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iLLT THENEXT GENERATION PLEASE STAND UP? ?AGE F UNIVERSITY of SFLORIDA 10 OF 1 -- Fqr l~rIu A LE Zu fr ati" SWINT II 2008Ii .rmo II Ka II t a, I I . M a. E G a l ',, I L I End of an Era, Beginning of a Le l. ? ~ Five decades ago, Jonathan EK. Earle left Jamaica looking for an adven Florida after 20 years of service. D.avid Blankenship / Andre r"al 1Gettin' Dirty Early CONTI BU S TI' a ake undergraduate students hungry for experience, mix in world-clas Fortune 500 companies looking for fresh ideas. Krse Bt2 Campaigning for Education I l .I The University recently kicked offa campaign to raise $1.5 billion. Le; l.. .. has in the effort to meet this goal. Mhi & Eine E Portrait of an Undergraduate ,l' F, [ ] J2 8 Its been 20 years sincethe Rathskeller burned down, 50 years since th ie S i game, and who-knows how-long since you visited your alma mater.T MI:oI Mat,'etur er a .........II.I" . I. I 4 FROM 300 WEIL HALL 25 F Prfeso o raIsA letter from the dean A Clleg *l, -5 NEWS FLASH 27 B' E n Gator Engineering in the news Th ,i, I Ii 14 ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FRESHMAN? 30 Fl * I 1 I Relive Physics 1 and see if you come out alive A l 20 FACULTY FACTS 30 D SAwards and accomplishments Le I PI: III 21 WHAT'S GOING ON? Alumni updates Reynalcl oIoque IFeerhFudto rfso adPrri fa negaut Asoiate hai gacy ture. Now he leaves the University of s faculty eager to teach, and throw in rn about the role Gator Engineering e first Florida vs. Florida State football ake a look at 21st-century UF. FRIENDS WE'LL MISS fnal goodbye to Gator Engineers Y THE NUMBERS e College's progress report ROM 349 WEIL HALL better from the editor EAR FLORIDA ENGINEER... tters from the readers CONTENTS ALETTERFROMTHEDEAN 94 .lviMi *^ ***"'''' T.-4 d /0 WINTER 2008 'I' c GATOR ENGINEERING IN THE NEWS JUNE 1, 2007 DEC. 1, 2007 JUNE 1, 2007 DEC. 1, 2007 MUSSEL VS. MAN? AN END TO EPILEPSY? Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is charging that A team of UF researchers is working on a de- the cause of some of his state's recent water vice that interprets brain signals problems may have been caused by wear -- and enables neurons to con- being allowed to flow to endangered i nect something they species in Florida, including mussels. 'hope will correct epi- Environmental Engineering Chair ', lepsy and paralysis. The JAMES HEANEY commented on water 1 team includes College of conservation efforts in a Reuters article 'iMedicine assistant pro- surrounding the controversy. fessor JUSTIN SANCHEZ (Ph.D. BME '05) and several Gator Engineering researchers. United Press NUCLEAR ENGINEERING'S International featured the story on July 25. FRESH FACE With nuclear engineering on the brink of a re- vival, companies are hiring and handsomely INDEPENDENT LIVING compensating newly-minted college gradu- Thanks to Computer & Information Science & ates in order to keep the plants operational. Engineering professor SUMI HELAL, there is a The St. Petersburg Times caught up with Nuclear house that takes your temperature, blood pres- & Radiological Engineering chair ALIREZA sure and heart rate, then immediately trans- HAGHIGHAT for this June 10 story. mits the data to your doctor making it pos- sible for the elderly to live independently. This research was featured in the Miami Herald and COUNTING FRUIT BEFORE the Washington Post on July 25. IT'S PICKED A team led by Agricultural & Biological engineer DANIEL LEE is developing a THE PRESSURE IS ON technology that will allow an electron- The use of a chemical containing arsenic in ic system to detect and count fruit pressure-treated wood has declined significant- still on trees. PhysOrg.com, a Web site ly since 2004. Now the problem lies in the dis- devoted to science, engineering, techno- posal of the pre-2004 lumber. JOHN SCHERT, logical and nanotechnology news, featured this director of UF's Hinkley Center for Solid and breakthrough on June 21. Hazardous Waste Management, and environ- mental engineer TIM TOWNSEND are inves- tigating the issue. ScienceDaily featured ................................. this research on Aug. 29. 3 HEAVY LOAD Truck drivers put strain on bridges by crossing them in spite of exceed- ing the weight limit. Civil & Coastal Engineering Chair JOSEPH TEDESCO weighed in on the topic in an Ocala Star-Banner article on Oct. 21. ....................................................................................................................................................................A www.thefloridaengineer.eng.ufl.edu BUG-EYED DISCOVERY Chemical engineer PENG JIANG is developing unusual new anti-reflective and water-repellent coatings that could make solar cells more ef- ficient and self-cleaning. He gets his inspira- tion from insect eyes and wings. United Press International picked up this story on Oct. 23. ONE PAINFUL CELL PHONE BILL JOHN SCHERT, director of the Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, and his team are using a pair of simulated landfills to determine if discarded cell phones, computers and other electronics leak lead into the Earth. This story was featured on CBS News on Nov. 10. WORKING ON SCHOOL When jobs are hard to find, manypeople turn to graduate school instead, according to a recent study by the Florida Board of Governors. College of Engineering Dean PRAMOD KHARGONEKAR was interviewed about how this phenomenon has impacted Gator Engineering in Nov. 21 articles by the Palm Beach Post and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. a w~w- . 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"Nbd' focn hi! ofic fille wit plnsadpausfo sh exlis grteu stdn SI nev-I inene to be in - Qut th oposte Wilim fel 5h55 acdma bu thng ch-a nge." retirement ~ ~ ~ ~ crepn up bu din' want to EreseassolSieoicJmia acnweg it acet He5 wol nee sugs he doesn't Prmo Khro r dea --f th Col3e hav tim fo you He invte students to is ~stil trin to fiueothwtSoewt i o efrgauto n hita th los He wo' use th wor "re......." patis an sig S t co mnemn n Thatcant bedon. fo bithdas aoundtheCollge.Wh- Eale 67 is a sprta an siner ma Wilas so *.s stugln wit fourt- wh stat evr monn wit exrcs and gra. ma. h Eal voutee to tuo him- - pryr -ik most caees hi ha bendrvn----udy-onig -itot-vn en by chnc an opotuiy War wete asked. S P an rxiiyt hi faort sister--- bruh "Tes ar the -hi gs yo see ore, hi. to Gansvle Bu he' seve the Wilim says. 5 P L PROFILE Born the youngest of 11 children in Jamaica, Earle grew up on a farm where the cows called for milking early every morning. His fa- ther, a carpenter, always had tools handy, and they fascinated little Jonathan. He liked to tinker the stamp of the future engineer. Earle led the student government at his high school in Kingston, where troublemakers were punished with canings and chapel was twice a day. For college, he faced a choice: Stay in Jamaica and become a doctor, or go to the University of London to study engineering? Looking for an adventure, he chose England. After graduation he worked for the Thames Water Authority, where a tea lady pushed a cart by the drafters' desks every morning and af- ternoon. He took his sketches home so that he could get a new assign- ment more quickly. "I was having a blast," he said. Earle went back to school to keep a prom- ise to himself. But coincidence brought him, his wife and three children to UF, where he earned a doctoral degree and a spot on the faculty in 1987. He helped found a research lab that gleaned ener- gy from solid waste. Student affairs piqued I BELIEVE IN BEING AS FULFILLED AS POSSIBLE IN WHATEVER YOU RE DOING. his interest when his lab assistants kept coming to him for help they weren't getting from the College. As associate dean for student affairs, he founded revolutionary programs such as STEPUP, which provides an intense introduction to engineering that helps minority students defy drop-out statistics. "What we have today didn't exist before he started building it piece by piece," Khargonekar said. Earle says that his work has never been a burden. His parents taught him not to do anything he doesn't enjoy. So it seems irreconcilable that he's ready to retire. Earle explains with Robert Frost's two roads diverging. He doesn't yearn for the other path, "The Road Not Taken." Instead, he's learned to appreciate the present moment. "I feel very relaxed about it. People keep asking me, 'what are you going to do when you retire?' I'm going to retire," he says resolutely. "I believe in being as fulfilled as possible in whatever you're doing." As Khargonekar says, "I will miss his wisdom." A AA Ear e woe hsdsertto on the us e of po syte ti H.ue hepe desg aa nte Deatmn ofArclua *I f i I i t; li * ergy inr b t e is e s as 1 eSo lid waste becam an is e e in 1 a s mi mLA o1, i cse goa l ' c ling'ad fnde research [C.I I '6*6 *~itl In 1992 he beam assoiat dea fo tdntafis wit a stf ofjstEre an i sertr. "fem is seimester I ogh i c* Ig me d. five esgtu A.te timT 1 *, only 25 ,e*en m stdet. Now,g6*prcn of 'S.EU patcpns egrc Eare also wor edo mnrt-etenio isses arss* F In N"v'mbe,* El e wa oe I of I I 5peo le for Exelse.ce in Scienc Mat ematis In En' n ing I. ng. I H r ecI ved Prsien GogW. Bus in th Ova Ofie I wa humle by**0 thinking out ho sucssu. Fo meth awr is rell a w -fsaing rI SPIRES TA en Kelly Smith (B.S. CHE '59, MI.S. '61) reminisces about days at UF, professor Mack Tynet- B.S. CHE '38.) is the first thing he talks about. "He was just a fun teacher- with a vetNry dry wit," Smith said through a smile. "He taught in a logical wvay anyone coulld understand." Smith said his engineering education - and being around such good professors and students was a very valuable thing. He remembers going to his chemical engi- neering classes that met in an old World War II hangar. And so Smith gave $100,000. Kelly and Ruth Smith's gift helps today's Gatort Engineets and honors one of Smith's favorite people by trceat- ing The Mack Tynet Confertence Room in the new Chemical Engineering Biutilding expand sion. Says Smith, "We got to do some- thing if we are gonna be ::.. . good Gators." P 35-9269 /S Nancy Padron was destined to be an engineer. e r c a m e e t y ou r It started well enough. Padron's mailbox was stuffed with I acceptance letters from UF, Baylor and Georgia Tech. Aeng nee ng 1S She made the wait list at MIT. Her father is a doctor, her e n g ing mother is a lawyer and her stepfather is a mechanical and aerospace engineer. She got a B in calculus a notori- ously difficult class among even the brightest first-year engineering students. Science and math are tattooed on her DNA. "I got A's and B's," said Padron, now a sophomore at UF. "It [engineering] was never a hard thing for me. It was something I was good at. I had the techni- cal skills for it. I was intelligent enough to comprehend the material." But in November of her freshman year, Padron decided she would transfer to the College of Fine Arts and major in sculpture. She said she changed her major because she "just wanted to wake up happy with what she was doing." There have been countless articles written and millions of dollars spent on research all pointing to unprepared students, retention issues, outsourcing and foreign education. And there's one common denominator: an education system that no longer propels students into science- and math-related fields. WINTER 2008 "There is a huge problem," said Pramod Khargonekar, dean of the UF College of Engineering. "A large number of talented students who might have taken a liking in math or science are turned off pursuing those subjects." Khargonekar said he believes social pressures and influences, especially on girls, makes it difficult for children to show an interest in math and sciences. "Since when has it become a crime to be smart?" "The word geek which I take great offense to is a symptom of underly- ing social forces at work," the dean said. "Since when has it become a crime to be smart? Why is it socially unacceptable to be good at math? Why is it we don't hold up these students as great talents, rather than [allowing them to be] sneered at as geeks? In some sense I think we as a society have simply given up on science and math. A nation that can put a man on the moon...does not have the same determi- nation it used to." www.thefloridaengineer.eng.ufl.edu A LIFETIME AGO Yesterday's Gator Engineers aren't so different from current students. ike an old family photograph, the determination of 50 years ago has faded. "There was a tremendous explosion in communications technology," Khargonekar said. "The Internet made it possible to collaborate with people all over the world in a far more effective manner. The other thing that changed is a rise in engineering capacity in other nations, like the availability of computer-aided design tools which enabled engineers anywhere to do a higher level of work than was possible before. A person in India is using the same tools as a person in California; that was a great equalizer." The National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering have the same prediction: If something isn't done soon "Thi to better prepare and interest the nation's has children in science and engineering careers, fre there will be serious consequences. tea Perhaps the most alarming statistics come from a report called Rising Above the Gathering Storm by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. The report calls for initiatives to: Increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12 mathematics and science education. Sustain and strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research. Develop, recruit and retain top students, scientists and engineers from both the U.S. and abroad. Ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world for innovation. The 2007 report ends with a list of "worrisome indicators" that include the numbers of engineers being produced by China, India, Japan and other countries. The report states that in 2004, China graduated about 500,000 engineers and India graduated 200,000. America graduated 70,000. Vivek Wadhwa, a faculty member at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and co-author of Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and India, says those numbers are fuzzy and nothing more than scare tactics. "It seems to happen every 10 to 20 years and it turns out there is no [engineering] shortage," Wadhwa said. "People are playing with the numbers for their own reasons. s is a national problem and Sto do with how we teach ,shmen as much as with how we ich high school students." adhwa reasoned it's cheaper for technologi- cal executives to hire foreign employees. Thus, lobbyists hired by technological firms push for more H-1Bs (temporary worker passes allow- ing foreigners with the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree into the country), and that means cheaper labor. Wadhwa also said some foreign engineering degrees are not equivalent to a degree from an accredited U.S. engi- neering school. Still, even if international engineering education isn't America's enemy, it's possible the nation is its own enemy. Science-based organizations have concerns about the future of science and engineering education. The 2006 National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators report stated many college freshmen lacked WINTER 2008 - - THE FUTURE adequate preparation for higher Today's -n!ii education and needed remedial Today' student =1 - courses to transitioninto college. The almost = , report also stated the foundation's they st .i 1 concerns about many U.S. math and they science teachers not being qualified to teach those subjects. The report goes on to say college graduates who became teachers have somewhat lower academic skills on average than those who do not go into teaching. "There is a mix of teachers in our schools who are not prepared to teach science and math," Khargonekar said. But he's not complaining. He's not blaming teachers or the state education system. He sees a problem that Gator Engineering can help mend. The College has a plethora of programs geared toward retaining students and training teachers to use hands-on projects in their classrooms. "We have set off the fire alarms in Weil Hall more than once demonstrating the principles of physics [experimenting with heat and pressure] to high schools teachers and students," said Deb Mayhew, assistant director of student affairs, who also manages the College's outreach programs. "We try to connect with middle and high school kids early on and let them know that math and science are important. So many things start to distract them during their adolescence. When they see things like the SAE [Society of Automotive Engineers] cars and the wind tunnels, it helps them to see what engineering is in a practical way." besides the hands-on-learning clinics the College offers to high school teachers and students, Gator Engineering is preparing an attack on student retention. Nationally, only about 50 percent of students who enter col- lege expecting to major in engineering actually graduate with an engineering degree most of the drop-off hap- pens in the freshman year. Therefore, seeing engineer- ing for what it is instead of through the glazed eyes of a freshman may be the key to keeping kids on track. "This is a national problem and has to do with how we teach freshmen as much as with how we teach high school students," said Cammy Abernathy, associate dean for academic affairs. Gator Engineering has tried to address this by clustering students in engineering-only sections - including some engineering-women-only sections of a few fundamental courses, Abernathy said. This helps the students develop community and helps to keep them from feeling isolated. Materials Science & Engineering doctoral student Samesha Barnes was a chemistry teaching assistant II I for three semesters before the University cut the program's funding. The program provided a select group of engineering graduate students with extremely competitive leadership awards to teach core courses like chemistry, calculus and physics to first-year engineering students. "They wanted to see if matching the young engineers with Ph.D. students would help the retention rate of engineering freshmen," said Barnes, whose students often tell her they hated chemistry and didn't get it until taking her class. "It was one of the greatest experiences of my life." The tragedy lies in the experiences of all the would- be engineering students who never got the opportunity to participate in a program like the one Abernathy and Barnes describe. Students like Nancy Padron. The engineering-student-turned-fine-arts-major said she is confident in her decision to leave engineering, but she still considers herself an engineer at heart. "If I had been on the fence about switching majors," Padron said, "and engineering classes were more creative and hands-on, I would have thought twice about it." .A NUMBER of 47 Engineering .ffy o2006 B S DEGREES B. S AWARDED Increase NATINAL 7,3 16.92% S47.17% '"""""""L -A L_"" www.thefloridaengineer.eng.ufl.edu doom., Come join the LANE Family as a Graduate Engineer with a Civil or Construction Management Degree. Engineering posillons are now available in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and throughout the East Coast. For more information contact: Mr. Dan Leone, Director of Recruitment and Reten- tion or look us up on the web at www.lneconstruct.com, Corporal Office; 965 East Main Street Meriden, CT 06450 Tel: (203) 235.3351, Fax; (203) 235-0187 THE LANE CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION.. .. IM -n *si I Fl.rn.. SFRES PHYSICS 1 TEST QUESTIONS 1. A small object of mass m starts from rest at the position shown and slides along the frictionles loop-the-loop track of radius R. What is the smallest value ofy such that the object will slide without losing contact with the track? a. R/2 b. R/4 4 c. R - d. 2R R e. zero 2. A and B are two solid -cylinders made of aluminum. Their dimensions are shown (hint: note different radii and lengths). The ratio of ih! rotational inertia of B to that of A about the common axis is: a. 4 'GD 1il1I lit'l'l I', IlK' V. 1'iI, dOil dtii Ii ll K h t-! l ( I SI l 'lil.' I I iLl t'l. lllt- Oil II I . V. in I .1 d 3(.1 '. 31(11(I .1 ..miimi *uiN !=".. r 21 If.. THE FLORIDA ENGINEER Ll ri -7T rj ri "I ri r7j A. R Y BY AARON HOOVER 15 T FLORIDA ENGI I SED TO BE, UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING students hit the books and graduate students devoted their time to the lab. But these days, freshmen, sophomores and upper-division undergraduates titrate fluids, scrutinize microscopic samples and work with Fortune 500 companies from one end of the College of Engineering to the other. Part of the reason is the growth of formal pro- grams providing hands-on experience for under- graduates. Besides the College's flagship Integrated Product and Process Design program, dozens of un- dergraduate engineering students participate in the University Scholars program each year. Several Gator Engineering departments have undergraduate re- search initiatives as w T ellm r Ulvw n c T AT More and more faculty rely on undergradu- ates as volunteer or paid research "At this time in their college careers, these kids are taking chemistry and physics, and they don't know why yet," Jones said. "If they're working in a lab, they can see the positive benefits. They will get sold on the topic." The program, supplemented for the first time this summer with a two-week internship at Sandia Nati o nal DIbfTWTIf lT A I AD aLr flE A fl VV fIALJWZ AL A la LnE THEY CAN SEE THE POSITIVE BENEFITS. THEY WILL GET SOLD ON THE TOPIC. Laboratory, also helps draw students to- ward materials science and en- gineering. Says assistants. For his hurricane research, civil engineer- ing associate professor Kurt Gurley taps six under- graduates to build mock-ups of houses, tow wind- monitoring towers to hurricane landfall sites and tweak software to better suit his experiments' needs. "All of our students go out in the field," Gurley says, "but we also get a good deal of intellectual input from them." The benefits cut both ways. Materials Science & Engineering Chair Kevin Jones says his Department's Research Experience in Materials program, designed exclusively for fresh- men and sophomores, cements students' interest in engineering. Jones, "it's sort of a recruiting tool for us." Many if not most undergraduate engineers will advance to careers in the private sector rather than academe or research institutions. But whatever their fate, their experience as undergraduates will help. "Looking back, the biggest thing I got out of it was the soft skills," said Chris Birdsall, a chemical engi- neer at a major oil company who was a member of an IPPD team in the 1995-1996 school year. "The team building, consensus building, conflict resolution - nowhere else in the engineering curriculum do you acquire these skills." WINTER 2008 GETTING' OUT OF THE CLASSROOM Ji txperlentell is a selling point. illese opportullnitites to explore tr oltsile woril betore g'alluationll ar'e part of what make Gator Engineering grads such hot-tickeetitems. *I : a ONIVEG R SITY i IM ii, 1- i pr.1 rr l r, r. imlr Iii, ir- 1 .r 1,ri r r iirII : SCI HOLARS 1-rll irl jr i r l I Iriil- i r Jr :PROGRAM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN MATERIALS PROGRAM A RESEARCH SUMMER ABROAD NSF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM Materials Science & Engineering freshmen and sophomores 28 of them at the moment work in Currently more than 40 percent of MSE ur the Department's research labs. Each student works for 10 hours per week and gets paid $10 an hour. working on research projects. Many of these students will go to Sandia National laboratories to learn about nanotechnology through the National Initiative for Nano-Engineering, a two-week-immersion experience. The Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering offers a class called International Industrial Energy Management Consulting. The course, open to un- dergraduate and graduate students, analyzes the economics and energy of Latin America. This year, the class traveled to Santiago, Chile, to perform an energy audit on an industrial manufacturing facility and report on theirfindings. The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has a six-year-running undergraduate research program funded by the National Science Foundation one of the few that has been renewed. A! idergraduates are This summers trip marked the fourth year in a row for this program. It hosts about 10 students every summer. Studying elephant populations or the genetics of beans may seem like an unusual way for high school "UF Summer Science Program students are an exciting and SUMMER SCIENCE students to spend their summers, but it was all part of the Summer Science Training Program through motivated group," said assistant professor Greg Kiker, who 5 TRAINING UFs Center for Precollegiate Education and Training. The seven-week program pairs high school stu- teamedwith high school student RohitThummalapalli."This PROGRAM dents with faculty and emphasizes research participation. Several high school students studied in the opportunity provides a great interaction between biological Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering. engineering and the next generation of students." About 140 undergraduates participate in more than two dozen projects per year in the IPPD program. Companies and othersponsors pay $20,000 annuallyto have INTEGRATED Projects range from industrial processes to factory upgrades to commercial and medical products. team of IPPDstudentsworkon a project. 6 PRODUCT AND Student teams have helped Firehouse Subs engineer a better oven for heating sandwiches.They helped PROCESS DESIGN Sunbeam build a better coffee maker. They also assisted Dow Chemical with a batch processing chal- lenge and Medtronic Xomed with packaging for a medical nasal sponge. Investing time and energy in extra-curricular activities gives undergrads unparalleled experience. Gator "Working in a group with stressful situations and Engineering offers many opportunities, including the Society of Automotive Engineers, which builds different personalities teaches you how to deal 7 COMPETITIVE racecars for international student competitions; the micro airvehicle team, which builds 4-inch surveil- with real-world problems. To be successful you S TEAMS lance aircraft; the SubjuGator team, which builds an autonomous underwater vehicle for a U.S. Navy- haveto becompetitive,"said Paul Flury, nowan sponsored competition; andTeam Gator Nation, which builds autonomous vehicles to compete in a U.S. engineer for Richard Childress Racing, one of Department of Defense competition. NASCAR's biggest teams. What betterway to get on-the-job experience than on thejob? Internships and co-ops are a classic op- Internships and co-ops are also a great S INTERNSHIPS portunity forstudents to explore. Gator Engineering is putting a new spin on an old favorite, though- way for companies to begin recruiting fu- & CO-OPS we encourage freshmen to get an internship or co-op aftertheirfirst year in college. It helps them con- ture employees. Consider partnering with us to bring Gator nectwith engineering much soonerthan they might have otherwise. 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'You caui be the Mwajlt I d in lh# Warld Ibut if you don't kno how to wA effrienrly and mof mandWget akwN h pepe, you won r arcomp.:0 anyihing' D I S COVER rArae # wnrr and enrernmii j'Lnim A KSIA Zu RN S is piMtbiEn the cenductmity Kg halnium a metal used in $rnIris Ord 'nxrrl rd (rc.. i &nj.1hri unu~ij rn.4J ji prt Of bef wtvk in vrdmwo; x.rr-,mn Ph-t.t s laWalory Fom tef irwivih i1 all atV.,1 1111 r'trinrrWt Of the dirWUdT~y PenInrs 'It s rD like wlii o how a teacher tv-:hlng YOU wmel-Tig thWqlrs alalitre~~p en toi'a't r-i i'rAybody." str wry i % likp yIu Iegn wieihing w f itwthrse" lime befiom inyr-n rlw ~ Surnm. 20, mp worIng wilt gradPaie suents is dim ~.iIt. 5ince its glywrg her,? bi:d's en view 01 the challheu~in oi graduate whcul But prit.jps her MDst irmporlanC di awwry so fir 1, thart 11 Irk1boek materl q hi wirrr-eu. I wr axd did meseacih at ,hv Untrly ut Massadiuset v al Amhert, where I worked with p. ners she wrpsl D mu .w OF .ga'p" ihrfrt was ienwlanl. but d pou war4 to nmake a cevtat wsImpoind OF Plprnni. you need to know that imn k4._ .TIM ANDERSON / i Anderson received AIChE's Warren K. Lewis award for scholarly Contributions to engineering education research and innovation, dedication to career development of new engineering faculty, and Stewardship of chemical engineering education. .. ANTHONY BRENNAN / ssor i Brennan received the 2007 Florida Blue Key Distinguished SFaculty Award. This award, bestowed by Florida's oldest and most Prestigious leadership honor society, has recognized outstanding educators at UF for more than 50 years. JOE BREWER / & Brewer was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and SElectronic Engineers for contributions to nonvolatile memory integrated circuit technology and digital signal-processor "architecture. JENNIFER S. CURTIS / Curtis won the 2007 AIChE Lectureship Awardin Fluidization for scientific and technical research contributions impacting the field offluidization and fluid-particle flow systems. I JONATHAN F.K. EARLE/Asso aor Earle received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. This is the first time a UF faculty member has won this award. See page 8 for more. SYUGUANG "MIKE" FANG / E SFang was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and SElectronic Engineers for contributions to wireless networks and mobile computing systems. -. HUABEI JIANG/ SJiang was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute for SMedical and Biological Engineering for creative and pioneering work in the imaging and detection of breast cancer and other S debilitating diseases. .. MARK LAW / hi o Eeric M RlL Law was elected by Iowa State University to receive the \ Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, or PACE award, Sfor his clear prominence in engineering. S T V.. STEVE PEARTON / r i Pearton won the 2007 IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers Award for developing advanced compound-semiconductor processing techniques and clarifying the roles of defects and Simpurities in compound-semiconductor devices. WIN PHILLIPS / Phillips was elected chair of the Washington Accord. The accord Sis a multinational, mutual recognition agreement and is the equivalent of an international engineering accreditation system. FAN REN/ Ren was selected by the Electrochemical Society to receive the 2008 Electronics and Photonics Division Award for sustained and pioneering contributions to the development of high-speed compound-semiconductor electronic devices. ^.'' '.. VERNON P. ROAN / Em; & SRoan was selected as a Fellow of the Society of Automotive .Engineers for more than 35 years of improving efficiency and reducing emissions through pioneering research, development .. .' and demonstration of hybrid-electric and fuel-cell vehicles. ...........' K. CLINT SLATTON / P o & Slatton won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and : Engineers for his work on improving estimations of indirect sensing applications. The PECASE award is among the most prestigious national awards a young researcher can receive. LIUQING YANG /Al & Yang received a Young Investigator Program Award from the Office of Naval Research. Her research proposes to take a systems- oriented exploration on the self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation issues of wireless cooperative networks. WINTER 2008 ALUMNIUPDATES NEW FACE, OLD THEME The addition to the south side of theJ. Wayne Reitz Union came in the form of a welcome center and a new bookstore. It was completed in 2003. 1936 JOHN W. PERLOFF, B.S. CHE, is retired. 1949 CHARLES H. SAIN, B.S. CE, has been elected to the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. He founded Sain Associates Inc. 1951 ROBERT SHELLEY RUSS, B.S. CE, is retired from the Florida Department of Transportation. JOHNNY B. SMITH, B.S. CE, owned the eponymous John B. Smith Eng. Inc. from 1968-2000. He is now retired. 1952 DAVID W. TENNANT, B.S. IE, tried retirement fora couple of years, only to discover that working is better! He works mornings now at Sensor Systems LLC. 1955 MARTIN J. ESSICK, B.S. CHE, has retired but still tutors high school students in math, chemistry and physics. PARK B. MELTER, B.S. ME, is retired. 1956 CARL E. VANN, B.S. EE, has retired from Martin Marietta. 1957 RONALD F. YORK, B.S. CE, retired in 2005 after 48 years of active practice. 1959 GEORGE H. SHIPLEY, B.S. EE, is retired and is now a world traveler, having made his way to every continent. 1960 MARVIN J. LOPEZ, B.S. IE, has retired from his position at Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, where he served as a senior mechanical engineer. 1961 JACK SEIBERT, B.S. IE, M.S. MSE, has enjoyed an illustrious career. He spent 25 years as an engineer for the U.S. Army Airborne Division before working as a project manager for Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake. He co- founded the Exploring Engineering Academy at Georgia Tech and is currently a senior project manager for CH2M HILL Inc. in Atlanta. 1963 DAVID JOHNSON THIGPEN, B.S. CE, has retired from Lockheed Martin, where he was a chief test pilot. 1965 MICHAEL LIFLAND, B.S., M.S., retired in 2006 after spending the previous 16 years as a professor of industrial technology at Eastern Kentucky and as an adjunct professor in materials engineering at the University of Kentucky. He previously worked as a product engineer for IBM and as a plant manager for National Metal. 1966 In the previous issue of The Florida Engineer, CHRISTIAN BAUER's degree years were misidentified. He received a B.S. in industrial engineering in 1966, a master's in 1967 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1975. He is currently serving on the Florida Board of Professional Engineers. ROY ALLEN BROWN, B.S. CE, is the owner of Gator Engineering Construction. BRAD ROBERTS, B.S. EE, was recently elected chairman of the Electricity Storage .. . Association during its annual meeting. He is the power quality systems director of S&C Electric Co. in Chicago. www.thefloridaengineer.eng.ufl.edu ill O ALUMNIUPDATES 1967 DOUGLAS M. DARDEN, B.S. CE, M.S. ME'68, is the founder of D.M. Darden Inc., a consulting and project management firm. 1968 In the previous issue of The Florida Engineer, THOMAS N. ROBERTS' degree was erroneously listed as a B.S. ISE. His degree is actually in systems engineering. 1969 PEDRO GIRALT, B.S. ME, won one of four national product design awards from the National Society of Professional Engineers for the aluminum picket handrail developed by Giralt Enterprises Inc. of Miami. The handrail was designed to meet the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials criteria for sidewalks, bridge approaches and retaining walls. GARY WILLIAM KUHL, B.S. IE, M.S. EES '78, is the current chairman of the Florida Engineers Management Corp. CHARLES ELLIS PHILLIPS, B.S. EE, is an aircraft training equipment design engineer for Boeing. 1974 STEPHEN SIERENS, B.S. ME, M.S. ME'76, is an engineering manager with Pall Corp. 1982 JEAN ANN HALE-CORBIN, B.S. ECE, tests and integrates SW applications for Integrated Space Situational Awareness for Air Force Space Command. She is an IIST certified SW test professional and test manager. 1983 AARON ARNOLD, B.S. ME, is a senior engineer for ASG Medical Systems and mentors his son on Jupiter High's robotics team. STEVEN BUCKLEY, B.S. MAE, is working for the U.S. Air Force developing low-cost responsive space launch vehicles. DAVID BRUCE MARTIN, B.S. ISE, was recently named manager of procurement metrics, processes and controls at Lenovo Corp. in Morrisville, N.C. 1986 JAMES HARDY JR., B.S. IE, has been promoted to executive vice president of product supply for ConAgra Foods. DIANE STEWART, B.S. ME, is a senior engineer at Entergy. 1987 MICHAEL ROBERT BARNETT, M.E. COE, is the bureau chief of the Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. RAFAEL LORENZO-LUACES, B.S. MAE, is a senior manufacturing engineering manager at United Launch Alliance Harlingen Operations in Harlingen, Texas. ULA is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing combining two of the world's premier launch vehicles, Atlas and Delta. In addition, he has previously worked on Athena and Titan launch vehicles and F-16 fighter programs. KEVIN A. VANNOY, B.S. CE, was promoted to director of market services for Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator. 1988 ANDREA CANECEK CARVILL, B.S. CHE, is a math and science teacher in the Pinellas County School District. She won the Teach for Excellence Grant from Progress Energy in order to fund her school's entry into a statewide hydrogen-powered- car race. Her students were victorious and competed in an international competition in San Antonio this October. SEAN L. JERSEY, B.S. MAE, recently graduated from the Uniformed Services Academy with an M.D. He is currently surgical intern at David Grant Medical Center. 1989 STEPHEN LEE, B.S. ECE, recently returned from his third recall to active duty with the U.S. Navy as chief engineer of a 12-boat squadron. He was deployed to Kuwait. 1990 ....... KIRBY MCCRARY, ' B.S. CE, has been named . director of debris services i with iParametrics LLC of \ Alpharetta, Ga. 1991 SCOTT PHILIP D'ANTONI, B.S. CE, is currently deployed with the 816 Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, where he flies a C-17 Globemaster III and works as the assistant director of operations. CHRISTOPHER PAUL METER, B.S. CE, M.S. CE '94, is the geotechnical services manager and vice president at Geotechnical & Environmental Consultants Inc. in Orlando. 1996 JASON SCHMIDT, B.S. ME, is an automation sales engineer for HPE Automation. 1998 STEFAN H. PHARLES, B.S. CISE, is working for Google in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to Google, he spent seven years working for Microsoft, where he filed eight patents. 1999 CHRISTINA BRYANT, B.S ABE, M.S. ABE '02, has been named as ombudsman for the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Wetlands Division. She had already been serving as an .... .. engineer within the Division. NATHAN R. COLLINS, B.S. MAE, is the owner of Georgia Watersports. 2000 MICHAEL DAVID WILSON, B.S. ISE, is an operations research analyst for Northrop Grumman Corp. 2002 DONNA FAYE WARD-WATSON, B.S. CISE, is a senior software consultant for Progressive System Solutions, Inc. 2003 ERRICK EGELAND, B.S. ME, is glad that the Sales Engineering program at UF helped him get into technical sales with the Lee Co. NAVIN MANJOORAN, M.S. MSE, received numerous awards while pursuing his doctorate at Virginia Tech. He was named an Outstanding Student Leader in 2007, Outstanding Graduate Student in the VT College of Engineering in 2006, and was presented with the Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award in 2006. He now works for Siemens AG. 2004 TUAN TA, B.S. EE, worked in France after graduation and is currently a product manager at Schneider Electric in Tennessee. 2005 CHRISTINE ELIZABETH AMWAKE, B.S. EE, is an engineer for Boeing's Satellite Division. ADRIANA FUENTES, B.S. EE, works as a product development engineer for the Ford Motor Co. in Michigan. JENNIFER GUSTETIC, B.S. MAE, is a program analyst for the Transportation Security Administration. BONNIE SERINA, B.S. CCE, / a project manager at Miller Legg, I has been named Young Engineer 1 of the Year by the Palm Beach Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She is currently the .... community service chair for the ASCE Palm Beach Branch Young Members Group. 2006 ERIC KNUDSEN, Ph.D. MAE, is currently working for Northrop Grumman and is conducting fracture experiments with the underseas division. 2007 SIMON B. HO, M.S. ISE, spent a month in China before beginning his job as a business risk consultant for Protiviti. www.thefloridaengineer.eng.ufl.edu Qj / THE HUMAN- POWERED SUBMARINE UF's Amnericn .oilerv of Mechanical Enagne.er.. placed .iiidirl ou[r o 15 in the 2:11: Inlrnja onajl Submarine Races with a top speed of 2.262 knots. -.........................................................J L`~ ~ ALUMNIUPDATES _......................................I GATOR TRADITION Lorenz Simpkin (B.S. EE '62) speaks with Scott Payne, a mechanical engineering doctoral student, about the small satellite design club. The retired engineer's interest comes from 33 years of work- ing for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. His son, Patrick, is now director of engineering at the center. The annual homecoming alumni barbecue was held on Saturday, Nov. 3, in the O'Connell Center. Harris Corp. sponsored free tickets for Gator Engineering alumni, family and friends. ) see more pictures 24 REMEMBER WHEN... Pete and Shirleen Wait, foreground, listen to a fellow Gator Engineer reminisce at the Grand Guard Luncheon on Nov. 16 about his experience as a student in the College. Pete Wait graduated in the class of 1957 with a degree in electrical engineering. He and his wife now live in Atlantic Beach. BEEN BUILDING THE GATOR NATION Henry Weisenburger (B.S. AE '51), left, and Freeman Good (B.S. ME'53) swap stories about the several years they worked together for the same company.The two did not know each other when they were students but became friends when they were co-workers."Can you believe that we ended up working for the same company?"Good said."We were two buildings apart." WINTER 2008 a 191 Capai Nel. Sotr SE of Brw silTxs ied ov S *979. 196 Pte R.. Sai w MEof .oload Sprns oode Jul 20, 197. Joh D. 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O'Connell Center. The University aims to raise $1.5 billion, of which $544,221,343 has already been raised. S llege- O be-quest \bi- Engineerings west\ noun: I you are kind 2fla n a l n Ienough to re- l n member UF D iction ai r in your will. dictionary There's no need to wait until death do us part, I I .,! however-through certain planned giv- ing programs you and UF can enjoy your investment while you're still of strong mind and body. campaign \kam-pan\ noun: a prolonged effort to raise money for UF. The campaign is vital to the University's health, making our teaching, re- search and service possible. endowment \in-dau-mant\ noun: think of it as a big savings account, big enough that you can live off the interest without touching the actual balance. UF's endowment topped $1 billion for the first time this year. Seeing that balance grow even more is of great interest to the University because it broadens the scope of what we can do for our students, faculty and you. fellowship \fe-la-ship\ noun: similar to a schol- arship, it helps graduate students with their ad- vanced studies and research. match-ing gift \mach-ing gift\ noun : an easy way to double or even triple your gift's value. Many employers have programs in which they give dol- lar-for-dollar to the charity of your choice (in- cluding UF). At higher money levels, the state has a similar program for donations to universities. pro-fes-sor-ship \pra-fe-sar-ship\ noun : a major kudo for a UF faculty member to receive, provid- ing them with money for research and program development. stew.ard-ship \sti-ard-ship\ noun: a fancy word to say we're responsible with money. We promise to invest your money wisely and spend it in accor- dance with your wishes. We'll be good stewards. Ann McElwain Senior Director of Development 330Weil Hall/P.O. Box 116575 Gainesville, FL 32611 P. 352-392-6795 / F. 352-846-0138 amcel@eng.ufl.edu ......................................................................... LORIDA TOMORROW STIRS IN THE HEARTS OF TODAY'S GATOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS. They are the teachers, the scientists, the entrepreneurs, the doctors and the leaders. They are the dreamers, they are the problem-solvers, they are the innovators. They are empowered by the generosity of Gator Engineering investors. Because of these heroes, we can use tangible rewards to attract and keep the very best faculty. Because of their contributions, we can enhance our un- dergraduate experience with instant access to industry and state-of-the-art research and teach- ing facilities. Because of their gifts, in our lifetime we will see products, devices and technologies emerge from UF and change the world. Florida Tomorrow depends on the heart of today's Gator Engineering supporters. $80 million I.G COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CAMAN GOAL campus enhancement $20 million faculty support $36 million graduate support s9.5 million UT FLORIDA THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BY THE NUMBERS BY THE NUMBERS GAT R ENbNERN rankings "i.'of{t report 17 16 26 (.1 ; I N A 29 .I ; ri .AG II A I. (7{ /:1 d(1)) F XI q research expen itures 27 P 5: UiNEE4R tE (A 'A WI"' FiE: ~y 1011~ LOll~h "I I* ~rrr~v-irrr ~h~~ -~" rp "*'~ 7~~LLhr ~L~-- - I;~;k~8i~J~P~uu-russ~,-~a~C LETTERS WE HAVE A WINNER Brianna Sylvester, 10, is the winner of the Great Car Contest. Brianna answered the call for entries from Quark's Engineering Adventure. The children's activity book was mailed with the summer 2007 issue of The Florida Eng --., Brianna's dad, Sean, is a Gator Engineer (B.S. EE'05, MS '07). Congratulations, Brianna. DEAR FLORIDA ENGINEER... FOND MEMORIES In the summer issue of The Florida Engineer I came across "Friends We'll Miss." From the 1958 class, I read John W. Sanwald's name. John and I were close friends and graduated from high school together. After we both served time in the armed services, John talked me into going to UF. His wife introduced me to the girl that became my wife 48 years ago. Thank you for bringing back fond memories. Theodore M. Hillyer (B.S. CE'59) QUARK ROCKS! Since my son, Travis, is Gator Engineering graduate, we receive your magazine. The recent issue included "Quark," an activity book for children. I am very impressed the engineering college would take the time to introduce our children to engineering and physics. I think this supplement will encourage our children to be engineers. We all know just how great it is to be a Gator Engineer Travis has shown us. Thank you, Iris Ruth 30 HEY, YOU Your latest issue got my attention. It's quite a change from the typography of the 1950's. Keep up the good work. Fred R. Sias (B.S. EE'54, M.S. EE'59) Editor, The Florida Engineer 1951-1952 FROM 349 WEILHALL Pop culture often portrays college life as frothy and salacious. Movies like Animal House are amusing, and perhaps you once donned a toga in honor of Bluto Blutarsky. News stories publicize the / brash aspects of college life, like the Duke University ' i./ rape case and the now infamous "Don't Tase me, Bro," incident at UF. Even The Princeton Review ranks the university of Florida as the No. 4 party school, No. 12 for 'their students (almost) never study,' No. 9 for beer and is the No. 3 jock school. Don't get me wrong I'm sure Gator Engineers have participated in toga-parties. Good for them. But the other side of Gator Engineering really flips our skirts even when we wear pants. For example, students from UF's Engineers Without Borders chapter are raising money so they can go to Cambodia. They plan to install a sanitation system and train rural Cambodians to run it. The micro air vehicle, a 4-1/2-inch surveillance plane, and the SubjuGator, ijr autonomous submarine created by UF engineer- iri.j ilitIrai., are more examples of how Gator Engineering ,i, ...m.arirently win international competitions. Materials ..' r, i fnigineering undergraduates swarmed the depart- iniri[rm I ior a chance to spend two weeks r1 riia di I Itional Laboratories learning about nanotechnology. Undergraduates have always been the backbone of universities. And our College knows this. We cultivate it. Dean Pramod Khargonekar taught Information Technology and Society in the fall of 2006. The class was for freshmen. The Integrated Product & Process Design course for se- niors has sponsors like NASA, Procter & Gamble, BIC and the U.S. Army that pay $20,000 to have our students -undergraduate students make their products or designs better. A Gator Engineer is a great thing to be, especially an under- graduate engineer- even in a toga. S M........................... NICOLE CISNEROS McKEEN, Editor handy-danBy !lupaeadin'thi5 s 349W'eri H afll is ut, w d n I .1' , *Gainesville FIL 32611-6550 wwwnnniyir l tr Tid e gineer ng. I.ed YOU BUY AD. NE MAKE AD. F-T(P r I It U1 HIT T GET. (It's that simple.) Reach more than 40,000 Gator Engineers and secure your company's future with an ad in THE FLORIDA ENGINEER. Send in your own or let us design one for you. Easy work, fast rewards. To place an ad or for more information, contact Nicole McKeen at 352.392.0984 x 4 or nmckeen@eng.ufl.edu. I'U SIli.',lli i Any place. Any time. Online. Earn a master's degree through UF's Electronic Delivery of Grad uate Er3ineering program while .eepinrl-3 your life havo:: tree. l.,:, traveling. [l.: fighting for campus parking. No undergrads passed :Lout :on yo:Lur lawn. Iou viwll earn the same degree as if yo:u vere sitting in a I.IF classr::m. Go ahead give yourself the EDGE. 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