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Temple Engineering
College Establishes New
Bioengineering Department
Positioning itself to capitalize on one of the fastest-growing
research and academic segments in the United States, in January
the College of Engineering will establish a new Bioengineering
Department.
In the planning stages for more than four years, the department
will raise the college and university’s research profile and funding
and respond to the demands of an increasing number of
engineering students who want to major in bioengineering –
which involves applying engineering concepts in medicine,
biology, the environment and biotechnology.
�e department, which will include faculty members from both
the College of Engineering and Temple University’s School of
Medicine, will eventually offer both graduate and undergraduate
degree programs. �e college’s fourth department will be chaired
by Peter I. Lelkes, PhD, who for the past 11 years has been the
Calhoun Chair Professor of Cellular Tissue Engineering in
Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science
and Health Systems.
“What most excites me is the opportunity to build a new
department from scratch and to build it into a program of
excellence that will attract students to Temple because if its
superb faculty and reputation,” says Lelkes, who has been
appointed both the Laura H. Carnell Professor and Founding
Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and the inaugural
director of �e Institute for Regenerative Medicine and
Engineering (TIME) at the School of Medicine. “I’m also really
intrigued by the opportunity to forge an interface between the
College of Engineering and the School of Medicine.
“During the past 11 years I’ve seen bioengineering become a
focus for some of the best students who come to Drexel and I
think it can be a similar magnet for Temple.”
Underscoring the interdisciplinary nature of bioengineering, the
College of Science and Technology is also expected to collaborate,
and Lelkes also is looking forward to working with the Shriners
Hospital for Children, particularly on spinal cord issues.
“I’ve worked closely with Dr. Lelkes for a number of years and
he’s going to be a wonderful chair,” says Tony Lowman, PhD,
who came from Drexel’s College of Engineering in July and
became the vice provost for research in the Temple University
Office of Research. “He’s an energetic leader who does not stop.”
“I am delighted that Dr. Peter Lelkes, an outstanding and worldrenown
bioengineering academician and researcher, will be
assuming such a vital leadership role at Temple University
through a joint-appointment in the College of Engineering and
School of Medicine,” said Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS, Senior
Executive Vice President for Health Sciences at Temple
University and Dean & President/CEO of the School of
Medicine and Health System. “Dr. Lelkes’ leadership of the
newly-created Institute for Regenerative Medicine and
Engineering will facilitate a productive collaboration between
those two disciplines that will translate into new and improved
therapies for patients. We are especially excited about the
potential for enhanced and integrated investigations in the areas
of musculoskeletal tissue re-engineering, re-vascularization of
engineered tissues, cell-biomaterials interactions, and the
development of bioactive surgical tools and organ-assist devices,
as well as artificial organs.”
�e new department, which within three to five years will
include 10 faculty members, will begin in January by focusing on
graduate programming to expand the current master’s program
and introduce a PhD doctoral program. �e department expects
to begin accepting its first freshmen bioengineering majors two
years from now, in the fall of 2013. �at class would begin taking
upper level bioengineering courses in 2015 and would graduate
in 2017.
Eventually the department expects to have 40 graduate students
and 150 undergraduates.
(continued on page 4)
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Nationwide,
undergraduate
bioengineering
enrollment is the
fastest growing
engineering
discipline
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Message from the Dean
�e growth of the College of Engineering continues to be phenomenal. �is
year’s incoming freshmen class is the largest in the college’s history – again.
With 350 students, the Class of 2015 is nearly 39 percent larger than last year’s
record-setting freshman class.
�e creation of the college’s new Department of Bioengineering will spur that
growth rate even more rapidly – and play a major role in fulfilling our strategic
plan to double the size of our student body and faculty over the course of the
next five to seven years.
Bioengineering is basically the marriage between engineering and medicine.
Whether it involves diagnosis, treatment and cures or the repair or replacement
of aging body parts, our dependence upon such technology, particularly of
engineering science, increases as we age.
As the founding chair of the department, we couldn’t be more pleased to have
recruited Peter Lelkes, PhD, from Drexel University’s School of Biomedical
Engineering, Science and Health Systems. �anks to a career that has also
included significant teaching and/or research positions at the University of
Wisconsin and the National Institutes of Health, he brings to Temple a
tremendous wealth of bioengineering education and research knowledge.
In addition, enrollment in bioengineering degree programs, particularly at the
undergraduate level, is outpacing overall engineering degree enrollment, and –
thanks to its popularity with female students – will really help us increase the
number of Temple’s female engineering students.
In terms of employment opportunities, the field is wide open for holders of
both undergraduate and graduate degrees in bioengineering. Medical
institutions, biotechnology firms and even Wall Street are all hiring
bioengineering graduates.
Temple is located in the Delaware Valley region which is rich in both healthrelated
institutions and universities and pharmaceutical and biotech firms.
Temple also is the metropolitan region’s leading producer of professional school
graduates. �at’s why establishing the new Bioengineering Department is an
ideal way for the College of Engineering to meet the demands of both students
and the region for educating and training outstanding bioengineers and
producing high-quality bioengineering research.
�is addition is a prominent milestone to which we are all looking forward to
with great anticipation.
Keya Sadeghipour, PhD
Dean
In Memoriam: Robert h. Creamer,
College of Engineering founder
Robert H. Creamer,
one of the College of
Engineering’s founders,
passed away on July 25
at the age of 92 in
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Professor Creamer
worked as an engineer
at �e Budd Company, DuPont and the
Philco Corp. before joining the faculty of
the Temple University Technical Institute,
which he later directed, in 1947. A
35-year fixture at Temple until his 1982
retirement, his positions in the College
of Engineering, which was established in
1969, included being chair of the Mechanical
Engineering Department, director of
associate degree programs and associate
dean. He also wrote Machine Design,
which remained in print for 25 years.
Professor Creamer continued to be a great
friend of the College of Engineering and
will surely be missed.
He is survived by two children, Jane C.
Sullivan, SCT ’70 (Tom) of Swarthmore,
Pa., and Donald R. Creamer (Ann) of
Midland, Texas, as well as four granddaughters
and a great-grandson. His
daughter Jane said that “Dad was proud
of his long career at Temple, and the
friendships that he made with some of his
colleagues lasted to the end of his life.”
Donations in his memory may be made
to the Robert H. Creamer Student Award
Fund, a scholarship fund for a rising senior
majoring in mechanical engineering.
Please send your donation to:
Robert H. Creamer Scholarship Fund
c/o Institutional Advancement
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

faculty Profile
No Bones about It – Nancy Pleshko Knows Knees
�ree days a week Nancy Pleshko, PhD, spends an
hour working out on an elliptical trainer. �at saves
her knees – a joint with which the bioengineer is
intimately familiar.
Pleshko, who has been a research professor in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering since July
2009, will be one of the first professors in the new
Department of Bioengineering – a natural
appointment, given her extensive body of research in
orthopedic issues related to tissue engineering and
imaging regarding both bones and cartilage.
“I’m very excited and happy to be here,” says Pleshko,
who until last year was also a visiting research
associate professor in Drexel University’s School of
Biomedical Engineering. “I’ve been at Temple for two
years now and the number of students interested in
biomedical engineering is astounding.
“I’ve had many graduate and undergraduate students
approach me who are interested in doing research in
my lab. �e new department will enable us to offer a
lot more opportunities for students interested in
bioengineering.”
Raised in Suffern, N.Y., Pleshko fed her passion for
the French language by earning a BS in chemistry at
McGill University in Montreal; then earned her
master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry at Rutgers
University. “But I always enjoyed being able to apply
my chemistry background to biological problems,”
she says. Her PhD thesis, which analyzed the ability
of infrared spectroscopy to molecularly assess
pathological changes in bone, was a joint,
collaborative project with the Hospital for Special
Surgery (HSS) in New York City.
She further pursued the topic during a fellowship at
HSS. “I developed some novel methods to assess
these molecular changes in bone and became
interested in understanding not only the
compositional changes but how that affects the
function of bone,” says Pleshko, who holds two
infrared fiber-optic patents. “�at’s really where I got
my engineering background, focusing on
understanding bone biomechanics and strength and
how changes in bone structure and composition affect
bone strength.”
Between 1994 and 2007, Pleshko held several
positions in HSS’ Research Division. �ese included,
in the mid-2000s, directing its Musculoskeletal
Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab, and the Musculoskeletal
Imaging Core Center. Currently she is still
an adjunct associate scientist with HSS.
“As a result of my interaction with the surgeons at
the hospital, I became interested not only in bone
but in cartilage,” says Pleshko, who also held an
appointment at Cornell University’s Weill Graduate
School of Medical Sciences and the City University
of New York and briefly worked as a managing
scientist in the medical devices division of a
Philadelphia-based medical consulting firm. “One of
the great things about working with them is that I
was able to view issues from their perspectives: ‘Here
are the clinical problems we have and these are the
tools that we need’.”
For example, when an orthopedic surgeon conducts
an arthroscopic procedure to debride or clean out
frayed cartilage or performs a total knee replacement,
the surgeon must visually assess the cartilage to
determine what portion of the cartilage should be
removed and what should be retained.
“Some of it actually might look good but,
microscopically, is actually starting to degrade,” says
Pleshko. “I’ve been working for years to try to
develop fiber optic methods utilizing infrared
spectroscopy to assist surgeons in determining more
precisely the margins of the cartilage that need to be
saved, salvaged or removed.”
Image of fiber
optic probe tip
in contact with
cartilage surface
obtained during
arthroscopy
Expanding the scope of that research, she and Eric J.
Kropf, MD, an assistant professor of orthopaedic
surgery and sports medicine in the Temple University
School of Medicine, are exploring the possibility of
using the fiber optic technology to assist Kopf in his
treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries and
grafts. �ey hope to receive approval from the Temple
University Institutional Review Board to conduct a
clinical trial on several patients within the next year.
Nine of Pleshko’s 16 research grants have been
funded by the National Institutes of Health,
including two current grants totaling nearly a halfmillion
dollars in annual costs. Her research interests
also include the diagnostic and therapeutic value of
ultrasound and one of the Holy Grails of
orthopaedic medicine – cartilage tissue healing and/or
repair. “Because cartilage tissue is avascular, meaning
it receives no blood supply, it is very difficult to heal,
and the tissue that forms almost never has normal
function.”
Many biotech researchers are exploring cell-based
tissue engineering techniques to create tissue that
could be implanted back into patients with defective
cartilage. In addition to growing cartilage in her lab,
Pleshko is exploring imaging techniques to assess the
quality and molecular composition of such
engineered tissue and determine how well it is
integrating itself with surrounding tissue.
“�ere’s a long way to go but it’s a really exciting field
and I have several graduate and undergraduate
students in my lab working on these issues,” she says.
“It’s a great place to be working.”
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College of Engineering
to host 2012 Northeast
Bioengineering Conference
�e College of Engineering will host
the prestigious 2012 Northeast Bioengineering
Conference (NEBEC)
March 16-18, 2012. �e theme of
the conference, which is expected
to draw 500 professors, graduate
students, undergraduates and
corporate representatives, is translational
research.
Last year’s conference, at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, drew
participants from 68 different
colleges and universities and nearly
a dozen corporations. Previous
hosts have included the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and
Columbia, Brown and Stony Brook
universities.
“�is is great for Temple,” says
Iyad Obeid, PhD, the assistant
professor in the Electrical & Computer
Engineering Department who
is chairing the conference. “It’s going
to shine a bright spotlight on the new
Bioengineering Department and our
engineering program.”
Events focusing on the translational
research theme will include a
panel discussion of entrepreneurs and
patent specialists on Friday evening.
Faculty members and graduate
students will present papers. In
addition, undergraduate students
interested in entering a senior
design competition are encouraged
to highlight entrepreneurial aspects
of their work.
“Although there are some faculty
members who will be making
presentations, the conference is
geared primarily towards graduate
and undergraduate students,” says
Obeid. “It’s really a nice opportunity
for students to make presentations
and get some conference experience
without being thrown into the deep
end on the first try.”
For more details, check the
conference website at www.nebec.org.
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College Establishes New Bioengineering Department (continued)
“Adding the Bioengineering Department to our existing
departments – Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical
and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering –
makes the college much more comprehensive,” says Dean Keya
Sadeghipour, PhD. “It will also significantly enhance our
competitive position for attracting research funding and the most
qualified students.”
Rationale for the Department
Among the rationales for establishing the department:
• Nationwide, undergraduate bioengineering enrollment is the
fastest growing engineering discipline
• 79 of 88 Carnegie Research I universities have large
bioengineering departments/degree programs, with most
undergoing significant expansion
• Graduate-level bioengineering attracts the highest level of
funding per faculty member compared to other engineering
disciplines – $267,000 per year vs. $162,000 per year for
other disciplines – according to the American Association of
Engineering Education
• Bioengineering attracts the largest percentage of female
students (45 percent compared to 20 percent average for
engineering) and female faculty members (17 percent vs.
10 percent).
• Applicants with bioengineering backgrounds have a 58
percent medical school admission rate, the highest among
all undergraduate majors.
Existing strengths
�e new department will build upon the college’s already existing
bioengineering strengths:
• �e Center of Bioengineering and Biomaterials, which was
established in 1999
• An existing Bioengineering Program that includes an MS
bioengineering degree program established in 2002 and
the ability of undergraduate mechanical engineering and
electrical and computing engineering majors to specialize in
the discipline.
• Faculty already engaged in bioengineering research
�ese include Sadeghipour, a biomechanics expert; Associate
Dean George Baran, PhD, the director of the Bioengineering
Program and an internationally recognized investigator of dental
biomaterials; Mohammad F. Kiani, PhD, chair of the Mechanical
Engineering Department and several of his faculty members,
Kurosh Darvish, PhD, assistant professor, and Nancy Pleshko,
PhD, research professor; and Iyad Obeid, PhD, assistant
professor of electrical & computer engineering.
More space available
�e department’s creation coincides with the January departure
of the Tyler School of Art’s Architecture Department from the
Field programmable gate array used to do massively parallel processing
of neural signals
College of Engineering building to a new facility. �is will allow
space on the Engineering building’s 9th floor to be converted to a
series of wet and dry labs to facilitate graduate-level research.
“Our goal is to offer the students an outstanding education in the
broad spectrum of biomedical engineering, ranging from imaging
and computing systems to systems biology, engineering tissues
and biomaterials,” says Lelkes. “But rather than initially hiring
individuals for each of these disciplines, our hiring will initially
focus on a specific area to develop into an area of research
excellence. Once we establish a critical mass in one area, then we
will start hiring to establish our expertise in other areas.”
Initial focus: Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials
Lelkes initially will recruit faculty with strong research expertise
in tissue engineering and biomaterials. “�at’s obviously my area
of focus, the area that attracts the most students and the area in
which Temple currently has the greatest strength, particularly in
terms of collaborating with existing College of Engineering
faculty,” he says.
�e first faculty members will include Pleshko and Lowman,
who most recently was both a professor in Drexel’s Chemical and
Biological Engineering Department and its College of
Engineering’s associate dean for research and graduate studies.
Faculty based at the School of Medicine will have secondary
appointments in the College of Engineering, according to Baran.
Lowman, who focuses on advanced biomedical materials, is
bringing more than $1 million worth of multi-year research
funded by two NIH grants and one industry grant.
Highly impressed with the untapped potential for research
enterprise he has discovered throughout the university, he says,
“I’ve seen a number of new bioengineering and biomedical
programs start within the last 15 years and I’m excited to be
involved at the start of the new Bioengineering Department in
the College of Engineering.
“It’s a great opportunity to utilize some of the lessons we’ve
learned to help it become a top-notch program.”

Bioengineering Chair lelkes straddles the Interface between scientific Disciplines
From the beginning of his career Peter I. Lelkes, PhD,
the Laura H. Carnell Professor and founding chair
of the college’s new Department of Bioengineering,
has always viewed dividing science into distinct
disciplines as artificial.
“I started out studying physics,” says Lelkes, a native
of Hungary who earned his PhD in biophysics in
Germany and did his postdoctoral fellowship work at
the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he
also got his first faculty appointment. “But I always
have been interested not only in the quantitative
aspects of the natural sciences but in biological
systems as well. Because they all co-exist in nature,
it’s very artificial to separate the margins between
biology, chemistry and physics. You need to straddle
the interface between them and speak the language of
all of these to understand the mechanisms at play.
“�at’s exactly what bioengineering does.”
A U.S. citizen who now lives in Cherry Hill, N.J.,
Lelkes was born in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of
eight he fled with his family to West Germany shortly
after the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
His arrival in the United States during a sabbatical
from the Weizmann Institute in the mid-1980s
triggered his interest in tissue engineering. “I saw
that tissues were composed of cells that, if you
isolated them, would reorganize to
form tissue-like assemblies,” says
Lelkes, who for five years was a
visiting associate and scientist in the
Laboratory of Cell Biology and
Genetics at the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
“Nature’s tissues, of course, are
still more complex and functional
than most of the engineered ones,
but the role of tissue engineering
is to learn what nature is doing
and then optimize it to create smart
and practical solutions to unmet
clinical needs.”
After directing the University of Wisconsin’s cell
biology laboratory for a dozen years, Lelkes for the
past 11 years has been the Calhoun Chair Professor
of Cellular Tissue Engineering in Drexel University’s
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and
Health Systems and since 2007 has directed its
Surgical Engineering Enterprise. He also held two
adjunct appointments in Drexel’s College of
Engineering and three such appointments in
Drexel’s College of Medicine.
It’s very artificial to
separate the margins
between biology,
chemistry and
physics. You need to
straddle the interface
between them and
speak the language
of all of these to
understand the
mechanisms at play.
At Drexel Lelkes – in a prelude to one of his
expected Temple roles – also functioned as a bridge
between the College of Engineering and what was
then its newly acquired MCP-Hahnemann School
of Medicine.
Lelkes has also been the team leader for tissue
engineering at the Nanotechnology Institute of
Southeastern Pennsylvania (NTI), a multi-institution
coalition that includes Temple. Also, he co-directs
the Pennsylvania Advanced Textile Research and
Innovation Center (PATRIC), which focuses on
bionanotextiles and stem cell biology; Temple
will soon join.
His emphasis, which he will bring to Temple, focuses
on translational research with healthcare applications.
Lelkes, who was involved in the development of
20 IP filings and patent applications at Drexel,
focuses on tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine. �is includes the tissue-specific differentiation
of embryonic and adult stem cells and the use
of endothelial cells – cells that line blood vessels.
Some of his recent research has utilized tissue
engineering to develop what he calls “smart surgical
tools” to help heal broken bones or reattach torn
anterior cruciate ligaments. Unlike the screws and
plastics currently in use, these tissues can enhance
the healing process. To replace
blocked arteries, he also is
investigating bioactive vascular
grafts that potentially can prevent
restenosis, or reclogging of
the blood vessels.
Lelkes will be bringing all his
current research to Temple,
including three multi-year
NIH-funded studies worth nearly
$3 million on which he is the
co-principal investigator, as well as
several significant National Science
Foundation grants.
In his “spare time” the father of
four enjoys hiking in the
Appalachians and western national
parks with his wife, Iris. With her and friends, he also
plays chamber music. “When I go to conferences I
like to take my violin and play with friends,” he says.
“And one more advantage Temple has over Drexel is
that the Boyer School of Music is a very good music
school. Maybe I can join one of its orchestras.”
More about Peter I. lelkes, PhD
B.S., Physics and Biophysics, Technical
University, Aachen, West Germany
PhD, 1977, Cell Biology, Membrane
Biophysics, Nuclear Research Center,
Juelich, West Germany
Postgraduate Education
Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of
Membrane Research, Rehovoth, Israel
Previous Institutions
Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science
Visiting Associate and Scientist, Laboratory
of Cell Biology and Genetics, NIADDK,
National Institutes of Health
Director, Laboratory of Cell Biology,
Department of Medicine, University of
Wisconsin (both Milwaukee and Madison)
Associate and Full Professor of Medicine,
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Adjunct Associate and Professor of
Cell Biology, Dept. of Biology,
Marquette University
Also:
• More than 150 peer-reviewed papers
• 45 book chapters
• More than 400 national and
international presentations
• Nearly 60 research grants, including
federal (NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE),
state, and private funding agencies
for a total of over $17 Million
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Nasa’s Kevin Carmack
2011 Gallery of
success honoree
Kevin Carmack grew up in
Stratford, N.J. and graduated from
Temple in 1984 with dual BS
degrees in mechanical engineering
technology and architecture.
During his years at Temple he
participated in two co-op
experiences designing and building
satellites at the RCA Aerospace &
Defense facility in East Windsor,
N.J. Upon graduation in 1984, he
worked for another five years at the
GE Astro Space Division in East
Windsor, N.J., continuing his
career in designing communication
satellites for commercial and
NOAA customers. Afterwards he
spent two years in Toulouse, France,
working for Matra Espace on
satellites and launch vehicles.
In 1992, Kevin relocated to the
Washington, D.C., area to work at
NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center on numerous space projects
such as the Upper Atmosphere
Research Satellite (UARS), repair
and servicing of the Hubble Space
Telescope, robotic servicing
missions and interplanetary science
missions. He designed and
built hardware that flew on nine
different Space Shuttle missions.
For the past six years he has
managed one of the largest
manufacturing projects at NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md. �is International
Space Station project involved
designing, manufacturing, testing
and delivering five large science
platforms that were used to carry
more than 40,000 lbs. of
equipment and science experiments
to the Space Station before the
Shuttle was retired. Over 500,000
parts were used to fabricate the five
space platforms.
Carmack has also hired and brought
many Temple co-op students to the
NASA center.
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alumni Profile
Mark Bruley ’75: the ‘World’s Expert on Medical accidents’
A South Jersey woman’s face is badly burned during eye surgery.
Fatal flames engulf a premature infant on an L.A. operating
table. Another infant dies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when an
incubator overheats to 170° F. At a Leeds, England, hospital,
alleged tampering with medical devices has supposedly killed
half a dozen patients, including a member of a Middle Eastern
royal family.
If you are a hospital administrator or government health official
who wants to know what happened and why, chances are you’re
going to call Mark E. Bruley, BS, ’75, the vice president for
accident and forensic investigation at the ECRI Institute in
Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
�e Philadelphia Inquirer recently called him the “world’s expert
on medical accidents.” At ECRI, where he is vice president
for accident and forensic investigation, they simply call him
Sherlock Holmes.
�at was particularly fitting when he and the head of the
institute’s European office, David Watson, were summoned to
Leeds. Among the alleged tampering deaths was an intensive care
patient who died during dialysis when a slug of air traveled
through a catheter into her body. Even though the machine hadn’t
been used for two years during the ongoing police investigation,
in two days Bruley was able to determine that no one had
tampered with it. Instead, air that had accumulated in her
superior vena cava vein due to placement of a jugular catheter
combined with how she was sitting had back flowed into the
machine and then migrated back into her heart.
Reviewing the other patients’ files, Bruley quickly concluded that
device tampering also had not caused any of their deaths.
In the Malaysia incubator case, the breakthrough finally came
when Bruley remembered a freshman-year lecture. “You may
come out of this program with a degree in engineering technology,”
a Temple professor had said, “but that doesn’t mean
you’ll know how to wire a house.”
So Bruley looked at the Korean-made incubator’s most mundane
component, its power plug. Someone had removed the Korean
plug and soldered the strands of the wires and then connected
them to the Malaysian electrical plug with the internal screws.
�e soldered wires inevitably loosened (due to “cold flow”) under
the screw compression forces resulting in intermittent power
connections and causing the electricity drop out for a few cycles.
�at caused the incubator’s microprocessor and control panel and
back-up temperature safety circuitry to fail.
When a mishap occurs Bruley is usually told a device has failed.
But as these examples illustrate, in 70 percent of the cases the fault
lies not with the device but how it was used. Bruley always
considers four key interfaces with the device – the user, the
patient, the device accessories and the device’s environment, such
as electricity and gases supplied by the facility.
As he often used to tell Temple students during once-a-semester
lectures, “You have to understand not only the anatomy,
physiology and biochemistry of the patients but also the broader
environment in
which the technology
you are
designing is being
used – including
the level of
understanding
by the actual
user, whether a
physician or
patient.”
So besides testing
devices in ECRI’s
well-equipped lab
and consulting its
first-rate medical
reference library,
Bruley often
observes medical
teams in action
before drawing his conclusions.
�e Baltimore native got his first taste of medicine as a three-yearold
when his chest was cut open to correct a condition known as
“funnel chest” in which his ribs were pressing on his heart. While
a Temple student he spent his summers working as a nurse’s
assistant and autopsy aide at a Baltimore hospital.
Bruley’s interest in biomedical engineering technology was
primarily influenced by Professor Emeritus Victor Schutz, PhD,
and the late John E. Tarka, PhD, chair of the Electrical
Engineering Department. During the fall semester of his senior
year, Schutz suggested checking out “this fantastic laboratory in
Philadelphia called the Emergency Care Research Institute that
does tremendous things with medical technology evaluation.”
Bruley began working at ECRI a month after he graduated and,
36 years later, is still there. After first evaluating emergency
medical equipment, in 1978 he began his hazard and accident
investigations of a wide range of healthcare technologies,
including one of his specialties: medical-device fire investigations,
which often involve oxygen-enriched fires and flammability issues.
Bruley, and ECRI, however, rarely testify in malpractice trials.
“Our goal is to improve health care by informing hospitals what
caused the problem and creating awareness,” he says.
To do so, he relies upon both his encyclopedic memory of past
investigations and his decades as a magician. “Understanding the
cause of a medical accident often involves looking for clues that
others ignore because they are convinced the incident occurred a
certain way,” he says. “I understand how people ‘see’ and
remember the details with devices and physical items.”
Adds Bruley, “What I like most is the challenge. You have
to develop a level of confidence in your ability to solve a
problem that you have never seen before … or the world has
never seen before.”

alumni News
a Message from the alumni association President
Greetings fellow alumni:
My predecessor, Ron Kerins, focused on the importance of alumni
like you reconnecting with the College of Engineering through the
alumni association.
Clearly, many of you have embraced that message. Between
30 and 40 engineering graduates attended last fall’s homecoming
celebration. This year more than 60 attended and it’s my goal, as
we continue to grow the alumni association, for next year’s
homecoming attendance to be even greater.
I’ve also attended the Gallery of success award ceremony, which honored Nasa
engineer Kevin Carmack, ME ’84, and was on campus for senior Day—both of which were
great opportunities to reengage with current students and recent alums. for me, these
experiences have been invigorating. Temple engineers are everywhere and as the college’s
reputation continues to rise, I sense a growing, justifiable pride in our college.
If you haven’t done so already, come back to the campus. Our next scheduled events
include our Networking and holiday Reception, Thursday evening, Dec. 8th, and the Dunk ‘n
Dine Temple-Xavier basketball game/dinner feb. 11. We’re also working on organizing
smaller, more informal gatherings. Reconnecting with other Temple engineers represents a
great opportunity to network, to tap into a wealth of engineering knowledge and to enjoy the
camaraderie of your peers. It’s good for your business and good for giving back to Temple.
so please make time to join us soon. and feel free to contact me with any suggestions you
might have to make our alumni association even better.
Mark Onesky, CE ’84
monesky@oneskyengineering.com
Dean Keya Sadeghipour with
Dereck Baker ME ’91.
On site of the World Trade Center
Reconstruction project.
�e Ewell family poses in front of
1 World Trade Center.
alumni Tour of World Trade Center Reconstruction Project
On september 28, 2011 alumni Dereck Baker ME ’91 and Patrick askew CCET ’96 gave fellow
alumni a behind-the-scenes tour of the World Trade Center Reconstruction project. The tour
included 1 World Trade Center, the Memorial Museum and the Transportation hub. following
the extensive tour, alumni enjoyed drinks and appetizers at Trinity Place Bar located just a few
blocks from the project site. Thank you to Dereck and Patrick for offering such an amazing tour!
alvin Greenspan Receives
Russell h. Conwell award
Bret Perkins, TUAA President and Alvin Greenspan, Russell H.
Conwell Award recipient
�is fall the Temple University Alumni Association
presented one of its most prestigious awards, the
Russell H. Conwell Award, to Professor Emeritus
Alvin T. Greenspan, a member of the College of
Engineering faculty for 20 years.
�e award was bestowed at the Russell H. Conwell
Society Celebration and Alumni Association Award in
October. �e Russell H. Conwell Awards recognizes
non-Temple University alumni for outstanding
volunteer and philanthropic contributions to the
university community.
Greenspan served Temple University for more than
20 years. He was chairman of the Mechanical
Engineering Department for 13 years and was also
chairman of the University Educational Policies and
Practices Committee, chairman of the University
Faculty Workload Committee and a member of the
University Faculty Senate Steering Committee.
Continuing to be a huge supporter of the College
of Engineering, Greenspan has pledged a $1 million
gift – the largest the college has ever received –
to establish an endowed scholarship fund that will
provide full-time tuition support to undergraduates
in the College of Engineering. �e Greenspan
Scholars will be selected based on academic merit
and financial need.
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News Briefs
College leading Pennsylvania sTEM Initiative
Sixty middle and high school students from the Philadelphia School District,
along with their parents, joined university leaders, top Navy commanders —
including U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead — and
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in the ribbon cutting, which celebrated
Temple receiving the license to bring the national award-winning MESA
(Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement) program to Pennsylvania, its
ninth state.
�e MESA initiative is designed to increase the number of scientists, technologists,
engineers and related professionals who are able to graduate from a two- or fouryear
institution; and to diversify American students who achieve advanced degrees
leading to research and development to create new products and to support the
nation’s defense. Over the past 40 years, nearly 70 percent of MESA students —
many of them minorities and women — have entered STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.
Temple’s College of Engineering is leading the Pennsylvania MESA initiative
through financial and administrative support, with Jamie Bracey, PhD, director of
STEM education, outreach and research in the College of Engineering,
coordinating Temple’s MESA efforts.
�is summer, Temple launched the MESA summer academies in partnership with
the U.S. Navy, through funding from the Office of Naval Research and support
from engineers from the Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station, the Urban
Youth Racing School, and the Mayor’s Office of Community Services. �e
students engaged in engineering, technology and health and medicine at Temple’s
College of Engineering, School of Medicine and the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Researchers Investigating Methane Gas
from Marcellus shale Drilling
A Temple study funded by the William Penn Foundation will explore the origin of
methane gas found at higher concentrations in drinking wells in areas surrounding
Marcellus Shale drilling sites in Susquehanna County, Pa.
A multi-disciplinary team of Temple researchers will investigate the origins of
methane gas found in drinking water wells near Marcellus Shale drilling sites in
Pennsylvania and how science is influencing the formation of public policy on
drilling. �e research is being funded through a one-year, $66,000 multidisciplinary
grant from the William Penn Foundation.
“We know there are environmental concerns about the Marcellus Shale and there
have been some accidents related to the drilling,” said Michel Boufadel, PhD,
professor of environmental engineering and director of the Center for Natural
Resources Development and Protection (NRDP) in Temple’s College of
Engineering. “�ere has been a lot of hype about this issue and sometimes it is
difficult to decipher what is fact-based and what is opinion.”
Nasheeba St. Louis (center) from
Upper Darby High School
received a full scholarship for the
summer robotics program. To her
left is teaching assistant Yuliy
Balter and John Helferty, PhD
and to her right is Nasheeba's
guardian Ms. St. Louis and
teaching assistant Jay Shukla.
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Boufadel, principal investigator for the Temple project, said that the process
used to drill into the shale creates enormous pressure that could be forcing
pockets of methane toward the drinking wells. Temple’s research will attempt to
determine if the methane gas found in the wells was released from the shale
during drilling or whether it was located in pockets closer to the surface.
If the methane is originating in the upper formations, the likely cause is the
drilling operation or the well casing construction — issues that could be
addressed at a reasonable cost, said Boufadel. However, if the gas is originating
in the deep formation, the entire hydrofracking process could be considered
hazardous and would need to be stopped or dramatically modified, he said.
summer Introductory Programs Quite successful
Two summer high school Programs
Introduce students to Engineering
�e College of Engineering’s two summer pre-college outreach programs for
high school students were again quite successful.
�e goal of the programs – Women’s Engineering Exploration (WE2) and the
ROBOTICS course – is to increase awareness in the engineering field and
heighten high school students’ interest in pursuing engineering in college –
either at Temple or elsewhere.
�is year the WE2 Program, which is designed to bridge the engineering gender
gap, drew 34 students to the Temple campus the week of July 11. �at
represented a huge increase over last year’s group of 10 students. “It was a really
good crowd, reports Shriram “Alex” Pillipakkam, PhD, a professor of
mechanical engineering and the college’s graduate program coordinator who has
offered the intensive five-day residential program for the past three years. “�ree
of the students liked it so much that they came back to the campus to spend
more time working in laboratories with Temple professors.”
�e two-credit robotics course, which meets three mornings a week for five
weeks, attracted another 20 high school students to the College of Engineering.
�e introduction to electrical, computer and mechanical engineering culminates
in the design and construction of programmable, autonomous robots that the
students engage in a “robot laser tag” competition.
“�is year’s group was an extremely diversified group with 8 females and 12
males, ” says John Helferty, PhD, associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering, who has taught the course every summer since 1994.
We are extremely grateful to our summer program supporters:
Scott A. McKeown, Esq.
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium at Penn State
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C
Turner Construction Company
Jonathan Padua (center), from the
Philadelphia Douglas Charter
School, received a full scholarship for
the summer robotics program. He is
accompanied by John Helferty, PhD,
director of the program, and
Christopher House, PhD, the head
of the NASA Pennsylvania Space
Grant Consortium at Penn State,
which funds part of the program.

student Profile honor Roll
senior alani Intintolo already
Engaged in Bioengineering Research
Alani Intintolo, a senior enrolled in the
College of Engineering’s 4 + 1 accelerated
BS in mechanical engineering/MS in
bioengineering degree program, has spent
her summer and a portion of her fall
semester conducting research at the
School of Medicine’s Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Lab.
As a scholarship participant in the
college’s Summer Undergraduate
Research Program, she has been studying
the potential of an MRI technique called
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for
evaluating spinal cord injuries and
determining beneficial treatment options.
“Most DTI research has focused on the brain,” says Intintolo, who was raised
in Havertown, Pa. “I am trying to compare normal and injured spinal cord data
to see if there are any trends and to develop possible protocols for using this
software and methodology to evaluate the condition of spinal cords,
particularly pediatric spinal cords.”
Intintolo, who is also the vice president of Alpha Beta chapter (Temple’s
chapter) of Pi Tau Sigma which is the international mechanical engineering
honors society, actually was not aware that the Mechanical Engineering
Department offered a bioengineering concentration or an accelerated joint
degree program until her junior year.
Nonetheless, it ultimately felt natural for her. Her father, who graduated cum
laude from Temple both in 1976 and 1979 with a bachelor’s degree and
master’s degree in social work, is the social work coordinator for the spinal cord
injury and polytrauma injury programs at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center,
and her mother formerly worked at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
“Whenever they came home from work my parents were always talking about
healthcare,” says Intintolo, “and I helped my dad at the VA hospital during
high school and during my freshman year at Temple I volunteered at the VA
hospital, mainly working with veterans in the physical and occupational
therapy units.
“Bioengineering makes sense for me because I’ve always felt that health care
was one of the more interesting fields,” adds Intintolo.
Although she is unclear whether or not she will continue her DTI research for
her master’s degree thesis next year, she says, “I’m definitely excited to keep
going with this project for now. When I think of bioengineering, I don’t
automatically think of MRIs but it’s definitely shown me how many
bioengineering options will be available to me after I get my degree.”
Thank You for Your support
as the year draws to a close, I would like to thank all of our alumni
and friends who have supported the College of Engineering. as you
know, the college is growing and we are depending on your support.
annual gifts bring our vision to life, and keep the college strong. Your
support, no matter the amount, also increases the percentage of
alumni supporting the university this year, which in turn positively
affects the College of Engineering’s rankings and reputation. and in
the end, all of those things make your Temple Engineering degree
more meaningful.
so please, make your gift today by returning the enclosed envelope
or visiting myowlspace.com/makeagift.
again, thank you and we hope you will consider making a gift today.
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Kadiatu A. Mensah SSW ’09
Lassey S. Mensah ENG ’11
Bruce P. Michalski ENG ’79
Joann R. Michalski
Benjamin F. Michener ENG ’66
Karen Dunlevy Miller ENG ’90
William Mills ENG ’66
Haitham H. Mohammad
William C. Mohler ENG ’85
Angelo J. Molinaro ENG ’50
Ruben E. Morales ENG ’93
Mary L. Moran
Leroy D. Morgan ENG ’09
Geoy M. Morgan ENG ’89
Josiah Mount ENG ’07, ENG ’09
Gary R. Mueller ENG ’81
Robert Vincent Mullen ENG ’71
James M. Mullikin ENG ’01
Abdul Muneem ENG ’11
Henry F. Murray ENG ’69
Angelo T. Napoli MUS ’89,
MUS ’91, ENG ’98
Rutesh R. Narielwala ENG ’01
Kinnari Ramesh Narielwala
CST ’99, SBM ’03, PHR ’11
Scott T. Nethery ENG ’89
Anthony T. Nguyen ENG ’97
Son T. Nguyen ENG ’03, ENG ’07
Joseph Peter Noce ENG ’72,
ENG ’74
Roseann D. Noce
William J. Novak ENG ’57
Patrice L. Nuble ENG ’02
Joseph W. Nuschke ENG ’53
Olushola J. Olatujoye
Lucas E. Orner ENG ’11
Joseph M. Osifchok ENG ’81,
TYL ’81
David Edward Ottinger ENG ’75
David H. Outcalt ENG ’80
Douglas D. Owen ENG ’82
Louis Pagano ENG ’57
Mario L. Palena ENG ’84
Neil F. Palumbo ENG ’86,
ENG ’88, ENG ’93
Anand Pandey ENG ’05
Cristina Parenti ENG ’10
June Bong Park ENG ’95
Hiran V. Patel ENG ’08
Naresh J. Patel ENG ’89
Yamini N. Patel PHR ’96
Parin M. Patel ENG ’11
Rohit Varma Penumetsa ENG ’11
Vallorie J. Peridier
John P. Perry
Roland R. Phillip ENG ’79
Neil T. Pieszchala ENG ’11
Francis L. Pitonyak ENG ’72,
EDU ’74, SBM ’79
Kenneth J. Pooler ENG ’11
Kenneth J. Pooler
Sally A. Pooler
Elaine Friel Porcello ENG ’88
Noel A. Prodigalidad ENG ’11
David Jeffrey Prost ENG ’01
PSE&G Company
Chandrasheker R. Puvvada
ENG ’06
Kenneth D. Radomski ENG ’93
Furman Raine ENG ’60
David J. Rakszawski ENG ’11
Christopher Ramsey ENG ’09
Adeel K. Rana
Mobin Rastgar Agah
Charles V. Ray ENG ’88, CST ’96
Edmund L. Reardon ENG ’83
John P. Redden ENG ’76
Daniel F. Reo ENG ’11
Robert Reo
Karen Reo
Jack R. Richards ENG ’52
Catherine Richards
Jason R. Riegler ENG ’09
Samuel J. Rizzo ENG ’11
George J. Roberts ENG ’82
William R. Robinson ENG ’74,
ENG ’77
Andrew Rodzon ENG ’09,
ENG ’11
Jasmine N. Ross ENG ’11
Cynthia Ross
Michael Ross
Anne Rovner EDU ’83
Shoumik Roychoudhury
Holland R. Rudy ENG ’52
David J. Russell ENG ’80
James A. Russello ENG ’61
Robert D. Sacchetti ENG ’84
Henry J. Salaga ENG ’69, ENG ’72
John J. Samanns ENG ’82
Jill Saull TYL ’86
Michael J. Saunders ENG ’79
Tarek Sayegh
Gerard W. Scheliga ENG ’78
Joseph T. Schofield ENG ’76
William G. Scott ENG ’75,
ENG ’78
Paul W. Searfoorce ENG ’83
Mary Searfoorce
Jessica L. Seersma ENG ’07
Timothy M. Sellers ENG ’87
Jean Sgarlat
Michael Sgarlat
Eugene Shaid ENG ’57
Ramy A. Shalabi
Martin F. Shannon ENG ’68
Youness Sharifi ENG ’11
Charles D. Shelmire ENG ’59
Faith Shepard
Evan D. Shepard ENG ’11
Stuart C. Shepard ENG ’11
James A. Sherman ENG ’88
Harry Shevchuck ENG ’60
Edward Armond Silvey ENG ’59
John C. Sines CLA ’74, ENG ’80
Christopher R. Singleton ENG ’90
Albert Sivahop ENG ’58
Thiva Sivilay ENG ’99
Sharon A. Smith CHPSW ’79,
ENG ’88
Lester J. Snyder ENG ’52
Brent H. Snyder ENG ’95
Jennifer Cheung Snyder SBM ’94
Laura D. Solomon ENG ’11
Timothy T. Starosta
John W. Stayt ENG ’80
Bernard Stepanski ENG ’60
Glenn E. Stinson ENG ’05
Helen C. Stinson
Harvey E. Stuckley ENG ’56
Molly Sullivan
Richard B. Swain ENG ’54
Louise G. Swain EDU ’65
Christopher J. Tate ENG ’79
Glenice Thomas
Angela Thomas ENG ’11
Michael J. Tierney ENG ’88
John Timmons
Michael E. Tolassi ENG ’92
Andrew Joseph Toth ENG ’65,
ENG ’66
Bryan Townes ENG ’92
An Tran ENG ’10
Tuyen V. Tran ENG ’88
Euripides Tsaprazis ENG ’64
John J. Tumolo ENG ’60
Leo C. Vaccaro ENG ’74
Frank Valtri ENG ’
John M. Vassa ENG ’09
Arun Tejaswi Varma Vatsavai
ENG ’11
Bin Wang ENG ’07
Yue Wang CST ’07
Jermain A. Warner ENG ’99
Mark A. Waronker CLA ’76,
ENG ’77
Peter Wasem ENG ’82, TYL ’82
Frank A. Weer ENG ’58
Russell M. Weimar EDU ’58
Norman M. Weiss ENG ’82,
ENG ’85
Harold L. Wetzel ENG ’56
Roscoe White
Sharon White
Edward D. Wienckoski ENG ’11
Susan A. Wilkinson ENG ’88
Thomas Clinton Winkel ENG ’88
George Wintersun ENG ’80
Ronald A. Wood ENG ’59
Brian C. Worthington ENG ’11
Judy Wright ENG ’79
William J. Yanalavage ENG ’94
James A. Yann ENG ’75, ENG ’76
Dennis Francis Zak ENG ’74
Derek J. Zambo ENG ’91
Charles P. Zanes ENG ’61,
ENG ’83
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saturday,
february 11, 2012
Dinner at President’s
Conference suite
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7pm
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Men’s Basketball game
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