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E-BULLETIN
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
October 8, 2008
DEAN'S
LETTER
Recently, the Times of London ranked engineering institutions
around the world on their research impact, which was based on
the number of citations per paper. The UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science was ranked seventh overall
on a list that includes some of the world’s most distinguished
universities.
Though we do not concentrate on ranking systems,
we are pleased that this recognizes something that we are very
proud of here at the school. Throughout all seven departments,
in our multidisciplinary research centers, and together with collaborators
across disciplines, our faculty are leading the way in a number
of diverse fields. We will continue to push those technological
boundaries and address some of the great engineering challenges
that our society faces.
Our continuing tradition of excellence is made
possible by the many remarkable alumni, students and faculty who
comprise the UCLA Engineering community. On November 7, we will
celebrate some of these individuals at the 2008 UCLA Engineering
Awards Dinner. I hope you’ll join us at this annual celebration.
Also, for our Bay Area alumni and friends, we are holding a reception
at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale on Oct. 22. I hope many of you can make
it. Please see the calendar section below for details.
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
FEATURE
STORIES
Leonard
Kleinrock receives National Medal of Science at White House
President George W. Bush presented UCLA Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science Leonard Kleinrock
with the prestigious National Medal of Science at a White House
ceremony on September 29.
UCLA,
partners establish new center on environmental effects of nanotechnology
UCLA and 12 collaborating institutions have been awarded $24 million
in federal funding to establish the University of California Center
for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), which
will help researchers design safer and more environmentally benign
nanomaterials. The center, to be housed at the California NanoSystems
Institute (CNSI) on the UCLA campus, will explore the impact of
nanomaterials on life forms and the interactions of these materials
with various biological systems and ecosystems. Chemical and biomolecular
engineering professor Yoram Cohen is one of the
center’s co-principal investigators on the center’s
research executive committee. Civil and environmental engineering
professor Eric Hoek will lead one of the center’s
integrated research groups.
UCLA
researchers develop world's fastest bar code reader
Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in ultrafast analog-to-digital
conversion, UCLA engineers have designed a bar code reader that
is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in
use. The new imaging technique, developed by UCLA postdoctoral
fellow Keisuke Goda, graduate researcher Kevin
K. Tsia and electrical engineering professor Bahram
Jalali, appeared in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
Lens-free
imaging advance by UCLA researchers could lead to improved wireless
diagnostics for HIV, malaria and other global medical problems
UCLA researchers have advanced a novel lens-free, high-throughput
imaging technique for potential use in such medical diagnostics,
which promise to improve global disease monitoring, especially
in resource-limited settings such as in Africa. The research team,
led by Aydogan Ozcan, assistant professor of
electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science and a member of the California NanoSystems
Institute (CNSI), includes postdoctoral scholar Sungkyu
Seo, doctoral student Ting-Wei Su, master's
student Derek Tseng and undergraduate Anthony
Erlinger.
UCLA
Engineering researchers develop a Novel Portable Antenna Measurement
and Diagnostic System for Millimeter-wave Applications
UCLA electrical engineering professor Yahya
Rahmat-Samii and his team at the Antenna Research,
Analysis, and Measurement Laboratory in cooperation with
the Center for High Frequency Electronics, have successfully designed,
constructed, and validated a novel portable millimeter-wave bi-polar
planar antenna measurement and diagnostic system. Its unique design
and features allows for full characterization of antenna designs
at operating frequencies of 26.5GHz to 67 GHz and diameters up
to 24 inches.
OTHER
NEWS
In August, electrical engineering professor Chan
Joshi received the inaugural Advanced Accelerator Prize.
The award recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions
to the science and technology of advanced accelerator concepts.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor
Panagiotis D. Christofides has been awarded the
2008 Outstanding Young Researcher Award, given by the Computing
and Systems Technology Division of the AIChE. The
award recognizes an individual under the age of 40 for outstanding
contributions to the chemical engineering computing and systems
technology literature.
MEDIA
WATCH: UCLA ENGINEERING IN THE NEWS
New
Scientist
Websites shed light on how humans value fresh ideas
Analysing the rise and fall of websites is the perfect way to
shed light on the old debate over whether talent or experience
matters most, say mathematicians. The question crops up everywhere,
from job interviews to presidential races, says Vwani
Roychowdhury (UCLA professor of electrical engineering),
but it's hard to examine the problem using hard figures. However,
the same way of thinking can be applied to websites, which also
succeed or fail based on many millions of human decisions. In
fact, the web may be one of the few places it is possible to quantify
the balance between the two, say the researchers. (The research
team included Roychowdhury, PhD student Joseph Kong
and Nima Sarshar of the University of Regina, Canada.)
CALENDAR
October 17
Engineering
Parents' Reception
UCLA Parents' Weekend (Oct. 17-19)
5:30 p.m.
Location TBA, UCLA campus
October 22
CENS
6th Annual Research Review
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tom Bradley International Center
October 22
UCLA
Engineering Reception at Yahoo!
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
October 24
Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Speaker Seminar
"Simulated Experiments of Particle and Plasma-Surface Interactions
at the Nanoscale"
Jean Paul Allain, Purdue University
10 a.m., location tba.
November 7
Engineering
Awards Dinner
The Beverly Wilshire - A Four Seasons Hotel
5:30 p.m. - Reception
7:00 p.m. - Dinner
November 10
Infosys
Ltd. Reception and Presentation
featuring Infosys COO S.D. Shibulal
Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall 248
5:30 pm - Reception
6:30 pm - Presentation
November 18
Jon
Postel Distinguished Lecture
"A Brand New Wireless Day"
Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley
4:15 p.m., 3400 Boelter Hall
December 12-13
Symposium
at UCLA
"Water Resources Systems Analysis: The Contributions of William
Yeh"
9:00 a.m., CNSI Conference Facility
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