[Staff] [Faculty] Fall 2016 - College of Engineering Newsletter

Thu Dec 1 10:55:08 PST 2016

Hi Sam:

Congratulations on your group's scholarly productivity and thanks for your
informative summary of CSNE's successes.

Andy Szeto

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Sam Kassegne <kassegne at mail.sdsu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> As way of clarification, I want to emphasize that the reported NSF-ERC
> funding for 2016-2017 posted in the CoE Newsletter is an amount that is won
> collectively by the SDSU CSNE (Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering)
> PIs.
>
> CSNE is one of the 20 Engineering Research Centers funded by NSF. With UW
> as a lead, SDSU and MIT are the main partners in this ERC. Over the past 5
> years, SDSU PIs from CoE have brought in ~$2.5 million with an average
> yearly award of $475K. In 2015, the Center was awarded an additional
> extension for 5 years and we expect that SDSU PIs will bring in additional
> ~$2 million till 2020. That amounts to ~$4.5 million over 10 years. We have
> another yearly review next May that will finalize the level of funding for
> the next 4 years.
>
> Over the past 6 years, SDSU CSNE PIs have been highly productive in
> research, education, and outreach with our contribution to this national
> center recognized by leaders in the fields of BCI (Brain-Computer
> Interface), Neuroscience, Neurophysiology and miniaturized implantable
> neural interfaces. Some of the cutting-edge hardware produced at SDSU Labs
> along with advances in wireless communications, neural electrodes,
> algorithms in signal processing, etc are currently enabling fundamental
> discoveries in neuroscience that is appreciated at a national level.
> Numerous publications by our PIs in these areas that came out in the past
> several years are concrete evidences of this scholarly output.
>
> The following PIs from CoE who have been associated with CSNE for several
> years deserve credit for making the SDSU wing of CSNE a highly productive
> team.
>
> Sweta Sarkar
> Karen May-Newman
> Yusuf Ozturk
> Kee Moon
> Khalid Morsi
> Ashkan Ashrafi
> Santosh Nagaraj
> Amir Alimohammad
> Ke Huang
> Theresa Garcia
> Luis Tope
> Natasha Celise
>
> Thanks and have a great holiday season……………..
>
> ——————————————
> Sam Kassegne, PhD, PE
> Professor of Mechanical Engineering
> San Diego State University
> San Diego, CA 92182
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> On Nov 30, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Ashkan Ashrafi <ashrafi at mail.sdsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Monte,
>
> After looking at the College Newsletter, I am surprised to see that the no
> credit was given to the ECE faculty involved in the CSNE for the $501K
> grant from University of Washington (CSNE). As you may well know, the major
> load of the research at CSNE is on the shoulders of the ECE faculty but
> they have received no credit year after year. We have to write proposals,
> advise students, attend the meetings and site visits and spend time and
> energy working with our colleagues at UW.
>
> While Sam's contribution is undeniable and we all appreciate his
> leadership, I think it is only fair that the contribution of the ECE
> faculty involved in CSNE is recognized in the College Newsletter.
>
> Best regards,
> Ashkan
>
>
>
> On 11/30/16 4:13 PM, Monte Mehrabadi wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Please see the Fall 2016 Engineering Newsletter below to learn about the
> recent accomplishments of the Engineering Faculty, Staff, Students and
> Alumni.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Monte
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> Morteza Monte Mehrabadi
> Dean
> College of Engineering
> San Diego State University
> San Diego, CA  92182-1326
> Email: mehrabadi at mail.sdsu.edu
> Office:(619)594-6061
> Fax:(619)594-6005
> *http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/engineering/
> <http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/engineering/>*
>
> The College of Engineering Newsletter
> Fall 2016
>
> Message from the Dean
>
> We began the Fall 2016 semester by welcoming 773 first-time freshmen and
> 250 new transfer students to the SDSU College of Engineering! This
> represents an enrollment growth of 5.8% which brings the number of
> Engineering students in Fall 2016 to over 4,100. We also welcomed six new
> outstanding faculty, one of whom will begin his appointment in Fall 2017.
>
> The College achieved a record in research funding in FY 2016, as the total
> dollar amount of research proposals awarded to Engineering Faculty more
> than doubled (202%) from FY 15 to FY 16.
>
> The construction on the new Engineering Interdisciplinary Sciences (EIS)
> Complex is moving quickly and less than a year after groundbreaking on
> November 6, 2015, we celebrated with a Topping-Off Ceremony on October 27,
> in which the last beam of the EIS Complex was placed.
>
>
> The construction of the EIS Complex will be completed next Fall with
> expected occupancy in early 2018. A live feed of the construction can be
> viewed at: http://130.191.35.82/live.htm and for more information on the
> EIS Complex, please visit http://eis.sdsu.edu.
>
> It’s an exciting and busy time at the College and I hope you will take a
> moment to read and catch up on all of our student, faculty and community
> program accolades.
>
> Dr. Morteza Monte Mehrabadi
> Dean, College of Engineering
> ------------------------------
>
> Welcome New Faculty
> *Dr. Baris Aksanli, *Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering. *Areas of Specialization: *Energy efficient large-scale
> cyber physical systems, human behavior modeling in the Internet of Things,
> big data for energy efficient  large-scale systems, cost and energy aware
> automation of residential houses, and house/building/data center and
> electric grid interaction.
> *Dr. Joaquin Camacho*, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. *Areas
> of Specialization*: Combustion and particulate air pollution,
> nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, renewable energy, carbon
> materials and chemistry, heterogeneous reacting flow and aerosol dynamics
> and reacting flow modeling.
> *Dr. Ping Lu*, Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering. Areas of
> Specialization: Advanced guidance of aerospace systems, autonomous
> aerospace trajectory planning by convex optimization, nonlinear control
> with applications in aerospace  systems, and flight mechanics.
> *Dr. Duy Nyguyen*, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering. Areas of Specialization: Adaptive signal processing techniques
> for communications, massive MIMO and mmWave communications, full duplex
> radios, radio frequency energy harvesting, compressed sensing in
> communications and optimization, game theory, and machine learning in
> communications.
> *Dr. Ying-Khai Teh*, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering. Areas of Specialization: Silicon-based low power CMOS analog
> and mixed signal integrated circuit design, energy harvesting integration
> using thermoelectric, piezoelectric and RF for self-powered Internet of
> Things systems, and game theoretic analysis framework for multi-source
> power management scheme.
> *Dr. Matthew Verbyla*, Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction, and
> Environmental Engineering (starting Fall 2017). Areas of Specialization:
> Natural wastewater treatment, water reuse, pathogen fate and transport, and
> microbial risk assessment.
> ------------------------------
>
> Welcome New Senior Director of Development
>
> Kim DuFour joined the College of Engineering in September 2016 as the
> Senior Director of Development. Kim has worked in higher education for over
> 30 years with her last position serving as the Director of Academic
> Advising at California State University Chico. Kim possesses seventeen
> years of fundraising experience, including twelve years in higher
> education, specifically in engineering and sciences at California State
> University Chico. Prior to that, Kim worked in development for Sutter
> Hospitals in Sacramento.
>
> In addition, Kim is a former parent at SDSU and University of Oregon. Kim
> graduated from California State University Chico in 1981 with a BA in
> Social Work and Corrections. She continued her higher education at Chico
> State and earned a Master of Public Administration in 1989.
> ------------------------------
>
> Alumni Highlight
>
> *Alan Dulgeroff* (’92, Electrical Engineering) is a busy man, especially
> with regard to his involvement at San Diego State University. He is a
> member of the University’s Career Services Advisory Board, sits on the
> Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Advisory Board, and for the
> next year will serve as president of SDSU Alumni. In a June 15 ceremony at
> the SDSU Alumni Advisory Board meeting, Dulgeroff was symbolically handed
> the President’s gavel by Perette Godwin (’86), the Board’s immediate past
> President. He will officially assume his new position July 1, 2016. "I want
> to emphasize that I really appreciate the opportunity,” Dulgeroff said. “I
> feel privileged to serve.”
>
> Currently Director of Strategic planning for San Diego Gas and Electric
> (SDG&E), the 47-year- old Dulgeroff is a lifetime member of the SDSU Alumni
> Association. He has served on its Board in the past four years. One of
> Dulgeroff’s passions is the Aztec Mentor Program (AMP). He has helped forge
> a link between AMP and SDG&E. He also helps his company recruit on campus.
> Dulgeroff estimates approximately 10 percent of SDG&E’s 4,000 or so
> employees are Aztec alumni.
>
>
>
>
> * Joe Kiani* (’85, ’87, Electrical Engineering) was featured both in the
> SDSU 360 Magazine and SDSU Newscenter as one of four "Portraits of
> Courage," a series featuring courageous Aztecs who fight to make the world
> a better place for themselves, their families and their communities. To
> read the full article, visit this link
> <http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76383>.
> ------------------------------
>
> Student Accolades
> *Fei Lu* and *Hua Zhang*, Electrical and Computer Engineering doctoral
> students, who work with Dr. Chris Mi , Professor and Chair, Department of
> Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received the Prize Letter Award
> for 2015 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics for their paper: "A
> Double-sided LCLC-Compensated Capacitive Power Transfer System for Electric
> Vehicle Charging." The selection of this paper by IEEE is a high honor and
> tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact
> that the research has to the field.
> *Patrick Poon*, Civil Engineering Master’s student, advised by Dr. Alicia
> Kinoshita, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and
> Environmental Engineering, was a recipient of the prestigious 2016 NASA
> Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for his research proposal
> “Estimating Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration After Wildfire.” The NESSF
> received a total of 425 applications in Earth Science Research with Mr.
> Poon being one of only 73 students who were selected for the award.
>
> *Michelle Powelson* and *Jose Calderon*, Civil, Construction, and
> Environmental Engineering students, represented their ENV 363 class taught
> by Dr. Natalie Mladenov, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil,
> Construction, and Environmental Engineering, and presented a summary of
> their storm water quality project to the entire council of the City of
> Santee as a part of SDSU's Sage Project.
>
> The *Baja SAE Team* competed in the May 2016 Baja Competition, in Gorman,
> CA. The SDSU Baja team placed 2nd in the Acceleration Event. This was the
> first time that SDSU placed top 3 in any event at the Baja SAE Competitions.
>
> On October 22, 2016, the *SDSU Aztec Racing *and *Aztec Electric Racing
> Teams* participated in the Southern California Society of Automotive
> Engineers (SAE) mini-preliminary design review (PDR) at CSU Northridge. The
> event provided industry feedback to all Southern California SAE teams on
> their initial designs.
>
> Nine SDSU Engineering students from *Aztec Racing, Aztec Electric Racing*
> and *Aztec Baja*, attended the BMW Group Centennial celebration “The Next
> 100 Years” at the Barker Hanger of Santa Monica Airport, on October 16,
> 2016. The BMW Group hosted future transportation leaders for a special
> program that included a networking reception viewing of multi-media
> displays, and an exclusive preview of the four BMW Group’s vision vehicles
> for the mobility of tomorrow.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Faculty Accolades
>
> *Dr. Kaveh Akbari Hamed*, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
> received $612,213 from NSF Directorate for Engineering for NRI:
> Decentralized Feedback Control Design for Cooperative Robotic Walking with
> Application to Powered Prosthetic Legs.
>
> *Dr. Robert Dowell*, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction and
> Environmental Engineering, received $147,495, from General Dynamics NASSCO,
> for Full-Scale SWAGE Panel Structural Testing and Finite Element Modeling.
>
> *Drs. Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani and Xianfeng Yang*, Assistant Professors
> of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, along with Drs.
> Atsushi Nara and Ming-Hisang Tsou, Department of Geography, received
> $449,202 from NSF Directorate for Engineering Integrated Stage-Based
> Evacuation with Social Perception Analysis and Dynamic Population
> Estimation.
>
> *Dr. Gustaaf Jacobs*, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, received
> $207,637, from NSF Directorate for Engineering Collaborative Research:
> Shock Interaction with a Complex Hydrodynamic Medium; $315,992 for the
> first year of a three-year award from the Air Force Office of Scientific
> Research for Simulation of Particle-Laden Blast Waves with Inter-Scale
> Coupling and Uncertainty Quantification; and $24,000, from California Space
> Grant Consortium, STEM Research Academy and Outreach.
>
> *Dr. Samuel Kassegne*, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received
> $501,914, from University of Washington, for Engineering Research Center
> for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.
>
> *Drs. Alicia Kinoshita, Natalie Mladenov and Tom Zink*, Civil,
> Construction and Environmental Engineering Faculty, received $543,500 from
> San Diego River Conservancy for Restoration of Alvarado Creek Upper Reach
> 1.
>
> *Dr. Ping Lu*, Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering, was on the
> team that was given the Innovation Group Achievement Award by the Director
> of NASA Johnson Space Center in September 2016, “for exceptional work in
> pioneering the development of a fully numerical predictor-corrector entry
> guidance algorithm for the atmospheric entry of space vehicles.”
>
> *Drs. Karen May-Newman and George Youssef*, Mechanical Engineering
> Faculty, received $75,000 from The San Diego Foundation for Bioengineering:
> a pathway to interdisciplinary STEM at SDSU.
>
> *Dr. Chris Mi*, Professor and Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
> received $200,000 from Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus Manufacturing Company Ltd,
> for Joint Laboratory Development and Training; and $444,325 from the
> University of Michigan, GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation.
>
> *Dr. Fletcher Miller*, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received
> $383,947, from University of San Diego for Hybrid Solar Converter with
> Integrated Thermal Storage.
>
> *Dr. Khaled Morsi*, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received
> $344,517, from NSF Directorate for Engineering, for Pressure "Unassisted"
> Processing of Fully-Dense Nanocomposites through Novel
> Nano/Micro-Structural Design.
>
> *Dr. Eugene Olevsky*, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received
> $337,824 from Matsys, Inc. for Modeling and Simulation for Manufacturing
> Powder Metallurgy Structural Components.
>
> *Dr. Victor Miguel Ponce*, Professor of Civil, Construction and
> Environmental, received the SDSU Alumni Association Award for Outstanding
> Faculty Contribution to the University for 2016-17.
>
> *Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar*, Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer
> Engineering, received $60,000, from ViaStat Inc. for Investigation Into a
> High Quality Customer Experience on a WiFi Network on a Commercial Airliner
> via ViaStat’s Ka-band High Throughput.
>
> *Dr. Satish Sharma*, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
> received $469,555, from DOD Office of Naval Research for Quasi- Far-Field
> System Upgrade for Millimeter Wave (mmw) Frequency Expansion; and $30,000
> from Broadcom Corporation for Multi- Band GNSS Antenna Research Proposal.
>
> *Dr. Satchi Venkataraman*, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, received
> $199,800 from the N&R Engineering Uncertainty Quantification of Test
> Derived Model Parameters for Life Prediction of Composite Bolted Joints in
> an ICME Framework; and $68,681, from University of California at San Diego
> for Baseline and Residual Strength Characterization of Composite Laminates
> Under Bearing and Bypass Loading.
> ------------------------------
>
> Community & Outreach
>
> *Project Lead the Way (PTLW) California and the Society of Women Engineers
> (SWE) SDSU Student Chapter* hosted 66 high school girls from 16 local
> high schools and their parents to an afternoon focused on Women in STEM, on
> Saturday, October 8, 2016. The event kicked off with an all-female Q&A
> panel followed by students participating in 5 rotations of hands-on
> activities hosted by The Physics Girl and 3 SDSU student organizations -
> SWE SDSU, SDSU's Chemists Without Border, and SDSU's Aztec Electric Racing.
> Parents attended several workshops to learn more about Project Lead the Way
> courses and resources. The day wrapped up with awards and raffle prizes for
> the students.
>
> A select group of San Diego State University students proved they have
> what it takes to be leaders in STEM careers during a special
> invitation-only conference. *The 13th Annual Mathematics, Engineering,
> Science Achievement (MESA) Student Leadership Conference*, themed “The
> New Face of STEM,” was held October 14-15, 2016 at the Santa Clara
> Marriott. Students engaged in a number of creative activities designed to
> sharpen their professional skills. They competed in an elevator pitch
> challenge styled after the hit show “The Voice.” Audience members voted by
> live polling during this PG&E hosted competition. SoCalGas led a team-
> building Lego Challenge. And a networking social event included improv
> games geared toward enhancing social and emotional skills. Students also
> participated in mock interviews, connected with industry representatives,
> listened to guest speakers and attended workshops. This focus on so-called
> “soft skills” is a key to shaping well-rounded STEM professionals.
>
> *The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Student Chapter at SDSU*, was
> featured in the online SDSU Daily Aztec on October 5, 2016. WTS, founded in
> November 2014, by Professor Nensi Lakrori, Civil, Construction and
> Environmental Engineering Department, focuses on the advancement of women
> in the transportation industry. The goal of the chapter is to bridge the
> gap between academia and working professionals and provide a support system
> of mentors, advisors, and industry leaders to college students and recent
> graduates. As the fourth official WTS Student Chapter, and the first one in
> California, the Chapter has the goal of establishing a college based
> student community focusing on advancing women in transportation through
> professional workshops, networking, and community service.
> ------------------------------
>
> Giving to the College of Engineering
>
> Recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary research to advances in
> engineering, San Diego State University (SDSU) is currently constructing a
> new 85,000 square foot facility, the Engineering and Interdisciplinary
> Sciences (EIS) Complex, a key initiative in the university's drive to
> become a top-50 public research university. Not only will it enhance the
> university's current teaching and research capacities, the EIS Complex will
> also boost San Diego State University’s ability to attract the best and
> brightest researchers and graduate students.
>
> To learn more about giving to the College of Engineering, in particular,
> about the naming opportunities available in the new Engineering and
> Interdisciplinary (EIS) Complex, please contact: Kim DuFour, Senior
> Director of Development, College of Engineering, kdufour at sdsu.edu or 619-594-
> 6416 <619-594-%206416>.
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