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AROUND THE SCHOOL

Fran Berman 6

The new director of the San DiegoSupercomputer Center weighs in on thefuture of supercomputing

2001 Recognition Awards 3

The Jacobs School honored topgraduates, alumni and executives at itsannual banquet, May 4

The Answer to the Energy Puzzle May be in the Stars

“In a nutshell,I think fusionresearch is farenough along thatone could say it’sdoable in terms ofjust basic physics,”

- Charles Baker, DeputyDirector, Center for EnergyResearch

SPRING 2001

Jacobs School of Engineering

FACULTY ALUMNI

John Brooks Slaughter 10

Alumnus leads charge to recruitmore women and minorities toengineering

The Power of theSun...

on EarthWHILE LEGISLATORS ARE SCRAMBLING to find anear-term remedy for California’s energy crunch,UCSD engineers are exploring solutions for the longhaul. Researchers at UCSD’s Center for Energy Re-search are bringing the energy of the sun down toearth.

The power of the stars — fusion energy –– wouldbe an inherently clean, safe and stable source ofpower. Fusion reactors could extract energy fromabundant, ordinary seawater without producinggreenhouse gases or long-term radioactive waste.The energy that could be mined from one gallon ofseawater is equivalent to that in 300 gallons of gaso-line.

“We know it works, because our sun and all thestars are just big balls of plasma; they’re just bigfusion reactors in the sky,” said Charles Baker, DeputyDirector of the Center for Energy Research. “What

we’re trying to do is find a way to basically buildminiature stars in the laboratory.”

A plasma is a hot mixture of charged particlescreated when extremely high temperatures strip elec-trons from atoms at high temperature, typically about10,000 degrees centigrade. In the sun, gravity createsimmense pressure to force together the atomic nu-clei of hydrogen in the plasma that is a few millionsof degrees centigrade. The nuclei fuse and some ofthe mass is converted to energy by the famous Einsteinformula, E=mc2.

Researchers have attained the high temperatures– over 100 million degrees – and pressures here onEarth needed to fuse the atoms. The challenge ismaintaining the plasma at high enough temperaturesto sustain the reaction.

see FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH page 4

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Dean’s Column

The Challenge of GrowthSchool Administration

Dean Robert W. ConnAssociate Dean

for Academic Affairs Anthony SebaldAssociate Dean for Research Enrique Luco

Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance Paul Croft

Executive Director ofExternal Relations MaryAnn F. Stewart

Council of Advisorsto the Dean

Chairman Malin Burnham CEO, John Burnham & Company

Robert Akins ’74 ’83 CEO, Cymer, Inc.J. Robert Beyster CEO, SAIC

James BixbyCharles H. Gaylord

Harry GruberIrwin Jacobs CEO, QUALCOMM, Inc.

James LemkeScott McClendon CEO, Overland Data, Inc.

Duane Roth CEO,Alliance Pharmaceutical, Corp.

David Schwab ’79 General Partner, Sierra VenturesRon Taylor PYXIS

R.B. “Buzz” Woolley President, Girard Foundation

Corporate Affiliates ProgramExecutive Board

ChairA. Currie Munce, Jr. ’79 IBM Corp.

Vice-ChairAlan Chow NCR Corporation

Michelle Mazzoni ’89 Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.Greg Winner AMCC

Jeffrey W. Young ATA EngineeringEric Lasley BAE Systems

Rick Stellwagen bex ResearchCharles Marston ’78, ’85 Calypso Technology Inc.

Chris Haudenschild CliniComp, IntlTom Morton Conexant Systems

Dick Joy ConsultantWallace Breitman Cymer, Inc.

Fred Falk e.Digital CorporationMark Broschart Encad, Inc.

Patrik Lundquist EricssonStephen Flaim Galileo Laboratories, Inc.Dave Roberts General Atomics

Bill Higley Hewlett Packard CompanyKevin Walden High Technology Solutions

Richard Rowher HNC Software, Inc.Binoy Rosario Hughes Network SystemsRick LaFaivre IdeaEdgeRobert Miller Information Systems Labs

Michael Jayne Intersil CorporationRobert Whisler Kyocera America, Inc.

Harper J. Whitehouse Linear Measurements, Inc.Barbara Campbell Lawrence Livermore

National LabShuzo Kato Mitsubishi Wireless Comm. Inc.

Darrel McClendon Motorola-San Diego CenterJohn Gelm Nokia Mobile Phones

Daniel Alspach ’70 ORINCON CorporationScott McClendon Overland Data, Inc.

Mike Atkinson PacketVideo TechnologiesDon Deel Prisa Networks

Dan Sullivan QUALCOMM, Inc.Mark Ambrose Raytheon Electronic SystemsRichard Honn Riley SuperSkyrocket, LLCErvin Frazier Rincon Research Corporation

Thomas Dillon SAICDave Geier SDG&EDavid Lyon Silicon Wave

David Esbeck Solar Turbines Inc.David Eccles Sony Technology Center

Gian Mario Maggio STMicroelectronicsEmil Sarpa Sun Microsystems

Computer Co.David Evans The Aerospace Corporation

Richard Crispo The Boeing CompanyAllan Hillyard Trega Biosciences, Inc.

Dave Vandervoet TRW, Inc.Jerry Tustaniwskyj Unisys Corp.

Steve Hart ’80 ’86 ViaSat, Inc.Ronald Hegli Websense, Inc.

Andrew Manzi ’88 ’96 WJ CommunicationsGary Meloney XSILOGY

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Bob Conn, Dean

THE UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH planned inthe coming decade for the Jacobs School of Engi-neering provides both an extreme opportunityand an extreme challenge.

The opportunity is to expand and enrich ourprograms, build new facilities, broaden our fac-ulty and enlarge our student body. The challengeis, at the same time, to maintain and even im-prove the excellence of our programs while webecome ever more important as an educationalinstitution, a research engine and a source of ideasand technology to enhance the quality of life forus all.

To address this challenge, we have devel-oped a long range plan, put together a Council ofAdvisors that includes a number of industry lead-ers and convened a committee to define the ethosand culture of the School.

Since an “ethos” group might seem unusual,let me explain its purpose. This Ethos Committeewill help us articulate the fundamental values wehold in common and help us use these values toguide the decisions we make as the institutiongrows.

The committee grew out of discussions wehad during a retreat in the spring of 2000. Depart-ment chairs, center representatives, faculty andstaff together discussed the future directions ofthe School. While we all expressed optimism aboutthe excellence of the School, we also recognizedthat sometimes conflicting responsibilities – forresearch, teaching, public service, consulting andtechnology transfer – all impact the culture, atmo-sphere, productivity and collegiality within theSchool.

Growth – and the growing pains that comewith it – add another dimension to these issues.

Bob Bitmead (MAE) and Gill Williamson(CSE) co-chair the committee of faculty, staff andstudents. The essential questions they are explor-ing in this process are: What is the ethos andculture we want for our School? What are thebasic values we hold, consistent with our ethos?And what should we be doing to ensure wide-spread commitment to these values?

Bob and Gill would like to hear your thoughtson these topics, especially in relation to the workthe committee has already accomplished.

The committee’s report is a work in progressand they expect the document to evolve overtime. During the coming year, the committee in-vites everyone in JSOE – faculty, staff, graduatestudents and undergraduate students – to readthe preliminary report on-line and post commentsto an on-line bulletin board. We hope that theevolving principles will guide our day-to-day in-teractions both now and in the future.

The goals outlined in the committee’s draft re-port are ambitious. Simply put, we hope to pro-vide an engineering education of such extraordi-nary quality that our students shape and define thefuture.

We also hope to serve society through the ad-vancement of both fundamental and applied sci-entific and engineering knowledge, and throughthe broad application of that knowledge to addressreal-world challenges and societal needs.

The driving and unifying objective is to makeUCSD and JSOE an institution and a school of aca-demic excellence in all areas of research, educa-tion (both graduate and undergraduate) and ser-vice (to the profession and to the community). Witheveryone’s commitment, we shall succeed.

To learn more, visit:http://soeadm.ucsd.edu/ppi/ethoughts.html

ON THE COVERDIII-D TokamakFusion Reactor

Research 4New way to cultivate livercells.

Innovation 5New composite bridgespans channel.

Faculty 6Sia Nemat-Nasser elected toNAE.

CENTERUndergraduate educationopportunities at the JacobsSchool of Engineering.

Contents

Students 7New secure file transfers,students show off in designcompetition.

CorporatePartnership 8Raytheon helps developshipboard communications.

Private Support 9New Cymer endowed chair.

Alumni 10John Brooks Slaughterleads drive to recruitwomen and minorities toengineering.

JobOpportunitiesBack Cover

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Around the School

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering / Winter 2001

Under Karmina Bustamante’senthusiastic leadership, UCSD’s Soci-ety of Hispanic Professional Engineersstudent chapter grew from 50 membersto more than 200.

Undergraduate Leadership Awards

Named one of the top100 college studentsin the nation by USAToday, Merdad“Doc” Khaleghiserved as President ofUCSD’s AssociatedStudents organizationand has been ateaching assistant for13 classes.

James Nielsen willgraduate with a 3.95 GPAand numerous track & fieldvictories to his name, in-cluding two NCAA NationalChampionships in the 5K.

Graduate Research Award

Mihrimah Ozkan and her advisers, Sadik Esnerand Sangeeta Bhatia, have pioneered a technique toefficiently and quickly assemble cells using electri-cal current. With seven patents issued or pending,their work may be used to construct live tissues andorgans, for drug discovery or for gene therapy.

Outstanding Alumnus Awards

One of San Diego’s original wireless commu-nications entrepreneurs, Rick Kornfeld isoverseeing Texas Instruments’ rapidly grow-ing third-generation cellular chipset business.

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www.soe.ucsd.edu/news_events/

Outstanding Executive Awards

HNC Software is recognized as one of the most innovative and suc-cessful software companies in the world, thanks to the vision andcreative genius of co-founder Todd Gutshow, former CEORobert North and current CEO John Mutch.

As CEO of Overland Data,Scott McClendontransformed the companyfrom a small privately-owned firm into a publicly-owned national manufac-turer of high quality, reli-able tape storage systems.

John Brooks Slaughter, CEO of the National Action Council for Minoritiesin Engineering, has dedicated his career to helping institutions achieve excellencethrough diversity. He has served as Director of the National Science Foundation,President of Occidental College and Chancellor of the University of Maryland.

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John MutchRobert North Todd Gutshow

May 4, 2001

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Research

EVERY YEAR, A FEW MORE PEOPLE DIE and afew more homes are destroyed as the ocean re-lentlessly erodes the picturesque San Diego coastalbluffs. In response, structural engineers at the Ja-cobs School are embarking on a three-year studyto determine the best ways to stabilize these frag-ile cliffs. The study will culminate in a compre-hensive, publicly accessible guidebook.

“It’s obvious that a major problem exists, butrepairs are typically only approved in emergencysituations because of concerns over damaging thebluffs or destroying the natural beauty of the coast-line,” says Scott Ashford, project leader and pro-fessor of geotechnical engineering. “Therefore, oneof our major goals is to pinpoint the most efficientand effective ways to resolve this growing crisis,while maintaining the environmental integrity ofthe landscape.” Digital aerial photographs and ex-tensive computer analysis will be used to identify,examine and evaluate existing mitigation methodsover time.

This quarter-million–dollar endeavor is spon-sored by a Sea-Grant from the National Oceano-graphic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jacobs School ResearchOffers Hope to CoastalBluff Dwellers

Liver Cells Live on a Silicon Chip

EUREKA Event Exceeds ExpectationsApproximately 90 people attended the 2nd AnnualEUREKA! (ECE’s Undergraduate REsearch Konference& Assembly) conference in March. The event pro-vided a forum for the presentation and promotion ofundergraduate research projects, offered students anopportunity to practice public speaking and presen-tation skills, and improved student/department/in-dustry relations. Dean Conn presented the openingaddress, followed by keynote speaker and alumnusDr. Robert P. Akins ’83, Chairman and CEO of Cymer,Inc. Fourteen posters, representing the work of 42students, were presented. Student projects werementored by ECE faculty members (Professors Coles,Das, Guest, Weathers and Wolf) and sponsored byAlliance Pharmaceutical; Cymer, Inc.; Hughes Net-work Systems; Korteks; SPAWAR; Linear Measure-ments, Inc.; STMicroelectronics; Unysis and ViaSat.The event was sponsored by the Jacobs School’sCorporate Affiliates Program, and spearheaded by acommittee comprised of leaders from various stu-dent organizations.

Professor Charles Tu (r), chair of the ECE department, andassistant to the chair, Sylvia Flores at the EUREKA conference.

“You can’t stick it in any ordinary box. And frankly, it’s not so much whatthis high temperature gas will do to the box, but rather that if that high-temperature plasma comes in contact with any physical boundary, it cools soquickly that the reaction is extinguished and the ‘fusion fire’ goes out,” ex-plained Baker.

That’s one of the qualities that makes fusion inherently safe. If the reac-tion becomes unstable, it basically cools down and shuts itself off.

The next step in fusion research is building a bigger reactor in order to getcloser to the point where the reaction generates more energy than must beinjected into the plasma to heat it to fusion temperature. Japan, Russia andEurope are collaborating in an effort to build the next-generation reactor; theUS dropped out when the project became too expensive (four to five billiondollars, says Baker).

Bringing those costs down to a level where fusion energy could be anaffordable energy source requires more research.

“In a nutshell, I think fusion research is far enough along that one couldsay it’s doable in terms of just basic physics,” says Baker. Now “it’s aboutpushing the physics further, not just to do the basic fusion conditions, but todo them practically and efficiently so that the device doesn’t have to be so bigand require such strong magnets.”

Even though practical fusion energy may be too far off to solve thecurrent energy crisis, researchers are already realizing practical benefits fromtheir research. Plasmas play an important role in information technology,especially since this ‘fourth’ state of matter is essential to the steps associ-ated with manufacturing wireless, computer and Internet devices andsemiconductor chips.

In other energy research at UCSD, scientists and engineers are • Learning how to burn fossil fuels more cleanly, efficiently and safely • Exploring alternative energy technologies • Building more energy-efficient buildings

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UCSD RESEARCHERS HAVE CREATED SILICON CHIPS that can support thriving livercells in miniature wells similar to tiny muffin tins. Keeping liver cells alive outside the body could lead to new treatments for liver diseaseand methods of testing drug toxicity. The dime-sized, porous silicon “liver bioreactor” resulted from collaboration betweenchemists in the Division of Physical Sciences and bioengineers at the Jacobs School ofEngineering. Sangeeta Batia, a physician and an assistant professor of bioengineering,and her colleagues suspected that normal liver cells might grow on finely textured surfacesof silicon produced by electrochemical-etching.

“We’re exploring a new generation of devices in whichwe can maintain cells by controlling the architecture, tem-perature and chemical environment, and in which we canuse sensors located on the same chip to monitor thehealth of cells,” said Bhatia. While cancerous liver cells can be easily grown inculture dishes, normal liver cells are much more discrimi-nating. The porous silicon bioreactor design aids in mim-icking the conditions found in the liver by allowing nutri-ents and chemicals through the cell culture, while filter-ing out larger particles such as bacteria and viruses.

20 microns

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Innovation

Research Review“A Blueprint for the Information Infrastructure”The Jacobs School of Engineering ispleased to provide you with the exciting talksthat took place at our Annual Research Re-view on February 23, 2001. We had an ex-traordinary line-up of speakers all discuss-ing the wireless extension of the Internet andhow it will be applied to work ranging frompersonalized medicine to monitoring our civilinfrastructure. Each speaker’s talk and slidepresentation is available for viewing on ourwebsite.Visit: www.soe.ucsd.edu/news_events/RR2001_talks/

Triton Ticket SystemGoes GlobalThe Triton Ticket System, an Internet-basedticketing system for concerts, shows, sport,and similar events has been licensed toRecord.de (www.record.de), a companybased in Munich, Germany.

Jacobs School Computer Science Pro-fessor Bennett Yee developed the technol-ogy. Yee received his Ph.D. in computer sci-ence from Carnegie Mellon University andbachelor’s degrees in mathematics andcomputer engineering from Oregon StateUniversity. He joined the Jacobs SchoolsDepartment of Computer Science and En-gineering in 1996. Prior to this, he spent ayear at Microsoft as a cryptographer andsoftware design engineer.

Yee’s research focuses on issues in com-puter security. His primary interests are cur-rently secure coprocessor applications, mo-bile agent security (or lack thereof), elec-tronic commerce, and cryptographic proto-col design.

Record.de has obtained exclusive rightsto all European countries and successfullydemonstrated the ticketing system at a tradeshow this past August.

The Triton Ticket System has also beenlicensed to NEC (Tokyo, Japan) for commer-cial use in Asian countries.Visit: http://philby.ucsd.edu/triton/

Powell-FochtHall ConstructionYou can follow the construction of our newbioengineering building through ourwebcam. Progress is steady and on sched-ule for occupancy in the Fall of 2002.Visit: www.soe.ucsd.edu/friends_donors/bioeng_hall.html

WebWatch

Modern Composite Materials Replace Steel andConcrete in California Desert Bridge ProjectA UC SAN DIEGO-GOVERNMENT RESEARCHPROJECT has resulted in the development of cut-ting-edge technology that has been applied to anew highway bridge on State Route 86 near theSalton Sea. The state-of-the-art Kings StormwaterChannel Bridge, which officially opened on May18, is unique in that it is primarily composed ofglass and carbon composites.

“This project could open the door for a com-plete rethinking of what engineers consider asstructural materials for buildings and bridges,” saidProfessor Frieder Seible, the project’s designer, andchair of the Jacobs School’s department of Struc-tural Engineering (www.structures.ucsd.edu/).

Several of the bridge’s main components con-tain no steel rebar. Instead, the girders and decksupports are structural shells — tubes made oflightweight carbon fiber-reinforced polymers(CFRPs) which are filled with concrete at the con-struction site.

The advantage of using composites over tra-ditional materials is that detailed, timely, and costlyrebar work can often be eliminated. In addition,composites do not corrode like steel rebar, are upto five times lighter than steel, and can be in-stalled without the use of heavy constructionequipment.

Caltrans, who partnered with UC San Diegoand DARPA (Defense Advanced Research ProjectsAgency) on this important transfer of materialsand technology from the defense industry to thecivil sector, is anxious to monitor the performanceof these new materials.

“The Kings Stormwater bridge provides Cal-trans with the performance and durability datarequired for acceptance of advance composite ma-terials in bridge design and construction,” ex-plained Jim Roberts, Chief Deputy Director ofCaltrans. “These fiber reinforced polymer materi-als, especially the carbon fiber composites, areideally suited for harsh and adverse environmentsand are expected to reduce maintenance andextend the service life of bridges.”

UC San Diego Researchers Study Internet AttacksUSING A NEW TECHNIQUE, UC SAN DIEGO net-work researchers from the Jacobs School and theSan Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have ana-lyzed the worldwide pattern of malicious denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against the computers ofcorporations, universities, and private individuals.The attacks disable Web servers on the Internet byoverloading them with messages, which usuallycontain false source addresses to conceal the loca-tions of the attackers. But in a clever twist, theresearchers used key features of these messages’forged signatures to detect and track the attacks.

“We believe that our research provides theonly publicly available data quantifying denial-of-service activity in the Internet,” said David Moore,a senior researcher in the Cooperative Associationfor Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) program atSDSC. Moore and Jacobs School computer scienceprofessors Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage havedevised a new technique called “backscatter analy-sis” that gives an estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activity. Their research enables networkengineers to understand the nature of recent at-tacks and to study long-term trends and recurringpatterns of attacks.

The researchers collected and analyzed threeweek-long data sets to assess the number, dura-tion, and focus of attacks, and to characterize theirbehavior. In these three time windows, they ob-served more than 12,000 attacks against more than5,000 distinct targets, ranging from well known e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com andHotmail to small foreign Internet service providersand even individual personal computers on dial-

up connections. Some of the attacks flooded theirtargets with more than 600,000 message packetsper second.

“We were a bit surprised by what we found,”Voelker said. “First, a significant percentage of at-tacks are directed against home machines, userswith dial-up and broadband modem connections.Some of these attacks — especially those againstcable modem users — can be pretty severe, withrates in the thousands of packets per second. Thissuggests that minor denial-of-service attacks arefrequently being used in personal vendettas.”

“We also were surprised at the diversity ofcommercial targets,” Moore explained. “We ex-pected to see attacks on high-profile Internet sites,including aol.com, akamai.com, amazon.com andhotmail.com — and we did. But we also saw at-tacks against a large range of smaller and medium-sized businesses.”

The majority of victims (65%) were attackedonly once, and many of the remaining victims (18%)were attacked twice. Most victims (95%) were at-tacked no more than five times. But a handful ofsites were attacked quite often. In the trace period,one host was besieged 48 times by attacks thatlasted from 72 seconds to five hours (at times si-multaneously). Five victims were attacked 60 to 70times, and one unfortunate victim was attacked102 times in the course of a week.

A summary of the researchers’ methods andresults was presented on May 21 at the spring 2001meeting of the North American Network Opera-tors’ Group (NANOG) in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Faculty

Sia Nemat-NasserElected to NationalAcadamy ofEngineering

Q: What is your background?A: I’ve been a professor of computer science since 1979 and I’ve been atUC San Diego since 1984. My research for the past two decades has been inparallel and distributed computing. For the last decade I’ve focused on “gridcomputing” which refers to programs that run on networked resources (com-puters, data archives, remote instruments, etc.). My research involves thedesign, development and implementation of adaptive techniques for run-ning programs in dynamic, distributed, multi-user grid computing environ-ments. These environments are extremely complex, and scheduling pro-grams to achieve performance involves a number of very difficult problems.

Q: As the new director, how will you continue to strengthen SDSC’sconnections with UCSD and with the new CAL-(IT)2?

A: SDSC is building bridges to campus through our research, collaborativeand educational activities. We are also partnering with CAL-(IT)2 to developa vision of computing which will take users from sensors to supercomputers.SDSC staff are collaborating with researchers at SIO, UCSD departments,Salk, TSRI, the Preuss School and will be part of the new Sixth Collegeactivities. We are looking to increase and strengthen our connections withcampus, the UC system, and with the San Diego region over the next years.

Q: Where would you like SDSC to be five years from now?A: I would like SDSC to maintain its role as a “national treasure” and itsleadership in high-end computing, data-intensive computing, grid and clus-ter computing, the computational biosciences and the environmental sci-ences. I would like for us to be well-integrated with campus and the localbiotech region as well as with national and international activities in thebiosciences. Most important, I would like us to continue making a differ-ence in U.S. science and technology.

Q: What are SDSC’s current strengths on which you will build to reachyour vision?

A: SDSC has tremendous national impact on computational science andengineering through our collaborations and efforts in many areas. We arenationally prominent in data-intensive and high-performance computing aswell as the biosciences. We are building collaborations and strength withcampus and SIO in the environmental sciences and computer science andengineering, and these collaborations will be crucial over the next 5 years.Our partnership with Cal-IT2 is important for both organizations and willprovide a solid foundation for UCSD activities in a wide variety of areas.

Q & A with Fran BermanDirector of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), NSF’s NationalPartnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, and Professorof Computer Science and Engineering at U.C. San Diego.

Fran Berman took over the reins from Sid Karin, founding director of the SanDiego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for AdvancedComputational Infrastructure (NPACI). Karin has assumed a new role as Se-nior Strategic Advisor to the SDSC director. As director for the past 16 years,Karin transformed SDSC from a resource for high-performance technology to anational computational science and engineering laboratory. Having shepherdedSDSC through this evolution, Karin requested the opportunity to return to hands-on computing and communications research and development.

Sid Karin will be recognized as “Entrepreneurial Supporter of the Year” by the San Diego Business Journal atSTARCOM 2001 for his pioneering efforts as founding director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Abe Singer (SDSC) has been named “Private Sector Investigator of the Year 2000” by the High TechnologyCrime Investigation Association (HTCIA) for his technical and intelligence support to high-technology investi-gators within various law-enforcement agencies in San Diego.

Robert Bitmead (MAE) has been elected as a 2001 Distinguished Lecturer of the Control Systems Society ofIEEE.

Sutanu Sarkar (MAE) has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation.

Vlado Lubarda (MAE) has been elected to the Montenegro Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lubarda has justcompleted an advanced text book titled Theory of Elastoplasticity to be published in July by CRC Press.

Faculty Honors

SIA NEMAT-NASSER, PROFESSOR OF MECHANICALAND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, has been electedto the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),www.nae.edu. This is one of the highest professionaldistinctions accorded an engineer, and the JacobsSchool faculty now includes 16 members of the acad-emy.

Nemat-Nasser directs UCSD’s Center of Excellencefor Advanced Materials (CEAM), www-ceam.ucsd.edu.His research focuses on understanding how materialsrespond to thermo-mechanical loads and how theymay fatigue or otherwise fail over time. He has stud-ied the materials used to construct space laboratoriesto determine how well they would withstand meteorimpacts, and examined how polymer composites –long used for stealthy aircraft and now being devel-oped for civil infrastructure – stand up to wear andtear.

In addition, Nemat-Nasser is developing novel ma-terials such as extremely strong and lightweight ce-ramic-metal-polymer composites. His most recent workincludes ionic-polymer-metal composites, which aremolecularly driven soft actuators and sensors. A thinstrip of this composite flaps under a small alternatingelectric potential, and produces a voltage when sud-denly bent.

Much of Nemat-Nasser’s work is done in the ex-perimental and computer facilities of the CEAM. Thisstate-of-the-art research facility includes gas guns thatcan launch projectiles at speeds of over 1000 metersper second; high-speed cameras that can capture eventsup to 100 million frames per second; flash X-ray ma-chines for high-speed radiography; facilities capableof heating materials to 1000 degrees Celsius; holo-graphic facilities that use lasers and optics to see howmaterials respond to stress and strain; and a full comple-ment of machines capable of characterizing small andlarge fibers.

Nemat-Nasser is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Me-chanics and Materials. He has published more than400 papers in top journals and has delivered some500 lectures throughout the world. He is chairing theupcoming 2001 Mechanics and Materials conference,to be held in San Diego June 27 to 29.

Jan Talbot, professor of chemical engineering and materi-als science was recently elected president of the Electro-chemical Society (ECS). Founded in 1902, ECS has be-come the leading society for solid-state and electrochemi-cal science and technology, with 8,000 member scientistsand engineers in over 75 countries. Talbot’s research inter-ests include electrodeposition, electrophoretic depositionof phosphors in the processing of advanced materials, andchemical mechanical polishing. While at the Jacobs School,Talbot has been instrumental in developing JSOE’s Chemi-cal Engineering Program, of which she is the director.

UCSD Professor Named Presidentof the Electrochemical Society

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Students

QuickStudy

Mechanical Engineering Students Show Off Skillsin Robot and Design Competitions

FAMILY, FRIENDS, STUDENTS AND LOCALMEDIA turned out to watch teams of me-chanical engineering students compete in the“Robot Book Return Contest,” which was partof the MAE Design Day. Each of the 10teams designed and built customized robotsto compete in the head-to-head event. Theobjective: to return as many “books” to themini-library as possible during a 60 secondperiod.

Each group had a unique strategy. Oneteam even created a second, smaller robotthat attempted to block opponents while itslarger version returned books. The contest,which is the brainchild of mechanical engi-neering professor Nate Delson, enables stu-dents to apply what they have learned dur-ing the design MAE3 class in a fun environ-ment.

The MAE DesignDay culminated in a pre-sentation of studentcompany-sponsored de-sign projects. ScottHerrick, Ryan Lane, andGary Gray created a pro-totype portable, wirelessInternet-browsing de-vice for Sony, utilizingthe company’s memory

stick. The goal of the project was to create aconsumer device, priced under $500, withfull browser and e-mail capabilities. Thegroup’s lightweight, ergonomic design fea-tures two speakers, thumb controls, a re-chargeable battery good for 20 hours, a head-phone jack, two USB Ports and an on-screenkeyboard.

Another group (Mahir Abrahim, DemianBoettcher, Kei Kusumoto, Quoc Le, andJames Pingel), sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, created an inkjet wall printer. Thedevice prints directly on walls using an 8.5-by 11-inch print zone. It could be used toprint company logos and posters, or deco-rate a home.

Other projects were sponsored by Nokia(automatic antenna deployment), Formula

SAE (fingertip shift mecha-nism), and Dr. DianeRosenberg (ob-gyn umbili-cal cord clamp/cutter tool). For more informationand images, v i s i tw w w . m a e . u c s d . e d u /m a e 3 / w i n t e r 2 0 0 1 /mae3wn/www/contes t/book_return_contest.htm.

Wind it up...stretch itout...ready! Action!

New Secure File Transferson the InternetSECURE FTP, A STUDENT PROJECT at UC SanDiego’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),is a frequently downloaded new file-transfer cli-ent. Secure FTP gives users a simple way tohave a secure connection while transferring filesover the Internet. Distributed as a freeware, Se-cure FTP combines security through strong en-cryption with ease-of-use and portability to runon almost any platform supporting Java.

“We noticed a lack of security in basic FTP, sowe decided that a more secure solution wasneeded,” said Gary Cohen ’98, now of the com-puter security firm Glub Tech. He developedSecure FTP with classmate Brian Knight ’00. Thework was supervised by Sid Karin, former SDSCdirector and Jacobs School professor of computerscience and engineering, and Tom Perrine, SDSCmanager of security technologies.

The software is rated in the top five percent ofsubmissions by Java review service JARS.com.Version 1.0 was released in September 2000, andhas been downloaded more than 8,500 times.Visit www.jars.com/listing/jars_top5_002.htmlto download Secure FTP.

Bioengineering Student RankedAmong Top 100 in the NationMehrdad “Doc” Khaleghi, a Jacobs Schoolbioengineering/premedical student, was namedby USA Today as one of the top 100 college stu-dents in the nation. Khaleghi was selected fromamong 638 candidates nominated by faculty mem-bers of their respective institutions.

Khaleghi, 20, serves as president of the asso-ciated student body at UC San Diego, is a UCRegents’ Scholar and a Robert C. Byrd Scholar.He was awarded research grants by the Ameri-can Heart Association and the Howard HughesMedical Institute. During the summer of 2000, heconducted clinical research trials on chronic heartfailure patients. Previously, Khaleghi served as anassistant researcher at Scripps Research Insti-tute.

A senior in Revelle College, Khaleghi main-tains a 3.65 grade point average and plans to at-tend medical school.

Jacobs School Sees Boom inApplications and AdmissionsUC San Diego admitted 16,310 freshman for Fall2001 (second highest in the UC system). The groupis one of the most academically prepared in theschool’s history, with a mean GPA of 4.04 and aver-age SAT score of 1304. The Jacobs School mir-rored this trend as its numbers soared as well: • Jacobs School freshman applicants increased 10% to 6,674• Jacobs School transfer applicants increased 21% to 1,252• Total Jacobs School applicants increased 12% to 7,926

The quality of Jacobs School applicants admittedalso increased. The average freshman GPA roseto 4.21 and the average SAT score reached 1339.Over 17 percent of all UC San Diego applicants areseeking admission into Jacobs School majors.Computer Science remains the most popular ma-jor with 2,593 freshman and 726 transfer applicants.Electrical and Computer Engineering is the secondmost popular major with 1,361 freshman and 238transfer applicants.

Tau Beta Pi Chapter DedicatesBent SymbolThe Bent is the official symbol of Tau Beta Pi, oneof three national engineering honor societies, andperhaps the most prestigious. On February 22,Dean Conn dedicated the UC San Diego chapter’sbronze replica, and said, “I am very proud to dedi-cate this Bent and welcome it as part of the Ja-cobs School’s permanent décor. It will forever rep-resent our commitment to greatness and that ofour students.” It is located just outside of Engi-neering Building I.

Cal-(IT)2 Sponsors SummerResearch InternshipsThe California Institute for Telecommunica-tions and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]is offering 10-20 summer research positionsto undergraduates on the model of NSF’s Re-search Experience for Undergraduates pro-gram. Work will take place over a 10-weekperiod with a projected stipend for each stu-dent of approximately $5,000.

The purpose of this program is to givestudents valuable experience in the researchworld, give them opportunities to work withfaculty in a new way (through non-classroomexperience), and encourage them to seriouslyconsider graduate school and research careers.

The program is expected to concludewith a poster session at the end of the sum-mer, at which all students will be called uponto present posters in short presentations re-porting on their experience. They are alsolikely to be asked to contribute short pieceson their work for a final report on the pro-gram. Award announcements will be includedin the next issue.

> Welcome to the followingcompanies who joined CAP in the lastfour months: ATA Engineering,Linear Measurements, Inc. andPrisa Networks. This brings our totalCAP membership to 53 companies!If you would like information about CAP,contact Kelly Briggs at (858) 534-2329.

> CAP members still interested in findingsummer interns should contact MarinaHayden in Engineering Student Services(858) 822-3780.

> Many thanks to outgoing CAP Execu-tive Board chairman Currie Munce ’89of IBM. Munce is the first alumnus ofthe Jacobs School to serve as chairman.Alan Chow, VP and general manager ofTeradata Development division of NCRis our incoming chairman. Vice chair for2001-2002 will be announced this fall.

> Stephen L. Baum, Chairman, Presi-dent and Chief Executive Officer ofSempra Energy, parent company ofSDG&E, recently shared his perspec-tives on how to bring electricity supplyand demand back into balance at fairprices. His talk was titled, “Fixing Sup-ply and Demand for Power in the UnitedStates: Answers That Can Work.” Thelecture, sponsored by UCSD’s JacobsSchool of Engineering, Graduate Schoolof International Relations & Pacific Stud-ies (IR/PS), and Center for Energy Re-search can be seen on UCSD-TV. Forscheduling information, go towww.ucsd.tv/index.asp.

> CAP Upgrades Library Privileges.The CAP member’s borrowing privilegesto the UCSD libraries have been en-hanced to include the ability to renewbooks. Now members will be able toplace holds on items and renew bookson-line without the wait.For more information: http://l i b r a r i e s . u c s d . e d u / s e r v i c e s /checkout.html#Renewing_material.

If companies need additional libraryservices such as document delivery orresearch from a professional librarian,the PLUS Information Services has beendeveloped to meet those needs. Formore information about the PLUS Infor-mation Service contact their office at 858-534-8622 or plus@ucsd.edu or http://ucsd.edu/plus.

> Mark your calendars!Important CAP dates to remember:

September 24, 2001Spirit of Solar/CAP annual cruise.Ocober 11, 2001Fall ’01 CAP Executive Board meeting.

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Corporate Partnership

Raytheon Helps Sponsor Study OnboardUnited States Navy ShipTHE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS OFTODAY demand far more than just capac-ity and faster transmission. They also re-quire mobility and installation flexibility forapplications of voice, video, and data com-munications. Jacobs School electrical andcomputer engineering graduate studentsrecently conducted research on wireless lo-cal area networks (WLAN). The project is acollaborative effort between the School, theNavy Postgraduate School, the State of Cali-fornia (CoRe program), RaytheonCompany’s Naval & Maritime IntegratedSystems (N&MIS) business unit in San Di-ego, and San Diego’s very own Naval Am-phibious Ship, the USS Rushmore (LSD-47).

This university-military-industry col-laboration will potentially form the back-bone of future wireless network communi-cations on board ships; thus applying SanDiego’s strengths in wireless communica-tions to endeavors of national defense andcommercial applications.

The WLAN industry standard is the IEEE802.11 specification (wireless Ethernetadopting spread spectrum techniques), andhas been widely accepted because it per-mits wireless communications to areaswhere physical wiring is difficult, impracti-cal, or extremely costly. The wireless com-munication is accomplished by installing

Students Put SoftwareDonation to Good UseRATIONAL SOFTWARE CORPORATIONdonated 151 licenses for its Rational Rose2000 Enterprise Edition product to UC SanDiego. This software, with a retail value of$850,495, is used for modeling and designduring software development.

“This donation makes it possible forstudents to learn modern software engi-neering techniques with state-of-the-arttools,” says Computer Science and Engi-neering Professor Bill Howden, who ar-ranged for the donation.

One of the more important principlesin software engineering is that software sys-tems must be analyzed and designed be-fore they are built. This is especially im-portant for object-oriented software, wheresystems involve complex interactions be-tween different objects and subsystems.

“The Rational Rose tools facilitate thisprocess, and their availability to the stu-dents is therefore invaluable,” saysHowden. “These tools are well establishedand well developed, and they are actuallyused in industry.”

access points at remote locations, whichsend and receive encrypted and compressedwireless data to the wired backbone net-work from specified mobile users usingPDA’s, laptops and cellular phones.

Within a shipboard environment,Raytheon is currently evaluating shipboardwireless local area networks (WLAN). Datatransmissions between mobile shipboardusers is through the WLAN access points,and is strongly influenced by the RF propa-gation characteristics of the compartments,superstructure, and the maritime environ-ment.

The research performed is a crucial partof the WLAN evaluation process becausethe determination of the signal propagationcharacteristics is fundamental to any ship-board design and implementation. Wire-less communication systems that use theresults of this research will form the back-bone of future wireless network communi-cations onboard ships.

This project has been funded as partof a research agreement with Raytheon.Matching funds were provided by the Stateof California in the context of the CoRe Pro-gram. Raytheon is a member of the JacobsSchool’s highly successful Corporate Affili-ates Program (CAP).

San Diego Receives HighMarks for BusinessInnovationSAN DIEGO HAS EARNED A “STAR” in thearea of technological innovation, accordingto findings in the new Clusters of InnovationInitiative.

The study is part of the Council on Com-petitiveness’ Clusters of Innovation project thatseeks to define best practices for successfulclusters throughout the nation. A cluster is ageographic concentration of competing andcooperating companies, suppliers, service pro-viders, and associated institutions, includinggovernment and universities. Results showparticularly successful clusters in the SanDiego’s biotechnology/pharmaceuticals andcommunications industries.

Among factors boosting the region’s eco-nomic growth, are considerable federal sup-port for research and development, as wellas a high level of state support for UC SanDiego. Other assets include strong “entrepre-neurial attitudes” in the academic commu-nity. The Jacobs School’s dynamic CAP pro-gram has undoubtedly been a key develop-mental component as it cultivates relation-ships with industry.

More information on the study is avail-able at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/cocclusters.htm.

9Private Support

Cymer Endowed Chair Established

CYMER, INC., THE WORLD’S LEADINGsupplier of excimer light sources used insemiconductor manufacturing, has estab-lished an endowed chair at the JacobsSchool. The chair, funded through a do-nation of $750,000, will be titled “High Per-formance Dynamical Systems Modelingand Control,” and will be awarded to adistinguished member of the School’s aca-demic staff demonstrating leadership andexpertise in the field.

Cymer was co-founded in 1986 byalumni Bob Akins (1974 B.A., Physics; 1983Ph.D., ECE), its chairman and chief ex-ecutive officer, and Rick Sandstrom (1972B.A., Physics; 1979 Ph.D., ECE), senior vicepresident and chief technical officer. “Rickand I are very proud to be in a position togive something back to UC San Diego. TheJacobs School of Engineering is, withoutquestion, one of the finest engineeringschools in the nation,” noted Akins. “This

kind of industry support for our universi-ties is crucial to their ability to continue toattract high-caliber faculty and extremelymotivated students. In addition, fundingfrom high technology companies such asCymer can help to further advance en-abling, cutting-edge technologies that arethemselves key to the future of our ad-vanced global economy.”

Sandstrom added, “We hope the re-search generated by our endowment yieldsoverall advances in this field of study, aswell as to the future technologies Cymercan commercialize to enable the semicon-ductor industry. We also hope that overtime, the endowment will encourage morenew scientists and engineers from the Ja-cobs School to join our Cymer team to helpus maintain our technology leadershipmoving forward.”

“We’d like to thank Cymer and two ofthe university’s alumni, Bob and Rick, for

this wonderful gift in support of the Ja-cobs School of Engineering,” said BobConn, Dean of the Jacobs School. “En-dowed chairs are crucial to the part of ourmission that includes recruitment and re-tention of the very best faculty. They arealso important to corporations such asCymer in supporting some of the basicresearch pertinent to Cymer’s future.”

Cymer, Inc. is the world’s leading sup-plier of excimer laser illumination sources,the essential light source for deep ultra-violet (DUV) photolithography systems.DUV lithography is a key enabling tech-nology, which has allowed the semicon-ductor industry to meet the exact specifi-cations and manufacturing requirements forvolume production of today’s advancedsemiconductor chips.

Cal-(IT)2 Update

AMCC, Ericsson, Intersil, QUALCOMMand SAIC have provided the first round ofcorporate support for the $300 million Cali-fornia Institute for Telecommunications andInformation Technology. Cal-(IT)2 is a col-laborative partnership between UC SanDiego and UC Irvine, one of four institutesfunded through Governor Gray Davis’ Cali-fornia Institutes for Science and Innova-tion program. It is funded by a $100-mil-lion grant from the state, which must bematched 2-1 by private-sector support.

Cal-(IT)2’s overarching mission is toextend the reach of the current informa-tion infrastructure throughout the physicalworld. One of Cal-(IT)2’s key projects isdeveloping new environmental monitor-ing infrastructure that can collect data froma wide variety of sensing devices, commu-nicate to a central archive facility, and vi-sualize and analyze these data in a controlroom. The data will provide crucial infor-mation about the health of the civil infra-structure, the potential damage from earth-quakes, levels of water pollution and snow-pack depth and drinking water supply.

AMCC, Ericsson, Intersil, QUALCOMMand SAIC are member of the JacobsSchool’s Corporate Affiliates Program(CAP).

For more information about Cal-(IT)2,see www.calit2.net.

Jacobs School of EngineeringGiving Opportunities

Financial support allows the Jacobs School of Engineeringto fund many important activities including scholarships,

fellowships, new research initiatives and the School’sfaculty recruitment efforts.

Your support represents the financial underpinnings of theJacobs School.

To put it simply - every gift counts.

There are a variety of ways to support the School:· Annual Fund - show your appreciation for the increasing value of your

degree by investing in academic excellence.· Matching Gifts - Double your support of the Jacobs School by taking

advantage of your company’s gift matching program.· Special Gifts - Support a specific cause or program.· Planned Giving - Secure the future by turning appreciated assets into an

income for yourself and others while enjoying tax savings.

Go to https://soeadm.ucsd.edu/dev_events/giving.html and click onthe link to make a gift to the Dean’s Discretionary Annual Fund.

To receive information about other giving opportunities please contactKelly Briggs via e-mail at kbriggs@ucsd.edu, phone (858) 534-2329,or FAX (858) 534-0351.

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Alumni

AFTER A FOUR-DECADE CAREER in government and aca-deme, having received many of the most prestigious awardsbestowed on engineers and educators, John Brooks Slaughter(1971 Ph.D., Engineering Science) has one more important battleto fight.

He is President and CEO of the National Action Council forMinorities in Engineering (NACME), an organization dedicatedto increasing representation of successful African American,American Indian and Latino women and men in engineering,technology and science-based careers.

“This is the capstone of my career,” says Slaughter, whohas served as the Director of the National Science Foundation,President of Occidental College, and Chancellor of the Univer-sity of Maryland.

“Our most pressing issue is that we as a nation are produc-ing fewer and fewer engineers. There were fewer graduateswith a B.S. in engineering in 1999 than there were in 1990, andthat is an alarming statistic because the need for engineers isgrowing,” says Slaughter. “A subset of this problem is that westill are not doing a very good job of filling the pipeline withminority students, in large part because underrepresented stu-dents do not have the kind of elementary and secondary schoolpreparation that makes it possible for them to become engi-neers.”

As the head of NACME, Slaughter is offering solutions withsuccessful initiatives such as the Engineering Vanguard Pro-gram and the Math is Power campaign. Through Vanguard,NACME targets and recruits students from under-served com-munities. These students are provided intense academic prepa-ration during high school followed by full tuition and housingscholarships at selected universities.

“Retention rates for students in Vanguard are significantlyhigher than average retention rates for non-minority students inengineering,” says Slaughter.

Math is Power is a savvy major-media advertising cam-paign designed to persuade young people to take the appro-priate math and science courses that will prepare them forcollege and for high-paying careers. NACME cites that only 12percent of all American students and six percent of minoritystudents graduate from high school with the courses they needto be eligible for science or math-based majors in college.

Slaughter is also active on education policy issues. He is astrong supporter of the proposal by UC President RichardAtkinson to eliminate the SAT I as a requirement for entrance tothe University of California. Atkinson outlined his plan in aspeech at the American Council on Education Conference inFebruary.

“I think it was a courageous step and the right step,” saysSlaughter. “I’ve long thought that the SATs should not be usedas rigidly as they are by most institutions to make admissionsdecisions because the SATs are about as good as a coin flip,particularly for minorities and women.”

Slaughter is no stranger to achieving results. During his 11-year tenure as President of Occidental College in Los Angeles,fully 50 percent of new faculty hired were men and women ofcolor.

“We showed that it is possible to increase the diversity andequality of opportunity, while at the same time improving theCollege’s overall excellence,” says Slaughter. Occidental has

Slaughter Leads National Charge to AdvanceWomen and Minorities in Engineering

been ranked first in the nation for diversity by US News andWorld Report.

Slaughter jokes that people often asked him why an engi-neer was president of a liberal arts college: “I told them thatengineering training provides you with a disciplined way ofapproaching problem solving. You learn to gather informa-tion, test alternatives, and choose the optimum solution fromamong a set of options. It’s the kind of education that’s appli-

cable not just to solving problems of electronic circuits, but alsoproblems having to do with people, finances, and the myriadof things that can occur in a university president’s office.”

An accomplished engineer in his own right, Slaughter is amember of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellowof the IEEE. He is an expert in digital sampled-data controlsystems. Much of his early seminal work was done from 1960to 1975, as an engineer with the Navy Electronics Laboratory inPoint Loma and as a UCSD graduate student working with hismentor and friend, Professor Harold Sorenson.

“Though my work in the Navy, we had access to equip-ment and computers that were not generally available at thattime,” says Slaughter. “We were working with large weaponsystems that were operated through somewhat cumbersomeelectro-mechanical systems. Our team demonstrated that byintroducing a digital computer into the system, we were able tomake dramatic improvements in the way in which mechanicalsystems would respond. Our solutions required much lessmachinery and were much more reliable and cost-effective thantraditional mechanical controls.”

Slaughter credits individuals at UCSD for inspiring and en-couraging him to enter academics: “I was greatly benefited byhaving faculty at UCSD who were genuinely interested in help-ing me be successful,” says Slaughter. “I remember in particu-lar Professor Alan Schneider who played a pivotal role in mybecoming interested in pursuing a Ph.D.”

“Engineers as a professional group mustdemonstrate more concern for the issuesof underrepresentation of minorities.”

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Alumni

Alumni Association Honors Jacobs School Seniors at UC DayIN MARCH, JACOBS SCHOOL SENIORSBenjamin Lynch (Electrical Engineering& Physics) and Luis Alberto Rodriguez(Mechanical Engineering) were honoredfor their undergraduate research at UCDay. The two-day event, held in Sacra-mento, is sponsored by the Alumni As-sociation of the University of Californiaand commemorates the very best in UCresearch across all disciplines.

Lynch’s research attempts to betterunderstand solar wind and its effects byusing multiple antennas to observe a co-herent radio source, and watch how thatsignal is disturbed as it passes throughthe wind. The earth is constantly bathedin the solar wind. When solar eruptionshit earth, they can cause severe damageto any electronics in space, as well asground-based infrastructures like commu-nication satellites and electric power grids.

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1984 Wendy Coulson Grande,B.S., Chemical Engineering. Grandeis currently developing zinc-air fuelcells at Metallic Power, Inc. inCarlsbad, California.E-mail: wendy.grande@metallicpower.com

1986 Timothy Liem, B.A, Bioengi-neering. Liem has left his position asan assistant professor of surgery andradiology at the University of MissouriSchool of Medicine after four years tomove to Portland, Oregon. He will be-gin a practice in vascular andendovascular surgery.

1991 Antonio Liu, B.A., ECE. Liuis the new chief of neurology at theWhite Memorial Medical Center in LosAngeles, California.E-mail: aliumd@yahoo.com

1993 Mark Yuen, B.S., ECE. Yuenhas joined GCT, a development stagecommunication IC company in SantaClara, California. He is involved in thefirm’s business/strategic planning andfinance. After obtaining his degree inelectrical engineering from the JacobsSchool, Yuen attended the AndersonSchool of Business at UCLA andworked for Merill Lynch and LSI Logic.E-mail: yuen_mark@hotmail.com

1998 Judy Alvariz, M.S. ECE.Alvariz is currently with STMicroelec-tronics where she is focused on low-power designs and embedded sys-tems. She is engaged to VictorGallardo ‘98 B.S., CSE and will tie theknot in July. Congratulations Judy andVictor!E-mail: judy@engineering.com

1999 Mariusz Olszewski, B.S.,B i o e n g i n e e r i n g / P r e - m e d i c a l .Olszewski is attending the UniformedServices University School of Medicinein Silver Springs, Maryland.E-mail: mariusz_olszewski@hotmail.com

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“The ultimate long-term goal is to un-derstand solar physics well enough to pre-dict and prepare for solar storms, butwe’re a long way off,” said Lynch. “Wedon’t really understand the calm, normalsolar wind let alone the violent transientsassociated with solar storms.” He willattend graduate school at the Universityof Michigan in space and planetary phys-ics.

Rodriguez’s research is aimed at bet-ter understanding laryngoscopy. Thismedical procedure provides a secure air-way in an emergency by passing a tubethrough the mouth and into the lungs.His objectives were to compare expertand novice users to identify the crucialskills for successful laryngoscopy. He alsoused the force and motion measurementsfrom human patients to identify the me-chanical properties of the human anatomy

that affect laryngoscopy in order to de-velop an advanced training mannequin.

“The ability to successfully performa laryngoscopy is highly dependent onoperator skill,” said Rodriguez. “Experi-enced physicians have failure rates of <0.1percent, while less-experienced paramed-ics may have failure rates of 10-33 per-cent, which can lead to death or braininjury.” Over the summer, Rodriguez willbe an intern at the Ford Motor Companyin Michigan, and then will attend the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison to pursuea Ph.D. in robotics.

Visit www.alumni.ucsd.edu/ for moreinformation on UCSD Alumni services, orthe Jacobs School of Engineering Alumniweb page at www.soe.ucsd.edu/alumni/

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AMCCwww.amcc.come-mail: jobs@amcc.com; fax: (858) 535-6500AMCC is a leader in high-bandwidth silicon connectivity solutionsfor the world’s optical networks.

ATA Engineering, Inc.www.ata-e.come-mail: jeff.young@ata-engineering.com11995 El Camino Real #200, San Diego, CA 92130ATA Engineering has immediate openings for mechanical andaerospace engineers for thermal and structural analysis, designand testing.

e.Digital Corporationwww.edig.come.Digital provides R&D services to leading electronics companiesto link portable digital devices to PCs and the Internet.

ENCAD, Inc.www.encad.com/jobse-mail: jobs1@encad.com6059 Cornerstone Ct. West, San Diego, CA 92121ENCAD delivers high quality digital imaging solutions to aworldwide market. Entry-level and experienced software, firmwareand electrical engineering positions are available in San Diego.

Ericsson Wireless Inc.www.ericsson.com/cdmasystemsGraduating students - send resumés to:e-mail: sdhr@ericsson.comInternship opportunities - send resumés to:e-mail: julia.chernova@ericsson.comEricsson is the world’s largest maker of mobile networks and thethird biggest handset supplier.

Hughes Network Systemswww.hns.com/careers/careers.htmHughes Network Systems is a world leader in communicationstechnology.

IBM Corporationwww.ibm.com/whyworkAt the forefront of technological advancement, IBM spans the worldof Information Technology. Visit our Website to view employmentopportunities.

Mitsubishi Wireless Communications, Inc.mitsubishiwireless.com10071 Barnes Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: jobs@cmtsd.mea.com; fax: (858) 457-3902Mitsubishi Wireless Communications, Inc. is currently looking forself-motivated employees with qualified experience in any of thefollowing engineering areas: RF, ASIC, DSP, software, test.

Motorolawww.motorolacareers.comMotorola is a global leader in providing integrated communicationssolutions and embedded electronic solutions.

NCR Corporationwww.ncr.com/careerstel: (937) 445-2693; fax: (937) 445-1682A $6.2 billion leader in providing relationship technology solutionsto customers worldwide in the retail, financial, communications,travel and transportation, and insurance markets. Entry level engi-neers; EE,SW.

Nokia Mobile Phoneswww.nokia.com/careers12278 Scripps Summit Drive, San Diego, CA 92131e-mail: sandiego.resumes@nokia.com; fax: (858) 831-6502Nokia is the world’s leading supplier of mobile phones. We cur-rently have career opportunities available for engineers interestedin CDMS mobile phone development.

ORINCON Corporationwww.orincon.come-mail: dbartos@orincon.comORINCON Corporation is a leader in developing new and creativesolutions in the areas of digital signal processing, data fusion andartificial intelligence. A wide range of systems and software engi-neer positions are available in San Diego, Hawaii, Virginia, Utahand Washington state.

QUALCOMM, Incorporatedwww.qualcomm.com/HR/collegeUniversity RelationsP.O. Box 91903, San Diego, CA 92121e-mail: resumes@qualcomm.com; fax: (888) 349-4155QUALCOMM is a leader in developing and delivering innovativedigital wireless communications products and services based onthe company’s CDMA digital technology. Opportunities availablefor the following majors: EE, CS and CE.

Rincon Research Corporationwww.rincon.come-mail: levine@rincon.com; fax: (520) 519-4755RRC provides time-critical DSP solutions in the fields of communi-cation, telemetry, radar and location determination. Positions avail-able in Tucson, AZ.

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San Diego Gas & Electric Companywww.sdge.come-mail: jobs@sdge.comEveryone talks about a powerful career. We deliver careers withpower. Career opportunities for engineers at all levels are available.

Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation (SAIC)www.saic.come-mail: jobs@saic.com; fax: (858) 826-7702SAIC, a diversified high technology research and engineering com-pany, offers a broad range of expertise in technology developmentand analysis, computer system development and integration, andtechnical support services. Entry-level and program managementengineering and software positions are available.

Sony Technology Center-San Diegowww.sonyjobs.com16450 West Bernardo Drive, MZ 5000, San Diego, CA 92127e-mail: Jobs@am.sony.com; fax: (877) 822-8703Sony Technology Center-San Diego has openings for an associatehardware development engineer and associate softwaredevelopment engineer.

TRWwww.trw.com/careers/Human ResourcesOne Rancho Carmel, San Diego, CA 92128e-mail: resumes@rc.trw.com; fax: (858) 592-3108Software, communications systems, digital circuit design, RFcircuit design, mechanical design, manufacturing and hardware/software test engineers. Desired degrees - EE, CE, CS, Math,Applied Physics, ME.

Websense Inc.www.websense.com/company/jobse-mail: jobs@websense.comWebsense is the global leader for Employee Internet Managementsoftware. Openings include entry-level and senior level softwareengineers. Visit website for additional career opportunities.

WJ Communications, Inc.www.wj.com406 River Oaks Parkway, San José, CA 95134e-mail: staffing@wj.com; fax: (408) 577-6624WJ Communications is a premier supplier of RF and optical fibercommunications products. Career opportunities available forelectrical, mechanical and manufacturing engineers.