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THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA FALL 2011 ISSUE
Engineering New Frontiers Summer Camp
Student Team Proudly Displays its First Place Design of a Solar Concentrator

Table of Contents New Faculty and Staff
New Faculty ....................................inside front cover
Dean’s Message........................................................1
Criteria for Sustainable Design................................2
Professor Applies Computer Science
to Neuromedicine ................................................3
School of Engineering Explores Asia for
Educational Opportunities....................................4
CUA Reaches out to Hispanic Students
and Mexican Universities ....................................4
Engineering Launches New Summer Program........5
Capstone Engineering Design Projects....................6
CUA’s Engineering Week Brightens Campus ..........6
Noted with Sadness,
Charles Kaman, B.A.E. 1940 ................................7
Air Force General Receives
School Alumni Award ..........................................7
CUA Mechanical Engineering
Alum Recognized..................................................8
CUA Celebrates 125th Anniversary
with 125,000 Hours of Service ............................8
Alumni Corner ..........................................................9
CUA Senator’s Club
Keeps Alumni Connected ..................................10
More Than 50 Exchange Cutting Edge
Mechanical Engineering Ideas ..........................10
Recent Grad Earns Top Gun Award........................11
Engineering’s J. Steven Brown Speaks at Faculty
Roundtable..........................................................11
Computer Science Finds Enthusiasts at CUA........12
Local Families, Students, and Teachers
Explore the Dimensions of Sound ....................12
CUA EECS Faculty Establish High-Performance
Computing Facilities ..........................................13
CUA Students Bring Solar to Local Monks ............14
Energy in Wind........................................................15
ACM Chapter Initiated at CUA ................................16
Students Steeled for Bridge Event ........................16
Ph.D. Students Present Findings at
Buenos Aires Conference ..................................17
Faculty and Staff Recognized for Excellence........17
Faculty Grants ..................................................18-19
Faculty Presentations and Publications ..........19-26
Faculty Activities ..............................................26-28
Faculty Awards and Honors ..................................28
Student Activities and
Awards 2010–2011 ............................................28
2010–2011
Honor Roll of Donors ..................inside back cover
Jandro Abot, Ph.D.
Structural Engineering six year degree, University of the Republic
(Uruguay), 1993
M.S., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 1998
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 2001
Jandro Abot joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a clinical
assistant professor in August 2010. He was an assistant professor in the
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati
and, previously, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. He has published more
than 80 refereed papers on composite materials, carbon nanotube structures, and sensors. He
started building the Intelligent Materials lab in Pangborn with funding from the Air Force Office
of Scientific Research. Abot is the founder of and adviser for the Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers student chapter, and he is collaborating on student recruitment efforts and developing
programs for international students with his colleagues in the school.
Victor Frenkel, Ph.D.
B.S., Agriculture, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, 1991
M.S., Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1995
Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1999
Victor Frenkel joined the faculty of the School of Engineering’s Department
of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2011. His
research involves developing novel ways that therapeutic ultrasound can be
used for noninvasively enhancing drug and gene delivery, especially for the treatment of cancer
and thrombosis. His research techniques include mathematical modeling and simulations, as well
as multiple modality imaging — from electron microscopy to optical and bioluminescent imaging,
ultrasound, and MRI. His projects typically encompass theoretical, mechanistic, and preclinical
translational studies. Prior to coming to CUA, Frenkel was a senior postdoctoral fellow at the
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. He then served as a staff scientist and principal
investigator at the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the Clinical Center of the
National Institutes of Health. Frenkel collaborates actively with both physicians and scientists, and
serves on a variety of external research advisory and review committees and editorial boards.
Tania Valencia
Tania Valencia joined the dean’s office as the receptionist in October 2010.
She is planning on pursuing her degree in elementary education at Catholic
University. Valencia has more than 10 years experience in both retail and
administrative work, working at the Inter-American Development Bank as
the assistant to the current ambassador to Costa Rica and with the LVMH
conglomerate group managing stores throughout the Washington, D.C., area.

Dean’s Message • Greetings from Hong Kong
As in previous academic years,
2010–2011 was a successful
one, filled with abundant achievements
by faculty, students, and
staff of the School of Engineering.
■ The school welcomed 100
new undergraduate students
at the start of the
last academic year, including
21 transfer students
and 79 freshmen. The
school also welcomed 74
new graduate students.
During the past academic
year, the school granted 57
bachelor’s degrees, 53
master’s degrees, and six
doctoral degrees. You’ll
find their names on the back cover of this issue.
■ As reflected in the Faculty Section, our faculty continued to excel in
teaching and research through their intensive publishing, active participation
in grantsmanship, and service in technical and professional societies.
The school had research expenditures of more than $2 million
and, with 43 research proposals submitted, it received almost $2 million
in new funding.
■ The school continued to carry out accreditation maintenance activities,
including meetings of departmental advisory boards, student participation
in the FE exam, and outcome assessment as outlined in the School
Accreditation Handbook.
■ Two new faculty members and a staff member joined the school during
the past academic year: an assistant professor in biomedical engineering,
a clinical assistant professor, and a receptionist.
■ During the Homecoming luncheon in October 2011, the school granted
Lt. General Donald Lamontagne, who received a Bachelor of Science
degree in engineering from CUA in 1969, the 2011 Engineering Distinguished
Alumni Achievement Award.
■ In April 2011, the school officially welcomed the new CUA President
John Garvey with a dean’s presentation and an informal luncheon with
the faculty. During the dean’s presentation, I gave an overview of the
school’s accomplishments in the last 10 years and its outlook to an
audience that included President Garvey, Provost Brennan, and the fulltime
faculty of the school.
■ During the spring semester 2011, two CUA engineering students went
to Hong Kong to study at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
and six students from PolyU came to study CUA at under the existing
student’s exchange program between CUA and PolyU. For the 2+2 programs
with Vietnamese universities, we received three new students
from International University, three students from Danang University of
Technology, and one student from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.
In addition we received two graduate students from Vietnam.
■ In February 2011, I was invited to deliver a keynote speech, “The Impact
of Globalized Education on College Students,” at the awards banquet
for the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural
Societies in Silver Spring.
■ The school held several phone and face-to-face meetings with the
members of the Executive Development Board. The board elected four
new members, Robert Kavetsky, Jude Franklin, Carrie Maslen, and.
Steven Smith. Through the hard work of the board members, we had a
very successful year in fundraising, with a 70 percent participation rate
from alumni contacted.
■ In April 2011, I traveled with a delegation from the School of Engineering
to Macau and Hong Kong. During this trip I visited the University of
Macau (UM), Macau, China, and signed a memorandum of understanding
(MOU) with the Faculty of Science and Technology there. I also met the
officials of the Faculty of Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong, and discussed with the acting dean the renewal of
the student exchange program between CUA and PolyU.
■ Also in April 2011, along with a delegation from the School of Engineering,
I traveled to India and visited several Indian universities, including the
University of Calcutta and the Christ University, to explore research and
educational opportunities. I signed several MOUs with the above institutions.
We also paid a visit to a major IT company, InfoSys, in Bangalore.
■ In May 2011, I went with a delegation from the School of Engineering to
Mexico and visited several Mexican Catholic universities, including Universidad
Popular del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Universidad Anáhuac
México Norte, and Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). MOUs were
signed with these universities.
■ Working with the provost’s office, we have prepared several draft
agreements with universities in Macau, India, and Mexico to implement
research and educational programs such as the 2+2 program, student
exchange program, and faculty visiting program.
■ Our summer camp, formerly known as Eye on Engineering, was renamed
as Engineering New Frontiers and has been extensively reorganized
under the leadership of Mary Kate Zabroske, assistant to the dean for
administration. This one-week program provided students with handson
activities, field trips to local research facilities, and cultural outings.
As evidenced by the facts presented above, the school has done very well in
the academic year 2010–2011 in the areas of enrollment, research, and program
development. These achievements would have not been possible without
the hard work of our faculty, alumni, students, and staff. I am especially
happy that we have expanded our international programs to Macau, India,
and Mexico. I hope you will enjoy reading this issue of “CUA Engineer” and
would appreciate your feedback and suggestions.
Regards,
Charles Cuong Nguyen, D.Sc.
Dean, School of Engineering
nguyen@cua.edu
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Mechanical Engineering Professor Expands
Criteria for Sustainable Design
Assistant Professor Rene Gabbai, Ph.D., finds the criteria used to determine
what constitutes sustainable design and construction is focused too simplistically
on operating energy rather than on energy-intensive impacts prior to a
building being used. “Much attention is focused on making buildings operate
more efficiently, for instance by minimizing the total cost or total weight of a
structure,” he says. “But a less recognized aspect of the built environment is
‘embodied energy.’ ”
Embodied energy represents the energy consumed in construction,
“including the entire life cycle of materials used,” explains Gabbai. “The
embodied energy of building materials can account for a fairly significant
share of the total energy used worldwide.” The percentage varies from
country to country, ranging from as low as 5 to as high as 40 percent.
“Indeed,” Gabbai reports, “the processing and manufacture of building
materials cause enormous off-site impacts prior to a building’s use. Those
impacts occur upstream during the acquisition of the raw materials, transportation
of the materials to the manufacturing site, the manufacturing
process itself, and then in shipping the material to the construction site.”
Gabbai has focused much of his recent research on using structural
optimization techniques to minimize embodied energy in reinforced concrete
(the building material most often used by architects and recommended by
structural engineers) and analyzing the results. “Buildings constructed of
steel and reinforced concrete are very energy intensive to construct,” he says.
As a mechanical engineer, Gabbai concentrates on how reinforced concrete
manufactured with lower embodied energy handles stresses such as
wind. This focus is a natural extension of his long-term research interests.
Assistant Professor Rene Gabbai
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From January 2005 to November 2007, as a National Research Council postdoctoral
research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
he studied the structural response of tall buildings to wind loading,
aeroelasticity, and wind load factors. His publications also reflect this research
thrust. In 2008, he was coauthor of “Wind-induced Tall Building Response,”
which appeared in the journal Wind and Structures.
In “Sustainable Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures through Embodied
Energy Optimization,” which appeared in Energy and Buildings 43 in 2011,
Gabbai and his co-researcher analyzed the cost implications of optimizing a
rectangular beam so that embodied energy is minimized. They found that “a
reduction on the order of 10 percent in embodied energy” was achieved, but
also that costs increased by 5 percent.
Given that buildings are responsible for 25 to 40 percent of total energy
used worldwide, real-world reductions in embodied energy would also help
reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. “The construction
industry could wisely save energy throughout the building process,” says
Gabbai. “Lowering embodied energy makes sense.”
In light of the failure to tax carbon emissions or put a cap-and-trade scheme
into effect — either of which could help offset the 5 percent increase in
construction costs — it remains to be seen whether the building industry
would consider reduction in embodied energy a smart addition to recycling
efforts and post-construction efficiencies. Through his published research on
reducing embodied energy in building materials such as reinforced concrete,
Gabbai continues to bring attention to that option.

Professor Applies Computer Science
to Neuromedicine
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Lin-Ching Chang
One of the first simple discrimination exercises we learn as children is how
to correctly answer the question, “Which one of these things doesn’t belong?”
That ability reaches its apotheosis in physicians, who must discern which
tissue is normal and which is diseased in order to properly treat their patients.
Doctors now can use increasingly sophisticated imaging techniques that
noninvasively open up the body for diagnosis. But when those techniques
convey information extraneous to a patient’s condition, known as artifacts or
outliers, even the most astute physicians can be led astray.
Assistant Professor Lin-Ching Chang’s research helps ensure that doesn’t
happen. Working with a team from NIH, Chang has developed an algorithm
that successfully analyzes data gathered by diffusion tensor MRIs (DT-MRI)
to identify outliers so that physicians can concentrate on relevant data
more quickly.
Diffusion MRI is a noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging method that
produces in vivo images of biological tissues showing connections between
brain regions. Chang says, “It is particularly useful for its ability to depict
white matter tracts and for its sensitivity to microstructural and architectural
features of brain tissue.”
However, Chang says, “Experience has shown that no matter how careful
you are, artifacts are common in clinical DT-MRI results, for example, cardiac
pulsation and subject motion.” Such artifacts, Chang says, “can be extensive.
Neglecting to account for their contribution to the data gathered through the
diffusion MRI can result in erroneous diffusion tensor values.
“My job is to use the computer to automatically identify artifacts (outliers)
and remove them before we compute the tensors. So, the computed tensor
is more accurate and is less biased by artifacts,” she says, providing a better
basis for a correct diagnosis.
Chang’s algorithm, which was published in 2005, has received a lot of
attention in the magnetic resonance field and has been cited in more than
50 journal articles. The success of Chang’s algorithms results from her use
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of computational thinking, utilizing the power of the computer and applying it
to another discipline. “The outlier detection technique I use in medical data,”
Chang says, “can be easily applied to many other fields since outliers are
everywhere — in biomedical, financial, homeland security, and telecommunications
data, for example.”
Applying the power of the computer and computational thinking in a variety
of fields, Chang believes, is key not only to her own research but also to the
success of her students at CUA. She backs up her belief with research,
statistical evidence, and personal experience. “In 2011, according to Career-
Cast, an online career information service, software engineers and computer
systems analysts rank in the top five jobs according to physical demands,
work environment, income, outlook for employment opportunities, and
stress. In fact, software engineer was number one,” says Chang. As with
most engineering jobs, the entry-level pay scale for computer science graduates
outpaces all other entry-level jobs. These two facts are backed up by
information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. As
reported by CareerBuilder.com, in 2011, computer science graduates were
the graduates most needed by business and, at an average of $63,000
starting salary, one of the best paid.
“In addition,” says Chang, “those who study computer science find work
in very diverse fields.” Software engineers, for example, design and develop
software for everything from operating systems to cell phone ‘apps’ to interactive
games.
Chang is an example of the career flexibility computer science expertise
offers practitioners. She began her working life in telecommunications and,
through a postdoctoral position, moved into computational neuroscience,
work she now combines with teaching computer science at CUA.
“My experience isn’t unusual,” she says. “Computer science offers unlimited
opportunities, from the moment our students receive their diplomas and
throughout their careers.”
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School of Engineering Explores Asia for Educational Opportunities
The success of the 2+2 program with Vietnam and the student exchange
program with Hong Kong has motivated the School of Engineering to expand
its international programs to other parts of Asia. In April 2011, a delegation
comprising Dean Charles Nguyen; Professor Frank Pao, director of international
programs; and Associate Professor Biprodas Dutta, director of the
Materials Science and Engineering Program, traveled to Asia to visit several
universities in China and India.
On April 1, Dean Nguyen and Professor Pao visited University of Macau
(UM), Macau, China, and met the officials of this university. After visiting the
research and instructional facilities of UM, Dean Nguyen signed a memorandum
of understanding (MOU) with Philip Chen, dean of UM Faculty of
Science and Technology. This MOU has served as a vehicle for CUA and UM
to explore collaborative programs in research and education. The two schools
have started exploring the implementation of several initiatives, including a
visiting teaching scholar program that would enable Ph.D. recipients of UM
to teach and conduct research at CUA.
From April 4 to 11, the delegation traveled to India and visited several
major universities, including the University of Burdwan in Burdwan, the
University of Calcutta in Calcutta, Christ University in Bangalore, and the Ansal
Institute of Technology in New Delhi, and met with their key administrators.
In particular, the delegation visited the Center for Research in Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology at the University of Calcutta. In addition, Dean
Nguyen signed MOUs with T. Dan, pro vice-chancellor of the University of
In an effort to increase the Hispanic student population at the School of
Engineering, the school took on several projects, including the establishment
of a student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
and a trip to visit several Mexican universities. In March 2011, through the
leadership of Assistant Professor Jandro Abot, the SHPE chapter was officially
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Burdwan, and with Reverend Benny Thomas, director of Faculty of Engineering
of Christ University. CUA and the Christ University have started exploring
several collaborative programs, including a 2+2 program, 4+1 program, and
faculty exchange program.
CUA Reaches Out to Hispanic Students and Mexican Universities
Dean Nguyen and Assistant Professor Abot visit with UPAEP students in Mexico.
Dean Nguyen presents collaboration possibilities at Christ University.
established with Abot as the faculty adviser and 12 initial members.
More information about this organization can be found at http://cua.campusgroups.com/shpe/about/.
In May 2011 a delegation consisting of Dean Charles Nguyen; Professor
Frank Pao, director of international programs; and Assistant Professor Abot
traveled to Mexico to visit three Catholic universities—Universidad Popular
Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Universidad Anáhuac Mexico Norte,
and Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM)—to explore the possibility of establishing
academic collaboration between the CUA School of Engineering and
the Mexican universities. Besides visiting the research and instructional
laboratories of the universities, Dean Nguyen signed memoranda of understanding
with Professor Hugo Oswaldo Ferrer Toledo, engineering academic
coordinator at UPAEP; Professor Guillermo Fernández Hijar, dean of
engineering at Anáhuac; and Professor José Benito Flores, dean of engineering
at UDEM. Professor Abot is exploring the establishment of a 2+2 program
with Anáhuac (which would enable its students to receive degrees from both
Anáhuac and CUA), a 4+1 program, and a sabbatical faculty exchange
program with all three universities. In addition, Dean Nguyen plans to provide
assistance to Anáhuac and UDEM in acquiring accreditation from the Mexican
counterpart of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology for
their engineering programs.

Engineering School Launches New Summer Program
The School of Engineering introduced a new program for high school students
this past July, Engineering New Frontiers. Directed by Mary Kate Zabroske,
assistant to the dean for administration, the program introduced the students
to the many facets of engineering in today’s society, particularly biomedical,
civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering as well as computer science.
Five full-time faculty members volunteered their time to teach the future
engineers and provided one interactive project per day:
• Otto Wilson, Ph.D., biomedical engineering associate professor, gave
the students an overview of how various biomaterials can be applied to
modern medicine, focused mainly on bones and heart muscle.
• Arash Massoudieh, Ph.D., civil engineering assistant professor, analyzed
water and waste treatment with the group. He examined how
water runoff affects the ecosystem, fish, and human health.
• Scott Mathews, Ph.D., electrical engineering associate professor,
developed a competition for the campers that concentrated on alternative
and renewable energy. In preparation for the solar competition, he
taught the basics of general properties of electrical circuits.
• Erion Plaku, Ph.D., computer science assistant professor, explained the
complexity of robotic systems. He focused on the wide variety of prac-
Students build gliders with Assistant Professor Gabbai.
Evan Chan, biomedical engineering graduate student,
presents his research to student groups.
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tices for robots in our society.
• Rene Gabbai, Ph.D., mechanical engineering assistant professor, gave
an overview of the fascinating field of flight and glider designs. He had
the students design and build gliders of their own.
The group also took tours of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, John Hopkins
University Robotics Center and, National Rehabilitation Hospital, and
received a presentation from the Clark Construction 1000 Connecticut Ave.
project team.
Although this year is the inaugural year for Engineering New Frontiers, the
first summer camp was established at CUA by former dean John McCoy in
1989 as Engineering 2000 to encourage high school students to consider
engineering in their career paths. This initial summer program was first
sponsored by George Quinn, a 1950 civil engineering student. Later the program
was supported by José Yglesias, a 1951 electrical engineering graduate.
The program, which changed to Eye on Engineering after the turn of the
century, was held annually until 2004.
Special thanks to the 2011 corporate sponsors of Engineering New Frontiers:
Burns Engineering, Clark Construction, and Energetics Technology Center.
Their support was fundamental to the camp’s success.
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Capstone Engineering Design Projects Highlighted at 3rd Annual Senior Design Day
Whereas physicists and scientists study the world and postulate on origins
of certain phenomena, engineers are challenged with building things . . .
practical things, esoteric things, and things that have never been invented.
With this in mind, each year graduating seniors are challenged by professors
and mentors to develop innovative design that addresses current challenges
and contemporary issues in their field. These real-world experiences provide
students with a hands-on opportunity to apply knowledge they learned in the
classroom in a practical manner.
This year, at the 3rd Annual Senior Design Day, 65 seniors participated in
23 projects in areas of biomedical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering.
In biomedical engineering, projects included a bilateral stroke therapy device;
an iPhone-based oral cancer app; a bone bioreactor system; and a device
and algorithm for the prediction, detection, and monitoring of falls in the
elderly. Civil engineering projects included designs for a two-span bridge,
a four-story hospital, a wastewater treatment facility, and a retrospective
analysis of constructing the Hoover Dam using today’s costs. In electrical
engineering and computer science, projects included design of a Rotman
lens; noncontact-based algorithms for digital image correlation for measurements
of 3-D shape, deformation, and motion; robotics; and an alternative
energy wind-turbine device. Mechanical engineering projects involved a
robotic tennis trainer device, a saxophone playing robotic system, a fish
locomotion inspired pedal-based kayak, and an RC airplane project that was
entered in the 2011 SAE Aero Design East Challenge.
All design projects were presented by students orally as well as in poster
format and were assessed by external judges comprising industry veterans,
alumni, and faculty. For each category, the best poster was selected based
upon scores submitted by judges. Dean Nguyen and Provost Brennan presented
awards to the winning team members. Each winning team also
received a cash prize and certificate. “This year was the most competitive
set of projects we’ve seen over the past three years,” said Binh Q. Tran,
Ph.D., assistant dean of engineering and chair of the Engineering Design
Day Committee. “Several projects were decided at the 11th hour and by the
last submitted judges’ vote.”
CUA’s Engineering Week Brightens Campus
The annual festivity known fondly by engineering students as E-Week took
place this year from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. Each day during E-Week, a different
engineering group sponsors an activity in which all University students are
invited to participate. The Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center lobby was the
main location for this year’s events, although some took place in Pangborn
Hall. Students stopped by on their way to class to either participate or simply
watch as their peers tried their hands at the various activities.
The week started off with American Society of Mechanical Engineers and
Tau Beta Pi teaming up to host glass shattering with sound in the Pangborn
dynamics lab. Students witnessed the variations of frequencies necessary to
shatter glass. ASCE sponsored the next activity, in which students tried their
hand at building bridges out of toothpicks and marshmallows in the Pryz lobby.
On Wednesday, the pace picked up with back-to-back activities. First was
the biomedical engineering egg drop. Students were given a limited amount
of materials to construct an apparatus that would protect an egg as it was
dropped from the second to first floor of the Pryz lobby. Many students
stopped by to build and many eggs were broken in the pursuit of science.
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2011 Senior Design Day Best Poster Award Winners:
• Bilateral Exoskeleton Stroke Therapy (B.E.S.T.) System, Caitlin Farley,
Andrew Gravunder, Andrew Hoffmaster, and Daniel Murphy, Biomedical
Engineering Category
• Four-Story Reinforced Concrete Hospital, Bradley Carper, Lawrence
Comiskey, Nicholas Perrotta, Christopher Reymann, and Victor Uscilla,
Civil Engineering Category
• Low-Cost Wind Turbine, Richard Garbar and Christopher Pellegrinelli,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Category
• Alto Saxophone Sound and Key Motion Control Robot, James Kimmel
and Kristopher Reynolds, Mechanical Engineering Category
Biomedical engineering student group presents design projects to faculty, judges,
and their peers.
Later in the day, IEEE and NSBE worked together to give students a chance
to let out any bottled up energy in the form of Coca-Cola and Mentos. When
the Mentos hit the coke, geysers of coke shot up in the Pangborn parking lot.
On Friday Engineers without Borders closed out the work week with their
non-Newtonian fluid, also known as oobleck, a combination of water and
starch. Students took their shoes and socks off and rolled up their pants for
a chance to run across the quasi-liquid material in the Pryz Center lobby.
Some students elected to stand still on the fluid and sink in so that they
could fight their way out.
The last, but certainly not least, activity of the week, sponsored by Society
of Women Engineers, was the Engineering Ball, to which all university students
were invited. This year’s theme was Chinese New Year as the ball fell on this
year’s New Year. As usual, the dance was held at Maggiano’s Little Italy in
Friendship Heights. Dean Nguyen announced the winner of the week’s events
at the ball. Mechanical engineering took the pride prize this year for having
the largest number of students in its discipline attend events and having its
event visited by the most students.

Noted with Sadness, Charles Kaman, B.A.E. 1940
With the death on Jan. 31, 2011, of Charles Kaman, the School of Engineering
lost a most illustrious and supportive alumnus. Mr. Kaman, a magna cum
laude graduate of the aeronautical engineering program, is best known at
CUA for his generous endowment of the Kaman Awards for Faculty Excellence.
He was a prolific inventor, skilled musician, and active humanitarian.
Mr. Kaman founded Kaman Aircraft in 1945 in his mother’s garage in
Connecticut, after inventing a new rotor concept that made helicopters more
stable and easier to fly. He was 26. During his half-century of leadership, the
company, renamed Kaman Corp., became a billion-dollar enterprise, with
accomplishments that included helicopters known for outstanding performance
results and continued innovation, the first gas-turbine-powered helicopter,
the first twin-turbine-powered helicopter, the first remotely controlled helicopter,
and the first all-composite rotor blade. Mr. Kaman was especially
proud that his HH-43 Huskie helicopter was “a workhorse in rescue missions
in the Vietnam War.” It is estimated that 15,000 lives have been saved as a
result of Huskie rescue missions.
Mr. Kaman was also an accomplished guitarist whose pursuit of excellence
in helicopter design could have been derailed early in his career when he was
asked join Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra. Mr. Kaman demurred, but in 1960, he
formed Kaman Guitars after realizing he could improve the performance of
acoustic guitars. Mr. Kaman and a team of aeronautical engineers “discovered
the perfect combination of synthetic materials and natural woods to
create a truly amazing sounding acoustic guitar,” according to an online
history of that guitar—the Ovation. Among musicians who use the Ovation
are Melissa Etheridge, Ziggy Marley, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Vince Neil
and Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Shakira, Shania Twain, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith),
and Rick Nielson (Cheap Trick).
In 1970, Mr. Kaman and his sons Bill and Steve produced an LP, Going to
the Dogs, using Ovation guitars. Proceeds from the LP helped fund another
of Mr. Kaman’s projects, the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, which trains
German shepherds as guide dogs for the blind and police. Fidelco operates
in 35 states and four Canadian provinces.
Donald Lamontagne, B.S.E. 1969
Charles Kaman, B.A.E. 1940
Lt. Gen. Donald A. Lamontagne, B.S.E. 1969,
received the 2010 Engineering Distinguished
Alumni Award at the annual Homecoming luncheon
of the School of Engineering in October 2010.
Before approximately 100 attendees, including
administrators, faculty, students, alumni, and
staff, Dean Nguyen presented General Lamontagne
with the award plaque after reading his
impressive biography.
Now retired, General Lamontagne has had a
long and illustrious career in the United States
Air Force. He received a Bachelor of Science in
engineering degree from CUA in 1969 and a
Master of Science degree from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical College in 1980. He commanded
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the 492nd Tactical Fighter Squadron in 1986,
which was winner of the U.S. Air Force in Europe
commander in chief’s trophy. In 2001, he was
appointed commander of Air University at
Maxwell Air Force base, where he remained
until 2004. General Lamontagne has received
many awards and decorations, including the
Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior
Service Medal, and Air Force Commendation
Medal. He is currently serving as a “senior
mentor” for the U.S.A.F. He flew more than 3,600
hours as a command pilot, including 300 combat
hours in the F-16C and F-111F, and served in
various staff positions at major commands and
Joint Staff.
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CUA Mechanical Engineering Alum Recognized
Pedro Bracho, B.M.E. 1986, M.M.E. 1994, was named Role Model of the Week
May 9–15, 2011, by Great Minds in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics Coalition, an organization that encourages and supports underrepresented
and underserved populations in science, engineering, and technology.
Great Minds in STEM honored Bracho for his contributions to engineering
as well as his commitment to mentoring dozens of junior engineers. He was
chosen from among the winners of the 2010 HENAAC Luminary Award.
HENAAC is an organization that recognizes “the best and brightest” Hispanic
engineers, scientists, and technology experts.
“I am very honored to be selected by both Great Minds in STEM and
HENAAC,” Bracho says.
A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Bracho settled in Washington, D.C., to pursue
his mechanical engineering degree at Catholic University. After receiving
his B.M.E., Bracho accepted a job with Radian Inc., in Alexandria, Va., which
Founded in 1887, The Catholic University of America celebrates its 125th
birthday during the 2011–2012 academic year. The University will offer
lectures, conferences, concerts, and occasions for prayer to honor the
anniversary. But at the heart of the celebration is the challenge to students,
faculty, staff, and alumni to serve 125,000 hours from May 2011 to April 2012.
The School of Engineering is among the top three school contributors,
with 50 participants having logged in more than 2,700 hours, including
representatives from the Society of Women Engineers and Engineers
Without Borders.
“Serving others is your basic staple of faith and life,” says graduate student
Tim Corrigan, who was one of 130 participants in the University’s 9/11 Day
of Service in Washington, D.C. Corrigan spent the day with others clearing
weeds and overgrowth at Fort Circle Park located by the Anacostia River in
the southeast part of District of Columbia. He also spent two weeks this
summer in Belize on a Catholic University mission trip helping build a library
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provided engineering services to the U.S. Army. He worked as a research
assistant in the Catholic University Robotics and Controls laboratory while
studying for his master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
Bracho relocated to Panama City, Fla., in 1990. He joined the Naval
Surface Warfare Center shortly after moving to the area and has been in his
present position as lead engineer on the Littoral Combat Shop Mine Countermeasures
Missions Module Development Team for the center since 2003.
He is a member of long standing in the Pythagoras Masonic Lodge, which
is active in community services and charities, particularly those associated
with helping children with medical problems. Bracho won the 2001 Hispanic
Technology Award, presented by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
He is Level III certified in Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement
Act Systems, Planning Research, Development, and Engineering.
He is married and has four children.
CUA Celebrates 125th Anniversary with 125,000 Hours of Service
Engineering Students Accept the Challenge
and paint a school. “Faith is more than just going to Mass,” he says. “It’s
about what you’re doing and how you live your life.
Mechanical engineering student Nicholas Orsay also expanded his service
beyond the U.S. borders. He volunteered for a May Campus Ministry mission
trip led by Rev. Andrew Santamauro, O.F.M. Conv., Catholic University’s
associate chaplain for faith development to Puerto Jimenez, a tiny city near
Corcovado National Park, a rainforest on Costa Rica’s southern Osa Peninsula.
Orsay was one of 13 students who spent two weeks renovating the Catholic
Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Puerto Jimenez and teaching catechism
to children living in the outlying areas.
Want to help the School of Engineering and CUA reach its service hours goal?
The school invites alumni, students, and faculty to visit http://www.cua.edu/125/
to find ways to serve neighbors in need, to log in their hours, and watch
those hours add up.
Pictured are (left) Timothy Corrigan, B.E.E. 2011 and a master’s degree student in electrical engineering, and (right) mechanical engineering sophomore Nicholas Orsay, Class of
2014. Each one chose unique ways to serve others.

Alumni Corner
1940s
Robert T. Schroth, B.M.E. 1949, worked for the Naval Ordinance Laboratory,
NASA Headquarters Apollo Program, and the National Highway Traffic Safety
Program. He retired from federal service in 1977 and from the Naval Reserve
in 1980 as a LCDR. Most recently, he has engaged in sheep farming, home
center retailing, and volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity in rural Virginia.
1950s
Ross B. McMullen, B.A.E. 1955, now retired, was the senior simulation
engineer, simulators and training devices, for several companies. He also
served as managing editor and publisher for Model Aviation Magazine.
James G. Winkler, B.E.E. 1956, spent 40 years at NRL, participating in the
design, fabrication, testing, and launching of more than 70 earth-orbiting
satellites and spacecraft. In June 1998, he was awarded “Pioneer” status for
participation in the one of the nation’s earliest reconnaissance satellite programs.
He retired in 2001.
John Holden, B.Ch.E. 1957, received his M.A. in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1961 in
chemistry from Princeton. He taught chemistry and directed the Environmental
Studies Institute for the Chemistry Department of Mankato State College
(now Minnesota State University Mankato), retiring in 2000.
1960s
James J. Kennedy, B.M.E. 1963, received his J.D. from CUA Columbus
School of Law in 1967 and became a member of the bar in D.C. and Pennsylvania.
He was general counsel for Case New Holland and general counsel
and senior vice president for Fiat North America, Inc. before retiring and
moving to Bethany Beach, Del., in 2003.
Roy Czernikowski, B.E.E. 1964, received his master’s degree and Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a professor
of computer science at Rochester Institute of Technology, part-time flight instructor,
and amateur musician on piano and horn.
Leonard S. Hecht, M.M.E. 1969, pioneered the use of ultraviolet-cured inks
at a multiplant printing and packaging corporation rising to VP of special
projects and presiding over the sale of the company in 1998. He is general
manager of a small start-up company providing songs and religious programs
to church congregations and others.
1970s
Francisco Javier Garcia-Sanchez, B.E.E. 1970, M.E.E. 1972, Ph.D. 1976,
became a faculty member of the Electronics Department at Universidad
Simón Bolívar (USB), Caracas, Venezuela, in 1977, and founded USB’s Solid
State Electronics Lab in 1979. Among his excellence in research awards is
the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE’s Electron Devices Society (EDS). In 2007,
he was named emeritus professor. He is the vice-chair for Latin America of
EDS Subcommittee for Regions & Chapters and the Editor of EDS Electron
Devices Newsletter for IEEE’s Region 9.
Joseph A. Ricci, B.S.Ch.E. 1975, retired from the federal government after
a 34-year career, the last 29 + with the U.S. Army Environmental Command
as an environmental engineer and technical adviser. He is now a regional
workforce coordinator with the Susquehanna Workforce Network in Maryland.
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Jeffrey Carroll Taylor, B.M.E. 1977, was employed by Ford Motor Company
as senior product engineer of occupant safety systems and holds a U.S.
patent for a seatbelt anchor design. While at Ford, he also worked on the
design, packing/integration, and release of the occupant safety hardware in
the 2005 Ford GT production model.
Stephen E. Richter, B.E.E. 1979, owns and is president of Richter & Associates,
Inc., specializing in utility engineering and project management, in
Rockville, Md.
1980s
Patrick Hurd, B.Ch.E. 1980, worked as an engineer with Eastman Kodak,
International Paper, Eka Chemicals, and Georgia-Pacific through 2001. He
received his M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix in 2001, became procurement
manager with Georgia-Pacific, and was granted “Certified Purchasing
Manager” status in 2005.
Kathryn Tyler Prigmore FAIA, M.S.E. 1981, is vice president at HDR Architecture,
Inc., in Alexandria, Va.
Sudhikumar P. Sapre, M.C.E. 1981, became a lecturer at Cept University in
Ahmedabad, India, in 1984 and was promoted to professor in 1991. In January
2010, he was promoted to dean, Faculty of Technology.
Carlos Ostria P.E., M.S. 1983, is senior vice president and general manager
of Loiederman Soltesz Associates, Inc. (LSA). While at LSA he has diversified
the firm’s portfolio by winning major design-build contracts and international
work. Under his direction and participation, LSA gives back to the community
with substantial pro-bono efforts. He has been honored to work on a recent
Catholic University Master Plan in addition to various other projects on campus.
1990s
Anthony Mazzuca, B.B.E. 1990, joined Globallogic, located in McLean, Va.,
as director of program management in February 2011.
Mamoun Alaoui, B.M.E. 1993, M.M.E. 1995, serves as head of the
Acoustics Laboratory at the Royal Gendarmerie. He is a member of ASME
and IAFPA.
Antonio (Tony) Delgado P.E., B.M.E. 1993, is principal Food and Consumer
Products Sector leader for Alliance Engineering, a consulting company to
large manufacturing clients.
Brian P. Walsh, B.M.E. 1997, was promoted to station manager of Duke
Energy’s Gallagher Station and Markland Hydro station in Southern Indiana.
2000s
Matthew B. Pinckney, B.M.E. 2005, works as a patent attorney with the
aw firm of Hoffman Warnick, LLC, in Albany, N.Y., where he was recently
promoted to senior associate.
Francis Corso, B.M.E. 2009, is the CEO and founder of GreenPrint Group, L.L.C.
Samantha McClellan, B.B.E. 2009, was hired by Beckman Coulter, Inc. into
the Service Leadership Program as a transition to field service engineering
in the Mid-Atlantic area in the Washington D.C./Maryland/Northern Virginia
district. She works in hematology on the LH500 analyzer.
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CUA Senators Club Keeps Alumni Connected
President Garvey speaks at a Senators Club Luncheon.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering hosted
the annual open session meeting of the Mechanical
Working Group of the Interagency Advanced
Power Group in the Scullen Room on May 4 and
5. The meeting was co-chaired and organized by
Steve Brown, Ph.D., associate professor in the
mechanical engineering department, and Jeff
Didion, lecturer in mechanical engineering. The
50+ attendees, who represented a wide spectrum
of government agencies, private industries,
and universities, were welcomed to the school
and to the University by Sen Nieh, Ph.D., chair
of the department. The meeting unfolded over
two days with 21 technical presentations covering
a wide range of topics related to mechanical
energy conversion and thermal management.
Two of the presentations were from research
groups of the mechanical engineering department:
Brown presented a paper titled “Alternative
Cooling Technologies,” and May 2011 Ph.D.
graduate Terry DuBois presented a paper titled
“Autothermal Reforming of JP-8 and Model
Fuels: Experimental Study and Application of
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Multi-kW Power Sources,” which he co-wrote
with Richard Scenna, a master’s degree candidate,
and Sen Nieh, their academic adviser.
The Interagency Advanced Power Group was
founded in 1958 as a bottom-up organization
within the U.S. government to coordinate R&D
activities and to exchange ideas and information
among its member organizations. It consists of
five working groups — Mechanical Working
Group, Chemical Working Group, Electrical Systems
Working Group, Nuclear Working Group, and
Renewable Energy Conversion Working Group —
with representatives from the Department of
Defense (Air Force, Army, and Navy), Department
of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and National Institute of Standards
and Technology.
The current chairperson of the Mechanical
Working Group is Didion, who has regularly taught
courses on campus and at Catholic University’s
off-campus site at Ft. Belvoir for 10 years. The
Mechanical Working Group meets annually to
discuss activities related to mechanical energy
Founded more than 80 years ago on the campus of CUA, the Senators Club
brings the graduates of yesteryear together with recent graduates of the
University. Originally established as a men’s only club of students enrolled
in the School of Engineering, the Senators Club now welcomes all alumni.
Camaraderie and fellowship among the original membership were the primary
foundations of the club. These ideals continue today, with the addition of
exciting opportunities for professional networking in business, construction,
real estate, architecture, and engineering. Membership in the Senators Club
is also an opportunity for alumni to stay connected to CUA at an inspiring
time of new leadership and expanded growth on campus.
The Senators Club holds luncheons on campus in the Edward J. Pryzbyla
University Center each fall and spring. In addition to a yearly presentation of
a scholarship from the Senators Club to a deserving student at the University,
special guest speakers are invited. Most recently, the Senators Club welcomed
as a special guest speaker University President John Garvey who
spoke about his transition to CUA. The club also welcomed Steve Strazzella,
B.C.E. 1989, senior vice president of Bozzuto Development Company, whose
presentation enlightened attendees about the status of the South Campus
development project.
The Senators Club is always looking for new members and membership is
always open. Interested engineering alumni looking to reconnect with Catholic
University or make new business contacts should call the Office of Alumni
Relations at 202-319-5608 (toll-free outside the Washington, D.C., region,
800-288-ALUM) about becoming a member.
More Than 50 Exchange Cutting Edge Mechanical Engineering Ideas
conversion and the associated thermal-related
problems. These activities include working fluids,
advanced cycles, fuel effects, materials, heat
transfer processes, generator sets, and other
components of mechanical energy conversion
systems.
The next Mechanical Working Group meeting
will take place in May 2012 at Kirtland Air Force
Base in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Recent Grad Earns Top Gun Award
When Patrick Kennedy graduated in 2006 with a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, he
had cars on his mind. Now all he can think about
are planes.
In August, Kennedy was designated a United
States naval aviator. He completed advanced jet
flight training with Training Squadron Nine at the
Naval Air Station (NAS) in Meridian, Miss. His training
included flying the T-45C Goshawk through
several stages of flight, including instruments, and
two- and four-plane formations, weapons, lowlevel
navigation, and air combat maneuvering.
Kennedy earned the “Top Gun” award for
attaining the highest air combat maneuvering
grades in his graduating class.
Although he wanted to work in the car industry,
his timing couldn’t have been worse. “Just as I
was graduating, the American car industry was
The School of Engineering was proud to have Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering J. Steven Brown, Ph.D., invited to speak at a faculty
roundtable titled “What Faith Has to Do with Intellectual Life.”
Held on Jan. 18, 2011, at the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center, the
roundtable was the first of a series of inaugural year activities initiated by
CUA’s new President John Garvey. An audience of nearly 250 faculty, staff,
and students attended the discussion by six distinguished CUA faculty members,
one each from six of the university’s 12 schools. Each faculty member
spoke for approximately 10 minutes about what faith means for them as
teachers, researchers, and scholars, and how they are able to bring it to bear
in the environment of a Catholic university.
The discussion began with a question posed by Monsignor Robert S.
Sokolowski, Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy,
“What does faith have to do with intellect?” Brown cited the centrality of
the incarnation of Christ in every aspect of life as changing life “from within.
Thus, ‘work’ is no longer simply ‘work’ . . . students are no longer simply
students, who perhaps sometimes annoy me or can even please me if they
are engaged with the class. Work, students, and other relationships become
concrete circumstances for dialogue with Christ. And why is this so?
Because Christ reveals himself as the meaning of what I have in front of
me. That is whatever I have in front of me is pure gift, not mine to control,
but rather it is for me to enter in relationship with and thus to discover its
destiny and its truth . . .”
Brown then tied the connection between faith and intellect specifically to
what he does at Catholic University every day. “In engineering you are ‘nobody’
without empirical data or . . . theoretical constructs based on empirical
evidence. But my question is: is this all there is to engineering? . . . I would
argue no. Because can I not design machines and computer to ‘process’
data, methodologies, facts, and mathematical manipulations? So what is the
difference? It is that engineering is always a human endeavor, and to say
going under. So I took a job in D.C. just to have a
job. I quickly realized I didn’t like sitting at a desk.
I wanted to be outside, moving.”
Then he attended an air show, and saw the
Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration
Squadron. Soon after, he called a recruiter, and,
with guidance from his brother, a Navy lieutenant,
by 2008 he was enrolled in Officers’ Candidate
School in Newport, R.I.
His engineering background gave him a leg up
on his training. “I understood the aerodynamics
of a plane. I definitely started my training with an
advantage.”
Kennedy became “carrier qualified” aboard
the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower last July. On May
28, he married his college sweetheart, Meghan
(McMahon), who graduated from CUA in 2006
with a nursing degree. He says that the only
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moment that might top his first carrier landing
is “seeing Meg for the first time in her wedding
dress at the back of the church.”
Lt. j.g. Patrick Kennedy, B.M.E. 2006, at Cecil Field in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Steven Brown, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering
this implies that it is tied to God, because without God, without Christ, I
simply do not know who I am and, in fact, will be ‘less’ of a person and
thus ‘less’ of an engineer.”
In helping his students understand that faith and reason are not “enemies,”
Brown says he challenges them to “simply observe how they go about living
their daily lives. In doing so, I am convinced they will discover that, in fact,
we use the method of faith all the time.”
Brown concluded with a quote from Benedict XVI’s April 2008 address at
CUA, regarding the role and responsibility of a Catholic university. “[Catholic
identity] demands that . . . . each and every aspect of your learning communities
reverberates within the ecclesial life of faith. Only in faith can truth
become incarnate and reason truly human, capable of directing the will
along the path of freedom.”
The discussion was followed by a lively 30-minute question-and-answer
session.
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Computer Science Finds Enthusiasts at CUA
Computer science student Minh Le works on an iRobot.
Robots increasingly impact our society. One can find them not only in
assembly lines in factories, but also in our households performing menial
tasks such as vacuuming or even assisting disabled or senior individuals
in their daily lives. And they’re becoming increasingly sophisticated. They
explore planets, sift through rubble in search and rescue missions, and assist
surgeons to perform difficult surgeries even in remote locations. Critical
to their success is their ability to adapt and change their plans in response to
Local Families, Students, and Teachers Explore the Dimensions of Sound
Although no opera singers were present during
the Feb. 28, 2011, Acoustical Society Open
House, held in the School of Engineering, the
150 parents, teachers, and students from local
Catholic and private elementary and high
schools attending still got to witness how sound
at a certain pitch can shatter wine glasses.
“Every wine glass has a particular note that
it effectively makes sound,” says Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Joseph
Vignola, who organized the open house. “By
playing that note back to the wine glass, it
absorbs the energy until it can’t hold any more
and it shatters.”
Shattering glasses wasn’t the only acoustical
treat Vignola and his band of graduate and
undergraduate students had prepared for the
visitors. “We also demonstrated a robotic saxophone,”
says Vignola. “And we had hands-on
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equipment designed to show how other musical
instruments make sound.”
The event, held at the Acoustics and Vibrations
Laboratory in Pangborn Hall, was designed
to be a fun way to learn not only about acoustics,
but also to show off the acoustics program at
the engineering school. “The acoustics program
has about a dozen full- and part-time students
studying different aspects of the science of
sound,” says Vignola. “These include naval and
marine environmental applications as well as
imaging with sound.” Acoustics students and
faculty currently are working on projects related
to detection of improvised explosive devices
(IEDs), the dynamics of micro sensors, and the
impact of man-made noise on marine mammals
off the coast of California.
“We were very pleased not only with the way
all the demonstrations went but also with the
events in dynamic environments. For instance, robots exploring planets need
to continue their mission even when losing communications with the home
base or facing obstacles that were not anticipated in plans devised by
human controllers.
In the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Pangborn Hall,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Erion Plaku, Ph.D., is pursuing
computer science research to equip robots with the ability to plan intelligently
and be more autonomous. Plaku is one of the faculty recently hired
by the School of Engineering to expand the computer science curriculum
at Catholic University. His research has started to attract robot enthusiasts
among graduate and undergraduate students. It is not uncommon to see
students programming, testing, and cheering noisy iRobot Roombas as they
navigate the laboratory space and the corridors of Pangborn Hall. Components
of the algorithmic strategy programmed into the Roombas to navigate
are being enhanced with the goal to address more complex applications.
For instance, a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University is exploring
robotic minimally invasive surgery, where a sophisticated robot like the
DaVinci system determines on its own high-level plans such as how to move
its arms and its tools to carry out an assigned surgical task with precision .
As part of the effort to modernize the computer science curriculum, Plaku
has designed a new robotics course that will introduce students to the current
algorithmic challenges in robotics and ongoing cutting-edge research that
addresses those challenges. Students will have the opportunity to implement
their ideas not only in simulation settings but also on actual robotic platforms.
These efforts will provide exciting educational and research opportunities
for incoming students and guide them in furthering their engineering
and computer science careers.
interaction and fun that the kids were having,”
says Vignola. “We hope to make this an annual
event. It was a very effective way to convey
what engineers do and how we can make a
difference in a lot of areas.”
Associate Professor Joseph Vignola explains a demonstration
during the 2011 meeting.

CUA EECS Faculty Establish
High-Performance Computing Facilities
“Today’s supercomputers are tomorrow’s laptops.”
As true as this statement is, today’s laptops using
technologies such as multiprocessors, multicore
processors, and/or specialized hardware can be
considered by yesterday’s standards as High-
Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. HPC
systems have become ubiquitous, entering our
lives in the form of smart phones, global positioning
systems, and interactive game systems. The
scientific community also benefits from these
advances in terms of unprecedented gains in
solving complex and highly challenging problems.
In addition, high-performance computational
science and engineering have become
the backbone of many scientific advances
and discoveries. With the rapid progress in the
multicore/many-core processor technology and
proliferation of heterogeneous multiprocessing
chips into the gaming industry and graphics, HPC
is moving from a niche area to the mainstream,
where all HPC techniques will be relevant to all
facets of computing. In response, the School of
Engineering at CUA has designated HPC as an area
of strategic growth. The University has allocated
new resources for HPC, including new faculty lines,
financial support for graduate students, and seed
funds for equipment cost sharing toward acquiring
a state-of-the-art HPC instrument that can support
its interdisciplinary computational research
and educational mission.
Thanks to the efforts of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
through research grants and support from the
dean of the School of Engineering, CUA has
joined leading institutions in the high-performance
computing arena. The High-Performance
Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory was first
established by Associate Professor Ozlem Kilic,
Ph.D., through Department of Defense (DoD)
funds for the purchase of a Silicon Graphics
International (SGI) platform, which utilizes Field
Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology as
well as an HPC workstation based on General-
Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). Both
platforms have been used to solve complex electromagnetic
problems in a parallelized fashion
with highly numerical efficiency.
The HPC activities at CUA are further strengthened
by the recent hiring of Assistant Professor
Esam El-Araby, Ph.D., who has brought expertise
in the areas of computer architecture, hybrid/het-
erogeneous architectures, hardware acceleration,
reconfigurable computing, embedded systems,
and performance evaluation, with applications
to digital signal/image processing and remote
sensing. The new interdisciplinary Heterogeneous
and Biologically Inspired Architectures (HEBA)
research and educational laboratory, directed by
El-Araby, focuses on new heterogeneous accelerating
processor technologies such as High-
Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC)
platforms based on FPGAs and GPGPUs. It is
paramount that a unified view of the hardware
resources be provided independently of their
type. This would facilitate ease-of-use and
portability and hence the wide adoption of these
promising technologies. CUA is at the forefront of
these dynamic developments as El-Araby has
been an active contributor to the HPRC research
community since its early days.
Recently the School of Engineering’s dean has
supported the purchase of an HPRC system,
SRC-7, from SRC Computers, and a High-Performance
GPGPU cluster. The SRC-7 system is a
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state-of-the-art HPRC system with high-end FPGA
chips from Altera, and offers a productive and
easy-to-use interface that enables researchers as
well as students to begin their algorithm implementations
almost immediately in a C-like
environment. The company’s products have been
purchased by DoD HPC labs as well as universities
competitive in the area of HPRC. The GPU-Cluster
comes with 204 microprocessor cores and 40 TB
of storage. These two systems add to the capabilities
of the HPC facilities currently available at
CUA, which has triggered excitement in numerous
areas of expertise in the department, including
electromagnetic design and optimization of
complex structures (Kilic), computational neuroscience
and medical informatics applications
(Assistant Professor Lin-Ching Chang, Ph.D.),
image and signal processing (Professor Nader
Namazi, Ph.D.), and investigating, modeling,
designing, and potentially prototyping new heterogeneous
computing architectures that are
inspired from biology (El-Araby).
Assistant Professor Lin-Ching Chang (back row, center), Associate Professor Ozlem Kilic (back row, second from right),
and Assistant Professor Esam El-Araby (back row, right) with electrical engineering and computer science students.
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CUA Students Bring Solar to Local Monks
In fall of 2010, Friar John-Sebastian of the Franciscan Monastery on Quincy
Street near the CUA campus contacted Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering Scott Mathews, Ph.D. Friar John-Sebastian had heard about the
new program in Alternative and Renewable Energy being offered through the
electrical engineering department. He offered the use of the greenhouse and
monastery grounds for the installation of “green” engineering projects.
It was decided that CUA engineering students would design and install
a photovoltaic array at the monastery’s greenhouse to help heat it in the
winter and to run circulation fans through the summer.
With generous contributions from the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science ($10,000), the monastery ($4,000), and David Wells
of Northside Solar ($5,000 in solar equipment and hardware), Mathews
purchased a 1.2 kW, off-grid photovoltaic system with batteries and power
inverter. The installed system is a two-axis tracking, photovoltaic array,
meaning that the solar panels not only follow the arc of the sun throughout
the day, but also track the sun through the seasons as the sun’s path across
the sky changes.
High worldwide demand delayed the system’s arrival until after the fall
semester had ended. In spring 2011, Mathews and a group of engineering
students began the installation process, spending several hours each weekend
at the monastery. Students first dug a large square pit and poured concrete
for the footer on which they mounted the tracking system then dug a
40-foot trench up to the greenhouse in order to lay all the wires and cables
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underground. They then designed and constructed the support system to
mount the solar panels. This process included cutting and welding steel
tubes to make the support structure rigid enough to hold the panels in gale
force winds. The team then built shelves in the greenhouse to hold the eight
deep-cycle, lead-acid batteries; the charge controller; and the AC/DC power
inverter. Then they pulled several hundred feet of wires through the underground
conduit to connect the electronics in the greenhouse to the panels
and tracking system.
This project is an excellent example of “hands-on” engineering. Students
not only learned about power and control electronics, they learned how to
mix and pour concrete, and do wind-loading calculations, carpentry, solar
site-surveying, and welding.
While this system will not provide for all the electrical power needs in
the greenhouse, it is hoped that it will significantly reduce the electric bill,
especially in the winter when electric heaters are used to keep the greenhouse
warm through the night. This system also will be an excellent teaching
tool for students in the Alternative Energy program. In the coming semesters,
students will be able to use this system as a test-bed for new tracking
controllers, power monitoring systems, and instrumentation packages.
A group of students is already planning a senior design project based on
this installation.
For more information about the photovoltaic array at the monastery or
taking a tour of the greenhouse, contact Mathews at mathewss@cua.edu.

Energy in the Wind
by Associate Professor Scott Mattews
On a blustery Friday morning in late October, two minivans left the Pangborn
parking lot, loaded with CUA engineering students. I drove one and the other
was driven Randy Swisher, Ph.D., adjunct professor and retired executive
director of American Wind Energy Association. We were beginning the threehour
drive to Garrett County, Pa., the location of the Casselman Wind Project.
Swisher had arranged a state-of-art tour of a wind power installation, owned
and operated by Iberdrola Renewables, one of the world’s largest wind
power companies.
As the vans left the city, the two groups of students from the Alternative
Energy Program began harassing one another using walkie-talkies. As they
got off the interstate, nearing their destination, I missed a turn. The GPS
quickly recalculated. Another missed turn and route recalculation put the
two minivans on a tiny dirt road. After about a mile and a half on the bumpy,
wooded road, the walkie-talkies crackled, “This can’t be right … I can’t
believe these roads are even on a GPS map!” At that point, the GPS began to
indicate that they were “off road” and gave no indication of where to go. As
the students looked out the window, they realized they were driving through
an open-pit mine, an active open-pit mine. A large crane came into view,
shoveling loads of dirt into a dump truck. Some of the students looked worried.
The gravel road led to a hard surface road. The GPS recalculated its
position, and wind turbines began to appear on the horizon. Driving up the
Casselman River valley, the students could look in any direction and see
the tall, white towers on almost every hilltop and ridgeline. They were in
wind country.
Within a few miles, they spotted the “Iberdrola” sign, turned onto another
gravel road, and headed down toward the only building in sight, the Project
Control Center. When they got out of the minivans the wind was strong. The
sound of the gigantic blades slicing through the air was quiet but distinct.
They were greeted by engineers Chris Long, Brad Burkebile, and project
manager Doug Schafer, who invited the group inside and began talking
about the facility: 23 wind turbines, built by GE, each rated at 1.5 MegaWatts,
eight turbines placed on top of a reclaimed coal mine. The employees gave
details about the technology and the day-to-day operation of the facility. The
students asked many questions, all answered with technical detail.
Chris Long then showed the computer terminal and software used to
control the entire wind farm. He showed pages and pages of data being
acquired from the turbines in real time, as well as graphs of power production,
wind speeds, and turbine “availability” on a daily basis, that gave
monthly and annual averages. He described how the entire “wind park”
could be monitored and operated remotely via the Internet. Doug Schafer
then led the group into the parts warehouse, where he showed replacement
components, tools for repair and maintenance, and the safety gear used for
tower ascent, or as he put it “working up-tower.” He then described employees’
annual training for dealing with up-tower emergencies or the rapid
evacuation of the nacelles. The nacelle, which sits atop the tower, contains
the gear box, low- and high-speed shafts, generator, controller, and brake.
Finally, students were taken in groups of six out to one of the turbines
that had been shut down for the tour. Once the massive blades came to a
complete stop, the group approached the base of the tower. Later one of
the students remarked, “I’ve seen them on TV and seen lots of pictures …
Casselman Wind Project, Garrett County, Pa.
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but I never appreciated how big they really are until I stood at the base and
looked up.”
Brad Burkebile opened the door to the tower and led them inside. At first,
everyone seemed quite disappointed to only be touring the “down-tower”
section of the turbine, but after seeing the ladders rising up into the nacelle,
no one complained. Wind turbines don’t have elevators.
Even though the turbine was shut down, the active yaw system was still
functioning. Every few minutes you could hear the yaw motors engage, and
if you looked straight up, you could see the inside of the nacelle turning,
always pointing into the wind. Burkebile explained the functions of the
massive electrical systems installed at the base of the tower: step-up
transformers, power conditioning circuits, phase matching circuits, and the
connections to the local power grid.
The weather turned cold and the wind was beginning to pick up, so the first
group headed back inside the control center to warm up and let the second
group have a look. At the end of the long trip back, we all agreed, “Pictures
on the Internet are never as good as seeing something with your own eyes.”
Students in control center, monitoring the turbines.
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ACM Chapter Initiated at CUA
On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, students gathered in Pangborn 301 for the
inaugural meeting of CUA’s chapter of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM). Founded in 1947, ACM is an international organization
headquartered in New York City.
Though not yet officially recognized as a student organization, the chapter
is making progress toward becoming University approved. Still, the ACM
leaders drummed up considerable interest in computing by choosing an
interesting, fun topic for its first meeting — video games. Students used the
Students Steeled for Bridge Event
At 8:30 on the morning of May 19, 2011, a handful of CUA engineering
students boarded a plane at BWI bound for Houston, Texas. From Houston
they faced a two-and-a-half-hour car ride to College Station, home of Texas
A&M University and site of the 2011 National Student Steel Bridge Competition.
The journey took more than 10 hours and seemed to be ripped from the
screenplay of the Steve Martin comedy Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. But
it was merely the culmination, the final steppingstone, of an odyssey that
began months, even years before that Thursday morning flight.
Three years ago two civil engineering students approached the American
Society of Engineers faculty adviser seeking information on the Student Steel
Bridge Competition. Taking on the role of team captains, Chris Scotti and
Chris Ridgeway recruited a small group of students with an eagerness to
learn and a desire to get their hands dirty. These novice bridge builders
earned 4th place in 2009 and 3rd place in 2010 competing in the Virginias
Regional Conference.
The 2011 school year saw the loss of several key members of the team,
including team captain Ridgeway and political and legal adviser Anthony
Scotti. Michael Lauriello (ME) stepped into Ridgeway’s shoes as co-captain,
Team builds their display bridge prior to the main competition.
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Unity 3d game engine to create interactive objects in a virtual world. Physics,
lighting, sound, and many other real-world phenomena are pre-programmed
in Unity 3d, so no previous experience was necessary. The EECS department
treated the students to pizza and soda as they created the beginnings of a
first-person-shooter type game.
Our soon-to-be official chapter of ACM continues to plan future meetings
beginning this fall. Voice your opinions, suggestions, or ask questions by
emailing Evan Votta at 26votta@cardinalmail.cua.edu.
and together with Scotti, now a civil engineering master’s student, began
one last run at victory. The goal was simple: Beat Virginia Tech, the powerhouse
of the Virginias Regional Conference, and earn a bid to the national
competition. Months of work and many late nights went into the design and
fabrication of a 20-foot-long, 3-foot-high, 3-foot-wide steel structure. In April
the team traveled to West Virginia University where they stunned the conference
by shattering the competition and earning 1st place in all but two of the
judging criteria. CUA’s Steel Bridge team dominated the competition, including
Virginia Tech, in the construction speed, lightness, construction efficiency,
and construction economy categories, earning them their bid to national
competition.
The national competition is a two-day event bringing together the top 48
engineering programs from throughout the country. Although Catholic
University was now counted among them, there had never been more of a
David and Goliath story. Most schools boasted teams of 20 or more students,
sometimes with entire courses dedicated to the competition. Master machinists,
full metal shops, and even professional fabricators are common among the
teams, which frequently achieve national status. CUA worked a bit differently.
The team’s design work was done on scraps of paper in the back of class, or
on the chalkboards and computers of the civil engineering lounge. The fabrication
was done by a handful of students who literally taught themselves the
necessary techniques in the McCarthy building as they went along.
Brainstorming, creativity, and dedication served CUA’s team well. At the
national competition they posted a build time of 11:55, the 16th fastest of
the competition. Their bridge, made of just 200 pounds of steel members,
nuts, and bolts, held 2,500 lbs. directly at the center and deflected a mere
0.75 inches. The CUA team earned 29th place overall, outperforming schools
that had competed on this level many times before. The team gained the
respect of every school represented there.
The team’s core members, led by Scotti and Lauriello, included Amedeo
Petrongolo (CE), Dan Joyce (CE), Chris Reymann (CE), Brenda Tedrick (CE),
and Frances MacKinnon (ME). They were supported by many others, including
Patrick Terry (ASCE Chapter president), Megan Dever, (CE), Negar Gargari
(CE doctoral student), Tim Quine (ME), Jimmy Quine (ME), Professor Lu Sun,
(CE chair), Dean Nguyen (dean of engineering), Assistant Professor George
Mavroedis (ASCE faculty adviser), Associate Professor Scott Mathews (EE),
the CUA ASCE Student Chapter, and the CUA Student Fee Allocation Board.
Although the team once again faces the loss of many integral members who
have graduated, it is poised to continue this tradition of excellence and plans
to represent Catholic University at the national level for years to come.

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Ph.D. Students Present Findings at Buenos Aires Conference
In August 2010, Ph.D. students Sasha Godfrey
and Elizabeth Brokaw attended the 32nd Annual
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This conference brings
together scientists from around the world to share
their research in the field of biomedical engineering.
Godfrey and Brokaw study with Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering Peter Lum, Ph.D., in
the department’s Center for Applied Biomechanics
and Rehabilitation Research.
At the conference, Godfrey presented her work
on the Hand Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot.
She spoke about a training study working with
stroke subjects and its outcomes. Brokaw
presented her research on a passive device for
hand rehabilitation after stroke. The device provides
finger extension assistance, helping stroke
survivors use their affected hand for functional
grasp of diversely shaped objects.
Both students discussed current issues in the
field of rehabilitation devices with experts and
viewed lectures relating the state of the art
science in biomedical engineering. They also
enjoyed Argentine food and the sights of Buenos
Aires, like Caminito, a vibrant neighborhood known
for its brightly painted houses and mannequins.
Photo (left to right) Elizabeth Brokaw and Sasha Godfrey in Buenos Aires.
Faculty and Staff Recognized for Excellence
The School of Engineering’s motto “Cutting-edge
research driving superb education” has served as
a guiding light for its faculty to strive for excellence
in research and teaching. Each year the award
selection committee consisting of all program
and department chairs of the school selects
recipients for the Kaman Faculty Excellence
Awards and the Burns Faculty Fellowship Awards.
In addition to a monetary award, each recipient
is presented with a plaque at the school’s annual
diploma distribution ceremony.
For 2011 John Judge, Ph.D., associate professor
of mechanical engineering, received the Kaman
Award for Excellence in Teaching and Jessica
Ramella-Roman, Ph.D., associate professor of
biomedical engineering, the Kaman Award for
Excellence in Research. Erion Plaku, Ph.D., assistant
professor of electrical engineering and computer
science, and Tongyan Pan, Ph.D., assistant
professor of civil engineering, were named Burns
Faculty Fellows.
Ramella-Roman has conducted research in
the area of applications of bio-photonics for
screening and diagnosis of injury and disease in
biology tissue. During 2010–2011 she published
one book chapter, seven journal papers, and six
conference papers and delivered four invited lectures.
Judge taught four courses in 2010–2011
in mechanics, dynamics, vibration, and acoustics.
He received excellent evaluations from students
for his courses, with the average instructor score
of 9.7/10 and the average course core of 9.2/10.
(L to R) Provost James Brennan with Professors Tony Pan, Jessica Ramella-Roman, and Erion Plaku, and Dean Nguyen.
Maria Sorensen and Dean Nguyen
The Burns Faculty Fellowship will provide
Plaku with financial support for his research
activities in the areas of control of snake-like
cannula robot for orthopedic surgery and intelligent
planning for enhanced surgical automation.
Pan will receive support from this fellowship to
develop an atomistic model to investigate growth
of oxides on rebar surface to inform and predict
maintenance costs and life service of reinforced
concrete bridges and structures.
In addition to recognizing faculty excellence,
the school annually recognizes excellent staff
members through an award that was established
in 2010. Maria Sorensen, administrative assistant
of the Engineering Management Program, received
the 2011 School of Engineering Staff Excellence
Award for to her skillful assistance to the program
director for administration and excellent
service to students and faculty of this program.
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Faculty
Grants
■ Belay, K. and Abot, J.L., “Tailoring the
Electrical Response of Composite Materials
Using Carbon Nanotubes for Strain and
Damage Sensing,” Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, Jan. 2011–Dec. 2012,
$50,000 (Abot’s share).
■ Brown, J.S., Judge, J., Vignola, J., and
Wang, Z., “Development of STEM Workforce
in Mechanical Engineering at The Catholic
University of America in Support of NASA’s
Strategic Goals,” DC Space Grant Consortium
(NASA), May 2010–April 2011, $24,947.
■ Brown, J.S., “Research on Automated Programming
and Planning for Automated
Manufacturing,” National Institute of Standards
and Technology, May 2010–April
2011, $290,632.
■ Chang, L-C., “Computer Software Programming
Support for NHLBI Cardiac Magnetic
Resonance Image Processing, Visualization
and Quantification Tools,” National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
September 2010–September 2011, $24,000.
■ Chang, L-C.,“Using IDL for Pattern Recognition
Applications,” ITT Visual Information
Solutions, Curriculum Development Software
Grant Application, Nov. 2010, Scientific Software
(the commercial value of the software
is $30,000).
■ Chang, L-C., “Computer Software Programming
Support for NHLBI Confocal Microscopy
Imaging System and Image Processing,
Visualization and Quantification Tools,”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI), National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, National Institutes
of Health (NIH), April 2011−April 2012,
$30,000.
■ Chang, L-C., “Enhanced Software Tools for
Analysis of Diffusion MRI in TBI and PTSD,”
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the
Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.,
Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative
Medicine (CNRM), July 2011−June 2012,
$26,692.
■ Choi, J., “Image-Guided Transbronchial
Biopsy with Novel Biopsy Device,” U.S.
Army, administered by the Telemedicine and
Advanced Technology Center (TATRC),
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Fort Detrick, Md., April 2009–October 2011,
$260,057.
■ Lade, P.V., “Experimental Study of Stress
Rotation Effects in Cross-Anisotropic Sand,”
National Science Foundation, May 2008–
April 2012, $290,982.
■ Lade, P.V., “Simulation of Cyclic Response
of HY-80 Steel,” General Dynamics Electric
Boat Corporation, September 2009–July
2010, $22,410.
■ Lucko, G., “Honorarium for Registration,
Travel, and Lodging,” 2010 Construction
Engineering Conference, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation (“GOALI: Construction
Engineering Conference: Opportunity
and Vision for Education, Practice and
Research”), Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, September–October
2010, $1,000.
■ Lucko, G., “Financial Analysis and Optimization
for Linear Scheduling Model of Construction
Projects with Integrated Singularity
Functions,” National Science Foundation,
August 2009–July 2012, $173,464 +
$99,891 tuition remission.
■ Lucko, G., “Improving Time-Cost Planning
Capabilities for Electrical Contractors,” Early
Career Award, ELECTRI International—The
Foundation for Electrical Contracting/National
Electrical Contractors Association,
January 2010–December 2010, $7,000 +
$3,500 matching.
■ Lum, P.S., “Extension of the MIME robotic
system for stroke rehabilitation,” VA Merit
Review Award, July 2007–July 2011,
$730,400.
■ Lum, P.S., (PI of CUA subcontract), “Homebased
automated therapy of arm function
after stroke via tele-rehabilitation (PI:
Uswatte),” NIH R01 Award, April 2008–April
2012, $351,980.
■ Lum, P.S., (PI of CUA subcontract), “Clinical
Testing of Robotic Exoskeletons for Rehabilitation
of Arm and Hand Function in Stroke
and Other Neurological Disorders (PI: Healton),”
U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command, November 2009–
Novomber 2011, $217,223.
■ Lum, P.S., (PI of CUA subcontract), “Exploiting
interlimb coupling to improve robot-supported
neurorehabilitation of the upper
extremities (PI: Healton),” U.S. Army Medical
Research and Materiel Command, November
2009–November 2011, $235,919.
■ Massoudieh, A., Deksissa, T., “Pollution
Source Identification in Washington DC
storm-water using Bayesian Chemical Mass
Balance Modeling,” funded by DC Water
Resources Research Institute, May 2011–
March 2012, $48,000.
■ Massoudieh, A., Behera, P.,“Development
of Analytical Tools to Evaluate the Performance
of Low Impact Developments in the
District of Columbia,” May 2010–September
2011, funded by DC Water Resources
Research Institute, $21,000.
■ Mavroeidis, G.P., “Characterization of
translational and rotational strong ground
motions in the near-fault region, and their
impact on the dynamic response of buildings,”
National Science Foundation, September
2010–August 2012, $174,981.
■ Nguyen, C.C., “Development of Web-Based
Graphical Collaboration Software,” Visual
Types Inc., April 15, 2011–April 15, 2012,
$55,747.
■ Pan, T., “New Technologies and Advanced
Policies for Energy and Research Conservation,”
Federal Highway Administration, January
2011–January 2014, $175,187.12.
■ Ramella-Roman, J.C., “Novel Imaging System
to Objectively Assess the Natural History
of Treated and Untreated Hypertrophic
Scar Formation,” NIH, R15, $ 408,664.
■ Regalia, P.A., “MUCHO: Two problems in
Multi User Coding for High Occupancy
Channels,” National Science Foundation,
January. 2007–December 2010, $120,000.
■ Regalia, P.A., “Distributed Estimation in
Wireless Sensor Networks via Expectation
Propagation,” National Science Foundation,
September 2007–August 2011, $194,000.
■ Sun, L., “CAREER: Stochastic and Dynamic
Interaction of Vehicle-Pavement Systems,”
National Science Foundation, June 1, 2007–
May 31, 2012, $410,000.
■ Tran, B.Q., “Evaluation of Electromagnetic
Compatibility of MRI and Other Sources on
Safe Functioning of Medical Devices: Experimental
and Computer Modeling Studies,”
Food and Drug Administration, May 2011–
April 2012, $102,457.
■ Wang, Z., “Universal, automatic, and accurate
interferogram analysis for optics-based
experimental mechanics and its open
source implementation,” National Science
Foundation, October 2008–September
2011, $124,248.
■ Wang, Z., “High-speed, high-resolution,

high-accuracy and full-field 3D imaging,”
Army Research Office, October 2010–
September 2011, $84,476.
■ Wang, Z., “DURIP: Whole-field experimental
nanomechanics characterization of nanomaterials
and nanostructures,” Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, June 2009–June
2010, $101,950.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., “Bone Inspiration in Research
and Education,” National Science
Foundation, March 1, 2007–Feb. 28, 2012,
$450,000.
Presentations and
Publications
■ Abot, J.L., Song, Y., Medikonda, S., Schulz,
M.J., and Rooy, N., “A distributed piezoresistive
strain gauge for polymeric materials,”
25th American Society for Composites
Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Song, Y., Schulz, M.J., Medikonda,
S., Sri Vatsavaya, M., Kier, Z., Jayasinghe, C.,
Shanov, V.N., and Rooy, N., “Self-sensing
composite materials: delamination detection,”
25th American Society for Composites
Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 2010.
■ Abot, J.L. and Song, Y., “On the delamination
detection of laminated composite materials
using integrated carbon nanotube sensors,”
ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials
Conference, Chicago, Il. 2011.
■ Abot, J.L. and Song, Y., “On the development
of an integrated strain sensor for composite
materials,” ASME Applied Mechanics and
Materials Conference, Chicago, Il. 2011.
■ Abot, J.L., Song, Y., Medikonda, S., Schulz,
M.J., and Rooy, N., “A distributed piezoresistive
strain gauge for polymeric materials,”
25th American Society for Composites
Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Schulz, M.J., Shanov, V.N., Song,
Y., and Sri Vatsavaya, S., “Mode II delamination
detection in composite materials with carbon
nanotube sensor threads,” 16th U.S. National
Congress on Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, University Park, Pa., 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Raghavan, V., Bardin, G., Govindaraju,
N., and Song, Y., “On the thermal
conductivity anisotropy of a carbon nanotube
array laminated composite material,” 16th U.S.
National Congress on Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, University Park, Pa., 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Raghavan, V., Li, G., and Thomas,
E.L., “Effect of interface, height and density
of tall carbon nanotube arrays on their thermal
conductivity: an experimental study,” J.
Nanosci. Nanotechno., 11 (1): 1-10, 2011.
■ Abot, J.L., Bardin, G., Raghavan, V., Govindaraju,
N., Spriegel, C., and Song, Y., “Thermal
conductivity of carbon nanotube array
laminated composite materials,” J. Compos.
Mater., 45 (3): 321-340, 2011.
■ Song, Y. and Abot, J.L., “On the mechanical
response of carbon nanotube array laminated
composite materials,” J. Reinf. Plast.
Comp., 29 (22): 3401-3410, 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Schulz, M.J., Song, Y., Medikonda,
S., and Rooy, N., “Novel distributed strain
sensing in polymeric materials,” Smart
Mater. Struct., 19 (8): 085007, 2010.
■ Jayasinghe, C., Li, W., Abot, J.L., Song, Y.,
Shanov, V.N., Fialkova, S., Yarmolenko, S.,
Sundaramurthy, S., Chen, Y., Cho, W.,
Chakrabarti, S., Li, G., Yun, Y., and Schulz,
M.J., “Nanotube responsive materials,”
MRS Bull., 35 (9): 682-692, 2010.
■ Abot, J.L., Song, Y., Sri Vatsavaya, M.,
Medikonda, S., Kier, Z., Jayasinghe, C., Rooy,
N., Shanov, V.N., and Schulz, M.J., “Delamination
detection with carbon nanotube thread
in self-sensing composite materials,” Compos.
Sci. Technol., 70 (7): 1113-1119, 2010.
■ Evora, M.C., Klosterman, D., Lafdi, K., Li, L.,
and Abot, J.L., “Functionalization of carbon
nanofibers through electron beam irradiation,”
Carbon, 48 (7): 2037-2046, 2010.
■ Kulkarni, M., Carnahan, D., Kulkarni, K.,
Qian, D., and Abot, J.L., “Elastic response
of a carbon nanotube reinforced fiber polymeric
composite: a numerical and experimental
study,” Compos. Part B-Eng., 41 (5):
414-421, 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., “What does faith have to do
with the intellectual life?”, Faculty Roundtable,
President Garvey’s Inaugural Year Activities,
Jan. 2011.
■ Brown, J.S., “The Cardinal Virtue of Prudence,”
The Tower, March 2011.
■ Cavallini, A., Brown, J.S., and Zilio, C.,
“Sustainability with prospective refrigerants,”
Sustainable Refrigeration and Heat
Pump Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,
June 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., Zilio, C., and Cavallini, A.,
“Critical review of the latest thermodynamic
and transport property data and models,
and equations of state for R-1234yf,”
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International Refrigeration Conference, West
Lafayette, Ind., July 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., Zilio, C., and Cavallini, A.,
“A compact automobile air conditioning system
operating with R-134a and R-1234yf,”
International Refrigeration Conference, West
Lafayette, Ind., July 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., “Refrigerants and refrigeration:
Energy and environmental impacts,” Engineering
Colloquium, NASA Goddard Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md., November 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., “Low GWP refrigerant options
for unitary equipment,” ASHRAE Meeting,
Las Vegas, January 2011.
■ Brown, J.S., “Alternative Cooling Technologies,”
IAPG Mechanical Working Group
Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 2011.
■ Cavallini, A., Brown, J.S., and Zilio, C.,
“Sustainability with prospective refrigerants,”
Proceedings of the Sustainable Refrigeration
and Heat Pump Technology Conference,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., Zilio, C., and Cavallini, A., “Critical
review of the latest thermodynamic and
transport property data and models, and
equations of state for R-1234yf,” Proceedings
of the 13th International Refrigeration
and Air Conditioning Conference, West
Lafayette, Ind., July 2010.
■ Brown, J.S., Zilio, C., and Cavallini, A., “A
compact automobile air conditioning system
operating with R-134a and R-1234yf,” Proceedings
of the 13th International Refrigeration
and Air Conditioning Conference, West
Lafayette, Ind., July 2010.
■ Fedele, L., Bobbo, S., Groppo, F., Brown, J.S.,
and Zilio, C., “Saturated pressure measurements
of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene
(R1234yf) for Reduced Temperatures Ranging
from 0.67 to 0.93,” Journal Chemical Engineering
Data, dx.doi.org/10.1021/je2000952.
■ Brown, J.S., “Refrigerants: Energy and
environmental impacts,” HVAC&R Research,
Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 131-132.
■ Walker, L., Chang, L-C., Sharma. N., Cohen,
L., Verma, R., and Pierpaoli, C., “Effects of
Physiological Noise in Population Analysis
of Diffusion Tensor MRI Data,” NeuroImage,
15;54 (2):1168-77, 2011.
■ Chang, L-C., Walker, L., Behseta, B., and
Pierpaoli, C., “Informed RESTORE for Removal
of Physiological Noise Artifacts in
Low Redundancy DTI Data,” in Proc. the
19th Annual International Society for Mag-
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netic Resonance in Medicine Scientific
Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011, pp. 3898.
■ Chang, L-C., and Gorbachev, M.A., “Accelerating
Diffusion Tensor Estimation Using
General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit,”
in Proc. the 19th Annual International Society
for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011,
pp. 4027.
■ Hsu, L.Y., Gorbachev, M.A., Chang, L-C., Vasu,
S., Mancini, C., Bandettini, W.P., and Arai, A.E.,
“Automated Extraction of the Arterial Input
Function from Contrast-Enhanced First-Pass
Cardiac MR Perfusion Images,” in Proc. the
19th Annual International Society for Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting,
Montreal, Canada, 2011, pp. 3277.
■ Walker, L., Lange, N., Chang, L-C., Pierpaoli,
C., and the Brain Development Cooperative
Group, “A Framework for Analysis of Living
Phantom Data in a Multicenter DTI study,”
in Proc. the 19th Annual International
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011,
pp. 2004.
■ Etesi, L.I., and Chang, L-C., “A Message-
Based Interoperability Framework for Applications
in Astronomy,” in Proc. of the 11th
IEEE International Conference on Information
Reuse and Integration, Article number
5558975, 2010, pp. 1-6.
■ Wei, J., Chang, L-C., “A New Quality Measure
of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—A
Volume-Related Performance Comparison
Measure,” in Proc. of First AMA-IEEE EMBS
Medical Technology Conference, 2010,
poster presentation.
■ Walker, L., Chang, L-C., Pierpaoli, C., “How
Physiological Noise and Artifacts May Impact
Clinical Diffusion Tensor Imaging Studies,”
in Proc. the 16th Annual Meeting of the
Organization for Human Brain Mapping,
Barcelona, Spain, 2010, pp. 3383.
■ Pierpaoli, C., Walker, L., Irfanoglu, M.O.,
Barnett, A., Basser, P.J., Chang, L-C., Koay,
C.G., Pajevic, S., Rohde, G., Sarlls, J. and
Wu, M., “TORTOISE: an integrated software
package for processing of diffusion MRI
data,” in Proc. the 18th Annual International
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Scientific Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden,
poster presentation, 2010.
■ Chang, L-C., “Improving RESTORE for Robust
Diffusion Tensor Estimation: A Simulation
Study,” in Proc. of SPIE 2010 Medical Image,
Volume 7623, 2010, pp. 762328.1-762328.1.8.
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■ Gruionu, L., Gruionu, G., Choi, J., “Electromagnetically
tracking system and forceps
for transbronchial biopsy,” BMES (Biomedical
Engineering Society) annual conference,
Austin, Texas, 2010.
■ Choi, J., “Efficient ray casting with LF-Minmax
map in CUDA.,” SPIE Medical Imaging,
Orlando, Fla., 2011.
■ Choi, J., “Efficient ray casting with LF-
Minmax map in CUDA.,”Proceedings of the
SPIE, Volume 7964, Orlando, Fla., 2011, pp.
79643B-79643B-6.
■ Aldahlawi, A., El-Araby, E., Suboh, S., and
El-Ghazawi, T., “Modeling the Performance
of an SSD-Aware Storage System Using
Least Squares Regression,” the 9th ACS/IEEE
International Conference On Computer
Systems And Applications (AICCSA 2011),
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Dec. 2011.
■ Kilic, O., Smith, A., El-Araby, E., and Dang, V.,
“Interferometric Imaging through Random
Media using GPU,” Proc. ACES 2011 Conference,
Williamsburg, Va., March 2011.
■ Smith, A., Kilic, O., Dang, V., and El-Araby, E.,
“GPU Accelerated Interferometric Imaging
Through Random Media,” U.S. National
Committee of the International Union of
Radio Science (USNC-URSI), University of
Colorado at Boulder, Jan. 2011.
■ Aldahlawi, A., El-Araby, E., and El-Ghazawi,
T., “Improving The Performance Of An IO
Intensive Workload Using Hybrid Storage
System: An Empirical Study,” the IEEE International
Conference on Future Information
Technology (ICFIT 2010), Changsha, China,
December 2010.
■ El-Araby, E., Narayana, V.K., and El-Ghazawi,
T., “Space and Time Sharing of Reconfigurable
Hardware for Accelerated Parallel
Processing,” Proceedings of the 6th International
Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable
Computing (ARC 2010), Bangkok,
Thailand, March 2010.
■ El-Araby, E., Merchant, S.G., and El-Ghazawi,
T., “A Framework for Evaluating High-Level
Design Methodologies for High-Performance
Reconfigurable Computers,” IEEE Transactions
on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2010.
■ Frenkel, V., “Pulsed-high intensity focused
ultrasound for non-invasively enhancing delivery
and efficacy of therapeutic agents,”
Department of Biology, The Catholic University
of America, Washington, D.C., 2011.
■ Ziadloo, A., Chaudry, A., Gold, E., Dean, D.D.,
Burks, S., Frank, J.A., and Frenkel, V., “Focused
Ultrasound Exposures with Mechanically
Registered Ultrasound Image Guidance
for Small Animal Studies,” 10th International
Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound,
New York, N.Y., 2011.
■ Wang, S., Frenkel, V., and Zderic, V., “Effects
of Microvascular Perfusion on Focused Ultrasound
Induced Hyperthermia,” 10th International
Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound,
New York, N.Y., 2011.
■ Ziadloo, A., Chaudry, A., Gold, E., Dean, D.D.,
Burks, S., Frank, J.A., and Frenkel, V.,
“Targeting Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs)
Using Focused Ultrasound Exposures,” 2nd
Annual MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound
Symposium, Dulles, Va., 2010.
■ Hancock, H., Dean, D.D., Chaudry, A., Lewis,
B.K., Smith, M., Frenkel, V., and Frank, J.A.,
“Multi-modality imaging assessment of focused
ultrasound induced inflammation in
muscle” 2nd Annual MR-Guided Focused
Ultrasound Symposium, Dulles, Va., 2010.
■ Wang, S., Frenkel, V., and Zderic, V., “Optimization
of Focused Ultrasound Exposures
for Hyperthermia Mediated Drug Delivery in
a Murine Subcutaneous Tumor Model,” IEEE
International Ultrasonics Symposium, San
Diego, Calif., 2010.
■ Hancock, H., Gold, E., Lewis, B., Smith, M.,
Frenkel, V., and Frank, J.A., “Cellular MRI
assessment of magnetic fluorescent bead
labeled macrophage accumulation following
high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
induced damage in a murine model,” International
Society for MRI in Medicine, Stockholm,
Sweden, 2010.
■ Wang, S., Frenkel, V., and Zderic V., “Optimization
of Pulsed Focused Ultrasound Exposures
for Hyperthermia Applications,” Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America (in press).
■ Krasovitski, B., Frenkel, V., Shoham, S., and
Kimmel, E., “Intramembrane cavitation as a
unifying mechanism for ultrasound-induced
bioeffects,” Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 108 (8): 3258-63, 2011.
■ Wang, S., Zderic, V., and Frenkel, V., “Extracorporeal,
Low Energy Focused Ultrasound
for Noninvasive and Nondestructive Targeted
Hyperthermia,” Future Oncology, 6 (9):
1497-511, 2010, (Invited review).
■ Jones, G., Hunter, F.K., Hancock, H.A., Kapoor,
A., Stone, M.J., Wood, B.J., Xie, J., Dreher,
M.R., and Frenkel, V., “In vitro investigations
into enhancement of tPA bioavailability in

whole blood clots using pulsed-high intensity
focused ultrasound exposures,” IEEE-
TBME, 57 (1): 33-6, 2010.
■ Frenkel, V., “Therapeutic Ultrasound: Mechanisms
to Applications,” Nova Science Publishers,
Inc., Hauppauege, N.Y.
■ Hancock, H., and Frenkel, V., “Ultrasound
mediated drug and gene delivery for the
treatment of solid tumors in molecular imaging
probes for cancer research,” Xiaoyuan
Chen, Editor. World Scientific, Hackensack,
N.J., (in press).
■ Gabbai, R.D., “An assessment of safety
margins for wind effects on tall buildings,”
IV European Conference on Computational
Mechanics, Paris, 2010.
■ Gabbai, R.D., “A first-principles approach to
wake-oscillator models for VIV,” IUTAM Symposium
on Bluff Body Wakes and Vortex-Induced
Vibrations (BBVIV6), Capri, 2010.
■ Yeo, D.H. and Gabbai, R.D., “Sustainable
design of reinforced concrete structures
through embodied energy optimization,”
Energy and Buildings, 2011, (in press).
■ Judge, J.A., “Vibration of Arrays of Micro &
Nanoscale Devices,” Duke Nonlinear Vibrations
Workshop, June 2010.
■ Vignola, J. and Judge, J.A., ”Rapid Step
Response With Limited Ringing and Light
Damping,” in Proceedings of Meetings on
Acoustics (POMA) 9, 065009, from the
159th meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Baltimore, Md., April 2010.
■ O'Malley, P., Woods, T., Vignola, J., Judge,
J.A., and Kurdila, A.,“Mapping LDV Noise
As A Function Of Standoff Distance, Beam
Focus, And Surface Roughness,” in Proceedings
of the Ninth International Conference
on Vibration Measurements by Laser
Techniques: Advances and Applications,
Ancona, Italy, June 23–25, 2010.
■ Judge, J.A., Woods, T.J., Vignola, J.F.,
O’Malley, P.F., and Glean, A.A., “Experimental
Identification Of Resonator Mass And Stiffness
In Micromechanical And Nanomechanical
Resonator Arrays,” in Proceedings of the
2011 NSF CMMI Grantees Conference,
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 2011.
■ Vignola, J.F., Judge, J.A., Good, C.E., Bishop,
S.S., Gugino, P.M., and Soumekh, M., “Synthetic
aperture acoustic imaging of canonical
targets with a 2-15 kHz Linear FM chirp,”
SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security,
Orlando (Kissimmee), Fla., April 2011.
■ Kilic, O., Smith, A., El-Araby, E., and Dang,
V., “Interferometric Imaging through Random
Media using GPU,” Proc. ACES Int. Conference,
Williamsburg, Va., March 2011, invited paper.
■ Kilic, O., Smith, A., “Imaging Through Random
Media,” Proc. European Conf. on Antennas
and Prop. (EuCAP), Rome, Italy, April 2011.
■ Smith, A., Kilic, O., Dang, V., and El-Araby,
E., “GPGPU Accelerated Interferometric
Imaging Through Random Media,” U.S.
National Committee on International Union
of Radio Science (USNC URSI) Meeting,
Boulder, Colo., January 2011.
■ Weiss S. and Kilic, O., “Rotman Lens Design
for Aperiodic Arrays,” Proc. IEEE AP-S/URSI
Intl Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2010.
■ Weiss, S., Zaghloul, A., and Kilic, O., “Measurement
and Simulation of Rotman Lens
Designs that Mitigate Internal Diffraction
Effects,” Proc. IEEE AP-S/URSI Intl Conference,
Toronto, Canada, July 2010.
■ Huang, M. and Kilic, O., “Reaping the processing
potential of FPGA on double-precision
floating-point operations: an Eigen
value solver case study,” Proc. IEEE Symposium
on Field-Programmable Custom Computing
Machines (FCCM), Charlotte, N.C.,
May 2010.
■ Zaghloul, A., Wikner, D., and Kilic, O.,
“Three-Dimensional Terahertz Interferometric
Imaging System for Concealed Object Detection,”
Proc. URSI Electromagnetic Theory
Symposium, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 2010.
■ Kilic, O. and Zaghloul, A., “Interference
Studies in Cellular Satellite Systems,” in
Satellite Communications, Sciyo Publishing,
978-953-7619-X-X (24 pages), accepted,
second proof reading completed July 2010.
■ Zaghloul, A. and Kilic, O., “System Aspects
of Phased Arrays,” in Satellite Communications,
Sciyo Publishing, 978-953-7619-X-X
(18 pages)., accepted, second proof reading
completed July 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Karimpour, H., “Time Effects
in Granular Materials: Consistent Macro
Behavior versus Scattered Micro Behavior,”
Presented at the 16th U.S. National Congress
of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State
College, Pennsylvania, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Karimpour, H., “Time Dependent
Grain Crushing Accounts for Time
Effects in Granular Materials,” Presented at
the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference
2010, University of Southern California,
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Los Angeles, Calif., 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., “Static Fatigue Produces Time
Effects in Granular Materials,” Time Dependent
Grain Crushing Accounts for Time
Effects in Granular Materials,” Feature
Lecture presented at the 2nd International
Symposium on Computational Geomechanics
(ComGeo II), held in Cavtat-Dubrovnik,
Croatia, 2011.
■ Lade, P.V., and Karimpour, H., “Time Effects
in Granular Materials: Consistent Macro
Behavior versus Scattered Micro Behavior,”
Proceedings of the 16th U.S. National Congress
of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,
State College, Pennsylvania, CD-Rom, June
27–July 2, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Karimpour, H., “Time Dependent
Grain Crushing Accounts for Time
Effects in Granular Materials,” Proceedings
of the Engineering Mechanics Institute
Conference 2010, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, Calif., CD-Rom,
August 8–11, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Yamamuro, J.A., (2010)
“Analysis of Submarine Flow Slides in Fine
Silty Sand,” Proceedings of the Second
International Symposium on Frontiers in
Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), Perth,
Australia, CD-Rom, Nov. 8–10, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., “Constitutive Model: Tools for
Advanced Analysis of Geotechnical Problems,”
Geo-Strata, pp. 44-48, July/August.
■ Lade, P.V., Van Dyck, E.J., and Rodriguez,
N.M., “Experimental Study of Stress Rotation
Effects in Cross-Anisotropic Sand,”
Proceedings of NSF CMMI Research and
Innovation Conference 2011 on Engineering
for Sustainability and Prosperity, Atlanta,
GA, CD-Rom, Jan. 4–7, 2011.
■ Lade, P.V., “Estimating the Three-Dimensional
Strengths of Sands and Clays from a Single
Test,” Proceedings of the 2nd International
Symposium on Computational Geomechanics
(ComGeo II), held in Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia,
CD-Rom, April 27–29, 2011.
■ Lade, P.V., “Review of ‘Geotechnical Laboratory
Measurements for Engineers’ by J.T.
Germaine and A.V. Germaine, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc.,” Geotechnical Testing Journal,
Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 261-262, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., “The Mechanics of Surficial
Failure in Soil Slopes,” Engineering Geology,
Vol. 114, pp. 57-64, 2010.
■ Karimpour, H. and Lade, P.V., “Time Effects
Relate To Crushing in Sand,” Journal of Geot-
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echnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering,
ASCE, Vol. 136, No. 9, pp. 1209-1219, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Karimpour, H., “Static Fatigue
Controls Particle Crushing and Time Effects
in Granular Materials,” Soils and Foundations,
Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 573-583, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., and Yamamuro, J.A., “Evaluation
of static liquefaction potential of silty sand
slopes,” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol.
48, No. 4, 2011.
■ Ochoa, J.M., Kamper, D.G., and Lee, S.W.,
“Use of an electromyographically driven
hand orthosis for training after stroke,” IEEE
12th International Conference on Rehabilitation
Robotics, Zurich, Switzerland, 2011.
■ Holm, J.K., Contakos, J., Lee, S.W., and
Jang, J., “Energetics and passive dynamics
of the ankle in downhill walking,” Journal of
Applied Biomechanics, Vol. 26, pp. 379-389,
Nov. 2010.
■ Lucko, G., “Creating a New Paradigm for
Construction Project Planning and Control.”
Invited lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2011.
■ Lucko, G., and Thompson, R.C., “Analysis
of Cash Flow Profiles with Singularity Functions
for Linear Scheduling Applications,”
Proceedings of 2011 8h Project Management
Institute—Scheduling Community of
Practice (formerly College of Scheduling)
Annual Conference, San Francisco, Calif.,
2011, Project Management Institute, Newtown
Square, Pa.: 10 p.
■ Lucko, G., and Thompson, R.C., “Extensions
of Mathematical Theory of Singularity Functions
for Modeling and Analysis of Schedules
and Costs in Construction Project
Management,” Invited paper, Proceedings of
the 2011 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation
Conference, eds. Melkote, S.N., Atlanta,
Ga., 2011, Division of Civil, Mechanical and
Manufacturing Innovation, Directorate of Engineering,
National Science Foundation, Arlington,
Va.: 14 p.
■ Lucko, G., Benjamin, P.C., Swaminathan, K.,
and Madden, M.G., “Comparison of Manual
and Automated Simulation Generation Approaches
and Their Use for Construction Application,”
Proceedings of the 2010 42nd
Winter Simulation Conference, Baltimore, Md.,
2010, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Piscataway, N.J.: 3132-3144.
■ Lucko, G., and Thompson, R.C., “Derivation
and Assessment of Interest in Cash Flow
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Calculations for Time-Cost Optimizations in
Construction Project Management,” Proceedings
of the 2010 42nd Winter Simulation
Conference, Baltimore, Md., 2010,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Piscataway, N.J.: 3037-3048.
■ Lucko, G., and Cooper, J.P., “Modeling Cash
Flow Profiles with Singularity Functions,”
Proceedings of the 2010 Construction Research
Congress, Banff, Alberta, Canada,
2010, American Society of Civil Engineers,
Reston, Va., 2: 1155-1164.
■ Lucko, G., “Modeling Resource Profiles with
Singularity Functions,” Proceedings of the
2010 Construction Research Congress, Banff,
Alberta, Canada, 2010, American Society of
Civil Engineers, Reston, Va.: 1165-1174.
■ Lucko, G., “Optimizing Cash Flows for Linear
Schedules Modeled with Singularity
Functions by Simulated Annealing,” Journal
of Construction Engineering and Management,
DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-
7862.0000324), 2011 (in press).
■ Lucko, G., “CEC: Modeling the Residual Market
Value of Construction Equipment under
Changed Economic Conditions,” Journal of
Construction Engineering and Management,
DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-
7862.0000279), 2011 (in press).
■ Lucko, G., “Integrating Efficient Resource
Optimization and Linear Schedule Analysis
with Singularity Functions,” Journal of Construction
Engineering and Management
137(1): 45-55, January 2011.
■ Brokaw, E.B., Holley, R.J., and Lum, P.S.,
“Hand Spring Operated Movement Enhancer
(HandSOME) Device for Hand Rehabilitation
after Stroke,” poster presented at the 32nd
Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
■ Godfrey, S.B., Schabowsky, C., Holley, R.J.,
and Lum, P.S., “Hand Function Recovery in
Chronic Stroke with HEXORR Robotic Training:
A Case Series,” platform presentation at
the 32nd Annual International Conference of
the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
■ Dromerick, A.W., Metzger, A.J., Lum, P.S.,
and Tractenberg, R., “Motor performance of
the less affected limb to estimate intraindividual
variability after stroke,” Poster presented
at the Society of Neuroscience
Annual Conference, San Diego, Calif.,
November, 2010.
■ Uswatte, G., Lum, P.S., Taub, E., Brennan,
D., Gilmore, B., and Barman, J., “Feasibility
of delivering Constraint-Induced Movement
therapy via telerehabilitation,” poster presented
at the Annual Convention of the
American Psychological Association, San
Diego, Calif., August 2010.
■ Brokaw, E.B., Holley, R.J., and Lum, P.S.,
“Hand Spring Operated Movement Enhancer
(HandSOME) Device for Hand Rehabilitation
after Stroke,” in Proc. of the 32nd Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
■ Godfrey, S.B., Schabowsky, C., Holley, R.J.,
and Lum, P.S., “Hand Function Recovery in
Chronic Stroke with HEXORR Robotic Training:
A Case Series,” in Proc. of the 32nd
Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
■ Metzger, A.J., Dromerick, A.W., Schabowsky,
C.N., Holley, R.J., Monroe, B., and Lum, P.S.,
“Feedforward control strategies of subjects
with transradial amputation in planar reaching,”
J. Rehabil Res Dev, Vol. 47(3), pp. 201-
212, 2010.
■ Schabowsky, C.N., Godfrey, S.B., Holley, R.J.,
and Lum, P.S., “Development and pilot testing
of HEXORR: Hand EXOskeleton Rehabilitation
Robot,” Journal of Neuroengineering
and Rehabilitation, Vol. 7(1), pp. 36, 2010.
■ Brokaw, E.B., Murray, T., Nef, T., and Lum,
P.S., “Retraining of inter-joint arm coordination
after stroke using robot-assisted timeindependent
functional training,” J Rehabil
Res Dev (in press).
■ Burgar, C.G., Lum, P.S., Scremin, E., Garber,
S.L., Van der Loos, H.F.M., Kenney, D., and
Shor, P., “Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Therapy
in the Acute Rehabilitation Setting following
Stroke: VA Multi-Site Clinical Trial,”
J Rehabil Res Dev (in press).
■ Massoudieh, A., Ginn, T.R., “The theoretical
relation between unstable solutes and
groundwater age,” AGU Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, Calif., Dec. 2010.
■ Massoudieh, A., Loboschefsky, E., Zhang, J.,
and Loge, F.J., “A Spatially Explicit Individual
Based Model for Striped Bass Population Dynamics
in the San Francisco Bay and Delta,”
American Fisheries Society 140th annual
meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 2010.
■ Massoudieh, A., “Individual Based Modeling
of Striped Bass in San Francisco Bay and

Delta,” Chesapeake Biological Laboratory,
University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science, Invited Talk, April 2011.
■ Massoudieh A., “Groundwater Dating Using
Environmental Tracers: A Bayesian Approach,”
USGS, MD-DE-DC Water Science
Center, Baltimore, Md., February 2011.
■ Massoudieh A., “Evaluating the nutrient removal
efficiency of coastal wetlands as a
result of sediment-water interaction and
biogeochemical cycling, A modeling approach,”
NSF Crest center for the integrated
study of coastal ecosystem processes and
dynamics in the Mid-Atlantic region workshop,
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore,
School of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
Invited Talk, February 2011.
■ Kayhanian, M. and Massoudieh, A.,”Onedimensional
model to evaluate the hydraulic
capacity of a full depth permeable pavement
for stormwater management,” NOVAT-
ECH Conference, Lyon, France, 2010.
■ Massoudieh, A., and Kayhanian, M., “A
Process Identification Algorithm for Predicting
Highway Stormwater Pollutographs,”
ASCE, Providence, R.I., 319-319.
■ Sharifi, S., Massoudieh, A., and Kayhanian,
M., “A Stochastic Storm-Water Quality Volume
Sizing Method with First Flush Emphasis,”
Water and Environment Research,
accepted, January 2011.
■ Abrishamchi, A., Massoudieh, A., and Kayhanian,
M., “Probabilistic modeling of stormwater
pollutant removal in detention basins,” Urban
Water, 7(6), 357-366, December 2010.
■ Piqué, A., Kim, H., Auyeng, R.C.Y., Birnbaum,
A.J., Charipar, N.A., Metkus, K. and Mathews,
S.A., “Digital Microfabrication by Laser
Forward Transfer,” Lehrstuhl für Photonische
Technologien, Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlanger-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2010.
■ Piqué, A., Charipar, N.A., Kim, H., Auyeng,
R.C.Y., Birnbaum, A.J., Metkus, K. and Mathews,
S.A., “Laser Printed MEMS and Other
Microstructures,” Sandia National Laboratories,
Albuquerque, N.M., 2010.
■ Charipar, N.A., Mathews, S.A., and Piqué,
A.,“Laser Patterning of Conformal Electromagnetic
Surfaces,” 11th International Symposium
on Laser Precision Microfabrication
(LPM 2010), Stuttgart, Germany, 2010
■ Piqué, A., Birnbaum, A.J., Wang, J., Kim, H.,
Auyeng, R.C.Y., Charipar, N.A, Metkus, K.,
and Mathews, S.A., “Laser Decal Transfer
of Nanomaterials,” 11th International Sym-
posium on Laser Precision Microfabrication
(LPM 2010), Stuttgart, Germany, 2010.
■ Birnbaum, A.J., Mathews, S.A., Kim, H.,
Auyeng, R.C.Y., Charipar, N.A., and Piqué,
A.,“Laser Printed MEMS and Electronic Devices
(Invited),” 11th International Symposium
on Laser Precision Microfabrication
(LPM 2010), Stuttgart, Germany, 2010.
■ Mathews, S.A., Charipar, N.A, and Piqué, A.,
“Dynamics of the Laser Decal Transfer
Process,” 11th International Symposium on
Laser Precision Microfabrication (LPM
2010), Stuttgart, Germany, 2010.
■ Piqué, A., Kim, H., Birnbaum, A.J., Auyeng,
R.C.Y, Wang, J., Metkus, K., and Mathews,
S.A., “Laser Forward Transfer of Electronic
Nanoinks,” European Materials Research
Society 2010 Spring Meeting (E-MRS 2010),
Strasbourg, France, 2010
■ Basiri, A., Nabili, M., Mathews, S.A., Libin,
A., Groah, S., Noordmans, H.J, and Ramella-
Roman, J.C., “Use of a multi-aperture camera
in the characterization of skin wounds,”
Optics Express, Vol.18 No.4, 2010.
■ Auyeung, R.C.Y., Kim, H., Charipar, N.A.,
Birnbaum, A.J., Mathews, S.A., and Piqué,
A., “Laser forward transfer based on a spatial
light modulator,” Applied Physics A: Materials
Science & Processing, Volume 102,
Number 1, 21-26, published online 03 October
2010.
■ Mavroeidis, G.P. and Hubbard, D.T., “Damping
coefficients for the single-degree-offreedom
(SDOF) system subjected to
near-fault seismic excitations,” in Proceedings
of the Ninth U.S. National Conference
on Earthquake Engineering (9NCEE),
Toronto, Canada, July 2010.
■ Mavroeidis, G.P. and Papageorgiou, A.S.,
“Characteristics of earthquake-induced differential
ground motions in the near-fault
region,” in Proceedings of the Ninth U.S.
National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
(9NCEE), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
■ Ucak, A., Mavroeidis, G.P., Pekcan, G., and
Tsopelas, P., “Assessment of SSI effects on
a seismically isolated multi-span bridge
under bi-directional seismic excitation,” in
Proceedings of the Ninth U.S. National Conference
on Earthquake Engineering
(9NCEE), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
■ Hubbard, D.T. and Mavroeidis, G.P., “Damping
coefficients for near-fault ground motion
response spectra,” Soil Dynamics and
Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp.
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401-417, March 2011.
■ Halldorsson, B., Mavroeidis, G.P., and Papageorgiou,
A.S., “Near-fault and far-field
strong ground motion simulation for earthquake
engineering applications using the
specific barrier model,” Journal of Structural
Engineering – ASCE, Vol. 137, No. 3, pp.
433-444, March 2011.
■ DuBois, T.G., and Nieh, S., “Selection and
Performance Comparison of Jet Fuel Surrogates
for Autothermal Reforming,” Journal of
Fuel, Vol. 90, pp. 1439 – 1448, 2010-2011.
■ DuBois, T.G., and Nieh, S., “Effects of Hydrocarbon
Chemical Class Composition on Autothermal
Reforming of JP-8 Fuel,” Proceeding
of 44th Power Sources Conference, pp. 133 –
136, Las Vegas, Nev., 2010.
■ Nieh, S.,“Effects of Hydrocarbon Chemical
Class Composition on Autothermal Reforming
of JP-8 Fuel,” presented at The 44th
Power Sources Conference, Las Vegas, Nev.,
June 2010.
■ Nieh, S., “Hong Kong: Stepping out for Freedom
of Expression and Speech,” Washington
Rally, cited in The Chinese Epoch Times,
Washington, D.C., January 2010.
■ Nieh, S., “U.S. State Department Faces
Egyptian-Style Failure Over China; Policy
Makers Ignore Those Who Know Best the
Chinese Regime’s Weakness,” interviewed
by The English Epoch Times, Washington,
D.C., 2011.
■ Nieh, S., “Impact of the ‘Nine Commentaries’:
Chinese People Know Regime Will
Fall,” Invited speech at The Washington
Forum, cited on The English Epoch Times,
Rockville, Md., December 2009.
■ Chen, J., and Pan, T., “Evaluation of styrenebutadiene
latex as a vibration damping
admixture for concrete: a micromechanical
analysis,” Proceedings of Transportation Research
Board Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., 2011.
■ Pan, T. and Wang, L., “Finite element analysis
of chemical transport and reinforcement
corrosion induced concrete cracking in variably
saturated heterogeneous concrete,”
ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics,
Vol. 137, November 2011.
■ Pan, T., Liu, Y., and Tutumluer, E., “Microstructural
mechanism of early age cracking
behavior of concrete: a fracture energy
approach,” ASCE Journal of Engineering
Mechanics, Vol. 137, November 2011.
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■ Pan, T., Wang, L., and Tutumluer, E., “Experimental
investigation of aggregate-mortar
interface affecting the early fracture toughness
of Portland cement concrete,” International
Journal of Pavement Research and
Technology, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2011.
■ Pan, T., Xia, K. and Wang, L., “Chloride Binding
to Calcium Silicate Hydrates (C-S-H) in
Cement Paste: A Molecular Dynamics Analysis,”
International Journal of Pavement Engineering,
Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 367–379,
2010.
■ Pan, T. and Tutumluer, E., “Imaging-based
direct measurement of aggregate surface
area and its application in asphalt mixture
design,” International Journal of Pavement
Engineering, Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 415-
428, 2010.
■ Xia, K., Pan, T., and Liu, S., “Three dimensional
large deformation analysis of phase transformation
in shape memory alloys,” Applied
Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 31, No.
10, pp. 1-12, Springer, Netherlands, 2010.
■ Plaku, E. and Hager, D.H., “Sampling-based
Motion and Symbolic Action Planning with
Geometric and Differential Constraints,” IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, 2010.
■ Plaku, E. and Hager, D.H., “Sampling-based
Motion and Symbolic Action Planning with
Geometric and Differential Constraints,” in
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska,
2010, pp. 5002–5008.
■ Reiley, C.C., Plaku, E., and Hager, D.H.,
“Motion Generation of Robotic Surgical
Tasks: Learning from Expert Demonstrations,”
in Proc. International Conference of
the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010,
pp. 967-970.
■ Plaku, E., Kavraki, L.E., and Vardi, M.Y.,
“Motion Planning with Dynamics by a Synergistic
Combination of Layers of Planning,”
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 26(3),
pp. 469–482, 2010.
■ Pezzementi, Z., Plaku, E., Reyda, C., and
Hager, D.H., “Tactile Object Recognition From
Appearance Information,” IEEE Transactions
on Robotics, Vol. PP(99), pp. 1–15, 2011.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., “Autonomic dysreflexia
and the skin,” Adventist Rehabilitation
Hospital of Maryland, 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., “A novel instrument
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aimed at measuring hypertrophic scar formation,”
Poem Conference China, Wuhan,
China, 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., “Extrapolation of skin
optical properties with structured illumination
and four phases algorithm,” NIST Optical
Medical Imaging Workshop, Gaithersburg,
Md., 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., “OASIS Conference,”
Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010.
■ Lemaillet, P., Lompado, A., and Ramella-
Roman, J., “Retinal oximetry with a multiaperture
camera,” SPIE Proceedings on
Ophthalmic Technologies XX, 7550, 755021,
2010.
■ Nguyen, T.A., Basiri, A., and Ramella-
Roman, J., “Imaging spectroscopy of thermal
and electrical burs,” SPIE Proceedings
on Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic
Surgery, 7548,7548A, 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., Nguyen, T.A., Pavlovich,
A.R., Lemaillet, P., Jordan, M.H., and Shupp,
J.W., “A novel instrument aimed at measuring
hypertrophic scar formation,” Journal of
Physics: Conference Series, Poem, 2010.
■ Nguyen, T.A., Basiri, A., Shupp, J.W., Moffatt,
L.T., Jordan, M.H., Leto, E., and Ramella-
Roman, J., “Assessment of electrical burn
injury using structured illumination and
electrical injury model,” SPIE Saratov Fall
Meeting Optical Technologies in Biophysics
and Medicine, 2010.
■ Basiri, A., Ibrahim, M., Nguyen, Q., and
Ramella-Roman, J., “Measuring the retina
optical properties using a structured illumination
imaging systems,” Proceedings of
SPIE, 2011.
■ Lemaillet, P. and Ramella-Roman, J.,
“Hemispherical Stokes polarimeter for early
cancer diagnosis,” Proceedings of SPIE,
2011.
■ Duncan, D.D., Lemaillet, P., Ibrahim, M.,
Nguyen, Q.D., Hiller, M., and Ramella-
Roman, J., “Absolute blood velocity measured
with a modified fundus camera,” Journal
of Biomedical Optics, 15, 056014, 2010.
■ Lemaillet, P., Duncan, D., Lompado, A.,
Nguyen, Q.D., and Ramella-Roman, J., “Retinal
spectral imaging and blood flow measurement,”
Journal of Innovative Optical Health
Sciences (Special Issue), 3, 4, 255-265, 2010.
■ Groah, S.L., Libin, A., Spungen, M., Nguyen,
K.L., Woods, E., Nabili, M., and Ramella-
Roman, J., Barritault, D., “Regenerating ma-
trix-based therapy for chronic wound healing:
a prospective within-subject pilot study,”
Int. Wound J., doi: 10.1111/j.1742-
481X.2010.00748.x, Nov. 16, 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., Basiri, A., Hidler, J.,
Ljungberg, I., and Groah, S.L.,“Autonomic
Dysreflexia in spinal cord injury: its role in
altering skin perfusion and oxygenation,”
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 16 (3): 46 57
doi:10.1310/sci1603 46, 2011.
■ Groah, S.L., Ramella-Roman, J., Libin, A.,
Maitland Schladen, M., “Skin Microvascular
and metabolic response to sitting and pressure
relief maneuvers in people with spinal cord
injury,” Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2011;
16(3):33 45 doi:10.1310/sci1603 33, 2010.
■ Ramella-Roman, J., Nayak, A., and Prahl,
S.A., “Spectroscopic sensitive polarimeter
for biomedical applications,” J. Biomed., Opt.
16, 047001, DOI:10.1117/1.3561907, 2011.
■ Edelstein, D.L., Giardiello, F.M., Basiri, A.,
Hylind, L.M., Romans, K., Axilbund, J.E.,
Cruz-Correa, M., and Ramella-Roman, J.,
“A new phenotypic manifestation of familial
adenomatous polyposis,” Familial Cancer,
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-011-9432-3O.
■ Walsh, J.M., and Regalia, P.A., “Belief propagation,
Dykstra’s algorithm, and iterated
information projections,” IEEE Trans. Information
Theory, vol. 56, pp. 4114–4128, August
2010.
■ Walsh, J.M., and Regalia, P.A., “On the relationship
between belief propagation decoding
and joint maximum likelihood detection,”
IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 58, pp.
2753–2758, October 2010.
■ Regalia, P.A., “A complex adaptive notch filter,”
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 17,
no. 11, pp. 937–940, November 2010.
■ Regalia, P.A., “Turbo Equalization,” in: Adaptive
Signal Processing: Next-Generation Solutions,
T. Adalı and S. Haykin, eds., Wiley,
Hoboken, NJ, 2010, Chapter 3, pp. 143–210.
■ Sun, L., Yang, J., Mahmassani, H., Gu, W.
and Kim, B.J., “Data mining based adaptive
regression for developing equilibrium static
traffic speed-density relationships,” Canadian
Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 37,
No. 3, 389-400, 2010.
■ Zhu, Y., Sun L., Zhu H., and Xiang, W., “A
constitutive model of viscoelastic-viscoplastic
solids based on thermodynamics theory,”
Chinese Quarterly Journal of Mechanics, (in
Chinese), Vol. 31, No. 4, 2010.

■ Li, R., You, K., Sun, L., and Gu, W., “The Application
of Road Safety Evaluation to Liuwu
Freeway-I: Method,” Highway Transportation
Science and Technology (in Chinese), Vol.
70, 2010, 29-32.
■ Xiong, W., Sun, L. and Zhou, J., “Splinebased
multi-regime traffic stream models,”
Journal of Southeast University, (English
Edition), Vol. 26, No. 1, 122-125, 2010.
■ Kim, B-J., Hightower, W.L., Hahn, P.M., Zhu,
Y.R., and Sun, L., “Lower bound for the axial
three-index assignment problem,” European
Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 202,
pp. 654-668, 2010.
■ You, K., Guo, J., and Sun, L., “Optimized decision-making
model for safety improvement
of black-spots,” Journal of Transportation
Engineering and Information, (in Chinese),
Vol. 8, No. 2, 43-47, 2010.
■ You, K., Sun, L. and Gu, W., “Application of
variable weight comprehensive evaluation
to safety assessment in mountainous
areas,” Systems Engineering, (in Chinese),
Vol. 28, No. 5, 85-88, 2010.
■ Vignola, J.F., “Disorder in subordinate oscillator
arrays used to shape the impedance
and response of dynamic system,” NSF
Workshop on Vibration Energy Transport
and Dissipation, Rome, Italy, June 2011.
■ Glean, A., Vignola, J.F., Judge, J.A., Ryan,
T.J. and O’Malley, P., “Disorder in Subordinate
Oscillator Arrays Used to Shape the Response
of Dynamic Systems,” 161st
meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
Seattle, Wash., May 23–27, 2011.
■ Glean, A., Judge, J.A., Vignola, J.F., Ryan,
T.J., and O’Malley, P., “Graduate and Undergraduate
Laboratory Courses in Acoustics
and Vibration,” 161st meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, Seattle,
Wash., May 2011.
■ Vignola, J.F., and Judge, J.A., ”Rapid Step
Response With Limited Ringing and Light
Damping,” in Proceedings of Meetings on
Acoustics (POMA) 9, 065009, from the
159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Baltimore, Md., April 2010.
■ O’Malley, P., Woods, T., Vignola, J.F., Judge,
J.A., and Kurdila, A., “Mapping LDV Noise As
A Function Of Standoff Distance, Beam
Focus, And Surface Roughness” in Proceedings
of the Ninth International Conference
on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques:
Advances and Applications, Ancona,
Italy, June 2010.
■ Judge, J.A., Woods, T.J., Vignola, J.F.,
O’Malley, P.F., and Glean, A.A., “Experimental
Identification Of Resonator Mass And
Stiffness In Micromechanical And Nanomechanical
Resonator Arrays,” in Proceedings
of the 2011 NSF CMMI Grantees Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, January 2011.
■ Vignola, J.F., Judge, J.A., Good, C.E., Bishop,
S.S., Gugino, P.M., and Soumekh, M., “Synthetic
aperture acoustic imaging of canonical
targets with a 2-15 kHz Linear FM chirp,”
SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security,
Orlando (Kissimmee), Fla., April 2011.
■ Kurdila, A.J., Leonessa, A., and Vignola, J.F.,
“Dynamics and Control of Robotic Systems”.
■ Ma, J., Wang, Z., Pan, B., Hoang, T., Vo, M.,
and Luu, L., “Two-dimensional continuous
wavelet transform for phase determination
of complex interferograms,” Applied Optics,
Vol. 50, in May 2011.
■ Pan, B., Wu, D., Wang, Z., and Xia, Y., “Hightemperature
digital image correlation method
for full-field deformation measurement at
1200°C,” Measurement Science and Technology,
Vol. 22, 015701, January 2011.
■ Vo, M., Wang, Z., Hoang, T., and Nguyen, D.,
“Flexible calibration technique for fringeprojection-based
three-dimensional imaging,”
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 3192-3194,
October 2010.
■ Pan, B., Xie, H., and Wang, Z., “Equivalence
of digital image correlation criteria for pattern
matching,” Applied Optics, Vol. 49, pp.
5501-5509, October 2010.
■ Wang, Z., Hoang, T., Nguyen, D., Urcinas, A.,
and Magro, J., “High-speed digital image
correlation method: comment,” Optics Letter,
Vol. 35, pp. 2891, September 2010.
■ Hoang, T., Pan, B., Nguyen, D., and Wang,
Z., “Generic gamma correction for accuracy
enhancement in fringe projection profilometry,”
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 1992-1994,
June 2010.
■ Pan, B., Wang, Z., and Lu, Z., “Genuine fullfield
deformation measurement of an object
with complex shape using reliability-guided
digital image correlation,” Optics Express,
Vol. 18, 1011-1023, January 2010.
■ Wang, Z., Nguyen, D., and Barnes, J., “Some
practical considerations in fringe projection
profilometry,” Optics and Lasers in Engineering,
Vol. 48, 218-225, February 2010.
■ Nguyen, D. and Wang, Z., “High-speed 3D
shape and motion capturing system,” SIG-
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GRAPH 2010 (SRC Semi-Finalist), Los Angeles,
Calif., July 2010.
■ Pan, B. and Wang, Z., “40-minute keynote:
recent progress in digital image correlation,”
2010 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition
on Experimental and Applied Mechanics,
Indianapolis, Ind., June 2010.
■ Hoang, T., Wang, Z., and Nguyen, D., “Theory
and applications of universal phaseshifting
algorithm,” 2010 SEM Annual
Conference and Exposition on Experimental
and Applied Mechanics, Indianapolis, Ind.,
June 2010.
■ Nguyen, D., Vo, M., Wang, Z., and Hoang T.,
“Highly compact and robust 3D imaging and
shape measurement system,” 2010 SEM
Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental
and Applied Mechanics, Indianapolis,
Ind., June 2010.
■ Hoang, T., Wang, Z., and Nguyen, D., “Accuracy
enhancement of fringe-projectionbased
3D imaging,” 2010 OSA Conference
on Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional
Imaging, Miami, Fla., April 2010.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., “Crab Shell Osteogenesis,”
TMS 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Wash.,
February 14–18, 2010.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C. and Haimenot, M., “Magnetic
Nanoparticle Interactions with Hydroxyapatite,”
TMS 2010 Annual Meeting,
Seattle, Wash., 2010.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., “Bone Inspiration in Education,”
Minority Faculty Development
Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 2010.
■ Silva, R.A., Mehl, P., and Wilson, Jr., O.C.,
“Gum Arabic Modified Chitosan Composite
Biopolymer Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,”
26th Southern Biomedical Engineering
Conference (SBEC 2010), College
Park, Md., 2010.
■ Omokanwaye, T. and Wilson, Jr., O.C., “Ties
that Bind: Evaluation of Collagen I and alpha
Chitin,” 26th Southern Biomedical Engineering
Conference (SBEC 2010), College Park,
Md., April 2010.
■ Agubuzo, O., Mehl, P., Wilson, Jr., O.C., and
Silva, R., “Chito-Cotton: Chitosan Coated
Cotton Based Scaffold,” 26th Southern Biomedical
Engineering Conference (SBEC
2010), College Park, Md., 2010.
■ Omokanwaye, T., Owens, D., and Wilson,
Jr., O.C., “Identification of Bacteria and Sterilization
of Crustacean Exoskeleton used as
a Biomaterial,” 26th Southern Biomedical
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Engineering Conference (SBEC 2010), College
Park, Md., April 30–May 1, 2010.
■ Omokanwaye, T., Wilson, Jr., O.C., Iravani,
H., and Kariwayasam, P., “Extraction and
Characterization of a Soluble Chicken Bone
Collagen,” 26th Southern Biomedical Engineering
Conference (SBEC 2010), College
Park, Md., April 2010.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., Dichoso, T., McCall, J., and
Bui, L., “Iridescence in Emerita Talpoida Carapace,”
Materials Science and Technology
(MS&T 2010), Houston, Texas. October, 2010.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., Idelson, C., and Sommerville,
M., “Surface Modification of Hydroxyapatite
in Pathological Calcification,”
Materials Science and Technology (MS&T
2010), Houston, Texas, October 2010.
■ Silva, R.A., Mehl, P., and Wilson, Jr., O.C.,
“Gum Arabic Modified Chitosan Composite
Biopolymer Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,”
IFMBE Proceedings 32, Conference
Proceedings from the 26th Southern
Biomedical Engineering Conference, (Herold,
K., Bentley, W.E., and Vossoughi, J, Eds), College
Park, Md., 2010, pp. 171-174.
■ Omokanwaye, T. and Wilson, Jr., O.C., “Ties
that Bind: Evaluation of Collagen I and alpha
Chitin,” IFMBE Proceedings 32, Conference
Proceedings from the 26th Southern Biomedical
Engineering Conference, (Herold, K,
Bentley, WE, and Vossoughi, J, Eds), College
Park, Md., 2010, pp. 183-187.
■ Agubuzo, O., Mehl, P., Wilson, Jr., O.C., and
Silva, R., “Chito-Cotton: Chitosan Coated
Cotton Based Scaffold,” IFMBE Proceedings
32, Conference Proceedings from the 26th
Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference,
(Herold, K, Bentley, WE, and Vossoughi,
J, Eds), College Park, Md., 2010, pp.
404-408.
■ Omokanwaye, T., Owens, D., and Wilson,
Jr., O.C., “Identification of Bacteria and Sterilization
of Crustacean Exoskeleton used as
a Biomaterial,” IFMBE Proceedings 32, Conference
Proceedings from the 26th Southern
Biomedical Engineering Conference
(SBEC 2010), (Herold, K, Bentley, WE, and
Vossoughi, J, Eds), College Park, Md., 2010,
pp. 418-421.
■ Omokanwaye, T., Wilson, Jr., O.C., Iravani,
H., and Kariwayasam, P., “Extraction and
Characterization of a Soluble Chicken Bone
Collagen,” IFMBE Proceedings 32, Conference
Proceedings from the 26th Southern
Biomedical Engineering Conference,
(Herold, K, Bentley, WE, and Vossoughi, J,
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Eds), College Park, Md., 2010, pp. 520-523.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., Gugssa, A., Mehl, P. and
Anderson, W.A., “Crab Shell Osteogenesis,”
submitted to Materials Science and Engineering,
April 2010.
■ Saied, M.A., Wilson, Jr., O.C., Lloyd, I.K.,
and Rekow, E.D., “Design of Join Glass
Composition for all Ceramic Restorations,”
Journal of the American Ceramic Society,
April 2011 (in press).
■ Deng, H.M., Yang, Y., Jin, G., Xu, R., and Shi,
W.S., “Building a Trust-Aware Dynamic
Routing Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks,”
in HeterWMN 2010 together with
IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, Fla., 2010.
Activities
■ Abot, J.L., Ph.D., Composite Materials
Symposium co-organizer at the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers Applied
Mechanics and Materials Conference ASME
McMAT, 2011; founded the Society of Hispanic
Professional Engineers CUA student
chapter; met with prospective undergraduate
engineering students and their parents
at Open House, Engineering Day, Odyssey
Day, and regular days; placed calls to admitted
mechanical engineering students;
collaborator in university-wide effort to
reach out to and recruit students with a
Hispanic/Latino background and on the
renovation of the department laboratory
facilities with the support of the School of
Engineering and facilities office.
■ Chang, L-C., D.Sc., academic advisory
board, the DC Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), 2008–present.
■ Choi, J., Ph.D., reviewer for the annual Visualization
conference, 2010; program committee
member for ACS/IEEE International
Conference on Computer Systems and Applications,
2010; reviewer for NIH Biomedical
Imaging Technology (BMIT) Study Section
Optics East, Boston, Mass., 2006.
■ El-Araby, E., Ph.D., panelist and reviewer
for submissions of research proposals to
Computer Systems Research (CSR) program,
Division of Computer and Network
Systems (CNS), Directorate for Computer
and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE), National Science Foundation (NSF),
April 2011; program committee member of
the IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE-
TC), the embedded hardware design in the
Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems
(Elsevier-MICPRO), the Journal of Parallel
Computing Systems and Applications
(Elsevier-PARCO), the workshop on Multiprocessor
Systems on (Programmable)
Chips (MPSoC 2011), July 2011, and the VII
Southern Programmable Logic Conference
(SPL 2011), April 2011.
■ Frenkel, V., Ph.D., member of the technical
program committee of the 33rd Annual International
Conference of the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC
’11), Boston, 2011, and member of the
technical program committee of the 10th
International Symposium on Therapeutic
Ultrasound, New York, N.Y., April 2011;
grant reviewer for the The Royal Society,
Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation,
Israeli Science Foundation, Israel, Elise-
Richter-Programme Austrian Science Fund,
and The U.S.–Israel Bi-national Agricultural
Research and Development Fund.
■ Judge, J., Ph.D., co-organized a symposium
on Dynamics of MEMS/NEMS at the 2011
IDETC Conference in Montreal, Canada,
August 2011.
■ Kilic, O., Ph.D., chair of the United States
National Committee (USNC) Commission
A: Electromagnetic Metrology for the International
Union of Radio Science (URSI), and
full member of URSI Commission B: Fields
and Waves; elected to the Board of Directors
of the International Applied Computational
Electromagnetics Society (ACES) 2009–2012
and as an Administrative Committee (AdCom)
member for the Antennas and Propagation
Society of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007–2010;
chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee
of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Society, the 2011 IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Society Design Contest, and the
Membership Committee of the Applied
Computational Electromagnetics Society,
2009–2012; member of the Education
Committee of IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Society and the NSF panel on Geomechanics
II, May 25, 2010.
■ Lade, P.V., Ph.D., service on seven editorial
boards for international journals: editor in
chief (for the Americas), Geomechanics and
Engineering, An International Journal, published
by Techno-Press, Korea, 2009–present;
member, editorial boards of Engineering Geology,
published by Elsevier — Chemistry,
Earth and Environmental Sciences Department,
2007–present, International Journal of
Geomechanics, published by CRC Press LLC,

2001–2002, by ASCE’s G-I Institute, 2003–
present; Geotechnical Testing Journal, published
by ASTM, 1988–present, Computers
and Geotechnics, published by Elsevier Applied
Science Publishers, Ltd., London, England,
1984–present; member, International
Editorial Committee, Soils and Foundations,
published by the Japanese Geotechnical Society,
1998–present; member, Editorial Advisory
Board, International Journal of Numerical and
Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, published
by Wiley, 1984–present; reviewed 45
manuscripts submitted to the above journals
as well as to Journal of Geotechnical and
Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE; Journal
of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE; International
Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE; Geotechnique,
ICE; Geotechnical Engineering, ICE;
Soils and Foundations, Japan; International
Journal of Solids and Structures; European
Journal of Mechanics—A/Solids.
■ Lucko, G., Ph.D., specialty editor for the
Journal of Construction Engineering and
Project Management, Korea Institute of Construction
Engineering and Management,
2011, and (project planning and design) for
the Journal of Construction Engineering and
Management, 2010–2011; reviewer for
Computer Graphics Forum, Papers in Regional
Science, Canadian Society for Civil
Engineering, Journal of Management in
Engineering, Construction Management
and Economics, Journal of Computing in
Civil Engineering, Automation in Construction,
Journal of Construction Engineering
and Management, 2010–2011; session
chair, Expanding Modeling and Analytical
Capabilities for Construction Projects, for
the Winter Simulation Conference, Baltimore,
Md., 2010; lead mentor for the ACE
Mentor Program of Greater Washington at
Alexander Graham Bell Multicultural Senior
High School in Columbia Heights, Washington,
D.C., 2010–2011.
■ Lum P.S., Ph.D., served on the NIH study
section National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development Study Section: Function,
Integration and Rehabilitation Sciences
Program, Washington, D.C., June 2010, Oct.
2011, March 2011; holder of U.S. provisional
patent application — Inventors Peter
Lum and Elizabeth Brokaw, “HAND SPRING
ACTUATED MOVEMENT ENHANCER”; Application
No. 61/349,305 ; filed May 2010.
■ Massoudieh A., Ph.D., reviewer for Journal
of Hydrology; Environmental Modeling &
Software; Environmental Science & Technology;
ASCE Journal of Water Resources
Management and Planning; Transport in
Porous Media (TIPM).
■ Mathews, S., Ph.D., organized students to
design and install a 1.4 kWatt, 2-axis tracking,
solar array and associated electronics
at the Franciscan Monastery; executive
committee chair for the 13th International
Congress on Laser Precision Microfabrication,
to be held at CUA in June 2012; adviser
to first group of students to graduate
from the Alternative Energy Program.
■ Mavroeidis, G.P., Ph.D., reviewer for Journal
of Structural Engineering—ASCE, Earthquake
Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Engineering
Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake
Engineering, Advances in Structural
Engineering, and Earthquakes and Structures;
review panel member for the National Science
Foundation, Arlington, Va.; member of
the ASCE Seismic Effects Committee.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., dean, visited the University
of Macau (UM), Macau, China on
April 1, 2011, and signed a memorandum of
understanding (MOU) with the Faculty of
Science and Technology of UM.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., met the officials of the
Faculty of Engineering of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China on
April 4, 2011; discussed with the acting
dean of the above faculty about the renewal
of the student exchange program between
CUA and PolyU.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., together with a delegation
from the School of Engineering visited
several universities in India from April 5 to
April 11, 2011, to explore research and educational
opportunities; the visited universities
included University of Burdwan in Burdwan,
The University of Calcutta in Calcutta, Christ
University in Bangalore, and the Ansal Institute
of Technology (AIT) in New Delhi; signed
several MOUs with the above institutions; and
the delegation also visited InfoSys, one of
major IT companies in the world, in Bangalore
on April 2011.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., together with a delegation
from the School of Engineering traveled
to Mexico and visited several Mexican
Catholic universities from May 24 to May 27,
2011, to explore educational opportunities.
The universities the delegation visited were
Universidad Popular del Estado de Puebla
(UPAEP), Universidad Anáhuac México Norte,
and Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). MOUs
were signed with these universities.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., served as the Honorary
Co-Chair of 20th Anniversary Gala of the Viet-
cuaengineer
namese Culture and Science Association
(VCSA), Houston, Texas, October 2010.
■ Pan, T., Ph.D., member, Transportation Research
Board Committee, 2010, Committee
AHD40: Polymer Concretes, Adhesives, and
Sealers, Committee AFN20: Properties of
Concrete, Committee AHD45: Corrosion,
Committee AFP60: Engineering Properties
of Unsaturated Soils, American Society of Civil
Engineers Geo-Institute Pavements Committee.
■ Plaku, E., Ph.D., associate editor of the
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, 2011; member of
the steering committee of IEEE RAS Technical
Committee on Algorithms for Planning
and Control of Robot Motion 2010 and 2011
and the program committee of Robotics:
Science and Systems, 2010 and 2011.
■ Sun, L., Ph.D., reviewer of Advances in Civil
Engineering Journal; Automation in Construction;
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure
Engineering; Computers and
Structures, Construction & Building Material;
International Journal of Numerical and Analytical
Methods in Geomechanics; Journal of
the Transportation Research Board; Journal
of Transportation Engineering, ASCE; hosted
two program directors from the National Science
Foundation, during which a presentation
was made to highlight the activities and
sponsored research by these two programs
in recent decades, the 14th Annual Landmine
& Buried Explosive Object Detection
Research Review Meeting, Feb. 2–3, 2011,
and Washington, D.C., chapter meeting for
the Acoustical Society of America, Feb. 28,
2011; session chair, Engineering Acoustics,
161th meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Seattle, Wash., May 23–27, 2011.
■ Tran, B.Q., Ph.D., reviewer of the IEEE T
ransactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine and Computer Methods and
Programs in Biomedicine; interviewed for
and highlighted in the book 90 Days to
Success in Grant Writing by T. Kachinske
and J. Kachinske; served on grant review
panel on the National Institutes of Health’s
Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 AARRH 52,
2010; chaired the 2011 3rd Annual Engineering
Senior Design Day at The Catholic
University of America; member of the International
Program Committee for the 6th
IASTED International Conference on Biomechanics
to be held Nov. 7–9, 2011, in Pittsburgh,
Pa.; initiated with B. Dutta (physics) a
new master’s degree program in materials
science and engineering.
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■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., Ph.D., and Tran, B.Q.,
Ph.D., co-directors of the Sloan Foundation
Minority Doctoral Program at CUA.
■ Wilson, Jr., O.C., Ph.D., Bone Inspiration in
Research and Education, [Invited Lecture]
Clemson University, Department of Biomedical
Engineering, Clemson, S.C., March 4, 2010.
■ Yang, Y., Ph.D., program committee member
of the CollaborateCom 2010, PETSE 2011,
and CollaborateCom 2011; received a WISE
Fellowship for the WISE 2011: Women’s Institute
in Summer Enrichment program at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pa., July 16–19, 2011.
Awards and Honors
■ Choi J., Ph.D., Burns Fellowship, School of
Engineering, Catholic University, 2010.
■ Lucko, G., Ph.D., CUA International Scholar
of the Month, Center for Global Education,
The Catholic University of America, September
2010; Burns Junior Faculty Fellowship,
School of Engineering, Catholic University
of America, May 2010.
■ Lum, P.S., Ph.D., Charles H. Kaman Award
for Research Excellence, Catholic University
School of Engineering, 2010.
■ Mathews, S.A., Ph.D., Provost Award for
Advancement in Teaching, The Catholic
University of America, 2010.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., Keynote speech, “The
Impact of Globalized Education on College
Students” at the awards banquet of the District
of Columbia Council of Engineering and
Architectural Societies, February 26, 2011.
■ Nguyen, C.C., D.Sc., Excellent Contribution
Recognition Award from the Vietnam Culture
and Science Association at its 20th Anniversary
Gala, Houston, Texas, on Oct. 9, 2010.
■ Plaku, E., Ph.D., Burns Faculty Fellowship
Award, School of Engineering, Catholic University,
2011.
■ Ramella-Roman J.C., Ph.D., Kaman Award
for Excellence in Research, 2011.
■ Regalia, P.A., Ph.D., Meritorious Service
Award, European Association for Signal
Processing (EURASIP), August 2010.
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Student Activities and
Awards 2010–2011
Twelve students became founding members of
the newly created Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers CUA student chapter (Adviser: Abot).
Rachel L. Berry, civil engineering, Associated
Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington
Chapter Scholarship Fund, spring 2011.
Biomedical Engineering 2011–2012
Nagel Scholars
Seniors: L. Bui, K. Fabyan, J. McAnaney, B.
Nguyen, M. Vogel; Juniors: D. Coaplin, N.
Ghassemian, A. McClung, C. Warner;
Sophomores: C. Capozella, K. Lafferty
Nicholas Colameco, civil engineering, 2011
ASCE/NCS Scholarship Award.
Lawrence A. Comiskey IV, civil engineering,
American Society of Civil Engineers National
Capital Chapter Scholarship, spring 2010;
Associated Builders and Contractors Metropolitan
Washington Chapter Scholarship Fund, spring
2010; American Concrete Institute National
Capital Chapter Annual Student Award of Excellence,
spring 2011; 2011 ACI/NCC Student Award.
Timothy Cork, civil engineering, 2011 ASCE/NCS
Scholarship Award.
Anne Fromm, Michael Staggenborg, Angela
DeMarco, and Kimberly Fabyan, biomedical
engineering, participated in the national 2011
NISH AbilityOne Design Competition.
Philip Goolkasian, civil engineering, 2011
ASCE/NCS Scholarship Award.
Jenna Graham, biomedical engineering, a national
2010–2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar; 2011 Benjamin
T. Rome Award from the School of Engineering;
2011 H.T. Atabek Award from the biomedical
engineering department for academic excellence.
Andrew Hoffmaster and Andrew Gravunder,
biomedical engineering, received 1st place in
the District of Columbia’s Council on Engineering
and Architecture Society (DCCEAS) Student
Paper Competition for their project, “Bilateral
Exoskeleton Stroke Therapy System (B.E.S.T.)
Device. Project” (adviser: Lee). This device was
submitted for the BME-Idea National Student
Design Competition in spring 2011.
Philip Q. Huynh, civil engineering, Francis M.
Keville Memorial National Scholarship (Construction
Management Association of America), spring
2010; Construction Management Association of
America National Capital Chapter (also nominated
for national level scholarship), spring 2010.
Margaret Keller, civil engineering, Dennis F.
McCahill Award.
Christian T. Ottens, civil engineering, Associated
Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington
Chapter Scholarship Fund, spring 2010.
Nicholas E. Perrotta, civil engineering, American
Society of Civil Engineers National Capital Chapter
Scholarship, spring 2010.
Christopher F. Reymann, civil engineering,
American Society of Civil Engineers National
Capital Chapter Scholarship, spring 2010; 2011
ASCE/NCS Outstanding Senior Award; Timothy W.
Kao Award.
Justin Rice, biomedical engineering, 2011
Monsignor Robert Paul Mohan Student Award.
Brenda E. Tedrick, civil engineering, Associated
Builders and Contractors Metropolitan Washington
Chapter Scholarship Fund, spring 2011
Richard C. Thompson Jr., doctoral student in
civil engineering, Construction Management
Association of America National Capital Chapter,
spring 2010; Hennessy Distinguished Scholarship
for Graduate Students in Engineering, Spring
2010; Association for the Advancement of Cost
Engineering International, fall 2010; ASCE ExCEEd
Teaching Workshop Stipend, spring 2011.
Rachel A. Vizzi, biomedical engineering, 2011
Dean’s Service Award from the School of Engineering;
2011 BMES Service Award, Department
of Biomedical Engineering.

Anwar H. Alharbi
American Electric Power
Lt. Col. Thomas J. Anessi, USAF (Ret.) ’56
and Claudia J. Anessi
Diego Antezana ’10
John Roger Axe, Ph.D.,’72 and Jacqueline P. Axe
Abdoulaye Bah ’68
Cornelius E. Bailey ’75
Richard L. Balluff ’58
Theodore B. Banning and Ann F. Banning ’87
Thomas G. Bautz* and Lisa A. Bautz
Stanley John Bazydola ’56
Bechtel Foundation
Nicholas W. Berg ’09
James Anthony Bonomo ’81 and Mary Jean Bonomo ’80
Rupert J. Brady ’53 and Maureen M. Brady
Thomas and Gloria Brady
Robert and Mary Breslin
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Carmel and Rita Bugeja
John E. Burns ’85 and Marcie Burns
Matthew J. Burns+ ’80 and Teresa E. Burns
Richard S. Burns ’59
and Margaret Devany-Burns
Ronald Burrell
Glenn N. Byrd ’90 and Laura J. Byrd ’86
Kevin Donald Casey ’95
and Constance Campanella
Michael P. Cannon ’84
Michael A. Cardinale ’93
Joseph L. Carlini ’84 and Christine M. Carlini ’86
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Chaplin Jr. ’55, ’64
Young il Choo ’67, ’70
Francis S. and Donna Chudy
Kestutis Civinskas and Ingrid Civinskas
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Joseph C. Collica ’69 and Leslie A. Collica
John and Debra Connaire
John P. Cookson ’68, ’71 and Donna M. Cookson ’70
Richard Steven Corley ’97
David L. Danner, Ph.D., ’82
Lam H. Dao ’10
Lisa M. Davie ’82, ’90
Pierre P. Demers ’61 and Roberta J. Demers
James and Cheryl Dever
David A. Didion, D.Engr., ’59, ’62, ’72
and Helen A. Didion
Charles E. Donly ’93 and Caryn L. Donly
Louis R. Dragonette ’78
Trevor A. D’Souza+ ’87 and Maureen Devine D’Souza,
Esquire, ’87, ’95
Joseph D. Duffin, PE, ’49 and Cornelia R. Duffin
Robert C. Eisele, Ph.D., ’70
ExxonMobil Foundation
James R. Faillace ’50 and
Michael A. Fantini ’86
Frederick R. Favo ’55 and Anne Finnegan Favo ’57
Russell L. Ferraro Jr. ’89
John Paul Fiala ’71 and Susan W. Fiala
Edward A. Frankle ’68, ’71
Ronald A. and Nancy Fronduti
President Paul G. Gaffney II, USN ’70, ’03
Col. Efren V. M. Garcia, USAF ’84
and Carmen T. Garcia ’84
William L. Gates ’53
General Electric Foundation
Donald R. Geoffrion ’58 and Rita Geoffrion
Jeanine M. Gibbons ’87
William Harry Gordon, Ph.D., ’76, ’82
Paul J. Guentert and Laura Catherine Guentert
Paul J. Guercio
Robert and Pamela Gunderson
Stanley M. Halperson ’56, ’67
Leonard S. Hecht ’69
Jean S. Heisman, O.D.
John Ryan Heisse II, Esquire,+ ’76 and Karin Scholz
Geoffrey Marc Hendrick, USN, ’98
Louis Ting Ho ’53, ’62, ’72 and Claudine L. Ho
John B. Holden Jr. ’57 and Nancy B. Holden
Maria C. Horos ’04
David L. Hubbard and Vicki L. Hubbard
Norman Idelson and Janet Idelson
Charles J. Jahne, PE, ’52
Megan A. Jamiolkowski ’10
Robert A. Kavetsky+ ’75, ’78, ’80
and Carolyn Kavetsky ’74
Warren E. Keene, Ph.D., ’66, ’87
Robert P. Kelley ’51
William Richard Koch ’96 and Karen J. Koch
Stephen F. Kollar ’65 and Lynne O’Callaghan Kollar ’65
Olukayode and Florence Komolafe
Joseph M. Krafft ’43 and Alice S. Krafft
Thomas Michael Krall ’49
Arthur O. Kresse ’50
David W. Lacey ’71
Jose R. Latimer, Ph.D. ’04
Joseph and Sharon Lattisaw
Steven and Maryanne Lauriello
Thomas E. Laux+ ’77, ’79 and Joyce M. Laux
Irvin A. Lavine, Esquire ’47
Wah Hing Lee ’73
Ulrich H. Lohrmann ’87, ’89
and Mary E. Ducey-Lohrmann ’88
Philip A. Loreti ’51
Richard M. Lydic Jr., ’09 and Laura L. Lydic
Littleton C. MacDorman ’67
Donald P. Marcopulos ’59
Robert E. Matthews ’50
John E. May ’66
Daniel and Joanna McCoy
Raymond L. McCue Jr. ’50
Michael F. McGrath ’70, ’72 and Sarah S. McGrath ’73
John P. McGuire Jr. ’89
Elizabeth L. McKane ’92
Mark Meister ’82, ’83
and Carla Krivak Meister, Esquire, ’82, ’89
James and Marilyn Monahan
Arturo and Esperanza Monterrubio
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2010-2011 Honor Roll of Donors
The School of Engineering gratefully acknowledges the following alumni and friends for their generosity. This list includes donors who made gifts between
May 1, 2010, and April 30, 2011. We have strived to recognize everyone correctly. If you find an error or omission, please contact the Office of University
Development at 202-319-6910.
David P. Morgan ’83 and Christine Morgan
James F. Morgan and Elaine B. Morgan
Christopher Mucha ’69
Mulville Consulting Services
Richard F. Murray III ’58 and Patricia C. Murray
Francis and Barbara Noonan
Edward J. Nowel ’93, ’95
Nawara T. Omary ’90, ’94
Kevin F. O’Neill ’94
Sheila C. Palmer ’90
Robert and Kathleen Pappas
Geoffrey A. Pascoe ’84
Mark A. Peacock+ ’83 and Irene Peacock
Gary E. Pergolini ’85
Victor P. Petrolati ’72
David L. Pettit ’65, ’68
Lawrence R. Radanovic, Esquire, ’59, ’63
Dean A. Rakoskie ’72
Francisco J. Rentas ’01 and Carol A. Rentas
William L. Rivellini ’83, ’86
John P. Roberts ’62, ’65
and Carol Ann Roberts, Ph.D., ’63, ’66, ’70
Giovanni Rosanova, Jr., ’96, ’97
Stephen and Nancy Roscher
Rick S. Russell ’01
Nabil S. Saad, Ph.D., ’72, ’74
Serafin Y. Samson ’85
and Antoinette B. Baraga-Samson
John Brendan Sarsfield ’55
Erik M. Saulkalns ’09 and Ann C. Saulkalns
Louis John Scalfari ’80
and Patricia Ann Scalfari, RN, M.S.N., API ’80, ’04
Ben F. Senger ’06
Franklin M. Shannahan ’50
and Mary F. Shannahan ’50
Vincent N. Sica+ ’83
Russell A. Smith, Ph.D., ’64, ’69
Steven J. Smith, Ph.D.,+ ’90, ’92
Dale Anthony Sowell ’96
Lawrence J. Sullivan ’75
J. Michael Suraci ’62
James L. Swiger III ’05, ’07
Megan M. Syrnick ’02
James N. Talley ’61
Thomas and Denise Taltavull
David and Barbara Urcinas
Luis A. Valencia ’75
George E. Veen ’52
Sudha Vyas ’95
Barbara C. Wagner+ ’80
Stephen G. Walker, Esquire, ’67
Kate Tremper Walser ’96
Brendan M. Walsh, USMC ’02
Bryan P. Walsh ’97
Anita Wellen ’80
Addison Yeaman
David Nicholas Zmijewski ’91, ’94
+Member of the Executive Development Board, School of Engineering •*Deceased

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
School of Engineering
Washington, DC 20064
School of
Engineering
Charles C. Nguyen, Dean
202-319-5160
Jeffrey Giangiuli, Director
Engineering
Management Program
202-319-5191
Binh Q. Tran, Chair
Department of
Biomedical Engineering
202-319-5181
Lu Sun, Chair
Department of
Civil Engineering
202-319-5163
Philip Regalia, Chair
Department of
Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
202-319-5193
Sen Nieh, Chair
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
202-319-5170
Biprodas Dutta, Director
Materials Science and
Engineering Program
202-319-5535
Celebrating 125 Years
CUA Engineering: Cutting-edge Research Driving Superb Education
Master of Biomedical Engineering
Al-Mifgai, Bandar
Master of Electrical Engineering
Aghera, Sameer
DiLazaro, Thomas
Gabonia, Joshua
Gershone, Joshua
Lim, Angeline
Sharps, Jeffrey
Master of Mechanical Engineering
Gugino, Peter
Johnston, Nicholas
Master of Science
Abanmi, Abdulmohsen
Agubuzo, Obinna
Alharbi, Anwar
Alhassoun, Turki
Al-Mifgai, Bandar
Alqarni, Mohammad
Al-Robayan, Majed
Alsharif, Qutaibah
Alsomali, Ahmed
Altoaibi, Satei
Al-Zahiry, Amr
Assaf, Abdulaziz
Bowen, Katherine
Caruso, Vincent
Cochrane, Joseph
Dardoum, Wahaj
DeCristofaro, James
Giuliani, Thomas
Glean, Aldo
Congratulations to the Class of 2011!
Gravina, Jonathan
Hess, Sean
Hoang, Thang
Huynh, Phiilip
Kattan, Nojoud
Kreidie, Ahmed
Le, Du
Lising, Allan
Mayer, Timothy
Monterrubio, Omar
Nguyen, Dung
Nguyen, Quang
Piechocki, Andrew
Rizq, Badr
Rossi, Lawrence
Schultz, Nicholas
Smith, Andrew
Valerio, Matthew
Voigt, Martine
Wallis, Abigail
Zinsli, Peter
Master of Science In Computer
Science
Smith IV, Walter
Master of Science In Engineering
Rodricks, Kevin
Bachelor of Biomedical
Engineering
Graham, Jenna
Gravunder, Andrew
Hoffmaster, Andrew
Idelson, Christopher
McCoy, Rachel
Muirhead, Heather
Murphy, Daniel
Murphy, Patrick
Noonan, Patrick
Rice, Justin
Somerville, Matthew
Vizzi, Rachael
Bachelor of Civil Engineering and
Bachelor of Science In Architecture
Torrez, Theodoro
Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Carper, Bradley
Comiskey, Lawrence
Fronduti, David
Joyce, Daniel
Keller, Margaret
Ligon, Joseph
Mattson, Daniel
McNicholas, Christopher
Miehm, Connor
Ottens, Christian
Perrotta, Nicholas
Petrongolo, Amedeo
Ramphal, Latasha
Reymann, Christopher
Saric, Suzana
Taltavull, Caroline
Uscilla, Victor
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Abotaleb, Mohammad
Corrigan, Timothy
Ph.D. Dissertations and Advisers
Davis, Adrian
Garbark, Richard
Luu, Long
Mahaney Jr., Michael
Nguyen, Dung
Pellegrinelli, Christopher
Redmond, David
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
Arize, Chukwuebuka
Chudy, David
Connaire, John
Cooke, Sean
Doane, Nathan
Foerschl, Steven
Joyce, Brian
Kimmel, James
Lauriello, Michael
Lestorti, Louis
Lino, Mariano
Marousek, Brandon
Murphy, Steven
Ngaya, Therese-Ann
Reynolds, Kristopher
Urcinas, Andrew
Bachelor of Science In Computer
Science
Cantilena, Timothy
Jurgens, Peter
Arizzi, Rocco, Dissertation: Artificial Underwater Electrolocation, Mark Mirotznik, Ph.D. (adviser)
Condiff, Lesley, Dissertation: Architecture and Protocol for Optical Packet Switching, Mohammed Arozullah, Ph.D. (adviser)
DuBois, Terry, Dissertation: Oxygen-Enriched Fuel Reforming of Heavy Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels for Fuel Cells, Sen Nieh, Ph.D. (adviser)
Lee, Michael, Dissertation: Numerical Simulation on Nonlinear Solitary Wave Interactions with Submarine Topographic Obstacles, Frank Pao, Ph.D. (adviser)
Trang, Anh, Dissertation: A New Framework for Airborne Minefield Detection Using Markow Marked Point Processes, Philip Regalia, Ph.D. (adviser)
Wang, Jing, Dissertation: Wireless Sensor Network Localization with Distance Measurement Information, Philip Regalia, Ph.D. (adviser)