STATE OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: 2015 Godfrey Mungal Dean
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Converge is the Word Santa Clara 2020 an integrated plan for enrollment, facilities, aspirations www.scu.edu/santaclara 2020
• Promote Synergies • Foster Creativity
• Stimulate Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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STEM Convergence A new STEM complex is in the planning stage Blended: • Classrooms • Laboratories • Makerspaces • Informal Gathering Areas
College of Arts & Sciences and Engineering faculty and staff lab tours, visioning & programming workshops, brainstorming
Fostering greater collaboration between the sciences and engineering
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Convergent Education + Jesuit Education = Excellence Left Brain + Right Brain Engineering + Ethics Theoretical + Practical
Informing the Head + Inspiring the Heart Discipline Specific + Interdisciplinary In the Classroom + Out in the World
Internal + External Mentors
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Left Brain + Right Brain • Capstone • Clubs
• Contests • Courses Improv for Engineers – Improves Communication Skills
Senior Design Presentations
Hackathons
Energy Club Installation (Grid Alternatives)
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Engineering + Ethics • Community Outreach • Courses • Global Outreach • Research Third Street Community Center Tutoring
Solar Charging Station in Ghana (began in STEM Outreach in the Community)
Strawbale Testing
Service Dog Aid (ENGR 1)
Building Prosthetic Hands (SWE)
Stem Cell Research
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Theoretical + Practical • Community-Based Learning • Hack for the Homeless • Senior Design • Tiny House Competition Electrical Engineers Design a Smarter Thermostat 2015 Senior Design Project
Students Teach Veterans Solar Skills
Creating Mobile Apps to Help Homeless
Building a Solar-Powered Tiny House
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Informing the Head + Inspiring the Heart
Engineers Without Borders – Rwanda Tile Project Mechanical Engineering Junior Design Competition
Bioengineering Summer Exchange Program with Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Civil Engineering: Sustainable Building in Ghana (senior project work over Christmas break)
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Discipline Specific + Interdisciplinary Computer Science and Engineering + Web Design and Engineering + Department of Psychology Advisor ________________________________ Virtual Reality Phobia Therapy Tool
Electrical + Computer + Mechanical Engineers = World-Class Field Robotics Program
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In the Classroom + Out in the World • Field Trips • Internships
• Senior Design • Study Abroad
Active Learning in Remodeled Classroom
Engineering Career Fair: 900 engineers; 80 employers
Water District Field Trip for Civil Engineers, Santa Clara Valley Water District's Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
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Internal + External Mentors
Lunch with an Entrepreneur – Lloyd Droppers, Ventions LLC
Personal Attention: a Hallmark of SCU Engineering
Senior Design Project Mentor Erik van der Burg, Siesta Medical
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External Convergences – A Sampling • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Applied Materials Asante Solutions Biggs Cardosa Associates Citibank Clean Solar Community Technology Alliance Google Huawei Technologies Co. IkamvaYouth Iluméxico InnoTS Intel La Voute Nubienne Association Mount Sinai Medical Center NASA/Ames Research Center National Renewable Energy Lab NetApp NVIDIA Oak Ridge National Lab Sankara Eye Report Siesta Medical Synaptic Vodafone
Industry
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Cornell University Georgia Tech Hamburg University of Technology Lanzhou University National Technical University of Athens National University of Singapore Naval Postgraduate School North Carolina State University Northeastern University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Southeast University St. Xavier’s College, Kolkatta St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai Stanford University Texas A & M University Tianjin University Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Universidad Católica del Uruguay University of British Columbia University of California at Berkeley University of Central Asia University of Colorado, Denver University of Granada University of Illinois University of Maryland, College Park University of Mississippi University of Texas, Dallas University of Western Australia Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications
Academia SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Research Conferences Hosted at/by SCU
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Global Convergences Canada China Denmark El Salvador England Finland France Germany Ghana Greece India Korea Kyrgyzstan Mexico Mongolia Netherlands Poland Singapore Spain United States United Arab Emirates
faculty and student research, immersion, presentations‌ SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
But, who are folks converging with? A glimpse of the School of Engineering’s:
Labs Departments Programs
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Center for Nanostructures increases in collaborations, space, and use # of students, TAs, faculty, and collaborators who currently have access to the CNS and… • • •
Rich Barber
External partner collaborations lead to student internships/placements
a Scanning Electron Microscope an Atomic Force Microscope a Cascade Probe Station
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Frugal Innovation Lab Radha Basu
Becoming a RESOURCE HUB for SOE faculty, students and staff to catalyze convergence for the development of solutions to humanitarian challenges.
Hack for the Homeless 2014 & 2015
Graduate Certificate in Frugal Innovation
TUHH Graduate Exchange Program
Social Innovation Workshops (Tech Museum, Nasdaq & Accenture)
Mobile4Humanity Platform (Cisco)
NetHope Innovation Summit @SCU
Engineering World Health Club
Lab on a Chip - AquaSift Project
New Space in 455!
IEEE SIGHT Talks in Humanitarian Technology
Patents for Humanity Event with US Patent and Trademark Office
Silvia Figueira
TUHH Exchange Students
Hack for the Homeless
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Some Frugal Innovation Highlights Hack for the Homeless 2015 2nd annual coding event for homeless in Santa Clara County, and implementing solutions with local community partners
Innovation Day with NetHope and Frugal Innovation Lab 180+ representatives from 43 leading international humanitarian organizations AquaSift Demo
Social Innovation Workshops with the Tech Museum Empowering the Homeless, One App @ a Time: Silvia Figueira 3D BioPrinting for Humanity: Prashanth Asuri Building Sustainably (& Seismic Integrity): Tonya Nilsson and Mark Aschheim Clean Water (Sensors, Circuits, and Filters, Oh My!): Shoba Krishnan and Unyoung Kim SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Latimer Energy Lab self-guided study for energy scholars
Tim Healy
Summer 2014: 11-person interdisciplinary team was tasked with developing a prototype of an autonomous vehicle, powered by the sun, with wireless charging. To enable independent learning, they were given minimal constraints, minimal guidance.
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Concepts: Solar power collection Controls systems Energy storage Wireless charging Autonomous vehicles
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Guest Speakers: National Instruments Linear Technology Corp. Texas Instruments
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Maker Lab Chris Kitts
Easy-access, hands-on prototyping for everyone
Supports courses, capstone teams, and personal projects
Equipment: –
3D Printers and Laser Cutter
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Circuit Board Fabrication Machine
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Traditional hand and power tools
600+ students/staff/faculty certified
Maker Club & Product Challenges
In process of moving to new location –
More space and more equipment
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Industry partners & community education
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Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset pathway, courses, contests, mentoring, networking The Design Thinking Core Curriculum Pathway - the most popular pathway among engineers
11 courses this year, including 4 new 1-unit offerings: - ENGR 172 A/B – Applied Entrepreneurship I and II - ENGR 176 – Technical Marketing - ENGR 178 – IP for Engineers
Lunch with an Entrepreneur: Fall: Sreekanth Dayanidhi, (MSME ’13) Little Heroes, Inc. Winter: Taylor Alexander, Flutter Wireless Spring: Elliot Martin (BSME ’13), Secret Venture
Quarterly Competitions: Fall: Intel (3-week) – new Internet of Things product for home Winter: Pentathlon (4-week) – 5 entrepreneurial challenges Spring: Fit3D (3-week) – develop new business opportunities SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Robotics Systems Laboratory a world-class field robotics program for air, land, sea, and space
Student team operates two newly launched NASA spacecraft
A new mobile satellite and aerial drone control center is developed
RSL students are flying drones for campus photography and to monitor crop growth at a local winery
Research students demonstrate first-ever formation control for close proximity underwater robots, a capability being developed for undersea exploration and environmental applications
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Chris Kitts
Applied Mathematics Aaron Melman
The Department of Applied Mathematics offered 71 classes in AY 2014-15
Serving School Of Engineering Students and Faculty • • • • •
Undergrad and grad courses Collaborative research Consultation, expertise, and assistance Master’s degree program Mathematical Finance concentration within M.S. degree
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Bioengineering Was the fastest growing department in the School
6-fold increase in enrollment since 2008
38 enrolled in MS program begun in 2012
200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
Yuling Yan
BIOE enrollment over past 5 years Senior Junior Sophomore Freshmen
2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
6 tenure-track faculty (from Fall ’15) 2 academic year adjunct lecturers 9 quarterly appointed lecturers 1 lab manager
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Bioengineering Active faculty mentor students, advance research Faculty and student publications in AY 2014-15: One edited book, 3 book chapters, 8 journal papers & 7 conference papers
Faculty serve as co-chair and session chair for international conferences Research collaborations (Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Scripps, Cornell, Mount Sinai Hospital, Saint Louis, Clemson, China, Japan, Europe)
Summer exchange program with SJTU (2014)
Student presentation at professional conference
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Civil Engineering
Yuling Yan Mark Aschheim
New Hires: New Lab Equipment
High speed camera (3,600 fps) Meeting to develop collaborations with Southwest Jiaotong University
Laura Doyle PhD Water Quality and Water Resources Rockwell Hardness Test Machines
Brent Woodcock Lab Manager
3rd place in the Design-Build category Associated Schools of Construction Construction Competition (Reno, NV)
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Civil Engineering Overseas Senior Design Projects:
Building with Arundo donax (Carrizo), GRUPEDSAC Oaxaca, Mexico
Earthen Construction, Village Projects International Gambibgo, Ghana
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Computer Engineering Nam Ling
New/Returning Full-time Faculty & Researcher – – – –
Ron Danielson, Associate Professor Minqiang Jiang, Research Assistant Professor Moe Amouzgar, Lecturer Yuan Wang, Lecturer
New QPT Part-time Lecturers – Hired 10 new QPT lecturers to meet huge increase in classes – Musurlian, Bergström, Santoro, Liu, Moazeni, Green, Zalzala, Shaghaghi, Elkady, Roy, …
Full-time Tenure-track Faculty Hired (to start Sept. ’15) – Ben Steichen, Assistant Professor – Yuhong Liu, Assistant Professor
New Visiting Research Scholar – Jibin Fu, China
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Computer Engineering
Strongest Growth in Enrollment – Experienced the highest enrollment growth tsunami: – Undergrads: 302 students, a 39% growth from last year – Grads: 485 students, a 65% growth from last year
Hadoop Cluster – headed by Yi Fang
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24 computer nodes, each = 8 cores & 32 GB memory
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Total disk space = 260 TB
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Current courses using Hadoop: COEN 169 (Web Info Management), 241 (Big Data), 242 (Cloud Computing), 272 (Web Search)
Video Coding Research Team Results
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Led by Nam Ling with Zhouye Gu and Huawei/Hisilicon researchers 2 contributions adopted into international video coding standard: 1 normative, 1 informative Patents filed: 3 non-provisional U.S.,1 PCT, 1 European, 3 provisional U.S.
Conference and Activity/Research Leadership – Ling: General Co-Chair (Umedia 2014), Keynote Speaker (Umedia 2014, XUPT Workshop 2014) – Amer & Holliday: brought MSST 2014 conference to SCU SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Electrical Engineering Samiha Mourad
New Courses A course for first year students to learn more about their discipline. This year’s theme: smart phone from basic transistors and memory to packaging, software wireless. A course on Embedded Systems very much relevant for Robotics and the interaction within an Internet of Things (IoT)
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Sustainable Energy M.S. •
This is the 4th year of the program – 24 graduates
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Next year new advanced courses: in controls and nuclear energy
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Alumni have been placed in important companies
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Engineering Management & Leadership New Courses: New Product Planning and Development – targeted to potential technical product managers
Intrapreneurship – Innovation from Within – How to create innovative business opportunities within existing organizations
Universidad Católica del Uruguay: Continued support for their EMGT MS program – offering hybrid course, “Introduction to System Engineering” for 2nd year – taught by department chair Frank Barone – 2 classes taught in Montevideo; remaining classes via Internet from Santa Clara
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Frank Barone
Mechanical Engineering Drazen Fabris
New Faculty members:
– On Shun Pak (2014) assistant professor – Michael Taylor (2015) assistant professor
On Shun Pak
10 research journal papers, 11 conference papers 3 posters, 1 student poster 1 book chapter $430k in new external grants Kuehler awards: Kitts, Lee, Sepehrband, Tszeng
Machine Shop
Alumni Dinner
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Mechanical Engineering Student project: tile press and clay mixer for Rwanda STEM outreach: John J. Montgomery School in San Jose New wind tunnel in progress
Senior projects received support from the
ASME/IEEE/IEEE VTS Student Venture Capital Night
Tile press project, Rwanda
Balsa glider experiment with 5th graders at Montgomery Elementary in San Jose
Wind Tunnel
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2014-2015 Undergraduate Enrollment
Undeclared
Bioengineering
Web Design and Engineering
3% 5%
17%
24%
15%
Civil Engineering 8% 0%
28%
General Engineering >1%
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering
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Undergraduate Trends 2014-2015 Undergraduate Snapshot 950 undergraduate engineering
students +14 double majors
236 women students; 24.5%
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2014-15 Graduate Enrollment
19% 13%
8%
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Graduate Trends
8%
GRADUATE ENROLLMENT IS UP 35% OVER LAST YEAR SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Graduate Details 12000
Units Enrolled
10000 8000 6000 Summer 2013-June 2014 4000 2000
Summer 2014-June 2015
8%
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Program
MAIN DRIVER IS … COEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
Achievements 2014-15
8%
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Faculty Grants and Gifts Prashanth Asuri (BIOE): $31,704 – SE3D Education, Low Cost 3D Bio-Printer Toolkit for STEM Education $19,200 – Thermo Fisher, Effect of Nanoparticle Fillers Mohammad Ayoubi (MECH): $30,000 – NASA Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle Research Yi Fang (COEN): $20,000 – TCL Research America Research on Big Data/IoT Silvia Figueira (COEN): $20,000 – NIH subcontract from ISIS Ventures Youth Street Connect Mobile Phone App; with Radha Basu $6,932 – Dew Software, Inc., Tizen Development Christopher Kitts (MECH): $50,000 – Canopus Systems US, Mission Control of Spacecraft; $45,000 – NASA, Satellite Operations; $33,000 – NSF, Grad Research Fellowship; $30,000 – NOAA (via U of AK), Marine Robotic Systems; $1.4M (3.5 yrs) – Kern Family Foundation, Ugrad Innovation & Entrepreneurship $90,000 (gift and in-kind) – Intel, Innovation/Maker/Entrepreneurial Thinking Initiatives $10,000 (in-kind) – Sonic Manufacturing, Innovation/Maker/Entrepreneurial Thinking
Nam Ling (computer engineering): $234,440 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Research for 3D Extension for HEVC Standardization Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): $17,445 SFSU/NSF subcontract, Groundwater Teleconnections with Climate Variability Sarah Kate Wilson (ELEN): $14,973 – Memorial University of Newfoundland OmOptics – Signal Processing for Optical OFDM
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Faculty Award Recipients SCU Awards:
External Awards:
Silvia Figueira (Computer Engineering) President’s Award
Radha Basu (Anudip, iMerit, Frugal Innovation Lab) UN Women UN International Telecommunication Union Gender Equality Mainstream Technology Award
Tonya Nilsson (Civil Engineering) Sally Wood (Electrical Engineering) Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence Nam Ling (Computer Engineering) Terry Shoup (Mechanical Engineering) 25 Years of Service
Sarah Kate Wilson (Electrical Engineering) IEEE Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Service Award
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School of Engineering Awards
Jonathan Zhang
Darren Atkinson
Stephen Chiappari
Nicholas Tran
Researcher of the Year
Teaching Excellence Award
Markle Award for Teaching Excellence
Adjunct Lecturer of the Year
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards:
Stephen Sifferman B.S. Electrical Engineering 1993 M.S. Computer Engineering 1998
Sheryl Staub-French. Ph.D., P.E. B.S. Civil Engineering 1993 Tarana Wireless, Inc.
University of British Columbia
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Faculty Achievement – A Few Highlights
Christopher Kitts
Nam Ling
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi
Yuling Yan
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Bioengineering
Named an ASME Fellow; SCU Thought Leader for “Illuminate”
Distinguished Professor Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Guest Professor Tianjin University, China
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship; Board of Directors of the African Diaspora Network and Engineers4Tomorrow
Specially Invited Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Author, Author Arun Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering
Alex Clemm, Computer Engineering
Ralph Morganstern, Applied Mathematics
Yuling Yan Krzysztof Izdebski, Bioengineering
Book Chapters: Suchitra Abel: "Uncertainty Modeling: The Computational Economists' View on Cyberwarfare," Intelligent Methods for Cyber Warfare Yi Fang, Nam Ling, et al: “Topic Modeling for Large-Scale Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval," Big Data: Algorithms, Analytics, and Applications Brian Green: “Transhumanism and Catholic Natural Law: Changing Human Nature and Changing Moral Norms?” Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement Maryam Mobed-Miremadi, Diana Grandio, Jeffrey Kunkel: “Polystyrene Wound Dressings,” Wound Healing Biomaterials Vol 2: Functional Biomaterials Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Koji Seto: "Scalable and Multi-rate Speech Coding for Voice over IP Networks,” Speech and Audio Processing for Coding, Enhancement and Recognition
Dragoslav Siljak (professor emeritus, electrical engineering) had two books listed in the 100 best sellers on Amazon, 2014 Dan Lewis’ (computer engineering) book was translated into Mandarin
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Faculty Book Editors Alex Clemm (computer engineering) Network-Embedded Management and Applications: Understanding Programmable Networking Infrastructure E. John Finnemore (professor emeritus, civil engineering) Spiritual Light: Universal Teachings from the Highest Spirit Realms Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, M. J. (Sim) Narasimha (electrical engineering) Speech and Audio Processing for Coding, Enhancement and Recognition
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Faculty Journal Editors Ahmed Amer (computer engineering) Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Storage Mark Aschheim (civil engineering) Associate Editor, Earthquake Spectra
Alex Clemm (computer engineering) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Yi Fang (computer engineering) Editorial Board, International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies Editorial Board, International Journal of Web Science Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) Associate Editor, IEEE Access Nam Ling (computer engineering) Associate Editor, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Associate Editor, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing: An International Journal Edwin Maurer (civil engineering) Associate Editor, Journal of the American Water Resources Association Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Third Qtr. 2014 Sally Wood (electrical engineering) Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE
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Adjunct Faculty Achievement – A Sampling
Rafae Bhatti Computer Engineering
1 patent
Eric Monsef ’90, ’96 Engineering Management and Leadership
HP Group Leader for Sprout: Voted best desktop PC at Consumer Electronics Show
Alexander Clemm
Kedar Hardikar
Bill Kirkwood
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
6 patents + more pending 3 peer-reviewed papers
3 paper presentations 1 poster presentation 1 seminar presentation
IEEE Outstanding Achievement Award 2014; IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Treasurer; 1 patent
Marian Stetson-Rodriguez
David Trindade
Andy Wolfe
Engineering
Engineering Management and Leadership
Electrical Engineering
Presented “Leading Across Cultures” to top execs of Tan Chong International, Singapore
Named a Fellow of American Statistical Association
Micro Test of Time Award 1 of 10 most influential papers of IEEE/ACM
15 U.S. patents; 8 foreign patents
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Student Achievement – Tip of the Iceberg Best Paper Award: Michael Neumann, Matthew Chin (with Chris Kitts)(mech), International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics, Berkeley, CA CA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Grant Opportunity Award: Matthew Condino (mech) Aerial Artistry: Phillip Coyle (mech), SCUter videos of campus for SCU Alumni Office 1st Place Intel Security IoT Hackathon 2015: Jason Dougherty, Nick Fong, Alek Hurst; $15,000 prize Best Poster Award: Joseph Soares, Brandon Ohara, Russell Williams (with Hohyun Lee) (mech), IDTechEx Energy Harvesting USA 2014 Appointed Department Chair: John Rose, S.J., Ph.D. candidate (elen), Computer/IT Engineering, Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai, India 1st Place, ASCE International Bridge Photography Contest: Jonathan Tadros (ceng) Outstanding Collegiate Leader Award: Jocelyn Tan, Society of Women Engineers University Innovation Fellow: Laura Tschudy, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation 3rd Place Design/Build Competition, Associated Schools of Construction: Samuel Beering, Nicholas Jensen, Justin Matoi, Ellen McKay, Steven Sakamoto, Alex Sarr, Caleb Young (ceng) Ph.D. or Med School Bound: Aditi Bellary, Ryan Marshal, Jared Hara, Karla Geisse (bioe)
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Alumni Achievement - Snippets Kesley Dedoshka ’14, Katie Le ’14, Kaitlin Kirasich ’14 (coen): publication at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2014 Kristen Jackson ’08 (ceng): signed up for 3rd year with Peace Corps in Peru; water and wastewater technology projects Ed Karrels ’14 (coen): accepted into computer science Ph.D. program University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study parallel computing Diane Keng ’14 ’16 (coen, emgt) papers at IEEE Conference on Man and Cybernetics, 2014; IEEE Conference on Internet of Things, 2014; IEEE International Conferences in Taiwan and San Diego; 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, Las Vegas Avery Lu ’95 (elen): speaker at IoT Summit: “The State of Wearable Tech in Health and Fitness— Where Do We Go From Here?” Kevin Nguyen ’14, Shweta Panditrao ’14 (coen): publication at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2014
Carol Reiley ’04 (coen): wrote a children’s book, “Making a Splash,” showing kids how to unlock their potential through hard work John Seubert ’12, Ryan Davidson ’11, Nick Bergseng ’11 (coen): 1st Prize DeveloperWeek Hackathon, iOS messaging app, Batsignals Jayshree Ullal ’86 (emgt): named Number 2 of CRN’s Top 25 Disrupters of 2014
50+ alums came back to campus to recruit at the Engineering Career Fair last winter SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015
We’re Bursting at the Seams! New faculty, new labs require space, so we’re expanding to 455 El Camino Real: • • • • • • • • •
Dean’s Office Senior Assistant Dean Director of Communications Director of External Relations and Development Events Manager Frugal Innovation Lab Graduate Programs Office Maker Lab Robotics Systems Lab
Construction to begin this summer on 2 new labs for Bioengineering in Bannan Engineering Labs Building or portables
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“Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.” Albert Einstein
“Engineering is the closest thing to magic.” Elon Musk PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2015 SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING