U.Va. Engineer Fall 2002

Fall 2002

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contentsVirginia Engineering

Fall 2002, Volume 15, No. 1

features

Engineering Students and Policy-Makers: A Mix That Works/9Engineering students spent the summer on Capitol Hilllearning about national science policy-making.

Solar House Team Shines on the Mall/12A team of engineering and architecture students built asolar house and took second place in the Department ofEnergy’s Solar Decathlon.

U.Va. Engineering Study Aims to End AmbulanceDiversions at Hospitals/14Graduate students in the Systems EngineeringDepartment’s Executive Master’s Degree Program studyambulance diversion in the Richmond area.

departments

Faculty Notes / 2

Dean’s Message / 3

School Notes / 5

Class Notes / 16

In Memoriam / 19

End Note / 20

Director of Communications & EditorJosephine Pipkin

Copy EditorTom Dulan

ContributorsJane Ford

Claudia PintoJosephine Pipkin

DesignHelleberg+Roseberry

PhotographyDaniel Grogan

Stephanie GrossJosephine Pipkin

Front cover photo by Daniel Grogan.Natalie Giannelli, Erica Kohn, Brian Fox,Sarah Fischer, Korina Kalopsidiotou, Joseph Gay, Edward Hallen, Ryan Ewalt,Ryan Murphy in front of the U.S. SupremeCourt in Washington, D.C.

Biomedical Engineering

George T. Gillies (BME and MAE)co-authored an article in theInstitute of Physics Nanotechnologyjournal titled “Positive PressureInfusion of Fluorescent Nanoparti-cles as Probe of the Structure ofBrain Phantom Gelatins.”

Yuqing Huo received the YoungInvestigator Award from theAmerican Physiological Society.

Klaus F. Ley, incollaborationwith Scott T.Acton (ECE),received a $1million grantfrom NIH to

develop a system to track whiteblood cell velocity as part of Ley’sresearch on the manner in whichwhite blood cells cause inflamma-tion. Ley received an award fromNIH for his research titled “Monocyte Adhesion to Atheromain Gene-Targeted Mice.”

Chemical Engineering

Giorgio Carta was named a Fellowof the American Institute of Med-ical and Biological Engineering.

Robert J. Davis, with co-authorMark Davis, published “Funda-mentals of Chemical ReactionEngineering,” an undergraduatetext for kinetics and reactions.

Andrew C. Hillier was namedwinner of the 2002 Charles N.Reilley Young Investigator Awardfrom the Society of ElecroanalyticalChemistry and presented the invit-ed award lecture at Pittcon 2002.

Donald J. Kirwan was named aFellow of the American Institute ofMedical and BiologicalEngineering.

Matt Neurock is co-inventor on apatent application for “A Knowl-edge-Based Process for the Devel-opment of Materials.”

James P. Oberhauser received anNSF Career Award.

Civil Engineering

Cornelius O. Horgan presentedan invited lecture at the U.S.National Congress on Theoreticaland Applied Mechanics, in Blacks-burg, Va., in June.

Computer Science

Jack W. Davidson gave a tutorialon building compiler infrastruc-ture at the ACM SIGPLANConference on ProgrammingLanguage Design and Implemen-tation in Berlin, Germany, in June.He served as general chair (with Kevin Skadron) of theInternational Conference onParallel Architectures and Compi-lation Techniques (PACT 2002),held in Charlottesville inSeptember. He is also on theeditorial board of a special issue ofSIGPLAN Notices that will selectand republish the most influentialpapers in compiler design andimplementation that haveappeared over the past 20 years.

Jorg Liebeherr was the co-chair ofthe 10th International Workshopon Quality of Service, held in May.He was co-organizer of the ACMSigcomm Workshop on ComputerNetworking: Curriculum Designsand Educational Challenges, heldin August, and was elected to theBoard of Governors of the IEEECommunications Society for athree-year term beginning inJanuary 2003.

Kevin Skadron and Mircea R. Stan(ECE) were awarded a U.Va. FESTExcellence Award to create the

Center for Temperature-Awareand Power-Aware Systems(TAPAS).

John A. “Jack” Stankovic was elect-ed to the Computing ResearchAssociation Board of Directors astreasurer.

William A. Wulf received theUniversity of Pennsylvania Medalfor Distinguished Service.

Electrical and ComputerEngineering

Scott T. Acton iscollaboratingwith Klaus F.Ley (BME) on a$1 million grantfrom NIH todevelop a system

to track white blood cell velocity.

Michael L. Reed and Whye-Kei Lyeestablished Setagon Inc., a medicaldevice company that builds micro-intravascular delivery systems forlocalized delivery of drugs.

Mircea R. Stanand KevinSkadron (CS)were awarded aU.Va. FESTExcellence Awardto create TAPAS.

Nathan S. Swami represented theInitiative for Nanotechnology inVirginia at a U.S. Senate subcom-mittee hearing on nanotechnologyto testify on the inclusion ofregional nanotechnology initia-tives into current national efforts.

Gang Tao is an associate editor forAutomatica, the InternationalFederation of Automatic Controljournal. He co-edited the book:“Adaptive Control of NonsmoothDynamic Systems.”

Stephen G. Wilson has beenelected to the executive council ofthe U.Va. Faculty Senate. He was

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awarded the Harold MortonTeaching Award.

Materials Science andEngineering

Raul Baragiolawas an invitedprofessor at theUniversity ofCalabria, Italy,in June. He wasalso an invited

speaker at the InternationalWorkshop on Swift Heavy Ions inMatter, held in Catania, Italy; andat the Werner Brandt Workshop inNamur, Belgium. In June, he wasnamed the Alice and Guy A.Wilson Professor of Engineering.

George L. Cahen Jr. was awardedthe Harold Morton TeachingAward.

James M. Howe and David J.Srolovitz (Princeton) organizedthe 2002 Physical MetallurgyGordon Research Conferenceheld at Holderness School,Plymouth, N.H., in July.

Robert Hull was named theCharles Henderson Professor ofEngineering. He joined theDefense Sciences Research Coun-cil, an advisory council to DARPA.He also participated in an interna-tional panel reviewing the status ofmaterials research in the UnitedKingdom.

Robert G. Kelly and John R.Scully’s book “ElectrochemicalTechniques in CorrosionEngineering” was published byMarcel Dekker. It was co-authoredwith Rudy Buchheit (MSE ’91),who is now an associate professorat Ohio State University, and DavidShoesmith of the University ofWestern Ontario. Kelly gave a talkat the 2002 Gordon Conferenceon Corrosion in July and at theU.S. Naval Academy in February.

See FACULTY NOTES, page 4

dean’s messageI AM DELIGHTED TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE with you some of the exciting activities in our school today. We havemany reasons to be proud of the important work we do here.

We take pride in our excellent faculty, who educate thetechnology leaders of tomorrow and who are at the forefront ofresearch in their fields. We take pride in our students, whoexemplify the potential and excellence of a Virginia engineer.And we take pride in our alumni, who carry forth in their pro-fessional and personal lives the embodiment of what we seek toachieve here.

Within the pages of this magazine we can cover only a sam-pling of the work of our faculty and students. Highlightsinclude our selection as one of six universities chosen to be afounding member of the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)at NASA’s Langley Research Center. We were also one of eight institu-tions chosen to participate in the NSF Middleware Initiative’scoordinated effort to deploy and evaluate emerging technologies thatwill link otherwise unconnected applications or services across theInternet.

Interdepartmental faculty collaborations have been rewarded withlucrative grants from NASA and NIH, among others. Joanne BechtaDugan, electrical and computer engineering, and Kevin Sullivan, com-puter science, received a $1.6 million grant from NASA. The projectputs our school in a leadership role as a partner with NASA headquar-ters on the implementation of probabilistic risk assessment and failuremanagement methods for complex systems, including the InternationalSpace Station. Klaus Ley, biomedical engineering, and Scott Acton,electrical and computer engineering, received a $1 million grant fromNIH in support of blood cell velocity research. Kevin Skadron, com-puter science, and Mircea Stan, electrical and computer engineering,received a U.Va. FEST Excellence Award to create the Center forTemperature-Aware and Power-Aware Systems (TAPAS). All of these aresignificant achievements in a highly competitive research arena.

Our students are also a source of pride. Our solar house team, anaudacious and brilliant group of students from engineering and archi-tecture, designed and built a solar-powered house that won first placein the design and livability portion of the Solar Decathlon and won sec-ond place in the overall competition. The second year of our D.C.internship program was a great success, with nine intern placementsthat included Senate offices, the White House Office of Science andTechnology Policy, the National Research Council, the NationalScience Foundation and other agencies. You’ll read more about theprogram and the interns’ experiences in the pages that follow.

Overall, these are exciting and promising times. We have excellentfaculty and inspired students. We have challenging work to do and wedo it well. We will continue to prosper, thanks to our shared dedicationto our mission — to achieve international prominence as a student-focused school that educates men and woman to be leaders intechnology and society.

Thank you for everything you do that helps us to continue thistradition.

—DEAN RICHARD MIKSAD

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Robert E. Johnson received aGledden Senior Fellowship fromAustralia to work at the Universityof Western Australia on irradia-tion effects on the surfaces of themoons of Jupiter and Saturn.

John R. Scully has been elected aFellow of NACE International, theleading professional society forcorrosion.

Mechanical andAerospace Engineering

J. Taylor Beard presented shortcourses on “Municipal WasteCombustion Operator Training”in Detroit and Wilmington, N.C.He also organized and presented afive-day short course in January,sponsored by the Georgia Divisionof Natural Resources in Atlanta.

Jeff R. Crandall gave a lecture atthe European Society of Biome-chanics meeting, held in Polandin September.

Joseph A. C.“Pepe”Humphreypresented aninvited lectureat VirginiaPolytechnic

Institute in April and at the Uni-versity of Vienna in October. Heand Hossein Haj-Hariri receivedan award from the InformationStorage Industry Consortium for

research on flow-induced trackmisregistration of magnetic headsin disk drives.

Ted Iwasaki is the PI on anNIH/NINDS-funded project inmodeling of the neuronal controlmechanism in animal locomotion.He is working with W.O. Friesen(Biology). He presented aninvited lecture at the University ofMinnesota in April and at theWorld Congress of the Interna-tional Federation of AutomaticControl, held in Spain in July.

Richard W. Kent gave an invitedlecture at the “Biomechanics ofTrauma: Understanding theLimits of Human Tolerance”course sponsored by the Associa-tion for the Advancement of Auto-motive Medicine and theUniversity of Pennsylvania Schoolof Medicine. He presented apaper at the association’s annualscientific conference in October.

Pamela M. Norris gave a paper atthe 12th International Conferenceon Photoacoustic and Photother-mal Phenomena, held in Torontoin June.

Timothy C. Scott attended the12th annual Jefferson Banquet inthe Rotunda, sponsored by the 7Society in March. The banquet isbased on the Jefferson tradition ofhosting dinners to promote com-munication and comradeshipamong exceptional members ofthe faculty. Seven faculty membersand 40 students were selected.

Pradip N. Sheth received aresearch grant from NewportNews Shipbuilding for develop-ment of advanced material-handling systems for aircraftcarrier applications. RonaldWilliams (ECE) is co-PI. Sheth isalso part of a team of faculty thatreceived an NSF grant for the“Interface Design for a SharedControl Mobility Aid for theElderly.” The project will focus onthe development of a shared con

trol environment for human-oper-ated mobility aids.

Houston G. Wood III and Dr. Xinwei Song each presentedpapers at the 10th Congress of theInternational Society for RotaryBlood Pumps, held in Japan inSeptember.

Systems and InformationEngineering

Donald E. Brown received theNorbert Wiener Award from theIEEE-Systems, Man and Cybernet-ics Association. He received theOutstanding Teacher Award fromthe student chapter of the Interna-tional Council on SystemsEngineering at U.Va.

James H. Lambert attended the“Scientists Helping America”conference hosted by the U.S.Special Operations Command,DARPA, and the Naval ResearchLaboratory in Washington, D.C.,in March.

Division of Technology,Culture & Communication

W. Bernard Carlson served as 2002program chair for the Liberal Edu-cation Division of the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education.

Deborah G. Johnson received anNSF grant to research new direc-tions in the connections betweenethics and technology.

Kathryn A.Neeley’s book“MarySomerville:Science, Illumi-nation, and theFemale Mind”

was published in October 2001.She did an interview related to thebook for the BBC Radio 4 pro-gram “Woman’s Hour.” e

faculty notesThree members of the faculty havebeen selected to be UniversityTeaching Fellows in 2002–03

Matthew R. Begley Civil Engineering

Garrick E. LouisSystems and Information Engineering

Mircea R. StanElectrical and Computer Engineering

school notesNSF MiddlewareInitiative

The University of Virginia is one ofeight institutions chosen to partici-pate in a closely coordinated effortto deploy and evaluate emergingtechnologies that will link otherwiseunconnected applications or servic-es across the Internet. The NSFMiddleware Initiative (NMI) isdeveloping these technologies, as well as the practical deploymentand evaluation program NMIIntegration Testbed, as part ofNMI’s overall effort to develop anddisseminate software that allowsscientists and educators to shareapplications, scientific instrumentsand data across the Internet.

Universities in the NMI Integra-tion Testbed were selected compet-itively based on each institution’sreadiness for immediate testing ofNMI releases and the potential forfuture project and enterprise inte-gration activities.

Marty Humphrey (CS) is theproject’s PI.

Art on Display in MEC 205

MEC 205 was decorated with engi-neering art this summer, in anongoing effort to display culturalworks on engineering over the lastcentury. The prints were selectedfrom pieces NASA commissionedover the years to record significantevents in space flight. Artistsinclude Norman Rockwell, AndyWarhol and Jamie Wyeth. EmilySmith (Col ’02) was curator.

Send Us Your Thoughts

Was there a professor who you thought was special while you were inschool here? Was there a class you took that changed the course ofyour life? Write us at [email protected] to tell us your stories andsend photos if you have some to share. We’ll feature these stories inan upcoming issue of the magazine.

This image of the Rotunda was created by students in David Evans’ computer science classusing Scheme, a programming language originally developed for artificial intelligence.

Rotunda Image Created with Scheme

U.Va. Chosen a Founding Member of National Institute of Aerospace

The University of Virginia was one of six universities chosen to be a founding member of theNational Institute of Aerospace(NIA) at NASA Langley. Other uni-versity members of the consortiuminclude Virginia Tech, the Univer-sity of Maryland, Georgia Tech,North Carolina State, and NorthCarolina A&T. The American Insti-tute of Aeronautics and Astronau-tics (AIAA) is also a team partner.Numerous faculty from Engineer-ing and Arts & Sciences participat-ed in the proposal. Key U.Va.contributors were James Groves(MSE), James McDaniel (MAE),David Emmitt (Environmental Sci-

ence), Kathryn Thornton (Dean’sOffice), Alton Martin (GeneralCounsel’s Office), William Define(Office of Sponsored Programs),and Dean Richard Miksad.

The goals of the institute are toconduct research, provide gradu-ate/continuing education via dis-tance learning, commercializetechnologies developed, and pro-mote outreach in the region andthroughout the United States. Theinitial five-year agreement could berenewed by NASA for as many asthree additional five-year periods.Over the first five years of the agree-ment, U.Va. could receive up to $10million for research activities.

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school notesMonitoring Device Offers Data on Bridges’Structural Health

Robert Kelly (MSE) was co-inventorof a device to provide informationon the structural health of bridges.He invented the monitoring systemwith Robert Ross, president, andKurt Hudson of Virginia Technolo-gies Inc. of Charlottesville.

Graduate FellowshipsEstablished

The Engineering School will be bet-ter able to attract more of the coun-try’s best graduate students, thanksto recent gifts totaling $200,000 thatwill be used to endow two new grad-uate student fellowships.

“Other great universities offeroutstanding graduate student fel-lowships. In order to compete, wemust, too,” said Dean Richard Mik-sad. “Support for graduate researchis one of our top funding priorities.”

The endowed fellowships wereestablished through a $100,000unrestricted gift from the estate ofJohn Bell McGaughy and through$100,000 in funds given byEngineering School alumni.

IBM Gift Granted to theSchools of Engineeringand Medicine

An IBM gift of computer technolo-gy has been granted to the schoolsof Engineering and Medicine, withkey applications in biomedicalengineering for medical imaging.The value of the IBM and U.Va.matching gift totals $1.5 million.

The grant will allow the schoolsto collaborate on cardiac and ultra-sound imaging, including MRIapplications for the beating heartin real-time, world-class ultrasoundimaging, optical imaging of theliving cell interior and computa-tional bioengineering of data tounderstand disease progression.

U.Va. EngineeringStudent’s InventionImproves AllergicResponse Options

Evan Edwards, a fourth-year MAEstudent, has invented the Epi-Card,a small device that will inject a doseof epinephrine through an easy-to-use, credit-card-sized device that issmall enough to fit in a wallet. Italso will contain a spring device toretract the needle after use, a safetyprecaution no other injection sys-tem offers.

Edwards’ invention was featuredat the Smithsonian Museum ofAmerican History in Washington,D.C., as part of “March Madness ofthe Mind,” the National CollegiateInventors and Innovators Alliance’s(NCIIA) fifth annual exhibition ofstudent inventions.

Edwards first conceived of theEpi-Card idea in the spring of 2000,in a Technology, Culture and Com-munications course on inventionand design.

After graduating this May,Edwards plans to further develophis invention while pursuing a mas-ter’s degree in technology andethics at U.Va.

Faculty Design aGovernment Portal for Hampton

The Computer Science Depart-ment recently completed a cooper-ative project with CNU to designand build an electronic portal forthe city of Hampton. The projectcreated a customer response systemto improve citizen interaction withlocal government.

Professors Win NASAResearch Award

Professors Kevin Sullivan (CS) andJoanne Bechta Dugan (ECE)received a two-year award of $1.6million from NASA Langley, with

Center Designs Cars of the Future

Research done by the Center for Applied Bio-mechanics was referenced in the BritishMedical Journal article “Future Cars May Pro-tect Pedestrians.” The article discussed plansto design future cars that will offer greatersafety to pedestrians and cyclists in accidents.Information on research conducted in thecenter can be seen at http://auto-safety.mech.virginia.edu/.

The center recently received the gift of aminivan from Toyota to facilitate injury bio-mechanics research and study. Toyota also isfunding a project with the center to examinethe impact injury tolerance of the elderlytorso in an effort to improve design of vehiclerestraints.

Representatives from Toyota present Center with keys toToyota minivan.

Area resident examines projects featured during Open House 2002.


school notesoptions bringing the total to $2.6million for five years. The awardwill fund the next stage of a recent-ly completed first-stage project(funded at $750,000). NASA’s aimis to transition innovative tech-niques for reliability modeling andanalysis of complex systems for useby NASA engineers. The fundingfor this work will enable the twodepartments to support eight grad-uate students, several undergradu-ate researchers, a professionalsoftware developer and two facultymembers at U.Va., as well as sub-contracts with the University ofMaryland, the Idaho NationalEngineering and EnvironmentalLaboratory, and the College ofWilliam and Mary.

The project puts U.Va. at theforefront of research and develop-ment on techniques for the con-struction of sophisticated softwaretools for engineering modeling andanalysis and in a leadership role asa partner with NASA headquarterson the implementation of proba-bilistic risk assessment and failuremanagement methods for complexsystems, including the Internation-al Space Station.

Engineering and CurryStudents Create Teaching Kits

The Virginia Middle SchoolEngineering Education Initiative(VMSEEI) has received an NSFPlanning Grant from the Bridgesfor Engineering Education Pro-gram. The one-year, $100,000 grantand VMSEEI program involves fac-ulty and students from the Engi-neering School and the CurrySchool of Education. The Depart-ment of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering also has initiated anew senior design course focusedon developing Engineering Teach-ing Kits (ETKs). Larry Richardsand Hilary Bart-Smith are the maininstructors, and 24 students areenrolled. Five teams under the

supervision of Richards, Bart-Smith, Gaby Laufer and PepeHumphrey are working on ETKson the topics: solar car design,design for sustainability, simplemachines, gels and brain perfu-sion, and the Manta Ray sub-mersible vehicle.

VMSEEI began several years agowith a grant from the Payne FamilyFoundation and Accenture, amongothers.

Faculty and GraduateStudents Win Laptop Computers

The Engineering School gave awayfour wireless-enabled IBM laptopcomputers to winners of a school-wide competition open to facultyand students. Proposals werereviewed by the EngineeringSchool Computing EnvironmentCommittee. Winners were facultymembers Sean Agnew (MSE),Maite Brandt-Pearce (ECE) andMircea Stan (ECE), and graduatestudent Tian He (CS). IBM donat-ed the computers, and the Engi-neering School, ITC and theUniversity Library provided theperipherals.

Center for Biomechanicson Discovery

The research activities of theMechanical and Aerospace Engi-neering Center for Applied Biome-chanics were featured on theDiscovery Channel documentary“Anatomy of a Crash,” which airedin September.

VEF Awards — 2002

Distinguished Faculty Award Professor Nicholas Garber has been a facultymember in Civil Engineering since 1980. He isnationally and internationally known for hisresearch in traffic operations and safety. Heserved as chair of the Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Committee and was a mem-ber of the University Faculty Senate.

Outstanding Student AwardGinger Moored was a member of the solar air-ship team, an engineering school adviser, amember of Student Council and a participantin the D.C. Internship Program. She was amember of the Organization of Young Fil-ipino-Americans and co-founder of GEMS, amentoring organization for middle schoolgirls. She was a member of the Women’sRights Committee of the American Civil Lib-erties Union and was elected to Tau Beta Pi,Golden Key, Omicron Delta Kappa, SigmaGamma Tau and the National Society for Col-legiate Scholars.

Service AwardJames Turner is chief Democratic counsel onthe U.S. House of Representatives Committeeon Science. He is on the Dean’s AdvisoryCouncil and the Advisory Board of TCC andhas been instrumental in setting up andorganizing the D.C. Internship Program.

ROTC Awards Army Cadet Bryan PaladiniNavy Midshipman Jared SimsicAir Force Cadet William Warren

Professor Nicholas Garber, Ginger Moored, James Turner:VEF 2002 award winners.


school notesStudent News

The U.Va. solar house team won sec-ond place in the Department ofEnergy Solar Decathlon competi-tion in Washington, D.C. See story,page 12.

Matt Green, a graduate CE student,was awarded a prestigious Eisen-hower Fellowship by the U.S.Department of Transportation. Mattis conducting his research in theSmart Travel Laboratory with Pro-fessor Brian Smith.

Landon Shoop, a second-year stu-dent, was featured in a June Wash-ington Post article as one of about80 young volunteers with Arlington,Va.’s, CyberSeniors/Cyberteens Pro-gram. The program pairs teenagersand young adults with senior citi-zens to teach them basic computerskills and help them feel comfort-able using technology.

Elizabeth Partridge won third placein the ACM Undergraduate StudentResearch Contest.

Zhijian Lu and Jason Hein won thebest student paper award for the2002 Workshop on Self-Healing,Adaptive, and Self-Managed Systems(SHAMAN).

Thirteen students attended theAmerican Institute for Aeronauticsand Astronautics (AIAA) studentconference in April. Erik Andrews,fourth-year Aero, won first place;and Zach Owen, fourth-year Aero,won second place in the undergrad-uate competition for papers theywrote. Phil Lemire, a master’s stu-dent in MAE, won second place forhis paper. Last year, Lemire wonthird place, and his research hasbeen applied to research onartificial heart pumps.

A student team placed fourth in the2002 IEEE Computer Society Inter-national Design Competition(CSIDC). U.Va. was the top-placedU.S. team. The project title was“Lifeline: Improved Communica-tion & Infomatics for Fire & RescueWorkers.” Team members wereDaniel Ceperley (EE), Minh DucNguyen (CS), Andrew Perez-Lopez(Cognitive Science) and ArunThomas (CpE). Faculty mentorswere Mircea R. Stan and Ronald D.Williams.

A team of engineering students wasamong the top four winners in theNASA Means Business competitionin May. The students competedagainst other schools to develop a

business plan for customer out-reach for NASA’s Mars missionsover the next 20 years.

MAE students took first place in theNASA National General AviationDesign Competition for theirdesign of “Alaris,” an aircraft con-cept that produced outstandingperformance by combining alightweight wing and body with apowerful turbofan engine. TheU.Va. team’s design was featured inthe October issue of PopularScience. For images of this year’swinning designs, visit: http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/news_rels/2002/images/designcomp.html.

Kelly Shea, asecond-yearChE student,designed a 10-minuteprostate cancertest. She was afinalist last yearin the Siemens Westinghouse Com-petition in Math, Science and Tech-nology. Kelly recently was featuredin a Washington Post Magazine arti-cle headlined: “Laboratory Proto-col: Science Discovers Women, andVice Versa.” e

Kelly Shea, 2nd year ChE

Alaris, designed by U.Va. MAE students whotook 1st place in the NASA National GeneralAviation Design Competition.

15th Annual UndergraduateResearch and DesignSymposium Top Three Winners

First Place — Suzanne Groves (MAE)Developing Wavelet-Based Diagnostics forAnalyzing Transient Roll Motion of ShipsTechnical Adviser: Don JordanTCC Adviser: Helen Benet-Goodman

Second Place — Emily Quann (ChE)Functional Analysis of Protein Kinase CIsotypes During Differentiation from MouseEmbryonic Stem Cells into CardiomyocytesTechnical Adviser: Roseanne FordTCC Adviser: Ingrid Townsend

Third Place — Daniel Ceperley (ECE)Adaptive Beam-Forming in Medical ImagingTechnical Adviser: Seth SilversteinTCC Adviser: Bryan Pfaffenberger

Emily Quann, Suzanne Groves, Daniel Ceperley: winners ofthe 2002 Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium.


Engineering Students and Policy-Makers: A Mix That Works

by Josephine Pipkin

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX BRIGHT,

articulate, technically astute young people with poli-

cy-making officials on Capitol Hill?

Success, success, success.

“We’re in the business of educating the technolo-

gy leaders of tomorrow,” said Dean Richard Miksad.

“What better way to do that is there than to expose

them to the seat of power in this country?”

Miksad knew there would be benefits for the poli-

cy-makers as well. “On visits to D.C., I would talk to

staff aides who were well-trained in political science

but who didn’t understand what we were talking

about in terms of technology,” Miksad said. “Our goal

with this internship was to raise the level of technolo-

gy literacy in the national science policy-making

process and to put our students in a situation where

they could see exactly how that process works.”

During the summer of 2002, nine Engineering

School interns were placed in policy-making offices

with the help of James Turner, a member of the

Dean’s Advisory Council and Democratic counsel

for the House Science Committee. Turner worked

with Miksad to launch the program, based on a simi-

lar program Turner established for MIT five years

ago. He assisted students in setting up placement

interviews, set up a housing arrangement that paired

them with MIT students and arranged lectures and

tours to enhance their internship experience. Scott

Giles, the Republican counsel for the House Science

Committee, also helped.

Back Row: Brian Fox, Ryan Ewalt, Ryan Murphy, Edward Hallen, Joseph Gay, Sarah Fischer. Front Row: Korina Kalopsidiotou, Supreme Court JusticeStephen Breyer, Erica Kohr, Natalie Giannelli.


“This internship swept me into a world of

possibility where it was no longer about

individual goals, but instead about

working for the nation’s greater good.”

—NATALIE GIANNELLI

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and D.C. intern Natalie Giannelli.

The interns were undergraduate students, select-

ed from a competitive group of applicants. Once

selected, they were responsible for securing their

own placements. In addition, each intern signed up

for TCC 395.

“This TCC class teaches students how to function

effectively as engineers in a larger context,” said Kay

Neeley, faculty coordinator for the D.C. Internship

Program. “They learn how to communicate effec-

tively with non-technological people; they learn

about the social, cultural and historical context of

engineering; and they learn about engineering

ethics by exploring questions of values, risks,

benefits and harm.”

Interns secured placements in high-level govern-

ment agencies. They worked in the offices of U.S.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and George Allen and with

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro. They worked with the

Information Technology Industry Council, the

National Academy of Engineering, the National

Science Foundation and with the White House

Office of Science and Technology Policy.

They worked on real projects. They were of use.

And they are fundamentally changed by the experi-

ences they had.

Natalie Giannelli worked in Clinton’s office.

“This internship swept me into a world of possibility

where it was no longer about individual goals, but

instead about working for the nation’s greater

good,” said Giannelli. “I think it was the best thing to

happen to me as a student here.”

Ryan Ewalt and Ryan Murphy interned in sepa-

rate divisions in the White House Office of Science

and Technology Policy. The students are friends and

had ample opportunity to compare notes outside

their respective offices. Ewalt was placed in the tech-

nology division. “Technology is an issue of which

alternative to choose, why and when. Political con-

siderations were significant there,” Ewalt reported.

Murphy worked in the science division and found

that politics had more of an effect on what was inves-

tigated than on what the outcome of the investiga-

tion would be. “My eyes were opened to the world of

policy-making this summer,” he said. “Priorities in

the science division were constantly shifting,

depending on what was under the public spotlight.”

Antonia Tolson worked as an assistant to

DeLauro, the second-highest-ranking woman in the

House Democratic leadership. “I learned quickly

how Washington works and the dedication, persever-

ance and skill it takes to be influential in legislation

and policy-making,” she said.

For Ed Hallen, who interned with the Infor-

mation Technology Industry Council, the impor-

tance of technical training for those in national

policy-making positions was abundantly clear. “A

lack of engineers in the policy-making process leads

to policy that is heavily influenced by the wishes of

companies and interest groups,” he said. “Without a

technology background you can’t research, present

the facts and create effective policy.”

Erica Kohr spent her internship months at the

National Science Foundation working with Dr.

Norman Fortenberry, director of the Division of

Undergraduate Education, and Dr. Victor Santiago,

program director in Human Resources and Develop-

ment. Her work focused on the low participation of

women, underrepresented minorities and persons

with disabilities in science, technology, engineering

and math (STEM).

“My internship educated me on how the NSF cul-

tivates student interest in STEM today in order to

affect America tomorrow,” she said. “I also learned

that scientific and technical skills are important but

people skills are as well.”

Joseph Gay worked in Allen’s office producing co-

sponsorship memos for the senator and researching

the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste

Repository. He gained a greater understanding of

how policy is created in the United States.

“I have an insight into our country and govern-

ment few have the opportunity to obtain. I see now

how an engineer can learn to approach policy prob-

lems not just in terms of cold technical facts, but in

terms of benefit to the economy, jobs created or lost

and money generated.”

Brian Fox had dual responsibilities during

the summer. He interned with the House of

Representatives and served as the intern coordina-

tor for the D.C. Internship Program. In both roles,

he learned the importance of communication. “This

internship showed me that in order to succeed in

science and technology policy you must have a solid

technical background and the ability to convey infor-

mation.”

Korina Kalopsidiotou, a native of Cyprus, learned

as much about the general workings of the U.S. gov-

ernment as she did about policy-making during her

internship with the National Academy of Engineering.

And she, along with the other interns, found the lec-

ture series organized by Turner to be invaluable.

“Working at the academy was an important part

of the summer experience, but not the only one,”

she said. “The speakers were wonderful and made

this an experience none of us will ever forget.”

Speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Stephen Breyer; William Wulf, president of the

National Academy of Engineering; Congressmen

Michael Honda and John Sununu; Rita Colwell,

director of the National Science Foundation, and

astronaut Susan Kilgrain.

For the 2002 interns, the summer was enlighten-

ing and, in some cases, a life-changing experience.

And that was precisely the point.

“If anything outlasts my deanship, I hope it is

this,” Miksad said. “I fully expect to see these stu-

dents in policy-making positions of power someday

in the future.” e


Ryan Ewalt (Systems Engineering)

White House, Science and Technology Policy

Draft Telework Initiative research

Brian Fox (Aerospace Engineering)

House of Representatives Science Committee

Space and aeronautics legislation

Joseph Gay (Computer Science)

Office of U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va.

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository research

Natalie Giannelli (Systems Engineering)

Office of U.S. Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, D-N.Y.

Environmental and energy legislation

Edward Hallen (Systems Engineering)

Information Technology Industry Council

Music piracy and digital media legislation

Korina Kalopsidiotou (Computer Science)

National Academy of Engineering

Project tracking database creation

Erica Kohr (Applied Math)

National Science Foundation

Diversity in STEM research

Ryan Murphy (Systems Engineering)

White House, Science and Technology Policy

Neutrinos and neutrino facility research

Antonia Tolson (Chemical Engineering)

Office of U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn.

Prescription drug legislation research

The D.C. Internship Program is made possible by alumni donations to theEngineering School Annual Fund.


TOWELS WERE HUNG OUT TO DRY IN THE

sun at many of the houses at the Department of

Energy’s Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in

Washington, D.C.

The teams took advantage of the direct applica-

tion of solar energy — sunlight — to save the power

in their batteries, collected with photovoltaic cells.

They had to return the dried towels to the judges to

be weighed. Each team would receive the total num-

ber of points allotted only if their towels weighed to

the ounce what they did before they were washed.

The practical and technical parts of the competi-

tion were under way. Decathletes were busy cooking

meals, running the dishwasher and washing

machine, producing a newsletter in their home

offices, watching six hours of TV or video, driving an

electric vehicle and taking showers with 110+° F

water. The 14 teams, from colleges and universities

across the nation, were busy completing their

assigned tasks for the day.

In addition to doing day-to-day living chores, they

were required to maintain room and water tempera-

tures and monitor other systems on a regular sched-

ule to earn points in the complicated rating scheme.

On Saturday, results of the event — which covered

10 contests over 11 days — were announced. The

U.Va. team placed second overall and won the design

and livability contest, the most heavily weighted

category in the competition. The first-place finish also

earned a special citation from the American Institute

of Architects. In addition, the team won the BP Solar

Progressive Award for the most forward-thinking team.

U.Va.’s entry in the competition is a two-year

interdisciplinary collaboration between the Engi-

neering School and the School of Architecture.

More than 100 students worked on the project. Pas-

sive solar design, sustainable and reclaimed materi-

als, and highly efficient mechanical, electrical and

plumbing systems were implemented.

In addition, students devised an integrated ener-

gy storage system that supplies power when the sun

is not shining and a computer-controlled system that

optimizes the distribution of power.

Richard Miksad, dean of the Engineering School,

praised the collaborative effort. “This was a great

example of students breaking free of discipline

constraints. By working together, new ideas were

explored, and innovative solutions to everyday prob-

lems were developed and implemented.”

Stephanie Vierra, chair of the design jury, said the

six jury members looked for ideas that represented

the future, were extremely innovative and were com-

prehensive in solutions to design problems. “The

U.Va. team attempted to integrate more solar strate-

gies and did it more successfully than any other

team,” she said.

Solar Team Shines on the Mall

by Jane Ford


The jury was impressed with the way the U.Va.

decathletes communicated their design both verbal-

ly and in the execution. “The work of the engineer-

ing and architecture students complemented each

other in a way that set them apart from the other

teams,” she said.

“I could not be more pleased with the result of

the solar decathlon,” said Karen Van Lengen, dean

of the School of Architecture. “Through their coop-

eration, their technological innovation and their

imagination, this team has demonstrated the real

excellence of these schools at U.Va.”

The students designed and built the furniture

and cabinetry using sustainably forested lumber.

House materials include common wooden shipping

pallets as well as slate flooring and copper siding dis-

carded from the U.Va. Rotunda.

In the garden, a gray-water collection and filtra-

tion system waters the vegetables and flowers that

grow in planters made from automobile tires sal-

vaged from the landfill.

The house design incorporates a “smart wall,”

which monitors conditions in the house and

includes a touchscreen device that communicates

with a website. This makes it possible to control con-

ditions in the house from any location that has Inter-

net connections.

Engineering and Archi-

tecture students collaborat-

ed not only with one

another but also with

scientists, advisers and

Charlottesville-area busi-

nesses. “Literally hundreds

of professionals helped us

resolve design challenges,”

said Dave Click, a student

project manager from the

Engineering School.

The design includes a complex heating and cool-

ing system that uses radiant heating in the floor and

a valance cooling system designed to also supple-

ment the heating system in the winter and control

the moisture in the air.

“The team pushed the envelope as far as they

could,” said Paxton Marshall, the Engineering

School faculty adviser. “They came up with the best

house they could possibly produce.”

The house will continue to bask in the sun now

that the competition is over. It will be installed on

U.Va. Grounds, where it will serve as a guesthouse.

“The house will be a continuing reminder of the

potential of sustainable design,” said John Quale,

School of Architecture faculty team adviser. e

“The U.Va. team attempted to

integrate more solar strategies

and did it more successfully than

any other team.”STEPHANIE VIERRA,

CHAIR OF THE DESIGN JURY

Opposite: students working on solar house, interior of house. Above: solar house on the National Mall.


U.Va. Study Aims to EndAmbulance Diversions at Hospitals

by Claudia Pinto

ON JAN. 9, 2001, 12 OF THE 13 HOSPITAL

emergency departments in the Richmond area

reached capacity and were forced to turn ambu-

lances away.

There was no monitoring system in place to know

there was a problem,” said Dr. Robert Bennett, a

cardiologist and recent graduate of the University of

Virginia’s Executive Master’s Degree Program in

systems engineering.

“It wasn’t realized until a large number of

ambulances were lined up in front of one hospital,”

he said.

That incident prompted Bennett and Dr. Gerard

Learmonth, the academic director of the program,

to study how “diversion” can be prevented. Bennett

and 21 other graduate students in the systems engi-

neering program conducted the study, under the

direction of professor Christina Mastrangelo.

“The last course is a project-based course that

focuses on solving a real-world problem,” Learmonth

said. “We look to solve problems that have some

social benefit.”

The issue of diversion qualifies.

“If you’re the patient, it’s a serious issue,”

Learmonth said. “You would want to be brought to

the nearest appropriate hospital.”

Bennett, founder of the Richmond-based Medical

Reengineering Inc., noted that problems associated

with diversion quickly snowball.

“If your loved one has a heart attack, you call an

ambulance. If the ambulance has to search around

for a hospital, your loved one is in danger,” Bennett

said. “But in addition to that, the ambulance cannot

respond as quickly to the next call because it is still

searching for a hospital to take the first patient to.”

The growing occurrence of diversion is attributed

to several factors, including an increase in the elder-

ly population, a nursing shortage and non-emer-

gency patients clogging up emergency departments.

“Diversion is a nationwide problem,” Bennett

said. “There is nothing unique about Richmond. It’s

true for all metropolitan areas.”

Team Members:

Twenty-two second-year master’s degree candidates who are

working professionals from organizations including Mitre

Corp, Naval Sea Systems Command, AMS, Lockheed-Martin,

Philip Morris, CACI.

Faculty Advisers:

Christina M. Mastrangelo, Barry Horowitz

http://www.sys.virginia.edu/weekend

“Metropolitan Richmond Hospital Diversions:A Systems Analysis and Change Proposal”

Robert Bennett, MD (ME ’67, SIE ’02).


The study, which analyzed 2001 hospital and

ambulance data, concluded that one key way

diversion can be avoided is by trying to predict

emergency department patient caseloads on a day-

to-day basis.

“Hospitals can be proactive,” Bennett said. “If

they forecast by looking at data from previous years,

they can eliminate the diversion problem.”

Bennett estimates that forecasting caseloads could

improve staffing efficiency by as much as 15 percent.

“It makes sense to have fewer staff on during low

demands and more staff on during high demands,”

he said.

Having more staff working when patient numbers

are high also would allow more hospital beds to be

opened, which is critical in moving patients out of

the emergency room in a timely manner.

“There’s not a problem with the time it takes for

rescue squads to get patients to the hospital. There’s

not a problem with the time it takes to get patients

treated in the emergency room,” Bennett said. “The

problem is with getting the patients out of the emer-

gency room and into a hospital bed once they’ve

been treated.”

Jon R. Donnelly, executive director of Old

Dominion Medical Services Alliance, the organiza-

tion that coordinates emergency medical services in

Richmond and surrounding areas, recently received

a copy of the study. He said he’s “very, very

impressed” by it.

“They did a thorough job of examining the prob-

lem,” Donnelly said. “It’s the first time the problem

has been analyzed in some depth for our area. They

have some suggestions that we can use.”

Donnelly said the next step will be to distribute

the study to Richmond-area hospitals and a diversion

task force for consideration.

“It’s like having a road map,” Donnelly said. “It

will help us get where we need to be.” e

“It’s the first time the problem has been

analyzed in some depth for our area. They

have some suggestions that we can use.”

JON R. DONNELLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,

OLD DOMINION MEDICAL SERVICES ALLIANCE


1960s

T. Howard Noel (CE ’61), imme-diate past president and chairmanof the board of Hayes, Seay,Mattern & Mattern Inc. (HSMM),has retired after more than 34years of service. Noel joinedHSMM in 1967. During his decadeof HSMM leadership, firmrevenues more than doubled,from about $15 million to morethan $35 million.

Stafford Thornton (CE ’59, ’62),former president of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers, wasselected to chair the ASCE 150thanniversary celebration inWashington, D.C.

Wesley Harris (Aero ’64), aprofessor at MIT, was honored bythe establishment of a scholarshipbearing his name in celebration ofhis 60th birthday. His family andfriends established the Wesley L.Harris Scholarship Fund in sup-port of a summer program at MITfor underrepresented minorityhigh school students.

William Putnam (CE ’66) volun-teers for Habitat for Humanity inFairfax, Va.

1970s

Guy Chisholm III (ChE ’70) workswith the Department of CellBiology at the Cleveland ClinicFoundation’s Lerner ResearchInstitute. He was presented withthe Research Merit Award fromthe American Heart Association.

Eugene Facey (CE ’70) is vicepresident of engineering forENSCO International Inc., adrilling and marine transportationservice organization for the petro-leum industry. He lives in Dallas.

William Brubaker (CE ’72) isdirector of Facilities Engineeringand Operations for theSmithsonian Institution.

John Cormier (CE ’73) joinedR.D. Zande and Associates, con-sulting engineers of Columbus,Ohio, as client services manager.He is responsible for businessdevelopment and marketing ofengineering services throughoutSouthern Ohio.

John Eversole III (ME ’74) is co-founder and chairman of theFlorida Bar Association’s aviationlaw certification committee. Hepractices with Eversole & Rudd inFlorida.

James Rooney (ChE ’75) wasnamed a Fellow of the AmericanSociety for Quality (ASQ). He is asenior engineer with ABS inKnoxville, Tenn.

Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers (CE ’76)is chief of engineers/commandinggeneral, U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers. He was in commandpositions during Desert Shieldand Desert Storm and duringoperations in Somalia and Bosnia.

John Christens Jr. (Nuc ’76) is acorporate vice president with SAICin New Orleans.

Kenneth Sheets (ChE ’76) isprofessor of Bible and BiblicalLanguages at Ambassador BaptistCollege in Lattimore, N.C.

David Van Petten (Nuc ’77) iscommanding officer of the U.S.Naval Reserve NAVSEALDetachment at the WashingtonNavy Yard in Washington, D.C. Healso is a senior engineer atNorthrop Grumman.

T. Kevin DeNicola (ChE ’79) issenior vice president and CFO ofLyondell Chemical Co. in Houston.

1980s

Charles Brown Jr. (CE ’81) is vicepresident of Dixon, Hubard &Feinour Inc., where he is a finan-cial analyst. He resides inRoanoke, Va.

William Gorman Jr. (EE’ 82) andhis wife had a child, William JohnIII, in March. The family lives inSan Francisco.

Alden Hathaway (EE, ’82) wasfeatured in a Washington Post arti-cle titled “Plugged Into the Sun: ASolar House in Loudoun CountyFunctions Like a Laboratory, ButLives Like a Home.”

Roger Millar Jr. (CE ’82) and hiswife had a son, Roger M. MillarIII, in March. He is the principalwith Otak Inc., an architecture,

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Harry Beazell Jr (’50) claims door prize at the 2002 TJ Society Luncheon.

Members of the Class of ’52 gather at their 50th reunion.

www.seas.virginia.edu/alumniHome.php

engineering and planning firm.The family resides in Carbondale,Colo. He is the son of Roger M.Millar (CE ’58) and the great-great grandson of Roger Martin,an 1856 graduate of U.Va.

Jeff Wright (CS ’83) and his wife,Meg, had a child, Sydney Anne, inApril. The family resides in CoralGables, Fla.

Thomas Joost (ME ’82, ’84) is vicepresident of the Tactical SystemsGroup with the Veridian SystemsDivision. He is married to BarbaraO’Connor Joost (ME ’84).

Steven Harris (Aero ’82, ’84) andhis wife had their second child,Elizabeth Rose, in August 2001.He is an engineering managerwith Northrop Grumman’s RyanAeronautical Center. The familyresides in San Diego.

David Hume (Aero ’84) is alieutenant colonel in the U.S. AirForce with the17th Air SupportOperations Squadron.

Bruce Hassett (EE ’85) and hiswife had a son, Noah Ethan. (Hissister, Alana Joy, is now 4 yearsold). Bruce is a district sales man-ager for Genuity and resides inVienna, Va.

Gabriel Sabadell (ChE ’85) is avice president of Blassland, Bouck& Lee, an environmental consult-ing firm in Golden, Colo.

Robin Foster (ME ’81, SE ’86)received her 12th U.S. patent forwork in predictive and adaptivework assignment algorithms formultimedia contact centers. Sheworks for Avaya Inc. and lives inLittle Silver, N.J.

Peter Thomas (MAE ’86) is anengineering manager for SperryMarine in Charlottesville, Va.

Kim Brooks (Aero ’87) is alieutenant colonel in the U.S. AirForce. She and her husband havetwo daughters and live in SanAntonio, Texas.

Steven Parker (EE ’87) is a mem-ber of the Million Dollar AdvocacyForum. He is an associate withDavis & Harmon in Tampa, Fla.

James Busch (CS ’88) is employedas principal scientist in theCommunications and InformationSystems division of the NATO C3Agency in The Hague,Netherlands.

Matt McCormick (SE ’88) isassistant professor of telecommu-nications & informationtechnology at DeVry University,Chicago. He has spent most of hiscareer with Motorola and CiscoSystems. His work has taken himto England, Ireland, Norway,Germany, Russia, South Africa,Jordan, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Japanand South Korea. He has startedhis own consulting business as well(www.mpmccormick.com).

Matthew Anderson (SE ’89) andhis wife had a third child, ScottMatthew, in January.

Scott Bialecki (CS ’89) and hiswife had their first child, WilsonRobert, in June 2001. Scott is alawyer with Sheridan Ross. Thefamily resides in Littleton, Colo.

Carl Showalter (SE ’89) is a gener-al partner at Lightspeed VenturePartners in Menlo Park, Calif.,where he works on early stagefunding of technology companiesin the communications space.

1990s

Heather Lowe Becker (ME ’91)and her husband had a daughter,Allison Sarah, in May. Ms. Beckeris director of materials manage-ment for Abbot Laboratories. Thefamily lives in Lake Villa, Ill.

Susan Pan (EE ’91) is a partnerwith the law firm Sughru Mion.

Dennis Callahan (ME ’92) islieutenant commander of theaircraft carrier USS George Washington.

Tariq Khan (ChE ’92) completedan MS in environmental engineer-ing at Rice and is now in theUniversity of Chicago’s MBAprogram.

Robert Laferriere (BME ’93) is amanager with SoftwareTechnology & Platforms for GEMedical Systems InformationTechnologies in Milwaukee. Heresides in Wisconsin with his wife,Penny, and sons Ethan (5) andSamuel (2).

Andrew Girvin (ME ’94) and hiswife had a daughter, Karson Ann,in November 2001. The familyresides in Richmond, Va.

Robert Mozeleski (EE ’94) and hiswife had a daughter, Elise Anna, inAugust 2001.

Rebecca Lankey (ME ’93, MSE’95) is a member of the WhiteHouse Office of Science andTechnology.

Albert Williams Jr. (CE ’93, MSE’95) and his wife had a son, CadenA. Lionel, in February. He is thesenior civil engineer for the city ofPortsmouth, Va.

William Decker (Engr Physics ’95,’96) is a senior fellow of theInternational Society forPhilosophical Enquiry and workswith the technology transfer and

Engineer Helps Save Fallingwater

Computer models created by John Paul

Huguley (CE ’94, ’97) were instrumental to

renovation efforts to save Frank Lloyd Wright’s

Fallingwater, voted in 1991 by the American

Institute of Architects as the best house ever

designed by an American architect. Huguley’s

models pointed out main-floor terrace design

flaws. The structural fix, masterminded by New

York City engineer Robert Silman, is expected

to correct problems that threatened to destroy

the house.

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intellectual property servicesoffice of the University ofCalifornia at San Diego.

Brian Dorsey (Engr Physics ’96)received the human awarenessaward from the Naval SurfaceWarfare Center’s DahlgrenDivision, where he is an engineer.

Todd Kennedy (ChE ’96) is direc-tor of marketing and analysis atCapital One’s Amerifee division inSouthborough, Mass.

R. Michael Biggs (CE ’97) workedon a construction managementservices project to create a math,computer science, astronomy,

physics and environmentalsciences building for EmoryUniversity in Atlanta.

Christy Bixler (CE ’97) is an engi-neer at Parsons in Fairfax, Va.,managing environmental projects.

Casey Nolan (CE ’97) lived inSanta Barbara, Calif., while shebuilt a Delta IV rocket launcherfor Boeing as a project managerfor Clark Construction. She nowattends Harvard Business School.

Bertina Lee (CS ’99) won a goldmedal in the World Kick BoxingChampionships in Vienna, Austria(2001) and won the gold medalfor the women’s Muay Thai (Thaiboxing) division in the World KickBoxing Championships in Marinade Massa (2002). She is employedwith Dominion Resources Inc. andresides in Richmond, Va.

Adriane Davis (SE ’99) is begin-ning a doctoral program incomputer information systems atGeorgia State University’sRobinson School of Business.

Robert Sidner (ChE ’99) is withEastern Research Group inChantilly, Va., an environmentalconsulting firm.

2000s

Kevin Cooper (MSE ’96, ’01) is asenior corrosion engineer withLuna Innovations. He recentlyreceived the Morris CohenGraduate Student Award from theElectrochemical Society Inc. Hewas noted for his work in advanc-ing the understanding of theenvironment within stress-corro-sion cracks that occur inhigh-strength aluminum alloyssuch as those used in aircraft.

Molly Sherman (ChE ’01) mar-ried Erik Anderson (CS ’01) inMay 2001.

Gary Coleman (SIE ’02) and JimG. Coleman (SIE ’02) are a father-and-son duo who graduatedtogether last May though theylived miles apart. Gary attendedthe Engineering School’sExecutive Master’s DegreeProgram at the NationalConference Center in Leesburg,while Jim was in Charlottesvilleearning his undergraduatedegree. “We shared some profes-sors and kept track of each otherthrough them,” Gary Colemansaid. “Jim even helped me withhomework a few times.”

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1930s

William R. Chapman (EE ’30) ofLos Angeles, Calif., died in July.

Frederick M. Belmore (Engr. ’36)of Chicago, Ill., died in May.

1940s

John M. Roberts (EE ’40) ofCovina, Calif., died in May.

James H. Kabler Jr. (CE ’43) ofVirginia Beach, Va., died inSeptember.

Aubrey S. Bass Jr. (CE ’44) ofRichmond, Va., died in April.

J. Buckley Whitlatch (ME ’47) of Baton Rouge, La., died in May.

1950s

Robert G. Remington (CE ’50) ofVirginia Beach, Va., died inJanuary.

Joseph H. Judd (Aero. 51) ofOneonta, N.Y., died in February.

Coleman B. Maddox (ME ’52) ofDanville, Va., died in May.

James R. Shull (CE ’52) of FallsChurch, Va., died in April.

Robert H. Pickard (EE ’53) ofNags Head, N.C., died inSeptember 2000.

1960s

John A. Biggs (ME ’62) ofWindsor, Calif., died in May.

1980s

David Veasey (EE ’89, ’91) ofBoulder, Colo., died in March. Heis survived by his wife, CynthiaPruett Veasey (Col ’88). Anendowment in his honor has beenestablished to benefit Jubilate, achorale sponsored by theUniversity Baptist Church ofCharlottesville.

in memoriamSpecial Friends

E.C. Stevenson, a professor emeritus who earneda Bronze Star for his involvement in the develop-ment and delivery of the atomic bomb, died inJuly at the age of 95. He was born in Oregon to ahusband-and-wife team of mining engineers. Hewas raised in Richmond and earned a degree inengineering in 1928 and in physics in 1931.While a student here, he won the 1931 VirginiaAcademy of Science research prize for his studyin molecular structure. He was a member of thephysics and electrical engineering faculty for 23years until his retirement in 1973.

John McGaughy, a Norfolk native, died in Juneat 87. He was the great-grandson of John Bell,speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,who ran against Abraham Lincoln in the presi-dential election in 1860. McGaughy studiedengineering at U.Va. for three years before hetransferred to Duke University in order to grad-uate within the following year. He often said thathe may have received his degree from Duke, buthe received his education from Virginia.

Following graduation he worked as an engineerfor the federal government for several years, thenformed Lublin, McGaughy and Associates, anarchitectural and engineering firm. In 1970 he wasrecognized as the Virginia Engineer of the Year.

A gift of $100,000 from his estate was given tothe Engineering School to endow a graduatestudent fellowship.

John Kenneth Haviland1921–2002

John Kenneth Haviland, a pro-fessor and scholar, died in July.He was the last remainingAmerican survivor of the Battleof Britain.

Haviland was born in NewYork of an American father anda British mother. He moved toEngland when he was 4, follow-ing the death of his father. Hislove of flying was evidentthroughout his life and led himto join the Royal Air ForceVolunteer Reserve when he was18. “I joined the RAF in 1939,not because I thought there wasgoing to be a war, but because it looked like a good way to getin some free flying,” he oftensaid. He flew some 1,562 hoursduring the war and received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

“He loved to fly and he loved to teach,” said his son David.

Haviland earned a degree inmechanical engineering at Lon-don University and later earneda PhD in aeronautical and astro-nautical engineering at MIT. Hejoined the University of Virginiafaculty in 1967, teaching first inthe Hampton Roads area andthen on Grounds for a total of24 years.

He was an authority in thefields of structural dynamics,acoustics, and vibration absorp-tion in aircraft, helicopters andspace structures. “He loved air-planes and could tell you any-thing you wanted to know aboutjust about any aircraft,” saidWalt Pilkey, a fellow professor inthe MAE department. ‘He wasgreat to have in the departmentand he was a great friend.”

A display in the SmithsonianAir and Space Museum honorsHaviland and six American RAFflyers who were killed in the war.The Dr. John Kenneth HavilandScholarship in Engineering andApplied Science has been estab-lished in his name.


I AM A PARENT OF A U.VA. ENGINEERINGSchool graduate rather than a graduate myself. Yet,when my son chose to go to U.Va., the success of theEngineering School became as important to me as the

success of my own almamaters. As you would expect,I was not disappointed by theexperiences that awaited myson. He received a first-classengineering education froma talented faculty while soak-ing in the culture of a well-rounded university. Qualityengineering training in a lib-eral arts environment and in-state tuition for many of itsstudents is a unique packageworth preserving.

When my son was anundergraduate, I began serv-ing on the Dean’s AdvisoryCouncil. Later, at Dean Mik-sad’s suggestion, I helped setup the MIT/U.Va. D.C. Sum-mer Intern Program. My

work with the Engineering School has been fun andrewarding and has given me something additional toshare with my son. Today’s Engineering School isdynamic and continually improving.

The school currently attracts a unique sort of youngperson – bright, technologically talented, but with inter-ests well beyond the computer screen or the drawingboard. Once here, the programs they enter and the sup-

port and education they receive mold them into tech-nologically proficient future leaders. As I’ve learned inworking with the D.C. interns, there is not much dif-ference between the top students at U.Va. and MIT interms of interests and abilities. Each summer, the twostudent groups become one very quickly, and they areall exciting and inspiring to be around.

Who wouldn’t want to be educated in a school thatprovides this kind of environment? If you have not beenaround the school for a while, I urge you to come andtake a look.

We are entering a period when the EngineeringSchool needs the help of all its friends. The school is setto step forward on a number of initiatives at a time whenstate support is disappearing. The school will go forwardand continue to prosper with the help of alumni andfriends who are willing to accept a role in this process. I,for one, hope we collectively rise to the challenge andhelp the Engineering School achieve its potential.

Those of us who can afford to certainly should begenerous, but there are many other ways to help, espe-cially if we think beyond the box and look for ways thatour talents, contacts and creativity can help the schoolmove forward. I hope you’ll keep your eyes open forways to get involved in the months ahead. If my experi-ence is any indication, helping the Engineering Schoolis personally satisfying and well worth the effort.

—JAMES TURNER

Chief Democratic Counsel Committee on Science

U.S. House of Representatives

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