Ozolins, UCLA professor of materials science and en-

gineering and the new center’s director. “We want the

center to provide revolutionary breakthroughs, game-

changing solutions, and we want to carry the research

into real life. By bringing together several faculty across

campus who have already done significant work in

multimillion-dollar energy research center

DepArtment of energy to funD

energy production, energy storage and carbon capture,

we’ll be able to hit the ground running.”

The center, whose goal also is to increase societal

awareness of sustainable energy issues through an inte-

grated program of research, education and outreach, will

be collaborating with scientists at the DOE’s National

Renewable Energy Laboratory, Eastern Washington Uni-

versity, the University of Kansas and UC Davis.

Global energy demands will only continue to grow, and

the center’s work will be essential in helping to make alter-

native and renewable energy a viable resource for the 21st

century,” said UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir.

UCLA’s center will be one of 46 new EFRCs across

the country. These new centers will bring together groups

of leading scientists to address fundamental issues in a

variety of fields, including solar energy, biofuels, trans-

portation, electricity storage and transmission, clean coal,

carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/EFRC.htm

ZIFs are zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs). They feature high surface area and high thermal stability, and unusually high chemical stability. They have been shown to selectively absorb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.


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multimillion-dollar energy research center

Department Of energy tO funD

energy production, energy storage and carbon capture,

we’ll be able to hit the ground running.”

The center, whose goal also is to increase societal

awareness of sustainable energy issues through an inte-

grated program of research, education and outreach, will

be collaborating with scientists at the DOE’s National

Renewable Energy Laboratory, Eastern Washington Uni-

versity, the University of Kansas and UC Davis.

Global energy demands will only continue to grow, and

the center’s work will be essential in helping to make alter-

native and renewable energy a viable resource for the 21st

century,” said UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir.

UCLA’s center will be one of 46 new EFRCs across

the country. These new centers will bring together groups

of leading scientists to address fundamental issues in a

variety of fields, including solar energy, biofuels, trans-

portation, electricity storage and transmission, clean coal,

carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/EFRC.htm


Chemical and biomolecular engineering profes-

sor Vasilios Manousiouthakis has been awarded

$2.1 million in grant funding to build a state-of-

the-art hydrogen fueling station on the UCLA campus.

A $1.7 million grant from the California Air Re-

sources Board (CARB) and a $400,000 grant from the

state’s Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review

Committee (MSRC) will go toward the construction of

one of the largest hydrogen fueling stations in Cali-

fornia, with a capacity to produce 140 kilograms of

hydrogen a day for use in hydrogen-powered vehicles.

“The grants will enable UCLA to achieve a number

of its long-term goals for promoting sustainability, both

on campus and in the greater Los Angeles region,”

said Michael Swords, executive director of Strategic

Research Initiatives at UCLA. “The development of

this hydrogen fueling station will also provide our

students with a state-of-the-art learning and research

facility where they can study and evaluate the logistics

of hydrogen generation, distribution and supply.”

The station, which will be available for use by the

public, will be run by UCLA Engineering’s Hydro-

gen Engineering Research Consortium (HERC),

which Manousiouthakis directs. The consortium

was established in 2005 after UCLA partnered with

Professor awarded $2.1m to build hyDrOgen fueling statiOn at uCla

DaimlerChrysler Corp. and global energy company BP

to help demonstrate elements of the hydrogen economy

infrastructure.

“The proposed fueling station will show that we can

effectively utilize the existing natural gas infrastructure

to deliver hydrogen on-site. We won’t have to build new

pipelines for hydrogen,” Manousiouthakis said.

UCLA has been at the forefront of hydrogen-related

research since the 1970s, first with its student-built

hydrogen-fueled car, which won the national Urban Ve-

hicle Design Competition, and more recently with its novel

cycle to produce hydrogen through the thermochemical

decomposition of water.

Manousiouthakis, a systems engineering expert who

focuses on the development of novel hydrogen production

methods, believes that hydrogen production based on the

reforming of natural gas — a process that involves the

endothermic transformation of natural gas and water into

hydrogen and carbon dioxide — is the most economical

route for hydrogen production today.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2009/hydrogen_

fueling_station.htm

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UCLA nAmes soon-shiong executive director of Wireless HealtH institute

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D r. Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder and chair-

man of Abraxis BioScience and executive

chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health, was

appointed executive director of the UCLA Wireless

Health Institute. He also accepted a position as a

visiting professor of bioengineering and of microbiol-

ogy, immunology and molecular genetics.

The Wireless Health Institute (WHI), established

in 2008, is a community of UCLA experts and in-

novators from a variety disciplines — including engi-

neering, medicine, nursing, pharmacology and public

health — dedicated to improving the timeliness and

reach of health care through the development and ap-

plication of wireless, network-enabled technologies

integrated with current and next-generation medical

enterprise computing.

A leading institute in this emerging field, the WHI

has created partnerships with industry to bridge the gap

between available wireless information technologies and

their translation into successful, widely adopted products

and services.

“We are at a unique point in history, where the conver-

gence of medical science, computer science and engineer-

ing could truly transform health care in this country,”

Soon-Shiong said. “The Wireless Health Institute will

harness the collective scientific talent in the nation, from

every discipline involved in the complex supply chain

of medicine, to address the urgent imperative to reform

health care.”

Soon-Shiong has made important innovations in sev-

eral areas of medicine, including the first protein-bound

nanoparticle chemotherapeutic for breast cancer.

Since 2006, Soon-Shiong has devoted his attention to

addressing health care delivery in the United States, with

a specific focus on issues related to disparities in care,

the need for data sharing and health integration, and the

pursuit of evidence-based, outcomes-driven medicine.

The WHI was developed at UCLA by co-directors Dr.

Denise Aberle, professor and vice chair of radiological

sciences; Dr. Lillian Gelberg, professor of family medi-

cine and a health services researcher; William Kaiser,

professor of electrical engineering; and Majid Sarrafza-

deh, professor of computer science. The institute contin-

ues to lead the development of cutting-edge wireless solu-

tions, including personal communication and monitoring

devices, wireless wearable sensors, and a variety of other

innovative technologies, for a wide array of health care-

related applications.


http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-wireless-

health-institute-92756.aspx


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executive director of Wireless HealtH institute

U CLA has been awarded a $10 million grant

by the National Science Foundation’s Expedi-

tions in Computing program to develop high-

performance, energy efficient, customizable computing

that could revolutionize the way computers are used in

health care and other important applications.

In particular, UCLA Engineering researchers will

demonstrate how the new technology, known as

domain-specific computing, could transform the role of

medical imaging and hemodynamic simulation, provid-

ing more cost-effective and convenient solutions for

preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and

dramatically improving health care quality, efficiency

and patient outcomes.

In an effort to meet ever-increasing computing needs

in various fields, the computing industry has entered an

“era of parallelization,” in which tens of thousands of

computer servers are connected in warehouse-scale data

centers, said Jason Cong, the Chancellor’s Professor of

Computer Science and director of the new UCLA Center

for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), which will

oversee the research. But these parallel, general-purpose

computing systems still face serious challenges in terms

of performance, energy, space and cost.

Domain-specific computing holds significant advan-

tages, Cong said. While general-purpose computing

relies on computer architecture and languages aimed

at any type of application, domain-specific comput-

ing utilizes a customizable architecture and custom-

oriented, high-level computer languages tailored to a

particular application area or domain — in this case,

medical imaging and hemodynamic modeling. This

customization ultimately results in much less energy

consumption, faster results, lower costs and increased

productivity.

“In regards to medical imaging and hemodynamic

modeling, we’ll be able to see inside the brain and fa-

cilitate real-time surgery, for example,” he said. “Also,

doctors will be able to do preventative procedures

much faster with automatic analysis and diagnosis of

MRIs and CT scan images.”

Research being conducted by the CDSC is a collab-

orative effort among faculty from UCLA’s engineer-

ing school, medical school and applied mathematics

program, as well as faculty from Rice University, Ohio

State University and UC Santa Barbara.

The CDSC will integrate research with education,

exposing graduate, undergraduate and high school

students to the new concepts and research from this

project through several new courses jointly developed

and shared by researchers from all four universities.


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ing-awarded-10-million-97818.aspx

to create cUstomized compUting technologyWileen Wong Kromhout

nsf aWards ucla $10 million

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A leading institute in this emerging field, the WHI

has created partnerships with industry to bridge the gap

between available wireless information technologies and

their translation into successful, widely adopted products

and services.

“We are at a unique point in history, where the conver-

gence of medical science, computer science and engineer-

ing could truly transform health care in this country,”

Soon-Shiong said. “The Wireless Health Institute will

harness the collective scientific talent in the nation, from

every discipline involved in the complex supply chain

of medicine, to address the urgent imperative to reform

health care.”

Soon-Shiong has made important innovations in sev-

eral areas of medicine, including the first protein-bound

nanoparticle chemotherapeutic for breast cancer.

Since 2006, Soon-Shiong has devoted his attention to

addressing health care delivery in the United States, with

a specific focus on issues related to disparities in care,

the need for data sharing and health integration, and the

pursuit of evidence-based, outcomes-driven medicine.

The WHI was developed at UCLA by co-directors Dr.

Denise Aberle, professor and vice chair of radiological

sciences; Dr. Lillian Gelberg, professor of family medi-

cine and a health services researcher; William Kaiser,

professor of electrical engineering; and Majid Sarrafza-

deh, professor of computer science. The institute contin-

ues to lead the development of cutting-edge wireless solu-

tions, including personal communication and monitoring

devices, wireless wearable sensors, and a variety of other

innovative technologies, for a wide array of health care-

related applications.


http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-wireless-

health-institute-92756.aspx

Jason Cong


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2009 senior dinner 6

1 Terry Heinrich ‘08 served as the Master of Ceremonies for the 2009 Engineering Senior Class Dinner.

2 A group shot of the newly inducted seniors into the Order of the Engineer

3 Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Christopher Lynch

4 Alex Chapman ‘09, 2009 Senior Class Campaign Chair

5 Jammie Peng ‘09

6 Bill Goodin MS ‘71, PhD ‘75, ME ‘82

7 Tracy Jordan ‘09

8 (l to r) Frank Chen ‘08, Bill Goodin, Sarkis Khachatryan ‘09

9 The 2009 Senior Class Campaign Committee presents their gift to Dean Vijay K. Dhir.

10 Engineering seniors check in at the registration desk for the Order of the Engineer ceremony.

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4 alex chapman ‘09, 2009 Senior class campaign chair

5 Jammie Peng ‘09

6 Bill Goodin MS ‘71, PhD ‘75, ME ‘82

7 Tracy Jordan ‘09

8 (l to r) Frank chen ‘08, Bill Goodin, Sarkis Khachatryan ‘09

9 The 2009 Senior class campaign committee presents their gift to Dean Vijay K. Dhir.

10 Engineering seniors check in at the registration desk for the Order of the Engineer ceremony.

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Since 2004, a team of students from the graduating class of ucla Engineering undertakes a campaign to raise money to give back to the school. Each year has grown more successful than the last.

What makes this initiative exceptional is that ucla Engineering is the only school on campus where graduating undergraduates have their own campaign to give back to their school. adding to the uniqueness is that each year the committee determines a particular use for the fund – something they can revisit again and again when they return to campus as alumni. Past examples include a renovation of the SEaS café and new electronic displays throughout the school. This year, the funds will provide upgraded display cases for student teams and projects that will proudly display the groups’ successes and contri-butions to the community.

The class of 2009’s campaign committee was particularly successful in inspiring support from its peers. “In the beginning of the year, the goal of get-ting 75 classmates to give to the school seemed daunting. But in the end, close to 200 of us gave to ucla. It was truly an amazing experience to have been a part of this gift to the school,” says alex chapman, chair of the 2009 ucla Engineering Senior class campaign committee.

Dean Vijay Dhir adds, “I am so proud of our students. Earning an engineering degree is not easy. The fact that these students go above and beyond to give something back to the school is a testament to their dedication. I hope they are an inspiration to our alumni to match their level of commitment.”

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1 Master’s degree candidates outside Pauley Pavilion.

2 Associate Dean Rick Wesel congratulates a doctoral candidate.

3 Bachelor’s degree candidates during the ceremony.

4 Candidates descending the stairs into Pauley.

5 Dean Vijay K. Dhir with commencement speaker John J. Tracy, senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology and chief technology officer for The Boeing Company.

6 Bachelor’s degree candidates before the ceremony.

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New Fellowships For GRADuATE STuDEnTS

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New Fellowships For Graduate StudentS

Two UCLA Electrical Engineering alumni have each cre-

ated $500,000 fellowships for graduate students. In fall

2010, graduate students will have extra financial help thanks

to the generosity of Mukund Padmanabhan, M.S. ’89, Ph.D.

’92, and Fang Lu M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’92.

“Alumni support is crucial to the growth of our depart-

ment and I am proud to see such commitments at a time

when we need support most,” says Ali Sayed, chair of the

department of electrical engineering. Lu and Padmanab-

han join a unique group of donors to the school. Many of

UCLA Engineering’s most generous gifts have come from its

electrical engineering alumni, many of whom studied in the

Integrated Circuits & Systems Lab. Both of the fellowships

will support students studying in this same area of research.

The Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship in Electrical

Engineering, funded by Padmanabhan, will support students

who - like he and Dean Vijay K. Dhir - received an under-

graduate degree in electrical engineering from top Indian In-

stitutes of Technology (IIT). The Living Spring Fellowship

in Electrical Engineering, made possible by Lu and his wife

Jui-Chuan Yeh, will be awarded to students with electri-

cal engineering degrees from National Taiwan University,

where Lu received his undergraduate degree; National Ts-

ing Hua University, or National Chiao Tung University.

Padmanabhan previously worked on speech recognition

at IBM’s Watson Research Center, from 1992 to 2001,

where he managed the Telephony Speech Algorithms

group. Currently, Padmanabhan is researching statistical

financial modeling, and works for hedge fund management

company, Renaissance Technologies.

Lu is a fellow and technical director at Broadcom

Corporation where he has contributed to over 25 issued or

pending U.S. Patents, primarily in the areas of the algo-

rithm and architecture of digital signal processing, and

high-speed analog and digital integrated circuit designs.

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alumni news

Where can an engineer look for work?The government has plans for increased spending in

infrastructure, which has helped offset the dramatic slow-

ing in homebuilding. Many engineers have transferrable

skills for infrastructure work. One can redraft a resume to

demonstrate how their skills are right for civil and related

infrastructure work.

What has made your business successful?To be successful, I have found one needs to either be

smarter than your competition, or work harder; I work

hard, and I read as many magazines and journals related to

my work as possible. It is hard to stay on top of the latest

technologies, so I also work closely with Professors Scott

Brandenberg and Jonathan Stewart in UCLA’s Civil and

Environmental Engineering Department.

Why work with UCLA?I work with UCLA for two reasons: loyalty and expertise.

First I am loyal to UCLA because it prepared me well for

my career, and second, expertise that is mutually beneficial.

Jon and Scott — and their students — are excellent con-

sultants; they help me approach problems in new ways and

provide independent thinking. UCLA also benefits because

I can offer insight into how our profession works in the real

world and why — technical challenges, budget and schedule

constraints, client expectations, etc.

What would you recommend to someone starting a business?There is a fundamental truism to running your own business:

Love what you do, and do what you love. I said it takes hard

work for most of us, and if someone has to put in very long

hours — sixty hours or more in a week — you have to love

what you are doing.

Any other advice?You never know where help may come from. Return phone

calls. Do not be afraid to give where you can. Jon reached

out to me, and I am glad I am involved with UCLA Engineer-

ing — and I am happy it helps us both.

PrinciPal of Diaz • Yourman & associates speaks about new opportunities

For engineering graduates

With the latest recession, ucla engineering sat down with allen m. Yourman, Jr., Pe, a principal of orange county-based Diaz • Yourman & associates, a privately held geotechnical consulting services corporation that provides services to owners, public agencies, and other organizations involved in the design, construction, environmental and legal fields. Yourman shared with us some bright spots in the economy that may offer new opportunity to engineers displaced in the downturn.

Joseph Donahoo


1940sEdward L. Braun ’47 (Physics), MS ’54, ME ’97 has had

numerous accomplishments in the field of engineering.

Among those, he is responsible for 2 patents for his funda-

mental developments in the commercial banking industry.

1950sGeorge Bekey ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’62 has co-authored and is

the editor of a new book, Robotics: State of the Art and

Future Challenges. He is a research scholar and part-time

faculty member of the College of Engineering at Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo.

Tom Shiokari ’50 helped in the replacement of a monument

in Lancaster commemorating the Japanese American fami-

lies who live in the Antelope Valley.

Robert S. Gaylord ’56, MS ’61 is pursu-

ing his first love, creative writing, after

a career developing launch vehicles and

spacecraft systems. He is president of the

Plateau Area Writers’ Association based in

Buckley, Wash.

Jack Blumenthal ’58, MS ’59, PhD ’63, CERT ’82 retired in

1998 from TRW after 36 years, and for the past eleven

years has been a full-time high school math and science

teacher at Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena. He is the

only member of the National Academy of Engineering that

is a full-time high school teacher.

William J. Bowers ’58 has been retired from his own start

up business for 21 years and is enjoying traveling and

being with his family.

The Class of 1959 held their 50th Reunion at the Faculty Center at UCLA in May 2009.

1960sKenneth I. Friedman ’61 is the author of two books

about World War II naval history: Afternoon of the

Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf and Morning of

the Rising Sun: The Heroic Story of the Battles for

Guadalcanal. For more information, please go to

www.battlesforguadalcanal.com.

Robert Morrison MS ’61 has been retired for 20 years.

James “Jim” Postle ’62 sold his construction company in

2004 and is enjoying retirement. “My engineering educa-

tion at UCLA positioned me well to run such a company. I

will always be an enthusiastic BRUIN.”

Neal Pepper ’63, PhD ’71 has twin sons who will be

freshmen at UCLA this fall.

Charles Holloway MS ’64, PhD ’69 is a professor at the

Stanford Graduate School of Business where a chair

was endowed in his name last year.

Marc Z. Jeric MS ’65, PhD ’68 has been retired since 1995

and is now living in Las Vegas.

Michael Schlesinger ’65, MS ’70, PhD ’76 was one of the

contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize together

with Al Gore.

Roger Webb ’65, MS ’67 joined Defense Group, Inc. as

Senior Vice President, Government Communications and

Information Technology. He resides in Carlsbad, Calif.

Martin “Marty” Soll ’67 retired from Boeing in June 2009.

Thomas J. Stone ’67, MS ’69 is serving as president of De-

sertXpress Enterprises.

Mary Ann Kass ’68 will be retiring from Northrop Grum-

man after 30-1/2 years of service. She was a logistics

manager for the last 10 years.

Ron Sugar ’68, MS ’69, PhD ’71 co-authored Strategic Business

Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Shaping the Future

of Your Business which was released in February 2009.

ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

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my career, and second, expertise that is mutually beneficial.

Jon and Scott — and their students — are excellent con-

sultants; they help me approach problems in new ways and

provide independent thinking. UCLA also benefits because

I can offer insight into how our profession works in the real

world and why — technical challenges, budget and schedule

constraints, client expectations, etc.

What would you recommend to someone starting a business?There is a fundamental truism to running your own business:

Love what you do, and do what you love. I said it takes hard

work for most of us, and if someone has to put in very long

hours — sixty hours or more in a week — you have to love

what you are doing.

Any other advice?You never know where help may come from. Return phone

calls. Do not be afraid to give where you can. Jon reached

out to me, and I am glad I am involved with UCLA Engineer-

ing — and I am happy it helps us both.

PrinciPal of Diaz • Yourman & associates SpEAkS AbOUT NEw OppOrTUNITIES

FOr ENgINEErINg grAdUATES

With the latest recession, ucla engineering sat down with allen m. Yourman, Jr., Pe, a principal of orange county-based Diaz • Yourman & associates, a privately held geotechnical consulting services corporation that provides services to owners, public agencies, and other organizations involved in the design, construction, environmental and legal fields. Yourman shared with us some bright spots in the economy that may offer new opportunity to engineers displaced in the downturn.


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1970sIra S. Kalb ’70, MBA ’72 received a 2009 USC Marshall

Golden Apple Teaching Award, an award that is presented

every year to the professors who have had the greatest

impact on their students, as determined by the members of

the graduating class.

George H. Smith MS ’70 retired from the Federal Senior

Executive Service in 1995 where he was a technical director

for the Navy’s electronic warfare systems and engineering

test development. He has since formed and headed Geos-

mith, Inc. where he continues to serve as a consultant to the

Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is also a real estate

developer in southern Arizona as a managing member of

Barrio Ventures LLC, building homes and developing com-

mercial properties (barriodetubac.com).

Rand Hulsing MS ’72 retired from L3 Communications in

2005 to start a new company with his business partner—

Gladiator Technologies. With 66 patents in the field of

inertial sensors, his education at UCLA has allowed him to

reach his full potential.

Ami Israel Goldman ’73 opened his company, GOLDMAN-

TEC (www.goldmantec.com.br), a few years ago and it has

become the leading Brazilian company in the audio and

video conference marketplace.

Stephen Sherman ’73 has been promoted to vice president

of quality assurance and service at Gear6.

Van N. Schultz ’74, MS ’75 completed the Executive Pro-

gram at UCLA Anderson School of Management in April

2009 obtaining a certificate in general management. He

has been elected chair-elect for the UCLA Alumni Associa-

tion and will serve as chair beginning July 2010.

Ghassem Jaberipur MS ’76 misses so many of his UCLA

friends from all around world. “I’ll soon celebrate my 30th

year in academia. Good old friends, please visit my homep-

age (http://faculties.sbu.ac.ir/~jaberipur/) and drop me a

message ([email protected]).”

Sean Leonard ’79, president of S.L. Leonard & Associates,

was awarded the project management contract for The

Museum of Ventura County. For more information, please

visit www.slleonard.com or call 805-445-4668.

1980sHagop Panossian ENG ’80, PhD ’81, a technical fellow at

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and an adjunct professor at

California State University, Northridge, has been elected

as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences

of Armenia.

Armando Tovar ’81 completed 20 years of service with the

Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in August.

Aurelio Cruz ’82 has a son who will be studying computer

science at UCLA this fall

Steve Pomush ’82 (Math-Computer Science), MS ’86

is working at RAND.

Gary Kinghorn ’83 is the product marketing manager for

security products at 3COM based in Menlo Park, Calif.

Allen Simen ’83 is a program manager at Moog Space

& Defense Group in Chatsworth, Calif.

Harry Tarnoff ’83 created the PrefixSuffix application for

the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.

Hisako Muramatsu ’84 has become a real estate broker

for Keller Williams Realty / Westside in Westwood.

She would love to hear from old friends. Please contact

her at www.LisaTheRealtor.com, 310-869-7159 or at

[email protected].

George A. Lesieutre MS ’86, PhD ’89 was elected a fellow

of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

and received their Sustained Service Award. He has served

as head of the department of aerospace engineering at Penn

State for five years, and is now getting involved in wind

energy technology, “which is fun and interesting.” He also

ran a personal record of 3:12 in the Boston Marathon.

Ken Levit t ’86 lives in Minnesota with his wife,

Christina, and their three daughters, who are avid ice

hockey players. He works at Dorsey & Whitney as an

attorney for technology companies, and would love to

hear from fellow classmates.

Catherine F. Pieronek ’87 has been named Assistant Dean

for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at the

University of Notre Dame.

Lan Ru Saadatnejad ’87, after 20 years of working in trans-

portation engineering, has obtained her Project Manage-

ment Professional certification. She is a registered profes-

sional civil engineer in California and has experience in

both public and private sectors.

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1990srex Black ’90 has finished work on the third edition of

his first book, Managing the Testing Process, which was

released in August 2009.

Michael Stiber MS ’90, PhD ’92 has been promoted to

professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, where

he is the interim director of the Computing and Software

Systems Program.

Doug Walters ’90 completed his 7-day,

545-mile bicycle ride from San Fran-

cisco to Los Angeles on June 6, 2009.

He raised nearly $16K in the fight to

end AIDS and help people live longer

and stronger. For more information,

please visit www.tofighthiv.org/goto/Doug.Walters.

David Wang ’91 is country manager of China for

RF Micro Devices, Inc. and has also been promoted to

director of Asia sales. He has been elected to the Council

of China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA)

and serves as vice chairman of CSIA’s IC assembly and

testing branch.

Hani Alexander MS ’93, PhD ’98 joined Alvarez & Marsal as

a senior director in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles.

Corey Bennett MS ’95, PhD ’00 is a staff scientist at Law-

rence Livermore National Lab, where he has been continu-

ing his work on temporal imaging which he started as a

graduate student. His team recently won the 2009 R&D

100 Award for this technology.

J.J. Blumenkranz ’95 was invited to join the Academy of

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Clement Cheng ’95 is celebrating 10 years of private prac-

tice in intellectual property.

Joel Elad ’95 is co-authoring a book, Starting an iPhone

Application Business For Dummies with Damien Stolarz ’03.

Frank J. Shih MS ’95, MS ’97, PhD ’02 was granted tenure

and promoted to associate professor at Seattle University.

robert g. Trazo ’95, a principal engineer at Southern Cali-

fornia Geotechnical, Inc. and his wife, Viengxong Gimo

(Chanphianamvong) Trazo ’94 (Art) recently welcomed the

birth of their daughter, Olivia Audrey Trazo on February

12, 2009. Their son, Grant Luke Trazo, was born

on September 1, 2006.

Julian Hsu ’97 (Japanese), MS ’00, MBA ’08 and Vanessa

Dang Hsu ’97 (Japanese) welcomed their third daughter,

Alyssa Yukiko Hsu, who was born on June 24th, 10:45am,

in Laguna Hills, Calif.

gaurav Bhasin MS ’98, MBA ’06 is currently a vice president

at Pagemill Partners where he focuses on mergers and ac-

quisitions, divestitures, strategic capital raises, and private

placements. He is interested in meeting with technology

companies and may be reached at [email protected].

Vincent gau MS ’98, PhD’01, founder and

CEO of GeneFluidics, Inc., writes that its

Proteus Robotic System has received the

New Product Award from the Association

for Laboratory Automation at LabAutoma-

tion2009.

Wesley negus ’98, MS ’00 was recently elected chair of the

Surfrider Foundation’s West Los Angeles / Malibu Chapter

and also continues to run his surfboard company 9:Fish.

See more at http://www.9fishsurf.com.

ramanan Thiagarajah ’98, MBA ’09 graduated with honors

from UCLA Anderson.

Brian Crossman MS ’99 was appointed Director of

Installation Engineering at Thales In-Flight Systems

in Irvine, Calif.

2000sgerard Au ’00 worked on “Making ‘IT’ Green” at UCLA.

In addition, he is currently president-elect of the UCLA

Staff Assembly and a junior delegate on the Council of UC

Staff Assemblies.

naomi (Strauss) Azulai ’00, MS ’01 has been working in

Houston, Texas since 2002, and earned her professional

engineering license in 2005. In March 2008, she received

the “Emerging Leader Award” from the Water Environ-

ment Association of Texas. Currently, she is staying at

home with her infant son.

Yuval Zukerman ’00 graduated as Class Marshall from

Harvard University Extension pro, earning a master’s in

information technology with a specialization in software

engineering. “UCLA gave me an excellent springboard for

learning and fed my drive to progress on my career.” He

is currently a senior technical architect with Molecular,

based in Boston, Mass.

Tim Diep ’01 is an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.

1980sHagop Panossian Eng ’80, PhD ’81, a technical fellow at

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and an adjunct professor at

California State University, Northridge, has been elected

as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences

of Armenia.

Armando Tovar ’81 completed 20 years of service with the

Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in August.

Aurelio Cruz ’82 has a son who will be studying computer

science at UCLA this fall

Steve Pomush ’82 (Math-Computer Science), MS ’86

is working at RAND.

gary Kinghorn ’83 is the product marketing manager for

security products at 3COM based in Menlo Park, Calif.

Allen Simen ’83 is a program manager at Moog Space

& Defense Group in Chatsworth, Calif.

Harry Tarnoff ’83 created the PrefixSuffix application for

the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.

Hisako Muramatsu ’84 has become a real estate broker

for Keller Williams Realty / Westside in Westwood.

She would love to hear from old friends. Please contact

her at www.LisaTheRealtor.com, 310-869-7159 or at

[email protected].

george A. Lesieutre MS ’86, PhD ’89 was elected a fellow

of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

and received their Sustained Service Award. He has served

as head of the department of aerospace engineering at Penn

State for five years, and is now getting involved in wind

energy technology, “which is fun and interesting.” He also

ran a personal record of 3:12 in the Boston Marathon.

Ken Levit t ’86 lives in Minnesota with his wife,

Christina, and their three daughters, who are avid ice

hockey players. He works at Dorsey & Whitney as an

attorney for technology companies, and would love to

hear from fellow classmates.

Catherine F. Pieronek ’87 has been named Assistant Dean

for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at the

University of Notre Dame.

Lan ru Saadatnejad ’87, after 20 years of working in trans-

portation engineering, has obtained her Project Manage-

ment Professional certification. She is a registered profes-

sional civil engineer in California and has experience in

both public and private sectors.


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alumni news

Anargyros “Roger” L. Panayotopoulos ’01 received his mas-

ter’s in mechanical engineering in 2003 from UC Berkeley.

He has worked as lead applications development engineer

at KLA-Tencor from 2004-2007, after which he moved

to his current role—marketing of LED capital equipment

laser isolation systems.

Bong-Chieh Benjamin Chu ’02, PhD ’06 was promoted to

technology transfer officer at the UCLA Office of Intellec-

tual Property, handling licensing of UCLA technologies in

engineering and physical sciences.

Hojung Ju MS ’02 has retired from Samsung Electronics

after 7 years. He has been busy preparing to go back to

UCLA to pursue his doctorate this fall.

Pei-Wen “Vincent” Seah MS ’02, PhD ’06 developed a mod-

el that predicts online user behavior for a music social net-

working portal site. In his personal time, he also designed

a unique race car data logging system that integrates both

a data monitoring and a feedback control feature.

Fan Yang PhD ’02 was promoted to associate professor at

the University of Mississippi in July, and received the 2009

Donald G. Dudley, Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award

from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He

received a NASA grant of $750,000 to conduct research on

reconfigurable antennas and reflect array antennas.

Brandon Florian ’03, after graduation, worked for General

Dynamics as a spacecraft systems engineer while pursu-

ing his MBA at Pepperdine. Shortly after, he worked

at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in business

management. He has recently been assigned as a subsystem

business manager.

Mike Pratt ’03 passed the professional engineer exam in

Texas and is working as an assistant research engineer at

the Texas Transportation Institute.

Thomas Rau ’03 is a resident physician in radiology at

the University of Colorado, Denver. He also was the lead

author on a research article “Hemodynamic Effect of Un-

equal Anterior Cerebral Artery Flow Rates on the Anterior

Communicating Artery Bifurcation: A Computational

Fluid Dynamics Study” which was published in Modelling

and Simulation in Engineering.

Damien Stolarz ’03 recently co-authored iPhone Hacks:

Pushing the iPhone and iPod touch Beyond Their Limits.

He’s also co-authoring another book, Starting an iPhone

Application Business For Dummies with Joel Elad ’95.

Lisa Zieve ’03 married Greg Parker in July.

Xuanlai “Nicholas” Fang PhD ’04 received a NSF CAREER

award and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ 2009

Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He

was also nominated among 2008’s Young Innovators Un-

der 35 by Technology Review.

Jessica (Hoeck) Agte ’05 married Aaron Agte ’05 (Applied Mathematics and Philosophy) in 2007.

Zhara Ghofraniha ’05 and Ryan Gerard ’05 have married.

Victor Jonathan Jovancevic MS ’05 is a real estate invest-

ment analyst working in Paris.

Cathy Leong ’05 and Ryan Fong ’05 have married.

Alex Nazarchuk ’05 is a construction manager for the City

of Santa Monica.

Kaori Noguchi ’05 has married.

Ricardo Oliveira MS ’05, PhD ’09 received the 2009 Cisco

Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UCLA

Department of Computer Science.

Sarah (Tobin) Rosen ’05 and her husband,

Chad ’05 (Hebrew), welcomed the birth

of their daughter, Adena Shira, on

May 26, 2009.

Peter Durojaiye ’06 has been accepted to UCLA’s master’s

online program in engineering with a focus on systems

engineering and domain in information-based systems.

Subhan Ali ’07 received his master’s from Stanford Universi-

ty with an emphasis in sustainable design and construction.

Anthony Chen MS ’07 has been working at United Airlines

as a structural repair engineer for 1-1/2 years. He also

passed the engineer-in-training exam and plans to pursue a

professional engineer’s license.

Ben Chiang ’07 made the move into venture capital

with Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto Calif. Feel free

to reach out to him the next time you’re working on

the next Google.

Jinsong Huang PhD ’07 has been an assistant professor in

the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of

Nebraska, Lincoln since August 2009.

Sean Mikha ’07 was promoted to the role of solution

architect at one of the top 4 data warehouse vendors in

the world.


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Jason Poulos MS ’07 will complete his PhD at UCLA this

fall and has just started a company based on his research

at UCLA. He has received a Small Business Innovation

Research grant to continue his work which involves

creating a disposable platform for high throughput ion

channel studies. If you are interested in learning more,

please contact [email protected]

Cen Kwang ge ’08 is a software engineer at Candelis, Inc,

a medical software company.

Bunga Setiawan ’08 is working on her master’s

degree in materials science and engineering at UCLA.

Louis Worth ’08 is currently enrolled in UCLA as a

master’s student in mechanical engineering, and

will be graduating fall 2009.

Jonathan Wang ’09 will begin his graduate work in envi-

ronmental engineering at Stanford this fall.

EnginEEring DEsign group rEunion

in MEMoriaM

LEgaCiES

James r. Chambers ’51

James Welton MS ’64

nadine Tran ’85 (Math-System Science), David Tran ’09 (missing Dan Tran ’83)

arlene (Koster) Horwitz ’78 (Communi-cation Studies), Matthew Horwitz ’09, Dennis Horwitz ’76, MS ’81

John Jordan ’84, Tracy Jordan ’09, Karen (Yee) Jordan ’83 (Cybernetics)

It has been 46 years since our engineering design group graduated

from ucla. There were eight of us: six started in February 1959

and two transferred in their junior year. Our senior year engineer-

ing project consisted of the design, construction and testing of a

“High Pressure cesium Thermionic Energy converter,” a device

that converts heat into electricity. The project was a success and

we were fortunate enough to win the “Engineering Faculty-Friends

Prize” for best project by a student group. The design group

included the following members: Evan Barmache ’63; Louis Bodnar ’63, MS ’69; allan Feinstein MS ’64; gary Fisher ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’71; James gordon ’63, MS ’66, PhD ’72; neal Pepper ’63, PhD ’71; Walter Sainio ’63, MS ’64; and Donald Urfrig ’63.

after graduation we all went our separate ways. Some of

us went on to master’s and doctoral programs and others went

to work in various fields. Some of us stayed in touch but others

drifted away and none of us have been together since we com-

pleted the project more than four decades ago.

When the ucla Engineering alumni Directory was issued in

2006, I took the initiative and contacted everyone. all of us still

lived in california: seven of us were still in the los angeles area,

while one lived in Oakland. all of us were in reasonably good

health, and everyone was enthusiastic about a reunion.

after many e-mail exchanges, we finally reunited at Jim

Gordon’s house in December 2006 with our wives. This year will

be our fourth Engineering Design Group reunion.

—Evan Barmache

Picture details, left to right: Gary Fisher, Donald Urfrig, James Gordon, Evan Barmache, Walter Sainio, Neal Pepper, Allan Feinstein, Louis Bodnar

Do you have an update to share? If so, please e-mail Grace Coopman, Director of Alumni Relations, at [email protected].

Lisa Zieve ’03 married Greg Parker in July.

Xuanlai “nicholas” Fang PhD ’04 received a NSF CAREER

award and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ 2009

Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He

was also nominated among 2008’s Young Innovators Un-

der 35 by Technology Review.

Jessica (Hoeck) agte ’05 married aaron agte ’05 (applied Mathematics and Philosophy) in 2007.

Zhara ghofraniha ’05 and ryan gerard ’05 have married.

Victor Jonathan Jovancevic MS ’05 is a real estate invest-

ment analyst working in Paris.

Cathy Leong ’05 and ryan Fong ’05 have married.

alex nazarchuk ’05 is a construction manager for the City

of Santa Monica.

Kaori noguchi ’05 has married.

ricardo oliveira MS ’05, PhD ’09 received the 2009 Cisco

Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UCLA

Department of Computer Science.

Sarah (Tobin) rosen ’05 and her husband,

Chad ’05 (Hebrew), welcomed the birth

of their daughter, Adena Shira, on

May 26, 2009.

Peter Durojaiye ’06 has been accepted to UCLA’s master’s

online program in engineering with a focus on systems

engineering and domain in information-based systems.

Subhan ali ’07 received his master’s from Stanford Universi-

ty with an emphasis in sustainable design and construction.

anthony Chen MS ’07 has been working at United Airlines

as a structural repair engineer for 1-1/2 years. He also

passed the engineer-in-training exam and plans to pursue a

professional engineer’s license.

Ben Chiang ’07 made the move into venture capital

with Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto Calif. Feel free

to reach out to him the next time you’re working on

the next Google.

Jinsong Huang PhD ’07 has been an assistant professor in

the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of

Nebraska, Lincoln since August 2009.

Sean Mikha ’07 was promoted to the role of solution

architect at one of the top 4 data warehouse vendors in

the world.


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EnrollmEnt 2008-09Undergraduate 3,006Master’s 681PhD 821Total 4,508

DEgrEEs AwArDED (2009 projEctions)Undergraduate 504Master’s 298PhD 143Total 945

Full-time Faculty: 161

phd:Faculty ratio: 5.1:1

gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose (2008 – 09): $18,003,194

publications (2008 – 2009): UCLA Engineering faculty published 14 books, 18 chapters, 394 journal articles and 403 articles in conference proceedings.

Editorial postions (2008 – 09): UCLA Engineering faculty held 35 editorships at professional journals and 55 associate editor positions.

research Expenditures (2008 – 09): $93,332,083.30

2008-09 ANNUAL REPORT

fAcULTy AwARds 2008-09

DollArs by pUrposE 2008-09

programs/research 47%

capital 24%

students 11%

Faculty 13%

Discretionary 5%

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UCLA Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Leonard Kleinrock was presented with the prestigious National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony in September 2008. He received the medal for his “fun-damental contributions to the mathematical theory of modern data networks, for the functional specification of packet switch-ing which is the foundation of Internet Technology, for mentoring generations of students and for leading the commercializa-tion of technologies that have transformed the world.”

Two faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions award-ed to engineers. deborah Estrin, a professor of computer science with a joint appointment in electrical engineering, and John Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engi-neering, were among 65 members and nine foreign associates elected in 2009.

yu Huang, assistant professor of materials science, was awarded the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United States government to young engineers and scientists at the outset of their professional careers.

demetri Terzopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, received a 2009 Gug-genheim Fellowship. Terzopoulos’ research encompasses computer graphics, computer vi-sion, medical image analysis, computer-aided design and artificial intelligence/life.

Puneet Gupta, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Terri s. Hogue, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and dejan Markovic, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering have each received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The awards program supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through

outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Two faculty members were awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to “exceptional young researchers” based on their “outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.” The recipients are Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of computer science and human genetics, and yi Tang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineer-ing. Tang also will receive the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by the Amer-ican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Electrical engineering professor Abeer Alwan was selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and will serve in 2009-10. ISCA is the largest speech science and engineering interna-tional society.

annual report 2008-09


ucla EnginEEr 31

EnrollmEnt 2008-09Undergraduate 3,006Master’s 681PhD 821Total 4,508

DEgrEEs AwArDED (2009 projEctions)Undergraduate 504Master’s 289PhD 143Total 945

Full-time Faculty: 161

phd:Faculty ratio: 5.1:1

gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose (2008 – 09): $18,003,194

publications (2008 – 2009): UCLA Engineering faculty published 14 books, 18 chapters, 394 journal articles and 403 articles in conference proceedings.

Editorial postions (2008 – 09): UCLA Engineering faculty held 35 editorships at professional journals and 55 associate editor positions.

research Expenditures (2008 – 09): $93,332,083.30

DollArs by pUrposE 2008-09

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outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Two faculty members were awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to “exceptional young researchers” based on their “outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.” The recipients are Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of computer science and human genetics, and Yi Tang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineer-ing. Tang also will receive the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by the Amer-ican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Electrical engineering professor abeer alwan was selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and will serve in 2009-10. ISCA is the largest speech science and engineering interna-tional society.

Women in Technology International (WITI) has named computer science professor Deborah Estrin, holder of the Jon Postel Chair in Com-puter Networks and the founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, (CENS) as one of five women in its 2008 Hall of Fame Class. The honor recognizes contri-butions to science and technology, the ability to shape the next generation of scientists and technologists, and making the world a better place through science and technology.

Electrical engineering professor chand Joshi was selected to receive the 2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of particle accelerator science and technology.

James liao, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will receive the James E. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Biological Engi-neering and the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research from AIChE. Liao will also receive this year’s divisional Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology.

aydogan Ozcan, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering, was one of 15 researchers across the country to receive a 2009 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. The program received nearly 200 proposals. Ozcan also was selected to receive the 2009 IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Soci-ety Young Investigator Award from the IEEE Society for Photonics.

Electrical engineering professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, was selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propaga-tion Society.

The American Society of Gene Therapy has honored Tatiana Segura, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, as an Outstanding New Investigator in the field of gene therapy research.

Paulo Tabuada, assistant professor of electri-cal engineering, has been selected to receive the 2009 Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory.

Electrical engineering professor alan Willson will receive the 2010 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for his “exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of PhD student research in the area of circuits and systems.”

Computer science professor lixia Zhang, whose research on several important Internet innova-tions have led to improved protocol designs and security, received the 2009 IEEE Internet award. The annual award honors exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications.

Panagiotis D. christofides, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and professor of electrical engineering, was elected as a Fellow of IEEE, for “contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear and distributed parameter processes.” Christofides also was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Young Re-searcher Award, given by the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE.

Three affiliated faculty members were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are: UCLA Chancellor Emeritus albert carnesale, who holds appointments in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and in the School of Public Affairs; alan c. Kay president of Viewpoints Research Institute and an adjunct professor of computer science; and Xiang Zhang, professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and adjunct pro-fessor at UCLA of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering pro-fessor Yoram cohen has been elected as a fellow of AIChE. Cohen has also been appointed as a UCLA Luskin Scholar in the Luskin Center for Innovation.

Computer science professor Jason cong was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was recog-nized for “contributions to electronic design automation.”

Civil and environmental engineering professor Jiann-Wen Woody Ju was elected as a fellow of the American Concrete Institute. Fellows are recognized for outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of educa-tion, research, development, design, construc-tion, or management.

Suneel Kodambaka, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the inaugural Paul Holloway Award from the American Vacuum Society.

Kang l. Wang, the Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Electronics, received the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, for his relevant work addressing the significant challenges the semiconductor industry is facing.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering profes-sor Mohamed abdou was elected as chairman to the US Council of Energy Research and Edu-cation Leaders (CEREL). CEREL consists of leaders of college and university-based energy centers and programs.

Eric P. Bescher, an adjunct professor of materials science and engineering, has been appointed as the Distinguished Professor of the Zhejiang California International NanoSystems Insti-tute. The institute is a joint effort between the Zhejiang Provincial Government, Zhejiang University, and UCLA’s California NanoSys-tems Institute (CNSI).

Materials science and engineering professor Bruce Dunn, holder of the Nippon Sheet Glass Chair, was honored as a Distinguished Lec-turer at Case Western Reserve University for his work on three-dimensional batteries.

Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor chih-Ming Ho, of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, received an honor-ary research chair professorship from National Taiwan University, his alma mater.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering profes-sor ann Karagozian was elected as vice-chair of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics. In subsequent years, Kara-gozian will serve as chair-elect, then chair of the division.

Webb Marner, adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was recently ap-pointed Secretary and Treasurer of the Ameri-can Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) by the Board of Governors of the Society.

Materials science and engineering professor King-Ning Tu received the 2008 K.T. Li Chair Professor Award by National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.


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Alumni Academic AppointmentsGeorge Akingba PhD ’05 Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery Indiana State University School of Medicine (Advisor: Carlo Montemagno)

Philip Brisk PhD ’06 Computer Science and Engineering UC Riverside (Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh)

Ben Davis PhD ’09 Chemical Engineering Cooper Union (Advisor: Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis)

Shalabh Gupta PhD ‘09 Electronic and Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay, India (Advisor: Bahram Jalali)

Yu Hu PhD ’09 Electrical Engineering University of Alberta, Canada (Advisor: Lei He)

Helen Jung PhD ’09 Civil Engineering California Baptist University (Advisor: Terri S. Hogue)

Yu-Fu (Paul) Ko PhD ’05 Civil Engineering California State University, Long Beach (Advisor: J. Woody Ju)

Bo-Cheng (Charles) Lai PhD ’07 Electronics Engineering National Chiao-Tung University (Advisor: Ingrid Verbauwhede)

Anne Lemnitzer PhD ’09 Civil & Environmental Engineering California State University, Fullerton (Advisors: John Wallace and Jonathan Stewart)

Yanbao Ma PhD ’05 Mechanical Engineering UC Merced (Advisor : Xiaoling Zhong, Postdoctoral Advisor Chih-Ming Ho)

Shane Markstrum PhD ’09 Computer Science Bucknell University (Advisor: Todd Millstein)

Tammara Massey PhD ’09 Senior Professional Staff/Systems Engineer Applied Information Sciences Department Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Advisor: Majid Sarrafzadeh)

Fernando Pereira PhD ’08 Computer Science Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (Advisor: Jens Palsberg)

Changsoon Rha PhD ’06 College of Architecture Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea (Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)

Patrick Schaumont PhD ’04 Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech (Advisor: Ingrid Verbauwhede)

Kevin (Kin-man) Tsia PhD ‘09 Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Hong Kong (Advisor: Bahram Jalali)

Shiqiang Wang PhD ’04 Materials Science and Engineering University of North Texas (Advisor: Nasr M. Ghoniem)

Hao Yu PhD ’07 Electrical Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Advisor: Lei He)

Wenjun Zhang PhD ’09 Chemical Engineering UC Berkeley (Advisor: Yi Tang)

Other Academic AppointmentsPierre Ganty Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies (Postdoctoral Advisor: Rupak Majumdar)

Byung-Woo Hong Computer Science Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)

Seok-tae “Steve” Kang Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Alberta, Canada (Postdoctoral Advisor: Eric M.V. Hoek)

Soon-Yong Kwon Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Suneel Kodambaka)

Haibin Ling Computer Science Temple University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)

Hyunggon Park Electrical and Computer Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Postdoctoral Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar)

Giordano Pola Electrical Engineering University of L’Aquila, Italy (Postdoctoral Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)

Arun Prakash Civil Engineering Purdue University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)

Tae-sik Yoon Department of Nano Science and Engineering Myongji University, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ya-Hong Xie)

Jixun Zhan Biological & Irrigation Engineering Utah State University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Yi Tang)

Endowed Chair HoldersBen Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technology Chih-Ming Ho

Jon Postel Chair in Networking Deborah Estrin

Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science Bruce S. Dunn

Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences Carlo Zaniolo

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electro-Magnetics Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering Tatsuo Itoh


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Soon-Yong Kwon Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Suneel Kodambaka)

Haibin ling Computer Science Temple University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Stefano Soatto)

Hyunggon Park Electrical and Computer Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Postdoctoral Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar)

Giordano Pola Electrical Engineering University of L’Aquila, Italy (Postdoctoral Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)

arun Prakash Civil Engineering Purdue University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ertugrul Taciroglu)

Tae-sik Yoon Department of Nano Science and Engineering Myongji University, South Korea (Postdoctoral Advisor: Ya-Hong Xie)

Jixun Zhan Biological & Irrigation Engineering Utah State University (Postdoctoral Advisor: Yi Tang)

Endowed chair HoldersBen Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technology chih-Ming Ho

Jon Postel Chair in Networking Deborah Estrin

Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science Bruce S. Dunn

Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences carlo Zaniolo

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electro-Magnetics Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering Tatsuo Itoh

Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair in Electrical Engineering Eli Yablonovitch

Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering Kang Wang

Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering H. Thomas Hahn

Rockwell International Chair in Engineering J. John Kim

William Frederick Seyer Endowed Chair in Materials Electrochemistry Jane chang

Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering M.c. Frank chang

ucla Engineering Dean’s advisory councilcO-cHaIRS

Sam F. Iacobellis MS ’63 Deputy Chairman (Retired) Rockwell International Corporation

Henry Samueli ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 Co-founder Broadcom Corporation

MEMBERS

Madhavan Balachandran Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Amgen Inc.

William F. Ballhaus, Jr. CEO (Retired) The Aerospace Corporation

Janice chaffin MBa ’81 Group President, Consumer Business Unit Symantec Corporation

M.c. Frank chang Professor Electrical Engineering UCLA

Derek cheung Professor Director, Institute for Technology Advancement UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

aaron S. cohen ’58 Vice Chairman and Founder National Technical Systems

lucien “al” couvillon, Jr. ’62, MS ’66 Vice President Integration and Knowledge Sharing Boston Scientific Corporation

Richard a. croxall Vice President and Chief Engineer (Retired) Northrop Grumman Corporation

Vijay K. Dhir Dean UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Roy Doumani ’57 Professor Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA

James l. Easton ’59 Chairman and President Jas D. Easton, Inc.

B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68 President & CEO (Retired) PLG, Inc.

Eugene c. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67 Vice President National Security Research RAND Corporation

William a. Jeffrey President and CEO HRL Laboratories, LLC

Jon c. Jones ME ’83 President Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

linda P. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84 Chancellor University of California, Davis

leonard Kleinrock Professor Emeritus Computer Science UCLA

leslie M. lackman Director, Industrial Relations Director, Institute for Technology Advancement UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Jeff lawrence ’79 President and CEO Clivia Systems

Steven D. liedle Project Manager Bechtel Power Corporation

Rajeev Madhavan Chairman and CEO Magma Design Automation, Inc.

Joanne M. Maguire MS ’78, cERT ’89 Executive Vice President Lockheed Martin Space Systems Group

Pankaj Patel Senior Vice President and General Manager Cisco Systems, Inc.

Gregory J. Pottie Professor, Electrical Engineering UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Rami R. Razouk ’75, MS ’75, PhD ’80 Senior Vice President Engineering and Technology The Aerospace Corporation

Edward K. Rice Chairman CTS Cement Manufacturing Company

Kevin Riley President Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC

Dwight c. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86 Vice President Microelectronics Technology Northrop Grumman Corporation

Ronald D. Sugar ’68, MS ’69 PhD ’71 Chairman and CEO Northrop Grumman Corporation

lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61 Electronics Consultant Tannas Electronics

Murli Tolaney Chairman MWH Global, Inc.

Stephen Trilling cERT ’00 Vice President Security Technology and Response Symantec Corporation

Nicholas M. uros ME ’84, cERT ’93 Vice President Advanced Concepts and Technology Raytheon Systems Company

David a. Whelan MS ’78, PhD ’83 Vice President, General Manager, and Deputy to the President The Boeing Company

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Faculty Patents 2008–09Gregory Carman, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Dong Lee, were awarded a patent for energy harvesting using a thermoelectric material.

Jane Chang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Trinh Van, Tony Chiang, Chandra Deshpandey, and Karl Lesser, were awarded a patent for controlled nano-doping of ultra thin films.

Yong Chen, professor of mechanical and aero-space engineering, was awarded a patent for nanoscale electromolecular lithography.

Wesley Chu, professor of computer science, Zhenyu Liu, and Qinghua Zou, were awarded a patent for a knowledgeable-based approach for scenario-specific content cor-relation in a medical digital library.

Vijay Gupta, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was awarded a patent for laser-generated stress waves for stiction repair in mems structures and devices.

Vijay Gupta, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Vassil Kireev, were awarded a patent for glass-modified stress waves for adhesion measurement of ultra thin films and nanoelectronics device fabrication.

Tatsuo Itoh, professor of electrical engineer-ing, Christopher Caloz, I-Hsiang Lin, and Hiroshi Okabe, were awarded a patent for composite right/left couplers.

Itoh, Cheng-Jung Lee, and Kevin Leong, were awarded a patent for meta material bases resonant small antenna.

Itoh, Kevin Leong, and Alexandre Dupuy, were awarded a patent for a power combiner.

Bahram Jalali, professor of electrical engineer-ing, Chia-Jen Hsu, and Bijani Houshmand, were awarded a patent for non-electronic radio front-end technology.

Chang-Jin Kim, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Brandon Uichong Yi, were awarded a patent for complete transfer of liquid drops by modification of nozzle design.

Harold Monbouquette, professor of chemical

and biomolecular engineering, and Miguel

Garcia-Garibay, were awarded a patent for

surface nanopatterning.

Ali Sayed, professor of electrical engineering,

and Mansour Aldajani, received a patent

for closed loop power control techniques.

Sayed, and Naofal Al-Dhahir, were awarded

a patent for mimo equalization.

Kris J.V. Tiri and Ingrid Verbauwhede, adjunct

professor of electrical engineering, received

a patent for CMOS logic with input signal

independent power consumption.

Jiangtao Wen, John Villasenor, professor

of electrical engineering, and Jeong-hoon

Park, were awarded a patent for video

codec method in error resilient mode

and apparatus.

Mary Eshaghian-Wilner, Alexander Khitun,

and Kang Wang, professor of electrical engi-

neering, were awarded a patent for methods

to efficiently interconnect nanoscale compu-

tational components with spin-waves.

Wang, and Fei Liu, were awarded a patent

for telegraph signal microscopy for single

atom, molecule, spin characterization.

Wang, Filipp Baron, and Yaohui Zhang were

awarded a patent for vertical gate-depleted

single-electron transistors.

Wang, Roman Ostroumov, and Aleksandr

Khitun were awarded a patent for a logic

device using spin wave bus for information

exchange.

Kang Ting Nell, Shunichi Kuroda, and Ben Wu, associate professor of bioengineering,

were awarded a patent for one expression

systems and neuroprotective activity of nell2.

Larissa Rodriguez and Wu, were awarded

a patent for adipose derived stem cells for

reconstruction of the urinary tract.

Ya Hong Xie, professor of materials science

and engineering, and Tae-Sik Yoon, were

awarded a patent for dislocation engineer-

ing in silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer grown

on Si substrate as a virtual substrate.

Xie was awarded a patent for an innovative

substrate for mixed-signals integrated circuit applications.

Aliazam Abbasfar, Dariush Divsalar, Christopher Jones, Samuel Dolinar, Jeremy Thorpe, Kenneth Andrews, and Kung Yao, professor of electrical en-gineering, were awarded a patent for accumulate-repeat-accumulate LDPC codes.

Daniel Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Shih-Hsi Tong, were awarded a patent for an algorithm for flowrate synthesis of lobe pumps.

Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-neering, and Richard Kaner, professor of chemi-cal and bimolecular engineering, were awarded a patent for AU nanoparticles doped polyaniline nanofiber non-volatile memory device.

Yang, Liping Ma and Jun He, were awarded a patent for three-terminal organic memory devices.

Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for bottom insulating gate vertical organic transistor-bigvot.

Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for rewritable nano-surface organic electrical bistable services.

The Boelter SocietyThe Boelter Society is the leadership giving

society of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science. Members of

this prestigious giving society, who contrib-

ute $1,000 or more annually, show incredible

leadership and vision by generously supporting

the school. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowl-

edges gifts made to the Henry Samueli School

of Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,

2008 to June 30, 2009.

Degrees listed include engineering alumni and

parents of current engineering students only

Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more

James Easton ’59

Henry ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 and Susan Samueli

Dean’s Ambassadors— $100,000 to $999,999

Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92

and Jui-Chuan Yeh

Mukund Padmanabhan

MS ’89, PhD ’92


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Xie was awarded a patent for an innovative

substrate for mixed-signals integrated circuit applications.

Aliazam Abbasfar, Dariush Divsalar, Christopher Jones, Samuel Dolinar, Jeremy Thorpe, Kenneth Andrews, and Kung Yao, professor of electrical en-gineering, were awarded a patent for accumulate-repeat-accumulate LDPC codes.

Daniel Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Shih-Hsi Tong, were awarded a patent for an algorithm for flowrate synthesis of lobe pumps.

Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-neering, and Richard Kaner, professor of chemi-cal and bimolecular engineering, were awarded a patent for AU nanoparticles doped polyaniline nanofiber non-volatile memory device.

Yang, Liping Ma and Jun He, were awarded a patent for three-terminal organic memory devices.

Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for bottom insulating gate vertical organic transistor-bigvot.

Yang and Ma, were awarded a patent for rewritable nano-surface organic electrical bistable services.

The Boelter SocietyThe Boelter Society is the leadership giving

society of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science. Members of

this prestigious giving society, who contrib-

ute $1,000 or more annually, show incredible

leadership and vision by generously supporting

the school. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowl-

edges gifts made to the Henry Samueli School

of Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,

2008 to June 30, 2009.

Degrees listed include engineering alumni and

parents of current engineering students only

Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more

James Easton ’59

Henry ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80 and Susan Samueli

Dean’s Ambassadors— $100,000 to $999,999

Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92

and Jui-Chuan Yeh

Mukund Padmanabhan

MS ’89, PhD ’92

Charles MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85

and Deborah Reames

Eugene ’68 and Marilyn Stein

Lawrence ’59, MS ’61

and Carol Tannas

Yechiam Yemini PhD ’79

Dean’s Scholars - $50,000 to $99,999

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson

Joseph Boystak

Robert ’72 and Judy Green

Gerry Hall ’06

Kevin Hall

Linda Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84 and

Spyros Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84

Jonathan and Rica Orszag

Edward and Linda Rice

Boelter investors - $25,000 to $49,999

Aaron ’58 and Nancy Cohen

Ralph ’50 and Marjorie Crump

Vijay Dhir

James ’68 and Jean Doane

Marjorie Friedlander

Armond Hairapetian ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93

Sandro and Eleanor Lee, Parents ’10

The Family of Professor T.H. Lin

Asad ’69, MS ’72 and Gowhartaj Madni

Pankaj Patel

Paulene Popek

Simon Ramo

Charles ’52 and Janet Seim

Bernard Shyffer ’49, MS ’63

Edwin PhD ’61 and Jo Ann Stear

Monte and Ruthellen Toole

William PhD ’53 and Clare Van Vorst

Allen ’76, MS ’78 and Kimberley Yourman

Boelter Fellows—$10,000 to $24,999

Charles Baker MS ’63, PhD ’67

Chih-Hsing Cheng MS ’92, PhD ’95

Dorothea Frederking

Qingjie Guo MS ’98, MS ’02

Eric and Peggy Johnson, Parents ’11

Rosita Mal

Benjamin Wang

Feng Wang

Robert ’57, MS ’63, PhD ’67 and

Dorothy Webb

Tien-Tsai PhD ’68 and Jane PhD ’71 Yang

Russell and Anne Yee

Boelter Sponsors—$5,000 to $9,999

Andrew Africk

David Banks ’80, MS ’81 and Judith

Blaski-Banks, Parents ’12

Paul Baran MS ’59

James Barrie ’83, MS ’85, PhD ’88 and

Leslie Momoda ’85, MS ’87, PhD ’90

Mark MS ’92, PhD ’95 and Sharon Berman

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Alan Cutter ’61

Dennis Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82

Bob English and Anna Zara

Leslie Lackman

Carey Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95

Jerry Ogawa ’69

Garrett PhD ’66 and June Paine

Marvin Rubinstein ’53

Justin Sobaje ’99, MS ’00

Peter and Haya Sender, Parents ’09

Ryan and Jessica Steelberg

George PhD ’64 and Adele Stern

Lee Stewart ’67

Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999

Robert ’68 and Ildiko Barker

Allan Billings ’56

Gary ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93 and Sherry Burdorf

Bovornrat Darakananda, Parents ’11

Navin and Pratima Doshi

Steven and Catherine Fink

Ken Friedman ’61

Stephen ’55 and Suzanne Gilbert

William Goodin MS ’71, PhD ’75, ME ’82

and Caroline Dockrell

Paul Griffin ’53

Eugene Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67

Ernest Harris ’49

John Haworth

Carl Hess and Tracy Pirnack, Parents ’11

Vincent ’90 and Amanda Hoenigman

Jeffrey and Monica Houck, Parents ’11

George Jurica ’72

Randall Kam and Lesley Brey, Parents ’10

William Kingsley ’72, MS ’73, PhD ’79

Michael Kopp

Jeff Lawrence ’79 and Diane Troth MS ’81

Craig Moles MS ’89

Kenneth Oliver

Kenneth ’77, MS ’80 and Nancy ’78 Privitt

John Pruett ’78 and Donna Lee-Pruett

Thomas MS ’82, ENG ’84, PhD ’85

and Carrie Sabol

Thierry and Rita Sanglerat, Parents ’12

Jacquelyn Schoell

Owen Shea and Marina Naito, Parents ’10

Akira Shinoda ’67

Tom Shiokari ’50, MS ’60

Ning and Minda Sizto, Parents ’10

William and Judy Snow, Parents ’11

David Triolo ’80

John and Ann Wasson, Parents ’11

Ben and Betty Wu

Boelter Contributors— $1,000 to $2,499

John Adams ’62

Darren ’89 and Angela Aghabeg

Song-Haur An MS ’81, ENG ’83, PhD ’86

Richard and Cynthia Arnell, Parents ’12

Ethan PhD ’71 and Barbara Aronoff

William and Jane Ballhaus

Lisa Barker ’84

John MS ’70, PhD ’78 and Mary Barr

Richard PhD ’70 and Linda Baty

Benton and Wanlyn Bejach

Glen Boe ’60

Richard and Liz Bordow, Parents ’09

Ernst Brinkmeyer

Scott Campbell ’04

Paul Chandler MS ’74

Nan-Rong MS ’85, ENG ’87, PhD ’90

and Ming Chen

Chii-Fa Chiou, Parent ’07, ’10

Ajit Choudhury MS ’67, PhD ’69

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Wesley Chu

Abraham Chuang ’97

Larry Collins

Carter Copeland

Douglas Corbett ’73

Karal ’60 and Ann Cottrell

James and Elizabeth Cox, Parents ’09

Barbara Cudzillo-Szafranska

Curtis Dahlberg ’73

Andrea Daly

Vincent Darcy PhD ’73

Patrick ’76, MS ’78 and Nancy Dennis

Paul Eggert MS ’77, PhD ’80

and Stacey Byrnes

Sai-Wai and Beatrice Fu, Parents ’11

Arnold Gaunt ’86

John and Christa Gerretsen, Parents ’09

Rodney MS ’66, PhD ’69 and Nancy Gibson

Albert Glassman PhD ’71

Thomas Goebel PhD ’69

Lawrence Gratt ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69

Gagandeep ’93 and Ramanjit Grewal

L. C. Guthrie ’48

Richard Guy MS ’87, PhD ’91

and Jill Hughes

Arnold Hackett

Frank Hanzel MS ’81

Adam Harmetz ’05

Jerre Hitz ’58, MS ’61

Wai Ho ’78, MS ’79

Linden Hsu ’91

William Huber ME ’75

Andrew and Helen Hyman, Parents ’10

Stephen Ishmael MS ’76

Reginald MS ’80 and Kathryn Jue

David Julifs and Roxann

Marumoto ’85, MS ’87

Stefan Kampe ’84

Andrew ’69 and Denise Katz

Don Kendall MS ’85, PhD ’89

Yong MS ’83, PhD ’87 and Elizabeth Kim

David Kim ’98, MS ’01

Eugene Korney and Patty Boyle

George ’62, MS ’68 and Eulalia Kunkel

Robert ’70 and Patricia Leamy

Robert Lepore ’76, MS ’78

Kenneth Ma MS ’84

Gary MacDougal ’58

Brian Mc Innis ’95

John and Cindy McCauley, Parents ’10

Anthony and Brigid Mills

James Murray ’70, MS ’71 and Carol Donald

Don Myers ’64

Mas Nagami ’53

Kenneth Nam, Parent ’10

Richard ’58, MS ’60, PhD ’63

and Rose Marie Nesbit

Andrew Newman MS ’95, PhD ’05

and Amy Lam

Howard ’71, MS ’72, PhD ’76

and Deborah Nussbaum

Seiki Ogura MS ’67, PhD ’69

Donald O’Neal ’82

Sallie O’Neill

William PhD ’81 and Rita Overman

Daniel Pappone ’77 and Syndie Meyer

Brian Pasion ’98, MS ’00

David Patterson MS ’70, PhD ’76

Christopher Peak and Jacquelyn

Weber, Parents ’12

John MS ’66, PhD ’68 and Pat Peller

Daniel ’80 and Lisa Peterson

Gregory Pottie

Steven Powell ’00

Chulanur and Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10

Alfonso MS ’63, PhD ’70 and Dolores Ratcliffe

Joseph ’88 and Monica Rice

George and Lynn Rossmann

Van ’74, MS ’75 and Susan Schultz

Takashi Shiozaki ’69

Michael ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80

and Charlene Sievers

Yet Siu ’53

Bart Sokolow ’70, MS ’73 and Harriet Scharf

Craig Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82

Alex ’70 and Anne-Marie Spataru

Jeremy ’98 and Midco Switzer

Leonard ’76 and Elvira Tucker

Robert Vitali ’76, MS ’78

Bruce MS ’77, PhD ’83 and Vickie Walker

Philip Wong ’67

William Wong ’90

Mark Yarvis ’91, MS ’98, PhD ’01

Ty and Wei Chen Yeh

We have made every effort to ensure the

completeness and accuracy of this Honor

Roll. If you discover an error or omission,

please contact Leti McNeill, Director of

Development in the Office of External

Affairs, at (310) 206-0678 or email

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Chulanur and Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10

Alfonso MS ’63, PhD ’70 and Dolores Ratcliffe

Joseph ’88 and Monica Rice

George and Lynn Rossmann

Van ’74, MS ’75 and Susan Schultz

Takashi Shiozaki ’69

Michael ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80

and Charlene Sievers

Yet Siu ’53

Bart Sokolow ’70, MS ’73 and Harriet Scharf

Craig Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82

Alex ’70 and Anne-Marie Spataru

Jeremy ’98 and Midco Switzer

Leonard ’76 and Elvira Tucker

Robert Vitali ’76, MS ’78

Bruce MS ’77, PhD ’83 and Vickie Walker

Philip Wong ’67

William Wong ’90

Mark Yarvis ’91, MS ’98, PhD ’01

Ty and Wei Chen Yeh

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AreAs• Advanced Structural Materials• Aerospace Engineering• Computer Networking• Electronic Materials• Integrated Circuits• Manufacturing and Design• Mechanics of Structures• Signal Processing and Communications • Systems Engineering

Distinctive FeAtures oF the ProgrAm• Each course is fully equivalent to the corresponding

on-campus course and taught by the faculty members who teach the on-campus course.

• The online lectures are carefully prepared for the online student.

the primary purpose of this program is to enable employed engineers and computer scientists to enhance their technical education beyond the Bachelor of science level, and to enhance their value to the technical organizations in which they are employed.

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