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E-BULLETIN
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
March 11, 2009
DEAN'S
LETTER
I hope you will join us on April 23, when the UCLA Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its annual
Technology Forum at the California NanoSystems Institute on campus.
This year three high caliber keynote speakers will kick off another
exciting event.
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla
Ventures, will talk about promising green technologies; Patrick
Soon-Shiong, chairman and CEO of Abraxis BioScience,
will cover some of the newest advances in medicine and their applications
in healthcare; and Ronald D. Sugar, chairman
and CEO of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, will speak on the
landscape of global security.
Our theme is "Engineering the Future."
And we are absolutely delighted that these three visionary leaders
will share their views on the forefront of emerging technology
trends. Additionally, panels consisting of representatives from
both academia and industry, will lead discussions following each
keynote.
This year's Tech Forum 2009 will once again also
feature our own faculty’s groundbreaking research. And students
will have an opportunity to show off their work during the lunchtime
student poster competition. There will also be ample time for
industry engineers, technology leaders, faculty and students to
interact and network during our mid-day activities. Winners of
the poster competition will be announced during the awards ceremony
later in the afternoon.
I am very excited about this year's packed program
and hope you can attend.
For information on Tech Forum 2009, please
click
here.
Registration will open soon.
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
FEATURE
STORIES
Two
UCLA Engineering Faculty win 2009 Sloan Fellowship
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| Eleazar Eskin |
Yi Tang |
Two UCLA Engineering faculty members have been
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,” according
to the New York–based foundation. The UCLA Engineering recipients
are Eleazar Eskin, assistant professor of computer
science and human genetics, and Yi Tang, associate
professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
UCLA Engineering
to hold Technology Forum on April 23
The annual Tech Forum showcases groundbreaking
advances in research made at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science. This year's keynote speakers
are: Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures,
Patrick Soon-Shiong, chairman and CEO of Abraxis
BioScience, and Ronald D. Sugar, chairman and
CEO of the Northrop Grumman Corporation.
OTHER NEWS
The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded two large grants
to UCLA electrical engineering faculty. It is very rare for DARPA
to award two large grants in the same area to the same university.
The first grant has provided a team of electrical engineering
faculty with $4.6 million to fund the research project "A
Self- Healing Mixed-Signal Baseband Processor for Cognitive Radios."
The faculty members involved in the project are Danijela
Cabric, Dejan Markovic, Ali
H. Sayed, Jason Woo and
principal investigator Behzad Razavi.
The second grant of $3.5 million will fund the research project
"Self-Healing 4Giga-bit/sec Reconfigurable CMOS Radio-on-a-Chip."
The principal investigator is M.C. Frank Chang.
Ibrahim Ghanem, a senior in the mechanical and
aerospace engineering, received an Outstanding Engineering Student
Award from the Orange County Engineering Council at the Council's
annual Engineering Week Awards Banquet.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Rajit Gadh
delivered the keynote address at Raytheon’s Innovation Cafe
on Feb. 19, 2009. The title of his talk was “Mobile Internet
of Artifacts 2.0 – On the future of a Wireless Smart Grid
for control, communication, computing, content and commerce.”
In his talk, Gadh discussed wireless technologies, RFIDs, and
integrated sensors within a networked framework, and presented
this in the context of Raytheon's activities and interests.
Computer science professor Amit Sahai
has been invited to give a keynote talk at the International Conference
on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC). He will
speak on the topic "A New Paradigm for Secure Protocols."
Materials science and engineering graduate student
Du Xi was awarded first prize in the poster competition
the Symposium of Pb-Free Solders and Emerging Interconnect and
Packaging Technologies, held at the annual meeting for TMS (The
Minerals, Metals & Materials Society). The co-authors on the
prize-winning poster were Vinay Sriram, professor
Jenn-Ming Yang and professor K. N. Tu.
Civil and environmental engineering professor
John W. Wallace and 10 co-authors were recognized
with the 2007 Outstanding Paper Award for “Update to ASCE/SEI
41 Concrete Provisions”, which appeared in Volume 23 of
Earthquake Spectra, the professional journal of the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute. The paper synthesized new research
findings for seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings.
Keep
in touch with UCLA Engineering events, students and alumni via
our new Facebook and LinkedIn
pages.
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For Facebook, please click here.
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MEDIA
WATCH: UCLA ENGINEERING IN THE NEWS
Popular
Mechanics
20 New Biotech Breakthroughs that Will Change Medicine
From a spit test for cancer to a shot that helps your body re-grow
nerves along your spinal cord, these new advances in the world
of medicine blur the line between biology and technology--to help
restore, improve and extend our lives. A salivary diagnostics
test developed by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor
Chih-Ming Ho is featured.
Los Angeles Magazine
Feature Shock
On October 29, 1969, in room 3420 at Boelter Hall on the UCLA
campus, a team led by Leonard Kleinrock dispatched
the first message ever sent over a computer network. It was 10:30
p.m. At that moment, the Internet took its first breath and uttered
its first word. Forty years later, Kleinrock, now 74 and a distinguished
professor of computer science who is celebrated as one of the
fathers of the Internet, recalls the excitement of that event
and presents his vision of our future in cyberspace.
The Economist
Model
behaviour
The U.K.-based magazine reported on software designed by Demetri
Terzopoulos, Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science,
that will make the behavior of computer-generated crowds in films
and video games appear more realistic. Terzopoulos was quoted.
Daily Bruin
Professors
elected into engineering academy
Two UCLA professors, Deborah Estrin and John
Kim, were elected into membership with the National Academy
of Engineering, earning one of the highest professional distinctions
for an engineer in recognition of their contributions to research,
practice and education.
Nature
Photonics
Research Highlights
Pei-Yu Chiou, assistant professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering, with co-workers from University of
California at Los Angeles and Berkeley have come up with a new
way of manipulating liquid droplets — a single, continuous
optoelectrowetting (COEW) electrode. The research was originally
published in Applied Physics Letters and included in Nature Photonics
"Research Highlights" section.
UCLA Today
Student
engineers aim to design “super mileage” vehicle of
the future
The Super Mileage Vehicle (SMV) Team is a group of mechanical,
aerospace, electrical and computer engineering students competing
in the annual Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage
Competition. Starting with a competition-provided 3.5-horsepower
engine, their goal is to build a car around it efficient enough
to wow even the most demanding environmentalists.
CALENDAR
March 13
Structural
and Solid Mechanics Seminar
"Left Ventricular Aneurysm Repair on Regional Myocardial
Contractility in Sheep"
Julius Guccione, UC San Francisco
10:30 a.m., 38-138 Engineering IV
MAE
Research Seminar
"Optimal gait generation for walking robots"
Satoshi Satoh, Nagoya University
3 p.m., 38-138 Engineering IV
April 16
Scholarship
Breakfast
8 a.m., Covel Commons
April 23
UCLA
Engineering Tech Forum 2009
CNSI building
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
April 24
Electrical
Engineering Research Review
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Engineering IV building
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