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November 2008
DEAN'S LETTER
Last week, the UCLA
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science held the
2008 Engineering Awards Dinner.
At
this annual event, we honored outstanding UCLA Engineering alumni
for achievements in their professional career, for achievement
in academia, and for service to the school. The Lockheed Martin
Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Northrop Grumman Distinguished
Teaching Award, were given to faculty members who are exemplary
in the classroom. And we recognized outstanding bachelor’s,
master’s and PhD students with the Edward K. Rice Student
Awards.
Every year, I am very impressed by our winners. And this recognition
is even more special, as the caliber of the nominees each year
is so high.
Our 2008 Alumnus of the Year was Armond Hairapetian ’87,
MS ’88, PhD ’93. Dr. Hairapetian is an innovator in
optical communications, a visionary business leader, and a great
friend to the school.
Dr. Hairapetian and our other 2008 awardees truly represent excellence
in engineering. I encourage you to click on the link below to
read about all of this year’s winners.
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
FEATURE STORIES
UCLA
Engineering Alumni, Faculty and Students Honored at Annual Awards
Dinner
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
held its annual awards dinner on November 7, 2008 at the Beverly
Wilshire - A Four Seasons Hotel. Six Alumni, three faculty members
and four students were honored for their achievements and contributions.
Researchers
discover method for mass production of nanomaterial graphene
Yang Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering
at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,
and Richard Kaner, a UCLA professor of chemistry
and biochemistry, have developed a method of mass-producing the
nanomaterial graphene. Graphene is among the strongest materials
known and has an attractive array of benefits. These sheets —
single-layer graphene — have potential as electrodes for
solar cells, for use in sensors, as the anode electrode material
in lithium batteries and as efficient zero-band-gap semiconductors.
Kaner and Kang's co-authors on the research were doctoral students
Vincent Tung, from Yang's lab, and Matthew
Allen, from Kaner's lab. Kaner holds a joint appointment
in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. The study
was published in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Earthquake
demonstration on Nov. 13 at UCLA to illustrate seismic improvements
As part of the Great Southern California ShakeOut on November
13, the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation at UCLA
(nees@UCLA) will conduct a laboratory demonstration to illustrate
recent improvements made to design requirements for reinforced
concrete structures. The demonstration will be conducted by civil
and environmental engineering professor John W. Wallace,
nees@UCLA principal investigator, and Bob Nigbor,
nees@UCLA co-principal investigator. The demonstration will be
carried on the Web. See the link above for the details.
OTHER NEWS
SWE
Evening With Industry to be held Jan. 26, 2009 at Covel Commons
Evening With Industry is an annual corporate networking event,
organized for UCLA Engineering students by the Society of Women
Engineers at UCLA. The program allows students the unique opportunity
to network with representatives from a wide range of leading technical
companies over a three-course dinner, which is immediately followed
by a career fair.
Evening with Industry is open to ALL engineering undergraduate
and graduate students. It will be held on the evening of Monday,
January 26, 2009 in the Grand Horizon Room, Covel Commons. Tickets
will be sold in Boelter Hall and at Society of Women Engineers'
general meetings beginning in January.
(*new date is now Jan. 26)
Northrop Grumman Corporation recently sponsored scholarships for the UCLA Department of Computer Science. To read more, click here.
Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor Chih-Ming Ho,
of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, received
an honorary research chair professor from National Taiwan University,
his alma mater.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Ann Karagozian
was elected as vice-chair of the American Physical Society's Division
of Fluid Dynamics. In subsequent years, Karagozian will serve
as chair elect, then chair of the division.
MEDIA WATCH: UCLA ENGINEERING IN THE NEWS
Science
News Focus: Biofuels. Eyeing Oil, Synthetic Biologists Mine Microbes for Black Gold
Biotechnology researchers want to reengineer microorganisms to turn agricultural products into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The article profiles several research groups, including James Liao, Chancellor's Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
CALENDAR
November 13
Bioengineering Seminar
"Functionalized Nanodiamonds for Applications in Sustained Drug Elution"Dean Ho, Northwestern University
noon, 2101 Engineering VNovember 14
Thermo/Fluids Seminar
"On Modeling Evaporation of Sessile Drops"
Nebojsa Murisic, UCLA Mathematics
noon, 38-138 Engineering IV
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
1:30 p.m., 8500 Boelter
November 17
Bioengineering Seminar
"Surface-Initiated Polymerization"Harm Anton-Klok, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
noon, 2101 Engineering VElectrical Engineering Seminar
"Tractable Methods for Inference on Graphical Models"
Alan Willsky, MIT1 p.m., 54-134 Engineering IV
November 18
Jon Postel Distinguished Lecture"A Brand New Wireless Day"
Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley
4:15 p.m., 3400 Boelter Hall
November 21
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Seminar
"Nanomanufacturing for Medicine and Energy"
Shaochen Chen, program director for nanomanufacturing, US National Science Foundation noon, 38-138 Engineering IV
November 24
Electrical Engineering Seminar"'Seeing' Through Walls - A Signal Processing Perspective"
Moeness Amin, Villanova University
1 p.m., 54-134 Engineering IV
December 2
Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Earthquake Engineering
Jack P. Moehle, UC Berkeley
4 p.m., 1425 Physics and Astronomy Building
December 12-13
Symposium at UCLA
"Water Resources Systems Analysis: The Contributions of William Yeh"
9:00 a.m., CNSI Conference Facility
January 26
SWE Evening with Industry
Covel Commons
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