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DEAN'S LETTER
As students in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
return to their classes and labs to pursue their university studies, I want to
reaffirm our School’s commitment to providing these students with a fulfilling educational experience, and to highlight the important role our faculty members play in meeting this mission.
Our faculty are here for our students as educators, collaborators, and mentors. Inside and outside the classroom, they give students the tools they need to be skilled and responsible leaders. Through the School’s undergraduate and graduate research programs, students gain valuable experience working alongside some of the most distinguished innovators and experts in engineering today, scholars whose mission is to seek new advances in engineering and science, and to pass their knowledge onto the next generation of engineers and scholars.
The high quality of our educators is reflected in their contributions to the engineering community. Sixteen of our faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering,
and many more are active members and fellows of other leading scholarly
societies.
In 2003-2004, UCLA Engineering faculty published eight books, 60 book chapters, 540 journal articles and 650 articles in conference proceedings. They hold 34 editorships for professional journals and 26 associate editorships. Several serve on advisory boards of various governmental agencies.
In 2003-04 our faculty brought in more than $80 million in gifts, contracts and grants to fund research activities across the School. These funds directly benefit our students by supporting emerging areas of research and providing new opportunities for students to study and help meet the world’s next great engineering challenges.
I encourage you to learn more about our faculty and their work by visiting our web site at
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu. Discover the tremendous research taking place in our laboratories and centers
(http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/research/index.html),
read about the latest faculty awards and honors (http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/people/honoraward.html),
or learn about the high caliber of the students we produce (http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/academics/student_research.html).
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
ON THE WEB
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FEATURE
STORIES
Google CEO Eric Schmidt to be Keynote Speaker at 35th Anniversary
of the Internet Symposium October 29
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – the birthplace of the Internet – will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message with a thought-provoking symposium on Friday, October 29. Many of the Internet’s early pioneers, influential industry leaders and insightful young visionaries will offer their perspectives on how the Internet came to be what it is today and what it will be like tomorrow. The keynote address, “A Conversation with Eric Schmidt,” will be an interactive exchange with Google Inc.’s chairman of the executive committee and chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/Internet35_speakers.html
Partnerships: High-Tech, High-Touch
In rural China or sub-Saharan Africa most medical clinics lack state-of-the-art testing and sophisticated lab equipment. Patients face a high risk of liver cancer and other serious illnesses, but early diagnosis is hampered by geography and economics. All that may change thanks to the emerging fields of nanotechnology and fluidics and a partnership between the NASA-supported Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA’s School of Engineering, and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. This article first appeared in UCLA Cancer Discoveries Magazine.
http://www.cancer.mednet.ucla.edu/discoveries/2004/pdf/partnerships.pdf (PDF File)
Research Apprentice Program Prepares High School Students for College, Encourages Careers in Science and Engineering
“
You can’t explain engineering. You have to do it,” says graduate student John Zhang. This observation forms the basis of a research apprentice program held this summer at UCLA, where high school students worked side by side with graduate student mentors to experience first hand what it’s like to pursue science and engineering.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/smarts_rap.html
Ten Honored at UCLA Engineering Awards Dinner
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will honor ten men and women for their outstanding achievements in the field of engineering and their valuable contributions to the School at a special awards dinner October 15. This year’s winners include alumni, students and faculty members who represent the best qualities of UCLA Engineering. Read about each one on the School’s web site.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/dinner2004.html
UCLA Engineering Students Recognized for Volunteer Service and Academic Success
The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) has honored two UCLA Engineering students with scholarships for their academic accomplishments and volunteer contributions. Adriana Magana, 23, was named a HENAAC/Northrop Grumman Foundation Scholar and Stuart Moncada, 22, was named a HENAAC/SBC Foundation Scholar. They were two of 25 students recognized at a student leadership dinner held October 9 in Pasadena.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/henaac.html
Embedding the Internet: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Holds Public Review at UCLA
Researchers at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), who are applying the revolutionary technology of embedded networked sensing systems to critical scientific and social applications, will provide an overview of the Center's research at its second public research review on October 15. UCLA alumnus Vinton G. Cerf, widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet" for co-designing the TCP/IP communications protocols, will be the keynote speaker.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/cens2004.html
Electrical Engineering Department Holds Research Review
Cutting-edge science is the focus of an intensive one-day review of the UCLA electrical engineering department’s research programs. Presentations will highlight advances in circuits and embedded systems, physical electronics and signals and systems. During separate presentations Matthew Rhodes, president of Conexant Systems, will talk about the future of home networking, and Firouz Naderi, manager of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will recount the landing of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers.
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/arr/
UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir Receives 2004 Max Jakob Memorial Award
Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Max Jakob Memorial Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Chemical Engineers. Dhir is the first person from UCLA to receive the award since it was given to Llewellyn M.K. Boelter, the founding dean of the School of Engineering. Only three other faculty members from the University of California system have received the award since it was established in 1961.
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/stories_2004/MJaward.html
MEDIA
WATCH: UCLA ENGINEERING IN THE NEWS
Here On Earth: The X-Prize
The ten million dollar X-Prize has rewarded the first team to send a non-government craft into space. Could the achievement open up the skies to more private space flights? Ann Karagozian, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, joins BBC Science Editor David Whitehouse and host Jean Feraca on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Here On Earth" program to discuss the private space race and the future of space tourism. The program, which originally aired on Oct. 9, can heard online at http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/.
Simple Search Lightens Net Load
Researchers at UCLA have found a better way to search the Internet, according to the online news service Technology Research News. A team led by electrical engineering professor Vwani Roychowdhury has devised a fast search algorithm that uses local rules to find nodes and content in randomly-formed, scale-free networks such as the Internet. The algorithm could increase Internet efficiency by making it easier to find routes between hosts, and it could reduce traffic in online peer-to-peer networks.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/090804/Simple_search_lightens_Net
_load_090804.html
Nice Ride: The Hydrogen Gremlin
Thirty-two years ago a group of UCLA researchers won a nationwide Urban Vehicle Design Competition when it modified an AMC Gremlin to run on hydrogen, and as this Wired News story reports, the lessons learned in 1972 are still useful today. Read about UCLA’s pioneering efforts in hydrogen vehicle research in this article.
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,65080,00.html?twwn_3techhead?
headline=Nice~Ride:~The~Hydrogen~Gremlin
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