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Santa Clara UniversityScholar CommonsEngineering News SCU PublicationsSummer 2018Engineering News, Summer 2018School of EngineeringFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/eng_newsPart of the Engineering CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in EngineeringNews by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact rscroggin@scu.edu.Recommended CitationSchool of Engineering, "Engineering News, Summer 2018" (2018). Engineering News. 42.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/eng_news/42DEAN’S MESSAGEAs we wrap up Academic Year 2017-2018, it is a good time to take stock. From my first days as Dean of the School of Engineering, I believed that a vision of SCU Engineering would evolve from a focus on four distinct areas, or pillars, of our program: Curricula/Co-Curricula, Discovery/Research, Innovation/Entrepreneurship, and Humanitarian Engineering/Service (see page 2). Working with students and faculty over the past year, I am further convinced that these pillars are the support structure upon which we will build a stronger brand for Santa Clara Engineering, which in turn will lead to increased engagement with Silicon Valley partners for educational, research, and philanthropic advancement.We look forward to seeing a number of initiatives that arose this year fleshed out—among them, the Community for Innovation and Entrepreneurship—and determining how to institutionalize and scale curricular and co-curricular programs in that arena. Our focus is on developing an entrepreneurial mindset which will serve our students well whether they launch their own companies, become innovative “intrapreneurs” within large corporations, or bring creative engineering solutions to needy communities. And the goal is to see that each engineering student experiences the startup process realistically, taking a concept through fully funded channels—an idea incubator, a mentored accelerator, and eventually to a pitch in front of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.Our shared vision for SCU Engineering will evolve over the next year, and we look forward to every minute of it!On a spring weekend, when undergraduates and graduate students might have been catching up on sleep or homework, or binge-watching the latest Netflix series, 75 intrepid entrepreneurs dove into SCU’s Startup Weekend, working nearly nonstop for 55 hours to help a handful of hopefuls get their ideas off the ground.Patterned after a similar program at CalPoly, the cross-disciplinary event was created by the student organization BroncoDesign, in collaboration with other campus groups. “We had about 50/50 representation from engineering and business,” said engineering junior Will McMullen, University  Innovation Fellow and BroncoDesign President. Professional mentoring from deep tech VC firm Propel(x) was available. Sponsors included Dolby, OneWorkplace (an SCU-founded company), Autodesk, KEEN (a network of faculty transforming engineering education together), and uBridge, an SCU-launched social networking app for entrepreneurial business and engineering students. Silicon Valley VC associates, product designers, and startup founders were recruited to serve as judges.Beginning with 30-second idea pitches from budding entrepreneurs, the top 10 ideas were selected, and individuals rallied around the various projects. McMullen explained that to help guide the process, the organizers held “half-hour workshops interstitially throughout the weekend pertaining to the various aspects of starting a company—team formation, customer validation, rapid prototyping, and user experience—to get teams involved in learning while also doing.” On Day Two, teams ventured out to local restaurants, malls, and across campus to conduct interviews, gaining invaluable customer insight to improve their ideas.Sunday morning began with a Pitch Workshop in preparation for later presentations before the judges. Awards were presented for most innovative, School of EngineeringJumpstarting a StartupSUMMER best business model, and best overall. Taking the best overall prize was Firetrack, a vital signs sensor designed to alert firefighters to dangerous stress levels that can affect coherent decision making. “Their challenge was figuring out the tech and packaging the sensors and communication devices at a competitive price point. They came up with a compact and elegant package—a Bluetooth earbud to fit with standard helmets,” said McMullen.“There are so many great outcomes from the Startup Weekend,” he continued. “Two of the teams that pitched are still together, grinding it out to make their ideas reality. We plan to make this a regular thing at SCU, and BroncoDesign will hold a designathon in the fall, as well. It’s really cool to see what can happen when you pair the go-getter attitude of engineering students with the go-getters from the business school.  It’s amazing how far that collaboration can go!”SCU event helps entrepreneurial hopefuls get their ideas off the ground.Photo: BroncoDesignLearn more about SCU Engineering’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs:  scu.edu/engineering/about/innovation-and-entrepreneurship/Alfonso (Al) Ortega, Ph.D. Dean  School of Engineeringwww.scu.edu/engineering Engineering with a MissionHighlights from 2017-20182018 Kuehler AwardsWhat We Do Who We Serve&BS Engineers    Professional engineering path, future engineering management/law medicineCurricula/Co-CurriculaHumanitarianEngineering/ServiceDiscovery/ResearchInnovation andEntrepreneurshipBS Entrepreneurs Future entrepreneurs, Engineering/Business/Innovation & EntrepreneurshipBS Researchers Graduate school bound, interested in working in R&DMS Professional Mostly part-time working students, goal is to work in Silicon ValleyDoctoral Researchers  Mostly part-time working students, desire to achieve doctoral statusContinuous and Integrated Imaging of the Microfluidic Sensors for the Measurement of Physiological Parameters in the BodyAdvisor: Emre AraciStudent: Tehmi den Braven, BioengineeringTheoretical Modeling of Micro-Swimmers in Complex MediaAdvisor: On Shun PakStudent: Shreyes Nallan, Electrical EngineeringMicroplastics Eating BacteriaAdvisor: Jonathan ZhangStudent: Brie Goo, BioengineeringMyoelectric Muscle Sensing and Prosthetic ControlAdvisor: Christopher KittsStudent: Jamie Ferris, Mechanical EngineeringWearable Energy Harvester for Self-Powered ProsthesisAdvisor: Hohyun LeeStudent: Joshua Vincent, Bioengineering3D Nano-Scale Analysis of Ultrasonic Bonding InterfaceAdvisor: Panthea SepehrbandStudent: Brandon Vangogh, Mechanical EngineeringDynamic Virtual Machine Allocation Policy to Secure Multi-Tenant Cloud with Resource OptimizationAdvisor: Yuhong LiuStudent: Ruiwen Li, Computer Science & EngineeringB.S. Conferred 273Retention Rate 96%M.S. Conferred 331ENGR. Conferred 1Ph.D. Conferred 5Each summer, a handful of faculty members invite promising undergraduate students to join them as paid researchers, funded by the Kuehler Undergraduate Research Grant. Here are this summer’s projects. For more information: www.scu.edu/researchUndergraduate ProgramsGraduate ProgramsRevenue and ExpensesUnderrepresentedMinoritiesUnderrepresentedMinoritiesenrollmentenrollmentFY18 Revenue$20,202,479FY18 Expenses$18,210,786OtherGiftsEndowmentsFeesUniversity AllocationBenefitsGeneral Supplies/OperatingOtherTransfers to InternalGrants, etc.Grad Financial AidFaculty/Staff Salaries60%WWW.SCU.EDU/ENGINEERING/2017-18Engineering with a MissionHighlights from 2017-20182018 Kuehler AwardsWhat We Do Who We Serve&BS Engineers    Professional engineering path, future engineering management/law medicineCurricula/Co-CurriculaHumanitarianEngineering/ServiceDiscovery/ResearchInnovation andEntrepreneurshipBS Entrepreneurs Future entrepreneurs, Engineering/Business/Innovation & EntrepreneurshipBS Researchers Graduate school bound, interested in working in R&DMS Professional Mostly part-time working students, goal is to work in Silicon ValleyDoctoral Researchers  Mostly part-time working students, desire to achieve doctoral statusContinuous and Integrated Imaging of the Microfluidic Sensors for the Measurement of Physiological Parameters in the BodyAdvisor: Emre AraciStudent: Tehmi den Braven, BioengineeringTheoretical Modeling of Micro-Swimmers in Complex MediaAdvisor: On Shun PakStudent: Shreyes Nallan, Electrical EngineeringMicroplastics Eating BacteriaAdvisor: Jonathan ZhangStudent: Brie Goo, BioengineeringMyoelectric Muscle Sensing and Prosthetic ControlAdvisor: Christopher KittsStudent: Jamie Ferris, Mechanical EngineeringWearable Energy Harvester for Self-Powered ProsthesisAdvisor: Hohyun LeeStudent: Joshua Vincent, Bioengineering3D Nano-Scale Analysis of Ultrasonic Bonding InterfaceAdvisor: Panthea SepehrbandStudent: Brandon Vangogh, Mechanical EngineeringDynamic Virtual Machine Allocation Policy to Secure Multi-Tenant Cloud with Resource OptimizationAdvisor: Yuhong LiuStudent: Ruiwen Li, Computer Science & EngineeringB.S. Conferred 273Retention Rate 96%M.S. Conferred 331ENGR. Conferred 1Ph.D. Conferred 5Each summer, a handful of faculty members invite promising undergraduate students to join them as paid researchers, funded by the Kuehler Undergraduate Research Grant. Here are this summer’s projects. For more information: www.scu.edu/researchUndergraduate ProgramsGraduate ProgramsRevenue and ExpensesUnderrepresentedMinoritiesUnderrepresentedMinoritiesenrollmentenrollmentFY18 Revenue$20,202,479FY18 Expenses$18,210,786OtherGiftsEndowmentsFeesUniversity AllocationBenefitsGeneral Supplies/OperatingOtherTransfers to InternalGrants, etc.Grad Financial AidFaculty/Staff Salaries60%Engineering with a MissionPh.D. Degrees Conferred in 2017-18Computer Engineering:Yogesh JhambThesis:  Machine Learning Models for Context-Aware  Recommender SystemsPrior Degree: M.S. Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2007Advisor: Dr. Yi FangOlayinka Sylvia N’guessanThesis:  Human Attention Regions of Interest in Video CompressionPrior Degree: M.S. Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2006Advisor: Dr. Nam LingPoongovan PonnavaikkoThesis:  Delay-Constrained Energy Optimization in  High-Latency Sensor NetworksPrior Degree: M.S. Telecommunications, University of Colorado, 2002Advisors: Dr. Sarah Kate Wilson and Dr. Ahmed AmerComputer Science and Engineering:Madhusudan KalluriThesis:  Rate-Distortion Optimization for Sparse Coding  in Image CompressionPrior Degree: M.S. Electrical Engineering, Villanova University, 1994Advisor: Dr. Nam LingMechanical Engineering:Michael Alan NeumannThesis:  Hybrid Force/Position Control Architecture for  Object Transportation by Mobile Robot FormationsPrior Degree: M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2008Advisor: Dr. Christopher KittsSanta Clara University500 El Camino RealSanta Clara, CA 95053The Jesuit University in Silicon ValleyNonprofitOrganizationUS PostalPAIDPermit No. 22Santa Clara, CAGIVE TO SCU ENGINEERINGscu.edu/engineering/giveFrom left: Poongovan Ponnavaikko, Michael Alan Neumann, Madhusudan Kalluri, Olayinda Sylvia N’guessan, Yogesh JhambyPhoto: Nicole MoralesPhoto: Heidi WilliamsFL-13924   08/2018   2,000Engineering News is published quarterly by the School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.Writer and Editor: Heidi Williams, hwilliams@scu.edu | Graphics: Nicole Morales | Copy Editor: John Deever 

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