EECS NEWSD e p a r t m e n t o f E l e c t r i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g a n d C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e University of Michigan

Building the Future

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CONTENTSNotes from the Chairmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Department News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

The Evolving World of EECS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Faculty and Staff Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

New Faculty and Retirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Building the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

New Computer Science and Engineering Building . . . . . . . . . .7Solid-State Electronics Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Research News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Tech Transfer in the New Economy: Why EECS Leads the Pack . . . . . . .9Going Wireless — and Small: The NEXT BIG THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

A Herculean Feat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

The Brave New World of Quantum Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Student News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Solar Car Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Student Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Alumni Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Special Thanks to our Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

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EECS NEWS2003

Interim Chair Richard B. Brown Brings EECS News

We hopeyou willenjoy thisfirst issueof EECSN e w s ,w h i c hr e a c h e sout to ouralumni andf r i e n d swith infor-m a t i o nabout the

Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience Department of the University ofMichigan. Many changes have takenplace in the EECS Department recently,and our students, alumni, and facultyhave accomplished much that we wantto share with you.

EECS, which is by any metric aboutone-third of the College of Engineering,has recently been reorganized fromthree divisions into two: Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE), andComputer Science and Engineering(CSE). CSE includes software, artificial

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intelligence, theoretical computer sci-ence, computer architecture and hard-ware. ECE covers solid-state electron-ics, microelectromechanical systems,analog and digital integrated circuits,electromagnetics, optics, communica-tions, controls, and signal processing.Our graduate programs in ElectricalEngineering and in Computer Scienceare ranked #5 and #6, respectively, byU.S. News and World Report.

You can read in this newsletter aboutthe new undergraduate ComputerScience Degree and the new curriculafor our CS, EE, and CE degrees thatwere put into place Fall Term 2001.Students are reacting very positively tothe new programs, which give themstrong foundations in the basics of theirdegrees, and more flexibility thanbefore in upper-division course selec-tion. The degrees taught by EECS fac-ulty produce about 400 bachelors, 160masters, and 65 Ph.D. graduates peryear. A concerted effort to make the cli-mate in EECS as conducive to learningas possible is bearing fruit, with courseevaluation scores at all-time highs,quantitative indicators steadily rising, aStudent Advisory Council organized andproviding input to the AdministrativeCommittee, and a renovation being

undertaken this summer to make theEECS Atrium a more comfortable place.

This newsletter could accommodateonly a sampling of alumni, student andfaculty news. Please see www.eecs.umich.edu for additional news, alumnicontact information, and details onEECS research activities. You may beinterested in the growth of externalresearch funding in EECS, which nowexceeds $42 million dollars per year($40 million if cost-sharing is excluded,as in the plot on pages 4 and 5). EECSis full of exciting research projectsbeing carried out by the faculty andmore than 700 graduate students; infact, our space is too full! To amelioratethis problem, we anticipate startingconstruction during the next year on anew CSE building, and are in the finalplanning stages for a major addition toour Solid-State Electronics Laboratory.These new facilities will provide spacethat is needed for our present andfuture research programs, ranging frombasic research at the nano-level toadvanced developments at the systemlevel.

After serving for nearly two years asinterim chair, I welcome Dave Munsonas the EECS chair, and wish him andEECS the very best.

Notes from the Chairmen

Illinois’ David Munson will be new EECS Department Chair

B e g i n -ning June1, DavidM u n s o nwill join theUniversityof Michi-gan as thethirteenthchair of theD e p a r t -ment ofElectricalEngineering and Computer Science.Munson is a seasoned educator,researcher, and administrator with a24-year career at the University ofIllinois.

“I am completing my final year at theUniversity of Illinois and am eagerly

looking forward to joining EECS at theUniversity of Michigan,” David Munsonsays. “In my role as Chair, I will havethe privilege of working with outstand-ing faculty, excellent students, a greatsupport staff, and countless loyalalumni and friends.” Munson will alsohold the title of Professor of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science.

David C. Munson, Jr. was born in Iowaand received his BS degree in electricalengineering (with distinction) from theUniversity of Delaware in 1975, and theMS, MA, and PhD degrees in electricalengineering from Princeton Universityin 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively.Since 1979, he has been with theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is the Robert C.MacClinchie Distinguished Professorof Electrical and ComputerEngineering, a research professor inthe Coordinated Science Laboratory,and a part-time faculty member in the

Beckman Institute for AdvancedScience and Technology.

His research interests are in the gen-eral area of signal and image process-ing, with current work focused on radarimaging, computer tomography, lidarimaging, interferometry, and high-precision global positioning systems.He has held leadership positions in theIEEE Signal Processing Society, wherehe has served as president and asfounding editor-in-chief of the IEEETransactions on Image Processing.

Beginning June 1, David Munson willbe a presence at the Department andCollege. “I am very tall and easy tospot, so please do not hesitate to intro-duce yourself!” he says.

He adds, “I look forward to getting toknow our alumni, faculty, students,staff, and friends as quickly as possibleso that we can work together to continue building a great EECSDepartment.”

the two EECS divisions — ComputerScience and Engineering, and Electricaland Computer Engineering — whichjointly administer the program.

A major feature of all of the new curric-ula is that they give students morechoice in the courses they take. Each ofthe programs has a small set ofrequired basic courses, and allows stu-dents to select among junior-level corecourses and upper-level electives. In thenew EE program, for example, 7 techni-cal courses are prescribed, and stu-dents have choice in selecting 12 tech-nical and free elective courses. “Gettingstudents more actively involved in plan-ning their own curriculum is a healthything,” says Brown. “And students havea very different attitude in courses thatthey choose to take.”

The flexibility in course selection givesstudents the option of gaining moredepth in a particular area or the oppor-tunity to explore more EECS topics.“Our curriculum now accommodatesthe breadth of our students,” Brownsays. “In addition to the many studentswho go on to graduate school in one ofthe EECS areas or enter the workforceafter the B.S. degree, we have studentswho want to go into patent law, obtain

Curriculum and degreechanges offer studentsmore choices“Some students know right from thebeginning what they want to do. Otherswant to — and need to — explore alltheir options,” says EECS Interim ChairRichard B. Brown. This need for flexibil-ity is part of the reason that EECS madecurriculum changes that allow all stu-dents to wait until the sophomore yearto commit to a degree program inEECS, and that make it easier for stu-dents to change programs within EECS.

Student Brian Kim has taken advantageof this new flexibility. “I love the EECSDepartment at Michigan, especiallybecause of the new undergraduate pro-grams,” says Kim. “At first, I was goinginto CE because I didn’t want to get toomuch into hardware but wanted to havesome knowledge of it. After finding outthat hardware is really not my thing, Iswitched to CS, and the transition wasgreat because I could use the hardwareclasses from CE as technical electives inCS. I love the program.” Kim is abouthalf way through his degree inComputer Science.

In the fall of 2001, the department rede-fined its Electrical Engineering andComputer Engineering degrees, andadded a Computer Science degree inthe College of Engineering to meet theneeds of EECS students whose inter-ests are primarily in computer theory,artificial intelligence, and software. (TheEECS Department continues to teach aCS degree which is offered through theCollege of Literature, Science and theArts.) The existence of the new CSdegree allowed the department to moreappropriately define the ComputerEngineering degree so that it overlaps

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an M.B.A., or become an M.D.” EricSteinke, an Electrical Engineering stu-dent, says, “I feel like I have more free-dom to specialize in a certain area, mak-ing me better prepared for the workforce.”

During the dot-com fever of the late1990s, the number of students in com-puter science grew to a point thatstrained the teaching resources, led tolarge class sizes, and made it impossi-ble for students to get into all of thecourses they wanted. The number of

students in the degreeprograms has come intobalance since the newdegrees were defined,due in part, no doubt, tothe implosion of the dot-coms and to enrollmentcaps which were put intoplace last year.

The revised undergradu-ate degrees have leading-edge curricula in whichstudents are introducedto EECS fundamentals incourses that includehands-on laboratories.Students then have thefreedom to choose coursesof greatest interest andusefulness to their futurestudies and work, andcomplete their undergrad-uate education with amajor design experience.

The Evolving World of EECS

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Basic Courses

215 280 203

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circuits programming discrete math

signalssystems

probability/statistics

computerorganization

digital design

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algorithms &data structures

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electro -magnetics

EE Degree CS DegreeCE Degree

Computer Science BSE(261 students)

Computer Engineering(384 students)

Electrical Engineering(462 students)

Electrical and Computer Engineering DivisionComputer Science and Engineering Division

* Administered by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. The CS degree requirements are identical except fordifferences in College requirements.

EECS Department: Two Divisions, Three Programs, Four Degrees

Computer Science BS *(201 students)

Curriculum Changes• More flexibility as EE went from

11 to 7 specified courses• Encourages interdisciplinary

study• CS Degree in the College of

Engineering• Properly oriented Computer

Engineering degree• Common college core and more

elective hours• Better prerequisite structure• Hands-on Sophomore year• Major design experience

Department Receives UM/NSF Transformation GrantEECS was among three departments atthe University of Michigan selected toreceive ADVANCE grants that will beused to help transform the environmentfor women faculty in science and engi-neering. The $70,000 grant is for athree-year period. Projects will focus onrecruiting, retaining, and promotingwomen faculty, and encouraging a cli-mate that benefits all students and fac-ulty, with a goal of turning EECS into aleader in women's engineering educa-tion. Highlights include a distinguishedlecture series, identification of womenfaculty and graduating PhDs for possi-ble hiring, and increased mentoring ofjunior faculty.

Student AdvisoryCouncil CreatedA Student Advisory Council, made up ofrepresentatives from the undergraduateand graduate EECS student organiza-tions, now meets regularly with thedepartment chair, associate chairs, anddepartment administrator to discussstudent and departmental issues.Among the issues addressed to date arestudent counseling, EECS student-guided tours for prospective students,and renovations to the EECS atrium.

EE Graduate StudentAssociation FormedThe Association of Electrical Engineer-ing Graduate Students (AEEGS) wasformed in July 2002. AEEGS communi-cates EE graduate student issues toDepartment and College administration,offers academic and social activities,and provides opportunities for interac-tion between EE graduate students, fac-ulty, and staff. AEEGS has organized anEE Mentorship Program to help incom-

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ing EE graduate students. Membershipis open to any current EE graduate student at UM.

eecs.umich.edu/aeegs

Dow’s Legacy RemainsStrong: New LectureshipSeries Created

A l t h o u g hhe died in1999 at theage of 104,the vibrantW i l l i a mGould Dow(MSE ’29)cont inuesto contri-bute to theE E C Sd e p a r t -

ment. He was often called “the Fatherof Modern Electrical Engineering atUM.” His students and friends estab-lished the William Gould DowDistinguished Lectureship, which rec-ognizes the outstanding accomplish-ments of individuals in electrical engi-neering and computer science. It is thehighest external honor bestowed by thedepartment. The following individualshave been selected as Dow Lecturers:

◗ Robert W. Lucky, corporate vicepresident, Applied Research,Telcordia Technologies, 2001

◗ William A. Wulf, president, NationalAcademy of Engineering, 2002

◗ Lester F. Eastman, the John L. GivenFoundation Professor, CornellUniversity, 2002

◗ Karl J. Aström, Department ofAutomatic Control, Lund University,Sweden, and Department of Mech-anical Engineering, University ofCalifornia-Santa Barbara, 2003.

ClimateChanges

“Sometimes I think engineeringcolleges in general — and elec-trical engineering departmentsin particular — educate their stu-dents with a boot camp mental-ity,” says Interim Chair RichardB. Brown. “Our faculty is workingto change this approach.”

EECS has addressed the issue ofclimate through a study done byan external consultant, throughdiscussions at faculty retreatsand faculty meetings, throughreducing class sizes, throughreaching out to student groups,and through improved under-graduate counseling. In addition,the following climate-specificquestions have been added tocourse evaluations:

• The instructor treated stu-dents with respect.

• I developed confidence in myability to work in the subjectarea.

• The instructor used examplesthat had relevance for me.

• The instructor accommodatedstudents with various learningneeds.

• Group activities in this coursecontributed to my learning.

• The size of this class has notcompromised the learningexperience.

Scores on these questions haveconsistently improved sincethey were instituted in the fall of2001. Faculty evaluation scoreswere at an all-time high thispast term.

EECS Facts• U.S. News and World Report Ranking

- Electrical Engineering, #5- Computer Science, #6

• 8 National Academy of Engineering Members (includes 2 Emeritus)• 86.2 full-time equivalent faculty positions• 1308 declared undergraduate students• 700 graduate students• $42 million total expenditures on externally-funded research projects

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Faculty AwardsDepartmental Awards2003 EECS Outstanding AchievementAwardMartha PollackJeffrey A. FesslerFred TerrySpecial EECS Award for OutstandingTeachingMark Brehob2003 Eta Kappa Nu Teaching AwardStephen Reinhardt 2002 Tau Beta Pi Teaching AwardDemosthenis Teneketzis

College AwardsStephen S. Attwood AwardDavid L. NeuhoffResearch ExcellenceAlfred O. HeroEducation ExcellenceTheodore B. NorrisService ExcellenceJames S. FreudenbergOutstanding Research ScientistVictor YanovskyRuth and Joel Spira OutstandingTeachingDennis Sylvester

College ProfessorshipsBredt Family Professor ofEngineeringTrevor MudgeClaude E. Shannon Professor ofEngineering ScienceJohn P. HayesMorris Wellman FacultyDevelopment Assistant ProfessorBrian Noble

University AwardsHarold R. Johnson Diversity Service Anthony W. EnglandWilliam Gould Dow DistinguishedUniversity ProfessorKensall D. Wise

National AwardsYoung Faculty AwardsNSF Career Awards2002: Igor Guskov, Dennis Sylvester2003: Jamie PhillipsSloan Research Fellow2002: Todd Austin

Society FellowsAm. Inst. for Medical and BiologicalEngineeringJeffrey A. FesslerAmerican Physical SocietyHerbert Winful

Other AwardsOptical Society of America, NickHolonyak, Jr. AwardPallab K. BhattacharyaIEEE Control Systems Society,George S. Axelby AwardJessy W. Grizzle

Mourou Elected toNational Academy ofEngineeringGérard A. Mourou was elected to the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE), the most signif-icant recognition of professional achievementoffered by the profession. Mourou is the A.D.Moore Distinguished University Professor ofElectrical Engineering, Professor of AppliedPhysics, and Director of the Center for UltrafastOptical Science.

IEEE Information Theory SocietyService AwardDavid L. NeuhoffOutstanding Young Engineer of theIEEE Microwave Theory andTechniques (MTT) SocietyGabriel M. RebeizMILCOM (Military CommunicationsConference) Technical AchievementAwardWayne E. StarkU.S. Geological Survey, Dept. of theInterior, William T. Pecora AwardFawwaz T. Ulaby

Staff AwardsWait Wins UM OVPR AwardVirginia Wait (MBA ’88), the Depart-ment’s Administrative Manager, washonored with the 2002 DistinguishedResearch Administrator Award fromthe Office of the Vice President forResearch. Interim Chair Richard Brownsays, “We have all benefited fromVirginia's excellent administrative workon the financial side of our researchprojects, from her support and train-ing of our research administrators

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Three New Faculty Join EECSSatinder Singh BavejaAssociate Professor, Artificial Intelligence

Professor Baveja received his B. Tech in Electrical Engi-neering from the Indian Institute of Technology, NewDelhi, 1987, and his MS and PhD in computer sciencefrom the University of Massachusetts in 1991 and 1993,respectively. Before joining UM, he was chief scientist atSyntek Capital, New York; principal technical staff memberin the artificial intelligence department at AT&T Labs-Research; and assistant professor in the department ofcomputer science at the University of Colorado-Boulder.His research is in machine learning with a specialization inreinforcement learning.

Jason FlinnAssistant Professor, Software Systems Laboratory

Jason Flinn received his BSE in computer science andengineering and BS in economics from the University ofPennsylvania in 1991, his MS in computer engineeringfrom Syracuse University in 1996, and his PhD in com-puter science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. Hewas a postdoctoral intern at Intel Research before hejoined the UM faculty. His research is in power-awarecomputing systems, services, and applications.

Yaoyun ShiAssistant Professor, Theory

Yaoyun Shi received his BS in computer science fromBeijing University, Peoples Republic of China, in 1997, andhis MA and PhD in computer sc ience from PrincetonUniversity in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the Institute of Quantum Information atCalifornia Institute of Technology. His research is in thetheory of computation and quantum computing. (See arti-cle about quantum computing on page 13.)

throughout EECS, and from her knowl-edge of University policy.” Wait is chairof the Sponsored Program Implemen-tation Team (SPIT), which is makingrecommendations to improve efficien-cy and enable research throughout theUniversity.

College of Engineering StaffExcellence AwardsWilliam R. Knudsen, Engineer inResearch III, Solid-State ElectronicsLaboratoryAs an engineer in research for theSSEL, Bill Knudsen is responsible formaintaining the thermal furnaces usedin semi-conductor fabrication, enablingthem to run better and more reliablythan ever. The unsung hero of manypublications and grant proposals,Knudsen provides a high level of serv-ice and flexibility to the Lab and its cus-tomers. His citation lauded him forbeing “a patient and complete teacherand mentor to those around him, hegladly shares his knowledge with others.”

Jeanne Patterson, Exec. Secretary,CSE DivisionJeanne Peterson is the administrativesupport person for the CSE AssociateChair. She also supports the CSE fac-ulty search committee, where shearranges the job interviews held duringthe annual 12-week recruiting season.She estimates that she has arranged2,200 appointments with more than120 faculty candidates in the last fiveyears. From helping faculty memberswho are ill to editing dissertations fornon-native speakers of English,Patterson gives her expertise gener-ously and enthusiastically to anyonewho needs her.

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Prof. Janice M. Jenkins “Retires”

“Life is good,” Janice Jenkins says, “and my industrial effortshave been particularly good. This is all a nice coda to a late engi-neering career. But the students are still the best part.” Duringher 22-year UM career, Janice Jenkins became known for hermentorship and dedication to the development of the next gen-eration of research engineers — and for the fact that she wasthe first woman faculty member hired in the EECS department.

“The most unusual part of my academic career,” Jenkins says,“is the fact that I raised five kids (typical stay-at-home house-

wife), and started college when my oldest started college. I was 37. I got my PhD at the age of 46, and was appointedan assistant professor at Michigan at the age of 48. I wasn't as worried about being discriminated against for beingfemale, as I was worried about age discrimination! I didn't tell anyone how old I was (but I did send a picture with myCV so as not to fool anyone). I looked like I was in my 30s (good genes). I won the NSF Presidential Young Investigatoraward when I was 52. Probably (without doubt) the oldest Young Investigator ever. I was a grandmother!”

Jenkins still has an active NSF grant at UM and travels here regularly, supervising the research of two graduate and threeundergraduate students. “I haven’t stopped my active professional life,” she says. “I also have a major role in anNIH/SBIR grant, and am directing clinical studies at Loyola University Medical Center.” Jenkins now lives in Chicago inher dream condo overlooking Lake Michigan.

Professor Jenkins received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1974, 1976, and1978, respectively. She was an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of medicine, atNorthwestern University from 1979-1980. In 1980, she joined the UM faculty as an assistant professor of electrical andcomputer engineering, and was promoted to professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of biomed-ical engineering, in 1992.

At UM, Jenkins made important contributions to automated arrhythmia analysis using advanced signal processing andcomputer techniques. She was director of the medical computing research laboratory (1981-2002), and of the digitaldesign laboratory (1983-1998), an instructional laboratory on the design of microprocessor based systems that she ini-tiated and taught.

“I was always treated appropriately,” Jenkins says. “No discrimination, nor any patronizing. My colleagues caught onquickly that I wanted to carry my own oscilloscope (they offered for a while), but I did let them open the door for mewhile I was burdened. There were 55 male faculty members, and they were always collegial and proper.”

In 1991, Jenkins received the UM Sarah Goddard Power Award for her outstanding professional achievements and con-tributions to the education of women, and the NSF Faculty Award for Women in Science and Engineering. Jenkins is aFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and BiologicalEngineering, and the American College of Cardiology. She has four patents, and another pending. She has supported,mentored, and graduated 20 PhD students and eight MS thesis students.

Upon her retirement from active faculty status in December 2002, the UM Regents named Janice Jenkins ProfessorEmerita of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

“It's been a wonderful and inspiring ‘second career,’” Jenkins says. “Like having a bunch of kids again. Except they arebrilliant students, don't sass you, always take your advice, look up to you, and best of all, I don't have to pay their carinsurance!”

Spence BeMent, Janice Jenkins, Ward Getty

Retirement

Advanced Technologies Laboratory(ATL) will move to the new building.

For faculty members and graduate stu-dents, there will be more research labs,conference rooms, and lounges.

For undergraduates, there will be twoComputer-Aided Engineering Network(CAEN) labs, a learning center, and stu-dent project space.

The new building also will contain twolarge classrooms (60 seats and 120seats).

“The building is designed to handle 56faculty, including lecturers,” saysTeorey. “We have 42 full-time facultynow and can grow comfortably. Facultyare very excited about the project.”

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In October 2002, the University ofMichigan Regents approved the

building concept, location, and $40 mil-lion budget for a new Computer Scienceand Engineering building that willchange the face of North Campus —and enhance teaching, research, and asense of community. Construction isplanned to start next spring; completionis slated for 2006.

“The building concept and design aregeared toward communication amongfaculty, students, and staff,” says TobyTeorey. “Here is a facility where peoplewill have plenty of opportunity to meetand discuss. This is a place where stu-dents will want to meet.”

When the EECS Building opened in1986, it marked the completion of theCollege of Engineering’s 30-year movefrom Central Campus to North Campus.But, from the beginning, the buildingwas bursting at the seams. The newCSE building is a solution to twodecades of crowded conditions.

The structure will be built west of theDow Building, into the hill. All CSE fac-ulty, staff, student offices, and labsfrom both the EECS Building and the

And so is College administration.College of Engineering Dean StephenDirector says, “Computer science andengineering is one of the corestrengths of the college. This buildingwill provide state-of-the-art facilitiesthat are needed to maintain and growour educational and research pro-grams. By housing these activities inone building, we gain important synergy.”

Diamond and Schmitt Architects, Inc.won the design bid for the 100,000-gross-square-foot building. The award-winning Toronto firm was formed in1975 and has completed projects allover the world, from the U.S. to thePeople’s Republic of China. Locally,they designed Detroit Symphony Hall’srenovation.

Principle Donald Schmitt notes that thebuilding site steeply slopes more thantwo stories in height. “We turned thisto advantage by creating a series of ter-race gardens on three levels.” Thesegardens form a public promenade fromgraduate student housing to the norththrough the heart of North Campus.

According to Schmitt, “Our vision forthe design is focused on places ofmeeting: an interior skylit court with alinear stair that follows the slope of thehilly site connects all floors. The courtand the stair will be places of meeting,creating an open forum of collabora-tion.”

“We hope to make this building aUniversity of Michigan landmark,” saysSchmitt, “one that will be commensu-rate with the stature of the remarkablefaculty and students.”

“The design process has been great,”says Laird.“The archi-tects havelistened toall of ourcommentsand worked

“A place wherestudents willwant to meet”

Rendering courtesy of Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated

New Computer Science and Engineering Building Signals Better Communication for Students and Faculty

TimelineOctober 2002 UM Regents approve build-

ing concept, location, budget, and architect

April 2003 UM Regents approveschematic design

September 2003 UM Regents expected toapprove bid for construction

Spring 2004 Start construction

Spring 2006 Occupy building

Building the Future

The expansion will add about 5,200square feet of clean room space to theexisting Class 100 and Class 10 cleanrooms. In the existing 12,000-square-foot Laboratory, wet labs will be reno-vated and added, and dry labs will berenovated. Work should start in spring2004. Anticipated completion is fall2005. The architects are the SmithGroup; AGI Consulting will handle theclean rooms.

Prof. Khalil Najafi, Director of SSELsince 1998, has been working for the

them into a stunning design. Allthrough the process, we have foundways to achieve our goals of creating afantastic place for teaching and educa-tion. This will be one of the most inter-esting buildings on campus, both insideand out.”

“For alumni,” says Laird (Michigan, BS’75), “all I can say is that I wish we hadthis building when they (and I) werestudents here.”

For more information, see www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/eecs_info/csebldg/.Look for the Web cam when construc-tion starts.

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Existing FacilityPlanned Expansion

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“We reach our capacity of about40,000 hours of use every

year, but it’s not enough to meet ourresearch needs,” says Dr. DennisGrimard, manager of the Solid-StateElectronics Laboratory (SSEL). “Toallow for increased use, we will need toexpand the laboratory.” A $28 millionrenovation and expansion will make thelab more effective for existing faculty,external users, and new faculty who arejoining the University with newresearch projects.

Solid-State Electronics Laboratory Will Grow More Research past couple years with the College andthe architects to define the new space.“We have a unique opportunity withthis lab expansion to address the needsof UM faculty and students in allaspects of micro and nano technolo-gies for the next decade,” says Prof.Najafi, “and we are already looking forways to allow and encourage anincreasing number of non-UMresearchers and scientists as well ascompanies to use the SSEL facilities fortheir work.” The renovation and expan-sion will double, and possibly quadru-ple, the number of SSEL users.

The present Solid-State Laboratorycame to life in 1986 when the Univer-sity of Michigan and the State ofMichigan established the facility as acatalyst for high technology in theMidwest.

Today, SSEL is the largest lab in theCollege of Engineering, generatingmore than $12 million in researchfunding each year. At the forefront ofresearch in microelectronics and opto-electronics, with complete facilities forsolid-state device and circuit fabrica-tion, the lab runs 24 hours a day, sevendays a week.

“Great research has been and is beingdone here,” says Grimard. “With spacelimitations gone, our users will be lim-ited only by their own creativity.”

Read more about itSee page 11 to read about the Centerfor Wireless Integrated Microsystems(WIMS), one of the major users of theSolid-State Lab.

www.eecs.umich.edu/ssel

Building Features

◗ State-of-the-art learning center (will include two CAEN labs; areas for individ-ual study, group study, and tutoring)

◗Natural light in most offices

◗Special labs for robotics, mobile computing, security experimentation

◗Common areas (great hall, courtyard, student areas, and more)

◗Public demonstration facilities

◗ Networking infrastructure for wireless computing and communications, andremote interactions

◗ 104,000 gross square feet (60,000 net square feet). “Gross” footage includeshallways, common areas such as atriums, etc. For comparison: The EECSBuilding is 220,000 gross square feet (100,000 net square feet).

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RESEARCH NEWSTech Transfer in the New Economy: Why EECS Leads the Pack

number of UM start-up companiesbeing formed jumped from 15 to 25,issued patents increased from 171 to198, license and option agreementsfrom 131 to 181, and disclosures from501 to 587.

UM Support for Tech TransferIn 1996, the University established anew Regents’ policy that urged Schoolsand Colleges to support their faculty’stechnology transfer efforts. The policyalso provided better incentives for par-ticipation, more flexible research poli-cies and encouraged consideration ofstartup companies.The result was an increased investmentin the Office of Technology Transfer, the

creation of a New Business Develop-ment function to facilitate startups, andlater the creation of satellite TechTransfer offices in the College of Engi-neering and the School of Medicine.Concurrently, a Technology TransferCommercialization program was creat-ed, which has increased Engineeringfaculty participation and success.Professor Elliot Soloway says, “Today,the UM administration view is to get outof the way and let good folks do theirwork. That’s what the EECS departmenthas done. Thank you, EECS.” Soloway’scompany, GoKnow, grew from researchhe conducted at UM.“Without technology transfer, much ofthe most useful engineering researchwill suffer a long lag in real-worldunderstanding or adoption. It is vital tothe United States and the world thattechnology makes its way to the marketas quickly as possible,” says ProfessorWilliam J. Williams. “The kinds of tech-nologies being developed in EECS andat UM may provide solutions to criticalproblems if appropriately transitioned.After all, isn’t engineering all aboutsolving problems?”

Williams is co-founder and chief scien-tist for Quantum Signal, a start-up com-pany created with OTT help. Williamsstarted Quantum with a portion of theresearch conducted at UM and reliedupon OTT for several practical matters,even a solution to affordable, profes-sional office space, which the success-ful company outgrew in two years.As an emeritus faculty member whohas seen both sides of the process,Williams is enthusiastic. “Many juniorfaculty members and enthusiastic stu-dents will benefit from the new encour-aging, supportive, and open technologytransfer policies,” he says.

Success Breeds SuccessDr. G. Robert Malan (MSE ’96, PhD’00), Arbor Networks' co-founder andchief technical officer, says, “Techtransfer allowed us to take our technol-ogy beyond traditional academicforums and make a much broaderimpact.”

Malan was EECS Professor FarnamJahanian’s graduate student. In the late1990s, Malan and Jahanian decided tocreate a commercial version of theirresearch prototype which was originallycreated to protect UM’s Merit educa-tional network from denial-of-serviceattacks. Today, their company has morethan 70 employees. Government agen-cies, service providers, and corpora-tions use their flagship product,Peakflow, to protect critical networks.And in 2002, Red Herring deemedArbor Networks a Hot Young Companyto Watch.

“I credit Tech Transfer with helping usmove through the start-up process judi-ciously and get our technology to mar-ket quickly,” says Malan.

One hotbed of EECS research activity isthe Center for Ultrafast Optical Science.CUOS has licensed technology to Clark-MXR (laser manufacturing), Picometrix(high-speed information processing),Translume (telecommunications), andIntraLase (medical surgery).

IntraLase resulted from a collaborationbetween the UM Kellogg Eye Center’sDr. Ronald Kurtz and CUOS. IntraLase’sultrafast, minimally invasive lasers areused in next-generation eye surgeries,

In an uncertain economy, new start-up companies seem fewer and far-

ther between. Yet, the crucial elementsthat start-ups are made of — disclo-sures, patents, and licensing — are onthe rise at the College of Engineering.And EECS is leading the pack.

Since 1999, the number of technologydisclosures submitted by College ofEngineering researchers has essentiallydoubled. Last year, Engineeringresearchers submitted 99 disclosures.This year’s pace already is significantlyhigher, with 97 disclosures already sub-mitted by the close of the third quarter.According to Mark Maynard (BA ’93),Marketing Manager for the UM Office ofTechnology Transfer (OTT), “In the lastthree years of available data, EECS hasrepresented about half of these disclo-sures — and approximately half of thetechnologies being licensed from theCollege of Engineering.”

The Right Place at the Right TimeEECS is a natural for technology transfer.“While you may drive a car that is 10years old, you'd never use a computeror cell phone that was anywhere nearthat age!” says Tim Faley, Director ofthe College of Engineering’s Office ofTechnology Transfer and Commercial-ization (TT&C). “The short product lifecycle of software and electronic devicesmeans that new technologies, includingthose developed in EECS, are morequickly commercialized — or ‘produc-tized’ — than technology that mainlybenefits other industries. Licensing ofEECS-developed technologies definitelybenefits from this strong market pull.”Combine strong market pull with suc-cessful research and you have thepotential for an irresistible combination. Until recently, few research institutionswere concerned with aggressivelygrowing research into marketableapplications. Tech transfer was some-thing that “happened to you” if youwere lucky. You didn’t seek it out, andyou didn’t set the stage for making ithappen. But things have changed. Between 2000 and 2002, University-wide technology licensing revenues atthe University of Michigan reached$17.9 million — an almost 50 percentincrease over the previous three-yearperiod. During this same period, the

“Tech Transfer is themechanism by whichwe pay our commu-nity back.” - Prof. Elliot Soloway, creator of GoKnow

Since the TT&C office opened, theCollege of Engineering has annuallysponsored a $150,000 gap fund that isadministered by the TT&C office. Thepurpose is to bridge the gap betweenresearch and commercialization. “Fac-ulty and staff have used this fund to cre-ate product prototypes, produce samplematerials, expand the scope of a patentapplications, and so forth,” says Faley.The proposal process for this fund hasbeen very competitive. Last year, thefaculty advisory committee receivedproposals requesting nearly $800,000.

Mission StatementsWhen talking with the people behind theEECS start-ups, three things emerge:the excitement of developing a newbusiness, a commitment to making adifference for society, and an eagernessto hire EECS graduates.

“Our research findings say that ourmaterials can help children learn,” saysElliot Soloway. “At GoKnow, we try toscale our university research effort to allchildren in America. We want to have animpact.”

“The best aspect of starting Discera isthe company's potential to make a dif-ference — to bring vibrating MEMStechnology to the commercial market,where it can improve the quality of livesfor people across the world,” ProfessorClark T.C. Nguyen says. “Equally excit-ing, however, is how Discera’s creationhas already generated entrepreneurialappetites in students graduating fromthe EECS Department.”

Rather than looking to work for largecompanies, where it can be more diffi-

cult to make a visible difference quickly,students hold onto to their own ambi-tions and dare to join start-ups, where,Nguyen says, “The risk is higher, butthe potential to influence society muchgreater.”

Rob Malan, Arbor Networks, agrees,“Building products that work, aredeployable, and generate enough rev-enue to sustain a company of peopleand their families is amazingly gratifying.”

And for all of these companies, hiringUM graduates seems to happen natu-rally. “These people know the technolo-gy because they helped develop it, theyare bright and well educated, and theywant to live in Michigan,” says RichardBrown, the founder of Sensicore.

The Final WordPerhaps Soloway sums up everyone’smission statement best: “We at theUniversity are in a privileged spot; weare supported in following ourmuses,” Soloway says. “Tech transferis the mechanism by which we pay ourcommunity back for this unique oppor-tunity. Tech transfer is something thatall faculty members should do to say‘thank you’ for the privilege to think andwork as we see fit.”

Read more about it!Visit the UM Tech Transfer organizationat www.engin.techtransfer.umich.edufor more information on EECS startupcompanies, College of Engineeringtechnologies available for licensing,and resources for faculty.

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including vision correction, cornealtransplants, and glaucoma treatment.

“CUOS research holds promise foradditional spinouts based on recentlysubmitted patent disclosures and exist-ing patent awards,” says Peter Pronko,Emeritus Research Scientist. “There areopportunities in equipment manufactur-ing and associated production opera-tions in isotope enrichment, intense x-ray generation, micromachining, andnanotechnology, to name a few.”

But sometimes, even the best intentionsare not enough. Start-ups need money— and, usually, lots of it.

Funding the FutureIncreasingly, UM Tech Transfer is col-laborating with venture capitalists toform startup companies — forging thelink between new technology and themarketplace. One Ann Arbor-based ven-ture capital company, Ardesta, has beeninstrumental in launching several com-panies. Three of these were launchedfrom EECS: Sensicore, Discera, andTranslume.

“Tech transfer certainly has improvedin the state of Michigan in the past fiveyears. The universities have made techtransfer a higher priority and have hiredgood people to lead these efforts,” saysChristopher Rizik, Ardesta’s SeniorVice President. “But creating an effec-tive technology transfer program is dif-ficult and time consuming. The chal-lenge is to make and keep tech transfera high priority from administration toadministration so that a consistentmessage is sent to professors and tooutside parties looking to work with theuniversities.”

Arbor Networkswww.arbornetworks.comAnn Arbor, MI, and Boston, MAClark/MXR, Inc.www.cmxr.comDexter, MIDiscerawww.discera.comAnn Arbor, MIEMAG Technologies Inc.www.emagtechnologies.comAnn Arbor, MI

EECS Tech Transfer DozenSince 1995, 12 start-up companies have been formed based on EECS-developed technology. The results are tangible —and the benefits for society are great.

GoKnowwww.goknow.comAnn Arbor, MIIntraLasewww.intralase.comIrvine, CAIntegrated Sensing Systems (ISSYS)www.mems-issys.comYpsilanti, MIPicometrix, Inc.www.picometrix.comAnn Arbor, MI

Quantum Signalwww.quantu.signal.comAnn Arbor, MISensicorewww.sensicore.comAnn Arbor, MITranslumewww.translume.com Ann Arbor, MIXterawww.xtera.com Dallas, TX

Residing within the Department ofElectrical Engineering and ComputerScience, this is the first WIMS centerin the United States. Such NationalScience Foundation centers are thejewel in the crown of a research area.To harness the best of the best, UMcollaborates with Michigan StateUniversity and Michigan Technologi-cal University. UM researchersinclude scientists from most of theCollege of Engineering disciplines aswell as from Chemistry, Public Health,and Medicine. Additional fundingcomes from the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) and the DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA). To encourage technologytransfer, the Center works with theState of Michigan and an industrialpartnership program involving morethan 20 companies representing themicroelectronics, automotive, chemi-

cal, and medical industries.

The center builds onUM’s 30-year history

in microsytemsresearch. In

the mid-

In Isaac Asimov’s 1966 science fic-tion classic, Fantastic Voyage, sci-

entists are reduced to a microscopicfraction of their size and sent in aminiaturized atomic submarinethrough a dying man’s carotid arteryto destroy a blood clot in his brain.Asimov predicted the concept of inte-grated microsystems, where scien-tists’ skills and technology are madesmaller for ease of use — and acadre of communications devicesmonitor their progress. A few yearslater, the University of Michigan actu-ally pioneered the use of sensors andmicroflowmeters within the coronaryarteries of the heart. Today, througha new National Science FoundationEngineering Research Center, UM istaking such microsystems and com-munications devices to the next level— by going smaller and wireless.

“Our Engineering Research Center(ERC) for Wireless IntegratedMicroSystems (WIMS) focuses onminiature low-cost integrated micro-systems that will measure or controlphysical parameters, interpret thedata, and communicate over a bi-directional wireless system,” saysKen Wise, director of the Center.Wise is the J. Reid and PollyAnderson Professor of Manufactur-ing Technology, and the WilliamGould Dow Distinguished UniversityProfessor of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science.

“The goal of the Center,” says Wise, “isto develop systems that are rapidlyconfigurable, reconfigurable, andself-testing.”

UM researchers predict that WIMS willgather information directly from theenvironment. Miniature information-gathering devices will be used forprocess control, transportation systems(in smart vehicles and smart highways,for example), environmental monitoring(for weather, global change, air andwater quality), and improved healthcare (for wearable and implantable bio-medical systems).

“As we look ahead to the comingdecade, there’s little question that inte-grated microsystems will increase incapability and, for many applications,go wireless, fueled by the demand forlow-cost portable information gather-ing,” says Wise. The Center’s philoso-phy is that these microsystems willmerge microelectromechanical sys-tems (MEMS) with embedded microp-ower controllers and wireless inter-faces. They will use wafer-level packag-ing to keep costs low and reliabilityhigh, will be infinitesimally small,and will communicate over dis-tances from a few centimetersto a few kilometers.

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Going Wireless — and small: THE NEXT BIG THINGS

Electrode array for cochlear prosthesis: The array is made so that it can be threaded into the spiral cochlea of pro-foundly deaf patients, bringing the electrodes into close proximity with nerve cells. WIMS faculty and students are devel-oping technologies that will facilitate full implantation of cochlear prostheses and improve the fidelity of sound that patientshear.

On May 8, a University of Michigan EECS team conducted a laser experi-ment that resulted in the highest laser intensity ever produced byhumankind. The experiment was demonstrated on a National ScienceFoundation-supported laser known as "Hercules” — High-EnergyRepetitive CUos Laser System. This remarkable result capped a two-yeareffort by Research Scientist Victor Yanovsky and his team, VladimireChvykov, Galina Kalintchenko, Seung-Whan Bahk, and Associate ResearchScientist Anatoly Maksimchuk. The results were immediately duplicated onanother device, demonstrating that the experimental set-up was sound andready for further experimentation.

“In the field of high intensity, people usually quote only a number, butVictor’s team went beyond that,” says Center for Ultrafast Optical ScienceDirector, Gérard A. Mourou. “This experiment opens up a new era inphysics. The field of ultrahigh intensity is now becoming a reality.”

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1970s, UM researchers developed thefirst monolithic silicon pressure sen-sor with on-chip readout circuitry, andthen extended the technology as abasis for commercial products suchas infrared devices, accelerometers,and gyros. That research has helpedmake possible advances in biomedi-cine, adaptive process control, envi-ronmental monitoring, space instru-mentation, defense, and transportationsystems.

Current research is organized into fourmajor areas: micropower circuits,wireless interfaces, sensors andmicroinstruments, and micro-packag-ing. Two application testbeds are inthe works. The first is a radio-frequency-powered implantable micro-system expected to significantlyimprove the performance of cochlearprostheses for the profoundly deaf.Researchers plan to extend that tech-

nology to devices for treating epilepsy,Parkinson’s disease, and other neuro-logical disorders. The second testbed isa battery-powered wristwatch-size envi-ronmental monitoring system capableof gas analysis as well as measuringbarometric pressure, temperature,humidity, and other variables.

“Because WIMS uses structures wherecoupled, thermal, electrical, mechanical,and optical sensitivities are present, theresearch area demands engineers withbroad interdisciplinary backgroundswho are comfortable dealing with suchstructures,” says Wise. “The fact thatWIMS cuts across such a broad swathin engineering is both a challenge andan opportunity.”

One of the opportunities in WIMS isassociated with education. Wise says,“The very nature of WIMS devices — asphysical entities — makes them ideal

A Herculean Feat

tools for illustrating basic principlesin science. A large component of theERC funding involves education.” TheCenter’s activities include programsat the pre-college, undergraduate,graduate, and professional levels.After a master’s emphasis in micro-systems is created, work will begin ona microsystems major at the doctorallevel.

“In addition to research that willdirectly benefit society, MEMS/WIMS is being used to encouragemore young people to go into engi-neering. And distance learning tech-nology is being used to ease the entryof practicing engineers into microsys-tems from a wide variety of disci-plines,” Wise says. “It’s a greatrecipe for success.”

www.eecs.umich.edu/wims

Victor Yanovsky with HERCULES.

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The Brave New World of Quantum Computing

Computers based on silicon havefollowed a remarkable price-per-

formance curve through shrinkingthe transistors, giving us the comput-ing power of a super-computer of 20years ago in a microprocessor-basedcomputer which can be purchasedfor less than one thousandth the costof the supercomputer. There will,however, be an end to the shrinkingof transistors in silicon when silicontechnology reaches physical limits.Semiconductor vendors currentlypredict that this will occur in about 15years. Researchers at UM and else-where are exploring the use of quan-tum phenomena which might lead toa new generation of computers.

From algorithms for factoring num-bers and database searching to theo-ry of the devices themselves, there isa great deal of work that has to bedone if a quantum computer is reallygoing to be built.

“The average person may not notice,but underlying systems will bechanged because of quantum com-puting,” says Duncan Steel, the PeterS. Fuss Professor of Engineering anddirector of the Optical SciencesLaboratory. Steel’s research group isworking on developing the devicesthat would actually work in a quan-tum computer.

Classical computer devices work withthe numbers 0 or 1, one at a time, butdevices that would work in a quan-tum computer need to work with bothnumbers — 0 and 1 — simultane-ously. This leads to what appears tobe a massive parallelism for compu-tation. In quantum computers, thesenumbers are stored in qubits. In a

quantum computer, n-qubits can com-pute with all 2n numbers simulta-neously. Qubits based on atoms arebeing investigated by a group at theNational Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST) and at Michigan inthe Physics Department by ChrisMonroe.

Atom-based systems will probably formthe first successful quantum computer.However, the semiconductor quantumdot system of the type being investigat-ed in Steel’s laboratory will probably bethe more advanced “Pentium” version.Both systems have successfully shownthat they can manipulate and read out asingle qubit.

Steel says, “Progress in the area ofquantum computing has been fasterthan people expected” but, not surpris-ingly, the problems are at least as big aspeople thought they would be.

“The most famous problem is the prob-lem of being able to factor numbers,”says Steel. Factoring affects Internetsecurity, communications, and nationalsecurity issues such as encryption.Encrypted numbers are getting biggerand bigger. The bigger the number, thelarger the machine that will be neededfor the computations. But, says Steel,“if a quantum machine is used, it can

factor larger numbers but still remainsmall in size.”

Most known algorithms are no betterif implemented on a quantum com-puter. So far, two useable quantumalgorithms have been found — fac-toring and database search. EECSprofessors Igor Markov and JohnHayes are working on additionalquantum algorithms and techniquesto design quantum circuits. TheDefense Advanced Research ProjectsAgency (DARPA) is funding Markovand Hayes and their QuantumCircuits Group for a three-year peri-od, in which the researchers are syn-thesizing, simulating, and testingconventional and quantum logic cir-cuits in order to obtain a deeperunderstanding of both areas. In addi-tion to quantum computing, quantumlogic circuits are useful for securecommunication.

“In quantum mechanics,” Markovsays, “the signal is destroyed uponreading after you send it through aquantum channel. Therefore, if some-one tries to intercept your password,you are not going to receive anythingand may become suspicious. Bysending messages piecemeal andconfirming the receipt of every piece,this can be amplified to physicallysecure communication that does notrely on difficult computational prob-lems such as number factoring.”

“There is a common misconceptionthat quantum computing will replacethe classical computer, but thatseems unlikely to me,” says Markov.“It is not for word processing orInternet browsing, for example, butfor very specialized problems such asnumber factoring in cryptographyapplications, fast search, and securecommunication.”

Markov says that while the develop-ment of an actual quantum computeris at least a decade away, quantuminformation science is close to appli-cation and commercial use. A Swiss

“Quantum com-puting researchis very futuristicand will have atremendousimpact.”

company, IdQuantique (www.idquan-tique.com), is marketing quantumcommunications devices to banks,and a U.S. firm, MagiQ Technologies,(www.magiqtech.com) offers com-mercial quantum cryptography.

But researchers realize that theymust not regard quantum computingas a salve for all classical computingshortcomings. It is important toinvestigate what quantum computerscannot do. This kind of theoreticallimit is where EECS ProfessorYaoyun Shi comes in. While he was astudent at Princeton, Shi and his col-leagues discovered that quantumcomputers do not have much advan-tage over conventional computers insorting unordered lists.

“It’s important to understand thecomputational power of quantummechanics, to focus not only on whatit can do but also on what it cannotdo,” says Shi. “What it cannot do isalso vital to the design of cryptosys-tems that are immune to quantumattacks.” As a new EECS facultymember, Shi continues his theoreti-cal work here, expanding hisresearch to classical simulations ofquantum algorithms, quantum com-munications, and other areas. Shisays, “We know quantum computerscan be more efficient in terms of run-ning time, but what about space?Can we make them faster while usingless space, or will we need to do atime/space tradeoff? And how canwe minimize the amount of commu-nications entailed by exchangingquantum information?”

Shi agrees that while the impact oneveryday life may not seem apparent,everyone will be touched by thiswork. “For example, quantum com-puters may be used to design thequantum devices that make up theclassical logic gates of the futuredesktops,” says Shi, “Or, future com-puters may be embedded with a‘quantum chip’ that deals with somespecial calculations or performssecure communications.”

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Image of a quantum bit of information obtained from a near-field optical scanning microscope. The information is stored in a2-micron by 2-micron quantum dot, called a qubit, grown in GaAsmaterial. When light hits the dot, it creates an electron-hole paircalled an exciton. In the binary code, the absence of an excitonis a zero and the presence of an exciton is a one. This image,taken at 4 degrees Kelvin, shows the spatial extent of the wavefunction of the exciton and reflects the fact that the dot is in theone state. If the dot were in the zero state, the image would bespatially flat. The image is 2 microns by 2 microns [1 micron = 1millionth of a meter].

“Quantum computing research is veryfuturistic and will have a tremendousimpact,” Shi says. “The first digitalcomputer was created in the 1940s,but the theory of computers was devel-oped during the 1930s. This is the kindof timeline we’re looking at. Now is thetime to lay the groundwork for theincredible possibilities of quantumcomputing. And it’s up to the theoreti-cians to find the enormous applicationsof it. I like doing this work because it isso fundamental.”

Complementary research in other areaswill contribute to the future of quantumcomputing. “In order to be able to pro-duce the types of scalable architecturesthat have been envisioned in the labo-ratory, we need advances in materialsresearch,” Steel says. Already,advances are being made in the fabri-cation of semiconductor quantum dotarrays and architectures, in single elec-tron doping, and with integrated ultra-fast optics, that are very encouraging.

vehicle,” race crew operations leaderNicholas R. Schoeps says. “Weabsolutely have an excellent chance atwinning this race.” Schoeps is anIndustrial Engineering and MechanicalEngineering major who, as a freshman,says he considers himself lucky to be apart of the race crew.

“Personally, the Solar Car project isinvaluable to me,” says Schoeps. “I'velearned to use a mill, weld, and lay upcarbon fiber. You learn about compos-ite materials and racing components.You learn how to manage a race budg-et, how to be a leader, how to be ateammate, how to be a teacher. It's all

the little things they can'tteach you in the classroom.”

EECS student Adam Sloanagrees. “In class, you neverthink about how muchsomething costs or howhard it will be to get ormake a product,” saysSloan, who managessome of the electricalactivities. “I've alsolearned a lot aboutmaking a reliable sys-tem. The car is a very

rough environment that's definitely dif-ferent from the test bench.”

While EECS majors are forced to thinkabout vibrations and high temperaturesand limited space, making a systemredundant and easily fixable alsobecomes important. “Connectorsbecome a big issue and fusing things iscrucial. So is making sure that all ofyour connections are solid the firsttime so that you won't have to gothrough and find the problem whentime is short,” he says. “Attention todetail has become a big thing in thisproject, and I've learned that the littlethings really make a difference.”

Alumni Involvement“I ended up becoming one of theteam’s enthusiastic supporters,” alum-nus Leslie McDermott (BSEE ’76) says.McDermott was working for IBM whenthe corporation asked him to evaluatethe first team’s potential for funding in1990. He said, “The most amazingthing was that students from every

possible college and discipline wereorganized and participating in the proj-ect. Each team had a documented mis-sion, plan, and schedule.”

McDermott’s evaluation concluded thatthe only things the Solar Car projectlacked were physical resources andexperience. IBM contributed surpluspersonal computers and encouragedemployees to donate their businessand personal time to the project.McDermott says that corporate

involvement in the project boostedemployee morale, and informationabout how products could be usedproved valuable to IBM’s transportationsystems groups.

Alumnus Chuck Hutchins (BSE ME ’57)has been a supporter from the begin-ning. “The requirements to build a win-ning entry are diverse and very real-world. That realization was what reallyhooked me,” Hutchins says. “The carmust travel the prescribed route in theshortest time to be the winner. As wefound out in 1995 and 1999, any failureputs you out of the winner’s circle.”Hutchins says that there are few stu-dent projects that provide as muchrealism and breadth of experience.

Winning the Race“Extracurricular projects like the solarcar team are what makes going to aplace like the University of Michigan anexperience,” says Nick Schoeps. Heasks, “In what industry do you havegeneral meetings where anyone canhear or contribute to the entire project?This is a million-dollar project. You cando anything you want in this project,and you learn more than you ever willin any class. It's great because it's apassion. It's about making things hap-pen, putting a car on the ground, win-ning the race. And we love it.”

www.engin.umich.edu/solarcar

Solar Car Runs the SpectruM of Success“I would say 50% of the Solar Car proj-ect is electrical, 50% is mechanical/aero, and another 100% is hard work!”says faculty advisor Brian Gilchrist.

As professor of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science, Gilchrist over-sees EECS student work from aninformed perspective. “EECS studentshave been involved in every race,” saysGilchrist. “As time has gone on, thesophistication of the electrical systemshas increased. However, so have mostother technical areas. It is truly aninterdisciplinary effort.”

The team is get-ting the newest Solar Car, SpectruM,ready for the 2003 American SolarChallenge. This is the longest solar carrace — 2300 miles from Chicago,Illinois, to Claremont, California — andis open to competitors around theworld.

Students Learn on the RoadUM’s 2001 student race team won therace with the car M-Pulse. M-Pulse hada record-setting time of 56 hours, 10minutes, and 46 seconds, and an aver-age speed of 41 miles per hour whilemostly traveling along the historic (andnow sometimes quite bumpy) Route66. The speed is hardly Indy 500 mate-rial, but it is phenomenal when oneconsiders that this is a project built byhand, from the electrical work to thebody, and powered exclusively by solarenergy.

“This year’s car builds on what welearned, creating an even better race

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“You learn how tobe a leader, how tobe a teammate, howto be a teacher.”

STUDENT NEWS

The 2003 Solar Car Team and SpectruM

Solar Car Team

Student AwardsDAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest —2002 and 2003 WinsUM took first and second place awardsin the 2003 DAC/ISSCC Student DesignContest — and first place in the 2002competition.

The 2003 first-place team consisted ofstudents Robert M. Senger, Eric D.Marsman, Michael S. McCorquodale,Fadi H. Gebara, Keith L. Kraver, andMatthew Guthaus. They designed a 16-bit mixed-signal microsystem withintegrated CMOS-MEMS clock refer-ence. Second place was secured by theteam of students Masoud Agah, YangLi, and Robert M. Senger; theydesigned an integrated thermally-based microflow sensor.

The 2002 first-place team consisted ofdoctoral candidates Steven M. Martinand Roy H. Olsson, III. They also tookthe prize for best overall paper, “AMicrosystem for Near-Patient Acceler-ated Clotting Time Blood Tests.”

UM Wins USF International BusinessPlan CompetitionMobius Microsystems won first place.More than 80 teams entered the com-petition. Michael S. McCorquodale,PhD student in EECS, and his team

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received $1,000 for Best Pitch and$10,000 for Best Overall BusinessConcept. Next, Mobius will partici-pate in the MBA Jungle Business Plan Competition in New York.McCorquodale also received the 2003Harry Benford Award for Entrepren-eurial Leadership and the 2002 EECSDistinguished Achievement Award.

International Thesis PrizeCompetitionNam Sung Kim, a candidate for the PhDin VLSI, received a silver medal and$5,000 in the Humantech Thesis PrizeCompetition awarded by SamsungElectronics. The title of his thesis is"Reducing Register Ports UsingDelayed Write-back Queue and Oper-and Pre-Fetch." The prize is in its eighthyear, and winners were selected fromamong 633 entries from more than 60institutions around the world. Nam’sadvisor is Trevor Mudge.

International VLSI Design ContestJay Sivagnaname and Rahul Rao, grad-uate students in EE, took first prize fortheir entry, "Dual Issue Power-PC FXUProcessor," at The 16th InternationalConference on VLSI Design (VLSIDESIGN 2003), held in New Delhi,India. The contest encourages educa-tion and research in state-of-the-artVLSI design.

Sun Microsystems and TopCoderProgramming CompetitionCSE graduate student Tom Sirgedaswon a total of $6,000 in the SunMicrosystems and TopCoder CollegiateChallenge Programming Competition,and was named Midwest Champion.

2002 UM Outstanding GraduateStudent Instructor AwardEric Marsman (BSEEE ’00, MSE EE ’01)was one of only 20UM graduate stu-dent instructors toreceive the 2002award. Recipientsd e m o n s t r a t e“exceptional ability,creativity, and con-tinuous growth as teachers” and pro-vide outstanding service as a mentorand advisor to students and col-leagues. Marsman taught EECS 427,VLSI Design I. Marsman is also a pastrecipient of an American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE)Outstanding Student Instructor Award.

International Conference onComputer Aided Design

Graduate students Matt Guthaus(BSE CE ’98, MSE EE ’00) andDoRon Motter won the ACM SIGDACAD contest at the InternationalConference on Computer-AidedDesign (ICCAD) and received$1,000 each. Fifteen teams of twoPhD students each from UM, MIT,Berkeley, USC, CMU, UT-Austin,Wisconsin, and others were given aLinux box, a C compiler, and somestandard libraries to use in solvinga set of CAD-related problems. Thecompetition tested CAD knowledgeand problem-solving, program-ming, and teamwork skills.

World’sSmartest PersonCompetitionAndrew Nierman, Ph.D. candidate inComputer Science under ProfessorH. V. Jagadish, won the InternationalHigh IQ Society's World's Smartest

Person competition. He received$500, a T-shirt, and a plaque.Nierman scored higher than the100,000 other people who took thetest, answering 22 of 25 questionscorrectly, including two questionsthat have yet to be solved by anyoneelse. Nierman is taking such acclaimin good stride, saying, “Winning thecontest was kind of a mixed blessing.I had a lot of phone calls andrequests for interviews that I wouldhave rather not had to deal with. Buton the other hand, solving the prob-lems and trying to move up the con-test ‘leaderboard’ was fun.”

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2002 Alumni SocietyMerit Awards Recipients

Computer Science andEngineering DivisionKevin O'Connor (BSE EE '83)Chairman, DoubleClick Inc.As co-founder, Kevin O’Connor hasgrown DoubleClick from two peopleworking in a basement to a global cor-poration that employs almost 1,200people. He oversees new market devel-opment, long-term strategic direction,and the overall vision of the digital mar-keting solutions company. Beforefounding DoubleClick in 1996, he co-founded the Internet Advertising Net-work (IAN). The software technologypioneered by IAN paved the way for thecreation of DoubleClick and the firstfull-service Web advertising network.

A memorable time studying at EECS:This is something no student can relateto these days, but back when I was inschool, we interfaced with the comput-er system via punch cards or teletypemachines. The teletypes were so hardto come by and the lines were long.There was one incredibly old, secretteletype machine, though, located in

Engineering Alumni Society Awards

2002 Alumni Society Recent Engineering Graduate Award RecipientLarry Page (BSE CE '95), Co-Founder and President, Products, Google Inc.After graduating from UM, Larry Page went to Stanford to pursue his PhD. There, he teamed up withfellow doctoral student Sergey Brin to create the Internet search engine, Google. Based on its PageRankalgorithm, Google brought a new level of speed and accuracy to information retrieval on the Internet.

As Google's founding CEO, Page grew the company to 200 employees and profitability before movinginto his current role as president, Products. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with its current CEO, Eric Schmidt, and co-founder Brin.

An East Lansing native, Page’s father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University.At UM, Larry Page received many leadership awards, and served as president of the Eta Kappa Nuhonor society. He built a programmable plotter and inkjet printer out of Legos.

In 2002, MIT Technology Review magazine named Larry Page a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future, and a WorldEconomic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow.

ALUMNI NEWSsome closet in West Engi-neering. I think it was 300baud and was louder than a jetengine. Man, did I hate com-puters back then.

Electrical andComputer EngineeringDivisionRob A. Rutenbar (MSE '79,PhD '84)Stephen J. Jatras Professorof Electrical and ComputerEngineering, CarnegieMellon University andDirector, Center for Circuits,Systems, and SoftwareAfter graduating from UM,Rob A. Rutenbar joined thefaculty of Carnegie MellonUniversity. His research inter-ests focus on circuit and lay-out synthesis algorithms formixed-signal ASICs for high-speed digital systems and forFPGAs. In 1987, he received aNational Science FoundationPresidential Young Investigator Award.From 1992 to 1995, he was a memberof IEEE Spectrum’s Editorial Board.Rob Rutenbar is a cofounder of

NeoLinear, Inc., a startup companydelivering CAD solutions for customanalog integrated circuit design, and anIEEE Fellow.

Dean Stephen Director, Rob Rutenbar, Richard B.Brown (Interim Chair, EECS)

Dean Stephen Director, Kevin O’Connor,John Laird (Assoc. Chair, CSE Division)

is a master gardener for the University ofIllinois Extension Service.

The 1970sJack Bonn (BSE ECE, ’76; MSE CI&CE, ’77)has been an independent consultant since1979. He has worked on everything fromradars to sonars to bottle-makingmachines. He has recently become involvedin the production of liquid handling equip-ment in support of drug discovery andgenomic/proteomic research. He has beenmarried since 1977 and has two children.Robert W. Bossemeyer (MSE EE, ’78)writes, “In 2000, after almost 19 years inapplied research at AT&T Bell Laboratoriesand Ameritech Science and Technology, Istarted my own consulting business,Speech Technology Applied Research, Inc.,in St. Charles, IL.” He provides consultingservices in text-to-speech and speaker ver-ification technologies. He also is speechbiometrics team leader for Quantum Signal,LLC, an Ann Arbor company co-founded byProfessor William Williams and Dr. MitchRohde, a UM Bioengineering Programgraduate. “It's nice to be working with Billagain; he was my thesis advisor (and men-

The 1950sThomas F. Hauck (BSE EE ’51) is enjoyinglife. His work record includes: two years atLockheed Burbank; two years at the U.S. AirForce, Washington, D.C.; 37 years as sys-tems/project engineer at Lear Inc./SmithIndustries; and now 10 years as an educa-tion/sports aide volunteer. He has been mar-ried to his wife, Donna, for 44 years. Theyhave two children and three grandchildren.Phillip A. Sandford (BSE EE ’50) has been“having a ball” trying to establish a fewacres of prairie land, woodland, and wetlandwildflowers with fruit orchards and gardensat his retirement home in northern Illinois.He began this new venture upon retiring in1992 after a 40-year career in electronic andelectromechanical engineering of consumer,space, and industrial products; thermo-electrics; automated cooking; computerizedcash registers; and consulting. He workedfor GE, Borg-Warner, Philco-Ford Division ofFord Motor, Northern Electric, McDonald’sCorporation, Sandford Associates, andSunbeam Corporation. He said he inventedthe “world's safest and most comfortableelectric blanket concept.” He is married andhas five children and six grandchildren, and

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New EECS Alumni Society

Homecoming Weekend in October2002 was the scene of many happyreunions — and the birth of the newEECS Alumni Society. EECS alumniand friends answered Interim ChairRichard B. Brown’s invitation to dis-cuss the formation of this group. Asa result of that meeting, EECS AlumniSociety bylaws were adopted andofficers were elected.EECS Alumni Society President BillBecher (MS EE ’61, PhD EE ’68) isexcited about the new organizationwhich, he says, “will foster mutualsocial and intellectual benefitsamong our alumni, students, faculty,and friends; camaraderie within themembership; and benefits to theentire EECS and Engineer ing community.”The alumni society plans to get stu-dents involved before they graduate.“We hope this will influence students’continual interest in the Society aftergraduation,” says Becher. “It also will

help make the Society aware of theneeds of students, and help us focusour support on those needs.” Becherand the other Society officers foreseea mentoring program and careerassistance for students. “The mem-bership can benefit, too, by identify-ing future employees for their organ-izations,” Becher says.Future activities include honoring fel-low alumni, getting together at a tail-gate party during HomecomingWeekend, linking the faculty andalumni together so they might sharecommon interests, and more. Bechersays, “We’re also thinking of offeringdepartmental tours and special lec-tures during Homecoming Weekendso our alumni can see all the greatthings our department has been, andis, doing.”

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tor) when I was an undergraduate and grad-uate student during the 1970s.”F. G. Gray (PhD CI&CE, ’71) will retire onJune 1, 2003, after 32 years of service toVirginia Tech.Robert Isackson (BS EE ’78) graduatedfrom UM Law School in 1982; moved toNew York to practice patent law at Fish &Neave; joined the Davis Hoxie patent bou-tique in 1991 and made partner; helpedmerge Davis Hoxie into Orrick in 1995; andis now head of the New York IP group. Hislegal practice is mostly patent litigation forFortune 100 companies in a wide variety oftechnologies including medical devices,genetically modified DNA in crop biotech-nology, software, pharmaceuticals, andcomputer-controlled deep fat fryers, toname a few. He has been married since1984; has one daughter, born 1989, andone son, born 1993; and resides inTenafly, NJ.Walter L. Whipple (MSE, ’74; and PhDCICE, ’88) writes: “A little over four yearsago, I re-planned my career and changed tocontract engineering work. Clients haveincluded United Parcel Service, AmericanBuildings, Tellabs, Microsoft, and Boeing.Currently, I'm writing test procedures andother documents for special test equipmentused for communications satellites atBoeing Satellite Systems. My wife, Jean,also left direct employment for documentmanagement software consulting. We havetwo daughters, Kate and Sara, and twograndsons, Bryan and John. We've settledin Goleta (suburb of Santa Barbara), CA, tobe with the kids and a cousin.”

The 1980sMark R. Brown (MS CI&CE, ’80) graduatedwith honors from Rutgers School of Law(Newark) in May 2002, and was inductedinto the Order of the Coif Law HonorsSociety. He recently passed the registrationexamination for patent agents given by theU.S. Patent and Trademark Office. His workfocuses on traffic flow measurements for IPnetworks and reachability monitoring forMPLS-based virtual private networks.

Alumni Facts

13,850 EECS AlumniTop Five EECS Alumni States

Alumni Notes

• Michigan 4,318

• California 2,282

• Illinois 549

• Texas 544

• New York 425

Scott K. Riggs (BSE CE, ’86) is vice presi-dent, Information Technology, for ProQuestCompany in Ann Arbor, a digital archiverand publisher to the education and librarymarkets throughout the world. He enjoyscooking, wine, and golf (when timepermits).Aviel D. Rubin (BS Cpt & Com Sc, ’89;MSE CSE, ’91; PhD CSE, ’94) recentlymoved to Johns Hopkins (from AT&TLabs), where he is an associate professorand the technical director of the newInformation Security Institute.Steven R. Schwartz (BS CE, ’89) co-founded Inovo Technologies, an AnnArbor-based consulting firm focused oncommercial innovation in January 2003.Inovo's helps companies create econ-omic value from new technologies — oracquire the technologies to provide acommercial edge in existing markets.Inovo's Web site is www.inovotech.com.

The 1990sPaul L. Bergstrom (PhD EE, ’96) joined thefaculty at Michigan Tech’s Electrical andComputer Engineering Department, wherehe has been building a research program inMEMS materials and process integrationtechnologies for integrated sensors. Heparticipates in the NSF EngineeringResearch Center on Wireless IntegratedMicrosystems with UM and MSU, and culti-vates industrial interactions on integratedsensing technologies. He and his wife,Maria, enjoy the north woods with their

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Alumni? Alumnae? What does it allmean?

You say “alumni.” Your spouse says“alumnus.” Do you ever feel like call-ing the whole thing off? Here is ashort but sweet definition of terms:

◗Alumni —(Plural) A group of peo-ple who graduated from the sameschool, college, or university. “Our13,850 alumni are the best in theworld.”

◗Alumnus —(Singular) A malegraduate of a school, college, oruniversity. “Larry Page is a UMalumnus.”

◗Alumna —(Singular) A femalegraduate of a school, college, oruniversity. “We are proud to saythat Sheila Hemami is an EECS alumna.”

◗Alumnae —(Plural) A group ofwomen graduates of a school, col-lege, or university. “CSAM is com-prised of Computer Sciencealumnae.”

David Edwards (BS CE, ’84) became asupervisor at Yazaki North America,Canton, MI, where he has worked since1998. From 1995 to 1998, he was a soft-ware application developer at EDS, andfrom 1985 to 1994, he was a logic designerat IBM. David J. Gaskey (BSE EE, ’89) and John E.Carlson (’91) are partners at the intellectu-al property law firm of Carlson, Gaskey &Olds, P.C. (CGO) in Birmingham, MI. CGOwas founded in July 2000 and has grown to10 patent attorneys. CGO recently wasnamed by its Fortune 250 clients as theirprincipal intellectual property counsel in"Who Protects IP America," The Year inIntellectual Property Almanac 2002.Kenneth F. Gudan (BSE CE, ’85) works forApple Computer in Cupertino, CA. He is alead EE for the iMac desktop product line,having a direct design/development contri-bution to every iMac to date. This job hastaken Ken to Asia and Mexico numeroustimes for factory visits (and stress!). Hewrites, “I have been blessed to be marriedto Vivian for 11 years, with son Paul (six)and daughter Lisa (four), and we reside inSunnyvale. Feel free to e-mail a hello if youwish to gudan@apple.com!”Kenneth W. Hawk (BSE EE, ’86) started 1-800-Batteries in 1993 after graduatingfrom the Stanford MBA program. He tookthe company public as iGo in 1999 andrecently sold iGo to another public compa-ny. He recently took over as CEO ofNemeriX in Lugano, Switzerland; they are afabless semiconductor company thatmakes low-power GPS chipsets. Ken trav-eled to the annual Hannekamen ski race inKitzbuhel where he had a terrific dinner withArnold Schwartzenegger, “whom I metthrough my close friend, Franz Weber,world record-holder for speed skiing.”Anthony Lavdas (BSE EE, ’87) is workingon the development and deployment ofnext-generation Electrical CAD/CAE/CAM/PIM tools for Ford Motor CompanyAdvanced Vehicle Technologies. He is theEESE C3P Method Lead Section Supervisor,EESE MCAD Development and Deployment.Jae Hong Lee (PhD EE, ’86) is the generalchair of the 57th IEEE VTC (VehicularTechnology Conference) Spring 2003 inJeju, Korea, April 22-25, 2003. He is a pro-fessor of electrical engineering at SeoulNational University, Seoul, Korea. He alsoserves as the director of the Institute ofNew Media and Communications of SeoulNational University.Robert V. Nightingale (BSE EE, ’86) saidthat his "Great Accomplishment" in thiseconomy means he’s done enough to keephis job! In the last five years at JDASoftware, he has been involved in designingand implementing decision support data-bases with Oracle, a job that has sent him toAustralia, Europe, South America, SouthAfrica, Canada, and all across the U.S.When it's warm, he enjoys the beachesalong Lake Michigan.

three children, two girls (ages six and one)and a boy (four). (See ERC/WIMS article onpage 11.)David S. Carter (BSE EE, ’93) was appointedengineering librarian at the University ofMichigan Media Union Library in Septem-ber 2002. He was previously the director ofthe Internet Public Library (IPL) and a lec-turer at the University of Michigan's Schoolof Information, where he taught classes ondigital librarianship and on informationresources in the sciences. He has workedwith the Alliance for Community Technol-ogy (ACT) and librarians with the AmericanIndian Higher Education Council (AIHEC) insetting up an AIHEC Virtual Library.Krishnendu Chakrabarty (PhD CSE, ’95)was promoted to associate professor withtenure at Duke University in 2002. He wasawarded the National Science FoundationCareer award in 1999 and the Office ofNaval Research (ONR) Young Investigatoraward in 2001. He is married to KamalikaMukherjee and has one son.John C. Cowl (PhD EE, ’94) is a designengineer at Analog Devices in Beaverton,OR, where he is responsible for RF/IF prod-uct design. He is married to Mary Ulmer,and they have a daughter, Sophia. John’sbrother, Bob Cowles, is a surgery residentat the UM Hospital. John enjoys world trav-eling, history, and anthropology. He speaksPortuguese, Spanish, French, German, andRussian. He stays active with soccer andtennis, and says that time constraintsforced him to get into jogging, cycling,weights, and swimming.Jennifer Crowley (BSE EE, ’95) is presidentand owner of Cross Consulting and Sales,L.L.C. She received an MBA fromNorthwestern University. After working sev-eral years at Texas Instruments in semicon-ductor marketing, technical sales, and busi-ness development roles, she started a busi-ness consulting and sales representativefirm specializing in strategic marketing andsales for technology-based companies. Shehas traveled extensively for both work andpleasure. A highlight of last year was abackcountry trek in Alaska. She lives inMichigan and makes it back to UM foralmost every home football game. Marco D'Aristotile (BS CE, ’99) isemployed at the EDS Virtual Reality (VR)Center in Troy, MI. He is engaged in manyprojects involving high-end VR hardware,VR facility design, and 3-D content creation.Clients have included major auto manufac-turers, the military, architecture firms, citygovernments, and many others.Eric A. Durant (MSE, ’99; PhD, EE-Systems, ’02) joined Milwaukee School ofEngineering as an assistant professor in theDepartment of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science in March 2002.Gordon Good (BS CE, ’91) is co-author ofthe book, Understanding and DeployingLDAP Directory Services, published thisyear by Addison-Wesley Professional. Co-authors are EECS alumni Timothy A.

Howes (1996: PhD, CSE) and Mark C.Smith (1988: BSE, CE). Good is a seniorsoftware engineer at Opsware, Inc., inSunnyvale, California.Andrew P. Hoover (MSE EE, ’93) is an ICdesign engineer at Motorola, in theSemiconductor Products Sector. He is mar-ried and has three children, ages two, five,and seven. Andrew is actively involved inworld hunger relief efforts via CROPWALKand is involved with the Texas Legislature topromote family-friendly legislation.James K. Huggins (PhD CSE, ’95) waspromoted in July 2002 to associate profes-sor with tenure of Computer Science atKettering University, where he received aKettering University Alumni AssociationOutstanding Teaching Award in June. He ismarried to Jane E. Huggins and has adaughter, Clara, born in 2001.Christy L. Johnson (PhD EE, ’90) is anadvisory engineer/scientist in the Surfaceand Materials Science Laboratory at IBMCorporation in Vermont. She is involved intransmission electron microscopy.William F. Kolakowski (BSE CE, ’93) waselevated to membership in the law firmDykema Gossett PLLC where he specializesin intellectual property law, includingpatents, trademarks, copyrights, and relat-ed litigation. He is a registered patent attor-ney with a concentration in computer, elec-trical and electro-mechanical technologies.David P. Trumpy (BSE EE, ’99) works on adigital signal processing system for

machinery vibration monitoring for the XMproduct line for Rockwell Automation. Thesystem won some prestigious awards,including the Industry Week Technology ofthe Year and Control Engineering 2002Editors Choice Award. Click onwww.entek.com.Khurt L. Williams (MSE EE-Systems, ’94)started his own IT consulting company inPrinceton, NJ, in January 2000. He is mar-ried (1996) with a son (Shaan, almost four),and daughter (Kiran, two).

The 2000sEgor Alekseev (PhD EE ’00) a seniordesign engineer at MCE Inmet, Ann Arbor,MI, is delighted to announce the birth ofhis baby daughter, Tess Elisabeth, bornMarch 2, 2002.Laura N. Hamel (nee Carter) (BSE CE ’00,MSE CSE ’01) writes that, “Two EECS geekstied the knot.” Andrew Hamel (MSE expect-ed April 2003) and Laura Carter (MSE, ’01)met as EECS undergraduates and weremarried on August 17, 2002. They live inAnn Arbor.Alpesh Jain (MS EE, ’00) is a componentdesign engineer in the Wireless Computingand Communications Group at IntelCorporation, Austin, TX. Alpesh writes,“Austin doesn't have a UM AlumniAssociation chapter, and I would love to gettogether with other Wolverines in town, tostart one. So, if you are one, drop me a lineASAP!! Go Blue!!” Write to Alpesh atalpeshjain@yahoo.com.

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EECS Alumni Around the World

More than 800 of our EECS Alumni live in more

than 60 countries around theworld, including:

Algeria ArgentinaAustralia AzerbaijanBahamas BahrainBangladesh BelgiumBrazil CanadaChile ChinaColumbia CyprusCzech Republic EgyptEngland FranceGermany GreeceGuadeloupe HollandHong Kong IcelandIndia IndonesiaIran IraqIsrael JapanJordan KenyaKuwait LibyaMalawi MalaysiaMexico The NetherlandsNew Zealand NigeriaNorth Korea NorwayPakistan PeruPortugal The PhilippinesRussia Saudi ArabiaSingapore South KoreaSpain SudanSwitzerland SyriaTaiwan ThailandTunisia TurkeyUnited Arab Emirates VenezuelaYango

CompaniesAbbott LaboratoriesAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc.Agilent TechnologiesAlfred P. Sloan FoundationApple Computer, Inc.AT&T LaboratoriesCisco Systems, Inc.Citigroup FoundationDaimlerChrysler AGDaimlerChrysler Corporation FundDow Chemical Company FoundationEaton Charitable FundFord Motor CompanyGeneral Motors FoundationGeneral Motors, R&D and

NAO PlanningGerondelis Foundation, Inc.Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Herrick FoundationHewlett-Packard LaboratoriesHewlett-Packard CompanyHP Laboratories: Internet Systems and

Storage LabHughes Network SystemsIMRA America, Inc.Intel CorporationIntel FoundationInternational Business Machines

Corporation (IBM)Intralase CorporationJohnson Controls FoundationKiwanis Club of Ann Arbor FoundationLaning Ross Davidson EstateLockheed MartinLockheed Martin Corporation

FoundationLockheed Martin Services, Inc.Lucent Technologies Foundation

Lucent TechnologiesMentor Graphics CorporationMicrosoft CorporationMicrosoft ResearchMotorola SPSOpen DeviceNet Vendors

Association, Inc.Philips ResearchProctor & Gamble FundSamuel I. Russell EstateSandia National LaboratoriesScience Applications International

CorporationSun Microsystems, Inc.Synplicity, Inc.Takata Automotive Systems

Laboratory, Inc.Telcordia TechnologiesTexas Instruments, Inc.TRW Foundation

Special Thanks to our DonorsWe would like to thank the following companies and individuals for their recent support of the Department through gifts ofmoney and equipment. These gifts have enabled us to further the educational mission of the Department in a variety of ways,including: scholarships and fellowships to students; outstanding speakers featured at a variety of seminar series; facultyresearch; donated equipment and software that has been used for courses and research; and outreach to the K-12 community.

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Joseph Everett Rowe, former faculty member and Chair of EECS, passed away October 23,2002, at the age of 75.

Dr. Rowe joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1953. He became Director of the ElectronPhysics Laboratory in 1958, a position he held for ten years until he was named Chair of EECS.Under his leadership, the Electron Physics Laboratory became one of the premier laboratorieson campus and was the forerunner of the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory.

Dr. Rowe left the University of Michigan in 1974 to become Dean of Engineering and thenProvost of Case Western Reserve University. He went on to industry, where he held several posi-tions as vice president at Harris, Gould; Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG); and the Dayton ResearchInstitute, before founding his own company, Rowe Associates, Inc.

Prof. Rowe was a first-rate scientist who made significant technical contributions, a greatvisionary, and an astute businessman. He was one of the major pioneers in the area of microwave devices and, in particu-lar, vacuum tube devices such as traveling wave tubes and magnetrons, which are still in wide use today in many applica-tions, including high-power communication and radar systems as well as microwave ovens. His 1965 book, NonlinearElectron Wave Interaction Phenomena, is a standard in the field.

Dr. Rowe received a University Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, was a member of the National Academy ofEngineering, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

He was a member of the College of Engineering’s National Advisory Committee, Chair of the Annual Fund, and a member ofthe executive committee of the Design for Impact Campaign. In recognition of his many accomplishments and service to theDepartment and College, he received the first College of Engineering Alumni Society Merit Award for EECS in 1992.

Dr. Joseph E. Rowe (BSE EE/Math ’51, MSE ’52, PhD EE ’55)

’23 Joseph F. Kruszka (BSE EE), 5/8/02’25 Francis A. Miller (BSE EE), 1/17/02’29 Arthur J. Beck, Jr. (BSE EE), 1/2/02’30 Stanley W. Zimmerman (BSE EE, MSE),

5/13/02’38 Donnan H. Basler (BSE EE), 2/23/02’41, ’70 Rowland H. McLaughlin (BSE EE, CI & CE),

5/5/02’41, ’53 Nelson W. Spencer (BSE EE, MSE), 8/31/02’43 John W. Duff (BSE EE), 4/10/02’43 Richard K. Mosher (BSE EE), 8/12/02’44 Walter N. Berlin (BSE EE), 6/22/02’46 Wayne D. Bartlett (BSE EE), 6/9/02’48 Gordon T. Park (BSE EE), 1/26/02’48 Willys W. McCloud (MSE), 9/2/02

’49 Gordon R. Lawrence (BSE EE), 6/11/02’50 Alfred J. Magyar (BSE EE), 12/5/02’50 Jack William Sarver (BSE EE), 10/4/02’50 Harold W. Sherman (BSE EE), 2/25/02’51, ’52, ’55 Joseph E. Rowe (BSE EE, MSE, PhD),

10/23/02’52 Robert John Hansen (BSE EE), 1/9/02’58 Howard A. Agosta (BSE EE), 6/6/02’59 Francis L. Carr (BSE EE), 7/25/02’64 Lt. Col. Eugene H. Fox (BSE EE), 5/20/02’66 Joseph Krieger (BSE EE), 3/9/02’68 Richard L. Carson (BSE EE), 5/11/02’82 Thomas M. Sharpe (BSE EE), 9/9/02’85 David P. Himlin (BSE EE), 6/9/02

In Memoriam

U.S. Civilian Research & DevelopmentFoundation for the IndependentStates of the Former Soviet Union

Unisys CorporationWhirlpool CorporationXerox Wilson Center for Research

and TechnologyXilinx, Inc.

IndividualsMrs. Pauline V. AndersonMr. and Mrs. Paul C. AtallahR. James Bennett

David E. BoundyPeter and Noreen BrileyBilal Chinoy and Tijal ChindyStephen B. DavisDr. and Mrs. J. DibbleGeorge and Mary HaddadLinda and Skip HarringtonMr. Steve J. HoogheemDr. and Mrs. Frederick LeonbergerAnn LurieMrs. And Mrs. Stanley T. MendenhallNancy Ellen MillerKevin O’Connor

Dr. Judith A. PitneyRichard H. OrensteinBeverly and Edward OsterholzerJanice and John QuigleyMr. Abizer T. RasheedMrs. Barbara H. RavenMr. and Mrs. Michael D. RubinThomas and H.M. SeniorMr. T. Murray SmithRobert and Christine StubbsMs. Rosanna TothDawson L. and Wendy Yee

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