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Message from the DeanIn contrast to gloomy news on thenational and global fronts, we havegood news from UW Engineering.Foremost is the huge success ofCampaign UW: Creating Futures.More than 10,000 friends helpedus raise $267 million, seven percentmore than our $250 million goal.New student and faculty endowmentscreated during the campaign willtransform the college’s research andeducational programs. A section ofthis issue celebrates your generoussupport and the future it creates.The feature story highlights thevalue of undergraduate research,with a focus on our efforts to createmore opportunities for women engineeringstudents.When I was in college in theearly 1970s, women were activelydiscouraged from studying engineering.The emerging women’s movementhelped dissipate that bias inthe 1980s, and the percentage ofwomen students rapidly shot upfrom the single digits to a little over20 percent. However, the percentagehas remained flat for the past twodecades, probably because manyyoung women still don’t resonatewith the image of the geek.A number of studies have shownthat women are much more drawnto fields that clearly benefit humanity.In recent years the professionhas presented itself not just as aneconomic engine, but also a way tochange lives. This vision has been especiallytrue for disciplines workingat the interface of biology and engineering— bioengineering, chemicalengineering, and materials sciencehave attracted the highest percentageof females into engineering.When Professor Mary Lidstromwas our associate dean for newinitiatives, she created a “biology forengineers” course that had greatsuccess demonstrating that bridge.We are committed to opening morepathways into engineering for youngwomen and to recruiting morewomen faculty. As you will read inthis issue, women engineers at theUW are doing exceptional researchand are outstanding role models.On another front, I’m excitedabout two new federal grants highlightedon pages 3–4. A grant fromthe Department of Energy establishesa collaboration between UW andOregon State University on marinerenewable energy. Additionally,UW and Caltech will partner on aNational Science Foundation grantthat will build a research focus onmolecular programming.Molecular engineering is becominga major new thrust for us. Thisfield parallels the great advances atthe end of the last century in designtools for mechanical and electricalsystems that can address many of thegreat challenges of our time, such ashealth, energy, and the environment.Two stories in the Innovator sectionreport some recent faculty work inmolecular engineering.Another new focus area bridgesengineering and global health, thelatter a growing strength at the UW.Bioengineering and Industrial Engineeringhave new global health grants,and you’ll hear a lot more aboutthese new initiatives in future issues.Matthew O’DonnellFrank and Julie Jungers Deanof EngineeringTaking ChargeThomas Calhoun is the new assistant dean forthe Engineering Advising and Diversity Center.Previously he was executive director of GEAR UP,a statewide precollege program based at theUW. He has a long career in education on theEast Coast and in Chicago. He recently earned hisPhD in educational leadership at the UW.Thomas CalhounCraig Benson became chair of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering on July 1. An expert ingeotechnical engineering, he comes to the UW from the Universityof Wisconsin–Madison, where he chaired the geological engineeringprogram. Benson received his MS and PhD degrees in civilengineering from the University of Texas–Austin.Technical Communication did not need to look far for its new chair.Longtime faculty member Jan Spyridakis moved into the leadershiprole on August 1. She has won numerous awards for her researchon document design, usability, and online learning, and has beenhonored with the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. She earnedher BA through PhD degrees at the UW.Craig BensonJan SpyridakisIn Rarified CompanyBuddy Ratner, professorof bioengineering andchemical engineering, willbe honored as one of the“One Hundred ChemicalEngineers of the ModernEra” by the American Instituteof Chemical Engineersas part of its centennialcelebration. These 100 “guided theprofession into the new century” afterWorld War II. Ratner was selected inthe New Frontiers category for workin engineered biomaterial surfaces tocontrol surface interaction and synthesizedbiostable radio-frequency filmsand polymer scaffolds. The 100 wereselected from nearly 1000 nominations.2 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

News SpotlightNews SpotlightCaltech and UW Partner on $10 Million NSF Grantat the Frontiers of Computing and Molecular DesignThe National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program hasawarded $10 million to researchers at the California Institute of Technologyand the University of Washington to use the principles of computer scienceto design complex molecular and chemical systems. They will pursue farreachingresearch agendas that promise great benefit to society. Eric Klavins,assistant professor of electrical engineering, will lead the UW research team.The main goals of the Molecular Programming Project (MPP) are tobuild computational devices out of biochemical molecules such as DNA orprotein and create programming languages and compilers for these systems.Such tools would allow unprecedented control of biological systems, includingembedding new molecular systems inside living cells. For example, MPPresearchers hope to build, from scratch, an artificial immune system for abacterium that allows it to detect and disrupt bacteriophage infections.Klavins has been building a research thrust in molecular programmingthat unites biochemistry and molecular biology with theoretical work incontrol systems. “I believe we can design molecular systems in the sameway that we build electrical circuits or computer control systems,” Klavinssaid. “This incredibly complex and potentially powerful technology will beamong the main tools required to bring artificial molecular systems ‘to life’.”New Electron Beam Lithography SystemWill Be a Magnet for Nanotechnology ResearchersNext summer, the most expensivepiece of equipment ever purchasedby UW Engineering will be installedin the Washington TechnologyCenter in Fluke Hall. The electronbeam lithography system, manufacturedby JEOL, will be the only onein the Northwest and one of just afew of its caliber in the nation.“It prototypes nanostructuresdown to about 6 nm and givesbetter results at about 100 times thespeed of current equipment,” saidMichael Hochberg, a nanophotonicsresearcher and assistant professorof electrical engineering. “Morethan 30 faculty from multiple UWdepartments will use it, and it willbe a big draw for recruiting newfaculty and graduate students.”Hochberg led the effort to fundthe system, valued at $4.5 million.The Washington Research Foundationmade the lead gift, its largest everto the UW. Significant support alsocame from the Washington StateResearch Stars Program, the Collegeof Engineering, the Department ofHigh-resolution imageof the UW sealcreated by electronbeam lithography.Several hundredwould fit on the endof a human hair.Electrical Engineering, the Collegeof Arts and Sciences, the WashingtonTechnology Center, and the center’sNanoTech User Facility.CoE Launches New WebsiteProfessor Keith HolsappleUp in the Sky! It’s Venus, Mars,Holsapple, and Jupiter ...Okay, you can’t see the asteroid20360 Holsapple with your nakedeye, but the rock does orbit the Sunbetween Mars and Jupiter, and youcould walk over to Guggenheim Hallto see Keith Holsapple, professor ofaeronautics and astronautics.The International AstronomicalUnion in July named the asteroid inhis honor to recognize his work inmodeling the response of planetaryand asteroidal material to stress andshock. His namesake asteroid wasfirst sighted by Arizona’s LowellObservatory on May 1, 1998.“It’s fun to have your name onsomething that could be around theuniverse for another 100 millionyears,” Holsapple said.He has developed software tocalculate the effects of high-speedasteroid impacts and speaks at professionalconferences on potentialmethods to deflect a major threatto the Earth. The History Channelrecently filmed him for an episode of“Stopping Armageddon,” to air laterthis year. He explains what wouldhappen if a “big one” hit Los Angeles.We invite you to visit www.engr.washington.edu and learn more about theopportunities to connect with UW Engineering. The new CoE website includes analumni and community section specially designed for you. Learn about upcomingevents, continuing education, and ways to stay connected. The site is designed tobe a valuable resource to our alumni, students, and partners.Please visit the site andlet us know what youthink. Send comments orsuggestions to: webmaster@engr.washington.eduNews Spotlightcontinued on page 4TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 3

ResearchStarsLight the PathThe call came out of the blue to Yoky Matsuoka, associateprofessor of computer science and engineering.An official from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation instructed Matsuoka to sit down and putdown her week-old baby. Then he revealed she had wona 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “geniusaward” with a $500,000 no-strings-attached prize.Matsuoka directs the UW Neurobotics Laboratory.She studies how our central nervous system producessignals that control movements of the limbs and thenuses that information to create advanced robotic prosthetics.Her team is working on a lifelike robotic handthat could approximate natural motion, directed by aperson’s brain and nerve signals.Associate Professor Yoky Matsuoka and undergraduate Carissa Conwayexamine the robot hand, a step toward a lifelike prosthesis.Matusoka said. “That was a big turning point. I realizedthat acting airhead was not the right dual life for me.”Matsuoka also is on a mission to pave the way foryoung women interested in science by changing theimage and ensuring them it’s okay to be smart. “I’d liketo be a role model. I want them to see what I’m doingand encourage them to do better than me,” she said.Carissa Conway, a computer science junior, is watchingclosely. This past summer she participated in the IntelResearch Experience for Undergraduates. “I was ecstaticthat Yoky chose me to work in her lab,” Carissa said.She contributed to the research by developing a 3Dcomputer representation of a skeletal finger. It uses afeedback device to take data on the velocity and positionUW Engineering wants to greatly expand research opportunities for undergraduates and encourage more womento pursue careers in engineering. In these pages we introduce you to three women on our faculty who are mentoringyoung women. Any faculty member, male or female, can be a first-rate mentor to any student, male or female, but in afield where men predominate, an extra dash of inspiration seems to infuse woman-to-woman mentorship.Matsuoka earned a BS degree from UC–Berkeleyand a PhD from MIT, both in electrical engineering andcomputer science. UW CSE recruited her in 2006 fromthe Carnegie Mellon faculty. Winning the MacArthurhas earned her worldwide media coverage, including aPBS NOVA segment in July, a story in the September 25Nature, and participation in the New Yorker’s “Storiesfrom the Future” conference last May.Matusoka is just one highly visible example of theextraordinary women on the Engineering faculty, all ofwhom value the opportunity to introduce the challengesand excitement of research to women undergrads.She also is light years removed from the super-smartteenager who didn’t want to be perceived as a math andscience nerd and so pretended she never studied. The“airhead” act worked until her second year at MIT.“My advisor pulled me aside and told me to stop it,”of the tip of a user’s index finger. “The virtual finger willexecute the same motions as the user’s finger,” Conwaysaid. “This allows us to test passive behaviors in a virtualenvironment before transferring them to the robot hand.”Not many girls at her high school in Tenino wereinterested in math and science, so she is happy to beat the UW. “I just love solving problems and workingthrough the code. Debugging it and getting it to work issuch a joy,” Conway said. “Being part of a research teamis definitely challenging and has taught me a ton.”Conway hopes to pursue a doctorate in computerscience and then do research in academia or industry.“Yoky has been so supportive and it’s just awesomeworking with her,” Conway said. “It’s nice to have awoman to look up to. She’s an inspiration.” Cont. pg 6• To learn more about Matsuoka and the Neurobotics Lab:http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoky/TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 5

Research Stars Light the PathBioengineering Professor Valerie Daggett and junior Sara Calhoun discussthe structural aspects of binding in a protein complex Calhoun analyzed.A shared goal to help peopleAs an undergraduate at Reed College in 1982, ValerieDaggett proposed a senior research project applyingquantum mechanics to protein folding. Her professorstold her it couldn’t be done, so instead she conductedexperiments on protein folding. During doctoral workin pharmaceutical chemistry at UC San Francisco shewanted to do computational work on protein unfoldingbecause protein instability is a factor in Alzheimer’sand other neurological disorders, but her ambitions stillexceeded the fledgling limits of computational biology.Single-minded and undeterred, Daggett pursuedher goal during a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford.She went on to establish one of the first labs anywhereto look at realistic atomistic simulations of proteinunfolding focusing amyloid diseases. Now there are atleast 50 such labs around the world.Daggett’s lab in UW Bioengineering maintains theworld’s largest collections of protein structures and morethan 5000 folding/unfolding simulations. She created afield and also the term for it — dynameomics — the useof molecular dynamics simulations to characterize thenative-state dynamics and folding-unfolding pathwaysof all known proteins.“Now we are trying to make use of what we knowto develop applications and drug design to treat disease,”she said. Daggett is a world-recognized pioneer in ascience subspecialty that draws few women, even to herown 20-person lab, where there are just three.It might seem to be an intimidating place for dippinga toe into research, but that didn’t deter Sara Calhoun,who has studied ballet since age three and knows whereto put her toes. The soft-spoken 18-year-old is already abioengineering junior. She entered the UW through theearly admissions program for gifted young scholars andthis summer participated in the Intel Research Experiencefor Undergraduates program, mentored by Daggett.Her project looked at the way two proteins collidein various orientations until specific amino acid residuesreach chemical stability and bind. She used molecularmodeling software to model 25 protein pairs in theirbound and unbound conformations to analyze structuralaspects of protein binding interactions.“A lab is like a startup company and anyone comingin must contribute. We have no time to give undergraduatesbusy work,” Daggett said. “I think it’s reallyimportant that they have a good research experience.You don’t develop passion for science through atextbook or a lecture. To ‘catch the bug’ and stayexcited about science, undergrads need to do hands-onwork and see the principles in action.”Calhoun is focusing her passion for biology andcutting-edge technology into a career path that willenable her to help people, but the research experiencehas changed her orientation. “Originally I was thinkingabout going into industry, but I really enjoy workingin this lab and now aiming for a PhD and going intoacademia seem more accessible,” she said.Having a mentor like Daggett is a definite plus. “Sheseems to know everything, and she asks hard questionsand challenges you to bring out your best,” Calhounsaid. “It’s a great learning opportunity.”Daggett has only accolades for Calhoun and theundergrads who have come through her lab. “The UWhas such bright students — truly impressive. And theundergrads are so enthusiastic. I’m looking forward tobringing more into my lab.”• To learn more, visit: http://www.dynameomics.org andhttp://depts.washington.edu/bioe/people/core/daggett/daggett.html“Talking” fish with a missionRecently hired as a software engineer at Boeing,Jennifer Zhang helps keep track of voluminous data onconstruction of the 787 Dreamliner. She graduated inJune with a double degree in electrical engineering andcomputer science. “My undergraduate research wasinvaluable in helping me land the job,” Zhang said.She spent three years working on the robofish teamdirected by Kristi Morgansen, assistant professor ofaeronautics and astronautics, who is the first and stillthe only female faculty member in A&A. Morgansenand her students are gaining widespread attention forprogramming the fish so that a group of three can “talk”to each other underwater, without human intervention.Robofish emit and receive acoustic signals with data ontime and location and take turns signalling so they canswim together or in different directions.Morgansen conducted research on “bio-inspiredlocomotion” during her own undergraduate days atBoston University, where she earned BS and MS degreesin mechanical engineering. At Harvard she earned amasters in applied mathematics and a doctorate inengineering with an EE focus. The UW recruited herfrom the California Institute of Technology, where shewas a senior research fellow.6 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

Morgansen’s team, a mix of about 15 graduateand undergrad students, was a perfect fit for Zhang, aGarfield High School graduate who won direct freshmanadmission to the EE and CSE programs. “As a kidI watched The Jetsons, and liked Rosie the householdrobot, but thought I could invent a better one. That’swhat got me interested in engineering,” Zhang recalled.During her first summer in the lab she developed amathematical model of the motion of real fish by usingdata on spine segment positions and mapping them tothe robofish. Her work earned her third authorship ona paper presented at an international symposium. Shelater helped develop new hardware and software thatenable the robofish to communicate and swim together.Working on a multidisciplinary team under intensedeadlines and knowing when to seek help when stumpedby a problem aided her transition to the larger universeof Boeing. “If you ask a question too early, others thinkyou haven’t workedhard enough to solve theproblem. If you ask toolate, they think you arejust banging your head,”Zhang said.Zhang gained valuableleadership experiencewhen Morgansen assignedher to coordinate thework of younger undergraduatesin the lab.Assistant Prof. Kristi Morgansen andJennifer Zhang check out a robofish.“Jennifer is a natural atit,” Morgansen said. “Thisis a hardcore experimentallab and it would stop functioning if we didn’t haveundergraduates doing theoretical work, buildingcomponents, and running experiments.”Morgansen intends to develop advanced robofishable to work in lakes and the ocean. “They could be usedfor tasks that are dirty, dull, or dangerous. Schools ofrobofish might monitor pollution or undersea volcanoesand track marine life or even submarines,” Morgansensaid. Media from Seattle to Singapore have reported herwork, and both U.S. and Canadian Discovery Channelprograms have shot film for upcoming documentaries.“Kristi has been a great mentor and role model,”said Zhang, who wants to do research and developmentin industry, most likely in controls and robotics. In fall2009 she returns to the UW to earn a masters in EE.“Both CSE and EE are such diverse fields with applicationsthat can help make people’s lives better. That’s abig reason I’ve chosen to be an engineer,” Zhang said.• To learn more: http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/morgansen/Leaders • Innovators • MentorsMary Lidstrom, UW Vice Provost for Research,Frank Jungers Professor of Chemical Engineering,and Professor of Microbiology“A strong undergraduate research program, withits rich learning experience, sets a major researchuniversity apart from other academic institutions.Students say they learn ten times as much at thebench as in the classroom. Undergraduates whoget into the lab and work with research teamsbegin to viualize themselves as scientists andengineers. This experience is especially importantfor inspiring young women to go on to graduateschool and to pursue research careers.”Eve Riskin, Associate Dean of Engineering,Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Directorof the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change“We have a great story to tell at UW Engineeringas about 18% of our faculty are women, exceedingthe national average of 11–12%. We wantthis percentage to increase. Receiving a NationalScience Foundation ADVANCE Center grant in2001 enabled us to make rapid strides by developingprograms that provide a supportive environment.Our women faculty are highly productiveand account for a disproportionately large shareof research expenditures — and they encouragemore women students to become engineers.”Mari Ostendorf, Professor of Electrical Engineering,2008 CoE Faculty Innovator for Research, and Advisorto Society of Women Engineers UW Student Chapter“Early in my career I was the only woman withtenure on the EE faculty at Boston University.Until I came to the UW I didn’t appreciate howimportant it is to have more than a few tokenwomen. It makes a huge difference in creating anenvironment that enables us to do our best workin research and teaching. Many women studentswant to go into a field with clear social impact.We need to tell them how the innovative work ofso many of our faculty directly benefits people.”Suzie Pun, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,2008 CoE Junior Faculty Innovator for Research,2008 UW Undergraduate Research Mentor Award“Dr. Suzie Pun has an amazing understanding ofthe needs of an undergraduate researcher. If youneed to talk to her, she will make the time. Thismakes me feel like I am part of the lab and notjust passing through. Dr. Pun is an outstandingmentor for encouraging the growth and cultivatingthe talents of her undergraduate students andthereby upholding the University of Washington’sreputation as an excellent research institution.”Kathy Wei, Senior, BioengineeringTREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 7

Licensing Is First Step to Market forTiny Scanner that Could Save LivesOne of the largest technology transfer agreements inUW history could lead to more widespread screening foresophageal cancer. Although a relatively rare cancer inthe United States, diagnoses have more than tripled inthe last 30 years. Esophageal cancer now has the fastestgrowing incidence rate of any cancer in the U.S. and isthe sixth leading cause of death from cancer in men.Today’s screening technology is expensive because itrequires sedating the patient to enable swallowing of anendoscope — a miniature camera on a long, flexible tubeabout 9 mm wide, about the width of a fingernail. Mostpeople learn they have esophageal cancer at the stagewhen the survival rate is less than 15 percent.What if swallowing a pill with a tinier camera coulddetect the early signs of a precancerous condition of thelining of the esophagus? What if this scan is easy on thepatient, does not require sedation, and is thus low cost?Eric Seibel, research associate professor of mechanicalengineering and director of the UW Human PhotonicsLab, and colleagues in ME, Computer Science, andGastroenterology have developed a fundamentally newdevice they call a scanning fiber endoscope (SFE).“This could be the foundation for the future ofendoscopy,” Seibel said. “Any screening method thatdetected a treatable condition before it turned intocancer would save lives.”The SFE features a small capsule at the end of asoft, spaghetti-like tether. The capsule contains a singlemodeoptical fiber for illumination multiplexed to threelaser diodes. An electric current causes the fiber to swingback and forth 11,000 times per second so that its loneelectronic eye sees the whole scene one pixel at a time.At the same time the fiber spins and its tip projects red,Above: Associate Professor Eric Seibel andME doctoral student W. Jong Yoon examinean image of the broncheal lining of a driedpig lung, taken with the scanning fiberendoscope. Right: The capsule holding thescanning device is only 16-mm long.green, and blue laser light. The device records videoimages as the capsule is retracted up the esophagus.Software processes the data to create two-dimensionalcolor pictures at a resolution better than 100 microns,though lower than for traditional endoscopes. Visit thewebsite noted below to see an animated illustration.Seibel volunteered for the first human test of thedevice. “It felt like swallowing a regular pill and thetether didn’t bother me,” he said.The UW recently granted an exclusive license forscanning fiber endoscope technologies to Pentax LifeCare Division of Hoya Corporation of Japan, one of theworld’s leading companies in medical imaging. Pentaxexpects to develop and market the endoscope within thenext few years. Seibel and colleagues plan to developscanning fiber technologies to detect cancers in otherorgans and for laser treatment devices.• For more information: http://www.hpl.washington.edu/research/sfep/The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute andPentax Corp., with early funding from the Whitaker Foundationand the Washington Technology Center.Toxic Chemicals Found in Common Scented Household ProductsTop-selling laundry products and air fresheners found in millions of homescontain dozens of different chemicals and some can be toxic. This unsettlingfinding emerged from a study by Anne Steinemann, professor of civil andenvironmental engineering and public affairs.“People were telling me that the air fresheners in public restrooms andthe scent from laundry products were making them sick,” Steinemann said.“I wanted to know, ‘What’s in these products that is causing these effects?’”She studied three common air fresheners and three types of laundryproducts, selecting a top seller in each category. She bought household itemsat a grocery store and asked companies for samples of industrial products.Through laboratory analyses she found chemcials such as acetone, theactive ingredient in paint thinner; chloromethane, a banned refrigerant; and1,4-dioxane and acetaldehyde, both carcinogens.Professor Anne Steinemann Continued on page 10TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 9

InnovatorsEngineering Teams Break Down Communication BarriersCan you see me now? Sign language over cell phonesDeaf and hard-of-hearing Americans are a step closer to using sign language to communicateover a mobile phone. A UW team led by Eve Riskin, professor of electrical engineering, hasdeveloped software that enables two-way real-time video communication and has received aNational Science Foundation grant for a 20-person field project to begin next year. A video of the prototype postedon YouTube has drawn many emails. “A lot of people are excited about this,” Riskin said. Mobile video sign languagewon’t be widely available until a commercial cell-phone manufacturer agrees to provide the service.• For more information: http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/index.html. The video is posted at http://youtube.com/watch?v=FaE1PvJwI8E.Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhereRoughly 10 million people in the United States are blind or visually impaired. Use of a computerhas required special screen-reading software typically installed only on their own machines. Newsoftware called WebAnywhere now lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go.The tool reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections. JeffreyBigham, a Computer Science & Engineering doctoral student, developed WebAnywhere under the supervision ofProfessor Richard Ladner. NSF funded the research. On July 8 in Paris, Bigham won the Accessible TechnologyAward for Interface Design at the Imagine Cup, a worldwide student programming contest sponsored by Microsoft.• The free program with audio and video demonstrations can be viewed at http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu.For your eyes only: custom interfaces make clicking faster, easierOpen any computer program and you’re largely subject to a design team’s ideas about button sizes, fonts, and layouts.Off-the-shelf designs are especially frustrating for people with disabilities and the elderly. A new approach for designwould put each person through a brief skills test and then generate a customized version of the user interface optimizedfor his or her vision and motor abilities. Computer Science & Engineering doctoral student Krzysztof Gajosand Professor Dan Weld designed the system, called Supple.The first applications will likely be Web-based.• For more information and a video demonstration: http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42817Toxic Chemicals (from page 9)“Nearly 100 volatile organic compounds wereemitted from these six products. Plus, five of the sixemitted one or more carcinogenic ‘hazardous air pollutants,’which have no safe exposure level according tothe Environmental Protection Agency,” Steinemann said.For instance, a plug-in air freshener contained morethan 20 different volatile organic compounds, sevenregulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws.Environmental Impact Assessment Review publishedher study online in July. Steinemann has not disclosedproduct brand names. A subseqent study (submitted forpublication) analyzed 25 cleaners, personal care products,air fresheners, and laundry products and confirmed thatall brands of fragranced products contained similar toxicchemicals — even ones called “organic”and “natural.”In earlier work, two national surveys published bySteinemann and a colleague in 2004 and 2005 found thatabout 20 percent of respondents reported adverse healtheffects from air fresheners and 10 percent reported sucheffects from laundry products vented to the outdoors.While the Food and Drug Administration requiresthat cosmetic packaging list ingredients, no law requiresthe manufacturers of consumer products to list all ingredientsor those in fragrances, even if toxic. “These chemicalsare a concern due to the potential for involuntaryexposure,” Steinemann said. “I’d like to see better labeling,and I hope this study will raise public awareness andhelp reduce exposures to potentially hazardous chemicals.”Her study has drawn media coverage in 13 countriesby more than 20 newspapers, 9 magazines, 35 radio andTV stations, and more than 100 websites — among themCBS News, Scientific American, and the Hindustan Times.Quantum Dots (from page 8)times less toxic to the cell than the chemicals now used.Quantum dots are not yet approved for use inhumans so the researchers are transferring their techniquesto nontoxic iron oxide particles that havebeen approved by the Food and Drug Administration.“Eventually this method could be used to treat conditionsranging from cancer to deteriorating eyesight,”Gao said. “Our team also is working to target cancercells by attaching the quantum dots to specific markerson the cell’s surface.”• For more information, http://faculty.washington.edu/xgao/The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health andthe National Science Foundation.10 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

CAMPAIGN UW: 2000~2008Creating Futures forEngineeringUW’s Creating Futures campaign for Engineeringcame to a spectacular conclusion on June 30.Support from alumni and friends totaled$267,564,979We are excited about every dollar, but whatis most important is their impact.Gifts totaling $47.4 million created:181 New Endowments1 deanship, 5 chairs13 professorships, 68 scholarships58 fellowships, 36 academic support fundsState-of-the Art FacilitiesOther private support helped construct twonew buildings and upgrade a campus gem:The Paul G. Allen Center forComputer Science & EngineeringWilliam H. Foege Genome Sciences& Bioengineering BuildingGuggenheim Hall10,000+ alumni, friends, foundations, andcorporations participated in Engineering’s campaign.We are grateful. In this special section of The Trend,we celebrate your generosity.

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008Impressive ResultsTHE POWEROF NUMBERSDuring the Beijing Olympics we learned the Chinese regardthe number eight as auspicious, signifying prosperity.Perhaps that holds for the UW community too, as weconclude eight years of Campaign UW in 2008. Engineersknow that numbers have power, at least in mathematicalif not cultural expression, and our numbers are huge!Thanks to more than 10,000 alumni, friends, andcorporate partners, we surpassed our goal and raised over$267 million. We are deeply grateful for the generosityof so many whose gifts ranged from $1 to $16 million.No matter the size, each means someone cares about ourstudents and educational mission.Extraordinary giving is both essential and transformative.Private support is now the third largest source offunding for engineering education and research. Withstate dollars primarily earmarked for faculty salaries, thecollege must rely on private giving to create scholarshipsand fellowships that provide access for students, establishprofessorships to recruit and retain outstanding teachingand research faculty, and provide unrestricted support forstudent programs and projects.Central to our success was an active and engagedcampaign committee under the leadership of recentlyretired Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel. These volunteersadvised on college priorities, assisted with outreach toalumni and friends locally and across the U.S., and gavegenerously of their time and resources. “Thank you” canonly begin to express our appreciation.Our Campaign UW numbers are already generatingimpact. Over $27 million in new scholarship and fellowshipendowments has begun opening Engineering’s doorsto many more promising students. This fall we hired 16exceptional new faculty members — some hires madepossible by the $16 million in new professorships and chairsthat make us competitive with our peers.To all 10,000 campaign participants who demonstratedthe power of numbers: Thank you! Your gifts will transformthe future — and it’s an exciting one.Matthew O’Do n n e l lFrank and Julie Jungers Dean of EngineeringParticipants ~New donors (first-time gifts to Engineering)• 4,457 individuals• 968 organizations6,055 donors made multiple giftsMatching Initiatives ~UW Matching Gifts Initiative• 29 new endowments• $20.6 million gift and match totalStudents First Initiative• 45 new scholarships and fellowships• $20.7 million gift and match totalFaculty, Staff, Retiree Campaign• 54 faculty, staff, and retiree donors made giftsof $5000 or more through June 30.(FSR campaign extends through December 31)Percent20151050Alumni Participation by DepartmentPercentage of alumni donorsin each department makinggifts to Campaign UW(to Engineering and other units)BIOE EE ME MSE CEE IE AA CSE TC CHEMEDepartment12 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

A transformative giftFrank and Julie JungersEndowed Deanshipin EngineeringFrank Jungers (ME ’47) knowsplenty about leadership. He metpresidents, kings, prime ministers,and assorted VIPs over a 31-yearcareer with Arabian American OilCompany (Aramco), the last five(1973–78) as chairman and CEO.Based in Saudi Arabia for 27years, he was in the hot seat duringthe 1973 OPEC embargo on oil tothe United States. Jungers becamethe “go-to-guy” for the U.S. media,including an interview by MikeWallace on “60 Minutes.” He crisscrossedthe U.S. and Europe to conferwith corporate CEOs, and evenvisited the White House for a briefmeeting with President Nixon.Jungers also led years of complexnegotiations for the transferof Aramco ownership from U.S. oilcompany shareholders to the Saudigovernment. He won plaudits formaking the right decisions at theright time, for his imaginative problemsolving, and ability to engendertrust and respect at all levels fromoil field laborers to the Saudi royalfamily to the halls of U.S. governmentand corporations.With strong insight on thetransformative power of leadership,it’s no surprise that he has createdendowments to attract and supportoutstanding leaders for the college.Prime among them is The Frank andJulie Jungers Endowed Deanship inEngineering, the first of its kind atthe UW. It enabled the college torecruit Matt O’Donnell in 2006.“I like to support programsin ways that have a big multipliereffect,” Jungers said. “The endowmentwas an opportunity to bring ina preeminent leader with vision andability to do things in new ways tomove the college forward.” He feelsthe results are already evident in thehigh caliber of recent faculty hires,expanding research programs, andnew methods of instruction.An earlier endowment, the FrankJungers Professorship in ChemicalEngineering, drew Mary Lidstrom, ahighly regarded microbiologist, tothe UW in 1986. Lidstrom foundedand co-directs the NIH-fundedCenter of Excellence in GenomicSciences. An exceptional scientist andadministrator, she was appointed UWvice provost for research in 2001.“Both these endowments havehad tremendous multiplier effects,”Jungers affirmed. “The returns theyare bringing to Engineering andthe University, in both activity andoutside funding, are worth far morethan the money I put into them.”Raised in North Dakota andOregon, Jungers served in the Navyduring World War II, then enteredthe UW to study mechanical engineering.In 1947 he joined Aramcoin San Francisco. After a transfer toSaudi Arabia in 1949, he steadilyrose from field engineer at a refineryinto the ranks of management.In retirement Jungers has beenbusy as an independent investorand consultant and with service toseveral corporate boards and twohigher education institutions. Hewas a founding member of the UWFoundation board (1988–1992).He and his wife, Julie, a talentedphotographer, reside in Portland andBend and enjoy traveling to localessuch as Antarctica, Africa, India, theMiddle East, and Myanmar, withChina next on their itinerary.Leadership + Private Support = CoE on the RiseVisionary leadership, backed by strong private support, is taking the college to newheights in educational and research excellence. A few highlights:• CoE is attracting top-quality faculty who are winning major grants and prestigiousnational awards. An all-time high of 16 new faculty are on board for the 2008–2009academic year. CoE is growing!• New cross-disciplinary initiatives in molecular engineering, alternative energy, andglobal health are forging links across Engineering departments and the University.• New professional masters degree programs in electrical engineering andpharmaceutical bioengineering are meeting community and industry needs.• Applications for our fall 2008 freshman class were up, including an increase inunderrepresented minorities and women — a testament to outreach programsand to expanding scholarship support for promising students.TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 13

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008Beyond everyone’s wildest dreams” is how Steve Rogel(ChemE ’65) sums up the great success of CampaignUW for the University and the College of Engineering. Aschair of Engineering’s Campaign Executive Committeehe’s had a hand on the wheel of the ambitious initiative,and in encouraging alumni to get on board.“More than 5,400 alumni, individuals, and organizationsmade first-time gifts,” Rogel said. “That is asheartwarming as it was essential, given the magnitudeof the campaign. We proved engineers can open theirwallets,” he added with satisfaction.More than doubling the number of student andfaculty endowments merits even louder toots of thehorn. “We have excellent leadership at the college andwith more support, we can keep attracting the talentnecessary to move to the next level of achievement andrecognition,” he said.As the campaign headed into its closing months,Rogel and his wife, Connie, contributed generously tothat effort by establishing an endowed professorship inChemical Engineering. They made the gift at a significant“Support forgraduate studentsSteven and Connie RogelEndowed Fellowship inChemical EngineeringMicron Gifts Further InnovationA quest for ever faster and smaller semiconductor devicesdrives the need to develop and incorporate new combinationsof materials in chip structure. Boise-based Micron Technology,Inc. and the Micron Foundation provided advancedequipment and funding to launch the Micron Laboratoryfor Combinatorial Materials Exploration (CME) in RobertsHall, directed by Fumio Ohuchi,professor of materials scienceand engineering. This yearMicron provided additionalfunds to set up a new X-rayphotoelectron spectroscopymachine in a Micron CME labin the Physics Building, alsoused by Ohuchi and his team.14 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008transition time in their lives. Rogel retired in April after11 years as CEO of Weyerhaueser, though he continuesserving as chairman of the board of directors. He andConnie, an alumna of Seattle University and memberof its board of regents, have built a waterfront home inPort Ludlow, where they plan to enjoy their boat andcontinuing proximity to Seattle and their alma maters.They’ve had quite a journey from Ritzville, a smallwheat-farming community in Eastern Washington whereboth were born and raised. The son of the local Buickand GMC dealer, Rogel was servicing cars and trucksby age 13 and running heavy farm machinery not longafter. Gritty summer manual-labor jobs convinced himthat earning a UW chemical engineering degree wouldbroaden his career opportunities.A summer internship at St. Regis Paper Co. drewhim into the forest products industry, and followinggraduation, assignments that would take him fromthe southeastern U.S. to Canada. He joined Portland’sWillamette Industries in 1972 and worked his way upthe ranks to CEO in 1995, gaining a reputation as astrategic thinker with a sharp eye for cost efficiencies.From there it was a short jaunt north to Federal Way in1997 and the significantly bigger arena of Weyerhaeuser.“I owe so much of my success to my engineeringeducation that I felt a need to return something tothe UW,” Rogel said. He believes the Rogel endowedprofessorship comes at an exciting transition time forthe Chemical Engineering program.“The stopwatch and bucket brigade measurementof flows and volumes is over,” Rogel said. He pointsto dramatic changes in the past 10-15 years, as thediscipline has moved off a primary focus on industrialprocesses and into an interdisciplinary juncture withbioengineering and medicine and work on the molecularand nanotechnology levels.“It’s a new world, and I hope our endowed professorshipwill enable the department to hire or retain exceptionalfaculty who will forge a leadership role for thedepartment in this area.”

Gift of propertyto fund undergradsRichard E. and Mary Lou AmenEndowed Scholarship in EngineeringAmember of the EngineeringCampaign Executive Committee,Rich Amen shares a hometownwith Steve Rogel, a fellow alumnusof Ritzville High School in EasternWashington. “He graduated a yearahead of me, and his wife Conniewas my classmate,” Amen says.Amen was raised on a wheatfarm, and like Rogel, operatedheavy-duty farm machinery andloved fixing cars as a teen. A hamradio hobby sparked an interest inelectronics, and drew him to theUW Electrical Engineering program,bucking the Coug allegiance of hisparents and brothers.In 1965, degree in hand, Amenheaded to Palo Alto for a positionin design engineering and to earn anMSEE at Stanford, where he laterreturned for an MBA. By 1976 hehad been recruited as CEO for astruggling tech startup producingdesktop word processors. “It was somuch fun to come into a companyand get people charged up andfocused on the goal to build thebusiness,” he says.For his next CEO challenge,with a corporation developingoptical character scanners, he grewrevenue 40-fold and completed itsinitial public offering. In 1988 hiscareer took another turn when heand his wife, Mary Lou (a SeattleUniversity grad), founded VentureManagement Associates (VMA),a private investment banking andcorporate development firm. Heguided strategy and managed morethan 30 merger, acquisition, andfinancing projects for businesses inthe information technology sector.Now living on the SouthernCalifornia coast and semi-retired forthe past seven years, Amen turnedhis focus to real estate, buying andupgrading rental apartment buildingsin the Phoenix area. “The tenantslove it,” Amen says. “Everything I’vedone over my whole career has hadthe same themes — building value,building success, and improving thelives of people.”Those same themes motivatedthe Amens to make a gift of propertyto be divided among their three almamaters. Its sale will fund the RichardE. and Mary Lou Amen EndowedScholarship in Engineering, alongwith 50 percent UW matching fundsthrough the Students First initiative.“We’d like to see the scholarshipsgo to high-potential studentsfrom Eastern Washington, wheremany students need financialsupport to be able to attend collegeand improve their lives,” Amen says.Campaign LeadershipCampaign ExecutiveCommitteeSteven R. Rogel (ChemE ’65), ChairTom A. AlbergRichard E. Amen (EE ’65)Donald W. Baker (EE ’60)Jeet S. Bindra (ChemE ’70)Robert A. Davis (MSE ’64)Tom H. Delimitros (MSE ’66)Michael J. DentonEmer Dooley (Business ’00)Hon. Daniel J. Evans (CEE ’49)Jeremy A. Jaech (CSE ’80)George W. Jeffs (AA ’48)Agnes S. Kwan (CSE ’82)Allan F. Osberg (CEE ’45)John P. Roundhill (ME ’73)Donna M. Sakson (TC ’82)Henry T. Schatz (ME ’64)Howard W. Wahl (CEE ’57)Sophia Zervas-Berg (Cheme ’78, MBA ’97)Honorary CommitteeJ. Ray BowenArk G. Chin (CEE ’52)Mrs. John M. Fluke, Sr.Max E. GellertSally Jewell (ME ’78)Frank Jungers (ME ’47)Donald R. Mack (EE ’48)Tomio Moriguchi (ME ’61)Donald E. Petersen (ME ’46)Joseph F. Sutter (AA ’43)Computer Science & EngineeringCampaign LeadershipTom A. Alberg, Co-chairJeremy Jaech (CSE ’80), Co-chairTony AudinoKirk (CSE ’83) and Melissa GlerumDavid (CSE ’86) and Cathy Habib (CSE ’86)Brian (CSE ’83) and Suchada (CSE ’83)MacDonaldBill McAleerLinden Rhodes (Law ‘02)Rob Short (CSE ’87) and Emer Dooley(Business ‘03)Brad SilverbergBen Slivka and Lisa Wissner-Slivka(Business ’88)Tom (CSE ’87) and Anne SnyderTREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 15

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008At the forefront increating valueTom H. and A. Jeannette DelimitrosEndowed Fellowship for MSEEngineering used to be describedas a calling, to be undertakenwith passion and intensity,” saidTom Delimitros, who applied thatphilosophy to his own career inindustry and as a venture capitalistinvesting in high-tech companies.“Engineers are at the forefrontin creating value in our society.I want to see many more youngpeople thinking about an engineeringcareer,” Delimitros said. “We needmore scholarships and fellowshipsto attract the brightest students.”To that end, Tom and his wife,Jeannette, established an endowedfellowship in Materials Science &Engineering that supports its firststudent this year (see sidebar).Raised in Seattle, Delimitros wasboth a “gadget-happy kid” and atalented violinist/concert master ofthe Lincoln High School orchestra.Unsure whether to study engineering“or music in college, he enlisted in theArmy Chemical Corps to get awayand figure out what he wanted to do.“I realized I wasn’t good enoughfor a career as a violinist, and I likedscience, so gadgets won and I enrolledat UW to study engineering,” he said.A talk by Professor Jim Muellerconvinced him that ceramics was anup-and-coming field, so he gravitatedto materials science and earned hisBS in 1963 and MS in 1966.At Boeing he helped developrain erosion coatings for the SST.His career took off when a friendin New York offered him a positionat a company developing electronicceramics. More doors opened and hegained experience with companiesproducing specialty chemicals for oilfield operations and water treatmentplants. During his 14-year sojournback East, Delimitros added to hisskill set, earning an MBA at Harvard.By 1979 he was president andCEO of Magma Corporation, a“I am thankful for the freedom the Delimitrosfellowship gives me to pursue my research andeducational goals. I would like to work to improveour national electrical, transportation, and energyinfrastructure and promote sustainable global growth.”Brent Apgar, the first recipient of the Delimitros Fellowship, is beginning MSwork in Professor Raj Bordia’s research group. Apgar spent eight years in the Navyand was introduced to materials engineering in Nuclear Power School. He servedfor four years on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Apgar believes materialsscientists can help solve “some of the greatest problems we have ever seen.”Houston-based producer of specialtyand oil field chemicals, which hegrew to a $100-million company.Then came a move to Dallas as ageneral partner in a venture capitalfirm. By 1987 he was a foundinggeneral partner of AMT (AdvancedMaterials Technology) and aninvestor in high-tech companies. Heis now largely retired, though serveson several corporate boards.Delimitros never let geographicdistance get in the way of engagementwith his alma mater. He chairsMSE’s advisory board and helpedraise funds to build Mueller Hall.Each year he speaks to an MSE classon ethics in engineering work. Heserved on the Campaign for Washingtonvolunteer committee in the late1980s, on Engineering’s executivecommittee for Campaign UW, andfor the past three years chaired theselection committee for the college’sannual Diamond Awards programrecognizing outstanding alumni.“Engineering offers a great skillset for self-expression that can takeyou in many directions,” Delimitrosaffirmed. “I see our fellowship asa vehicle for that. You can makethings happen if you have passion,enthusiasm, and commitment.”In that regard, he says, “being anengineer can be just as good as beinga musician.”Delimitros now will apply hispassion and enthusisam to help keepthe beat going on the Universitylevel as a new board member of theUW Foundation.16 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

Pastry-Powered T(o)uring MachinesEndowed Fellowship inComputer Science & EngineeringWhat’s not to like about young alumni who workhard, pedal hard, and can point you to thebest bakeries in the region? And, they contributed tothe Campaign UW pie by establishing a fellowship tosupport “a starving grad student” through surely themost creatively named endowment in UW history.Meet CSE alumni Lauren Bricker (MS ’93, PhD ’98),Ruben Ortega (MS ’94), and Paul Franklin (MS ’98).They were among a dozen grad students and alumniwho formed a team to ride in the 1995 Seattle toPortland (STP) bike race — with the team name inspiredby CSE’s Steam-powered Turing Machine mural.Many team members continued riding togethereven as they pedaled off campus and into careers andfamily life. Bricker and Ortega have sons aged 17 and 9,the younger of whom rode the first half of the STP thisyear. Ortega, an expert in search technology, worked atAmazon.com for nearly 10 years and is now with thestartup Trusera.com. Bricker consults on user interfacearchitecture and teaches and does IT work at LakesideSchool. Franklin is a software developer at Amazon.The three contributed to the Allen Center capitalcampaign and this year organized a consortium throughthe bike team to fund a Students First endowment. Theymade generous lead gifts to enable the 50 percent matchin UW funds, and by June 30 contributions had topped$256,000 with gifts from 11 alumni and friends.From left: Paul Franklin, Ruben Ortega, andLauren Bricker. Their shirts, much-admired in thebiking community, feature CSE’s Turing machinemural on the back. The book Bakeries by Bicycleis an essential for training rides, and the teammotto is “We live to eat ... we bike to eat more!”“We got a great education at the UW, which openedthe doors to great jobs, so we wanted to give back toCSE,” Ortega said. “Creating an endowed fellowshipoffered a terrific opportunity to do that and the timingwas right for all of us,” Franklin noted.“You don’t have to be a team member to contributeto the endowment,” Bricker said. “Just visit the websiteto learn more.” (http://pptm.cs.washington.edu).They plan to give the first fellowship recipient aPPTM team jersey. If the student happens to be abiker, well, that would be ice cream on the pie becausehe or she could join the group on training rides. By theway, their favorite refueling stops are Alki Bakery andCafé and Snohomish Pie Company.Consortium gifts tap power of collaborationIndustrial Engineering GainsEndowed Fund for StudentsFor many alumni, a consortium endowmentis a perfect way to magnify the impactof their gifts. The opportunity to contributeto IE’s first endowed student fund certainlyappealed to Ed Rhone (BS ’01, MS ’03). At anearly stage of his career, establishing his ownendowment was out of the question.Giving back to IE is a high priority, though,and he made his first gift after joining Lake Partners, abusiness strategy consulting firm in downtown Seattle.“The company instills the importance of supportingcommunity organizations,” Rhone said, “and they matchIE alumus Ed Rhonegifts up to $1000.” He gives annually to IE andrepresents the new generation of young alumniphilanthropists in the UW President’s Club.A native of Pasco, Rhone transferred to theUW after a year at the University of Idaho ona football scholarship. He chose to major inIE for its practical focus and the good tools itprovided for a career in business or industry. Hecredits Professor Cindy Atman for having a biginfluence on him. “Dr. Atman urged me to getan MS and gave me a research assistantship,”Rhone said. “Contributing to the IE EndowedFund is a way I can repay that and help current students.”Gifts from 115 donors including alumni, faculty, staff,students, friends, and organizations total $122,737 to date,and qualified for $61,309 in Students First matching funds.TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 17

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008Honor Roll of DonorsThis honor roll reflects cumulative gifts and pledges of$5,000 and above made between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.~ Individuals & Family Foundations ~$1 million and aboveTom A. AlbergPaul G. AllenC. Gregory AmadonAnonymous Gifts-FriendsDavid AuthWilliam and Elizabeth BaxterWilma BradleyDonald* and Ruth Mary CloseUrsula CrawfordBill and Melinda GatesJeremy and Jacquelyn JaechFrank and Julie JungersPaul and Mei-Yea LiaoCharles and Helen MatthaeiSteven MylroieAllan and Inger OsbergJonathan PoolLinden RhoadsBarbara RobinsonFrank RobinsonSteven and Connie RogelHenry SchatzBrad and Jan SilverbergCharles SimonyiKarsten* and Louise SolheimHoward and Carroll WahlBenjamin Slivka and Lisa Wissner-SlivkaMichael Wolf and Anne Dinning$500,000 to $999,999Corin AndersonJohn and Sandra BaxterEdward and Wanda* BockDale and Sally BrooksJeff Dean and Heidi HopperMax and M. Carol* GellertKirk and Melissa GlerumDavid and Catherine HabibKenneth and Margaret HoytGeorge and Lorraine JohansenThomas and Tricia RehmJean SchulerRobert Short and Emer DooleyCharles and Virginia Wright*Deceased$250,000 to $499,999Richard and Mary Lou AmenEdward AmmerWilliam and Marilyn ConnerRonald CrockettTom and Jean GibbsRobert and Cori GlaserJames Gray*Donald and Cindy HacherlGary and Christine KimuraWilliam KippleTodd LaneyShun-Tak LeungPaul and Yaffa MaritzAnthony and Elizabeth NaughtinAlan NelsonRaymond and Louise PedrizettiRichard and Terri RashidAndy StudebakerRobert and Irene* SylvesterJohn and Patricia TorodeDavid and Marsha WeilFlora Winter$100,000 to $249,999Christopher and Mary AllardEugene Allen*Tony and Michelle AudinoJonathan and Shelley BaggRex and Reva BatesMarjorie BevlinA. Kumar and Roberta BhasinJagjeet and Janice BindraDavid and Caroline BrowneKenneth and Joanne BurkhardtJohn and Laurel ColtartWalter CookRobert and Claribel DavisTom and Jeannette DelimitrosMichael DentonDonald* and Phyllis DorsetHerbert and Patricia DrosdatGilbert DrowleyCornelius DuffieMichael ElkeDonald and Diane EmonBetty FrickEd and Kathy FriesRichard Tait and Karen FriesRobert Fries and Debra DahlenWill GillettMichael and Hannelore GresserGerald and Carolyn GrinsteinMark and Carolyn GuidryNeil and S. Ann HawkinsWarren and Sally JewellRodney and Methyl KnudsonJohn and Sharen LaVillettePaul Leach and Susan WinokurDaniel Ling and Lee ObrzutJohn and Cristi LudwigBrian and Suchada MacDonaldLouis and Patricia MarshRoy and Darlene MartinWilliam and Colleen McAleerJames and Betty McCurdyClifford and Betty McNealBeverly MorganA. Pat and C. Beverly MillerLionel Ng and Chi-Chuen ChanRuben Ortega and Lauren BrickerHarlyn and Eileen ProutyJohn PurvisDavid and Valerie RobinsonStephanie RosenbaumJonathan Mark and Donna SaksonTheodore SarchinJames and Patricia SchaderRichard ScherrerJohn and Carolyn SchwagerRobert and Kristine ShanafeltGeorge W. Snyder*Mary ThorntonTheron and Kalee TockMark Tuttle and Lisa Messing TuttleRao and Usha VaranasiFrank and Jane WagstaffWen-Hann and Irene WangGary WilliamsCraig and Gretchen WittenbergBrian Yamasaki and Debora ChenCAMPAIGN UW Engineering Milestones uFirst $1-million gift9/00Paul G. Allen Centernaming gift2/02Allen Centeropens9/03Jungersdeanship gift10/03First TCendowedscholarship12/032000 2001 2002 2003 2004131 EndowmentsMarket value $64.7 million18 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008$100 millionreached12/02

$50,000 to $99,999Stephen Arnold and Laurie BaumanLyle and Marsha AsplinWinslow and Linda BuxtonHarold and Anita CampbellRose ChristieDavid and Devon CohnDouglas and Jill CrowDavid Cutler and Debbie GirdlerPaul FranklinNicholas and Mary GravesAllan HoffmanNaveen and Anu JainGeorge and Enid JeffsHarold Kawaguchi and Shaun HubbardScott KildallKristin KildallPavel KhijniakAgnes KwanScot and Diana LandMark and Nicole LawrenceSteven and Arlene LazarusDonald Lobo and Mari TilosLawrence Medwin and Eleanor HertzbergRichard and Susan MartinRuth Meese*Dorothy MillsDale and Marjorie MyersRussell and Whitney Paul-JonesArthur and Linda PedersonGary and Pauline SagerKatie Sako and Kendall FlintMary TecklenburgArthur ThueJack and Sallie TuttleJames* and Virginia WebsterStewart and Teresa Wu$25,000 to $49,999Paul and Kathleen AndersonJean-Loup and Diane BaerDavid and Leigh BangsPauline Batchelor*Samuel and Ardis BeardGwendolyn BellGordon BellPhilip Bernstein and Luisa RecalcatiRobert and Nancy BetcherTed Biggerstaff and Patricia DowneyCarl BindingByron and Sheila BishopDavid BonnStephen and Sylvia BurgesRobert and Nancy BurrRichard and Martha DravesJoseph DuncanRichard Edwards and Anita GaleDaniel and Nancy EvansBruce Forstall and Linda Plato*Jennifer FlexmanSteven FrankRolf-Dietrich and Beate FrommTetsuya FukuokaPeter and Beth GoldeHellmut and Marcy GoldeDwight and Dorothy GowdeyKeith* and Claire GrinsteinKeith GrochowScott and Susan HauckPaul HertzbergJames and Suzanne HewittGregory and Lisa HitchcockLin HolleyTakashi and Tetsuko HondaJames Hoskins and Jean HertzbergDennis Irvin*Bruce and Gretchen JacobsenWilliam KingH. William* and Barbara KirschnerCharles KlawitterAlbert and Elizabeth KobayashiRichard and Linda KoffenbergerMichael and Deborah KossBruce Kuramoto and Yumi TakeuchiEdward Lazowska and Lyndsay DownsRebecca LiebmanGreg and Corina LindenMarilyn LytleDonald and Sally MackMary MaybeeKelly McGeeMichael McKibben and Sarah MernerRichard and Kathryn MiyauchiPeter ModelDavid and Jacquelyn MooreJoseph and Marian MullallyCraig and Marie MundieCameron and Linda MyhrvoldBrandt and La Vey NorquistDavid Notkin and Catherine TuttleKenneth OienJudith RameyRao and Satya RemalaBard and Julie RichmondLouis and Carol ScharfMichael and Jackie SchmidtRichard and Joanna SegalWilliam and Christa ShacklefordThomas and Anne SnyderCharles StephensMichael TemplemanJ. Hayden Thomas and Shannon BellPadma and Sridevi VenkataDouglas and Margaret WalkerDaniel Weld and Margaret RosenfeldEdward Wenk and Betty WagnerRaymond WestJo-Anne WisniewskiWayne and Wei Liu YamamotoContinued on page 18First MEendowed chair6/04$150 millionreached12/04Foege Bldgopens3/06DeanO’Donnellarrives8/06Guggenheimrenovationcompleted9/072005 2006 2007 2008312 EndowmentsMarket value $151.4 million$250 millionreached2/08First IE endowedscholarship6/08$268 millionreached6/30/08TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 19

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008$10,000 to $24,999Douglas and Barbara AllanDavid and Vickie AllstotJames and Maureen AnableArnold and Ellen AndersenCharles and Barbara AndersonDennis and Connie AndersonThomas Anderson and Robin BriggsLeo and Judith AzureFrederick Bachmann*Gregory BadrosLeonard and Dorothy BarlowJoseph Benezra*Mark and Judith BenjaminArvid Berg and Sophia Zervas-BergJay* and Mary BerkmanChristophe Bisciglia and Theresa MacDuffCurt Blake and Kelli CurtisKarl BohringerDerek BoothDavid BosiJ. Ray and Priscilla BowenDavid Bradlee and Kathryn GardowSuzanne BrainardDouglas and Nancy CalkinsCraig and Sylvia ChambersArk and Winifred ChinRichard ChristieSung ChungJohn Colleran and Michelle KastnerBrian and Mimoza CountrymanClyde Crawford andSidnee Andersen-CrawfordDaniel and Sheila DahlgrenDamon and Ania DanieliJohn DavisKurt and Suzan DelBeneChristopher D’Hondt andTheresa Avanti-D’HondtWesley and Evelyn DicksonJohn and Marilyn DimmerChris and Mary-Ellen DiorioDempster and Sylvia DrowleyLarry and Virginia EricksonOren and Ruth EtzioniBrian and Mary FabienPeter FarrellBruce and Patricia FinlaysonJohn and Susan Fluke, Jr.Frank and Norma FogdeDaniel FrechCurtis and Kristine FuehrBill and Mimi GatesJoseph GerbergHarry and Lynn Glaze, Jr.Keith Golden and Ellen SpertusJames and Betty GustafsonChristopher and Rebecca GuzakWilliam* and Ann HadleyAlon and Oriana HalevyMichael and Molly HanlonRichard and Mary Kay HansenGary HansenRichard and Jo Ann HarbertBrett and Simone HelselNoel HenryCharles and Carol HirschBrian and Lee HormanTai and Yuang HouRoderick and Patricia HowardPatricia HsuGeorge and Margaret HuangTudor Huddleston and Elizabeth OtisWendell and Carrilou HurlbutSatoru IzawaHerve Jamrozik and Ana TessadroAlex and Meei-Jane JenJames JensenDavid JohnsonLarry and Naomi JohnsonWilliam Joyce and Diane MeldeYoshio KataokaChris and Lisa KenworthyKarl KirkerAlexander KnightEdward and Arlene KoetjeJanet KoplowitzLeonard and Carolyn KosonenMary KravikJesse and Sharon KriderDave LarsonRobert Larson*Walter and Heather LeeDennis and Jean LeeHenry Levy and Ronit KatzYi-Bing Lin and Sherry WangHenry and Fayne LoewMichael and Vanessa LorengoHenrique and Regina MalvarUdi and Rachel ManberJohn Manferdelli and Catherine StricklinMatthew and Carol McIlwainJames and Patricia McManusJohn and Diane MiltonWilmarth and Josephine MootzWilla MylroieAllison MyrickRobert Nelsen and Ellyn HenneckeMahlon and Jeanne NicholsWarren and Ellen NielsenBruce ObergMatt and Catherine O’DonnellGrace and Richard OkitaWayne OlsonSteven OmotoLloyd and Sue OttemanJerome and Linda ParosLeo and Irene PedenRichard and Edna PerraultGeorge PetersenDmitriy PortnovAllen PotvinAndrew and Carol PriceCeon Ramon and Barbara HlavinMamidala and Vinati RamuluLois RathvonPaul and Sharon ReevesGarth ReistadBetty RicheyLarry and Beverly RickerJames and Joyce RileyScott and Catherine RobertsAugust and Margo RossanoKeth Rowe and Ann StoverBarbara SandoFriedrich and Roberta ScholzRichard and Judith SchweikhardtRalph and Loraine ScribaJonathan Shakes and Xi TianOlga ShenJames ShibleyWard SpearPaul Goodrich and Shannon SperryScott StarkThomas and Janet StoebeAdam StoneHelmer Sundt*Joseph SutterJohn* and Martha SwansonStephen and Terri ThomasJohn ThomasRitchie and Lorna TilsonGerard TolentinoBrian ValentineTaylor Van VleetCathy WasemElsie WetterHugh WilliamsDaniel and Joann WilsonRoss and Bonnie WolfWilliam P. Wood*Phil Wood and Judy MahoneyJimmy and Gloria YoshinakaClark ZentrumDouglas Zongker$5,000 to $9,999Einar AndersenArthur AndersonBrian and Jane AndrewAnonymous Gift – FriendJohn Brew and Mary AsmundsonJohn BalciunasAlan and Lois BauerLois BaughEmilio BeltranKermit Bengtson*Andrew and Deborah BermanBrian and Carol BershadJeffrey and MacKenzie BezosEric BlohmMilton and Ann BohartGaetano Borriello and Melissa WestbrookChristopher BradleyVladimir and Sophia BraymanAaron BregelRichard BrownCharles BrownGeorge Butler and Barbara Krieger-BrockettNeal Cardwell and Genevieve GuentherRonald ChampouxArthur and Lisa ChanJ. Bradley Chen and Elizabetta ContiCary CherngStephen and Robin ChingJames and Susan ClaypoolTinsely Coble20 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

Robert Cochran and Lauri McNealAddison and Ann ColeLarry CooperBrian and Jelena CurlessDaniel and Helen DahlgrenDenice Denton*David Dion and Shelley Pennell DionJeffrey and Jacqueline DirksJohn and Christa DonahueJohn and Kathleen EhrenbergA. Herbert and Billee ErshigJake FerdererHugh FergusonJohn and Lynn FergusonDavid and Patricia FischbachHarold and Marilyn FogelquistPatricia FoleyEric ForbesHarold and Betty ForsenJoseph Garbini and Jamie LeschenJohn and Derenda GrayMaya GuptaJeremy and Kathryn* HalesCharles and Dolores HarbertJames and Debra HartlTerry and Carol HartmanDarryl and Sherri HavensRobert and Mary HawthornLucille HebnerStanley and May HolmAllen HolmesFrank and Lynda HolmstromRichard and Debra HowarthDonald and Jing HuangHarry HullAllen and Nettie IsraelIvor and Doreen JamesSamson JenekhePatrick Jenny and Kathleen HigginsEdwin and Kathleen JohnsonSimon KahanDavid and Anita KaplanJohn and Gloria KasonicfEstate of Mitchell Taylor BowieEstate of Paul Arnold BundyEstate of Paul CarlstedtEstate of N. Craig CrawfordEstate of Clayton Emida DannerEstate of Robert J. DorwartEstate of George K. DragsethEstate of Douglas B. DuckeringEstate of Evelyn S. EgtvedtEstate of Ruth S. EllerbeckEstate of Ammie B. FordEstate of Bernice FrankEstate of Ruth FrinkEstate of John H. GoldieEstate of Louise Graves TrustEstate of Abraham HertzbergEstate of Verelynn M. HewettEstate of Edward E. JohnsonEstate of Leon C. JohnsonJoel Manley Kenney Irrevocable TrustGeoffrey and Erika KeithHeng-Pin and Shirley KiangYongmin and Eunai KimJeffrey and Kimberly JohnsonAlan and Carolyn KingMichael and Nancy KirkStephan Kleine and Gloria Van DusenDonald* and Julia KrickYasuo and Tomoko KugaPhilip Kummer and Cynthia Weeks-KummerAlan and Sue LampsonChuck LenzmeierA. Gudran LeRoseGene LeRoseDerek Leslie-CookDennis LettenmaierMarc and Alice LevinMark and Bernadette LielkeJing Jing LongMark and Cynthia LucovskyWilliam and Kiesha MacLeanPhilip MagnussonNorm* and Judy MalengErik MattsonCarol MatsumotoEdwin and Grace MerrillThomas and Teresa MillerEmmett and Carol MillerKent MurdochMark MurrayJoshua NewmanBrian NgoJerre* and Margarete NoeJonathan NowitzRebecca OliverChristopher and Allyson OlsenEugene OnishiVincent OrgovanU-Sun and Haijoo ParkM. Dean ParsonsWilliam and Becky ParzybokFrank and Cheryl PerazzoliJohn PerkinsEstate Gifts gEstate of Paul C. LeachEstate of Brian W. MarEstate of Joseph L. McCarthyEstate of Myrtle Louise MichalskiEstate of Ronald E. MorudEstate of Ralph Wells MoultonEstate of Kathleen B. OgleEstate of Richard Carl OutsenEstate of Robert A. PearseLawrence E. Putnam Testamentary TrustEstate of Suparb PutnamEstate of Helen A. ReynoldsEstate of Margaret Frances SkeltonEstate of Karsten SolheimEstate of Frances I. StulleEstate of John A. TershinEstate of Dean D. ThorntonEstate of Henrik ValleEstate of Alma ZaloudekKenneth PierceErnest and Emma PoggeRahda PoovendranJames PrekegesCarol PurvisJames Ramsey*V.N. Padmanabha and Visweswari RaoDorothy ReedEddie RhoneJeffrey and Joanna RicheyNorman RingleeGary Garrabrant and Eve RiskinAndris and Inara RogainisTheodore and Shannon RomerSamuel and Josephine RoskinKevin Ruddell and Heather KrollPatrick RussellScott and Mary RutherfordGerald and Sylvia RutledgeBruce and Christine SchwagerDaniel Schwartz and Susan DamonWilliam and Joan ScottJames Seferis and Anne Vernez-MoudonJane ShaferI-yeu and Judy ShenJames and Betty SkaggsLeon and Marian SmootStephen SnellingGeorge and Adeena SnyderGeorge SoliAnne SteinemannH. David and Patricia StenselRichard and Margaret StorchDuane StortiHilmer SwansonTsuneo TanakaCameron TangneyArthur TeareIngrid TenggrenDavid Thompson and Judy JesiolowskiPhillip and Jeanne ThompsonJon and Kay TompkinsMichael and Melissa TrumboreAlberto and Jean VelezGeoffrey VoelkerDaniel and Joyce WaldorfVernon and Jean WamboJames and Diane WatsonJ. William and Joan WhitakerAnthony WiederkehrValerie WilliamsAlastair and Yvonne WolmanGary and Keri WoodJohn and Elizabeth ZahorjanPaul and Dora ZiaMary ZoselDonors acknowledged here have madecumulative contributions of $5000 or morebetween July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.Every effort has been made to create anaccurate and complete list. If an error oromission has occurred, please contact theCollege of Engineering donor relationsoffice at 206-616-8259 so we may correctour records.TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 21

CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008Corporate Partnership SpotlightSam Jenekhe, Boeing-Martin Professor ofEngineering and professor of chemistry, isusing nanotechnology methods to developorganic solar cells with self-assembled polymernanowires. He watches a thermal evaporatorcomplete the final steps of fabrication.The Boeing CompanyThe partnership between Boeing and the UW College of Engineering datesto the earliest days of both institutions. Each year the college turns outhigh-caliber, innovative graduates — and thousands have launched careersat Boeing. Since 1986, Boeing has endowed nine faculty positions, severalhonoring UW Engineering graduates who became world leaders in shapingthe aerospace industry. These endowed positions encourage exceptionalfaculty to pursue fascinating, leading-edge research and to train and mentorthe next generation of engineers.Boeing has been a true partner with the college, touching many aspectsof our mission. The company has funded directed research and donatedsurplus equipment and supplies for research and student design projects.Boeing engineers have collaborated with college faculty and offered adviceand guidance on several student-led design projects. The company continuesto provide critical funding for scholarships, curriculum development,and programs. Perhaps most significantly, Boeing consistently supportsour diversity initiatives, including outreach efforts for student recruiting,partnerships for K-12 initiatives, and retention programs that help studentsthrive within the engineering fields once they arrive at the UW.Jim Riley, PACCAR Professor of Engineering and professorof mechanical engineering, conducts research on fluiddynamics and turbulent flows.PACCARAn endowed professorship established by PACCAR in 2001 rotatesbetween Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.PACCAR technical experts continue long-standing collaborativepartnerships with these departments, serving on advisory boards andproviding guidance and support for student-led design projects. Afavorite student field trip is a visit to the PACCAR Technical Centertest track in Mount Vernon to learn about the company’s technicalinnovations and observe vehicle tests. Engineering faculty andPACCAR technical experts collaborate on research that benefits bothorganizations, such as fluid dynamics, advancements in manufacturingprocesses, and combustion research. These experiences at thecompany help to bring classroom learning to life for our students.WeyerhaeuserFor many years, Weyerhaeuser has supported UW efforts to increase thenumber of students from diverse backgrounds who enter the science,math, and engineering fields. As an early supporter of Washington MESA(Mathematics, Science, Engineering Achievement), Weyerhaeuser playsa significant role in expanding programs to serve teachers and developcurricula in school districts with a significant percentage of students fromgroups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering. Tohonor the success of MESA, Weyerhaeuser in 2004 established the firstendowed scholarship program for MESA program participants studyingat UW. The Weyerhaeuser Foundation furthered its commitment to thecollege by establishing the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in ChemicalEngineering to support a professor teaching and conducting researchrelated to the forest products industry.Proud of their Awards Middle school students areexcited about winning individual medals and aplaque for their school during a Seattle MESA Daymath, engineering, and science program.22 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008

$10,000,000 and aboveBill & Melinda Gates FoundationThe Boeing CompanyIntel CorporationMicrosoft Corporation$1,000,000 to $9,999,999Alfred P. Sloan FoundationAmerican Heart AssociationThe David & Lucile Packard FoundationEastman Kodak CompanyFord Motor CompanyGordon and Betty Moore FoundationThe Grainger Foundation IncHewlett-Packard CompanyHitachi, LtdHoward Hughes Medical InstituteIBM CorporationIntel FoundationM. J. Murdock Charitable TrustMadrona Venture GroupPentax CorporationThe Seattle FoundationSemiconductor Research CorporationSRI InternationalTektronix, Inc.United Way of King CountyWallace H. Coulter FoundationWashington Research FoundationThe Whitaker Foundation$500,000 to $999,999Adobe Systems IncorporatedAlias Wavefront, IncBattelle Memorial InstituteCanon, IncorporatedElectric Power Research InstituteGoogle Inc.The Henry Luce Foundation, IncInstitute for the Study of Learningand ExpertiseInternational Computer Science InstituteLumera CorporationMerck & Co., Inc.Micron Technology Foundation, IncMicron Technology, IncMontefiore Medical CenterMSNWPACCAR FoundationPacific Earthquake EngineeringResearch CenterScripps Clinic & Research FoundationTeranode CorporationUniversities Space Research AssociationVisionGate Inc.Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation$250,000 to $499,999Advanced Technology InstituteAgilent TechnologiesAkibene FoundationAmerican Chemical SocietyAndrews Space & TechnologyArchus Orthopedics, IncAreva T & DArtemisinin Research FoundationChevron CorporationDragoon Technologies, IncFidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFoster-Miller, Inc~ Corporations and Foundations~Cumulative gifts and pledges of $100,000 and abovebetween July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.HDR Engineering, IncHigh Q FoundationHonda Research and DevelopmentCompany, LtdIndustrial Technology Research InstituteInsitu Group IncorporatedJ.S.S. FoundationKimberly-Clark CorporationLegacy Emanuel Hospital & Health CenterLG Electronics, IncMartin Marietta Space GroupMicrovision, Inc.National Action Council for Minorities inEngineering, IncNational Space Biomedical Research InstituteR & D Institution of Metals & CompositesRealNetworksSAMSUNGSiemens CorporationSmartronix IncSocial Venture PartnersSony CorporationStroud Water Research CenterSun Microsystems, IncTelcordia Technologies, IncTexas Instruments, IncUnmanned Systems TechnologyLaboratory, IncXilinx, Inc$100,000 to $249,999Alcoa FoundationAlliance for Cancer Gene TherapyAmerican Institute of Steel Construction Inc.American Society of Civil EngineersAmgen, IncApple ComputerArcher OpTx, IncATR Research LaboratoriesAvago Technologies LimitedBarlow Scientific, IncBiomolecular Switches, IncBosch CorporationBoston Scientific CorporationCabot Microelectronics CorpCambridge Systematics, IncCarl M. Hansen Foundation, IncCeramatec, IncCESI Centro Elettrotecnico, LtdChongqing Holley HoldingsChunghwa Telecom Company, LtdCitigroup Global Impact Funding Trust, IncCollege Spark WashingtonCommunity Foundation Silicon ValleyCrane Aerospace & ElectronicsDaimlerChrysler AGDow Chemical Company FoundationDr. Clark Research AssociationEconomic and Engineering Services IncElectronic ArtsEM Photonics IncEMX GroupEngineering Information FoundationERA Digital Media Inc.ERC IncEwing Technology AssociatesEx One CorporationExtrude Hone CorporationExxon Mobil FoundationFidelity FoundationFordham Street FoundationFred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterGE FoundationGeneral DynamicsGenie IndustriesGenzyme CorporationHealth Services of Fox Chase Cancer CenterHigh Speed Connectivity ConsortiumHydrogen Power IncInformation Storage Industry ConsortiumInsightful CorporationInstitute for Responsible ManagementInstitute for Systems BiologyIntegration Partners, IncInternational VisionIsis Pharmaceuticals, IncIsotron CorporationJ. David Gladstone InstitutesJP Innovations, LLCKronos Advanced Technologies, IncLaZure Scientific, IncLightwave Microsystems CorporationLockheed Martin CorporationMaterials Resources International, IncMathSoft, IncMatsushita Electric Works, LtdMedina FoundationMedtronic, IncMesosystems Technology, IncMicro Magnetics IncMicroEnergy Technologies, IncMitsubishi Electric Power Products, IncMolecular Sciences InstituteNational Applied Science, IncNational Hemophilia FoundationNational SemiconductorNational Steel & Shipbuilding CompanyNew Energy and Industrial TechnologyDevelopment OrganizationNewaz Technologies, IncNintendo of America, IncNippon Telegraph & Telephone CorporationNokiaPATHPJM Interconnection, LLCThe Procter & Gamble CompanySakson & Taylor, IncScripps Institute of OceanographySeattle Art MuseumSequoia Scientific, IncShannon & Wilson, IncSolar Turbines, IncSunPlus Technology Co, LtdSusan G. Komen for the CureSwiss Federal Institute Zurich InstitutFuer PolymerSyshubs Global Service, IncT-Mobile USA, IncToray Industries, IncToyo Kohan Company, LtdVanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramVoyager Capital, LLCWater Environment Research FoundationWestern Digital CorporationWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionYadav Technology, IncYahoo! IncZymoGeneticsTREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008 23

2008EngineeringLecture SeriesEngineering Inspired by NatureJoin us for these exciting, free programs • 7 pm ~ Kane Hall 110 UW SeattleBeyond Oil: Powering the Future Thursday, October 30, 1008Miles P. Dr a k e, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, andChief Technology Officer, WeyerhaeuserDa n i e l Sc h w a r t z , Boeing-Sutter Professor, UW Chemical Engineering, andAssociate Dean of New Initiatives, UW College of EngineeringTransportation consumes 70 percent of the oil used in our country. But as worldwide demandfor oil soars, supplies tighten and prices skyrocket, how will we keep transportation moving?Current and emerging technologies can quickly convert a wide range of plant matter totransportation biofuels, offering a partial solution. Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, tidal andwave power will contribute to an increasingly diversified and “greener” energy future.Back to Nature for the Next Technology Revolution Wednesday, November 19, 2008Ba b a k Pa r v i z, Associate Professor, UW Electrical EngineeringJust 40 years ago, a computer had 2,000 transistors. Today’s CPUs have one billion andtomorrow’s units will have billions and billions of tiny components. But they can’t bemanufactured with today’s technology. So where do we turn? Engineering researcherssuch as Bakak Parviz are studying nature on the nanoscale to create the next technologyrevolution. Imagine using DNA as a template to ”grow” electrical devices, or customdesigning molecules to build transistors. It could transform our future.The lecture series is sponsored by theCollege of Engineering in partnershipwith the UW Alumni Association.All lectures are free, but seating is limited. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.Register online at UWalum.com or by calling 206-543-0540.http://www.engr.washington.edu • Tel: 206.543.0340 • Fax: 206.685.0666The Trend in EngineeringMatthew O’Donnell, PhDFrank and Julie Jungers Deanof EngineeringJudy MahoneyAssistant Dean for AdvancementHeather HoeksemaDirector of CommunicationsSandy MarvinneyEditorHannah HickeyMatt VivionContributing WritersMary LevinUW PhotographySend address comments or corrections to:Editor, The Trendtrend@engr.washington.edu T F T 371 Loew Hall, Box 352180Seattle, Washington 98195-2180