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Spring 2003

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contentsVirginia Engineering

Spring 2003, Volume 15, No. 2

features

Mouse MRI Aids in Understanding of the Human Heart / 8Biomedical engineers apply new technologies to the study andtreatment of cardiovascular disease.

Garrick Louis: Looking After Stakeholders / 10Systems and information engineering professor’s callingimproves lives around the world.

departments

Faculty Notes / 2

Dean’s Message / 3

School Notes / 5

Class Notes / 13

In Memoriam / 15

End Note / 16

Director of Communications & EditorJosephine Pipkin

Copy EditorPeggy Mucklo

ContributorsCharlotte Crystal

Tom Gibson

DesignHelleberg+Roseberry

PhotographyJim CarpenterDaniel Grogan

Front cover photo by Daniel Grogan.Systems and information engineeringprofessor Garrick E. Louis

Biomedical Engineering

J. Milton Adams was awarded theKenneth Knight Award for Out-standing Research Manuscript inthe “Journal of Athletic Training.”

Brent A. French was named afellow of the American HeartAssociation and of the AmericanHeart Association Council on BasicCardiovascular Sciences.

John A. Hossackreceived a grantfrom the MellonProstate CancerResearchInstitute to

investigate improved methods fordetecting prostate cancer.

Jack Knight-Scott was chair of theAsilomar Signal ProcessingConference.

Michael B. Lawrence chaired a ses-sion on cell and tissue engineeringat the national BMES meeting.

Jen-shih Lee organized a U.S.delegation to the First WorldCongress for Chinese BiomedicalEngineering, with the aim ofhelping to build the discipline inChina.

William F. Walker chaired theMedical Ultrasound Symposium ofthe 2002 SPIE Medical Imagingmeeting.

Chemical Engineering

Robert Davis is the president-electof the Southeastern CatalysisSociety.

John L. Hudson’s group reportedthe first experimental confirma-tion of predictions from theories ofsynchronization by coupled peri-odic oscillators in “Science”magazine.

Civil Engineering

Susan E. Burns was selected as arepresentative to the l5thInternational Conference on SoilMechanics and GeotechnicalEngineering in Istanbul, Turkey.She was elected a board memberof the United States UniversitiesCouncil on GeotechnicalEngineering Research.

Teresa B. Culverreceived the 2002Walter L. HuberResearch Prizefrom the Ameri-can Society ofCivil Engineers.

Nicholas J. Garber was appointedto serve as a member of the over-sight panel of the TransportationResearch Board/NationalResearch Council CommercialTruck and Bus Synthesis program.He received the ASCE Virginia Sec-tion, National 150th and VirginiaSection 80th CommemorativeAward, for efforts as chairman ofthe Civil Engineering Department.

Lester A. Hoel received the WilburS. Smith Distinguished Transporta-tion Educator Award from theInstitute of TransportationEngineers.

Cornelius O. Horgan presented aninvited lecture at the 39th annualmeeting of the Society of Engineer-ing Science held at Penn StateUniversity in October.

Roseanna M. Neupauer receivedan 80th anniversary commenda-tion as student chapter advisorfrom the Virginia section of theAmerican Society of CivilEngineers.

Marek-Jerzy Pindera was invited tospeak at the International Sympo-sium on Plasticity held in Aruba,Netherlands, in January 2002.

Computer Science

John C. Knight is on the ScienceCouncil of the Institute forComputer Applications in Scienceand Engineering (ICASE).

Kevin Skadron and Mircea R. Stangave a tutorial on thermal model-ing and management with DavidBrooks from Harvard at theIEEE/ACM International Sympo-sium on Microarchitecture in Istan-bul in November.

Alfred C.Weaver wasawarded theLucian Carr IIIProfessorshipfor excellence inteaching and

was selected as a 2003 Teachingand Technology Fellow. His TTIfellowship will involve implement-ing a “virtual laboratory” for a classon electronic commerce.

Electrical and ComputerEngineering

Ted C. Giras is leading a projecton safe rail systems. His researchsponsors include the Federal Rail-road Administration, LockheedMartin, New York City Transit andMaglev Inc., representing over $6million in external funding.

John C. Lach(shown) andJames H. Aylorhave started anEngineeringSchool/ U.Va.research

program on technology for agedindependence and are workingwith faculty from the School ofMedicine to create a program/institute on aging that spans theUniversity.

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Materials Science andEngineering

John J. Dorning received theGlenn T. Seaborg Medal of theAmerican Nuclear Society. .

The second edition of James M.Howe’s “Transmission ElectronMicroscopy and Diffractometry ofMaterials” was published inSeptember.

Robert Hull received the W. WhiteOutstanding Service Award fromthe Materials Research Society. Hewas appointed to the DefenseScience Research Council and theInternational Review Panel forMaterials Research, UnitedKingdom. He was named a fellowof the American Physical Societyand was elected a member of theEuropean Academy of Sciences.

John R. Scullywon the T.P.Hoar award forbest paper inthe journal“CorrosionScience” with

Dave Kolman, PhD (’96).

Gary J. Shiflet was elected a fellowof the Japan Society for Promotionof Science.

Edgar A. Starke Jr. was elected afellow of the Materials Society ofAIME. His portrait was hung in theRodman Room to commemoratehis years as dean of theEngineering School.

Leonid V. Zhigilei received theAmerican Society for MassSpectrometry Research Award forthe Year 2002.

Mechanical andAerospace Engineering

Cambridge University Press willpublish Ronald D. Flack’s book“Jet Propulsion.” He was organizer

See FACULTY NOTES, page 4

dean’s messageNO MATTER THE SPECIFIC FIELD, ENGINEERING INVOLVESthe application of the advances of science for the benefit of mankind.

This issue of Virginia Engineering provides highlights of facultyresearch that contributes directly to the well-being of theworld through cutting-edge research in computer technolo-gy, traffic safety, air- and water-quality monitoring andpurification, crime and security monitoring, and health.

In the area of air and water quality, we have many facul-ty at work, including Garrick Louis (SIE), who works todevelop affordable sanitation infrastructures for developingcountries. Visiting researcher Robert Marquez (CE), uses thenatural qualities of clay to solve environmental problemscaused by kiln emissions and improper disposal of medicalwaste materials. Rosanne Ford (ChE) works in the bioreme-diation field, using chemical engineering principles to clean theground. Pamela Norris (MAE) works on the use of aerogels as sensorsto determine biohazards in the air. Also, Gaby Laufer (MAE) works onthe same problem through the use of laser technology.

Engineers are, of course, the leaders in transportation safety researchand design. Among the many working on these issues is Walter Pilkey(MAE), who works in the Automobile Safety Lab to design crash-test dum-mies that can be used to accurately test the effectiveness of car safetydesign. Robert Kelly (MSE) works on designs that monitor structuralintegrity of roads and bridges. And Brian Smith (CE) and his students inhis Smart Travel Lab work on monitoring and data-management systemsthat support our state and national transportation infrastructure. TedGiras (ECE) works on railroad safety standards; and Barry Johnson (ECE)is designing the Maglev train of tomorrow: magnetic levitation trains thatrely heavily on controls to keep them suspended above their tracks.

In the areas of crime tracking and security, we have many leadersamong our faculty. Anita Jones (CS) works on Internet security and isoften called upon to testify to congressional committees. Don Brown(SIE) develops computer-based and Web-based crime-analysis tools forlaw enforcement agencies at the state and national levels. Others amongus work on security issues pertaining directly to computers, such as JohnKnight and Kevin Sullivan (CS), who work on the development of reli-able and fault-tolerant software, and Alfred Weaver (CS), who is on theleading edge of development on the use of the Internet for commerce.

One of the main stories in this issue of the magazine features workon cardiovascular research taking place in our biomedical engineeringdepartment. Working with School of Medicine faculty, many of ourBME faculty are involved with research that promises to profoundlychange the way medicine is practiced in our country. Another projectin the health area is the work Jim Aylor (ECE) and John Lach (ECE)are doing on a device to assess and measure treatment protocols andloss of faculties in the aged population.

You’ll read about much of this research on the pages of this mag-azine. Other research can be explored through a visit to our Web siteand to departmental sites. I thank you for your continued involvementin our school. You have every reason to be proud of being part of suchnoble and exciting enterprises.

—DEAN RICHARD MIKSAD

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and chair for the IFToMM RotorDynamics Conference in Sydney,Australia, and the ISROMAC9Thermal Fluids Conference inHonolulu, Hawaii, in 2002.

George T. Gillies is one of the co-founders of Stereotaxis Inc., aU.Va. spinoff company, which wasrecently granted FDA marketingapproval for the first magneticallyguided surgical system.

Tetsuya Iwasakiwas awarded the2002 PioneerPrize from theSociety ofInstrument andControl

Engineers for his contributions on initiating and developing LMIparadigm for feedback control.NSF awarded him research fund-ing for his project on “DynamicInteraction Between BiologicalOscillator and MechanicalRectifier.” He was elevated tosenior member of IEEE.

Donald A. Jordan Jr. was namedMechanical Engineering Teacherof the Year. He received a HarvieFund Award from the U.Va.Cardiovascular Research Center forhis work on “Development ofAdvanced Computational Tools forMeasurement and Characterizationof Electrophysiological Organiza-tion in Atrial Fibrillation.”

Gabriel Laufer has receivedapproval from NASA andLitton/PRC for the second launchof the Orion rocket. The newpayload will include a sensor formeasuring methane distribution inthe stratosphere and a secondsensor for measuring chlorophyll inthe Metompkin Bay near WallopsIsland as a measure of pollutionrunoff. His company, Avir, hasreceived the CIT Challenge Awardand an SBIR Phase I Award for thedevelopment of passive remotesensors of chemical weapon agents.

Pamela M. Norris was invited to bea visiting scientist at the Universitéde Cergy Pontoise to measureacoustic propagation in sol-gelmaterials. With J. Landers (Chem-istry) she received an Ivy Founda-tion grant for research on“Production of ChromatographicMicrochips Using Sol-gel-DerivedChromatographic Media.” She andBouvard Hosticka were awarded aU.S. patent for “Smart Aerogel,” abioaerosol receptor-doped aerogelfor use in selectively capturingbioaerosols.

John Wiley Press published WalterD. Pilkey’s book “The Analysis andDesign of Elastic Beams, Computa-tional Methods” in 2002.

Miles A. Townsend was Gastprofes-sor at the Technical University ofVienna, Institute for Machinen-dynamik und Messtechnik in 2002.

Systems and ComputerEngineering

Garrick E. Louis was one of 100scientists and engineers selected forthe National Academy of Engineer-ing’s seventh annual workshop on“Frontiers of Engineering.” He alsowon a University Teaching Fellow-ship for 2002–2003.

Division of Technology,Culture andCommunication

Michael E. Gorman and MatthewMehalik teamed with Larry G.Richards (MAE) to teach an“Invention and Design” class thatproduced four student-initiatedgrant proposals to the NationalCollegiate Innovators and Inven-tors Alliance.

Michael E. Gorman and DeborahG. Johnson direct the WashingtonInternship Program.

faculty notesThe Endowed Faculty FellowsProgram

This program was established to recognize the excep-tional achievements of rising young faculty in theEngineering School.

“The future and vitality of our school is dependenton the successes of our bright young faculty. In manycases, these scholars are leading the creative break-throughs that will define the future directions of theirdisciplines and their careers,” dean Richard W. Mik-sad said of the nine faculty selected as fellows.

Funding for the program comes from existingendowments and from alumni annual fund donationsreceived by the Virginia Engineering Foundation.

Engineering School Faculty Fellows

Scott T. Acton (ECE)Image and video processing, image analysis

Erik J. Fernandez (ChE)Purification of biological molecules, proteinstructures, magnetic resonance imaging

Andrew C. Hillier (ChE)Interfacial engineering, materials chemistry,electrochemistry, scanning probe microscopy

Michael B. Lawrence (BME)Applications of molecular mechanics totargeted drug and gene delivery, effect of bloodflow on inflammation, biosurface engineering

Jorg Liebeherr (CS)Scalable network services, peer-to-peer net-works, multimedia systems

Kathryn A. Neeley (TCC)Cultural history of science and technology,gender studies, and the role of liberaleducation in engineering education

Pamela M. Norris (MAE)Sensors for biological warfare detection, opticalmeasurement techniques, microscale heattransfer

Kevin J. Sullivan (CS)Software engineering, including softwaredesign, assurance and evolution; value-basedand mathematical approaches

Giovanni Zangari (MSE)Electrochemical processing: thin films, micro-and nano-structures, surface modification;electrochemical methods for surfacecharacterization

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school notesUnderstanding the Earth for Self-Healing

Robert Marquez believes that less isoften more than enough when itcomes to solving many of theworld’s environmental problems.

“Often the solution to the prob-lem can be found throughresources that are readily availablein communities. It doesn’t alwayscost a lot of money or demand theuse of complicated technology tomake a difference in the situation.What it takes is the will and theinterest to want to change things,”Marquez says.

A visiting researcher in the CivilEngineering Department, Marquezspecializes in environmental projectsthat impact people whose environ-mental problems seem insurmount-able due to poverty and lack of accessto modern technology.

“My philosophy is to think smalland to do things on the grassrootslevel. If the solution can be scaledup to address bigger needs, that’seven better,” Marquez explains.“And environmental problems tendto be global in nature, so what solvesa problem for a poor village in Mex-ico has implications and benefitsthat go far beyond national bound-aries.”

Marquez uses the natural proper-ties of clay to solve environmentalproblems. He came by thisapproach after participating in aNavajo Blessing Way ceremony con-ducted by his father-in-law. “Inoticed how clear the air was after adust storm and I realized that soilwas the answer,” he says. He applieshis clay-based technology in a vari-ety of projects related to toxic airemissions, water purification andmedical syringe incineration.

One promising project involvesthe use of clay to filter emissions ofbrick-making kilns. Brick-makingusually produces a large quantity ofpollutants and is often an industryof economically limited people.Marquez devised a method of kilndesign that allows the pollutants to

be drawn out of the process safely,then stored and eventually burnedoff.

The process involves using theunfired clay bricks that are pro-duced as a filtering medium for thekiln smoke. The pollutants bind tothe unfired bricks on the way out.The fired bricks are removed fromthe process and replaced with freshunfired bricks. The initial filterbricks (full of soot) are then firedand the process is reversed. Thesoot is combusted to produce car-bon dioxide and water and hence iseliminated as a toxin from the envi-ronment.

The process is accessible, inex-pensive, and has proven to be 90percent to 99 percent effective inpollutant control from the low tech-nology brick kilns.

Marquez’s involvement with theUniversity of Virginia is due in largepart to Dr. Janine Jagger of theSchool of Medicine and director ofthe International Health Care Work-er Safety Center. Her researchinvolves working with geographicmedicine and, in particular, lookingfor technology to deal with safesyringe use and disposal. After hear-ing Marquez interviewed on Nation-al Public Radio, she contacted himregarding other potential applica-tions for the kiln technology. Sheput him in touch with Dr. JamesSmith (CE), who works on tech-nologies for ground-water remedia-tion and kinetic sorption of organicpollutants and pesticides in naturalsoil and clay, and with Dr. RichardGuerrant of the University’s Center

for Global Health, who works tocombat intestinal problems in devel-oping countries.

During his time with the civilengineering department, Marquezis working with Smith and Guerranton a simple, accessible process thatwill use clay and cloth to purifywater. He also is working with Jaggeron a project in Ghana that will usethe kiln technology for safe disposalof syringes. The process uses thesyringes as part of the fuel mix. Theplastic parts burn and help trans-form the stainless steel parts of theneedles in a way that speeds therusting process. What is left cansafely be buried, relieving a growingproblem in landfills.

“My goal is to develop technologyfor people who are in the greatestneed of help,” he explains, “and toprovide them with affordable toolsto help themselves.”

Send Us Your Thoughts

Was there a professor who you thought was special while you were inschool here? Was there a class you took that changed the course ofyour life? Write us at [email protected] to tell us your stories and sendphotos if you have some to share. We’ll feature these stories in anupcoming issue of the magazine.

Visiting Researcher Robert Marquez


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Researchers for the Virginia Depart-ment of Transportation and theUniversity of Virginia received a $1million Federal Highway Adminis-tration grant to develop archival andanalyzing systems for the vastamount of traffic data collected byintelligent traffic technologies onmany of Virginia’s highways. Data iscollected from smart travel centerslocated in Northern Virginia, Hamp-ton Roads, and Richmond and trans-mitted via real-time data and videoto the Smart Travel Lab, where it isarchived. “Funding from the grant

will allow for development and test-ing of the lab’s archiving methodsand its prototype analyzing systems,”said Brian Smith, director of the lab.

“Until recently that data wasdiscarded after its initial use,”explained Dr. Gary Allen, director ofVDOT’s Transportation ResearchCouncil. “Now, however, researcherswill be able to develop new systemsto make this information moreuseful for scientific transportationplanning.” For more information onthe Smart Travel Lab, seehttp://cts.virginia.edu.

Like music, art and literature, spaceexploration is a celebration of thehuman spirit. A part of us rides with

every crew into orbit. We sharetheir triumphs and mourn theirlosses. We must learn from the fail-ures, fix the problems and press on.

Astronauts don’t set out to beheroes. They set out to do the jobthey’ve been trained to do. Thespace shuttle Columbia carriedastronauts bearing Earth’s highestaspirations aloft. People workingunselfishly together for the greatergood. Men and women. Black andwhite. American and Israeli.

KATHRYN C. THORNTON

Assistant dean and former austronaut

Kathryn C. Thornton (TCC) at the 2002Engineering Open House.

Reflections on Space and Science

On February 1, the U.Va. Alumni Club of

Charlottesville raised more than $11,000 for

the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and a new

scholarship to be established in honor of the

Columbia astronauts.

Contributions to the Columbia Memorial

Scholarship Fund, will support an undergradu-

ate student in aerospace engineering at the

University of Virginia.

Grant Will Make ‘Smart’ Traffic Data Smarter

Left to right: Lance Dougald (CE) and Brian Smith.

Martin Radzio’sCapstone Project is aLabor of Love

Radzio, a fourth-year systems andinformation engineering student, isan avid basketball fan who chose toapply a systems approach to studentattendance at basketball games ashis fourth-year Capstone project.

The project actually began whenRadzio was a second-year studentand joined with his friend JohnSteck to form Hooscrew, a student-run organization that governs andorganizes student ticket-buyingcampouts.

Two years later, Radzio decidedto expand the mission of Hooscrewby addressing problems with theentire student admission process.

Thomas Walls, Brandon Rogersand Gregory Joiner are the othermembers of the team on the Cap-stone project. Ellen Bass (SIE) istheir faculty advisor. The projectgoals include improving accuracyfor student-attendance predictions,developing measurement andmonitoring tools for Hooscrew, anddeveloping an online registrationsystem that will allow students to“commit” to games in advance.

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Americans take safe trains for grant-ed and Ted Giras wants to keep itthat way. Giras, director of U.Va.’sCenter of Railroad Safety-CriticalExcellence and a research professorof electrical engineering, is workingwith federal regulators and thenation’s railroad executives tostrengthen industry safety stan-dards.

A few high-profile train accidentsin the mid-1990s led the NationalTransportation Safety Board toencourage the Federal RailroadAdministration to improve trainsafety. So, a few years ago thecountry’s century-old system ofprescriptive safety standards wastransformed into what regulatorshope will be a safer and more effec-tive performance-based system. The

new system is based on safety stan-dards that should encourage thedevelopment of innovative train-control systems.

Giras and his team have securedmore than $8 million in support oftheir work—designing the method-ologies needed for safety assess-ments, as well as creating softwaretoolsets and training programs tosupport the new performance-based standards.

He also is taking his workoverseas. The center has cooperatedwith Germany’s University of Dresden and the Technical Univer-sity of Brunsweigh since 1999. Last summer, Giras traveled toChina to explore opportunities forexchanges and research collabora-tions, such as the establishment of a

rail safety-critical center in China.“Our goal is to create methodolo-

gies, tools and training programsthat can be used not only by the rail-road industry, but also by other vitalindustries, such as power genera-tion and aerospace, in the U.S. andaround the world,” Giras said.

The U.Va. Association for Comput-ing Machinery (ACM) program-ming team was invited to competein ‘the Worlds,’ the final level of theACM programming competitionthis year. The contest will be March

22–26 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Theteam consists of Michael Margolis(CS), Jon McCune (ECE) andMatthew Suhocki (CS). GregHumphreys (CS) is the facultyadvisor.

Working Behind the Scenes for Railroad Safety

Computer Science Students Advance to World Finals

Houston Wood (MAE) (not shown) and Worthy Martin (CS) led a team of students to the USS JohnF. Kennedy in December. Their host was retired Rear Admiral Earl P. Yates, USN, who was the firstskipper of the JFK when it was commissioned in September 1968.

Students Take Tour Led by First Skipper of JFK

Students Win Honors in OutstandingUndergraduate AwardProgram

Computer science and computerengineering students Sean Jellish,Jonathan McCune, Mi Peng andLauren Wye won honorable men-tion in the Computing ResearchAssociation’s Outstanding Under-graduate Award program for 2003.

Student Wins ‘BestPaper’ Award

Systems and Information Engineer-ing graduate student Joos Santosreceived an award for best paperfrom the International Conferenceof the Society for Risk Analysis.


Mouse MRI Aids in Understandingof the Human Heart

MICE LIVE FAST LIVES. THEY GENERALLY ARE

born, grow old and die within two years, their limited

longevity making them ideal for medical research.

“By using mice in experiments, you can speed up

your studies, seeing effects in a month that would take

years to show up in people,” said Stuart Berr, assistant

professor of radiology and biomedical engineering.

Mice serve as good proxies for humans in medical

research since about 99 percent of the approximate-

ly 30,000 genes in humans and mice are essentially

identical. So, genetically engineered mice, in which

individual genes have been either added—as in

“transgenic” mice—or subtracted—as in “knock-out”

mice—have become an important tool for scientists

studying how human genes work.

By studying mice that have survived heart

attacks—or a myriad of other human ailments—

researchers can identify new avenues for treatment of

human disease, said Fred Epstein, associate professor

of radiology and biomedical engineering, who works

with Berr.

According to the American Heart Association, car-

diovascular disease—including high blood pressure,

coronary heart disease, stroke and congestive heart

failure—affects more than 61 million Americans and

is the leading cause of death in the United States,

claiming more than 900,000 lives a year.

So, researchers in the United States and around

the world are seeking new treatments for cardiovas-

cular disease. But the labor is long and paths are

many, some of which lead nowhere. How can

researchers identify the most promising approaches?

That’s where Berr’s expertise comes in. Berr helps

researchers analyze the results of their experiments

by adapting medical imaging tools to make the meas-

urements they need. He helps U.Va. researchers with

by Charlotte Crystal

Back: Brent French, Zequan Yang, Fred Epstein and Wesley Gilson. Front: Stuart Berr.


three different methods of medical imaging that have

been adapted for use with small animals:

■ A magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, system

that has been adapted to show an image of a tiny

mouse heart beating very fast.

■ A system developed by Mark Williams, associate

professor of radiology, that combines high-resolu-

tion, three-dimensional X-ray scans with images of

radioactively labeled compounds that travel to spe-

cific targets (e.g., the lungs, a tumor, etc.).

■ A bioluminescence scanner that allows researchers

to track cells that have been labeled with light-emit-

ting proteins, such as firefly luciferase. The images

of firefly light are superimposed onto regular pho-

tographs to identify the regions of interest.

Since 1999, Brent French, a molecular biologist

and associate professor of biomedical engineering,

has worked closely with Berr to adapt MRI to mouse

research at U.Va. Since then, the cardiac MRI team

has developed several MRI methods for mouse cardiac

research that enable investigators to better understand

what happens during a heart attack and explore ways

to minimize the damage after a heart attack.

Another member of the team, Zequan Yang, assis-

tant professor of research in biomedical engineering,

is using genetically manipulated mice to study the

role of inflammation during heart attacks. “By study-

ing the response to heart attacks in transgenic and

knock-out mice, we can learn what role individual

genes play in this process,” Yang said.

The technical barriers are high. Unlike human

hearts, which beat 60 to 80 times a minute in an aver-

age adult, a mouse heart beats about 500 times a

minute. And at 7 millimeters long—about the size of

Thomas Jefferson’s head on a nickel—a mouse heart

is about 1/1,000th the size of a human heart. So, the

equipment must be sensitive, accurate and fast.

The team is working to acquire and display data so

that particular measurements of a pumping heart can

be made and shown as two-dimensional movies. Berr

developed software to create computer images of

hearts that illustrate the “ejection fraction”: the effi-

ciency of the heart in pumping out blood. Epstein

improved on Berr’s work, creating higher-resolution,

color images that provide additional information: the

direction of movement of various points on the heart

muscle.

One of the questions Berr is exploring with

French and Epstein is the effect that a small heart

attack has on the rest of the heart. Not only does the

heart attack itself kill and damage muscle tissue, but

the gene expression of the muscle changes, causing

further loss of muscle function.

Another researcher, Chris Kramer, associate pro-

fessor of radiology and director of cardiac MRI for

the U.Va. Health System, is working on a related ques-

tion. After a heart attack, the left ventricle, which

pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body,

remodels itself. Kramer is trying to understand how

the heart knows to change its shape.

The MRI technology that Berr has adapted allows

researchers to see differences in hearts after heart

attacks.

“What we’ve seen is that there are three areas of

impact—the immediate area, in which the tissue has

been killed outright; the adjacent area; and the area

remote from the dead muscle tissue,” said Wesley

Gilson, a graduate student studying with Epstein and

French.

Gilson is measuring the impact of a heart attack

on the motion of the nearby heart muscle wall in

genetically manipulated mice.

“Once we understand which genes are involved,”

Epstein said, “we can go on to develop targeted drugs

for use in humans.” e

Mice serve as good proxies for humans in

medical research since about 99 percent of the

approximately 30,000 genes in humans and

mice are essentially identical.

Mid-ventricular short-axis end systolic images from a displacement-encoded imaging data set of a normal mouse.

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Garrick Louis:Looking After Stakeholders

LIKE MOST HIGH SCHOOL KIDS BENT ON

becoming an engineer, Garrick Louis envisioned

himself designing large systems and plants, in his case

for processing chemicals. “I actually knew I wanted

to do chemical engineering since high school

because I was pretty good in chemistry. And I was

interested in designing large-scale things like manu-

facturing plants,” he recalls.

Then a metamorphosis began that gave him a dif-

ferent outlook, one with an environmental and social

focus—and now it has him occupying a unique niche.

Rather than design facilities for corporations to pro-

duce chemicals, the systems and information engi-

neering professor studies the use of environmental

policy to promote sustainable regional economic

development. In focusing on municipal sanitation

infrastructure, including that for water supply, solid

waste and wastewater treatment, Louis collaborates

with stakeholders such as local governments, region-

al industries and affected communities. This involves

working with industrialized countries facing mush-

rooming populations and urban flight, as well as with

developing countries struggling to meet basic needs.

“We need to eliminate the suffering some people

endure from limited facilities for water supply, waste-

water treatment and solid waste,” he states.

Louis hails from Trinidad and Tobago, the two

southernmost islands in the Caribbean, just off the

northeast tip of Venezuela. “I came here to go to

school,” he says in explaining how he got to the Unit-

ed States. First came a bachelor of science degree

from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and

then a master’s from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

in Troy, N.Y., both in chemical engineering.

Things were proceeding on course for a career as

a chemical engineer, but Louis began feeling his path

“was too narrowly focused. I was much more interest-

ed in where the resources came from and what

impact they had on the community,” he explains. “I

remember seeing smokestacks at manufacturing facil-

ities in the Bronx and wondering what was coming

out of them and how it was impacting the people

there. I wondered about the environmental impacts

of the kind of designs I was doing.”

After getting his master’s, Louis took some envi-

ronmental engineering courses at the City Universi-

ty of New York. In one, the professor took the class to

the Freshkills Landfill on Staten Island. “That was a

crystallizing moment for me. I saw the connection

between the goods that were manufactured by the

chemical industry and consumed, and then what hap-

pened after we disposed of them. I decided to pursue

some sort of solid waste management option, with my

main interest in the environmental area,” he recalls.

He went off to Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts-

burgh for a PhD in engineering and public policy.

“I began to realize that solid waste is just one piece

of what I call a three-part system. The other two are

water supply—drinking water—and wastewater and

sewage treatment. When you put those three basic

services together, they’re the basis for any urban set-

tlement you have,” Louis says. He dubbed his new area

of study “integrated municipal sanitation systems.”

Louis applies his work “across the world,” from his

backyard to the Philippines. He recently worked with

the Department of Housing and Community Devel-

opment in Virginia on a project in Nelson County to

connect 46 homes to the county water supply because

their well water was beginning to fail. Another project

has him working on an integrated sanitation systems

project in his native Tobago. “They made a very heavy

investment in tourism there, and the sanitation infra-

structure can’t meet the increased demand,” he

explains. “They don’t have a well-established waste-

water treatment system. That’s resulting in some dele-

terious impacts on the coastal water quality,

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degrading the very resource that makes the island

attractive as a tourist destination.” Also, the solid-

waste management system can’t handle the demand.

“I’m working with agencies there to identify and

quantify their needs and enhance the existing system

to ensure they’ll be able to meet those needs over the

next 10 to 20 years.”

Besides teaching conventional systems engineer-

ing courses, Louis is developing an ambitious two-

semester graduate course, Environmental Systems

Management, to be taught in collaboration with fac-

ulty and students at selected universities in different

countries. As a shared, yearlong environmental proj-

ect, students must solve a local sanitation service

“That was a crystallizing moment for me.

I saw the connection between the goods that

were manufactured by the chemical industry

and consumed, and then what happened

after we disposed of them. I decided to pursue

some sort of solid waste management option

with my main interest in the environmental

area.”—GARRICK LOUIS


problem in one of the participating countries, coor-

dinating much of the work over the Internet.

Another outreach project has Louis building the

Consortium for Integrated Municipal Sanitation Sys-

tems (CIMSS), consisting of sanitation service

providers from water, wastewater and solid waste

industries; regulators and other government agencies

involved in these services; and consumers of the serv-

ices. He’s arranging to bring people from sanitation

services around the world to do internships in the

United States or other developed countries, after

which they will apply what they’ve learned to prob-

lems in their own countries.

Projects like this require huge amounts of legwork

and coordination, but Louis sees a big payoff. “I

would be creating a whole cadre of new sanitation

engineers in the different countries where we have

projects, while building an international network of

contacts to focus on these problems.”

So how does Louis view the status of the world’s

sanitation infrastructure? “It’s discouraging but I

think it’s a solvable problem,” he says. “One technol-

ogy that needs to be developed is the idea of recycling

water and natural water-treatment systems. If you

can’t afford a lot of expensive processing equipment

or chemicals, there are biological alternatives for

purifying and reusing water.” For example, he’s look-

ing into using water hyacinth to provide tertiary treat-

ment for water after it’s been through traditional

primary and secondary stages. The water goes to

ponds, where the plants remove harmful nutrients.

“A lot of interesting things are going on,” Louis

says in describing research taking place. “The whole

idea of links between energy sources and waste man-

agement or sanitation service is another unexplored

area. People are now investing in fuel cells, for

instance, and it might be possible to use some of the

waste heat from wastewater processing as an input

energy source for fuel cells.”

It becomes clear Louis has found a unique but

effective way to apply his skills. “This is a calling for

me, not a career,” as he puts it. He has a lot on his

plate, but his passion could result in improved lives

around the world.

Tom Gibson is the editor of “Progressive Engineer,”

www.ProgressiveEngineer.com, an online engineering maga-

zine covering the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

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Amanda Singleton (SIE ‘03), Charlottesville, Tobago.Left to Right: Suzanne Stewart (CE ‘01), Chris La Rocco (Dept. of Housing & CommunityDevelopment, Shipman, VA, Jonathan Pittman (CE ‘01), Nicole Palmer (SIE ‘02), Kathy Hitchcox(CE ‘02) and Luna Magpili (SIE ‘03).

1960s

Jerry D. Blow (Aero ’68) wasfeatured in the “Work & Money”section of the News Observer forhis work as an architecturalphotographer.

William C. Putnam (CE ’66), asenior project manager withBurgess & Niple, was recognized bythe Engineers and SurveyorsInstitute for his role as a designatedplans examiner in Fairfax andLoudoun counties. He and his wife,Alice, reside in Centreville, Va.

Edward A. Parrish, PE, (EE ’64,’66, ’68), president of WorcesterPolytechnic Institute, was chosento receive the IEEE EABMeritorious Achievement Award inAccreditation Activities for out-standing, sustained leadership inthe development and implementa-tion of innovations in engineeringeducation accreditation. Parrishcontributed his creativity andleadership to the fundamentalrethinking of accreditation criteriaand the major transition to anoutcomes-oriented evaluation ofengineering programs calledEngineering Criteria 2000. He alsoco-authored an NSF proposal forthree implementation workshops.Parrish also chaired the first offi-cial accreditation evaluation of aforeign institution, AmericanUniversity at Cairo, Egypt.

Phil Leventis (Aero ’69) is runningfor the office of lieutenant gover-nor for South Carolina. He hasserved as a state senator for 22years and was former head of theSouth Carolina Air National Guard.His wife, Ellen Venable “E.V.”Leventis (Nursing ’68), and his son,Peter Leventis (Col ’99), are sup-porting his campaign efforts.

1970s

Thomas D. Ardern (Aero ’75)completed a one-year tour as vice

commander of the 8th FighterWing at Kunsan Air Base, Republicof Korea. He is currently assignedto the Air Combat CommandInspector General Office atLangley Air Force Base inHampton, Va.

Mike Coffey (EE ’79) is vice presi-dent of Technology ServicesIntegration Management forSprint. During his career withSprint, he has been director of call-center services, director of networkproperty and controls and execu-tive assistant to the president oftechnology services.

1980s

Kenneth A. Bronfin (EE ’81) ispresident of the Hearst InteractiveMedia division at the Hearst Corp.Previously, he was general managerof NBC Data Network, a division ofNBC Inc., and vice president ofNBC Cable and BusinessDevelopment.

Mary Kragie (Aero ’83) is managerof strategic projects in the office ofthe general counsel at PavilionTechnologies Inc. in Austin, Texas.

Charles P. DiMeglio (SE ’84) andShelly DiMeglio have a daughter,Amanda F. DiMeglio.

Peter C. Reddy (Aero ’84) is com-manding officer of the U.S. MarineAir Control Squadron 4 inOkinawa, Japan.

John W. Via III (ChE ’84) complet-ed the program for ManagementDevelopment (PMD76) at HarvardBusiness School in November 2001,and received his Doctor ofEngineering in EngineeringManagement from SouthernMethodist University in December2002. He is director of manufactur-ing consumer products for AlconManufacturing in Fort Worth, Texas.

Janet Buyer (ME ’85) had a son,Nathan H. Watts, in May 2001. She

is a project manager with the U.S.Consumer Product SafetyCommission and resides inGaithersburg, Md.

David M. Nicol (CS ’84, ’85) ismoving to the University of Illinoisas a full professor.

David A. Marcontell (Aero ’87) isvice president and principal ofStrand Associates, an aviationconsulting firm. He and his familyreside in Atlanta.

Tom Scott (SE ’89) and KatherineStallings Scott (CS ’90) had theirfirst child, Christopher Scott, inOctober 2002. They live in OakHill, Va.

1990s

Jill Caners Ferratt (CS ’91) andMason S. Ferratt (ME ’91) hadtheir second child and son, ColeWilliam, in June 2002. The familyresides in Herndon, Va.

David Walsh (Aero ’91) graduatedfrom the U.S. Naval Test PilotSchool and is assigned to theWeapons Test Squadron, ChinaLake, Calif.

www.seas.virginia.edu/alumniHome.php

Lifelong Learning Superstar

John H. Jones (MAE ’77) has made a lifetime

effort of study, thanks in part to the

Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program

(CGEP). He earned a BS in mechanical

engineering from Virginia Tech in June 1973 and

a MS in mechanical engineering from U.Va. in

May 1977. He earned a PhD in engineering

administration from Virginia Tech through the

CGEP program in May 1994. He will earn a MS in

SIE from U.Va. through the CGEP program in May

2003. His son, Matthew H. Jones, is a U.Va. stu-

dent in the Accelerated BS/MS program in sys-

tems engineering. Matthew will earn his BS in SIE

in May 2003 and his MS in May 2004.

class notes


Charles P. (Chip) Blankenship(MSE ’92) was promoted togeneral manager of small commer-cial engine operations for GeneralElectric in Cincinnati.

2000s

Aimée LeBlanc (CE ’00) andMatthew Golenor (COL ’01) are

engaged to be married on July 19,2003, in Nashville, Tenn. Aiméeworks for Gresham Smith andPartners as a structural engineerand Matt teaches math atMontgomery Bell Academy.

David Britz (MAE ’02) is a doctorof philosophy student in materialsat the University of Oxford.

class notes

The last issue of this magazine invited alumni to reflect on their

experiences here. “Was there a professor you thought was special

while you were a student in school here?” “Was there a class you

took that changed the course of your life?”

The professor I remember most fondly was T.C. Scott, who

taught the two-semester required lab for third-year mechanical

and aerospace engineering students. Designing and setting up

each weekly lab and then having to grade the student reports and

quizzes must have been a tremendous workload. T.C., however,

relished it. It gave him the opportunity to share his enthusiasm

for engineering, and to teach students how to be serious and

dedicated to their work while still having fun.

He wrote the lab course text “Learning Blocks,” which was a

series of lessons on engineering fundamentals. Many of the

learning blocks formed the foundation for lab assignments. His

labs were fun, practical and hands-on, yet always unusual. His

goal was to teach us the skills we needed to become responsible,

knowledgeable engineers, anxious to roll up our sleeves and get

our hands dirty. He was also the faculty sponsor for the school’s

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) chapter. He

was a rallying force for the organization, devising a road rally,

spearheading monthly spaghetti lunches and hosting a Halloween

party, among other things. In 1985 he was honored with an

award for the most outstanding faculty sponsor at the ASME

Regional Conference.

In the 18 years since I graduated, I have worked as a civil ser-

vant for the federal government, 14 years with the Navy

Department as a propulsion engineer and the last four with the

Consumer Product Safety Commission. Over those years, I have

often referred to T.C.’s Learning Blocks. In doing so, I fondly recall

those fun times. What MAE student in the class of ’85 doesn’t

remember riding a four-passenger cart down the loading dock

ramp behind the MEC building and slamming into the cement

wall, cushioned only by a bumper we had to design and build from

empty soda cans? Or the Mission Impossible lab where we had to

listen to our “mission” on cassette tape, then “destroy” it before

proceeding with the lab on operational amplifiers?

It is obvious that T.C.’s dedication to his students continues.

In 1995, while attending my 10-year reunion, I stuck my busi-

ness card in the lab door with a note to T.C. A few days later I

received a call from him, inviting me to attend a one-day forum

that he and several other faculty members were hosting for

selected SEAS alumni. Their purpose was to seek input for

improving the curriculum in order to better prepare the engineer-

ing student for today’s working world and to make him or her

more marketable.

More recently, I read that he was one of seven University fac-

ulty members invited to attend the Jefferson Banquet in the

Rotunda, sponsored by the Seven Society. The banquet is based

on the Jefferson tradition of hosting dinners to promote commu-

nication and comradeship among exceptional faculty. His enthu-

siastic commitment to his students undoubtedly carries on. On

behalf of many others as well as myself, I thank you, T.C.

—JANET BUYER (ME ‘85)

Professor T.C. Scott:

The Man Who Made Learning Fun

Save the Date

Celebrate the 50th anniversary

of the Virginia Engineering

Foundation at the Thornton

Society Dinner

Friday, October 3, 2003

T.C. Scott

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1920s

James M. Boles (Engr ’28) of Chécy,France, died in December 2001.

1930s

Philips Pike (Engr ’34) of Raleigh,N.C., died.

Frederick M. Belmore (ChE ’37)of Charlottesville, Va., died in May.

John L. Patterson Sr. of Manassas,Va., died in June.

1940s

John P. Simpson Jr. (Engr ’40) ofLynchburg, Va., died in February.He served as a lieutenant com-mander in the U.S. Navy duringWorld War II and pioneeredunderwater photography tech-niques for the Navy Mine DisposalService. Mr. Simpson was a mem-ber of the Virginia Society ofProfessional Engineers, theLynchburg Retired Naval OfficersAssociation and the LynchburgNaval League.

Richard Donovan (Engr ’46) ofCoram, N.Y., died.

Alfred D. Schnebbe (Engr ’46) ofNew Port Rickey, Fla., died.

Joseph S. Black (Engr ’48) ofVirginia Beach, Va., died in May. Heserved as a pilot with the U.S. ArmyAir Forces during World War II andlater worked as a mechanical engi-neer. As a student, he was a quarter-back for the U.Va. football team.

C. Page Fisher Jr. (Engr ’49) ofHurdle Mills, N.C., died inDecember 2001. He served in theU.S. Navy during World War II. Acivil engineer, his specialty wasfoundation design. Mr. Fishertaught at North Carolina State formany years until opening his ownconsulting business, GeotechnicalEngineering Co.

1950s

Eric O. Juhlim (Engr ’50) ofClaymont, Del., died in April 2001.He served in the U.S. Navy AirCorps as a radar operator duringWorld War II. Mr. Juhlin was aretired senior electrical engineerwho worked for Conrail inPhiladelphia for 20 years.

Robert W. Riddle Jr. (Engr ’51) ofCocoa Beach, Fla., died. He servedin the U.S. Army during World WarII. He was a retired electronicsengineer with NASA at theKennedy Space Center.

James L. Amick (Aero ’52) of AnnArbor, Mich., died in June.

Robert R. Dalrymple (ChE ’52) ofBrick, N.J., died.

Thomas P. Kilday (CE ’57) ofVirginia Beach, Va., died.

Gus K. Tebell Jr. (ChE ’57, EE ’59)of Charlottesville, Va., died.

1960s

Jarrett K. Huffman (Aero ’61) ofHampton, Va., died in August 2001.

John A. Biggs (Engr ’62) ofWindsor, Calif., died in May. Heserved as a U.S. Navy pilot duringthe Vietnam War, flying P2Vs. Mr. Biggs was a pilot with UnitedAirlines for 36 years.

David P. Kepple (Engr ’68) ofCasselberry, Fla., died in January2001.

1970s

Michael Ermolowich (Engr ’73) ofCary, N.C., died in April.

1990s

Sood R. Naphuket (Engr ’95) ofBangkok, Thailand, died inJanuary. He was a project managerwith IIEC-Asia, specializing inenergy efficiency.

in memoriamSpecial Friends

Jack Tse-Hou ChenAug. 12, 1982–Nov. 16, 2002

Jack Tse-Hou Chen, a third-year electricalengineering student from Fairfax, Va., died onSaturday, November 16, of injuries suffered inan auto accident. He was a member of LambdaPhi Epsilon and was fondly remembered inmemorials set up outside Olsson and NewcombHalls and in front of Thornton Hall.

Thomas H. CourtneySept. 26, 1938–Jan. 13, 2003

Thomas H. Courtney, a professor of materialscience and engineering from 1986 to 1992,died in January 2003.

Tom spent a total of 35 years as a collegeprofessor: 21 at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity, six at the University of Virginia, andseven at the University of Texas at Austin. Lastyear, he was named as the 2003 recipient of theprestigious Albert Easton White DistinguishedTeacher Award of ASM International. TheWhite Award recognizes highly productive pro-fessors who are outstanding in their ability toinspire students.

H. Gordon LarewJune 5, 1922–Dec. 28, 2002

Gordon Larew, a professor of civil engineeringfrom 1956 to 1992, died in December 2002.He taught at Purdue University, where heearned his PhD in civil engineering. He joinedthe faculty at the Engineering School in 1956,where he worked in soil mechanics and foun-dation engineering. He received the first of theNSF grants awarded to the school and servedas the department’s first director of research.He inspired many students at U.Va. and wasalso the founding partner of E.O. Gouch andAssociates of Charlottesville, Va.


IF YOU ASK ME, A LOT HAS CHANGED IN THE27 years (ouch) since I left Charlottesville with my BSEE.Let’s review:

1975 2003

slide rule Palm Pilot

8-track mp3

am xm

mono DTS-ES 6.1

thick-film hybrid microcircuitry nanotechnology

You probably get the picture. I am an aging technol-ogy junkie.

Growing up I read Tom Swift Jr., built Heathkit elec-tronics, and wanted to work at a computer in mission

control. Today, I serve as the chief oper-ating officer of a high-tech company Ico-founded 18 years ago, and go homeevery night to a beautiful wife anddaughters. Life—and all the things ithas brought—has not disappointed.

After many years of focusingprimarily on career and family, I’verecently renewed my connections at theEngineering School. This is, in part, todevelop our recruitment efforts, andalso to provide a chance for me to findways to contribute to the school’s con-tinued development.

What I’ve found is a dynamic educational programthat is advancing promising new technologies, under theleadership, integrity and traditions that are the founda-tion of the University. In the halls I once haunted I havefound (to quote the songwriter), “after changes uponchanges, we are more or less the same.”

Another thing that hasn’t changed is the value of anengineering education, particularly in today’s challeng-ing job market. In our corporate hiring, we assign apremium to candidates with engineering credentialsfrom a leading institution like U.Va. Aside from havingacquired the foundational principles of their science,these individuals have developed the habit of sound crit-ical thinking and creative problem solving. As an addedbonus, they are equipped with the ability to communi-cate effectively and, in time, to provide leadership.

I look back now on my experiences at U.Va. as havingbeen instrumental in preparing me for a rewardingcareer and a successful journey in life.

There is one other important change I realizedrecently that I needed to make:

1975 2003

Tuition Gifting

If you haven’t done so recently, reacquaint yourselfwith the Engineering School and find some way to getinvolved. It’s a change worth making.

—PAUL RICE (EE ’75)

COO, PEC Solutions Inc.

end note

The year 2003 marks the 50th anniver-

sary of the founding of the Virginia

Engineering Foundation. The following are

a few highlights from our history:

1936 - Idea of an alumni group specifical-

ly for Engineering School alums is

announced for the first time.

1953 - James R. Phillips (’50), John H.

(Jack) Sidebottom (’40) and Charles C.

Plummer (’22) meet in Plummer’s office

in Washington, D.C., to begin incorpora-

tion of the Virginia Engineering

Foundation.

1955 - First meeting of the Virginia

Engineering Foundation is held, with Jack

Sidebottom, first president, presiding;

current mission statement is adopted.

1956 - First annual fund drive raises

$6,500.

1959 - Decision is made to hire an execu-

tive director.

1960 - First capital campaign is launched;

$22,150 is raised.

1984 - Thornton Society is established

and funded.

1992 - Public relations initiatives, includ-

ing hiring a public relations repre-

sentative for the school, are adopted.

1995 - Campaign goal is set at $37.5 mil-

lion; VEF offices are renovated and a staff

of seven is hired.

1996 - Annual Fund surpasses the

$500,000 mark.

1997 - Thornton Society celebrates its

15th anniversary; annual fund reaches

$950,000.

2001 - Capital Campaign raises $75.4

million; new Web sites designed for the

Engineering School and for VEF.

2002 - Amendment to the bylaws are rati-

fied after several study years.

History of the Virginia Engineering Foundation

A Gift Worth Giving

�Traditionally, Annual Fund donations have

been a significant source of the

Engineering School’s financial support.

Your donation to the school will help

ensure our continued strength and

academic excellence.

We invite you to join more than 2,700 other

U.Va. alumni and friends who have formed

an honorary circle of Engineering School

supporters this year.

The staff of the Virginia Engineering

Foundation is available to consult with

you or your adviser about giving

opportunities.

Please contact:

Jane L. Hope, Director

Annual Giving and Alumni Affairs


Box 400256

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4256

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