STATE OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: 2017: 10 Years of Growth Godfrey Mungal Dean
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! David Bowie
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Building Global Connections
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Expanding Programs, Faculty, Facilities
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Laboratories
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Departments
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Undergraduate Programs
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Graduate Programs
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2016-17 Achievements
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What’s Next - STEM Update
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Building Global Connections
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A decade of global connections
Faculty Research…Student/Faculty Exchange…Immersion…Student Projects
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Strengthened Jesuit Connections South America: Catholic University of Uruguay (Montevideo) Catholic University of Cordoba (Argentina) India: St. Xavier’s College, Kolkatta St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai St. Xavier’s Institute of Engineering, Mumbai
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Faculty training – MS and PhD
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Faculty Exchange
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Program Assistance
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Science and Religion Class
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Student Lectures
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MOUs • Catholic University of Uruguay (Montevideo)
Alex Zecevic
• Catholic University of Cordoba (Argentina) • St. Xavier’s College, Kolkatta • St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai • IIT Delhi • Shanghai Jiao Tong University • Wuhan University of Technology • Lanzhou University • Technical University of Hamburg/Harburg (TUHH)
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10 Years of Community-Based Student Projects 8 Projects: Ghana 5 Projects: Nicaragua
1 Project: Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Zambia
2 Projects: Honduras, India, Mexico, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda
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2017 Global Fellows Jyotsna Gopinath '19 (bioengineering; environmental studies minor) Hallie McNamara '19 (bioengineering; mechanical engineering minor) Alexander Moran '19 (electrical engineering; computer science and engineering minor) Sydney Thompson '19 (mechanical engineering) Claire Hultquist '19 (bioengineering) Steven Parks '18 (mechanical engineering)
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Expanding Programs, Faculty, Facilities
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New Programs/Degrees Added Since 2008 •
BS Bioengineering
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BS Web Design and Engineering
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MS Bioengineering
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MS Sustainable Energy
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Graduate Engineer’s Degree: • Computer Science and Engineering
Minors: •
Aerospace Engineering
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Bioengineering
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General Engineering
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Tech Innovation, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurial Mindset
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Graduate Minor Science, Technology, and Society
• Electrical Engineering • Mechanical Engineering •
PhD Bioengineering - Proposed
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BioInnovation - Proposed
Graduate Certificates: •
Software Engineering
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Frugal Innovation
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Renewable Energy
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A Greater Focus on Hands-On Learning Solar Decathlon: 2007, 2009, 2013
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A Greater Focus on Hands-On Learning California’s Inaugural Tiny House Competition Grand Champions!!!
238-sq-ft, built on wheels, solar-powered, off-grid, first-ever tiny house on solar tracking ring
Designed and built for nonprofit empowering veterans’ independence through service dog pairing and training. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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A Greater Focus on Hands-On Learning Contests, Hackathons, Local and Global Projects, Clubs
Civil Student Competitions, Associated Schools of Construction
Seismically sustainable home design and build, Nepal
Grad students’ software for visually impaired preschoolers
Engineers Without Borders, Rwanda Tile Press
Solar tracker, Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
Energy Club Volunteer Installation
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Faculty Additions Since 2008 • Keeping up with 50% growth in enrollment • 38 new full time, AYAL, and RTL faculty • 47 full time/tenure track
Reflecting the diversity of engineering in the workplace, our newest faculty hail from: China (5), Egypt (2), Hong Kong, India, Iran (4), Luxembourg, South Korea (2), Turkey, United States Of America SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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AYAL and RTL Additions Since 2008
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New Staff
Allan Baez
Michelle Schuette
Director of Programs & Partnerships Frugal Innovation Hub
Events Manager Dean’s Office
Departing Staff
Christine Nichols
Scott Andrews
Director of Development and External Relations Dean’s Office
Senior Assistant Dean Dean’s Office
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The Space Race – Adapting to SoE Growth
2014 EC 304, 305
2008 Bannan Engineering Labs
2016 EC 306
2015 New Bioengineering Labs
2011 Latimer Energy Lab Expansion Engineering Computing Center Upgrade
2015 20k sq ft Guadalupe Hall: Dean’s Office Graduate Office Graduate Research Frugal Innovation Hub Maker Lab Robotics Systems Lab Satellite Control Lab
2011 COEN, EE Labs Move Structures Test Lab Structures Lab Annex Robotics space at Ames
Pittsburgh, CA
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Planning for new spaces since 2009
2012 Green light for Engineering Complex 2013 Engineering Complex Visioning & Programming 2013 (August) Engineering Complex on hold; STEM
2018 School of Engineering to surge to temporary spaces 2018 Guadalupe Hall 3rd Floor remains
2014 STEM Visioning & Programming
2018 Construction to begin on new STEM Campus
2015 STEM Verification
2020 New STEM Campus ready for occupancy
2016 STEM Architect & Design 2017 Surge Plan Announced 3 Engineering Buildings to be demolished, Fall 2018
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A Look at Our Laboratories
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Labs added since 2008 •
14 Bioengineering Labs
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6 Engineering Computer Center Labs + 6 satellite computing labs
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Civil Engineering Structures Test Lab
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EDVenture Lab
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Frugal Innovation Hub
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Latimer Energy Laboratory
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Maker Lab
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Mobile Maker Lab
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Mobile Mission Control Lab
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Revamp of Electrical Engineering Classatories
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Labs and Equipment: Then and Now Satellite Mission Control
Civil Engineering High Bay Space
Electrical Engineering Classatory
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Labs and Equipment: Then and Now Mechanical Engineering Wind Tunnel
Maker Lab
Engineering Computing Center: 5400 sq. ft. 3 Windows, 1 Apple, 2 Linux Labs Supports Satellite Departmental Labs Hadoop Cluster – Big Data
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Center for Nanostructures Rich Barber
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# of students, faculty, and collaborators who currently access the CNS facility
Ashley Kim
# of departments (3 SoE and 3 A&S) with research in CNS utilizing …
a Scanning Electron Microscope an Atomic Force Microscope a Cascade Probe Station a lithography/processing lab
Recent focus on Silicon Valley partner collaborations which have led to student internships/placements/publication
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Center for Nanostructures Ashley Kim
Rich Barber
Starting in 2011: •full time lab manager in place for training, maintenance and safety •open to SCU faculty and students •roughly a half dozen external collaborators so far
microfluidic devices
insect (embiid) silk
carbon nanostructures SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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TENT Laboratory Research • Carbon Nanotubes on Graphene •
All-Carbon Interconnects
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Nanoscale Electrothermal Transport
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Ultracapacitors
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Contacts in Flexible Devices
Current Funding: Applied Materials
Facilities & Equipment Santa Clara University EC100 • Class 100 Clean Room • Electrical measurement instruments including nanoprobers, SEM, AFM
Nanostructure Characterization Laboratory (NASA Ames) • PECVD, Magnetron Sputterer, SEM, EBID System
CNTs on Graphene All-Carbon Interconnects
Cary Y. Yang
Education • Courses on Nanotechnology • Internship Programs for college and high school students Highlights in 2016-17 • Two Ph.D. students graduated • Two students won the best undergraduate poster presentation at SoE Research Showcase Recent Partners and Sponsors • NASA •
Department of Defense
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Applied Materials
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Hitachi
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HK U. of Science & Technology
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HK Polytechnic University
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South China U of Technology
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Engineering Computing Center Lantz Johnson
2016-17: • New Staff Position (Junior SysAdmin, currently hiring)
• New Computing Lab (306) • Lab 608B teaching lab conversion (added large LCDs and partitions) • Cloud Security research cluster • Upgraded Firewall to support upgraded network
• Power efficiency and redundancy improvements (new, unified UPS) SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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Engineering Computing Center A Decade of Change: •
Renamed Design Center to Engineering Computing Center
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New computing labs (604, 304, 305, 306. 121 expansion)
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Big Data Teaching & Research Cluster (Hadoop/Spark)
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Several new research servers (deep learning, GPGPU)
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Expanded presence of Windows and Linux, added OS X, retired Solaris
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Added/improved remote access capabilities
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Virtualized most servers
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Two major network upgrades
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Significantly expanded data storage and improved backup system
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Faster workstations and larger displays (upgraded every 3 years)
Lantz Johnson
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Big Data
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Clustering technologies
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Machine Learning, Neural Networks, GPGPU
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Desktop Virtualization (VDI/EUC)
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Increasing need for new research servers/systems
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Augmented Reality displays
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Frugal Innovation Hub Silvia Figueira Engaging faculty and students in humanitarian projects through partnerships and programs.
Humanitarian/Frugal Projects: •
30% of the senior projects in 2016/2017 are humanitarian, several of them in collaboration with a non-profit organization or social enterprise
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SCU students presented 6 papers at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference in 2016
Presentations about SoE projects: •
United Nations, Humanitarian ICT Forum 2017, Silicon Valley
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InnoFrugal in Helsinki, Finland
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ACM DEV in Nairobi, Kenya
Collaborations at SCU: Public Health, Engineering World Health
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Frugal Innovation Hub Hosted:
Allan Baez, Director for Programs and Partnerships Background in disaster relief Experience in creating and managing mobile projects to help homeless people and refugees
Silvia Figueira
Prof. Cornelius Herstatt and Dr. Rajnish Tiwari, Hamburg University of Technology, Winter 2017
Summer Institute of Humanitarian Computing 2016: ● Funded by Google ● Hosted by Frugal Innovation Hub and Department of Computer Engineering ● One-month program for high school students ● Create mobile apps for underserved populations ● Capitalizing on 10+ years experience K-12 outreach
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Latimer Energy Laboratory Tim Healy
Maryam Khanbaghi
Supporting a wide range of activities relating to solar energy: • photovoltaics (PV) • management of renewable energy sources • outreach from K–12 through graduate engineering Focus on two major directions: 1. measurement and characterization of different renewable energy sources 2. integration of renewable energy into the electric grid Instrumentation: • pyranometers • VIS-IR spectrometers • metallurgical microscopes • source meters • grid simulator software and related computers SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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Maker Lab Easy-Access, Hands-On Prototyping for Everyone •
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Chris Kitts
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Anne Mahacek
Now a 1,512 sq ft facility
1,000+ students/faculty/staff certified •
12 courses/yr, capstones, personal projects
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Student clubs, design challenges, etc.
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Outreach and industry engagement programs
Equipment: •
3D Printers, Laser Cutters, CNC Routers/Mills
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Circuit Board Fabrication Machine
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Traditional hand and power tools
Hosted 2017 University Maker Workshop •
~40 faculty/staff from 18 universities Projects built in the Maker Lab: underwater robot and a prosthetic hand SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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Mobile Maker Lab Maker Outreach to Local Schools •
Anne Mahacek
Chris Kitts
Custom-built 28 ft trailer serves as a mobile maker workshop • 3D printers, laser cutter, router, hand tools
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Serve K-12 and After-School Programs • 700+ students served in first 6 months • Teacher training workshops • Educational modules on a variety of topics
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Trailer and equipment funded by a donation from Makers for Good
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New Core ELSJ course will allow students to serve local communities using the trailer
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Robotics Systems Laboratory A world-class field robotics program for land, sea, air, and space
Chris Kitts
Unique SCU Experiences for Interdisciplinary Student Teams
Students have provided mission control services for ~10 NASA satellites during the last decade.
Teaming with USGS scientists, RSL teams have used robots to explore Lake Tahoe more than any other research group in the world, making several published discoveries along the way.
RSL’s main lab space on the 3rd floor of Guadalupe Hall. More than 80 students currently work in the lab on design projects or research work. Research: Distributed Environmental Sensing using Robot Clusters
Over the past 10 years: Collaborators/Sponsors NASA, NOAA, USGS, Intel, BMW, Nvidia, Deep Ocean Engineering, Wyle, CA Space Grant, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Robots move/fly and collaborate to find pollution sources, etc. (2 Prov. Patents)
Financial Support $7M+ in project/research funding
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Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset Chris Kitts
Couple an entrepreneurial mindset with engineering thought and action New Minor in Technical Innovation - Requires courses in product/process innovation, design/entrepreneurial thinking and business
Design Thinking Core Curriculum Pathway - The most popular pathway among engineers and throughout the University Students and faculty attend a Lunch with an Entrepreneur talk by SCU graduate Shawn Lange, CEO of L2F, Inc.
15 courses this year – 2 new 1-unit courses: - Go To Market Strategy - Startup Venture Law
EDVenture Lab: Engineering + Design + Ventures
Students participate in quarterly design innovation challenges, with Grand Prizes up to $2,500. These challenges typically engage 30-50 students.
- Several new student ventures, commercial and social - Industry partnerships with several local companies - Business/Law Seminars and Mentoring
Extracurricular Activities - Lunch with an Entrepreneur - Design Competitions - Industry Seminars/Tours - Movie Nights
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What’s Happening in the Academic Departments?
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Applied Mathematics • 2008: Master’s degree concentration in mathematical finance
Stephen Chiappari
• 2010: Undergraduate honors sections • Differential Equations • Probability and Statistics • 2013: Undergraduate course on risk analysis in civil engineering • 2017: Preparing for move to Heafey/Bergin in 2018
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Bioengineering Active faculty mentor students, advance research
Yuling Yan
Faculty and student publications in AY 2016-17: ● 1 edited book ● 6 book chapters ● 9 journal papers ● 6 conference papers ● one provisional patent granted 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
2014 Summer exchange program with SJTU
Student presentation at professional conference
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Bioengineering Enrollment in UG and Grad Programs
Yuling Yan
MILESTONES: 2008 • Bioengineering Concentration Within General Engineering Degree • Undergraduate Minor in Bioengineering or Biomedical Engineering • Proposed BS Degree 2009 • BS Degree • Advisory Board Established 2012 • Department of Bioengineering Established • MS Degree • BS/MS 5-Year Dual-Degree Program 2016 • Ph.D. Proposed
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Civil Engineering 2016-17: Faculty Publications: Automation in Construction, Engineering Structures, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Structural Engineering, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials Overseas Senior Projects • Syria: Refugee Shelter Disaster Shelter • India: Wastewater Treatment Plant Alternatives • Nepal: Earthbag Home and Rooftop Rainwater Catchment System
Mark Aschheim
Planning for Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation New Lab Equipment: Optotrak CERTUS HD Non-Contact Displacement Measurement
Students Presenting at Conferences • Meg Ackerson and McKenna Williams present capstone project, California Straw Building Association Conference, May 5-7, Petaluma, CA • Kayden Haleakala presents “Assessing climate change impacts on water supply reliability for Santa Clara County, California,” ASCE/EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, May 24, Sacramento, CA
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Civil Engineering 10-Year Trends: •
Mark Aschheim
Curriculum revised to better target civil engineering content and skillsets, with greater emphasis on: •
computational skills
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working in teams
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Inter- and intra-disciplinary projects
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More projects in which engineering is part of our mission, including overseas projects
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More extra-curricular competitions (e.g. timber bridge, construction, Solar Decathlon, Tiny House Competition)
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Classroom instruction better informed by research; includes more: •
problem-based learning
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case studies
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Increased number of students seeking graduate degrees right after SCU: Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado State
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Vibrant employment prospects, particularly in construction
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Computer Engineering Growth, ABET, Industrial Collaboration, External Funding •
New Full-time Faculty • Behnam Dezfouli, Assistant Professor • Keyvan Moataghed, AYAL Lecturer
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New Admin Assistant • Marjoire Dodson
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Promotion to RTL • Moe Amouzgar, RTL Lecturer • Angela Musurlian, RTL Lecturer
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New Visiting Research Scholars • Hamid R. Naji (with Holliday) • Vahid Esmaeelzadeh (with Dezfouli)
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Tenure-Track Faculty Hired (to start Fall ’17) • Margareta Ackerman, Assistant Professor
Nam Ling
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Strong Enrollment ○ Continued to experience the highest enrollment.
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Survived ABET Accreditation!
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New External Funding & Industrial Collaboration ○ Nam Ling: $217,440 grant from Huawei Technologies ○ Yi Fang: $50,000 gift from TCL Research America ○ Silvia Figueira: $28,000 from Cisco/CTA ○ Silvia Figueira: $4,600 for Grace Hopper
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COEN Tremendous Growth in the Past 5-10 Years Doubled full-time faculty and students! Fall 2010
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Tenure-track faculty
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P/T adjunct lecturers
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B.S. students CSE+WDE (WDE)
Nam Ling
Fall 2016
New Research and Teaching Areas: ●
Big Data
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Data Mining
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Energy-Efficient Computing
M.S. students CSE+SE (SE)
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Internet of Things
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Machine Learning
Ph.D. students CSE
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Mobile Apps Development
MS + PhD students
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Trustworthy Computing and Security
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Web Search and Info Retrieval
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Started BS in Web Design and Engineering Degree Computer Engineering Program Name Change: Computer Science and Engineering SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2017
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Why Growth? - Future Trends
National Employment Projections 1,057,400
New Jobs
Replacements
506,600 Between 2014 and 2024, there will be more jobs in computing than in all other STEM fields combined
92,700
116,500
72,900
96,200
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Electrical Engineering 2016-17:
Shoba Krishnan
• Restructuring of RF and Microwave Program • Introduction of antenna design and signal integrity undergraduate program • Investment in laboratory equipment for Antenna and Microwave Measurement • Growth in undergraduate Power program
• Aligned with IEEE Power and Energy Society mission • Close ties to industry for recruitment and program development • Growth in number of double-majors with COEN and minors in ELEN
• Shoba Krishnan, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Sarah Kate Wilson all promoted to full professor
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Electrical Engineering 10-Year Trends:
Shoba Krishnan
• Growth in the RF, Microwave and Antenna Program
• Developing close ties with industry to provide courses and graduate laboratory experiences • Graduate research in antennas for 5G, wearables, IOT devices • Stronger ties and collaboration with Bioengineering
• New courses: Medical Imaging Systems, BioElectromagnetics • Cross-disciplinary PhD program • Research topics such as interaction of microwave with human body • Working on recruiting more women into the program—big push for Fall 2017
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Engineering Management & Leadership Graduate Studies in Engineering and Technology Management
Frank Barone
A unique Master’s Program with two components, designed to train engineers and applied scientists: •
Training in the skills necessary to succeed as managers and leaders in high-tech businesses in Silicon Valley and around the world
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An opportunity to refresh and enhance technical skills and gain interdisciplinary knowledge
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EMGT changes over the past 5-10 years: •
New acceptance requirements improve quality of incoming students
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6 new adjunct instructors with extensive Silicon Valley engineering management experience, including the chairman of the board of a leading semiconductor company
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New courses reflecting changes in the Silicon Valley workplace: • Contemporary Management Skills • Technology Entrepreneurship • Strategic High-Tech Marketing • Intrapreneurship
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#37 in Eduniversal’s 2016/2017 ranking of top 200 global MS programs in engineering management and project management based on employer recruitment, starting salary, and student satisfaction
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Assisted Universidad Catolica del Uruguay establishing an accredited MS EMGT program - taught hybrid distance learning course in their program each year for past 3 years
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Expect increasing demand from industry for engineering management education for both engineers and applied scientists
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Mechanical Engineering Growing faculty, new capabilities
added 87 years’ experience—75 years in teaching, manufacturing support •
Michael Taylor, computational modeling of solids, aerospace experience, PhD 2008, UC Berkeley
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Panthea Sepehrband, designing a new generation of materials multi-scale with computational modeling and experimental analysis, Ph.D. 2010, University of Waterloo, Canada
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On Shun Pak, microfluidics, applications to biological problems, Princeton, post-doc, Ph.D. 2013, UC San Diego
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Robert Marks, material science, Applied Materials, and 8 years teaching experience, Ph.D. 2003, UC Berkeley
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Calvin Tszeng, 24 years experience, Illinois Institute of Technology, Southwest Research Institute, Ohio State, and start-up company, 8 years teaching experience
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Walter Yuen, formerly a full professor at UC Santa Barbara, 33 years and Vice President for Academic Development, Polytechnic University Hong Kong
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Tony Restivo, 10 years teaching experience, Michigan State and Temple University
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+ 7 continuing tenure stream faculty and 2 staff
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Drazen Fabris
New Lab Exercises for Materials Science New HeleShaw lab for fluid mechanics New equipment: Nanoindenter, CNC machine, instron Tiny House 2016, finished 1st Funding (2015-16): $200K research $700K education
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Mechanical Engineering Over the last decade meeting the need of increased enrollment
Drazen Fabris
7 new Adjunct lecturers 2016: 16 senior projects with 61 seniors Graduate unit growth as a percentage
Lab work
Experience
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Power Systems & Sustainable Energy Samiha Mourad
Maryam Khanbagi
2016-17: • Name adjustment to: •
Power Systems and Sustainable Energy - PS & SE
• Industry Advisory Board • Marc van den Berg, Partner at DBL Partners • Neil Maguire, Founder and CEO of ADARA Power
• Energy Club Speaker Events • Richard Navarro, Google’s [e]Team • Neil Maguire, Founder and CEO, Adara Power • Angelica Escruceria, Senior Systems Design Engineer, Canopy Energy and Amit Patel, Project Engineer, SunPower • Ben Clarin , Electric Power Research Institute
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Power Systems & Sustainable Energy Samiha Mourad
Maryam Khanbagi
Next Steps:
Where our graduates work:
• Increase enrollment • Program advertisement • Additional course offering • Provide industry with the pipeline • Adjust course requirements
• Additional advisory board member • Build relationship with Power industry • Ongoing
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Undergraduate Programs Update
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Undergraduate Enrollment 2006 - 2016
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Undergraduate Major Enrollments: 2006 - 2016
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Fall 2017 – First Year Students
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ABET Accreditation •
Successful visit of BS programs November, 2016 !!!
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Civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering
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Interviews with administrators, faculty, students
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Facilities tours
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Graduate Programs Update
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2016-2017 Who We Are Total SoE Enrollment: 1,927
Graduate: 935 49%
39% Female
Undergraduate: 992 51%
23% Newly Admitted F-1 International Students
28% Female
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2016-2017 Graduate Department & Degrees
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Graduate Trends
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Celebrating our Outstanding Faculty, Students, Alumni!
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University Faculty Award Recipients Silvia Figueira (computer engineering) Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) President’s Special Recognition Award
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering, mechanical engineering) Special Faculty Senate Council Award for outstanding contribution to the mission of the University
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School of Engineering Faculty Award Recipients Yi Fang
Shane Rogers
School of Engineering Teacher of the Year
School of Engineering Adjunct Lecturer of the Year
Yi Fang
Ralph Morganstern
School of Engineering Researcher of the Year
School of Engineering Gerald E. Markle Award
(computer engineering)
(computer engineering)
(innovation and entrepreneurship)
(applied mathematics)
TIE
Hisham Said (civil engineering)
School of Engineering Researcher of the Year
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Tenure and Promotion Prashanth Asuri Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor Bioengineering
Sarah Kate Wilson Promotion to Full Professor Electrical Engineering
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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 Unyoung (Ashley) Kim (bioengineering) Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) Associate Editor IEEE Access Editorial Board International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems Nam Ling (computer engineering) Associate Editor Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing Yuhong Liu (computer engineering) Associate Editor IEEE Signal Processing Magazine e-Newsletter
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering) Associate Deputy Editor Climatic Change Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) Associate Editor Electronics Letters Systems and Signal Processing Journal
Sukhmander Singh (civil engineering) Associate Editor Int’l Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society
Sally Wood (electrical engineering) Editorial Board Proceedings of the IEEE Toshishige Yamada (electrical engineering) Advisory Panel Board Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Cary Yang (electrical engineering) Editor Semiconductor Technology and Science
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Faculty Authors & Editors Kiran Gunnam Electrical Engineering
Dan Lewis Computer Engineering
Shannon Vallor* Engineering Adjunct
Alka Jarvis Computer Engineering
Lanny Vincent Graduate Engineering
Samar Saha Electrical Engineering
Sarah Kate Wilson Electrical Engineering
* Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Faculty Patents Rafae Bhatti (computer engineering): 2nd US patent on role based access control Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering): Provisional patent awarded for Mulitrobot Adaptive Navigation Nam Ling and Video Coding Research Team (computer engineering): Since May 2016, three U.S. patents awarded; one non-provisional and one provisional U.S. patents filed Manish Marwah (mechanical engineering): 6 U.S. patents granted Glenn Williams (applied mathematics): Second U.S. patent issued, "Device for predicting non-linear, time-dependent responses of a component of a system to an input into the system" Andrew Wolfe (electrical engineering): Issued 3 U.S. patents, bringing total to 83 Jonathan Zhang (bioengineering): Patent solves the medical problems of hyperemia and corneal neovascularization from corneal suture of bio-3D printed hydrogel lenses (separate patent)
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Faculty Achievements Ahmed Amer (computer engineering) hosted MSST 2016 Conference at SCU Rahim Esfandyarpour (electrical engineering adjunct professor) and colleagues at Stanford University have created a one-cent "lab on a chip" to help diagnose malaria, TB, and HIV throughout the world Yi Fang (computer engineering) co-organized international workshop on Data-Driven Talent Acquisition Silvia Figueira (computer engineering) presented three posters at ACM Dev in Nairobi, Kenya; organized Hack for Humanity Silvia Figueira and Dan Lewis (computer engineering) developed and hosted Google-funded Summer Institute for Humanitarian Computing (SIHC)
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) reappointed for a three-year term as a research associate with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI); convened/hosted workshops on Maker Labs, Academic UAV programs; organized IEEE Oceans Conference Hohyun Lee (mechanical engineering) spent sabbatical as program manager for NIST Smart Grid Program Office
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More Faculty Achievements Nam Ling (computer engineering) Chair Professorship from Fuzhou University, China, April 2017; general co-chair Umedia 2016 Moscow; $217,440 grant from Huawei Technologies; keynote speaker, International Conference on Computer & Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh; keynote speaker, International Workshop on Signal Processing with Application in Scene Investigation, Xi’an, China Tonya Nilsson (civil engineering) elected to the Board of Directors of the Civil Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education Hisham Said (civil engineering) 2016 Outstanding Reviewer Award, ASCE’s Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering Sukhmander Singh (civil engineering) award for chairing and speaking at 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics; published "A New Approach to Establishing Sikh Identity in America," in. The Sikh Review Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures) Outstanding Reviewer Certificate from Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter, Institute of Physics (UK) recognizing "invaluable service in upholding quality and integrity" Jonathan Zhang (bioengineering) identified and illustrated the molecular timer that programs apoptosis with his SCU lab and colleagues at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; received $300K JOINN Bioinnovation Research grant for biopharmaceutical research
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Adjunct Faculty Achievements Ajay Chatterjee (mechanical engineering): papers published in ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and Proceedings of Summer Heat Transfer Conference Manish Marwah (computer engineering): Session Chair at AAAI 2017; Session Chair at ACM BuildSys 2016 Samar Saha (electrical engineering): Authored six journal papers; opening speech at ICSICT 2016 Conference at Hangzhou, China; keynote talk at CAD-TFT 2016, Beijing, China; IEDM2016 EDS Award presentation, San Francisco; PhD student co-advisor, Jadavpur University, India - graduated three PhDs Allen Sweet, Ph.D. (electrical engineering): PI on collaboration to create "Magnetic Integrated Circuits" for 5G cellular communications; developed 4G LTE IC power amplifiers for the worldwide mobile 4G cellular communications market Shannon Vallor (philosophy; engineering): Executive Board Member, Foundation for Responsible Robotics; Member, IEEE-AS Global Initiative on Ethical Considerations in Autonomous Systems
Andrew Wolfe (electrical engineering): published an invited paper in IEEE Micro
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Student Authors
Jo Gopinath ’19 (bioengineering) USA Today College Op-ed on the role eco fashion plays in her life
Anna Harris ’17 (civil engineering) USA Today College Lessons learned working on SCU’s winning Tiny House Team
Shiyin Lim ’19 (bioengineering) The Mercury News Opinion piece on female engineer experience
Naeem Turner-Bandele ’18 (electrical engineering) USA Today College African American engineers in the past, present, and future
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Student Achievements COEN Graduate Students won third place in BroncoHack and received the Best TechCrunch/Crunchbase/WP Data Hack Award at TechCrunch Priscilla Diep, Andrew Schmidt, and Mathew Fitzgerald (bioengineering) gave oral and poster presentations at the Inaugural Biomedical Engineering Western Regional Conference; Diep presented on behalf of Erik Risa, Sindhu Venkat and Bergren Antell Alejandra Huitron ’16 and Nicholas Supan ’16 (electrical engineering) designed educational lantern kits with a solar charging system and lesson plans to teach high school students in Ghana how to bring lights into their homes; Catherine Murray ’18 (mechanical engineering) and Nick Redfield ’18 took the project to Ghana Manav Jaiswal, with faculty members Yuhong Liu and Nam Ling (computer engineering): Best Paper Award for "Design and Implementation of a Greener Home Automation System" at UMEDIA 2016 Casey Kiyohara ’17 (bioengineering) was admitted to the Ph.D. program of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with full scholarship Roshan Ramankutty ’16 (computer engineering) presented a poster, "Compressing SMS Messages for Lowering Communication Costs in Rural Africa," at ACM Dev in Nairobi, Kenya Robotics Systems Lab Faculty, Students, Staff received NASA Group Achievement Award; conducted mission ops for 2 NASA satellites Luanda Rotondano-Marinho: designed a solar power system that brought electricity to a clinic in Haiti and withstood Hurricane Matthew, providing power to care for the injured people
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Student Achievements SCU civil engineering students: 2nd place for risk determination in the construction management competition of the Associated Schools of Construction Peter P. Nghiem (computer engineering Ph.D): One of top 5 most downloaded articles in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Damani Nkeiruka (civil engineering): Named to ASCE’s 2017 class of New Faces of Civil Engineering – College, “demonstrating the potential to lead the profession to new heights" Erik Risa ’17 (bioengineering): Accepted to the University of Washington Medical School and a Markkula Center for Applied Ethics 201617 Honzel Fellow in Health Care Ethics Alanna Sewalt ’17 (bioengineering): Winner of $1500 Fall 2016 EHS Scholarship Jamie Ferris ’19 (mechanical engineering): On the SCU Ethics Bowl team that placed 4th in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Tournament SCU mechanical engineers: Developing satellite subsystems for EdgeCube, selected by NASA for launch through its CubeSat Launch initiative (with Sonoma State research staff members and engineers from Moog)
SCU’s Engineers Without Borders: Shared tile press and clay mixer project at Dartmouth Middle School STEM fair
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Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards
Richard (Dick) DeBlasio ’72 BS, Electrical Engineering
Bill Holt ’79 MS, Mechanical Engineering
Scott Santarosa, S.J. ’88 BS, Civil Engineering
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Alumni Achievements Matt Blanco ’12, M.S. ’15 (bioengineering) MBA ’16: Invited speaker at the XXIV Annual Pacific Voice Conference (PVC) Allison Kopf ’11 (2009 Solar Decathlete): raised $1M in seed money for her startup, Agrilyst Ryan Kottenstette ’04 (mechanical engineering): Co-founder and CEO of Cape Analytics, featured speaker for Lunch with an Entrepreneur Shawn Lange MSME ’06 and Derek Pietz MSME ’08: Co-founders of L2F, which was named #2 on the engineering list and #267 on the Inc. 500 Avery Lu ’95 (electrical engineering): Co-Founder of Palto Alto Scientific, Inc., received the Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum's (SVIEF) Top 30 Most Innovative Startups Award 2016 Pamela (Salas) Nieting ’05 (civil engineering): Elected Vice President of the San Francisco Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA
Frankie Roohparvar ’89 MS (electrical engineering): Executive Chairman at Batteroo, launched multiple start-ups and holds 500+ patents Victoria K. Teng ’99 (MS, Engineering Management and Leadership): Awarded patent, “Security for cloud systems and virtualization cloud systems, mobile cloud systems and mobile virtualization cloud systems and computer clusters and mobile device clusters” with researchers from her company I-Linke Inc. Timothy K. Shih, ’93 Ph.D. (computer engineering): Keynote Speech, “Motion Interpretation Via Human Computer Interaction,” 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Inaugural Engineering Research Showcase •
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applied mathematics, bioengineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, web design and engineering
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~400 attendees!
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What’s Next? The Latest on STEM – Yr 4
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Latest on STEM Inspired by our Jesuit ideals and Silicon Valley’s culture of collaboration and innovation, we form leaders in science, engineering, and mathematics to forge breakthroughs, solve society’s most complex problems, and build a more humane, just, and sustainable world. STEM Vision Adopted June, 2016
Stem Complex
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Engineering in the STEM Complex – after SURGE Heafey/Bergin Renovated Sobrato - New AMTH COEN MATH/CS DEAN
BIOE CIVIL ELEN MECH Frugal Maker Miller BIO CHEM ENVS PHLT PHYS
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The SURGE 2018-2020 2017 Surge Plan Announced 3 Engineering Buildings to be demolished, Fall 2018
2018 School of Engineering to surge to temporary spaces
2018 Guadalupe Hall 3rd Floor remains
2018 Construction to begin on new STEM Campus
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Welcome Alfonso Ortega – Dean of Engineering • • • • •
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Villanova James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology Founding Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Programs, Villanova Established Villanova’s NSF Center for Energy Smart Electronic Systems ASME Fellow Distinguished Service Award, Southern Arizona Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement BSME University of Texas, El Paso MSME, University of Arizona PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Term to begin August 1, 2017
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SUMMARY Heraclitus
Lots of changes in SoE
Lots more to come – SURGE, STEM & Dean Thank you, and best wishes!
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