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FALL 2008 ISSUE

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

School of Engineering Embarks on First Hong Kong Student Exchange

Table of Contents
New Faculty and Staff .............................inside front cover Deans Message ...............................................................1 Biomedical Engineering Professor Finds Success Close to Home .....................................2 German Professor Finds Constructive Career at CUA ....3 CUA Engineering Professors Prime Recipients of $2.7 Million Grant ..................................4 Revolutionary Body-Weight Support System Developed by CUA/NRH ..................................5 CUA Professor Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant.............................6 IRIS Research Center Seminars Cover the Earth ............6 Kaman and Burns Awards Granted To Outstanding Engineering Faculty ...........................7 Engineering Alum Inducted into National Academy of Sciences ....................................8 NASA Administrator Inaugurates Alumni Wall of Fame ....................................................8 School Establishes First Executive Development Board......................................................9 20072008 Honor Roll of Donors ...................................10 Robert Burns Receives 2007 Engineering Award............................................11 Vietnamese Students Arrive at CUA for 2+2 Program .................................................11 Exploring Global Educational Opportunities .................12 School of Engineering Embarks On First Hong Kong Exchange ...................................13 Visit Brings Closer Collaboration ...................................14 U.S. Department of Defense Honors CUA Graduate Student...................................14 Curbing Global Warming Workshop ..............................15 William Readdy Talks of Astronaut Engineering Challenges .............................................15 Senior Awarded ASME Scholarship...............................16 Mentos Challenge Piques Engineering Students and Faculty .................................................16 Concrete Canoe: Lessons in Stewardship, Teamwork, New Beginnings ......................................17 Hovercraft Aids Humanitarian Efforts ...........................18 CUA Continues Partnership with Clark Construction Group ..........................................19 Biomedical Engineering Names 20082009 Nagel Scholars ........................................19 Engineers without Borders Embarks to El Salvador.....20 Faculty Scholarly Activity ..............................................21 Student Awards ..............................................................28 Two Engineering Doctoral Candidates Attend Course in Italy .........................inside back cover Society of Women Engineers Keep Things Going ..............................inside back cover Congratulations to the Class of 2008 .................................................back cover Ph.D. Dissertations and Advisers .....................back cover School of Engineering Administration ...............................................back cover

New Faculty and Staff

Jae Choi, Ph.D.
Jae Choi, Ph.D. joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in September 2008 as an assistant professor. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1992, 1994 and 2001 respectively. He was a research assistant professor at Georgetown University Medical Center from 2004 to 2008 and the chief technology officer of a spin-off company before joining Georgetown. His research interests are visualization, computer graphics, computer games, image-guided surgery and bioinformatics.

Arash Massoudieh, Ph.D.

Arash Massoudieh, Ph.D., joins the Department of Civil Engineering as an assistant professor in September 2008. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1997, an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California at Davis in 2006. He continued his work at UC Davis as a post-doctoral scholar until August 2008. His research interests are in mathematical and numerical modeling of contaminant transport in aqueous systems.

Afshin Nabili, M.S.

Afshin Nabili, M.S., joins the School of Engineering as the laboratory supervisor, a newly created position in the school. His main duty is the supervision of maintenance, repair and upgrade of the teaching and research laboratories of all engineering departments. Nabili came to CUA as a junior transfer student from Prince Georges Community College, Md., in September 2005. He went on to earn a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering in May 2007 and masters degree in biomedical engineering with a concentration in bio-optics and instrumentation in May 2008. He continues to work on his Ph.D. with Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Jessica RamellaRoman, Ph.D.

Mary Kate Zabroske, B.A.

Mary Kate Zabroske, B.A., joined the deans office in February 2008 as the new assistant to the dean for administration. Zabroske received a bachelor of arts in liberal studies from Shippensburg University. She previously was employed as the sales assistant to the director of business development at Tourism Montreals Washington, D.C., office.

Sheila Astacio
Sheila Astacio joined the biomedical engineering department in August. 2007 as assistant to the chair. Astacio has attended classes at Prince Georges County Community College and is taking online classes for medical coding, certified by the American Health Information Management Association. She worked for the United States Department of Agricultures Ag in the Classroom outreach program and served on special assignment at U. S. Census headquarters in Suitland, Md., as a decennial computer specialist during the 2000 census.

Deans Message
I write the deans message for this issue of CUA Engineer with great excitement because I believe that 20072008 has been the most successful year during my seven-year tenure as dean and I cannot wait to report its successes to you. The school has succeeded in all aspects, including international programs, funded research, enrollment, accreditation and development. I have highlighted some of our greatest achievements below: I In the fall semester of 2007, 63 new undergraduate students including six transfer students joined the school. The school also welcomed 46 new graduate students. At the diploma distribution ceremony in May 2008, the school granted 38 bachelors degrees, 44 masters degrees and six doctoral degrees. See the back cover for a list of graduates. We expect to receive 86 new freshmen in September 2008, an increase of 36 percent from last year. The coming academic year will see the biggest enrollment of freshmen in the last 10 years. I The list of activities in the faculty section of this issue spotlights our facultys achievements in the areas of research proposal submission, journal publication and service to professional societies. Most noticeably, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence granted the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science $2.7 million to develop an enhanced resolution digital camera based on a flys eye. In addition, a member of the mechanical engineering faculty received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award. The school received a total of about $6 million in new research funding, representing the biggest amount of new research funding in the last seven years, with an average of $2.4 million per year. Two engineering faculty members received the 2008 CUA provost awards for excellence in research and scholarship. I Robert Burns, B.M.E. 1951, received the 2007 Engineering Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. At the annual homecoming luncheon in October 2007, his son, Matt Burns, B.E.E. 1980, accepted the award on his behalf. I In October 2007, the ABET team visited our school to evaluate the engineering programs for re-accreditation. Overall the visit was a big success. The team was satisfied with the activities that the school has conducted in the last several years for accreditation maintenance. Some minor weaknesses that were cited by the team at the exit meeting of the visit have been resolved. We submitted an institution response to the ABET draft statement in January 2008 and expect that we will obtain in July 2008 full accreditation for all engineering programs for six years. I Two new faculty members an assistant professor of civil engineering, and an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science will join our school in September 2008. In February 2008, we welcomed the new assistant to the dean for administration, Mary Kate Zabroske. I The schools international programs are in full swing. Five CUA engineering students studied abroad in Hong Kong in the spring semester 2008 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). That same semester CUA hosted nine students from PolyU. In September 2007, we welcomed three students from Vietnam who came to CUA under the 2+2 program established between CUA and the International University of the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (HCMIU). I In August 2007, I visited The Catholic University of Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, to explore academic collaboration opportunities. In September 2007, I went to Coimbra, Portugal, to receive a leadership award from the International Network of Engineering Education and Research. While there, I visited the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon and signed a memorandum of understanding with the engineering school there, which will serve as a mechanism for both institutions to explore development of research and collaborative education programs. I During a 12-day trip in February and March 2008, I visited the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to discuss the CUA/PolyU student exchange program, and to meet with the CUA students there. During the trip I also visited schools of engineering of two universities in Thailand, the Kasetsart University in Bangkok and the Burapha University in Chonburi, signing an MOU with each in which we agreed to explore collaboration in education and research. Moving on to Vietnam, I visited the International University of Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City to renew an agreement for 2+2 programs. At the Saigon Technology University, Ho Chi Minh City, I signed an MOU to explore research and education collaboration. On the final segment of the trip I visited the University of Danang where I discussed potential collaboration between the two institutions. I I am happy to announce the establishment of the first School of Engineering Executive Development Board, chaired by Matt Burns, B.E.E 1980. The board consists of nine energetic and enthusiastic alumni. I look forward to working actively with the members of the board. In conclusion, I am very satisfied with the progress of the School of Engineering in the past academic year, especially in research funding efforts, international programs, engineering accreditation and in the establishment of the development board. I hope you enjoy reading this issue of CUA Engineer. Regards,

Charles Cuong Nguyen Dean, School of Engineering nguyen@cua.edu

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cuaengineer Biomedical Engineering Professor Finds Success Close to Home Faculty Profile

Peter Lum has come full circle in his academic career. A Washington, D.C., native, he spent his formative years within the Districts boundaries: as a student at Gonzaga High School and then as an undergraduate at the George Washington University. Now an associate professor of biomedical engineering, Lum left the District for postgraduate work, but returned in 2005 to become an assistant professor at CUA. For Lum, academia wasnt always the end goal. After earning his undergraduate degree from GWU and a masters from the California Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering, Lum worked briefly in the private sector. It was not very rewarding and there was very little imagination or creativity required to do the job, he says of that experience. A colleague introduced me to the idea of using my skills as an engineer to solve problems in biology and medicine. I decided to go for it and went back to school to get my Ph.D. in bio engineering at Berkeley. Professor Peter Lum Lum describes the switch as a perfect marriage of his previous training in mechanical systems with bioengineering problems in medicine. He has since focused on researching stroke rehabilitation. There are over 750,000 new strokes in the U.S. each year and many of these people do not recover ability to move their arms and legs, he says. It was once thought there was no recovery of function beyond three to six months after the stroke but this has been proven to be incorrect. Use of robotics has the potential to fill this need, without greatly increasing the costs of health care. As part of this research, Lum received a $250,000 contract from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to work on a project to develop a new hand exoskeleton to help retrain hand function after stroke. The hand exoskeleton could also be used someday as an orthotic to assist grasping in patients who dont recover full function. He also received a $350,000 contract from NIH to develop a telerehabilitation workstation to provide home therapy to stroke survivors who live in rural areas or cannot travel to the clinic for treatment. A Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Award will provide Lum more than $600,000 over the next four years to research robotic arm therapy for stroke rehabilitation. Even with this busy research schedule, Lum still finds time to share his insights with CUAs biomedical engineering students. I like the small school feel at CUA, he says. The small class size allows me to get to know all of the students, which greatly increases the satisfaction of the teaching, and motivates me to make the classes as interesting as possible. I really like what I am doing now.

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cuaengineer German Professor Finds Constructive Career at CUA

As a boy in Germany, Gunnar Luckos imagination was inspired by the stories his grandfather would tell. A civil engineer in post-war Germanys Rhine Valley, he had a long career designing bridges and buildings. He would speak of how important engineers were to a society; how it was they who created the structures within which a civilization could flourish. And when it came time for Lucko to choose his own career path, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: follow in his grandfathers footsteps. After obtaining a degree at Hamburg University of Technology, Lucko came to the United States to attend graduate school at Virginia Tech, earning a Ph.D. in civil engineering in 2003. He joined the CUA faculty in 2005 as an assistant professor of civil engineering and oversees the Construction Engineering and Management Program. As a researcher, he specializes in mathematical analysis of schedule networks, construction operations analysis and optimization, equipment economics, and constructability analysis. The field is a relatively small one, with roughly 150 academics conducting construction management research, and they are scattered around the country. Lucko has worked diligently and successfully to cultivate strong relationships with his long-distance fellow researchers; he regularly exchanges ideas and collaborates on projects with colleagues based as far away as Israel. He even serves as an external doctoral adviser to an engineer working on the NASA shuttle in Cape Canaveral, Fla. His current research work seeks to dynamically forecast construction projects, simulating operations before they actually take place to look for possible glitches. Planning and scheduling of construction projects have been interests of mine since I worked on engineering projects [as a student] in Germany, Lucko says. In 2007, Lucko was awarded a two-year $67,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to perform basic research on singularity functions, which had been used in structural engineering. He discovered that these functions can help solve so-called linear schedules. At the heart of his research lies optimizing the productivity of all construction activities within a projects time and space constraints. Case study implementations with several construction companies are validating his new method. In addition to his research, the assistant professor is passionate about educating tomorrows engineers. He was a finalist for the Provosts Award for Excellence in Teaching in both 2007 and 2008, and was recently awarded the Charles H. Kaman Award for Teaching Excellence, the highest award within the School of Engineering. Working with the group Engineers Without Borders, Lucko helps direct CUA students in a field service project in Santa Clara, El Salvador, a remote village of 3,000 people accessible only by dirt roads. The project, funded in part by a threeyear, $42,000 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, is enabling Lucko and his students to design a new health clinic and help with providing a water distribution system for the towns residents. He also mentors high school students at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C., introducing them to the construction field. Away from engineering, Lucko has played the clarinet with a German chamber orchestra and an American wind ensemble. Music even led him to his wife, who is a graduate of CUAs School of Library and Information Science: They met through practicing music in the CUA music library and married during Thanksgiving of 2007. I was looking for a university where I could grow and make a contribution in my field and work in a personable place, Lucko says, and he has found such an environment here. This makes for a fulfilling faculty life, and Im proud I am carrying on my grandfathers profession.

Faculty Profile

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cuaengineer CUA Engineering Professors

PRIME RECIPIENTS OF $2.7 MILLION GRANT

Professors Scott Mathews and Mark Mirotznik demonstrate their flys eye camera.

A team led by Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Mark Mirotznik and Assistant Professor Scott Mathews has received a $2.7 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to continue research on a highly sophisticated digital camera for intelligence uses, iris recognition to identify individuals. It will also have a range of potential security and medical applications, including detection of improvised explosive devices and burn injury assessment. Mirotznik and Mathews will lead a multidisciplinary, multi-university team of researchers from Wake Forest University, University of New Mexico and University of Minnesota. They will continue developing an enhanced resolution digital camera that mimics a flys eye view of the world. In what the researchers call computational imaging, 18 smaller camera lenses take sub images and then a computer combines their information to produce a single, enhanced image with an increased resolution. The researchers have married the flys eye imaging system to a computerized camera system,
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known as a Practical Enhanced Resolution Integrated Optical Digital Imaging Camera and dubbed PERIODIC. The PERIODIC system resembles a circuit-board sandwich, with the array of lenses on the front and green circuit boards in the middle carrying information to a computer. Mirotznik explains, The optical sensor and software components work in concert to solve underlying complex image registration and reconstruction problems in near real-time and produce high definition, multi-layer images. Mirotznik offers the example of a taking a picture of a person in front of a brightly lit window. A conventional camera wouldnt know how to adapt to the changes in light, and therefore would not be able to properly capture most of the details. The flys eye camera, however, can capture even the smallest details in that scene. The prototype, originally funded by a U.S. Disruptive Technology Office challenge grant, greatly improves the resolution and dynamic range of imagery, removes glare, and performs spectral filtering. This new grant will help fund an additional 24 months of development, paying for

more equipment and graduate student assistants. The camera is being developed for various purposes including iris recognition. Existing technology can scan an iris, which the researchers liken to a fingerprint, to identify a person. But it is not advanced enough to scan noncompliant subjects who may not be at close range and do not maintain eye contact with the camera for a length of time. This enhanced camera technology aims to solve that problem, a huge boon for the intelligence community. The researchers also see an application of the technology for burn injury assessment. The most critical factors determining whether or not burn patients recover are rapid assessment of the degree of burns and quick, appropriate treatment, says Mirotznik. The camera also has potential in identifying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, says Mirotznik. By capturing details far beyond what a conventional camera could, the PERIODIC could determine objects that had not been in a location the previous day or deemed unusual a potentially life-saving red flag for soldiers.

cuaengineer Revolutionary Body-Weight Support System Developed by CUA/NRH

With most physical therapies, a quick intensive start leads to better outcomes for the patient. Thats certainly the case with walking therapies for people who have traumatic neurological injuries. Delivering intensive yet safe therapy to individuals with significant walking deficits, however, presents great challenges to even the most skilled therapists. In the acute stages of neurological injuries such as stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury, individuals often exhibit highly unstable walking patterns and poor endurance, placing them at high risk for falls. Therapists have had limited technologies available to allow them to safely train their patients to perform over-ground walking, particularly in the early stages of recovery. Most overthe-ground body weight support systems used in physical therapy settings have many failings: they lack dynamic body-weight support; are usable only on smooth, flat surfaces; cannot navigate obstacles such as stairs or uneven terrain; and are so heavy that the therapist must control their movement. Recognizing these limitations, Joe Hidler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, developed the ZeroG dynamic over-ground bodyweight support system, working with engineers Ian Black, M.S.B.E., 2004, and Dave Brennan, M.S.B.E., 1999, and physical therapists in the Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research at the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH). Hidler and his team have incorporated extensive training features into the ZeroG system that facilitate early, intensive gait training in individuals with all levels of gait impairments. ZeroG consists of a revolutionary body-weight support system that rides along a driven trolley attached to an overhead rail system. As the patient ambulates, the trolley automatically moves forward or back, staying above the patient. The therapist can set limits on the forward progression speed of their patient, allowing them to only walk within safe ranges. ZeroG can also be used for body-weight supported treadmill training, where the trolley is simply positioned over the treadmill. At any time, the patient can step off the treadmill and begin or resume over-ground gait training. Because the system is mounted overhead, people can practice walking on uneven terrain and steps, and use walking aids such as walkers or canes. The system also has a user-friendly interface, so the therapist can fully control the system not only at the control station, but also wirelessly through a pocket PC clipped to their belt. This allows the therapist to remain at their patients side at all times, encouraging patienttherapist interaction. ZeroGs state-of-the-art electronics allows the software to track distance walked, walking speed, falls prevented, gait symmetry and variability, and unloading forces within and across sessions. This allows therapists to track the patients improvements over numerous therapy sessions. Using ZeroG, individuals with gait impairments can begin practicing walking early after their injuries, in a safe, controlled way. The hope is that by removing the fear of falling from patients particularly when practicing complicated obstacles such as stairs they will not develop the compensatory strategies that often persist into the chronic stages of injuries. In addition, because ZeroG offers the highest level of patient safety, a single therapist can perform one-onone therapy even with the most severely impaired patients. A clinical version of ZeroG has been installed at NRH for therapists to begin using the system with patients after stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. In the summer of 2008, the system was installed at Walter Reed Army hospital to be used by soldiers with amputations and traumatic brain injury. To follow the progress of the ZeroG development, check out the Web site at http://cabrr.cua.edu.

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cuaengineer CUA Professor Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant

John Judge, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to study vibration of collections of micromechanical and nanomechanical devices. He is the third member of the engineering school to receive the award in the last two years. The five-year grant, totaling $409,287, funds detection and study of very small differences between micro- and nano-scale devices that are supposedly identical, and the ways in which the differences affect the way the larger system that houses those devices vibrates. Many applications of such systems, including filters for electrical signals in cell phones and collections of sensors for detecting biological and chemical agents, depend on vibration propagating freely across the system. However, small variations among seemingly identical pieces of the larger system can disrupt the way energy disperses and can prevent the systems from operating as intended. This builds on a lot of my past research, but it will be great to have the resources to create some proof-of-concept devices and to be able to explore in some new directions as well, Judge says of the grant. Judge will construct prototypes of micro- and nano-scale systems, some with the variations among individual components intentionally exaggerated by known amounts, and use laser vibrometry to measure their vibration. The grant will help fund the construction of a new experimental station at CUA to perform laser vibrometry through a microscope. The NSF CAREER award seeks to honor young scientists whose activities best integrate the realms of research and education, building the basis for long-term contributions to their fields. It is considered the foundations most prestigious award in early career development. Dr. Judge has demonstrated outstanding talent both in the classroom and in his research, and this award clearly recognizes his work, said Charles Nguyen, dean of engineering. He has earned a place among a team of cutting-edge scientists, and we are proud to have him among our junior faculty. Professor Judge served as a 20072008 Burns Fellow. The research stipend he received helped him prepare his proposal to the National Science Foundation. Judges award follows last years CAREER grant awardees, Lu Sun, associate professor of civil engineering, and Otto Wilson, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
Professor John Judge

IRIS Research Center Seminars Cover The Earth

This year the Interdisciplinary Remote Imaging and Sensing (IRIS) Research Center took CUA on a journey to the oceans, polar regions and continental United States, as three speakers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center talked about the programs they manage and their research interests. Ali Tokay, Ph.D of University of Maryland Baltimore County gave humble buckets new stature in his talk about how NASAs Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) ground validation program keeps track of rainfall. Operating in the Mid-Atlantic region for more than two
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years, these mid-latitude coastal ground validation sites in the United States include 23 tipping bucket rain gauge stations within 15200 km of the National Weather Service S-band Doppler radar located at Wakefield, Va. Tokay also mentioned the possibility of CUA student internships at NASA. The second speaker, David Le Vine, Ph.D., took the audience from land to sea in his presentation about NASAs Aquarius Mission, which senses sea surface salinity from space. Le Vine revealed that salinity temperature determine buoyancy. Satinity, he said, is critical for

understanding density-driven ocean circulation and its impact on climate. Markus Thorsten, Ph.D., took the audience to more remote areas on earth the South Pole, including close-up photographs he took of penguins. Thorsten talked about recent drastic changes in the Arctic Sea ice cover and the significant media attention it has drawn as part of the discussions on global warming. He discussed how NASA monitors the polar climate from space and promised to come back with more pictures and updates on his research and travels.

cuaengineer Kaman and Burns Awards Granted to Outstanding Engineering Faculty

Each year to honor faculty for the excellence of their research and teaching, the School of Engineering presents the Kaman Awards and Burns Faculty Fellowships. For 20072008, John Judge, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the 2008 Kaman Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, and Gunnar Lucko, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering received the 2008 Kaman Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching. Ozlem Kilic, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Joseph Vignola, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received Burns Fellowships. I Judge was honored for his research on sensor technology, which could help soldiers avoid the types of blasts that have caused brain injuries in the Iraq war. He also recently received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which will support his research on dynamics of microresonator arrays. Judge is principal investigator or co-principal investigator on three additional grants, collaborating with other faculty
I Lucko directs the Construction Engineering

members working on detection of landmines and improvised explosives as well as development of sensors mentioned above.

I Kilic and Vignola were named 2008 Burns

and Management Program of the Department of Civil Engineering. In addition to his regular courses, he has taught Disaster-Mitigating Design and Practice for the Developing World, which he developed with teaching grant funding. Luckos students consistently rank him highly on his end-of-semester teaching evaluations. More over, he is well liked by students. He advises four doctoral students and directs five masters theses. He also serves as faculty adviser for the ASCE Student Chapter and the Engineers Without Borders student chapter and is lead mentor in the ACE Mentor Program for Greater Washington. Fellows. To be named a Burns Fellow, faculty members must submit a proposal outlining their research plan and be chosen by a

I Vignolas proposal, The Effect Of Atmospheric

selection committee. This year, the selection committee received six proposals. Kilics proposal, Collective Scattering Effects of Plasmonic Nanoparticles, considers the medical applications of nanoparticles in treating cancer. She proposes to develop an analytical model to investigate the potential applications.

Turbulence on Performance of A Long-Range Laser Doppler Vibrometer, proposes to construct a long-range laser vibrometer to investigate issues related to the performance of interferometric detection of structures that camouflage improvised explosive devices. The Kaman Awards for Faculty Excellence are funded by a generous endowment from Charles H. Kaman (B.A.E. 1940). The Burns Faculty Fellowship was established in 2007 by a generous endowment of the Burns family.

(From left) Professors Joseph Vignola, Gunnar Lucko and John Judge.

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cuaengineer Engineering Alum Inducted into National Academy of Sciences

chose the nations capital largely for the areas space research opportunities. He then enrolled as a graduate student in CUAs then Space Science program of the School of Engineering, attracted by the departments NASA graduate study program and the work of faculty members C. C. Chang and Y. C. Whang. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Engineering in 1974. Another important element in that decision was the recognition by CUA of graduate work completed in Argentina, Acuna says. He began working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1969 and focused on planetary exploration, including magnetic fields and plasmas. The discovery of the Jovian ring and the magnetic fields of Mars stand out as major achievements, says Acuna of his research. He is now a senior astrophysicist and project scientist with the International Solar Terrestrial Physics Program at NASA Goddard. At the moment, he is working on several missions, including Juno, a mission to Jupiter to understand the origins of this planet; Messenger, a mission to Mercury to understand the origin of its magnetic field; and Stereo, a mission to study the sun and space weather in multiple dimensions. Most of this research is associated with experimental magnetic field studies, including the development of specialized instruments for these missions, Acuna says. The instruments he has developed include ion mass and electron spectrometers to measure the properties of the ambient space plasma. Having [these] instruments visit almost all the planets and objects in the solar system and carry out fundamental discoveries makes me feel extremely privileged to contribute to our knowledge of the solar system, he says. Acunas contributions to the scientific community led to his selection to the NAS in 2007. Established in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, the NAS is a private organization of scientists and engineers that act as official advisers to the federal government in science or technology. It was an unexpected honor, Acuna says. This kind of recognition by your peers is incredibly rewarding and puts the research carried out for the last 40 years in a special perspective.

Mario Acuna, Ph.D.

Catholic University engineering alumnus Mario Acuna has been fascinated by space and the stars ever since his undergraduate years in his native Argentina. That fascination led him to a career in space research and, most recently, induction into the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Acuna left Argentina in 1967, frustrated by military intervention into university research laboratories, and came to Washington, D.C. He

NASA Administrator Inaugurates Alumni Wall of Fame

Faced with an abundance of accomplished alumni, Griffin served as chief engineer at NASA, deputy the School of Engineering has instituted the Wall for technology at the Strategic Defense Initiative of Fame, which honors alumni who have reached Organization, and later as CEO of Magellan the pinnacle of their careers. Michael Griffin, Ph.D., Systems, Inc. He has worked in the field of M.S.E. 1974, administrator of NASA, first to be so space exploration and research for many years honored, was named to the wall on April 12, 2008. and was called a superb choice to lead NASA at Members of the School of Engineering Executive this critical moment, Griffin is known for his bold Committee and current external member Marion leadership style, deep passion for space and Gosney, B.A. 1975, director of alumni relations, rigorous commitment, as well as for his extensive selected Griffin. Nominees for the Wall of Fame experience in the field of space exploration and are evaluated by members of the Selection research. Griffin has been an adjunct professor Committee, comprising faculty and alumni of the of spacecraft design, applied mathematics and School of Engineering, with finalists presented to Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator aeronautics at the University of Maryland, Johns the dean, who makes the final decision. The Hopkins University and George Washington University. nominees must be recognized nationally as excelling and at the top of their He has published numerous technical papers in aerospace science and is careers, e.g., president of a university as an educator, or CEO of a major the author of the textbook Space Vehicle Design widely considered an company as an engineer, or head of a government agency as a government essential text in the field. employee. In addition to having his or her name inscribed on the Wall of Introducing Griffin, junior mechanical engineering major Kalin Petersen Fame, each honoree receives a commemorative plaque. The wall is to be said, You are an inspiring example and we are proud to have you as an installed in the Alumni Garden outside Pangborn Hall. esteemed Catholic University alumnus and to congratulate you on being the Griffin received a Master of Science in Engineering degree in aerospace first-ever inductee into the School of Engineering Wall of Fame. In his science in 1974. In March 2005, he was appointed by President George W. acceptance speech, Griffin expressed joy at receiving this recognition from Bush to serve as the administrator of NASA. Prior to that appointment, his alma mater and pride in being a true engineer.
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cuaengineer School Establishes First Executive Development Board

Assembling a broad spectrum of talent across many disciplines, the School of Engineering has established a volunteer board to assist Dean Charles C. Nguyen in strategic planning and alumni outreach. The Executive Development Board held two on-campus meetings and several conference calls during the last academic year. We have recruited an exemplary group of alumni to help the School of Engineering at this critical stage, said Dean Nguyen. By all measures, the school is experiencing a great deal of success. The board will play a key role in helping us sustain that momentum. The School of Engineering is poised to move to the next level, said Board Chairman Matthew J. Burns, B.E.E. 1980. Dean Nguyen has recruited outstanding faculty who are winning prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies. Applications and enrollment are up. We are implementing a five-year strategic plan. And, more and more alumni are supporting the school. This is a good time to get involved, he said. Every board member made a charitable gift to the School of Engineering during the 20072008 academic year. In order to provide continuity and experience, they serve a two-year term with the option to renew for an additional two-year term.

20082009 Executive Development Board

Chair Matthew J. Burns, P.E. (B.E.E. 1980) President Burns Engineering, Inc. Philadelphia, Pa. Joseph L. Carlini (B.M.E. 1984) Founder and CEO McKean Defense Group, LLC Philadelphia, Pa. Trevor A. DSouza (B.S.E. 1987) Managing Director/Partner Mason Wells Venture Capital Milwaukee, Wis. John R. Heisse, Esq. (B.C.E. 1976) Partner and Chair, Construction and Government Contracts Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP San Francisco, Calif. Thomas E. Laux (B.S.E. 76, M.M.E. 1979) Program Executive Officer Air ASW, Assault and Special Mission Programs U.S. Naval Air Systems Command Patuxent River, Md. Brien F. Morgan (B.E.E. 1987) Managing Partner Detente Group McLean, Va. Mark A. Peacock (B.Chem.E. 1983) Principal Archstone Consulting Chicago, Ill. Vincent N. Sica (B.M.E. 1983) Vice President, Special Programs Lockheed Martin Fairfax, Va. Barbara C. Wagner (B.S.Arch. 1980) Senior Vice President Clark Construction Group California, LP Costa Mesa, Calif.

For more information, contact: Mark Roberts Director of Development School of Engineering robertsm@cua.edu

Seated (from left): Thomas Laux, Brien Morgan, Dean Nguyen, Matthew Burns. Standing (from right): John Heisse, Barbara Wagner, Vincent Sica.

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cuaengineer 20072008 Honor Roll of Donors

The School of Engineering gratefully acknowledges the following alumni and friends for their generosity. This list includes donors who made gifts between May 1, 2007, and April 30, 2008. We have strived to list everyone correctly. If you find an error or omission, please contact us. Anonymous Jonathan J. Aarons, B.S.E. 1982 Adeyemi Adesina, M.S.C.E. 2005 American Electric Power American Global Association, Inc. Thomas J. Anessi, B.C.E. 1956 James B. Beckwith, B.S.Chem.E. 1983 J. Neil Birch, M.E.E. 1961, D.Engr. 1966 Mrs. Charles A. Bloedorn Gregory F. Bock, M.S.E. 1973 John E. Burns, B.E.E. 1985 Matthew J. Burns, B.E.E. 1980 Robert C. Burns, B.M.E. 1951 Ronald Burrell Courtney B. Burroughs, M.S.E. 1970, Ph.D. 1977 Michael P. Canavan, M.S.E. 1997 Joan R. Carlberg, M.S.E. 1971 Joseph L. Carlini, B.M.E. 1984 John J. Cecilio, M.Chem.E. 1971 James C. Chapman, B.A. 1983 Clark Construction Group, LLC Donna M. Cookson, M.S.N. 1970 Ronald E. Couchot, M.M. 1978 H. Bruce Cranford, B.S.E. 1968 David L. Danner, Ph.D. 1982 Laura L. Dawson Rex G. Early, B.A. 1953, B.Arch. 1953 Edward M. Nagel Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation Frederick R. Favo, B.Arch.E. 1955 Fidelity Investments Foundation Ramsey W. Flynn Jude Eric Franklin, B.E.E. 1965, M.E.E. 1968, Ph.D. 1980 Lucy Elizabeth Fronheiser, B.M.E. 2002 G.T. McDonald Enterprises, Inc. Christopher Gagliardi, B.C.E. 1995 Richard W. Galiher, LL.B. 1935, B.A. 1938 Jeffrey E. Giangiuli, M.S.E. 1991 Jeanine M. Gibbons, B.S.E. 1987 Albert A. Grant, B.C.E. 1948 Paul J. Guercio Michael J. Hackert, B.E.E. 1980 Lawrence J. Hannon, M.M.E. 1979 Stephanie J. Healy John R. Heisse II, B.C.E. 1976 Constance K. Hoffman Rembert F. Jones, M.C.E. 1964, Ph.D. 1973 Ursula Kelnhofer Charles D. Kepple, M.C.E. 1977 John J. Klisch, B.E.E. 1962 Francois J. Koenig, B.E.E. 1976 George F. Korkmas, B.S.Chem.E. 1952 Thomas E. Laux, B.S.E. 1977, M.M.E. 1979 Wah Hing Lee, B.E.E. 1973 Lockheed Martin Michael Lombardi Aileen Mary MacDonald, B.S.E. 1979 Joanne Magoulas, M.C.E. 1984 William D. Mark, B.M.E. 1956 Richard W. Martin, B.C.E. 1949 Thomas E. Maslen, B.C.E. 1982 Robert E. Matthews, B.M.E. 1950 Gordon H. McCormick, B.A. 1943 Elizabeth A. McGuire Gerald S. McKenna, B.C.E. 1949 Edward J. Michuda, B.M.E. 1950 Brien F. Morgan, B.E.E. 1987 Anthony C. Newbauer, B.M.E. 1975 Northrop Grumman Foundation James G. OBoyle Robert E. Oldani, M.S.E. 1997 Sheila C. Palmer, B.M.E. 1990 Estate of Thomas W. Pangborn Geoffrey A. Pascoe, B.E.E. 1984 Mark A. Peacock, B.Chem.E. 1983 James W. Pereira, B.C.E. 1951 Frank J. Pruss, B.E.E. 1985 Dorothy E. Przygocki, B.A.E. 1947 Thomas A. Pugliese, B.S.Chem.E. 1964 John H. Quillinan, B.A. 1949 Raytheon Company Nathan H. Rinehart, M.S.E. 1990 John A. Robbins, B.C.E. 1950 Albert E. Rottini, B.S.Arch. 1981 Nabil S. Saad, M.Chem.E. 1972, Ph.D. 1974 Serafin Y. Samson, B.S.E. 1985 Brian Walter Sheron, Ph.D. 1975 Vincent N. Sica, B.M.E. 1983 Russell A. Smith, M.M.E. 1964, Ph.D. 1969 Steven J. Smith, B.C.E. 1990, M.C.E. 1992 Christopher J. Snodgrass, B.M.E. 2003 J. Michael Suraci, B.S.E.E. 1962 Anthony Taddeo, B.S.E. 1987 Daniel J. Tracy, B.S.E. 1967 Barbara C. Wagner, B.S.Arch. 1980 John Mack Wall, M.S.E. 1982, M.C.E. 1986 Kate Tremper Walser, B.B.E. 1996 Chauncey Edward Warner, B.A. 1951 Robert A. Wilson, M.M.E. 1971 Jonathan Carl Wright, B.E.E. 1981 Addison Yeaman

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cuaengineer Robert Burns Receives 2007 Engineering Award

In honor of his outstanding achievements in the field of engineering, Robert (Bob) Burns, B.M.E. 1951, received the 2007 Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award at the October 2007 homecoming luncheon. Accepting on his behalf was Burns son, Matt Burns, B.E.E. 1980. More than 80 students, faculty, alumni, administrators and staff were on hand at the October 2007 homecoming luncheon, where Dean Nguyen presented the plaque following brief remarks by Provost James Brennan. Sixty years ago, in 1947, Robert Burns returned home from serving in World War II, and enrolled in engineering classes at CUA on the GI Bill. He graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in 1951 and worked for an engineering firm in Washington, D.C. opening a branch office in Philadelphia, where the company was working on a project for the airport. When the project was completed, Burns stayed to start his own firm in Philadelphia: Robert C. Burns Associates. Under his leadership, Robert C. Burns Associates provided mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering services. He developed expertise in airfield lighting systems, for which he gained international recognition. In 1972 he received an Engineering Achievement Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies for the design of an in-pavement airfield lighting system. Today the firm, now called Burns Engineering, Inc. is run by his sons Matt and John, and continues to thrive. Burns was a founding member of the Consulting Engineers Council of Philadelphia and has taken the citys history to heart. As host committee cochairman for the 1981 ACEC National Convention, Burns dressed up like Ben Franklin to greet engineers visiting Philadelphia. He served on the City of Philadelphias Electrical Code Advisory Board, as well as the American Arbitration Association. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, the Illuminating Engineering Society;

Matthew Burns, son of Robert Burns

and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. Burns is a professional engineer, registered in Pennsylvania and 23 other states. He retired in 1991 and currently resides in Media, Delaware County, Pa., with his wife, Betty. Mr. and Mrs. Burns have four sons three of whom are electrical engineers from CUA and eight grandchildren.

Vietnamese Students Arrived at CUA for 2+2 Program

The 2+2 program between the CUA School opinion after being at CUA for a year, the of Engineering and the International Vietnamese students expressed their happiUniversity of the Vietnam National ness with the size of CUA, particularly in University-Ho Chi Minh City had a good terms of student-faculty interaction, small start. After the Undergraduate Board of the class size and personal attention. In addition, CUA Academic Senate approved the prothey were impressed by the laboratory posed 2+2 program in May 2007, an facilities and engineering curricular that agreement was officially signed by the two emphasize design and experiments versus institutions. Students who participate in this the theoretical emphasis of the curriculum 2+2 program spend the first two years at at HCMIU. The students here at CUA can HCMIU and the last two years of their bachaccess more easily to professors as comelors degree program at CUA. As a result of pared to my university. They are very helpful the agreement, three Vietnamese students and friendlyThe CUA campus is so big arrived at CUA in September 2007. Despite and beautiful, said Thang Hoang. Trang its modest size, this group of students Dinh added, The university and the deans From left: Du Le, Trang Dinh, Thang Hoang made history at the School of Engineering office really helped us a lot to adapt to the because it was the first-ever group of stunew life here. The program at CUA is a lot dents who transferred to CUA together as a group from a foreign institution better. We have a chance to practice by doing many class projects that deal with thanks to a 2+2 program. real world problems. All these positive comments in no way implied that Du V. Le and Thang Hoang major in biomedical engineering and electrical everything was perfect. The students initially encountered issues adapting to engineering, respectively, while Trang Dinh studies electrical engineering. life in the United States, registering for courses, transferring credits, and Despite some initial difficulties with the English language, all transfer students finding off-campus housing. The School of Engineering has conducted a managed to be on the deans list for both semesters of the 2007-2008 survey with the transfer students whose feedback will be used to improve academic year by earning a grade point average of over 3.5. Asked for their the 2+2 program to better serve the students coming to CUA in the future.
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cuaengineer Exploring Global Educational Opportunities

Continuing to expand international programs of the School of Engineering, Dean Nguyen and his directors of international programs visited eight universities in Europe and Asia during the 2007 2008 academic year. In August 2007, the dean and Professor Frank Pao met with the dean and key officials and visited the laboratory facilities of the engineering school of The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. The next month, during a trip to Portugal to accept a leadership award from the International Network of Engineering Education and Research in Coimbra, the dean, along with a CUA delegation, met the vice-rector and dean of engineering of The Catholic University of Lisbon and visited their facilities. The two schools signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration in research and education. In February 2008, Dean Nguyen, Pao, and Uyen Nguyen, Ph.D., who was recently appointed International Director of Programs in Asia, visited Kasetart University in Bangkok, Thailand, and signed an MOU with the faculty of engineering of this university to develop mutual education and research programs. While in Thailand, the CUA delegation also visited Burapha University in Chonburi, meeting with the dean and faculty of the college of engineering of this university. An MOU was also signed between the two engineering schools with goals similar to the one signed with KU. After the Thailand trip, Dean Nguyen, Director Nguyen and Associate Professor Binh Tran, Ph.D., chair of the CUA biomedical engineering department, visited the International University of the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, where an agreement was signed by the two institutions to re-energize the existing 2+2 program. Dean Nguyen gave a presentation to the faculty and students about CUA and the School of Engineering and explained the application process of the 2+2 program. The CUA delegation then visited the Saigon Technology University, signing an MOU with this university. At STU, Dean Nguyen received an honorary professorship. Dean Nguyen and Director Nguyen then traveled to Danang, Vietnam, visiting with officials of Duy Tan University and University of Danang, with the probability of an MOU to be signed with these universities in the near future.
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Dean Nguyen received the leadership award at the INEER banquet in Coimbra, Portugal.

Faculty and administrators of CUA and Kasetart University at the MOU signing ceremony.

The signing ceremony of the MOU between CUA and the Saigon Technology University.

cuaengineer School of Engineering Embarks on First Hong Kong Exchange

Civil engineering student Thomas Lee has wanted to travel to Asia since he first met a group of Japanese children when he was in the fourth grade. Lee got his wish in January, when he flew to Hong Kong as one of five CUA students participating in the School of Engineerings pioneer study-abroad student exchange. Lee, along with fellow juniors Kristen Kennedy, Sarah Luffy, Kathryn Kazior and Emily Growney, studied last spring at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the first of several student-exchange programs that will link CUAs engineering school and foreign universities. Besides realizing a childhood dream, Lee sees this as an opportunity to gain experience in the international engineering world that might set him apart from other young engineers. In fact, China is producing more engineers than the United States and, increasingly, U.S. engineering firms are outsourcing their work and offices to China, says engineering Dean Charles Nguyen, making China a hotbed of engineering activity. Chinas ongoing industrial and economic boom also provides plenty of work for engineers. As part of the exchange, nine students from Hong Kong Polytechnic took courses at CUA for the spring semester. The CUA students arrived in Hong Kong on Jan. 9. Students studying at CUA from Hong Kong Polytechnic arrived on campus in mid-January. The exchange with Hong Kong Polytechnic has been several years in the making, part of what Nguyen sees as a necessary offering for top American engineering schools. Other exchange programs are planned with universities in Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and China. As with Hong Kong Polytechnic, CUA students in these future programs will attend an overseas university for a semester while paying tuition at CUA and earning credit toward their CUA degrees. This years crop of CUA students are biomedical and civil engineering majors, and their courses while in Hong Kong focused on the core curricula of those subjects, taught in English. While students took the same core curricula offered at CUA, the benefit of taking those courses in China is an opportunity to see, firsthand, how a country with such an emerging, global engineering presence frames those subjects. In preparation for their travels, the five CUA students spent the fall 2007 semester preparing to better integrate into Chinese culture by taking Chinese 101, an introductory course on Chinese language and culture organized by the engineering school in collaboration with the School of Arts and Sciences. The students stayed in Hong Kong until May, when the semester ended, with an option to extend the stay. Many of the students traveled in mainland China during their exchange. Dean Nguyen visited them in February to observe the program and see how they were acclimating. Nguyen says he believes these partnerships are a two-way street, allowing for the best and brightest foreign engineers to attend CUA for a semester and perhaps return here for graduate school. This study abroad program was established to make our future graduates fully immersed in what is, increasingly, a global engineering market, says Dean Nguyen.

(From left) Emily Growney, Thomas Lee Jr., Kathryn Kazior, Kristen Kennedy, Sarah Luffy

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cuaengineer Visit Brings Closer Collaboration

A delegation from Taiwans Chung Yuan Christian University visited the School of Engineering on Oct. 26, 2007. Led by President Cheng and his wife, the group included Professor S. P. Tung, dean of the College of Science; Professor S. H. Wang, director of the Center of Alumni Services; and Professor J. T. Teng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2006, Dean Nguyen worked with Teng, then dean of CYCUs College of Engineering, to draft a memorandum of understanding with CYCU, which fostered collaboration between the two schools. The CYCU delegation came to CUA to forge a closer partnership relation between two institutions and for further discussion of collaboration on 4+1 and 1+1 graduate degree programs. The delegation toured the research and instruction laboratories at the departments of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. The group also met with Provost James Brennan and Very Reverend David M. OConnell, C.M., the university president. The visit concluded with a dinner hosted by Dean Nguyen and his wife at their home, attended by the delegation and several engineering faculty.

U.S. Department of Defense Honors CUA Graduate Student

Rocco Arizzi has been overcoming hurdles since the age of 3, when he was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy. Last December, Arizzi was recognized for his many accomplishments in the face of adversity: The Catholic University graduate student and Naval Surface Warfare Center employee received the Department of Defense Outstanding Employee with a Disability Award for 2007 the only naval employee worldwide to receive that honor. Arizzi, who is wheelchair bound and has limited use of his hands, has been balancing his doctoral research with a full-time job with the center in Washington, D.C., for the last four years as he works toward a doctorate in electrical engineering. There are a lot of ways that people with disabilities can participate in our national defense and they may not realize it, Arizzi says. I hope something like this will, in the future, put into the minds of children with disabilities that they can make a positive impact on their country without necessarily being a soldier. Arizzi has been raising awareness about spinal muscular atrophy and the potential for those afflicted to lead full and active lives since he was selected as the Muscular Dystrophy Associations Goodwill Ambassador for New Jersey at age 4. He became the National Goodwill Ambassador soon after. At age 16, Arizzi Rocco was one of 200 Texas high school students chosen to attend the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, a two-year early entry college program, at the University of North Texas. He received his bachelors degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas in San Antonio. And while enrolled in his masters degree studies at Florida Atlantic University, Arizzi worked as an adjunct algebra instructor and tutor at a local community college. Roccos achievement is truly exceptional and well deserved, said Mark Mirotznik, associate professor of electrical engineering and Arizzis doctoral adviser. CUA's Department of Electrical Engineering is very fortunate to have a graduate student like him. He is a very gifted engineer, conducting research on how naval ship designers can learn from nature when designing new electronic sensing systems. Above all, however, he is simply a great person who inspires everyone around him.

CYCU president visited with CUA president, Father OConnell.

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cuaengineer Curbing Global Warming Workshop Hosted by Center for Environment and Energy
In October 2007, 70 multinational experts from the United States, China and Africa came to CUAs campus for a two-day workshop organized by the new CUAs Center for Environment and Energy under the direction of Frank H.P. Pao, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering. Participants professors from Catholic University, Howard University, West Kentucky University, West Virginia University, 10 experts from universities and institutions in China, as well as representatives of governmental institutions addressed the topic of how to curb global warming by carbon sequestration. They were welcomed to CUA by Provost James Brennan, Ph.D., and Dean Charles Nguyen, D.Sc. The workshop focused on technology that converts CO2 from the flue gas of fossil fuel-fired power plants into a water-soluble and carboncontaining fertilizer, which ultimately leaches to underground aquifers. There it eventually turns into limestone, a stable form of carbon. Considered an environmental win-win as it removes carbon from the air and provides fertilizer, this technology will help curb global warming and benefit both developing countries that rely heavily on agricultural production as well as developed countries, says Pao, who co-chaired the workshop with Jerry Shang, chief scientist for the Center for Environment & Energy. Among the financial supporters for the workshop was America Global Association, Inc. of New York, a trade and culture exchange company working primarily with the United States and China. A working group of multinational experts identified at the workshop is undertaking efforts to further develop this technology in both the United States and China. A second international workshop will be organized in the near future to report and assess the progress of this new technology.

William Readdy Talks of Astronaut Engineering Challenges

William Readdy, managing partner of Discovery Partners International, LLC, visited the CUA campus to speak with approximately 30 mechanical engineering students in December 2007. Sponsored by ASME, Readdys speech on space flight through the years was informative and socially engaging the students shared conversation and pizza with Readdy prior to the presentation. The former astronauts firsthand knowledge of NASA and the technological challenges of space flight gave students an insiders perspective on life as an astronaut, many of the engineering challenges that are involved in space flight, and the management of the U.S. space program. Throughout the presentation Readdy took time to give detailed answers to all of the students questions. Readdy, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a degree in aeronautical engineering, earned his wings as a naval aviator. He went on to become a Navy test pilot, serving as the project test pilot on several programs. He logged 7,000 flying hours in more than 60 types of fixed wing aircraft and helicopters and more than 550 carrier landings. He was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1987. He is a veteran pilot astronaut with three space flights STS-42 (Jan. 2230, 1992), STS-51 (Sept. 1222, 1993) and STS-79 (Sept. 1626, 1996) and has logged more than 650 hours in space. He subsequently served as the first manager of the Space Shuttle Program and the associate director of space flight for NASA, overseeing the safe return to flight after the loss of the Columbia.

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cuaengineer Senior Awarded ASME Scholarship

Omar Monterrubio, a senior mechanical engineering major, has received a scholarship for $1,000 from the Washington, D.C., branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Monterrubio, who juggles his many campus community activities with a work-study position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, adds this scholarship to several others at CUA. Monterrubio became interested in engineering while still in high school, gaining early experience as an intern at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, for two summers, where he worked with biomedical and electrical engineers. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School in Houston as valedictorian in 2005. He also received Mount Carmels MVP award for varsity soccer. At CUA, Monterrubio is the treasurer of the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, vice president of the Latin Alliance Club, an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, a member of FOCUS (Filipino Organization of Catholic University Students), and member of the Career Services Student Advisory Board. He also plays intramural soccer. After graduation in May 2009, he plans to seek fulltime employment and then later plans to pursue a masters degree in engineering.

Mentos Challenge Piques Engineering Students and Faculty

Almost every college student who has seen You Tube can tell you what happens when you drop a handful of Mentos candies into a bottle of diet soda: a spontaneous eruption of soda-foam, shooting out the top of the soda bottle. Two years ago, this rather unassuming bit of physics gave Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Scott Mathews, Ph.D., the idea to organize an engineering competition: The CUA Diet Soda and Mentos Challenge. He challenged all the students of the School of Engineering to design and build nozzles that would screw onto a standard two-liter soda bottle, hold a number of Mentos inside, confine the stream of soda to get the fountain to shoot up as high as possible after the Mentos were dropped into the diet soda. The School of Engineering offered a cash prize of $50 to the student who could produce the tallest fountain. The event was a huge success, with about 25 students participating. It was an excellent example of CUA engineering students learning hands-on engineering. The event was so successful that Mathews and the School of Engineering decided to do it again this year. This time, Mathews handed off most of the work to student Patrick Boughan, president of the IEEE student chapter at CUA, and his fellow chapter members. They bought dozens of bottles of diet soda, bulk packages of Mentos, and of course lots of hamburgers and hot dogs to entice hungry engineers to participate. Once again, the event was a great success! More than 30 students participated, and this year a few professors even tried out some of their own nozzle designs (although they were not eligible for the $50 cash prize). About 50 people showed up to watch and eat. Last years record of 32 feet was broken, albeit by only one foot! Mathews and the IEEE Chapter plan to hold the event every year and may broaden the project to include a separate challenge for local high school students.

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cuaengineer Concrete Canoe: Lessons in Stewardship, Teamwork, New Beginnings

A group of CUA engineering students traveled to West Virginia to compete in the American Society of Civil Engineers annual concrete canoe competition. The Virginia conference was co-hosted by Fairmont State University and West Virginia Institute of Technology, and it featured competition, engineering-related sightseeing and teambuilding events. The process of designing and preparing the canoe and team for the competition started in August 2007. The team faced many new challenges from the beginning. The rules for the concrete mixture had been significantly changed from prior years, which required the team to test new and unconventional aggregates, including air soft gun pellets. Testing those pellets led to the idea of using recycled plastic cylindrical pellets. This fit with CUAs efforts to be good stewards concerned with the carbon footprint of the projects and with to recycling, reducing and reusing as much as possible. As the team aggregate tested the plastic cylindrical pellets over the academic year, it found that recycled plastic chips with jagged edges would better integrate themselves with the concrete mix. The canoe was then created using a male Styrofoam form and three layers of concrete placed in one day over about a 12-hour period. With the placement complete, the canoe was cured inside a humidity tent created by students. Following the curing, the team took several weeks to put the finishing touches on the canoe and prepare for the trip to West Virginia. In honor of the April visit to campus of Pope Benedict XVI, the canoe was named The Vatican Vessel and stained an appropriate gold to match the theme of the papal visit. The competition challenged the students and carried lessons that could not have been learned in a traditional setting, bringing them together to find new solutions when things did not work according to plan. The team is proud to have placed third in the oral presentation section of the competition.

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cuaengineer Hovercraft Aids Humanitarian Efforts CUA students and faculty work together on a project to help in the global humanitarian landmine crisis
The challenge is daunting: how to help rid the world of landmines left behind after military conflicts. But a group of CUA engineering students spent their senior year tackling the issue, coming up with an elegant and relatively low-cost possibility. Landmines kill and maim civilians in more than 100 countries, often decades after a conflict has passed, and they represent a profound humanitarian crisis. Fourth-year mechanical engineering students set out to use their senior project class to design and construct a prototype robotic hovercraft capable of carrying and powering landmine detection hardware into minefields. Building on the previous years design project, students devised a fully autonomous craft so that no operator is put in harms way. The hovercraft concept, which uses a large fan to create a cushion of air that the vehicle rides on, has several important advantages over the vehicles with tires that are currently used for this dangerous yet important work. These include the inherent nimbleness of a craft that rides on air that allows the vehicle to move from side to side as easily as it moves forward and backward and over all manner of terrain. In fact the craft can operate over sand, marshes and wetlands as well as grassy pastures and never get stuck. Riding on this cushion of air also distributes the weight on the vehicle and its payload over the entire footprint of the craft, reducing the ground pressure to about 0.1 psi, far below the approximate 5 psi pressure required to detonate the most sensitive mines. Using rigorous engineering design practices and state of the art software, students created a craft with a deceptively simple structure made of wood, a lawnmower engine, a PC, and other commonly available components. This inexpensive, reliable craft is also repairable in the field using rudimentary tools important details in the developing countries where most of these landmines are located. A gratifying sign of the value of this project came when the team won a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of State, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, to further develop their prototype. The students enjoyed this opportunity to use the sometimes abstract book skills learned in the classroom to build something that could serve the world community on this critically important problem and see that engineering is ultimately about solving real problems in the world we live in.

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cuaengineer CUA Continues Partnership with Clark Construction Group

Volunteers, corporate contributions help students and faculty
The Catholic University of America School of Engineering has created the Clark Construction Group, LLC Fund for Construction Management to recognize our long-standing partnership with one of the most respected contracting firms in the United States. Supported by contributions from the firm, located in Bethesda, Md., the Clark Fund will support CUAs Engineering Construction Management Program. We are extraordinarily grateful to Clark Construction Group for supporting our students, said Professor Poul V. Lade, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Civil Engineering. Their generosity will allow us to offer scholarships to some very bright students, and give our students and faculty an opportunity to attend conferences and visit construction sites. Three employees of Clark Construction Group have also agreed to serve as alumni-volunteers: John P. Cooper (B.C.E. 1997), project executive; Lawrence E. Moore II (B.C.E. 1994), director of engineering; and Barbara C. Wagner (B.S.Arch. 1980), senior vice president. The first three scholarship winners are pictured below.

2008 COMMENCEMENT

Angel A. Pena Orozco, masters student

James P. Cooper, master's student

E. Phillip Schied, doctoral candidate

Biomedical Engineering Names 20082009 Nagel Scholars

Each year, through a generous financial gift from the Edward M. Nagel Foundation, CUAs biomedical engineering department identifies and recognizes the programs top students, its Nagel Scholars. Edward M. Nagel was an entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded the OroweatTM Baking Company. His immigrant experience, especially during the Great Depression, engendered in Nagel a strong desire to support hard-working, enterprising students seeking an education. In 1992, he founded the Edward M. Nagel Foundation to provide scholarships for students. CUA is one of only six universities funded by the foundation throughout the United States. The biomedical engineering department selects Nagel Scholars based upon demonstrated excellence in the classroom and service, as well as active involvement in the CUA community and beyond. In addition, these students are chosen for their potential for entrepreneurial success and leadership in the field of biomedical engineering. The cumulative average GPA of this years Nagel Scholars is 3.91. The 20082009 Nagel Scholars are Thomas Giuliani (2009), Megan Jamiokowski (2010), Theresa Murray (2010), Katherine Rucky (2010), Jenna Graham (2011), Andrew Gravunder (2011), Patrick Noonan (2011), Timothy Mierzwa (2012) and Joseph McAnaney (2012). Each student named receives a scholarship in the amount of $5,000 for each of their four years of undergraduate study.
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cuaengineer Engineers without Borders Embarks to El Salvador

develop low-cost structural solutions to improve earthquake-resistance. The students prepared for the site inspection in Santa Clara through coursework in two Disaster-Mitigating Design courses, CE 434 and CE 435, taught by Lucko and Panos Tsopelas, Ph.D., associate professor of civil engineering. This project is funded by a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Students and the two instructors have been working together in a workshop-like learning environment to design a small building for Santa Clara that will house the offices of the new water administration and a health clinic. Having studied the local building techniques and the impact of the 2001 earthquake firsthand helps the students design a safer and healthier facility appropriate for the conditions and culture of Santa Clara. The weeklong stay in Santa Clara gave CUA students plenty of time to explore the local topography, take survey measurements and dig test trenches to examine the soil. They also built a prototype household water hookup and greywater pit with local volunteers. Rounding off the memorable journey, students interviewed representatives of the National Water Development Board and the Earth-quake Institute in the capital city of San Salvador.

After months of preparation, a group from CUA finally set foot in the small village of Santa Clara in El Salvador in January of 2008. The eight undergraduate students from CUA; Gunnar Lucko, assistant professor of civil engineering; civil engineer and CUA alumnus Tim Garland; and architect Alex Higbee arrived in Santa Clara, a village of approximately 2,100 inhabitants in the rural eastern part of El Salvador, to begin two projects under the umbrella of CUAs Engineers Without Borders chapter. The projects are expected to be completed after several more visits. The EWB chapter, started in 2005 with guidance from John Judge, Ph.D., assistant professor of

mechanical engineering, draws active members from several engineering departments. The CUA chapter, collaborating with the local professional chapter of this humanitarian organization, is designing a distribution system for potable water that will serve 260 households, with an ultimate capacity of 400. Most Santa Clara residents now supply their drinking water from hand-dug wells, which have been found to contain various bacteriological contaminants. Public health proponents will be trained with support from George Washington University to augment the water system with information on hygiene. For the second project, the group seeks to

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Grants
I Brown, J. S., Identification and Evaluation of

Working Fluids for High Temperature Heat Applications (including replacements for R114), ASHRAE, April 3, 2006Nov. 1, 2007, $68,497. I Brown, J.S., Research on Automated Planning and Programming for Intelligent Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, April 1, 2006March 31, 2007, $260,197. I Brown, J.S., Research on Automated Planning and Programming for Intelligent Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, April 1, 2007March 31, 2008, $273,103. I Chang, L., Quantitative Image Analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI data, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Sept. 2007Sept. 2008, $ 40,000. I Brennan, Dave (PI), and Hidler, Joseph M., (Co-PI), Telehealth system for cognitivecommunication treatments, National Institute of Health, April 2006March 2008, $341,256. I Hidler, Joseph M., Smart over-ground body weight support system, NIDRR (#H133G050259), Nov. 2005Oct. 2008, $448,483. I Hidler, Joseph M., (Co-PI), National Capitol Area Rehabilitation Research Network (NCARRN), NIH-NCMRR, Oct. 2005Sept. 2010, $517,785 ($3,715,503 total). I Hidler, Joseph M., Zero G: Dynamic Over Ground Body-Weight Support System, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC), Aug. 2007Aug. 2008, $241,179. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica (PI), and Hidler, Joseph M., (Co-PI),The impact of autonomic dysreflexia on SCI patient skin and its role in skin ulcer formation, Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation, Aug. 2007July 2009, $150,000. I Judge, J. A., Dynamics of micro- and nanomechanical resonator arrays, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, May 2008April 2013, $410,000. I Judge, J. A. (PI), and Mathews, S. A. (Co-PI), Fabrication and Testing of a Blast Concussion Burst Sensor, U. S. Army / Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, June 2008Nov. 2009, $190,920. I Vignola, J. F. (PI) and Judge, J. A. (Co-PI), Autonomous Hovercraft Platform for Landmine Detection Technology, U.S. Department of State, July 2007June 2008, $61,777. I Vignola, J. F. (PI) and Judge, J. A. (Co-PI), Synthetic Aperture Acoustics for Detection of Foam covered IEDs, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate through Alion, Inc., Sept. 2007 Aug. 2008, $65,000. I Kilic, O. DURIP: Accelerated Reconfigurable Programming for Hybrid Modeling and

Analysis of Complex Systems, Army Research Office, May 1, 2007April 30, 2008, $54000. I Kilic, O., Hardware Accelerated Reconfigurable Programming for Electromagnetic Simulations and Optimization of Advanced Material Design, ONR, April 27, 2007April 26, 2010, $230,000.00. I Kilic, O., Enhanced Multi-beam Satellite Antenna Performance Using Particle Swarm Optimization, CUA Grant in Aid, June 2007 Aug. 2007, $2000.00. I Lade, P. V., Experimental Investigation of Stress Rotation Effects in Soils, Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER), National Science Foundation, March 1, 2004Feb. 28, 2007, $68,023. I Lade, P. V., Instability of Geological Materials under Three-Dimensional Stress Conditions, American Chemical Society (The Petroleum Research Fund), May 1, 2004Aug. 2008, $80,000. I Lucko, G., Enabling higher dimensionality of temporal-spatial analysis applied to linear scheduling of construction operations based on singularity functions in structural engineering. National Science Foundation, July 2007June 2009, $67,571 + $50,000 tuition remission. I Lucko, G. (PI), and Tsopelas, P. (Co-PI), Teaching structural design, construction practices, and sustainable technologies for mitigation of natural disaster damages in coastal and fault areas of developing regions, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, July 2006July 2009, $42,450. I Lum, P. S., Extension of the MIME robotic system for stroke rehabilitation, Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Award, July 2007June 2011, $612,400. I Uswatte (PI), Lum, P. S. (Co-PI), Home-based automated therapy of arm function after stroke via tele-rehabilitation, NIH R01 Award April 2008March 2012, $1,215,835. I Healton (PI), Lum, P. S. (Co-PI), A Robotic Exoskeleton for Post-stroke Hand Neuro-rehabilitation, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Nov. 2006Oct. 2008, $250,000. I Healton (PI), Lum, P. S. (Co-PI), Neuroscientific aspects of upper extremity amputation, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Nov. 2006Oct. 2008, $200,000. I Healton (PI), Lum, P. S. (Co-PI), Assessment of Motor System Function in the First Days after Brain Injury, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Nov. 2006Oct. 2008, $200,000. I Mathews, Scott A., Compact Multi-Aperture Imaging System, University of New Mexico, 2007, $151,890. I Mathews, Scott A., (Co-PI), Defense University Research Instrumentation Project (DURIP), Millimeter Wave Characterization System for Composite Electromagnetic

Materials, Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2007, $297,000. I Mathews, Scott A., (Co-PI), A Practical Enhanced-Resolution Integrated OpticalDigital Imaging Camera (PERIODIC), Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), 20072009, $2,699,907. I Mathews, Scott A., (Co-PI), Fabrication and Testing of a Blast Concussion Burst Sensor, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity June 1, 2008Nov. 30, 2009, $190,920.00. I Mathews, S. A. (Co-PI) and Mirotznik, M. S. (Co-PI), Compact Multi-aperture Imaging Camera, Disruptive Technology Office of the Director of National Intelligence, May 2007 Oct. 2007, $112,000. I Mirotznik, M. S., Millimeter Wave Characterization System for Composite Electromagnetic Materials, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Defense University Research Instrumentation Project (DURIP), April 2007 May 2008, $297,000. I Mirotznik, M. S. (PI), Electromagnetic Codes for the Analysis of Planar Periodic Structures, Navy Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Oct. 2007Oct. 2008, $50,000. I Mirotznik, M. S. (Co-PI) and Mathews, S. A. (Co-PI), A Practical Enhanced-Resolution Integrated Optical-Digital Imaging Camera (PERIODIC), Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), Dec. 2007Sept. 2010, $2,699,907. I Mirotznik, M. S. (PI), Design and Modeling of Resonant LWIR Structures, Army Research Office (ARO), April 2008April 2011, $300,000. I Mirotznik, M. S. (PI), Antenna Isolation using Antireflective Micro-Surface Coatings Office of Naval Research (ONR), April 2008April 2010, $124,534. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Retinal Oximeter using Novel Multi-aperture Camera for assessment of early signs of Diabetic Retinopathy, Coulter Foundation, 20072009, $240,000. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., and Hidler, Joseph M., Skin hypoxia and the formation of skin ulcer in individuals with autonomic dysreflexia, Christopher Reeve Foundation. 20072009, $140,000. I Nguyen, Quan, and Ramella-Roman, Jessica C.,Novel Assessment of Early Changes in Diabetic Retinopathy, NIH-NEI, 20082011, $1,775,811. I Regalia, P. A., Two Problems in Multiuser Communications over High Occupancy Channels, National Science Foundation, Jan. 2007Dec. 2010, $120,000. I Regalia, P. A., Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks via Expectation Propagation, National Science Foundation, Sept. 2007Aug. 2010, $194,016. I Tran, B. Q. (Co-PI), Community-based Clinical eStorefront & In-Home Biomedical Access @
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Edgewood Terrace, Agency: Dept of Commerce-TOP/NTIA, Oct. 2004Sept. 2007, $679,282. I Tran, B.Q., Evaluation of MRI magnetic fields on implanted medical devices, Agency: Food & Drug Administration, Nov. 2007Dec. 2008, $86,142. I Lucko, G. (PI) and Tsopelas, P. (Co-PI), Teaching Structural Design, Construction Practices, and Sustainable Technologies for Mitigation of Natural Disaster Damages in Coastal and Fault Areas of Developing Regions, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, Aug. 2006Sept. 2008, $50,000. I Wang, Z., Research of Algorithms for Biometric Data Compression and Verification, SETECS, Inc. Dec. 2006Oct. 2007, $24,000. I Wang, Z., Real-Time, High-Accuracy 3D Imaging System, NCIIA, April 2008Sept. 2009, $14,500. I Wilson Jr., O.C., CAREER: Bone Inspiration in Research and Education, National Science Foundation, March 1, 2007Feb. 28, 2012, $450,000. 6915, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer Aided Diagnosis, San Diego, 2008. I Brown, J. S., Evaluation of potential R-22 substitute refrigerants using fundamental thermodynamic parameters, 22nd International Congress of Refrigeration, Beijing, China, August 2007. I Brown, J. S., Evaluation of potential R-22 substitute refrigerants using fundamental thermodynamic parameters, in Proc. 22nd International Congress of Refrigeration, Beijing, China, August 2007. I Brown, J. S., Predicting performance of new refrigerants using the Peng-Robinson equation of state, International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 13191328, 2007. I Brown, J. S., Preliminary selection of R-114 replacement refrigerants using fundamental thermodynamic parameters, HVAC&R Research, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 697709, 2007. I Brown, J. S., Methodology for estimating thermodynamic parameters and performance of alternative refrigerants, ASHRAE Winter Annual Meeting, N.Y., Jan. 2008. I Brown, J. S., Methodology for estimating thermodynamic parameters and performance of alternative refrigerants, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 114, No. 1, 2008. I Brown, J. S., Potential R-114 replacement refrigerants, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 114, No. 2, 2008. I Chang, L. C., Koay, C. G., Deoni, S., and Pierpaoli, C., Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Fitting Methods for Estimating T1 from SPGR Signals, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Chang, L. C., and Pierpaoli, C., Improving the Accuracy of Diffusion MR Tractography Using RESTORE, in Proc. Annual Biomedical Engineering Meeting at Taiwan, Dec. 2007, pp 224226. I Freidlin, R.Z., Ozarslan, E., Komlosh, M. E., Chang, L. C., Koay, C. G., Jones, D. K., and Basser, P. J., Parsimonious Model Selection for DTI Tissue Segmentation and Classification: Study on Simulated and Experimental Data, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Freidlin, R. Z., zarslan E., Komlosh, M. E., Chang, L. C., Koay, C. G., Jones, D. K., and Basser, P.J., Parsimonious model selection for tissue segmentation and classification applications: A study using simulated and experimental DTI data, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, Issue 11, pp.15761584, Nov. 2007. I Koay, C. G., Chang, L. C., and Basser, P. J., The Cone of Uncertainty is Elliptical: Implications for DTI Tractography, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Koay, C. G., Chang, L. C., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P.J., Diffusion Tensor Representations and Their Applications to DTI Error Propagation, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Koay, C. G., Chang, L. C., Deoni, S., and Pierpaoli, C., An Optimal Framework for T1 Estimation in an SPGR Acquisition, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Koay, C. G., Chang, L. C., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P. J., Error Propagation Framework for Diffusion Tensor Imaging via Diffusion Tensor Representations, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, Issue 8, pp.10171034, Aug. 2007. I Koay, C. G., Nevo, U., Chang, L. C., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P.J., The elliptical cone of uncertainty and its normalized measures in diffusion tensor imaging, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging (in press). I Ozarslan, E., Chang, L. C., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P. J., Roughness: A reshuffling-variant differential geometric index for DWI, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Wu, M., Chang, L. C., Barnett, A. S., Marenco, S., and Pierpaoli, C., A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of EPI Distortion Correction Strategies in Diffusion Tensor MRI, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting, Berlin, Germany, May 2007. I Waber, D. P., De Moor, C., Forbes, P.W., Almli, C. R., Botteron, K. N., Leonard, G., Milovan, D., Paus, T., Rumsey, J., Chang, L. C., and The Brain Development Cooperative Group, The NIH MRI study of normal brain development: Performance of a population-based sample of healthy children aged 6 to 18 years on a neuropsychological battery, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Vol.13, pp.118, 2007. I Almli, C. R., Rivkin, M. J., McKinstry, R. C., Chang, L. C., and The Brain Development Cooperative Group, The NIH MRI study of normal brain development (Objective-2): Newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, NeuroImage, Vol. 35, pp. 308325, 2007. I Black, I., Nichols, D., Pelliccio, M., and Hidler, J., Quantification of reflex activity in stroke survivors during an imposed multi-joint leg extension movement, Experimental Brain Research, Vol.183, Issue 2, pp. 271-281, Nov. 2007. I Brady, K., Black, I., Brennan, D., and Hidler, J., ZeroG: Dynamic over-ground body-weight support system, APTA 2008 Combined Sections Meeting, Feb. 2008. I Hidler, J., 21st-Century Rehabilitation After Stroke: What Has Six Years of Research at NRH Taught Us, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Grand Rounds Series, Nov. 2007. I Hidler, J., Carroll, M., and Federovich, E., Strength and coordination in the paretic leg of individuals following acute stroke, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol.15, Issue 4, pp. 526-534, Dec. 2007.

Presentations and Publications

I Ahmed, F., Integrated Fingerprint Verification

method using a composite-signature based watermarking technique, Opt. Eng. vol. 46, 087005, Aug. 2007. I Ahmed, F., Intelligent Multimedia for Information Security, Invited Speech at the IEEE International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 2007. I Ahmed, F., and Ira S. Moskowitz, Analysis and Reduction of Embedding Error for a semireversible image authentication watermark, to appear in Proc. IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies, Baltimore, April 2008. I Ahmed, F., and Gomes, C., Digital Watermarking for Digital Rights Management in Handbook of Research on Modern Systems Analysis and Design Technologies and Applications, 2008 Chapter XXVII, Igi Global. I Ahmed, F., and Selvanadin, M. K. B., Fingerprint Reference Verification method using a Phase-encoding based Watermarking Technique, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 17, No. 1, 011010, pp. 19, 2008. I Moskowitz, I. S.,Lafferty, P. A., and Ahmed, F., Stego Scrubbing A New Direction for Image Steganography, in Proc. 8th Annual IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop (IAW 2007) United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., pp. 119126, June 2007. I Osicka, T., Freedman, M. T., and Ahmed, F., Characterization of Pulmonary Nodules on Computer Tomography (CT) Scans: sample size effects on Features Selection and Classification Performance, in Proc. SPIE Vol.
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I Hidler, J., Understanding Lower Extremity I Mathews, S. A., Judge, J., and Ortega, C., I Lade, P. V. Modeling Failure in Cross-

Impairments and Contemporary Treatments Options for Hemiparetic Stroke Patients, University of Twente, Netherlands, March 2008. I Hidler, J., New Developments in Lower Extremity Robotics for Stroke Rehabilitation, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Symposium 2008: Advances in Stroke Rehabilitation Innovations for Practice, April 2008. I Hidler, J., Hamm, L, Lichy, A., and Groah, S., Automating activity-based interventions: the role of robotics, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development Special Issue, (in press). I Hosler-Smythe, C., Brady, K., and Hidler, J., Locomotion therapy in individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury: effects on health and well-being,APTA 2008 Combined Sections Meeting, Feb. 2008. I Lee, S. J., and Hidler, J., Quantification of joint moment errors associated with inaccurate center of pressures, Northeast American Society of Biomechanics, College Park, Md., 2007. I Lee, S. J., and Hidler, J., Biomechanics of treadmill versus over-ground walking in healthy individuals, J Appl Physiol, Vol.104, Issue 3, pp. 747755, 2008. I Neckel, N. D., Nichols, D., and Hidler, J., Joint moments exhibited by chronic stroke subjects while walking with a prescribed physiological gait pattern, International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Noordwijk, Netherlands, June 2007. I Neckel, N. D., Nichols, D., and Hidler, J., Lower limb synergy patterns of stroke subjects while walking in a Lokomat robotic orthosis, American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, Aug. 2007. I Nichols, D., Neckel, N., and Hidler, J., Synergy patterns of chronic stroke subjects while walking in a Lokomat robotic orthosis, APTA 2008 Combined Sections Meeting, Feb. 2008. I Ramella-Roman, J., and Hidler, J., A fiber optic probe for measurement of an autonomic dysreflexia event on SCI patients, SPIE Symposium on Biomedical Optics (BiOS), San Jose, Calif., 2008. I Ryerson, S., Byl, N., Brown, D., Wong, R., and Hidler, J., Altered trunk position sense and its relation to balance functions in people post-stroke, J Neurol Phys Ther., Vol. 32, pp. 14-20, 2008. I Schwbowsky, C., Hidler, J., and Lum, P., Greater reliance on impedance control in the nondominant arm compared with the dominant arm when adapting to a novel dynamic environment, Experimental Brain Research, Vol.182, Issue 4, pp. 567577, October 2007. I Judge, J. A., Vignola, J. F., and Jarzynski, J., Dissipation from microscale and nanoscale beam resonators into a surrounding fluid, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 12, 124102, March 2008.

A myoelectric interface for video games, in Proc. 23rd Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C., 2007, published as Biomedical Engineering: Recent Developments, Wilson, O.C., Tran, B. Q, Vossoughi, J., eds., Medical and Engineering Publishers, Inc., 2007. I OMalley, P. F., Judge, J. A., and Vignola, J. F., Three Dimensional Vibration Measurements Using a Five-Axis Scanning Laser Vibrometry System, in Proc. of ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., 2007. I Basiri, A., and Kilic, O., Interference Analysis for Cellular Satellite Systems Using a SubBeam Approach, USNC Int. Union of Radio Scientists (URSI), Boulder, Colo., 2008. I Kilic, O., Comparison of Nature-Based Optimization Methods for Multi-beam Satellite Antennas, in Proc. ACES International Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2008. I Kilic, O., Interference Analysis for Spot Beam Partitioning in Cellular Satellite Communication Systems, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, San Diego, Calif., 2008. I Kilic, O., Millimeter Wave Dielectric Measurement of Sand for Sand Cloud Attenuation Estimations, USNC Int. Union of Radio Scientists (URSI) 2008, Boulder, Colo., 2008. I Kilic, O., Modeling Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Sea Spray, ACES Journal Special Issue (submitted 2008). I Kilic, O., and Zaghloul, A. I., Antenna Size Reduction Using Sub-Beam Concept in Cellular Satellite Systems, IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronics Sys. (submitted 2008). I Weiss, S., Coburn, K., and Kilic, O., FEKO Simulation of a Wedge Mounted Four Element Array Antenna, ACES Journal Special Issue, 2007. I Abelev, A. V., Gutta, S. K., Lade, P. V., and Yamamuro, J. A., Modeling Cross-Anisotropy in Granular Materials, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 8, pp. 919932, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Experimental Study and Analysis of Creep and Stress Relaxation in Granular Materials, Geo-Denver, Denver, Colo., 2007. I Lade, P. V., Factors Affecting Three-Dimensional Failure in Soils, GeoEngineering Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Factors Affecting ThreeDimensional Failure in Soils, Tenth International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, NUMOG X, Rhodes, Greece, 2007.

Anisotropic Frictional Materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 44, No. 16, pp. 51465162, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Overview of Constitutive Models for Soils, Department of Civil Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Overview of Constitutive Models for Soils, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Overview of Constitutive Models for Soils, College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, 2007. I Lade, P. V., Failure Criterion for CrossAnisotropic Soils, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 117124, 2008. I Lade, P. V., Nam, J., and Hong, W. P., Shear Banding and Cross-Anisotropic Behavior Observed in laboratory Sand Tests with Stress Rotation, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 7484, 2008. I Anton, G. A., Lucko, G., and Duzkale, A. K., Optimizing the graphical arrangement of network construction schedules, in Proc. 2007 Construction Research Congress, Freeport, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, 2007, p. 10. I Lucko, G., Computational analysis of linear and repetitive construction project schedules with singularity functions, in Proc. 2007 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2007, pp. 917. I Lucko, G., Tsopelas, P., Garland, T. J., Gonzlez Rugelli, R., Lee, T. M., and Molineaux, J. P., Disaster-mitigating design and practice: A student-centered program developing sustainable and earthquake-resistant designs for residential structures in developing regions, in Proc. 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007, p. 13. I Lucko, G., Flexible modeling of linear schedules for integrated mathematical analysis, in Proc. 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 21592167. I Lucko, G., Mathematical analysis of linear schedules, in Proc. 2007 Construction Research Congress, Freeport, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, 2007, p.10. I Lucko, G., Madden, M. G., and Molineaux, J. P., Spatially recursive spreadsheet computations: Teaching the critical path method of scheduling using two-dimensional function ranges versus traditional one-dimensional programming, in Proc. 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007, p. 13. I Lucko, G., Hildreth, J. C., and Vorster, M. C., Statistical considerations and graphical presentation of the residual value of heavy construction equipment, in Proc. 2007 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2007, pp. 1825.
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I Lucko, G.,Gonzalez, E. C., Sherwin, J. C., Collins, I Mathews, S. A., Rapid Prototyping of an

E. L., Gilmore, B. M., Pisani, D. A., Heisman, E. A., Smith, A. T., and Murray, T. M., Engineers Without Borders Santa Clara, El Salvador, assessment trip, School of Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 2008. I Lucko, G., Productivity Scheduling Method Compared to Linear and Repetitive Project Scheduling Methods, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (in press). I Shapira, A., Lucko, G., and Schexnayder, C. J., Cranes for Building Construction Projects, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 50th Anniversary Special Issue (invited paper; peer-reviewed), Vol.133, Issue 9, pp. 690700, Sept. 2007. I Dromerick, A. W., Schabowsky, C. N., Holley, R. J., Monroe, B., Markotic, A., and Lum, P. S., Effect of training on upper extremity prosthetic limb performance and motor learning: An n=1 study, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (in press). I Lum, P. S., Improvements in upper extremity function with mass-practice therapy, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 2007. I Schabowsky, C. N., Hidler, J. M., and Lum, P. S., Greater reliance on impedance control in the nondominant arm compared with the dominant arm when adapting to a noveldynamic environment, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 182, Issue 4, pp. 567577, Oct. 2007. I Schabowsky, C. N., Dromerick, A. W., Holley, R. J., Monroe, B., and Lum, P. S., Transradial upper extremity amputees are capable of adapting to a novel dynamic environment, Experimental Brain Research (in press). I Auyeung, Raymond C. Y., Heungsoo, K., Mathews, S. A., and Piqu, A., Laser DirectWrite of Metallic Nanoparticle Inks, Journal of Laser Micro/Nanoengineering, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 2125, 2007. I Barnard, R., Gray, B., Pauca, V., Torgersen, T., Mirotznik, M. S., Van der Gracht, J., Plemmons, R., Behrmann, G., Mathews, S. A., and Prasad, S., PERIODIC: State-of-the-Art Array Imaging Technology, in Proc. 2007 ACM Southeast Conference, March 2007, pp. 544 546. I Mathews, S. A., Mirotznik, M. S., Good, B. L., and Piqu, A., Rapid prototyping of frequency selective surfaces by laser direct-write, in Proc. SPIE, (invited), San Jose, Calif., Jan. 2007, Vol. 6458, pp. 64580R-164580R-14. I Mathews, S. A., Microscale Fabrication Techniques of EHD Pumps, Interagency Advanced Power Group, Fort Belvoir, Md., April 2007. I Mathews, S. A., Judge, J., and Ortega, C., A Myoelectric Interface for Video Games, in Proc. Twenty-Third Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Recent Developments, ISBN 1930636-06-7, April 2007.
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Electro-Hydro-Dynamic MicroPump using Laser MicroFabrication, Swales Aerospace Corp., Beltsville Md., June 2007. I Mathews, S. A., Chaipar, N. A., Metkus, K., and Piqu, A., Manufacturing Microelectronics Using Lase-and-Place, Photonics Spectra, Vol. 41, No. 10, pp. 7074, October 2007. I Mathews, S. A., Auyeung, R. C. Y., and Piqu, A., Use of Laser Direct-Write in Micro-electronics Assembly, Journal of Laser Micro/ Nanoengineering, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 103107, 2007. I Piqu, A., Charipar, N. A., Auyeng, R. C. Y., Kim, H., and Mathews, S. A., Assembly and Integration of Thin Bare Die Using Laser Direct-Write, in Proc. SPIE, (invited), San Jose, Calif., Jan. 2007, Vol. 6458, pp. 645802-1645802-10. I Ramella-Roman, J. C., and Mathews, S. A., Spectroscopic measurements of oxygen saturation in the retina, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol.13, No. 6, pp. 16971703, Nov.Dec. 2007. I Mavroeidis, G. P., Friction problems in earthquake source mechanics, NSF Workshop on Friction: A Grand Challenge at the Interface of Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Montreux, Switzerland, March 1316, 2008. I Mavroeidis, G. P., and Papageorgiou, A. S., Effect of fault rupture characteristics on near-fault strong ground motions, in Proc. Fourteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, Oct. 1217, 2008. I Mavroeidis, G. P., Zhang, B., Dong, G., Papageorgiou, A. S., Dutta, U. and Biswas, N. N., The Great 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska, earthquake (Mw=9.2): Estimation of strong ground motion, in Proc. Fourteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, Oct. 1217, 2008. I Curt, P. F., Durbano, J. P., Bodnar, M. R., Shi, S., and Mirotznik, M. S., Enhanced Functionality for Hardware-Based FDTD Accelerators, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 3946, March 2007. I Biswas, I., Prather, D. W., Schuetz, C. A, Martin, R. D., and Mirotznik, M. S., Sparse aperture detection and imaging of millimeter sources via optical image-plane interferometry, in Proc. SPIE, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies and Their Applications, (invited), Florence Italy, Sept. 2007. I Mait, J. N., Wikner, D. A, Mirotznik, M. S., Behrmann, G. P., and Van der Gracht, J., Extended Depth-of-Field Imaging at 94 GHz, in Proc. OSA Technical Digest, Conference on Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI), Vancouver Canada, 2007. I Martin, R., Schuetz, C., Chen, C., Biswas, I., Samluk, J., Stein Jr., E., Mirotznik, M. S., and Prather, D. W., Two-dimensional Snapshot Distributed Aperture Millimeter-Wave Imaging

using Optical Upconversion, in Proc. SPIE, Defense and Security, Orlando Fla., Feb. 2008. I Mirotznik, M. S., Kilic, O., Mathews, S. A., and Good, B., Design of Moth-eye Antireflective Surfaces at Microwave and Millimeter Wavelengths, in Proc. North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI), Ottawa Canada, July 2007. I Mirotznik, M. S., Mathews, S. A., and Creazzo, T., Design of Diffractive Elements at Millimeter Wavelengths using Subwavelength Cylindrical Microstructures, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 18801884, Aug. 2007. I Mirotznik, M. S., Van der Gracht, J., Pustai, D., and Mathews, S. A., Design of cubicphase optical elements using sub wavelength microstructures, Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 12501259, Jan. 2008. I Mirotznik, M. S., Mathews, S. A., Good, B., Schuetz, C., Wikner, D., and Mait, J. N., Iterative Design of Moth-Eye AR Surfaces at Millimeter Wave Frequencies, IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, Jan. 2008. I Smith, J. R., and Mirotznik, M. S., Estimation of Wave Spectra via Remote RF Forward Scattering Measurements, North American Radio Science Meeting (URSI), Ottawa Canada, July 2007. I Prather, D. W., Biswas, I., Schuetz, C. A., Martin, R. D., and Mirotznik, M. S., Multiple Aperture Imaging of Millimeter Sources via Image-Plane Interferometry, in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona Spain, July 2007. I Schuetz, C. A., Martin, R. D., Biswas, I., Mirotznik, M. S., and Prather, D. W., Technologies for Distributed Aperture Millimeter-Wave Radiometric Imaging using Optical Up-conversion, in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Barcelona Spain, July 2007. I Namazi, Nader M., Demodulation of FM Data in Free-Space Optical Communication Systems using Discrete Wavelet Transformation, Optical Society of America, SPIE, San Diego, Calif., July 2007. I Namazi, Nader M., and Burris, R.,Analytical Approach to the Calculation of Probability of Bit Error and Optimum Thresholds in FreeSpace Optical Communication, Optical Engineering, Vol. 0, No. 46, Feb 2007. I Coombe, H. S., and Nieh, S., Analysis of a Well-Stirred Burner Employing OxygenEnriched Combustion for Thermophotovoltaic and Thermionic Energy Conversion, Combustion Theory and Modeling, (under consideration), pp. 124, 2007. I Coombe, H. S., and Nieh, S., Polymer Membrane Air Separation Performance for Portable Oxygen-Enriched Combustion Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 14991505, 2007.

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Performance of an Experimental 3 kWth Autothermal Reformer Test Bed for Heavy Hydrocarbon Fuels, in Proc. 43rd Power Sources Conference at Philadelphia, Dec. 2007. I Nieh, S., Heaven Condemn Chinese Communist Party and God Bless Taiwan, Epoch Times, http://epochtimes.com/ b5/7/5/18/n1714116.htm (in Chinese); article on invited guest speech of S. Nieh at the Annual Meeting of Global Alliance for Democracy and Peace, Baltimore-D.C. Chapter (Gaithersburg, Md.) on May 12, 2007. I Zhang, J., He, J. B., Zhou, L. X., and Nieh, S., Simulation of Swirling Turbulent Heat Transfer in a Vortex Heat Exchanger, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 48, pp. 607625, 2005 (notified 2007). I Ling, S. C., and Pao, H. P., On the mechanics of an electron, Chung Yuan Christian University, Fu Jen Catholic University, and National Taiwan University, in Taiwan, May 2007. I Ling, S.C., and Pao, H. P., On the mechanics of an electron, in Proc. 9th Asian Symposium on Visualization, Hong Kong, June 2007. I Pao, H. P., Nonlinear internal waves, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, May 2007. I Pao, H. P., Lee, M. P., and Ling, S. C., Intense nonlinear internal waves: numerical modeling, in Proc. 9th Asian Symposium on Visualization, Hong Kong, June 2007. I Boulbry, B., Ramella-Roman, J. C., and Germer, T. A., Self-consistent calibration of a spectroellipsometer using a Fresnel rhomb as a reference sample, Applied Optics, Vol. 46, pp. 85338541, 2007. I Gupta, N., and Ramella-Roman, J. C., Detection of blood oxygen level by noninvasive passive spectral imaging of skin, in Proc. SPIE Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics IV, Kollias, Nikiforos, Choi, Bernard, Zeng, Haishan, Malek, Reza S.,Wong, Brian J., Ilgner, Justus F. R., Kenton, Gregory W., Tearney, Guillermo J., Hirschberg, Henry, and Madsen, Steen J., eds., 68420C, 2008. I Kandimalla, H., and Ramella-Roman, J. C., Polarized fluorescence for skin cancer diagnostic with a multi-aperture camera, in Proc. SPIE Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics IV, Kollias, Nikiforos, Choi, Bernard, Zeng, Haishan, Malek, Reza S., Wong, Brian J., Ilgner, Justus F. R., Kenton, Gregory W., Tearney, Guillermo J., Hirschberg, Henry, Madsen, Steen J., eds., 68420J, 2008. I Nabili, A., Bardakci, D., Helling, K., Matyas, C., Muro, S., and Ramella-Roman, J.C., Calibration of a retinal oximeter with a dynamic eye phantom, in Proc. SPIE Design and Performance Validation of Phantoms Used in Conjunction with Optical Measurements of Tissue, Robert J. Nordstrom, ed., 68700N, 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., A lensletbased device for measuring oxygen saturation

in the retina and other biomedical applications, The Catholic University of America, Biology Department, 2007. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Spectroscopic measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina, Food and Drug Administration, Modern Topics in Biomedical Optics, 2007. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Introduction to Biomedical Optics, Johns Hopkins University, APL, 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C. , A. Nabili, D. Bardakci, K. Helling, C. Matyas, and S. Muro, Calibration of a retinal oximeter with a dynamic eye phantom, SPIE-BIOS, San Jose, Calif., 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., and Hidler, J. M., A fiber optic probe for measurement of an autonomic dysreflexia event on SCI patients, SPIE-BIOS, San Jose, Calif., 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., and Kandimalla, H., Polarized fluorescence for skin cancer diagnostic with a multi-aperture camera, SPIE-BIOS, San Jose, Calif., 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Hidler, J. M., and Nabili, A., Measurement of an autonomic dysreflexia event on SCI patients, Oregon Health and Science University, 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., and Hidler, J. M., A fiber optic probe for measurement of an autonomic dysreflexia event on SCI patients, in Proc. SPIE Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII, Israel Gannot, ed., 685202, 2008. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Mathews, S. A., Kandimalla, H., Nabili, A., Duncan, D. D., DAnna, S. A., Shah, S. M., Nguyen, Q. Q., Measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina with a spectroscopic sensitive multi aperture camera, Optics Express (in press). I Ramella-Roman Jessica C., and Mathews, S. A., Spectroscopic Measurements of Oxygen Saturation in the Retina, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol.13, pp. 16971703, 2007. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Monte Carlo models of polarized light into scattering media, NATO ASI on Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging, Springler, in Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging, Nato Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophotonics, 2007. I Ramella-Roman, Jessica C., Polarized light scattering in skin, hemispherical scattering, NATO ASI on Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging, Springler, in Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophotonics, 2007. I Regalia, P. A., Gradient Decoding revisited, Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, Calif., Nov. 2007, pp. 19181922. I Regalia, P. A., Cryptographic measures in

information hiding, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2008. I Regalia, P. A., Cryptographic measures in information hiding, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2008. I Regalia, P. A., Turbo Equalization in Adaptive Signal Processing: Next Generation Solutions, Wiley, N.Y., 2008. I Regalia, P. A., and Walsh, J. M.,Optimality and Duality of the Turbo Decoder, in Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 95, pp. 13621377, June 2007. I Regalia, P. A., and Walsh, J. M., Belief propagation distributed estimation in sensor networks: An optimized energy-accuracy tradeoff, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2008. I Walsh, J. M., and Regalia, P. A., Expectation propagation for distributed estimation in sensor networks, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Helsinki, Finland, June 2007, pp. 15. I Sun, L., A new method for highway and airport pavement condition assessment, The 2nd International Conference on Smart Structure and Health Monitoring, Chongqing & Nanjing, May, 2007 (Paper ID 143). I Sun, L., Travel time estimation using PQT, The 3rd National Conference on Intelligent Transportation System, Nanjing, China, Dec. 2007. I Sun, L., and Luo, F., Transient wave propagation in multilayered viscoelastic media theory, numerical computation and validation, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 75, No.3, 2008. I Sun, L.,Yang, J., and Mahmassani, H., Travel time estimation based on piecewise truncated quadratic speed trajectory, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 42, pp.173186, 2008. I Sun, L., and Gu, W., Steady state response of multilayered viscoelastic media under a moving dynamic distributed load, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME (in press). I Sun, L., and Luo, F., Steady-state dynamic response of a Bernoulli-Euler beam on a viscoelastic foundation subject to a platoon of moving dynamic loads, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME (in press). I Bertera, E. M., Tran, B. Q., Wuertz, E. M., and Bonner, A., A study of the receptivity to telecare technology in a community-based elderly minority population, J. Telemed & Telecare, Vol. 13, pp. 327332, 2007. I Nabili, A., Dinga, R., and Tran, B. Q., Patient Imaging Transfer System (PITS): Novel device for patient transport and transfer in imaging facilities, in Biomedical Engineering: Recent Developments, Tran, B. Q., Wilson, O. C.,
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Vossoughi, J., eds., Medical & Engineering Publishers, 2007. I Tran, B. Q.,Wilson Jr., O. C., and Vossoughi, J., Biomedical Engineering: Recent Developments, Medical & Engineering Publishers, Inc., Sunshine, Md., 2007. I Tran, B. Q., Buckley, K. M., Wuertz, E., and Bertera, E., Clinical eStorefront: Updates and Lessons Learned, American Society on Aging, Washington, D.C., 2008. I Bishop, S.S.,Vignola, J. F., Judge, J. A., Tsopelas, P., and Kurdila, A. J., Direct mechanical landmine excitation with scanning laser Doppler vibrometer surface measurements SPIE, Vol. 6553, Orlando Fla., May 7, 2007. I Bishop, S. S., Judge, J. A., Vignola, J. F., Smith, C., Chen, T. H., and Tsopelas, P., Dynamic analysis of mass loaded highway guardrails, DTIC Report, AD Number: ADB332946, Unclassified Source Code: 076450 (2007). I Chen, L., and Tsopelas, P., Seismic Performance of Shear Walls Utilizing Cellular Material, World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Chongqing & Nanjing, China, May 2227, 2007. I Gdela, K., Pietruszczak, S., Lade, P. V., and Tsopelas, P., Experimental verification of a macroscopic fracture criterion for human cortical bone, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME (in press). I Roussis, P., Tsopelas, P., and Constantinou, M. C., Dynamic analysis of base-isolated structures under conditions of bearing uplift, 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibrations Control of Structures, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2831, 2007. I Ucak, A., and Tsopelas, P., Response of Seismic Isolated Bridges Including Soil Structure Interaction Effects, 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2528, 2007. I Ucak, A., Pekcan, G., Xu, D., and Tsopelas, P., Demand Uncertainties on a Seismically Isolated Multi-span Bridge due to SoilFoundation-Structure Interaction, 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2831, 2007. I Ucak, A., and Tsopelas, P., Response of Seismic Isolated Bridges Including Soil Structure Interaction Effects, 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2528, 2007. I Ucak, A., Pekcan, G., Xu, D., and Tsopelas, P., Demand Uncertainties on a Seismically Isolated Multi-span Bridge due to SoilFoundation-Structure Interaction, 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2831, 2007.
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I Wang, Z., Du, H., and S. Park, Three-dimen-

Structure Interaction in Seismic Isolated Bridges, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE (in press). I Ucak, A., and Tsopelas, P., Stability and Ductility of Thin-Walled Circular Steel Columns under Cyclic Bidirectional Loading, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, p. 865, 2008. I Bishop, S. S.,Vignola, J. F., Judge, J. A., Tsopelas, P., and Kurdila, A. J., Direct mechanical landmine excitation with scanning laser Doppler vibrometer surface measurements SPIE, Vol. 6553, Orlando Fla., May 7, 2007. I Diggs, E.C., Bilgen, O., Kurdila, A. J., Kochersburger, K., Inman, D., and Vignola, J. F., Structural characteristics via SLDV for a class of morphing micro-air-vehicles, in Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6561, 65611F, May 2, 2007. I Judge, J. A., Photiadis, D. M.,Vignola, J. F., Houston, B. H., and Jarzinski, J., Attachment Loss of MEMS Resonators in the Limits of Thick and Thin Support Structures, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.101, 013521, May 2007. I Judge, J. A., Vignola, J. F., and Jarzynski, J., Dissipation from microscale and nanoscale beam resonators into a surrounding fluid, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, March 2008. I OMalley, P. A., Judge, J. A., and Vignola, J. F.,Three Dimensional Vibration Measurement Using a Five-Axis Scanning Laser Vibrometry System, ASME, Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 47, 2007. I Prazenica, R. J., Kurdila, A. J., and Vignola, J. F., Spatial filtering and proper orthogonal Decomposition of scanning laser Doppler vibrometry data for the nondestructive evaluation of frescos, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 304, pp. 735751, July 24, 2007. I Romano, A. J., Bucaro, J. A., Abraham, P. B., and Vignola, J. F., An Application of a Local Inversion Algorithm for Fault Detection Utilizing LDV Measurements, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 121, pp. 26672672, May 2007. I Du, H.,Wang, Z., and Xie, H., Measurement of full-field large deformations at microscale, in Proc. of the SEM Annual Congress and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Springfield, Mass., 2007. I Du, H., and Wang, Z.,Fast 3-D shape measurement with high accuracy and low cost, in Proc. of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), Baltimore, 2007. I Du, H., and Wang, Z., Three-dimensional shape measurement with an arbitrarily arranged fringe projection profilometry system, Optics Letters, Vol. 32, pp. 24382440, 2007.

sional, real-time, and high-accuracy inline monitoring system for roll to roll manufacturing, in Proc. of the 7th Annual USDC Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference and Exhibition, Phoenix, Ariz., 2008. I Yoon, S., Han, B., and Wang, Z., On moisture diffusion modeling using thermal-moisture analogy, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 129, pp. 421426, 2007. I Gyer, L. S., Kulkarni, P., Bruck, H.,Gupta, S. K., and Wilson Jr., O. C., Replamineform Inspired Bone Structures (RIBS) Using Multipiece Molds and Advanced Ceramic Gelcasting Technology, Mater Sci Eng C, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 646653, 2007. I Hayman, I., Mehl, P., Kapoor, V., and Wilson Jr., O. C., Toxicity of BSA-stabilized Silver Nanoparticles on Immune Circulating Cells, Materials Research Society (MRS) Society Meeting, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2007. I Patrick-Boardley, N., Ayres, E., Wilson Jr., O. C., Mehl, P., Anderson, W. A., and Harris, G., Surface Manipulation of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Controlled Communication/ Interaction with Human Cells, Materials Research Society Society Meeting, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2007. I Wilson Jr., O. C., Nanoscale Hetero-coagulation and Adsorption Phenomena: Magnetic Bone Mineral, ASEE Conference, Oahu, Hawaii, June 2007. I Wilson Jr., O. C., Bone Inspiration in Research and Education, South Dakota School of Mines, June 5, 2007. I Wilson Jr., O. C., and Agrawal, A., Inorganic Liquid Crystals for Biomedical Imaging, Materials Science and Technology (MS&T 2008) Conference, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2007. I Wilson Jr., O. C., Novel Chitosan Scaffolds for Orthopedic and Cardiac Tissue Engineering, NASA, Greenbelt, Md., for the National Society for Black Engineers, Oct. 18, 2007. I Wilson Jr., O. C., Mehl, P., Guggsa, A., PatrickBoardley, N., Harris, G., and Anderson, W. A., Cancer Therapies Based on Surface Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles, Howard University for BioNano Conference, Nov. 2007. I Wilson Jr., O.C., Bone Inspired Nanocomposites, 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 27Feb. 1, 2008. I Wang, Y., Lee, J. J., Lloyd, I. K., Wilson Jr., O. C., Rosenberg, M., and Thompson, M. P., High Modulus Nanopowder Reinforced Dimethacrylate Matrix Composites for Dental Cement Applications, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, Vol. 82A, Issue 3, pp. 651657, 2007. I Burgess, S. A., Yuan, B., Bouchard, M. B., Ratner, D., and Hillman, M., Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Laminar Optical

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Tomography Imaging of Dermal Lesions, Optical Society of America (Biomedical Optical), St. Petersburg, Fla. March 1619, 2008. I Xu, C.,Yuan, B., and Q. Zhu, An optimal probe design for breast imaging using near infrared diffused light, Journal of Biomedical Optics (in press). I Yuan, B., and Hillman, E., Feasibility of 3-D Frequency-Domain Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging based on Laminar Optical Tomography, Optical Society of America (Biomedical Optical), St. Petersburg, Fla., March 1619, 2008. I Yuan, B., Gamelin, J., and Zhu, Q., Mechanisms of the ultrasonic modulation of fluorescence in turbid media, Optical Society of America (Biomedical Optical), St. Petersburg, Fla., March 1619, 2008. I Yuan, B., Gamelin, J., and Zhu, Q., On mechanisms of the ultrasonic modulation of fluorescence in turbid media, Journal of Applied Physics (submitted). technical committee at the Construction Research Congress, Freeport, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, 2007. Assistant specialty editor of the project planning and design specialty area of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2007; member of the 2006 best paper awards committee of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2007; acting specialty editor of the project planning and design specialty area of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2007. I Lum, P. S., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, NIH study section, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Function, Integration and Rehabilitation Sciences Program, Washington D.C., 2007; U.S. Department of Education, NIDRR Switzer Research Fellowship review panel, Washington D.C., 2007. Review committee of the American Society of Biomechanics 2007 Annual Conference, Stanford Calif., 2007. Review committee of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena Calif., 2008. Review committee of the Biomedical aids to the disabled, BioCAS2007 conference, Montreal Canada, 2007. I Mavroeidis, G. P., Ph.D., civil engineering, reviewer for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Journal of Earthquake Technology, ISET, and Scientia Iranica. I Nguyen, C. C., D.Sc., dean, visited Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, in Lisbon, Portugal on Sept. 5, 2008, and signed a memorandum of Understanding for collaboration in research and education with its engineering school; Hong Kong in Feb. 2008 to meet with the key managers of the Office of International Programs of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to discuss the existing student exchange program between CUA and PolyU and visit the five CUA engineering students there; visited the faculty of engineering of Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 2008, signed an MOU to explore collaboration in research and education. Visited the faculty of engineering of Burapha University, Bangsaen, and Chonburi, Thailand in Feb. 2008 and signed an MOU with this university for research and education collaboration. Visited the International University of Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City in Feb. 2008 and signed an agreement for 2+2 programs. Visited the Saigon Technology University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2008 and signed an MOU to explore research and education collaboration between CUA and STU. Visited with the officials of the University of Danang, Danang, Vietnam, in March 2008 and discussed about potential collaboration between this university and CUA. I Nieh, S., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, organized (with ASME Student Chapter of CUA) a field trip (open to all students/faculty) to the Chalk Point Power Plant Generating Station in Nov. 2007. Directed doctoral student H. Scott Coombe, M.M.E. 2007; dissertation Oxygen-Enriched Combustion of Hydrocarbon Fuels. Invited to speak at U.S. congressional seminar Democracy and Human Rights in Asia, May 2008 on Intensified Persecution of Falun Gong Practice in the Name of 2008 Beijing Olympics. I Pao, H. P., Ph.D., civil engineering, session chairman at the 9th Asian Symposium on Visualization, Hong Kong. Under the sponsorship of the Center for Environment and Energy, chairman for 2007 International Workshop on Curbing the Global Warming by Carbon Sequestration, held at CUA on Oct. 29-30, 2007. Reviewer for the special volume Innovations 2008 World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research, published by iNEER. Visited National Taiwan University, Chung Yuan Christian University, St. Johns University, Fu Jen Catholic University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, May 2007. In Sept. 2007, visited Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Universidade Coimbra and Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Portugal with Dean Nguyen. In February 2008, visited Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Kasetart University and Burapha University in Thailand with Dean Nguyen. I Regalia, P. A., Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, editor-in-chief of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, (term completed, Dec. 2007). Associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, (term completed, Dec. 2007). Editor-in-chief of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, since Jan. 2008. Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, since Jan. 2008. Editorial Board of Signal Processing (Elsevier). I Sun, L., Ph.D., civil engineering, reviewer for Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Vibration and Control, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Proceedings of Royal Society: Series A, Journal of Transportation Research Board, and International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. Member of two proposal review panels for National Science Foundation. I Tran, Binh Q., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, Department of Educations National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Researchs Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center grant review panel 2007. Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Reviewer for RESNAs assistive technology journal. I Tsopelas, P., Ph.D., civil engineering, associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Reviewer for Journal of
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computer science, served as the associate editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007. I Kilic, O., Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, elected to serve as an Ad COM member for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 20072010; as the International Union of Radio Scientists (URSI) Commission a Chair for the U.S. 20082011 (has served as vice chair 20052008). Chair of the IEEE Constitution and Bylaws Committee for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Feb. 2008; member of the technical program committee for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society since 2003. Special session organizer and session chair for the following professional organizations: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society and International Union of Radio Scientists. I Lade, P. V., Ph.D., civil engineering, and Yamamuro, J.A. Soil Constitutive Modeling for Engineers: Fundamentals, Evaluations and Calibration, two-day short course presented for ASCE in San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 2526, 2007; at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in Newark, N.J., Feb. 56, 2007; in Newark, N.J., Feb. 89, 2007; and in Atlanta, Ga., July 2627, 2007. I Lucko, G., Ph.D., civil engineering, track coordinator of the construction engineering and project management track at the Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., 2007. Track chair of the operations, productivity & workforce issues and the project risks and safety tracks and as a member of the

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Structural Engineering (ASCE), Earthquake Spectra (EERI), Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Scientia Iranica, and Engineering Structure, 2004present. I Vignola, J. F., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, appointed to the scientific committee of the, Eight International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques: Advances and Applications, Ancona, Italy, June 2008. Secretary for the mechanical engineering faculty meetings. Chair of the School of Engineering committee on failing grades. I Wang, Z., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, reappointed secretary of the Electronic Packaging Committee of SEM, June 2007. Reviewer for Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Optics Letters, Experimental Mechanics, and Optics and Laser Technology, 2007. I Yuan, B., Ph.D., biomedical engineering, reviewer for academic journals such as Applied Optics, Optics Express, 20072008. Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program, Virginia Tech, 2007 (postponed). I Lum, P. S., California American Physical Therapy Association Research Publication Award, 2007. I Nguyen, C. C., Honorary Professorship, Saigon Technology University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, March 2008. I Nguyen, C. C., Leadership Award for visionary leadership in international collaboration from INEER, International Network of Engineering Education and Research, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2007. I Nieh, S., Charles H. Kaman Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Engineering, Catholic University of America, 2007. I Regalia, P. A., Charles H. Kaman Award for Excellence in Research, Catholic University, May 2007. I Sun, L., University Provost Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, Catholic University of America, 2007. I Andrew R. Kalna, 2010, civil engineering, Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, 2007 I Michael J. Kuklinski, 2010, civil engineering, Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, 2007; Construction Management Association of America National Capital Chapter Scholarship, 2007 I Bryan A. Logsdon, 2008, civil engineering, Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, 2007 I Kelly A. McDonald, 2009, civil engineering, Construction Financial Management Association Scholarship (through Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter), 2007; Dennis F. McCahill Award for Service in Civil Engineering, 2008 I Hassan Taheri Nejad, graduate student in civil engineering, Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, 2007, M.S.E. I Paul de Vuyst, graduate student in civil engineering, Construction Management Association of America National Capital Chapter, Scholarship, Civil Engineering, 2007 I Alexander N. Walendziak, 2008, Timothy W. Kao Award for Academic Excellence in Civil Engineering, 2008

Awards and Honors

I Ahmed, F., Certified Information Systems

Student Awards
I Nicholas J. Backert, 2009, Construction

Security Professional (CISSP), issued by International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Jan. 2008. I Moskowitz, Ira, and Ahmed, F., Edison Patent Award, Naval Research Laboratory 2007. I Judge, J., Provosts Award for Excellence in Teaching, Catholic University, May 2007. I Judge, J., Burns Junior Faculty Fellowship, Catholic University School of Engineering, May 2007. I Zaghloul, A. I., and Kilic, O., PATENT: Wideband modular MEMS phased array, US Patent #7,262,744 issued August 2007. I Lucko, G., Corporate Cornerstone Award (for ACE Mentor Team), Bell Multicultural High School, Washington, D.C., 2007. I Lucko, G., Finalist for Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching, Catholic University of America, 2007. I Lucko, G., Outstanding Young Alumni Award,

Management Association of America National Capital Chapter Scholarship, ($1,500) I Alexander W. Bautz, 2010, 20072009 Senators Club Alumni Scholarship ($3,500 per semester for four semesters) I Matthew T. Brady, 2011, civil engineering, Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, 2007; Construction Management Association of America National Capital Chapter Scholarship, 2007; Construction Management Association of America National Capital Chapter Scholarship, ($2,000); Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, ($1,500) I Erica C. Gonzalez, 2010, civil engineering, Construction Management Association of America National Capital Chapter, Scholarship, 2007

2008 COMMENCEMENT

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Two Engineering Doctoral Candidates Attend Course in Italy

Last October, CUA doctoral candidates Patrick OMalley and Teresa Woods participated in something fairly routine for graduate students: a seminar on their area of interest, in this case, laser vibrometry. The location of their two-day classroom was less routine: Ancona, Italy. The pair, who are both working toward their doctorates in mechanical engineering, attended two daylong courses Patrick OMalley and Teresa Woods. at the Polytecnic University of Marche in Ancona, thanks to a grant provided by the European Commission. The seminar that caught their attention was on vibration measurements, a subject both students studied in Advanced Topics in Acoustic Vibrations, a graduate class under the direction of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Joe Vignola. Vignola and his colleague, Assistant Professor John Judge, have been working on detecting structural abnormalities based on vibrations that are detected by a laser. Vignola has worked with colleagues at the Italian university for several years, using this process to detect unseen damage to frescoes. He suggested that Woods and OMalley apply to the program. The CUA faculty and their doctoral students are also exploring the use of this technology to detect land mines and improvised explosive devices buried underground. OMalley, who graduated from CUA in 2006 and received his masters degree in mechanical engineering from the university in 2007, has been working with Judge and Vignola for the past year to build a research apparatus to take 3dimensional vibration measurements in the School of Engineerings Pangborn Hall. He was co-author of a paper about their work for the International Design Engineering Technical Conference and presented it in Las Vegas in September. These courses were extremely helpful for us in continuing to improve our facility, OMalley says, and gave me a deeper understanding of the various vibration measurement techniques that exist. Woods is already planning to return to Ancona in the summer of 2009, when the Italian university will host a major conference on the subject. She and OMalley hope to have a paper accepted based on research theyll do in the coming academic year. Ancona is located on the Adriatic Sea, a few hours drive from Venice, Florence and Rome. OMalley, a Buffalo native who took Italian from kindergarten through eighth grade, took the opportunity to do some translating. The trip gave me a good excuse to brush up on my Italian, which is, unfortunately, something I have neglected for the last few years! OMalley says.

Society of Women Engineers Keep Things Going

Md. President Caitlin Matyas, Vice President Deniz Bardakci and Treasurer Kyrie Jig organized the casino-themed event with the help of the other executive board members and general members. More than 150 students, faculty and staff attended, enjoying a delicious five-course meal that was followed by music and dancing. This annual event was again a success and will surely be continued for years to come. Fund Raising and Networking Two other new events were organized by SWE during the 20072008 school year. Executive member Samantha Muro organized a fundraiser selling mugs, which went very well and allowed the organization to decrease costs to attendees at their events. The second event was SWE Day, organized by Caitlin Matyas. This was a networking event for SWE collegiate members in the D.C. area. Students from the University of Maryland, George Mason University and Howard University were in attendance, along with many CUA SWE members. Held Saturday, April 12, in Pangborn Hall, the day featured speaker April Jones, a member of the Professional Womens Speaker Bureau who presented a talk on women in leadership roles, and a lunch. After lunch, the students got to know each other more while playing games and designing and printing their own business cards. The event was deemed successful by the attendees. The 20072008 SWE executive board is very proud to have started this event, which we hope will become a lasting tradition at CUA.

Thanks to the dedication and hard work of its executive board, which led to greatly increased numbers of members, the CUA Student Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) accomplished many things this school year. National Engineering Week SWE organized the events involved with the National Engineering Week with student chapters of ASCE, ASME, BMES, EWB and IEEE each hosting an event throughout the week. The week concluded with the 6th Annual Engineering Ball, which was held at Maggianos Little Italy in Friendship Heights,

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School of Engineering
Charles C. Nguyen, Dean 202-319-5160 Jeffrey Giangiuli, Director Engineering Managment Program 202-319-5191 Binh Q. Tran, Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering 202-319-5181 Poul Lade, Chair Department of Civil Engineering 202-319-5163 Philip Regalia, Chair Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 202-319-5193 Sen Nieh, Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering 202-319-5170

Congratulations to the Class of 2008!

Master of Biomedical Engineering
Abdulaziz Ahmad Alsomali Hakan Emre Bardacki John Ivanoff Haripriya Kandimalla Michelle Anne Mattera Caitlin Matyas Roberto Silva Kota Takahashi Issam Hourani Edwin T. Okonkwo Anupont Thaicharoenporn Samantha Ameila Muro Cristina Emerita Ortega Gregory Leverette Powell

Master of Science in Engineering Engineering Management

Abdulrahman Rashed Al Sabt Amr Esam Al Thagafi Andrew F. Dohse Thomas Charles Dooley Jr. Tyler W. Forrest Jerry R. Gray Bradley D. Harrison Robert Wendell Maddan Lukas C. McMichael Jeffrey S. Mitchell George James Morgan IV Eric Garrett Nelson Elizabeth Ann Newdeck Alexander R. Razzook Anupont Thaicharoenporn Abdullah Misyar Ibin Tuwalah Robert Fredrick Zuppert Jr.

Bachelor of Civil Engineering

John Daniel Blades Michael Robert Geraghty Joseph Martin Gilfoil Patrick V. Keenan Christopher S. Kronenthal Bryan A Logsdon Gregory Walter Lyons Ross J. Mackey Rachel Nicole Marz Kelly Anne McDonald Michael Vernon Michalski Robert Daniel OBrien Robert F. Soler Jose Domingo Targa Alexander Noyes Walendziak Paul T. Yantosh Daniel R. Zmijewski

Master of Civil Engineering

Dawitt G. Muluneh

Master of Electrical Engineering

Joseph A. Nguyen Andrew Nicholas Riel Michele Ruth Suite

Master of Science in Computer Science

Raid Ghrmallah Alzahrani Nizar Mohammed Bukhari Angel Castillo-Nieves Azhandeh Koorosh David E. Moore Ellsworth W. White

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering

Deniz Bardacki Joseph Edward Blanc David C. Eastwood Brendan Matthew Gilmore Kaitlyn Elizabeth Helling Ronald James Hupczey Jr. Ke Ma Caitlin M. Matyas Jason E. Merkerson Bradley James Miller Patrick Andrew Boughan Brandown Lowell Good

Master of Mechanical Engineering

Clinton John Farrell Jr.

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

William Joseph Breslin Michael C. Cullen Patrick Brendan Fry Matthew Furdyna Jessica L. Newson Richard Michael Scenna Abigail Thornton Wallis

Master of Science in Engineering

Mohammed Alhussein Khlaed Saad M. Altassan Eucario Bakale Christian Ezeji Carmen Denise Garzone

Ph.D. Dissertations and Advisers

Nathan Daniel Neckel, Dissertation: Quantification of Static and Dynamic Muscle Synergy Patterns in the Paretic Leg of Stroke Patients. Adviser: Joseph Hidler, Ph.D. Patricia Lafferty, Dissertation: Texture Measures and the Steganographic Active Warden Model. Adviser: Farid Ahmed, Ph.D. Teresa Osicka, Dissertation: Wave-let Based Pulmonary Nodules Features Characterization on Computer Tonography (CT) Scans. Adviser: Farid Ahmed, Ph.D. Hong Yu, Dissertation: A Multiple Access Protocol for Multimedia Transmission over Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode Network. Adviser: Mohammed Arozullah, Ph.D. Feiquan Luo, Dissertation: Dynamic Back Calculation of Pavement Properties Using Optimization in Nondestructive Evaluation. Adviser: Lu Sun, Ph.D. Steven Bishop, Dissertation: Investigation of Mechanical Excitation as a Means for Buried Landmine Detection. Adviser: Panos Tsopelas, Ph.D.

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