LEAdERS IN THE NANO REALMITA: LAB TO LAUNCH, INCUBATING NEw FIRMS

SpRing 2013, Issue No. 29

dEANVijayK.Dhir

ASSOCIATE dEANSRichardD.WeselAcademic and Student AffairsJaneP.ChangResearch and Physical Resources

ASSISTANT dEANMaryOkinoChief Financial Officer

dEPARTMENT CHAIRSBenjaminWuBioengineeringJamesC.LiaoChemical and Biomolecular EngineeringJonathanP.StewartCivil and Environmental EngineeringJensPalsbergComputer ScienceM.C.FrankChangElectrical Engineering

Jenn-MingYangMaterials Science and EngineeringTsu-ChinTsaoMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

ExTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMUNICATIONSSheilaBergmanExecutive DirectorBillKisliukMedia Relations and Marketing Director

MatthewChinCommunications Manager and WriterHauCheeChungDesigner

OFFICE OF ExTERNAL AFFAIRS(310)206-0678www.engineer.ucla.eduuclaengineering@support.ucla.edu

FROM THE dEAN

Attheatomiclevel,thedistinctionsbetweendifferentengineeringdisciplinesstarttodisappear.

Electricalengineers,materialsscientists,biomolecularengineersandothersworkingatthenano-scaleareventuringintonewterritory,makingstridesbyrearrangingparticlesonethousandtimessmallerthanthewidthofahumanhair.Thepossibilitiesstraintheimagination:transparentsolarcellsplacedonwindowsthatgenerateelectricityfromsunlight;polymercapsulesthatcarryproteinsdirectlyintocellstoslowcancer;newmaterialsthatallowhandhelddevicestodelivermoredatawhilerunningmoreefficiently.

HereattheUCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedScience,wehavetakenaleadershiproleintheseareasofresearch,asthearticleonpage6illustrates.Theschoolhoststhreenationalnanotechnologycentersofexcellence,withafourthtobelaunchedwiththecompletionofPhaseIoftheEngineeringVIbuilding.

Thecross-disciplinarynatureofnano-scaleresearchisjustonereflectionofthecollaborativeemphasisatUCLAEngineering,bothinthelabandtheclassroom.

Sixyearsago,theschooldistinguisheditselfbyrequiringthatundergraduatestakeasetofthreetechnicalbreadthcoursesinadisciplineotherthantheirmajor,preparingthemforcareersinwhichtheywillbeabletoinnovateandsolvecomplexproblemsacrossdisciplines.UCLAEngineeringalsohasdevelopedclosetiestotheDavidGeffenSchoolofMedicineatUCLAandothertopresearchcenterstohelpsustainourtechnologicalleadershipintheworld.

Thisdedicationtointerdisciplinaryeducationandresearchisahallmarkoftheschool,andwillremainso.

Sincerely,

VijayK.DhirDean

02 | By the Numbers

04 | Breakthroughs

18 | School News

22 | New Faculty

26 | Alumni News

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TINY SOLUTIONS UCLAresearcherstaketheleadintherealmofnanotechnology

ITA: THE INCUBATOR AcenterwithinUCLAEngineeringlaunchesfirmsfoundedonschoolresearch

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scholarships will be awarded in 2012-13 school year

More than

14,100students applied for

freshman admission for Fall 2012.

619 enrolled.

The average weighted GPA of those enrolled is

4.35and average SAT score is

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The school is ranked7th

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in 2012-13. Criteria include: Teaching,

International Outlook, Industry Income,

Research and Citations.

The school is ranked4th

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Search for H-index over the past 10 years.

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based on the number of papers published

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aydogaN ozcaN, AssociateProfessorofElectricalEngineeringandBioengineering,memberoftheCaliforniaNanoSystemsInstitute

Areyouallergictopeanutsandworriedthatcookiemighthavesome?Nowyourcellphonecantellyou.

Researchershavedevelopedalightweightdevice,knownastheiTube,thatusesaphone’sbuilt-incameraalongwithanapplicationthatrunsasophisticatedtestofallergens–suchasnuts,eggsandgluten–infoodsamples.Whileavailableallergendetectorsrequirebulkyequipment,theiTubeweighslessthantwoounces.Thetesttakesabout20minutes.

AydoganOzcan,principalinvestigatorontheresearch,saidthedevice“couldbeveryvaluable,especiallyforparents,aswellasforschools,restau-rantsandotherpublicsettings.” n

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yuNfeNg lu,ProfessorofChemicalandBiomolecularEngineering

Indiscoveriesthatcouldimprovecancertreatmentandhelppeoplequicklyreducetheirblood-alcohollevels,researchershavedeliveredtinycapsulesfullofspecializedproteinstocellsinmice.

AteamledbyYiTangdevelopeddegradablenano-scaleshellstocarryproteinstocancercellsandstuntthegrowthoftumorswithoutdamaginghealthycells.Tang'sgroupcontinuestoresearchwaysofmorepreciselytargetingtumorsandprolongingtheshells’effectiveness.

YunfengLuandhisteamdevisedshellscarryingtwocomplementaryproteinsthatspeedthebody'sreactiontotheconsumptionofalcohol.

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WeNyuaN shi,ProfessorofOralBiologyattheUCLASchoolofDentistry

kariN a. dahmeN,AssociateProfessorofPhysicsattheUniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign

Microscopicbacteriahavesomethingincommonwithearthquakes,andinthelongtermthatdiscoverymayleadtomethodsofstoppingharmfulmicrobes.

ResearchersstudyingMyxococcus xanthuhavefoundthebacteriamoveinfitsandstarts,muchliketheearth’stectonicplates.Thepaceofmovementissoslowthatmostscientistsrelyontime-lapsephotographytoobservethebacteria.UCLAbioengineeringprofessorGerardWong’steamwentintheoppositedirection,usinghigh-speedphotographytocapturetheirfinermovements.Researchersfoundthatbacteriausetentacle-likeappendagesknownaspili,whichactasgrapplinghooksthatpullthemalonginshortburstsbetweenlongperiodsofrest.Bothearthquakesandthebacteriafollowamathematicalmodelthatdescribesso-called“avalanche”motions.

Inaddition,researchersfoundthatmoleculesservingastheglueallowingthebacteriatosticktosurfacesalsoactasalubricant,helpingthemglidealongasurface.Thisglidingmovementiswhatallowsbacteriatoinvadehumantissues,andunderstandingitmaybethekeytofindingnewwaystocombatpathogens. n

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Big ideasTiny SoluTionS

By Matthew Chin and Bill Kisliuk

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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science is a

world leader in nano-scale engineering.

The school has been awarded tens of

millions of dollars to launch nanotech-

nology research centers, including

two in the last several months. Across

disciplines, faculty are leading efforts

to exploit nanotechnology for advances

in energy, healthcare, electronics and

other areas.

From clean energy to smaller, faster devices, uClA Engineering researchers take the lead in the nano realm

tAn illustration of a nano-scale remote submarine, no larger than a red blood cell, which could be developed to navigate circulatory systems and collect vital data.

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FAMEIt’s not just smaller for the sake of

being smaller. Conducting research at

the atomic scale unlocks phenomena

inaccessible at larger sizes.

Finding ways to take advantage of

these phenomena – such as the spin

of an electron, a material’s magnetic

properties, or the manipulation of

magnetism by an electric field – is the

mission for the Center on Function

Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering

(FAME). Specifically, FAME is creating

and investigating nonconventional

materials and structures for innovations

in electronic devices.

In January, the two sponsors of the

center – the Semiconductor Research

Corporation (SRC), a consortium of

semiconductor industry companies, and

the Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency (DARPA) – unveiled FAME and

five other centers, and announced FAME

would receive $35 million over the next

five years. FAME’s director is Jane P.

Chang, UCLA Engineering associate

dean and the William Frederick Seyer

Professor of Materials Electrochemistry

in the Department of Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering.

“This is truly an interdisciplinary

research center where science and

engineering are integrated to enable

innovation in solid state devices," Chang

said. "The unique and fascinating

functionalities that we can tailor by

manipulating matter at the atomic scale

will open up enormous opportunities to

design devices that can achieve what was

considered impossible just a decade ago.”

FAME includes a team of 35

principal investigators, at 16 of the

nation’s best research universities. They

are working on integrating theoretical

and experimental approaches to realize

the center’s objectives.

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Manipulating matter at the atomic scale will open up enormous opportunities

“Advancing the performance

of analog, logic or memory devices

by many orders of magnitude will

push the envelope of electronics and

information technology over the next

several decades,” she said. “We are doing

research in truly exciting times.”

TAnMSWhen mechanical and aerospace

engineering professor Gregory Carman

describes nano-scale research, he cites

a cartoon strip that was way ahead

of its time – and not just because the

protagonist wore a wristwatch-radio.

“There’s a line from the old ‘Dick

Tracy’ comic strip, ‘The nation that

controls magnetism will control the

universe,’” said Carman, quoting a

phrase from long-running strip by

Chester Gould. “In our case, controlling

magnetism with multiferroic materials

provides a pathway to revolutionize

nanoscale electromagnetic devices.”

Carman directs the Center for

Translational Applications of Nanoscale

Multiferroic Systems (TANMS), a

National Science Foundation Nanoscale

Engineering Research Center established

in September with an $18.5 million,

five-year grant. The center’s roster

includes the best engineers and

scientists in multiferroic materials

at UCLA and four partner

universities. They’re working

toward a paradigm

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by engineering new electromagnetic

materials in the nanoscale.

Today’s electromagnetic systems use

current to produce power. Current is

much like water flowing through a pipe.

As the size of the pipe decreases, so does

the amount of electromagnetic energy

that can be produced. However, recent

discoveries have demonstrated that

certain materials – called mutliferroics

– can intrinsically

produce magnetic

states and can be

switched on and off

through an electric

field. As a result, miniaturization does

not negatively influence power produced.

These new materials and systems

could produce substantially smaller

electromagnetic devices such as memory,

antennas, and motors – the three focus

areas for TANMS. Its researchers are

working on increased Efficiency, reduced

physical Size, and increased Power

output (ESP).

How much smaller, more powerful

and efficient could devices be? Carman

imagines a robotic submarine – on the

order of a red blood cell – capable of

complex operations and navigation inside

human circulatory systems.

MEEMIt may take changes at the molecular

level to make solar panels a more viable

source of power, and that is the focus of

researchers at Molecularly Engineered

Energy Materials (MEEM).

In a laboratory setting, today’s

solar cells convert into energy only

about 10% of the light that strikes them.

“That is about the minimum needed

to be economically competitive,” said

Vidvuds Ozolins, director of MEEM and

a professor of materials science and

engineering. “In the field, solar cells only

convert 3% or 4% of available light. The

goal is to create solar cells that would be

very high efficiency.”

Ozolins and his colleagues are

synthesizing molecules and manipulating

variations of carbon clusters known

as buckyballs – named for pioneering

engineer R. Buckminster Fuller – to

design molecules that will self-assemble to

more efficiently store and transmit energy.

Researchers seek to develop a super-capacitor with a high capability

for both energy storage and delivery.

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New materials could produce substantially smaller devices such as memory, antennas and motors

Ozolins seeks to develop a

super-capacitor – combining the storage

capabilities of lithium-ion batteries

with the high energy delivery rate of

capacitors – for applications such as

the smart electric grid and regenerative

braking, which recovers energy lost to

heat when a driver hits the brakes.

“It is difficult to get power and

energy density into the same device,”

Ozolins said. “A super-capacitor would

be transformative.”

The center, launched in 2009 as

one of the Department of Energy’s

Energy Frontier Research Centers,

includes members of several UCLA

departments as well as researchers

from four other institutions.

Cutting-edge nanoscale research

throughout UCLA Engineering also

will be supported by the Western

Institute of Nanotechnology on Green

Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM).

Phase I of the forthcoming Engineering

VI building will house WIN-GEM. The

facility will include laboratories to study

low-power, nonvolatile nanoelectronics;

carbon nanoelectronics and topological

insulators; and green manufacturing

of novel energy generation, storage and

management technologies. Engineering

VI also will have a basement lab with

vibrational isolation and electromagnetic

interference shielding to support highly

sensitive instrumentation that probes

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Buildingabridgefromthelaboratorytothemarketplace,

theUCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandApplied

Scienceishelpinglaunchtechnologyfirmsandaggressively

miningindustryexpertisetohelpshaperesearch.

Workingwiththeschoolofengineering’sInstitutefor

TechnologyAdvancement(ITA),professorshaveincorporated

eightcompaniesandplacedeightmoreinthepipeline.Thefirms

areattractinginvestorinterestandresearchfunds,whileatthe

sametimecontributingtotheengineeringschool’sfinancial

health.TheInstituteforTechnologyAdvancementalsoworks

toidentifymulti-disciplinaryresearchprojectsattractiveto

grantingagenciesandhealthcare,electronicsandotherfirms.

Dwight Streit and uClA Engineering’s institute for Technology Advancement are making capital gains on campus discoveries.

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and key agencies, and we’re getting

investment in return,” said Dwight Streit,

director of the institute and a former

executive with Northrop Grumman

and TRW Space & Electronics. “We can

provide speed and flexibility for organiza-

tions interested in getting into new areas

of research. And the companies created

by faculty or students donate equity to

the school.”

Streit, who holds more than 30

U.S. and international patents and

is a professor with appointments

in UCLA’s departments of Materials

Science and Engineering and Electrical

Engineering, has gathered a team of

interdisciplinary experts — from federal

agencies including NASA and the

Department of Energy and companies

including Alcoa and Boeing — to support

UCLA Engineering faculty. As a result,

ITA has become a one-stop shop for

professors looking to launch a start-up,

license a product or win a grant.

“A lot of the time, professors are

happy to stay in the academic world and

publish research,” said Marla Sanchez,

a member of ITA’s industrial advisory

board and a Silicon Valley consultant for

technology firms. “But the research they

are coming up with is potentially very

beneficial for the world, and there is a

big transition to getting it out there.”

Sanchez, a former chief financial

officer at the fiber optics firm Avanex

Corp. who co-founded Cupertino-

based InSite Partners, said ITA

advisory board members work to find

backers for promising projects and

advise researchers on optimizing the

commercial potential of their work.

Founded in 2007 with a grant from

the Samueli Foundation and bolstered

in 2009 with a gift from the Easton

Sports Development Foundation, ITA has

launched three firms that already have

attracted outside investment and paid

dividends to the school.

WAvEConnEx—Based on the work

of Frank Chang, the Wintek Chair in

Electrical Engineering at UCLA and

chair of the department, the company is

developing a silicon chip about the size

of a grain of rice that could dramatically

improve Internet connectivity and data

transfer on wireless devices.

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the portable LUCAS microscope, a pocket-

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‘We’re reaching out to the private sector and key agencies, and we’re

getting investment in return.’ITA DIrecTor DwIghT STreIT

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HoloMiC—Founded on the

biophotonics work of Aydogan Ozcan,

an associate professor of electrical

engineering and bioengineering, Holomic

inventions include portable microscopes

and lightweight diagnostic tools that

can perform sophisticated blood, water

quality and other analyses, transmitting

information from the field to labs and

hospitals via a standard smartphone.

EASEl BioTECHnologiES—Easel is

pioneering methods of biosynthesizing

harmful pollutants and developing

low-emission biofuels based on the

work of Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

Professor James C. Liao, chair of

the Chemical and Biomolecular

Engineering Department.

In each case, the companies have

donated equity to UCLA Engineering,

ensuring that the school will see

long-term benefits should the firms

prove successful.

ITA also encourages students to

think big through an annual entre-

preneur competition. Teams – which

must include at least one student

each from UCLA Engineering and the

UCLA Anderson School of Management

– compete to develop a new piece of

technology and a viable business strategy

for launching it. With Kay Family

Foundation support, the top teams in 2013 will share a $50,000 prize.

William Ouchi, Sanford and Betty

Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at

the Anderson School, said ITA is

helping overcome years of academic

reluctance to go entrepreneurial – a

hangover from the days when federal

funding agencies controlled intellectual

property and universities had not

seen the upside to working

with the private sector.

Now, Ouchi said,

“There is very broad

agreement across campus

and across disciplines

that our three missions

– teaching, research and

serving the community –

are greatly enhanced if we have everyone

take the fruits of their scholarship all the

way to the outside world.”

Streit noted that high-performing

university labs increasingly have

caught the interest of companies

attempting to break new ground.

“We have outstanding faculty with

brilliant ideas,” Streit said. “The door

is open to partner with UCLA, and

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pThree companies based on the work of UCLA Engineering faculty – Easel Biotech-nologies, Holomic and Waveconnex – have already paid dividends for the UCLA School of Engineering.

BUILdING A NEw ANCHORfor innovation

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Support from alumni and friends of the school is the driving force for Engineering VI, which will have wet and dry labs, student study spaces, three centers of excellence and a 250-seat learning center.

Adding150,000squarefeetofspaceforcutting-edgeresearch,UCLAEngineeringbrokegroundinOctober2012onitsnewestbuilding,EngineeringVI.Rep.HenryWaxman(D-LosAngeles)joinedUCLAChancellorGeneBlock,DeanVijayK.Dhir,BroadcomCorp.c0-founder,ChairmanandChiefTechnologyOfficerHenrySamueliandothersinplungingtheceremonialfirstshovelintothesoil.

EngineeringVIwillhouselaboratories–includingasophisticatedbasementfacilityshieldedagainstelectromagneticandvibrationalinterference–threenanotech-nologycenters,officespacefor30facultymembersandtheschool’sentrepre-neurialarm,theInstituteforTechnologyAdvancement(ITA).Thebuilding,intheheartofcampusandadjacenttootherengineeringbuildings,willmeetLEEDGoldstandardsforuseofsustainablematerialsanddesignelements.

ThestateofCaliforniaisnotprovidinganyoftheestimated$120millionto$130millionneededforEngineeringVI.Thefirstphaseofconstructionreceiveda$6milliongrantfromtheNationalInstituteofStandardsandTechnologyaswellassupportfromalumni,foundations,corporations,theschoolandthecampus.WorkonPhaseIisslatedforcompletionin2014.Fundraisingisongoingforthesecondandfinalphaseofconstruction.

“EngineeringVIwilldomorethanexpandourfacilitiesforstudentsandfaculty.Itwillpromotecollaborationbetweenourresearchersandothersthroughouttheregiontomakeimportanttechnologicaladvanceswithbroadsocialimplications,”saidDhir.

“Withoutrelyingonstatesupport,wehavereceived–andhopetocontinuetoreceive–generousassistancefromdonorsandalumniwhowanttoseetheschoolcarrythisimportantworkforward.” n

t(left to right) Associate Dean Jane P. Chang, Rep. Henry Waxman, Dean Vijay K. Dhir, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli, NIST executive Stella Fiotes and National Technical Systems founder Aaron Cohen at the Engineering VI groundbreaking.

‘Engineering vi will… promote collaboration between our research-ers and others through-out the region to make important technologi-cal advances.’ – Dean Vijay K. Dhir

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SCHOOL

News unshaken by three dozen rival teams, in February a group

of uClA civil engineering students took first prize in the

Earthquake Engineering Research institute’s 10th annual

Seismic Design Competition. it is the second straight year

uClA won the award.In the contest, teams of undergraduates designed and

built a model of a skyscraper that could survive an earth-

quake with minimal financial damage. The competition took

place in Seattle, and teams had to offer a replacement for the

Space Needle as the city’s signature building.

Captain Emily Yagi and her colleagues designed a

tower that survived shake tests and won the top prize under

criteria that also included architecture and presentation. Yagi

consulted with civil and environmental engineering associate

professor Jian Zhang and others on the project and relied on

teammates Norman Chak and Seema Barua for key logistical

support. Yagi also was on the winning team captained by

Jennifer Huynh in 2012. Both Huynh and Yagi are seniors.

Yagi said the biggest challenge

for her team was constructing the

intricate model made of balsa wood

and glue. “It took a month of working

five days a week, two hours a day,”

she said.

The 2013 team also included:

Anthony Ambrosio-Meir, Maxwell

Armenta, Winston Boyce, Dennis Cha,

Sam Cummings, Bill Faught, Victoria

Lam, Paul Lee, Andy Luu, Steven

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ForgingtieswithleadingresearchinstitutionsinChina,theUCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedSciencehasagreedtostudentandfacultyexchangeprogramswithPekingUniversityinBeijingandHohaiUniversityinNanjing.Athirdagreement,withtheUniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChinainHefei,isstillbeingfinalized.

UCLAEngineeringDeanVijayK.DhirmetwithhiscounterpartsattheChineseuniversitiesduringavisittoAsiainJanuary2013.

StudentsparticipatingintheexchangeprogramswillhavetheopportunitytoearndegreesfromaChineseuniversityandUCLAEngineering.

UCLAEngineeringfacultymayalsovisittheschoolsandmaybeinvitedtoparticipateinjointprojectswithChineseresearchers.Theagreementscallfortheuniversitiestosharerightstointellectualpropertydevelopedbyfacultyandstudentstakingpartintheexchange.

“Theseagreementswillstrengthenallofourinstitutions,”Dhirsaid.

“WebelievethatbysharingtheresourcesofUCLAEngineeringwiththeseleadingChinesecenters,wewillbeabletodeepenourstudents’learningexperience,enhancefacultyinteractionsandproduceinnovativeresearch.” n

UCLA,TOPCHINESESCHOOLSlaunchexchangeprograms

tAt left, Hong Mei, Peking University engineering school dean, and UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir forge an agreement. Below, Dhir and UCLA Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science Jason Cong, a Peking University alum, in Beijing.

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FACULTYHonors and Awards

JAmeS c. LIAo elected to national Academy of Engineering

JamesC.Liao,UCLA'sRalphM.ParsonsFoundationProfessorofChemical

EngineeringandchairoftheChemicalandBiomolecularEngineeringDepartmentattheUCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedScience,hasbeenelectedtotheNationalAcademyofEngineering.

ElectiontotheacademyisoneofthehighestprofessionaldistinctionsthatcanbeawardedtoanengineerintheUnitedStates.

Theacademy'scitationrecognizedLiao“foradvancesinmetabolicengineeringofmicroorganismstoproducefuelsandchemicals.”Hejoined68othernewmembersand11foreignassociateselectedfortheiroutstandingcontributions

to“engineeringresearch,practice,oreducation,”theacademyannouncedonFebruary8.

“Jimhasmadepioneeringadvancesinapplyingmetabolicengineeringandsyntheticbiologytechniquestosolvecriticalandintertwinedproblemsinthebiologicalproductionoffuelsandthecombatingofgreenhousegases,”saidUCLAEngineeringDeanVijayK.Dhir,aNationalAcademyofEngineeringmember.

“Heistrulydeservingofthisveryhighestofhonors.”

Liaohasreceivedmuchacclaimforhisworkdevelopingmoreefficientbiofuels.Hehasgeneticallymodifiedbacteriatobothconsumecarbondioxide,aharmfulgreenhousegas,andproducetheliquid

pLiao uses plants and micro-organisms in his research on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and systems biology to produce fuels and chemicals.

The academy recognized Liao for advances in engineering microorganisms to develop more clean and efficient fuels

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‘This great honor should go to my previous and current group members, who really have made all the difference in the world.’ —James C. Liao

fuelisobutanol.Inessence,heandhisresearchteamhaveturnedexhaustintofuelinaseriesofbiochemicalreactionspoweredbysunlight.

Liaohasalsodevelopedawaytoturnelectricityintoliquidfuelandamethodforconvertingproteinsintofuel.Hehasusedhistechniquestoaddressobesitybyincreasingmetabolismrates—researchthatshowedsuccessfulresultsinmice.

Liaosayshisultimateresearchgoalsaretousebiochemicalmethodstoreplacepetroleumprocessingandtotreatmetabolicdiseases.

“Thisgreathonorshouldgotomypreviousandcurrentgroupmembers,whoreallyhavemadeallthedifferenceintheworld,"Liaosaidofhiselectiontotheacademy.”Ialsoappreciatethesupportofmycolleagues,thedepartmentandtheschool." n

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JONATHAN B. HOPkINS

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ph.D.–MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology

JonathanB.Hopkins’researchgoalsareto

design,analyzeandfabricateflexiblematerials

andstructuresthathaveextraordinary

capabilities,suchasshapeandsizemutability,

elasticenergystorageandreleasecapacity,

andtheabilitytomovewithcomplexitywhile

beingcontrolledsimply.

Hopkinsisontheresearchstaffofthe

LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory,

workinginPrecisionSystemsandManufac-

turing,andattheCenterforMicro&Nano

Technology.HewilljoinUCLAEngineering

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CHRISTINA FRAGOULI

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ph.D.–UCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedScience

ChristinaFragouli’sresearchinterestsincludenetworkinformationflow

theoryandalgorithms,networkcoding,wirelessnetworks,sensornetworks

andsecurity.

FragouliisanassociateprofessorattheSchoolofComputerand

CommunicationSciences,EcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne(EPFL),in

Switzerland.ShewillarriveatUCLAEngineeringlaterthisyear.PriortoEPFL,

sheworkedatAT&TLabs’InformationSciencesCenterinFlorhamPark,N.J.,and

visitedtheBellLabs’MathCenterinMurrayHill,N.J.

SheservedasaneditorforIEEECommunica-

tionsLetters,IEEETransactionsonInformation

Theory,IEEETransactionsonCommunicationsand

forElsevier'sComputerCommunications,andis

currentlyaneditorforIEEETransactionsonMobile

Computing.SheisalsoaDistinguishedLecturerfor

theIEEEInformationTheorySociety.

ShereceivedtheFulbrightFellowshipforher

graduatestudies,theOutstandingPh.D.Student

Award2000-2001,UCLA,ElectricalEngineering

Department,theZontaAward2008inSwitzerland

andtheYoungInvestigatorERCgrantin2009. n

OnlineMastersThe 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.

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.

AREAS(CS)Computer ScienceComputer Networking

(EE)Electrical EngineeringIntegrated CircuitsSignal Processing &

Communications

(MSE)Materials Science

Advanced Structural Materials

Electronic Materials

(MAE)Mechanical EngineeringAerospace EngineeringManufacturing and

Design

(EN)Systems Engineering

Additional information and online applications available at: msol.ucla.edu

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DavidOkrent1922-2012

I N M E M O R I A M

DavidOkrent,UCLAprofessoremeritusofmechanicalandaero-spaceengineering,whomadepioneer-ingcontributionsinnuclearreactordesignandsafety,diedDec.14,2012.Hewas90.

Okrentreceivedhisbachelor’sdegreefromStevensInstituteofTechnology.HeearnedhisPh.D.fromHarvardUniversityin1951.

AfterreceivinghisPh.D.,OkrentjoinedArgonneNationalLaboratoryinIllinois,startingoutasanassociatephysicist.Hebe-camethemanagerofthelab’sFastReactorPhysicsandSafetyin1957,apositionheheldthrough1971.

Afterspending20yearsatArgonneNationalLab,OkrentjoinedUCLAEngineeringasafacultymemberandestablishedaworld-leadingresearchprograminnuclearsafety.Hetaughtundergraduateclassesinthermo-dynamics,nuclearreactortheoryanddesign,andprobabilisticriskassessment,andheledgraduate-levelcoursesinreactorsafetyand

design.Duringhistenureheadvised50Ph.D.students.

“Daviddidnotbelieveingivingaprescriptionto

research,and,instead,healwaysansweredquestionswithgreatquestionsofhisown,”saidUCLAEngineeringDeanVijayK.Dhir.

“Hewasabrilliantscholar,agreatthinker,asuperbmentorofgraduatestudentsand,aboveall,hewasatruegentleman.Hisinfluencespreadfarandwideinestablishingacultureofsafetyfornuclearreactors.”

Okrentreceivedmanypresti-gioushonorsforhiswork,includ-ingaGuggenheimFellowship,theGeorgeC.LaurencePioneeringAwardoftheAmericanNuclearSocietyandelectiontotheNa-tionalAcademyofEngineering.

OkrentretiredfromUCLAin1991,butcontinuedteachingclassesandmentoringgraduatestudentsforseveralyears. n

www.engineer.ucla.edu/ memoriam-okrent

CHRISTIANWAGNER

1927-2012ChristianN.J.Wagner,aUCLAprofessoremeritusofmaterialsscienceandengineering,diedonDec.31,2012,athishomeinPalmDesert.Hewas85.Wagnerwasinternationallyknownforresearchonthestructureofliquid,amorphousandnanocrystallinematerials,andonresidualstressesinplasticallydeformedmaterials.

BorninGermany,WagnerearnedhisPh.D.fromfromSaarlandUniversity.HeemigratedtotheUnitedStatesin1959,joiningYaleUniversity’sfacultyintheMetallurgyDepartment.HebecameaU.S.citizenin1969.

In1970,WagnerjoinedtheUCLAMaterialsDepartment.Heheldseveraladmin-istrativepostsuntilhisretirementin1991.

HewasafellowofASMInternationalandwasamemberTauBetaPiandseveralengineeringorganizations. n

www.engineer.ucla.edu/memoriam-wagner

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U.S.CoastGuardCapt.GailKulisch(ret.)reallycleanedupaftersheearnedhermaster’sdegreein1990.In2010,sheledtheCoastGuard’sspecialoperationsforcesintheirresponsetotheDeepwaterHorizonspillthatspewed200milliongallonsofoilintotheGulfofMexico.In2001,shedirectedamulti-agencyresponsetotheterroristattackonNewYork’s

TwinTowersandtheanthraxscareonCapitolHill.Sheservedascaptainof

theportinBostonfrom2007to2009.Kulisch’s28-yearCoastGuard

careerstartedbeforeshearrivedoncampus.Inthesummerof1989,inbetweenherfirstandsecond

yearsasaUCLAstudent,shehelpedaftertheExxonValdezspilledoil

intoAlaska’sPrinceWilliamSound.TheValdezresponse,shesaid,wasa

pioneeringexampleofbioremediationandcooperation,astheEnvironmentalProtection

Agencytestedmicroorganismsthatcouldconsumetoxinseven

asemergencyresponderscleanedthesite.

ApaperKulischco-authoredwithUCLA

EngineeringprofessorVincentVilkerin1991exploredtheuseofbacteriatofightchemicalspills.KulischsaidherCoastGuardcareerparalleledthemultidisciplinaryapproachsheencounteredatUCLA,requiringconsiderationofseveralanglesatonce.

“Nobodywantsorinvitesacrisis,”shesaid.“Inresponse,youdonotabandonscience,andyoudonotabandonhealthandsafety.”

KulischretiredfromtheCoastGuardinFebruary2012.ShehassincelaunchedBTGVentures,anenvironmentalconsultingfirmfocusedonsecurity,safetyandsustainability.n

Kulisch said the cross-

disciplinary approach

at uClA Engineering

helped her during

her 28-year Coast

guard career.

CATC H I NGU PWITH

GailKulischMS’90By Bill Kisliuk

pGail Kulisch with President George W. Bush, during a briefing after the 2001 terror attacks, and, right, as a student at UCLA.

in a phrase that rings across three generations, a member of the Kline family just earned a ph.D. in engineering from uClA.

ErikKlinefinishedhiscomputersciencedegreeinFall2012,workingwithProfessorPeterReiher.HeisnowdoingresearchonroutingsecurityfortheInformationSciencesInstituteatUSC.

Hisgrandfather,MelvinKline,whodiedin2010,earnedhisPh.D.atUCLAin1966beforebecominganelectricalengineeringconsultantandthenteachingattheNavalPostgraduateSchoolinMonterey,Calif.OneofMelvinKline’sadvisorswasfoundingDeanLlewellynM.K.Boelter.

Melvin’sson,CharleyKline,earnedthreedegreesatUCLA,includingaPh.D.incomputersciencein1980.He

workedwithProfessorLeonardKleinrockonthedevelop-mentsthatledtotheInternet,sendingthefirsttrans-missionsontheARPANETfrom3420BoelterHalltotheStanfordResearchInstituteonOct.,29,1969.However,Klinesaid,hismostsignificantBoelterHallmemoryinvolvesmeetingLanaii,thewomanwhowouldbecomehiswife,atacomputerclubgathering.

CharleyKlinesaidthatwhenhewasinjuniorhighschool,hisfatherbroughthimontocampustotryhishandatprogramming.EriksaidheknewnothingoftheUCLAcampusbeforeapplying.HeoptedforUCLAsolelyonthealignmentoftheschool’sstrengthsandhisinterests.“IhadnorealpreferencetogotoUCLA,”hesaid.“ThedecisionImadewasbasedonwhattheprogramswereabout.” n

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THREE GENERATIONS of Ph.d.s By Bill Kisliuk

tThree of a kind: From left, Melvin, Charley and Erik Kline, all of whom earned Ph.D.s at UCLA.

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1950sJoe spradley’54,MS’55,PhD’58,emeritusprofessorofphysicsatWheatonCollegeinIllinois,hadtworeferencebooksheeditedpublishedbySalemPress:“EarthScience:PhysicsandChemistryoftheEarth,”and“GreatLivesfromHistory:ScientistsandScience.”

gary macdougal’58continuesmakingadifferenceinthelivesofthedisadvantaged.HisOctober2012essayinThe New York Times,"TheWrongWaytoHelpthePoor"discussedhowthe$1trillionthegovernmentallocatesannuallytopovertyprogramswouldbeenoughifspentmoreintelligently.Theop-edpiecedrewbipartisanpraiseandwasnamedoneoftheTimes’topfivearticlesoftheweek.

1960sJack k. holmes’60,MS’63,PhD’67recentlyhadhistextbook

“SpreadSpectrumSystemsforGNSSandWirelessCommuni-cations,”publishedinChinese.ItwasoriginallypublishedbyArtechHousein2007.

robert W. farquharMS’61,executiveforspaceexplorationatKinetXAerospace,receivedseveralhonorsin2012,includingelectiontotheNationalAcademyofEngineering“fordeepspacemissionstoasteroidsand

cometsandforleadingtheNEARmissiontoEros;”theSpacePioneerAwardforScienceandEngineeringfromtheNationalSpaceSociety;certificatesofappreciationfromtheU.S.DepartmentofDefenseforhonorableserviceintheKoreanWarandfromNASA’sPlanetaryScienceDivisionfor

leadershipinsolarsystemexploration.HewasalsonamedaDistinguishedVisitingProfessorandChiefInternationalAcademicAdvisoratHarbinInstituteofTechnologyinChina.Farquhar’smemoir,“FiftyYearsontheSpaceFrontier:HaloOrbits,Comets,Asteroids,andMore”wasrecentlypublishedbyOutskirtsPress.

William VietiNghoffMEEngineeringExecutiveProgram’62,aretireefromBoeing,hasbeenrehiredbyBoeingtoprovidepresentationstoschoolsandotherorganizationsonthehistoryofrocketenginedevelopmentatthecompany’sformerSantaSusanaFieldLaboratoryinCalifornia.

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harold ray’63,whoafter35yearsofservicetoSouthernCaliforniaEdisonretiredasexecutivevicepresidentoverseeinggenerationandwholesaleenergyin2006,waselectedin2012totheexecutivecommitteeoftheAdvisoryCommitteeofReactorSafeguards(ACRS)oftheU.S.NuclearRegulatoryCommission.Hefirstjoinedthecommitteein2008andisnowinhissecondterm.Rayhastwodaughters,oneofwhomgraduatedfromUCLAEngineering.Hecurrentlyrunsaconsultingpractice.

laWreNce c. akers ’66retiredin2002after33yearsatPfizerInc.asachemicalengineerandpatentattorney.HenowlivesinNewYork.

doNald broWN’66recentlymovedtoOcala,Fla.,tocontinuehissecondcareerofteachingadvancedmathematicscoursesatTrinityCatholicHighSchool.BrownandhiswifeCathyareenjoyinglivinginFloridahorsecountry.

robert barker’68,MBA(UCLAAnderson)’70wasrecentlyappointedtotheadvisoryboardatFastorSystems.FastorSystemsisengagedinbringingsolutionstotherapidlygrowingcloudandenterprisesolid-statedrivemarkets.

asad m. madNi’69,MS’72,distinguishedadjunctprofessorofelectricalengineeringatUCLA,hasbeenelectedafellowoftheAmericanInstituteofAeronauticsandAstronauticsfor“seminalcontributionsanddistinguishedleadershipinthedevelopmentand

commercializationofsensorsandsystemsforaerospace,transportationandcommercialaviation.”AIAAistheworld'slargesttechnicalsocietydedicatedtotheglobalaerospaceprofession.AIAAFellowsarepersonsofdistinctionwhohavemadenotableandvaluablecontributionstothearts,sciencesortechnologyofaeronauticsorastronautics.

1970sraymoNd hoppes’71,MS’75hasretiredtobecomeafull-timemodelrailroaderandbabysitter.Withthreegrandchildrenallunder3,henoteshehasabusylife.HeisamemberoftheNearSightedNarrowGaugersmodelrailroadclub.

ViNtoN g. cerfMS’70,PhD’72wasappointedbyPresidentObamainJanuarytotheNationalScienceBoardoftheNationalScienceFoundation.The25-memberboardsetspoliciesforthe

NSFasdirectedbythePresidentandCongress.TheboardalsoservesasanindependentbodyofadvisorstothePresidentandCongressonpolicyrelatedtoscienceandengineering.CerfisvicepresidentandchiefinternetevangelistatGoogle.

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VaN N. schultz’74,MS’75retiredfromAeraEnergyinNovember.HecompletedhistermaschairoftheUCLAAlumniAssociationinJune,andisnowoneoftwoUCAlumniRegentDesignates.SchultzisalsoontheChemicalandBiomolecularEngineeringDepartment’sadvisorycouncil.

robert skeltoNPhD’76waselectedtotheNationalAcademyofEngineeringin2012for“contributionstorobustcontrol,systemidentification,andmethodologyforcontrol-structureinteraction.”HealsoreceivedaresearchawardfromtheAlexandervonHumboldtFoundation.Hisbook

“TensegritySystems,”co-authoredbyMauriciodeOliveira,waspublishedin2009.

armaNdo beNaVidesMS’77,asystemsengineeratBoeingsince1992,receivedapatentfor“systemsandmethodfordeterminingpropellantmassandcenterofgravityforaspace-basedasset.”ThisishisfourthpatentwithBoeing,andsixthoverall.HecurrentlysupportsBoeing’sGPSandWGSprograms.

keNNeth W. priVitt’77,MS’80andNaNcy g. (WiNter) priVitt’78plantovisitall58U.S.nationalparks.KenrecentlyretiredfromIntelCorp.after24yearsofservice,andNancywillberetiringfromSanDiegoGasandElectricafter32yearsofservice.

1980sbriaN WoNg ’83waselectedtotheboardofdirectorsatsiliconphotonicsinnovatorKotura,Inc.WongiscurrentlypresidentandCEOofEnevateCorp.,aleadingrechargeableenergystoragetechnologycompany.

Nader karimi’86hasbecomethechiefinformationofficeratBCBGMaxAzria,afashionretailer.

lJilJaNa traJkoVicPhD’86,aprofessoratSimonFraserUniversity’sSchoolofEngineeringScience,hasbeenelectedpresident-elect(2013)andvicepresidentpublications(2012-14)oftheIEEESystems,Man,andCyberneticsSociety.Sheispastpresident(2007)oftheIEEECircuitsandSystemsSociety.

leo mascariNia’87,CEOofNetwork-911,Inc.,welcomedhisdaughterEmmaAnnMascarinia,borninNovember.

1990sraymoNd t. cheN’90,whocurrentlyservesasthedeputygeneralcounselforintellectualpropertylawand

solicitorfortheU.S.PatentandTrademarkOffice,wasnominatedinFebruarybyPresidentObamatoU.S.CourtofAppealsfortheFederalCircuit.

Jerome solomoN’91,a17-yearfilmandvideogameindustryveteran,hasjoinedCogswellPolytechnicalCollege,inSunnyvale,Calif.,asanassistantprofessorintheDigitalArts&AnimationDepartment.Additionally,SolomonsitsontheNationalCommitteeforACMSIGGRAPH2013.

kei kogurePhD’92isaco-translatorfromEnglishtoJapaneseof“BusinessandSociety–CorporateStrategy,PublicPolicy,Ethics”byPost,LawrenceandWeber,publishedbyMcGraw-Hill.Thebookhasbeenwidelyusedasatextbookformanyyears.ThetranslationwaspublishedbyMinervashoboinJapanin2012.

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briaN clark’95wasappointedregionalvicepresidentofsalesforCLSInvestments,oneofthecountry’slargestthirdpartymoneymanagers.ClarkpreviouslywasaregionalvicepresidentatNationwide,coveringthewesternUnitedStates.

roderick soN’95,MA’97,MS’99,PhD’05andbeckie chaN’01,MS‘02weremarriedinJanuary2013.BothworkforNorthropGrumman.

JasoN k. hui’97,MS’98,PhD’02wasselectedtoreceiveanAmericanInstituteofAeronauticsandAstronauticsSustainedServiceAwardfor“sustainedandsignificantcontributionstotheGuidance,NavigationandControlTechnicalCommittee,andfordedicatedservicetoAIAA.”

ryaN a. loreNziNi’98celebratedthebirthofhisthirdchildinDecember.Also,in2012hereceivedtheprestigiousMAIdesignationfromtheAppraisalInstitute,andwaspromotedtovicepresidentatHulbergandAssociates.

2000staNya falteNsPhD’02,anengineeringeducator,istransitioningfromCalPolyPomonatoPurdueUniversity,whereshewillbetheeducationalcontentcreationmanagerfortheNetworkforComputationalNanotech-nology.Faltenswillworkwithpartnersatnanocentersanduniversitiestodevelopanddistributehighqualityeducationalcontent,includingsimulationtoolsandothermaterials,viananoHUB.org.

aasim Jukaku’02andhiswifeHatifahaverecentlylaunchedtheWebsiteHerBabyShower.com,whichfeaturesuniqueandpersonalizedbabyshowerfavors,aswellasgames,partysuppliesandgifts.

yashar mira’04,MBA(UCLAAnderson)’12isnowavicepresidentandprincipalatHeatscape,thethermalmanagementdesignandmanufacturingcompanyhejoinedin2009.

sharat batra’05andmarNelli tabbada’01weremarriedinDecember.BothworkfortheCityofLosAngeles.BotharemembersoftheEngineeringAlumniAssociationGoverningBoardofUCLA.

raJiNdra haNdapaNgoda’05passedtheCaliforniaGeotechnicalEngineer(GE)licensingexaminOctober.

taliNe khaNsa’06isservingasaKivaFellowinJordan,LebanonandSierraLeone.Fellowsworkinsupportofglobalmicrofinance.Khansaispursuingacareerinsolvinghumanitarianissuesafterspendingsixyearsintheaerospaceindustry.

laura balzaNoMS’07hasjoinedtheUniversityofMichiganasanassistantprofessorofelectricalengineeringandcomputerscience.

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halil berberogluPhD’08,anassistantprofessorofmechanicalengineeringattheCockrellSchoolofEngineeringattheUniversityofTexasatAustin,receivedaCAREERAwardfromtheNationalScienceFoundation,tosupportresearchonalgalbiofilmsforsustainablebiofuels.

morris hsu’09andJammie peNg’09weremarriedinSeptember2012.BothworkforLab126.HsuwaspresidentofEtaKappaNu,andPengwas

vicepresidentoftheschoolchapteroftheAmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineerswhileatUCLA.

Julia pasterNack’09hastraveledtomorethan40countriessincegraduation.Shealsoreceivedhermaster’sinmechanicalengineeringfromGeorgiaTech,whereshepursuedinterestsinmechatronicsandadvancedlinearcontrols.PasternackwasrecentlyselectedfortheInternationalLeadershipDevelopmentProgramatGKN,alargeengineeringfirminEngland,andnotesherpassionsforengineeringandtravelwerefosteredthroughengineeringclubsatUCLA.

2010sdeVoN laduziNsky’10wasselectedforthe2012-13CaliforniaExecutiveFellowshipprogram.BasedatCalStateSacramento,fellowsworkinthestate’sexecutivebranchtoexperiencefirst-handhowpublicpolicyisdeveloped.

krystiNa JohNsoN’11hasmovedfrombeingamanufacturingengineeratBoeinginPortland,Ore.,toanassemblyautomationengineerforBoeingResearch&TechnologyinCharleston,S.C.

hieN huyNh’12andDuc(Ly)HoangweremarriedinDecemberinVietnam.HuynhiscurrentlyaUCLAgradstudentinelectricalengineering.

daNiel haberbergerPhD’12isattheLaboratoryforLaserEnergeticsattheUniversityofRochester,inNewYork,workingontechniquesforprobinghightemperatureanddensityplasmaswithlasers.Heandhiswife,Lusnail,welcomedtheirfirstchild,JoseDanielHaberberger,inFebruary.

scott eNseriNkPhD’13hasstartedworkingforTrellisWareTechnologiesinSanDiegoasasystemsengineeronwirelesscommunicationproblems. n

Building for the futureWithyoursupport,theUCLAHenrySamueliSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedScienceisbuildingonitsdecadesofachievementwithconstructionofEngineeringVI,astate-of-the-artfacilitywithnewlabs,ananotechnologycenterfocusedongreenenergyandmuchmore.BeapartoftheprogressbysupportingEngineeringVI.

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