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Research Stars Light the Pathin engineering

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Message from the Dean

In contrast to gloomy news on thenational and global fronts, we havegood news from UW Engineering.
Foremost is the huge success ofCampaign UW: Creating Futures.
More than 10,000 friends helped
us raise $267 million, seven percent
more than our $250 million goal.
New student and faculty endowments
created during the campaign willtransform the college’s research andeducational programs. A section ofthis issue celebrates your generous
support and the future it creates.
The feature story highlights thevalue of undergraduate research,with a focus on our efforts to create
more opportunities for women engineering students.
When I was in college in theearly 1970s, women were actively
discouraged from studying engineering. The emerging women’s move-

ment helped dissipate that bias in
the 1980s, and the percentage ofwomen students rapidly shot up
from the single digits to a little over
20 percent. However, the percentage
has remained flat for the past two
decades, probably because many
young women still don’t resonate
with the image of the geek.
A number of studies have shownthat women are much more drawn
to fields that clearly benefit humanity. In recent years the profession
has presented itself not just as an
economic engine, but also a way tochange lives. This vision has been especially true for disciplines working
at the interface of biology and engineering — bioengineering, chemicalengineering, and materials science
have attracted the highest percentage
of females into engineering.
When Professor Mary Lidstrom
was our associate dean for new
initiatives, she created a “biology forengineers” course that had great
success demonstrating that bridge.
We are committed to opening more
pathways into engineering for young
women and to recruiting more
women faculty. As you will read in
this issue, women engineers at the
UW are doing exceptional research

and are outstanding role models.
On another front, I’m excitedabout two new federal grants highlighted on pages 3–4. A grant fromthe Department of Energy establishes
a collaboration between UW and
Oregon State University on marine
renewable energy. Additionally,
UW and Caltech will partner on a
National Science Foundation grantthat will build a research focus on
molecular programming.
Molecular engineering is becoming a major new thrust for us. This
field parallels the great advances atthe end of the last century in design
tools for mechanical and electricalsystems that can address many of thegreat challenges of our time, such as
health, energy, and the environment.
Two stories in the Innovator section
report some recent faculty work inmolecular engineering.
Another new focus area bridges
engineering and global health, thelatter a growing strength at the UW.
Bioengineering and Industrial Engineering have new global health grants,
and you’ll hear a lot more about
these new initiatives in future issues.
Matthew O’Donnell

Frank and Julie Jungers Deanof Engineering

Taking Charge

In Rarified Company

Thomas Calhoun is the new assistant dean for
the Engineering Advising and Diversity Center.
Previously he was executive director of GEAR UP,
a statewide precollege program based at theUW. He has a long career in education on the
East Coast and in Chicago. He recently earned his
PhD in educational leadership at the UW.

Buddy Ratner, professorof bioengineering andchemical engineering, will
be honored as one of the“One Hundred Chemical
Engineers of the Modern
Era” by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
as part of its centennialcelebration. These 100 “guided theprofession into the new century” afterWorld War II. Ratner was selected in
the New Frontiers category for workin engineered biomaterial surfaces tocontrol surface interaction and synthesized biostable radio-frequency films
and polymer scaffolds. The 100 wereselected from nearly 1000 nominations.

Thomas Calhoun
Craig Benson became chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering on July 1. An expert ingeotechnical engineering, he comes to the UW from the Universityof Wisconsin–Madison, where he chaired the geological engineering program. Benson received his MS and PhD degrees in civilengineering from the University of Texas–Austin.

Technical Communication did not need to look far for its new chair.
Longtime faculty member Jan Spyridakis moved into the leadershiprole on August 1. She has won numerous awards for her researchon document design, usability, and online learning, and has beenhonored with the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. She earned

her BA through PhD degrees at the UW.
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Craig Benson

Jan Spyridakis

NewsSpotlight
Spotlight
News

Caltech and UW Partner on $10 Million NSF Grant
at the Frontiers of Computing and Molecular Design
The National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program hasawarded $10 million to researchers at the California Institute of Technology
and the University of Washington to use the principles of computer science
to design complex molecular and chemical systems. They will pursue farreaching research agendas that promise great benefit to society. Eric Klavins,
assistant professor of electrical engineering, will lead the UW research team.
The main goals of the Molecular Programming Project (MPP) are tobuild computational devices out of biochemical molecules such as DNA orprotein and create programming languages and compilers for these systems.
Such tools would allow unprecedented control of biological systems, including embedding new molecular systems inside living cells. For example, MPP
researchers hope to build, from scratch, an artificial immune system for abacterium that allows it to detect and disrupt bacteriophage infections.
Klavins has been building a research thrust in molecular programmingthat unites biochemistry and molecular biology with theoretical work incontrol systems. “I believe we can design molecular systems in the same
way that we build electrical circuits or computer control systems,” Klavins
said. “This incredibly complex and potentially powerful technology will be
among the main tools required to bring artificial molecular systems ‘to life’.”

New Electron Beam Lithography System
Will Be a Magnet for Nanotechnology Researchers
Next summer, the most expensive
piece of equipment ever purchased
by UW Engineering will be installedin the Washington Technology
Center in Fluke Hall. The electron
beam lithography system, manufactured by JEOL, will be the only one
in the Northwest and one of just a
few of its caliber in the nation.
“It prototypes nanostructures
down to about 6 nm and gives
better results at about 100 times the
speed of current equipment,” said
Michael Hochberg, a nanophotonics
researcher and assistant professorof electrical engineering. “Morethan 30 faculty from multiple UW
departments will use it, and it will
be a big draw for recruiting new
faculty and graduate students.”
Hochberg led the effort to fundthe system, valued at $4.5 million.
The Washington Research Foundation
made the lead gift, its largest everto the UW. Significant support alsocame from the Washington State
Research Stars Program, the College
of Engineering, the Department ofHigh-resolution imageof the UW sealcreated by electron
beam lithography.
Several hundred
would fit on the endof a human hair.

Electrical Engineering, the Collegeof Arts and Sciences, the Washington
Technology Center, and the center’s
NanoTech User Facility.

Professor Keith Holsapple

Up in the Sky! It’s Venus, Mars,
Holsapple, and Jupiter ...
Okay, you can’t see the asteroid
20360 Holsapple with your naked
eye, but the rock does orbit the Sun
between Mars and Jupiter, and you
could walk over to Guggenheim Hall
to see Keith Holsapple, professor of
aeronautics and astronautics.
The International Astronomical
Union in July named the asteroid in
his honor to recognize his work inmodeling the response of planetary
and asteroidal material to stress andshock. His namesake asteroid was
first sighted by Arizona’s LowellObservatory on May 1, 1998.
“It’s fun to have your name on
something that could be around theuniverse for another 100 million
years,” Holsapple said.
He has developed software to
calculate the effects of high-speed
asteroid impacts and speaks at professional conferences on potential
methods to deflect a major threat
to the Earth. The History Channel
recently filmed him for an episode of“Stopping Armageddon,” to air later
this year. He explains what would
happen if a “big one” hit Los Angeles.

CoE Launches New Website
We invite you to visit www.engr.washington.edu and learn more about theopportunities to connect with UW Engineering. The new CoE website includes analumni and community section specially designed for you. Learn about upcoming
events, continuing education, and ways to stay connected. The site is designed to
be a valuable resource to our alumni, students, and partners.
Please visit the site andlet us know what you
think. Send comments orsuggestions to: webmaster@engr.washington.edu

News Spotlight
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News Spotlight

In the Pacific Northwest tidal and wave energy arelikely to be in our renewable energy future. Leading
the research effort are the University of Washington
and Oregon State University. Recently the U.S.
Department of Energy selected the universities tocollaborate on a Northwest Marine Renewable
Energy Center, one of two such DOE-funded
centers in the nation. The other is in Hawaii.
The five-year, $6.5-million award will support
Free-flowing turbine, courtesy research on wave and tidal energy, facilitate deviceof Verdant Power, Inc.
commercialization, and help inform policymakers.
OSU, the prime contractor, will focus on coastal wave energy and the UW
will focus on tidal energy in estuaries and free-flow turbine applications. With
support from OSU, UW, and other sources, total funding is $13.5 million.
“With renewable energy, you want to go with the source that’s mostappropriate for your location on the planet,” said Phil Malte, professorof mechanical engineering and co-director of the UW tidal energy center.
Research will calculate how much tidal energy Puget Sound could produce
before turbines would begin to impact the range of tides in the sound oraffect the volume of water Puget Sound exchanges with the ocean.
The UW will continue its work with the tidal energy programs of the
Snohomish County Public Utility District and the Electric Power ResearchInstitute and will begin interacting with local and national firms involved inocean energy, including BioSonics, Verdant Power, and the Pacific Northwest
Economic Region. Oceanography Professor Mitsuhiro Kawase will co-direct
the interdisciplinary UW team involving ME and also the Applied Physics Lab.

Charlie Redding, The Daily (UW)

Tidal Energy Research Gets Boost
From Department of Energy

Where oh where has my laptop gone?

Psst...Ask the goddess Adeona
Hundreds of thousands of laptop
thefts occur annually, which often
means sensitive data is gone too.
Now, a free laptop theft-protection
tool acts as a virtual watchdog byreporting your laptop’s location
when it connects to the Internet, but
without letting anybody monitor
your whereabouts. It is named
Adeona after the Roman goddess ofsafe returns. Since its public release inJune, more than 70,000 people havedownloaded the software under the
open source license. Yoshi Kohno,
assistant professor of computerscience and engineering, and Gabriel
Maganis (BS ’08), created Adeonawith collaborators at UC San Diego.
• visit http://adeona.cs.washington.edu

Protein-Folding Game Turns Hard Science into Fun

Student-designed Recycling Bins
Now Installed on State Ferries
In 2006 Washington State Ferries
contacted Vipin Kumar, professor ofmechanical engineering, to request
help in designing new trash andrecycling containers with improved
security and reduced risk of causingback injuries when workers remove
heavy bags. Three seniors in Kumar’s
capstone design class took up thechallenge. WSF approved the design,
contracted out production, andcompleted installation of the bins
this past summer. Check them out
when you next ride a ferry.
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Foldit, a free protein-folding game released on the Web in May, is engaging
players around the world. While it may not seem quite as exciting as protecting
the planet from alien invaders, it could lead to cures for diseases. Scientists
don’t know how the 100,000 plus proteins in the human body fold up into
complex shapes with crucial biological roles. The task of calculating all possible
protein shapes is a mathematical problem so huge that all the computers in theworld would take centuries to solve it. Software named Rosetta@home, developed by David Baker, UW professor of biochemistry, tapped into the computer
time of volunteers, but active human intervention was needed to find better
answers, so Baker enlisted help from Computer Science & Engineering.
A CSE student/faculty team including doctoral student Seth Cooper andAssociate Professor Zoran Popovic spent about a year developing Foldit, whichtaps into intuitive and 3-D problem-solving skills. Anyone can play — scientificexpertise not needed. People can team up and chat with other players. Teams
with names ranging from Freedom Folders, toRule Brittania, Team China, and Carnegie Mellon
vie to score the most points. Eventually, theresearchers hope to challenge players to devise a
protein with the right shape to lock into a virus
and deactivate it, and in the process identify“protein-folding geniuses.” Winning designs will
be synthesized and tested in Baker’s lab.
• More info and demo: http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main

Research

Stars
Light PaththeT

he call came out of the blue to Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor of computer science and engineering.
An official from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation instructed Matsuoka to sit down and put
down her week-old baby. Then he revealed she had won
a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius
award” with a $500,000 no-strings-attached prize.
Matsuoka directs the UW Neurobotics Laboratory.
She studies how our central nervous system produces
signals that control movements of the limbs and thenuses that information to create advanced robotic prosthetics. Her team is working on a lifelike robotic handthat could approximate natural motion, directed by aperson’s brain and nerve signals.

Associate Professor Yoky Matsuoka and undergraduate Carissa Conway
examine the robot hand, a step toward a lifelike prosthesis.

Matusoka said. “That was a big turning point. I realizedthat acting airhead was not the right dual life for me.”Matsuoka also is on a mission to pave the way foryoung women interested in science by changing theimage and ensuring them it’s okay to be smart. “I’d liketo be a role model. I want them to see what I’m doing
and encourage them to do better than me,” she said.
Carissa Conway, a computer science junior, is watching closely. This past summer she participated in the Intel
Research Experience for Undergraduates. “I was ecstaticthat Yoky chose me to work in her lab,” Carissa said.
She contributed to the research by developing a 3D
computer representation of a skeletal finger. It uses a
feedback device to take data on the velocity and position

UW Engineering wants to greatly expand research opportunities for undergraduates and encourage more women
to pursue careers in engineering. In these pages we introduce you to three women on our faculty who are mentoring
young women. Any faculty member, male or female, can be a first-rate mentor to any student, male or female, but in afield where men predominate, an extra dash of inspiration seems to infuse woman-to-woman mentorship.

Matsuoka earned a BS degree from UC–Berkeley
and a PhD from MIT, both in electrical engineering andcomputer science. UW CSE recruited her in 2006 fromthe Carnegie Mellon faculty. Winning the MacArthur
has earned her worldwide media coverage, including a
PBS NOVA segment in July, a story in the September 25
Nature, and participation in the New Yorker’s “Stories
from the Future” conference last May.
Matusoka is just one highly visible example of theextraordinary women on the Engineering faculty, all ofwhom value the opportunity to introduce the challenges
and excitement of research to women undergrads.
She also is light years removed from the super-smart
teenager who didn’t want to be perceived as a math andscience nerd and so pretended she never studied. The“airhead” act worked until her second year at MIT.
“My advisor pulled me aside and told me to stop it,”of the tip of a user’s index finger. “The virtual finger will
execute the same motions as the user’s finger,” Conway
said. “This allows us to test passive behaviors in a virtualenvironment before transferring them to the robot hand.”Not many girls at her high school in Tenino wereinterested in math and science, so she is happy to beat the UW. “I just love solving problems and working
through the code. Debugging it and getting it to work issuch a joy,” Conway said. “Being part of a research teamis definitely challenging and has taught me a ton.”Conway hopes to pursue a doctorate in computerscience and then do research in academia or industry.
“Yoky has been so supportive and it’s just awesome
working with her,” Conway said. “It’s nice to have awoman to look up to. She’s an inspiration.” Cont. pg 6
• To learn more about Matsuoka and the Neurobotics Lab:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoky/
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Research Stars Light the Path

Bioengineering Professor Valerie Daggett and junior Sara Calhoun discuss
the structural aspects of binding in a protein complex Calhoun analyzed.

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

Leaders • Innovators • Mentors
Morgansen’s team, a mix of about 15 graduate
and undergrad students, was a perfect fit for Zhang, aGarfield High School graduate who won direct freshman admission to the EE and CSE programs. “As a kid
I watched The Jetsons, and liked Rosie the householdrobot, but thought I could invent a better one. That’s
what got me interested in engineering,” Zhang recalled.
During her first summer in the lab she developed amathematical model of the motion of real fish by using
data on spine segment positions and mapping them tothe robofish. Her work earned her third authorship ona paper presented at an international symposium. She
later helped develop new hardware and software thatenable the robofish to communicate and swim together.
Working on a multidisciplinary team under intense
deadlines and knowing when to seek help when stumped
by a problem aided her transition to the larger universeof Boeing. “If you ask a question too early, others think
you haven’t worked
hard enough to solve theproblem. If you ask too
late, they think you are
just banging your head,”
Zhang said.
Zhang gained valuable leadership experience
when Morgansen assigned
her to coordinate thework of younger undergraduates in the lab.
“Jennifer is a natural at
Assistant Prof. Kristi Morgansen and it,” Morgansen said. “This
Jennifer Zhang check out a robofish.
is a hardcore experimental
lab and it would stop functioning if we didn’t haveundergraduates doing theoretical work, building
components, and running experiments.”
Morgansen intends to develop advanced robofish
able to work in lakes and the ocean. “They could be used
for tasks that are dirty, dull, or dangerous. Schools ofrobofish might monitor pollution or undersea volcanoes
and track marine life or even submarines,” Morgansen
said. Media from Seattle to Singapore have reported herwork, and both U.S. and Canadian Discovery Channel
programs have shot film for upcoming documentaries.
“Kristi has been a great mentor and role model,”said Zhang, who wants to do research and development
in industry, most likely in controls and robotics. In fall2009 she returns to the UW to earn a masters in EE.
“Both CSE and EE are such diverse fields with applications that can help make people’s lives better. That’s a
big reason I’ve chosen to be an engineer,” Zhang said.
• To learn more: http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/morgansen/

Mary Lidstrom, UW Vice Provost for Research,Frank Jungers Professor of Chemical Engineering,and Professor of Microbiology“A strong undergraduate research program, with
its rich learning experience, sets a major research
university apart from other academic institutions.
Students say they learn ten times as much at thebench as in the classroom. Undergraduates who
get into the lab and work with research teams
begin to viualize themselves as scientists andengineers. This experience is especially importantfor inspiring young women to go on to graduate
school and to pursue research careers.”

Eve Riskin, Associate Dean of Engineering,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Directorof the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change“We have a great story to tell at UW Engineering
as about 18% of our faculty are women, exceeding the national average of 11–12%. We want
this percentage to increase. Receiving a National
Science Foundation ADVANCE Center grant in2001 enabled us to make rapid strides by developing programs that provide a supportive environment. Our women faculty are highly productive
and account for a disproportionately large shareof research expenditures — and they encourage
more women students to become engineers.”

Mari Ostendorf, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
2008 CoE Faculty Innovator for Research, and Advisor
to Society of Women Engineers UW Student Chapter“Early in my career I was the only woman withtenure on the EE faculty at Boston University.
Until I came to the UW I didn’t appreciate how
important it is to have more than a few token
women. It makes a huge difference in creating anenvironment that enables us to do our best workin research and teaching. Many women students
want to go into a field with clear social impact.
We need to tell them how the innovative work ofso many of our faculty directly benefits people.”Suzie Pun, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
2008 CoE Junior Faculty Innovator for Research,2008 UW Undergraduate Research Mentor Award“Dr. Suzie Pun has an amazing understanding of
the needs of an undergraduate researcher. If you
need to talk to her, she will make the time. This
makes me feel like I am part of the lab and notjust passing through. Dr. Pun is an outstanding
mentor for encouraging the growth and cultivating the talents of her undergraduate students andthereby upholding the University of Washington’s
reputation as an excellent research institution.”
Kathy Wei, Senior, Bioengineering
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Innovators
Spotlight on Molecular Engineering

Quantum Dots: Silencing Genes with Nanoparticles
More than 15 years ago scientists discovered how to use
short pieces of RNA to silence, or deactivate, a stretchof genetic code and disable production of a protein. The
Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise
for medical science, but so far it has been difficult toapply RNA interference (or siRNA) in living cells. Now
scientists at UW Bioengineering have solved the problem
by using nanotechnology known as quantum dots.
“We believe this is going to make a very important
impact to the field of siRNA delivery,” said Xiaohu Gao,assistant professor of bioengineering and co-author ofa study published online in June in ACS Nano, the newjournal of the American Chemical Society.
Quantum dots are fluorescent balls of semiconductormaterial just six nanometers across (9,000 dots lined
up end to end would equal the width of a human hair).
Different sized dots emit lightof different colors and are being
All jars of water contain the same
substance. Suspended quantum dots
absorb ultraviolet light and reemit
it in a specific color that depends on
the particle’s size. Each quantum dot
is about one ten-millionth of an inch
in diameter and is composed of a few
hundred to a few thousand atoms.

Above: A fluorescent image of the cell taken 30 minutes
after introducing the quantum dot(red)-siRNA(green)complex shows particles in the cell membrane.
Right: An image taken five hours later shows the si-RNA
is distributed throughout the cellular fluid.

developed for cellular imaging, solar cells, and lightemitting diodes.
The siRNA’s negative charge prevents it from penetrating a cell’s wall. Gao and colleagues surroundedeach quantum dot with a positively charged proton
sponge, also known as amphipol, and attached themto the siRNA. With this chaperone, the more weakly
charged siRNA complex crosses the cellular wall
and accumulates in the cellular fluid, where it candisrupt protein manufacture. Researchers can adjust
the chemical makeup of the amphipol coating of thequantum dots to precisely control how tightly the dots
attach to the siRNA.
Quantum dots were dramatically better than existing
techniques at stopping gene activity, and fluorescentquantum dots allow scientists to track the gene silencer’s
path. Previous siRNA trackers gave off light for less thana minute, while quantum dots, developed for imaging,emit light for hours. The new approach is also five to ten
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Lowly Barnacle, Big Problem: Molecular Engineering Goes to Sea
naturally occurring proteins from binding to the surface.
Barnacles and seaweed on ship hulls may seem more
Jiang sees his work as a cycle, from molecular
picturesque than problematic, but not if you’re theprinciples to product development. “We start with
U.S. Navy and those marine hitchhikers slow down
molecular-level understanding and design. Once we findyour aircraft carriers and add more than $30 million
a candidate material, we synthesize and characterize
to annual fuel costs. That’s why the Office of Naval
it. Then we perform biological studies, and develop
Research is funding work to develop new anti-fouling
products for specific applications,” Jiang explained
coatings in the labs of Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill“Applications are very important — that’s the real
Professor of Chemical Engineering and adjunct profeschallenge,” Jiang said, “because you have to meet requiresor of bioengineering.
ments in the real world” such as the recent ban on tinCurrent anti-fouling mechanisms in the marine
based marine coatings and U.S.
industry are based on heavy metals
Navy requirements that replacement
like tin and copper, which poison
coatings be environmentally benign
anything that attaches to a ship hull.
and stable for 10 to 12 years.
Leaching of these metals into the
Jiang’s team also researches
water causes environmental damage.
health-care applications for his
Jiang’s team manipulates
coatings. The body’s ability tosurface microenvironments at theaccept biomedical implants could bemolecular level to create coatings
improved if proteins are prevented
that interfere with protein binding.
from sticking to their surfaces.
In these zwitterionic coatings, ionsBiomacromolecules and microorganisms repelledalternate perfectly between positive by poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate)(PolySBMA) or• For more information: http://depts.washingpoly(carboxybetaine methacrylate)(PolyCBMA).
and negative charges to prevent
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Licensing Is First Step to Market for
Tiny Scanner that Could Save Lives
One of the largest technology transfer agreements in
UW history could lead to more widespread screening foresophageal cancer. Although a relatively rare cancer in
the United States, diagnoses have more than tripled in
the last 30 years. Esophageal cancer now has the fastest
growing incidence rate of any cancer in the U.S. and is
the sixth leading cause of death from cancer in men.
Today’s screening technology is expensive because it
requires sedating the patient to enable swallowing of anendoscope — a miniature camera on a long, flexible tube
about 9 mm wide, about the width of a fingernail. Most
people learn they have esophageal cancer at the stage
when the survival rate is less than 15 percent.
What if swallowing a pill with a tinier camera could
detect the early signs of a precancerous condition of thelining of the esophagus? What if this scan is easy on thepatient, does not require sedation, and is thus low cost?
Eric Seibel, research associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the UW Human Photonics
Lab, and colleagues in ME, Computer Science, andGastroenterology have developed a fundamentally new
device they call a scanning fiber endoscope (SFE).
“This could be the foundation for the future ofendoscopy,” Seibel said. “Any screening method that
detected a treatable condition before it turned into
cancer would save lives.”
The SFE features a small capsule at the end of asoft, spaghetti-like tether. The capsule contains a singlemode optical fiber for illumination multiplexed to threelaser diodes. An electric current causes the fiber to swing
back and forth 11,000 times per second so that its loneelectronic eye sees the whole scene one pixel at a time.
At the same time the fiber spins and its tip projects red,

Above: Associate Professor Eric Seibel and
ME doctoral student W. Jong Yoon examine
an image of the broncheal lining of a dried
pig lung, taken with the scanning fiber
endoscope. Right: The capsule holding thescanning device is only 16-mm long.

green, and blue laser light. The device records video
images as the capsule is retracted up the esophagus.
Software processes the data to create two-dimensional
color pictures at a resolution better than 100 microns,
though lower than for traditional endoscopes. Visit thewebsite noted below to see an animated illustration.
Seibel volunteered for the first human test of thedevice. “It felt like swallowing a regular pill and thetether didn’t bother me,” he said.
The UW recently granted an exclusive license forscanning fiber endoscope technologies to Pentax Life
Care Division of Hoya Corporation of Japan, one of theworld’s leading companies in medical imaging. Pentax
expects to develop and market the endoscope within thenext few years. Seibel and colleagues plan to develop
scanning fiber technologies to detect cancers in otherorgans and for laser treatment devices.
• For more information: http://www.hpl.washington.edu/research/sfep/

The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute andPentax Corp., with early funding from the Whitaker Foundationand the Washington Technology Center.

Toxic Chemicals Found in Common Scented Household Products

Professor Anne SteinemannTop-selling laundry products and air fresheners found in millions of homes
contain dozens of different chemicals and some can be toxic. This unsettlingfinding emerged from a study by Anne Steinemann, professor of civil andenvironmental engineering and public affairs.
“People were telling me that the air fresheners in public restrooms andthe scent from laundry products were making them sick,” Steinemann said.
“I wanted to know, ‘What’s in these products that is causing these effects?’”
She studied three common air fresheners and three types of laundry
products, selecting a top seller in each category. She bought household items
at a grocery store and asked companies for samples of industrial products.
Through laboratory analyses she found chemcials such as acetone, theactive ingredient in paint thinner; chloromethane, a banned refrigerant; and1,4-dioxane and acetaldehyde, both carcinogens.
Continued on page 10
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Innovators
Engineering Teams Break Down Communication Barriers
Can you see me now? Sign language over cell phones
Deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans are a step closer to using sign language to communicate
over a mobile phone. A UW team led by Eve Riskin, professor of electrical engineering, hasdeveloped software that enables two-way real-time video communication and has received a
National Science Foundation grant for a 20-person field project to begin next year. A video of the prototype posted
on YouTube has drawn many emails. “A lot of people are excited about this,” Riskin said. Mobile video sign language
won’t be widely available until a commercial cell-phone manufacturer agrees to provide the service.
• For more information: http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/index.html. The video is posted at http://youtube.com/watch?v=FaE1PvJwI8E.

Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere
Roughly 10 million people in the United States are blind or visually impaired. Use of a computer
has required special screen-reading software typically installed only on their own machines. New
software called WebAnywhere now lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go.
The tool reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections. Jeffrey
Bigham, a Computer Science & Engineering doctoral student, developed WebAnywhere under the supervision ofProfessor Richard Ladner. NSF funded the research. On July 8 in Paris, Bigham won the Accessible Technology
Award for Interface Design at the Imagine Cup, a worldwide student programming contest sponsored by Microsoft.
• The free program with audio and video demonstrations can be viewed at http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu.

For your eyes only: custom interfaces make clicking faster, easierOpen any computer program and you’re largely subject to a design team’s ideas about button sizes, fonts, and layouts.
Off-the-shelf designs are especially frustrating for people with disabilities and the elderly. A new approach for design
would put each person through a brief skills test and then generate a customized version of the user interface optimized for his or her vision and motor abilities. Computer Science & Engineering doctoral student Krzysztof Gajos
and Professor Dan Weld designed the system, called Supple.The first applications will likely be Web-based.
• For more information and a video demonstration: http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42817

Toxic Chemicals (from page 9)“Nearly 100 volatile organic compounds were
emitted from these six products. Plus, five of the six
emitted one or more carcinogenic ‘hazardous air pollutants,’ which have no safe exposure level according to
the Environmental Protection Agency,” Steinemann said.
For instance, a plug-in air freshener contained morethan 20 different volatile organic compounds, sevenregulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review published
her study online in July. Steinemann has not disclosed
product brand names. A subseqent study (submitted for
publication) analyzed 25 cleaners, personal care products,
air fresheners, and laundry products and confirmed thatall brands of fragranced products contained similar toxic
chemicals — even ones called “organic”and “natural.”In earlier work, two national surveys published by
Steinemann and a colleague in 2004 and 2005 found thatabout 20 percent of respondents reported adverse healtheffects from air fresheners and 10 percent reported such
effects from laundry products vented to the outdoors.
While the Food and Drug Administration requiresthat cosmetic packaging list ingredients, no law requires
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dients or those in fragrances, even if toxic. “These chemicals are a concern due to the potential for involuntary
exposure,” Steinemann said. “I’d like to see better labeling, and I hope this study will raise public awareness andhelp reduce exposures to potentially hazardous chemicals.”
Her study has drawn media coverage in 13 countries
by more than 20 newspapers, 9 magazines, 35 radio andTV stations, and more than 100 websites — among them
CBS News, Scientific American, and the Hindustan Times.

Quantum Dots (from page 8)times less toxic to the cell than the chemicals now used.
Quantum dots are not yet approved for use in
humans so the researchers are transferring their techniques to nontoxic iron oxide particles that havebeen approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
“Eventually this method could be used to treat conditions ranging from cancer to deteriorating eyesight,”
Gao said. “Our team also is working to target cancer
cells by attaching the quantum dots to specific markers
on the cell’s surface.”• For more information, http://faculty.washington.edu/xgao/

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health andthe National Science Foundation.

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Creating Futures forEngineering
UW’s Creating Futures campaign for Engineeringcame to a spectacular conclusion on June 30.
Support from alumni and friends totaled$267,564,979
We are excited about every dollar, but what
is most important is their impact.
Gifts totaling $47.4 million created:

181 New Endowments
1 deanship, 5 chairs
13 professorships, 68 scholarships
58 fellowships, 36 academic support funds

State-of-the Art Facilities
Other private support helped construct two
new buildings and upgrade a campus gem:
The Paul G. Allen Center for
Computer Science & Engineering
William H. Foege Genome Sciences& Bioengineering Building
Guggenheim Hall

10,000+ alumni, friends, foundations, andcorporations participated in Engineering’s campaign.
We are grateful. In this special section of The Trend,
we celebrate your generosity.

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Impressive Results
Participants ~THE POWER
OF NUMBERS
During the Beijing Olympics we learned the Chinese regard
the number eight as auspicious, signifying prosperity.
Perhaps that holds for the UW community too, as weconclude eight years of Campaign UW in 2008. Engineers
know that numbers have power, at least in mathematical
if not cultural expression, and our numbers are huge!
Thanks to more than 10,000 alumni, friends, andcorporate partners, we surpassed our goal and raised over$267 million. We are deeply grateful for the generosityof so many whose gifts ranged from $1 to $16 million.
No matter the size, each means someone cares about ourstudents and educational mission.
Extraordinary giving is both essential and transformative. Private support is now the third largest source offunding for engineering education and research. With
state dollars primarily earmarked for faculty salaries, thecollege must rely on private giving to create scholarships
and fellowships that provide access for students, establish
professorships to recruit and retain outstanding teaching
and research faculty, and provide unrestricted support for
student programs and projects.
Central to our success was an active and engaged
campaign committee under the leadership of recently
retired Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel. These volunteers
advised on college priorities, assisted with outreach toalumni and friends locally and across the U.S., and gave
generously of their time and resources. “Thank you” canonly begin to express our appreciation.
Our Campaign UW numbers are already generating
impact. Over $27 million in new scholarship and fellowshipendowments has begun opening Engineering’s doors
to many more promising students. This fall we hired 16
exceptional new faculty members — some hires madepossible by the $16 million in new professorships and chairsthat make us competitive with our peers.
To all 10,000 campaign participants who demonstrated
the power of numbers: Thank you! Your gifts will transformthe future — and it’s an exciting one.

Matthew O’Donnell
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering

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New donors (first-time gifts to Engineering)• 4,457 individuals• 968 organizations
6,055 donors made multiple gifts

Matching Initiatives ~UW Matching Gifts Initiative• 29 new endowments• $20.6 million gift and match total
Students First Initiative• 45 new scholarships and fellowships• $20.7 million gift and match total
Faculty, Staff, Retiree Campaign• 54 faculty, staff, and retiree donors made giftsof $5000 or more through June 30.
(FSR campaign extends through December 31)

Alumni Participation by Department
Percent

20
Percentage of alumni donors
in each department making
gifts to Campaign UW
15(to Engineering and other units)

10

5

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BIOE EE

ME MSE CEE

IE

Department

AA

CSE

TC CHEME

A transformative giftFrank and Julie Jungers
Endowed Deanshipin EngineeringFrank Jungers (ME ’47) knows
plenty about leadership. He met
presidents, kings, prime ministers,
and assorted VIPs over a 31-year
career with Arabian American Oil
Company (Aramco), the last five(1973–78) as chairman and CEO.
Based in Saudi Arabia for 27
years, he was in the hot seat during
the 1973 OPEC embargo on oil to
the United States. Jungers became
the “go-to-guy” for the U.S. media,
including an interview by Mike
Wallace on “60 Minutes.” He crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe to confer with corporate CEOs, and evenvisited the White House for a brief
meeting with President Nixon.
Jungers also led years of complex negotiations for the transfer
of Aramco ownership from U.S. oilcompany shareholders to the Saudi
government. He won plaudits formaking the right decisions at theright time, for his imaginative problem solving, and ability to engender
trust and respect at all levels fromoil field laborers to the Saudi royalfamily to the halls of U.S. government and corporations.
With strong insight on thetransformative power of leadership,
it’s no surprise that he has createdendowments to attract and support
outstanding leaders for the college.
Prime among them is The Frank andJulie Jungers Endowed Deanship inEngineering, the first of its kind at
the UW. It enabled the college torecruit Matt O’Donnell in 2006.

“I like to support programsin ways that have a big multipliereffect,” Jungers said. “The endowment was an opportunity to bring ina preeminent leader with vision andability to do things in new ways tomove the college forward.” He feels
the results are already evident in thehigh caliber of recent faculty hires,
expanding research programs, andnew methods of instruction.
An earlier endowment, the Frank
Jungers Professorship in Chemical
Engineering, drew Mary Lidstrom, ahighly regarded microbiologist, tothe UW in 1986. Lidstrom founded
and co-directs the NIH-funded
Center of Excellence in Genomic
Sciences. An exceptional scientist andadministrator, she was appointed UWvice provost for research in 2001.
“Both these endowments have
had tremendous multiplier effects,”
Jungers affirmed. “The returns they
are bringing to Engineering andthe University, in both activity andoutside funding, are worth far morethan the money I put into them.”
Raised in North Dakota andOregon, Jungers served in the Navy
during World War II, then entered
the UW to study mechanical engineering. In 1947 he joined Aramcoin San Francisco. After a transfer to
Saudi Arabia in 1949, he steadilyrose from field engineer at a refinery
into the ranks of management.
In retirement Jungers has been
busy as an independent investor
and consultant and with service toseveral corporate boards and twohigher education institutions. He
was a founding member of the UWFoundation board (1988–1992).
He and his wife, Julie, a talented
photographer, reside in Portland andBend and enjoy traveling to locales
such as Antarctica, Africa, India, theMiddle East, and Myanmar, with
China next on their itinerary.

Leadership + Private Support = CoE on the Rise
Visionary leadership, backed by strong private support, is taking the college to newheights in educational and research excellence. A few highlights:• CoE is attracting top-quality faculty who are winning major grants and prestigious
national awards. An all-time high of 16 new faculty are on board for the 2008–2009
academic year. CoE is growing!
• New cross-disciplinary initiatives in molecular engineering, alternative energy, andglobal health are forging links across Engineering departments and the University.
• New professional masters degree programs in electrical engineering andpharmaceutical bioengineering are meeting community and industry needs.
• Applications for our fall 2008 freshman class were up, including an increase inunderrepresented minorities and women — a testament to outreach programsand to expanding scholarship support for promising students.
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Support for
graduate students
Steven and Connie Rogel
Endowed Fellowship in
Chemical EngineeringB“

eyond everyone’s wildest dreams” is how Steve Rogel(ChemE ’65) sums up the great success of Campaign
UW for the University and the College of Engineering. As
chair of Engineering’s Campaign Executive Committee
he’s had a hand on the wheel of the ambitious initiative,
and in encouraging alumni to get on board.
“More than 5,400 alumni, individuals, and organizations made first-time gifts,” Rogel said. “That is asheartwarming as it was essential, given the magnitudeof the campaign. We proved engineers can open theirwallets,” he added with satisfaction.
More than doubling the number of student andfaculty endowments merits even louder toots of thehorn. “We have excellent leadership at the college andwith more support, we can keep attracting the talentnecessary to move to the next level of achievement andrecognition,” he said.
As the campaign headed into its closing months,
Rogel and his wife, Connie, contributed generously tothat effort by establishing an endowed professorship in
Chemical Engineering. They made the gift at a significant

Micron Gifts Further Innovation
A quest for ever faster and smaller semiconductor devices
drives the need to develop and incorporate new combinations of materials in chip structure. Boise-based Micron Technology, Inc. and the Micron Foundation provided advanced
equipment and funding to launch the Micron Laboratory
for Combinatorial Materials Exploration (CME) in Roberts
Hall, directed by Fumio Ohuchi,
professor of materials scienceand engineering. This year
Micron provided additional
funds to set up a new X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopymachine in a Micron CME lab
in the Physics Building, also
used by Ohuchi and his team.
14 TREND • Vol 58:2 • Autumn 2008transition time in their lives. Rogel retired in April after
11 years as CEO of Weyerhaueser, though he continues
serving as chairman of the board of directors. He andConnie, an alumna of Seattle University and member
of its board of regents, have built a waterfront home inPort Ludlow, where they plan to enjoy their boat andcontinuing proximity to Seattle and their alma maters.
They’ve had quite a journey from Ritzville, a small
wheat-farming community in Eastern Washington where
both were born and raised. The son of the local Buick
and GMC dealer, Rogel was servicing cars and trucks
by age 13 and running heavy farm machinery not longafter. Gritty summer manual-labor jobs convinced himthat earning a UW chemical engineering degree would
broaden his career opportunities.
A summer internship at St. Regis Paper Co. drew
him into the forest products industry, and following
graduation, assignments that would take him fromthe southeastern U.S. to Canada. He joined Portland’s
Willamette Industries in 1972 and worked his way up
the ranks to CEO in 1995, gaining a reputation as a
strategic thinker with a sharp eye for cost efficiencies.
From there it was a short jaunt north to Federal Way in1997 and the significantly bigger arena of Weyerhaeuser.
“I owe so much of my success to my engineering
education that I felt a need to return something to
the UW,” Rogel said. He believes the Rogel endowed
professorship comes at an exciting transition time for
the Chemical Engineering program.
“The stopwatch and bucket brigade measurementof flows and volumes is over,” Rogel said. He points
to dramatic changes in the past 10-15 years, as thediscipline has moved off a primary focus on industrial
processes and into an interdisciplinary juncture withbioengineering and medicine and work on the molecularand nanotechnology levels.
“It’s a new world, and I hope our endowed professorship will enable the department to hire or retain exceptional faculty who will forge a leadership role for the
department in this area.”Gift of property
to fund undergrads
Richard E. and Mary Lou Amen
Endowed Scholarship in EngineeringAmember of the Engineering
Campaign Executive Committee, Rich Amen shares a hometown
with Steve Rogel, a fellow alumnus
of Ritzville High School in Eastern
Washington. “He graduated a year
ahead of me, and his wife Connie
was my classmate,” Amen says.
Amen was raised on a wheat
farm, and like Rogel, operated
heavy-duty farm machinery andloved fixing cars as a teen. A ham
radio hobby sparked an interest inelectronics, and drew him to the
UW Electrical Engineering program,bucking the Coug allegiance of his
parents and brothers.

In 1965, degree in hand, Amenheaded to Palo Alto for a position
in design engineering and to earn an
MSEE at Stanford, where he later
returned for an MBA. By 1976 hehad been recruited as CEO for a
struggling tech startup producing
desktop word processors. “It was somuch fun to come into a company
and get people charged up andfocused on the goal to build thebusiness,” he says.
For his next CEO challenge,
with a corporation developing
optical character scanners, he grew
revenue 40-fold and completed its
initial public offering. In 1988 his
career took another turn when heand his wife, Mary Lou (a Seattle
University grad), founded VentureManagement Associates (VMA),a private investment banking andcorporate development firm. He
guided strategy and managed morethan 30 merger, acquisition, andfinancing projects for businesses in
the information technology sector.
Now living on the Southern
California coast and semi-retired forthe past seven years, Amen turned
his focus to real estate, buying andupgrading rental apartment buildingsin the Phoenix area. “The tenants
love it,” Amen says. “Everything I’ve
done over my whole career has had
the same themes — building value,building success, and improving the
lives of people.”Those same themes motivated
the Amens to make a gift of property
to be divided among their three almamaters. Its sale will fund the Richard
E. and Mary Lou Amen Endowed
Scholarship in Engineering, alongwith 50 percent UW matching funds
through the Students First initiative.
“We’d like to see the scholarships go to high-potential students
from Eastern Washington, where
many students need financial
support to be able to attend college
and improve their lives,” Amen says.

Campaign LeadershipCampaign Executive
Committee
Steven R. Rogel (ChemE ’65), Chair
Tom A. Alberg
Richard E. Amen (EE ’65)
Donald W. Baker (EE ’60)
Jeet S. Bindra (ChemE ’70)
Robert A. Davis (MSE ’64)
Tom H. Delimitros (MSE ’66)
Michael J. Denton
Emer Dooley (Business ’00)
Hon. Daniel J. Evans (CEE ’49)
Jeremy A. Jaech (CSE ’80)
George W. Jeffs (AA ’48)
Agnes S. Kwan (CSE ’82)
Allan F. Osberg (CEE ’45)
John P. Roundhill (ME ’73)
Donna M. Sakson (TC ’82)
Henry T. Schatz (ME ’64)
Howard W. Wahl (CEE ’57)
Sophia Zervas-Berg (Cheme ’78, MBA ’97)

Honorary Committee
J. Ray Bowen
Ark G. Chin (CEE ’52)
Mrs. John M. Fluke, Sr.
Max E. Gellert
Sally Jewell (ME ’78)
Frank Jungers (ME ’47)
Donald R. Mack (EE ’48)
Tomio Moriguchi (ME ’61)
Donald E. Petersen (ME ’46)
Joseph F. Sutter (AA ’43)

Computer Science & Engineering
Campaign Leadership
Tom A. Alberg, Co-chair
Jeremy Jaech (CSE ’80), Co-chair
Tony Audino
Kirk (CSE ’83) and Melissa Glerum
David (CSE ’86) and Cathy Habib (CSE ’86)
Brian (CSE ’83) and Suchada (CSE ’83) 		
MacDonaldBill McAleer
Linden Rhodes (Law ‘02)
Rob Short (CSE ’87) and Emer Dooley(Business ‘03)

Brad Silverberg
Ben Slivka and Lisa Wissner-Slivka(Business ’88)

Tom (CSE ’87) and Anne Snyder

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At the forefront increating value
Tom H. and A. Jeannette Delimitros
Endowed Fellowship for MSE

E“ngineering used to be described
as a calling, to be undertakenwith passion and intensity,” said
Tom Delimitros, who applied thatphilosophy to his own career inindustry and as a venture capitalist
investing in high-tech companies.
“Engineers are at the forefrontin creating value in our society.
I want to see many more young
people thinking about an engineering
career,” Delimitros said. “We needmore scholarships and fellowships
to attract the brightest students.”
To that end, Tom and his wife,
Jeannette, established an endowed
fellowship in Materials Science &Engineering that supports its firststudent this year (see sidebar).
Raised in Seattle, Delimitros wasboth a “gadget-happy kid” and atalented violinist/concert master ofthe Lincoln High School orchestra.
Unsure whether to study engineeringor music in college, he enlisted in the
Army Chemical Corps to get away
and figure out what he wanted to do.
“I realized I wasn’t good enoughfor a career as a violinist, and I liked
science, so gadgets won and I enrolled
at UW to study engineering,” he said.
A talk by Professor Jim Mueller
convinced him that ceramics was an
up-and-coming field, so he gravitatedto materials science and earned his
BS in 1963 and MS in 1966.
At Boeing he helped develop
rain erosion coatings for the SST.
His career took off when a friend
in New York offered him a position
at a company developing electronic
ceramics. More doors opened and hegained experience with companies
producing specialty chemicals for oilfield operations and water treatment
plants. During his 14-year sojournback East, Delimitros added to his
skill set, earning an MBA at Harvard.
By 1979 he was president andCEO of Magma Corporation, a“I am thankful for the freedom the Delimitros
fellowship gives me to pursue my research andeducational goals. I would like to work to improve
our national electrical, transportation, and energy
infrastructure and promote sustainable global growth.”
Brent Apgar, the first recipient of the Delimitros Fellowship, is beginning MS
work in Professor Raj Bordia’s research group. Apgar spent eight years in the Navyand was introduced to materials engineering in Nuclear Power School. He served
for four years on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Apgar believes materials
scientists can help solve “some of the greatest problems we have ever seen.”
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Houston-based producer of specialty
and oil field chemicals, which hegrew to a $100-million company.
Then came a move to Dallas as a
general partner in a venture capitalfirm. By 1987 he was a founding
general partner of AMT (Advanced
Materials Technology) and an
investor in high-tech companies. He
is now largely retired, though serves
on several corporate boards.
Delimitros never let geographic
distance get in the way of engagementwith his alma mater. He chairs
MSE’s advisory board and helped
raise funds to build Mueller Hall.
Each year he speaks to an MSE classon ethics in engineering work. He
served on the Campaign for Washington volunteer committee in the late1980s, on Engineering’s executive
committee for Campaign UW, andfor the past three years chaired theselection committee for the college’s
annual Diamond Awards program
recognizing outstanding alumni.
“Engineering offers a great skill
set for self-expression that can takeyou in many directions,” Delimitros
affirmed. “I see our fellowship asa vehicle for that. You can makethings happen if you have passion,
enthusiasm, and commitment.”
In that regard, he says, “being anengineer can be just as good as being
a musician.”
Delimitros now will apply his
passion and enthusisam to help keep
the beat going on the University
level as a new board member of the
UW Foundation.

Pastry-Powered T(o)uring Machines
Endowed Fellowship in
Computer Science & EngineeringW

hat’s not to like about young alumni who work
hard, pedal hard, and can point you to thebest bakeries in the region? And, they contributed to
the Campaign UW pie by establishing a fellowship to
support “a starving grad student” through surely themost creatively named endowment in UW history.
Meet CSE alumni Lauren Bricker (MS ’93, PhD ’98),
Ruben Ortega (MS ’94), and Paul Franklin (MS ’98).
They were among a dozen grad students and alumni
who formed a team to ride in the 1995 Seattle toPortland (STP) bike race — with the team name inspiredby CSE’s Steam-powered Turing Machine mural.
Many team members continued riding together
even as they pedaled off campus and into careers andfamily life. Bricker and Ortega have sons aged 17 and 9,
the younger of whom rode the first half of the STP thisyear. Ortega, an expert in search technology, worked at
Amazon.com for nearly 10 years and is now with thestartup Trusera.com. Bricker consults on user interface
architecture and teaches and does IT work at Lakeside
School. Franklin is a software developer at Amazon.
The three contributed to the Allen Center capital
campaign and this year organized a consortium throughthe bike team to fund a Students First endowment. They
made generous lead gifts to enable the 50 percent matchin UW funds, and by June 30 contributions had topped$256,000 with gifts from 11 alumni and friends.

From left: Paul Franklin, Ruben Ortega, andLauren Bricker. Their shirts, much-admired in thebiking community, feature CSE’s Turing machinemural on the back. The book Bakeries by Bicycle
is an essential for training rides, and the teammotto is “We live to eat ... we bike to eat more!”“We got a great education at the UW, which opened
the doors to great jobs, so we wanted to give back to
CSE,” Ortega said. “Creating an endowed fellowshipoffered a terrific opportunity to do that and the timing
was right for all of us,” Franklin noted.
“You don’t have to be a team member to contributeto the endowment,” Bricker said. “Just visit the website
to learn more.” (http://pptm.cs.washington.edu).
They plan to give the first fellowship recipient a
PPTM team jersey. If the student happens to be abiker, well, that would be ice cream on the pie because
he or she could join the group on training rides. By theway, their favorite refueling stops are Alki Bakery andCafé and Snohomish Pie Company.

Consortium gifts tap power of collaboration
Industrial Engineering Gains
Endowed Fund for Students

gifts up to $1000.” He gives annually to IE andrepresents the new generation of young alumni
philanthropists in the UW President’s Club.
A native of Pasco, Rhone transferred to theor many alumni, a consortium endowment
UW after a year at the University of Idaho on
is a perfect way to magnify the impact
a football scholarship. He chose to major inof their gifts. The opportunity to contribute
IE for its practical focus and the good tools it
to IE’s first endowed student fund certainly
provided for a career in business or industry. He
appealed to Ed Rhone (BS ’01, MS ’03). At an
credits Professor Cindy Atman for having a big
early stage of his career, establishing his own
influence on him. “Dr. Atman urged me to getendowment was out of the question.
an MS and gave me a research assistantship,”
IE alumus Ed Rhone
Giving back to IE is a high priority, though,Rhone said. “Contributing to the IE Endowed
and he made his first gift after joining Lake Partners, aFund is a way I can repay that and help current students.”
business strategy consulting firm in downtown Seattle.
Gifts from 115 donors including alumni, faculty, staff,“The company instills the importance of supporting
students, friends, and organizations total $122,737 to date,
community organizations,” Rhone said, “and they matchand qualified for $61,309 in Students First matching funds.

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Honor Roll of Donors
This honor roll reflects cumulative gifts and pledges of$5,000 and above made between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.

~ Individuals & Family Foundations ~$1 million and above$250,000 to $499,999

Tom A. Alberg
Paul G. Allen
C. Gregory Amadon
Anonymous Gifts-Friends
David AuthWilliam and Elizabeth Baxter
Wilma Bradley
Donald* and Ruth Mary Close
Ursula Crawford
Bill and Melinda Gates
Jeremy and Jacquelyn Jaech
Frank and Julie Jungers
Paul and Mei-Yea LiaoCharles and Helen Matthaei
Steven Mylroie
Allan and Inger Osberg
Jonathan Pool
Linden Rhoads
Barbara Robinson
Frank Robinson
Steven and Connie Rogel
Henry Schatz
Brad and Jan Silverberg
Charles Simonyi
Karsten* and Louise Solheim
Howard and Carroll Wahl
Benjamin Slivka and Lisa Wissner-Slivka
Michael Wolf and Anne Dinning

Richard and Mary Lou Amen
Edward Ammer
William and Marilyn Conner
Ronald Crockett
Tom and Jean Gibbs
Robert and Cori Glaser
James Gray*
Donald and Cindy Hacherl
Gary and Christine Kimura
William Kipple
Todd Laney
Shun-Tak Leung
Paul and Yaffa Maritz
Anthony and Elizabeth Naughtin
Alan Nelson
Raymond and Louise Pedrizetti
Richard and Terri Rashid
Andy Studebaker
Robert and Irene* Sylvester
John and Patricia Torode
David and Marsha Weil
Flora Winter$500,000 to $999,999
Corin Anderson
John and Sandra Baxter
Edward and Wanda* Bock
Dale and Sally Brooks
Jeff Dean and Heidi Hopper
Max and M. Carol* Gellert
Kirk and Melissa Glerum
David and Catherine Habib
Kenneth and Margaret Hoyt
George and Lorraine Johansen
Thomas and Tricia Rehm
Jean Schuler
Robert Short and Emer Dooley
Charles and Virginia Wright*Deceased$100,000 to $249,999
Christopher and Mary Allard
Eugene Allen*
Tony and Michelle Audino
Jonathan and Shelley Bagg
Rex and Reva Bates
Marjorie Bevlin
A. Kumar and Roberta Bhasin
Jagjeet and Janice Bindra
David and Caroline Browne
Kenneth and Joanne Burkhardt
John and Laurel Coltart
Walter Cook
Robert and Claribel Davis
Tom and Jeannette Delimitros
Michael Denton
Donald* and Phyllis Dorset
Herbert and Patricia Drosdat
Gilbert Drowley
Cornelius Duffie
Michael ElkeDonald and Diane Emon

Betty Frick
Ed and Kathy Fries
Richard Tait and Karen Fries
Robert Fries and Debra Dahlen
Will Gillett
Michael and Hannelore Gresser
Gerald and Carolyn GrinsteinMark and Carolyn Guidry
Neil and S. Ann Hawkins
Warren and Sally Jewell
Rodney and Methyl Knudson
John and Sharen LaVillettePaul Leach and Susan Winokur
Daniel Ling and Lee Obrzut
John and Cristi Ludwig
Brian and Suchada MacDonald
Louis and Patricia Marsh
Roy and Darlene Martin
William and Colleen McAleer
James and Betty McCurdy
Clifford and Betty McNeal
Beverly Morgan
A. Pat and C. Beverly Miller
Lionel Ng and Chi-Chuen Chan
Ruben Ortega and Lauren Bricker
Harlyn and Eileen Prouty
John Purvis
David and Valerie Robinson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Jonathan Mark and Donna Sakson
Theodore Sarchin
James and Patricia SchaderRichard Scherrer
John and Carolyn Schwager
Robert and Kristine Shanafelt
George W. Snyder*
Mary Thornton
Theron and Kalee Tock
Mark Tuttle and Lisa Messing Tuttle
Rao and Usha VaranasiFrank and Jane Wagstaff
Wen-Hann and Irene Wang
Gary Williams
Craig and Gretchen Wittenberg
Brian Yamasaki and Debora Chen

Jungers
deanship gift

CAMPAIGN UW Engineering Milestones uFirst $1-million gift

131 Endowments
Market value $64.7 million

Allen Center
opens

2/02

9/00

2000

10/03

Paul G. Allen Centernaming gift

9/03

2001

2002

2003
$100 million
reached
12/02

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First TC
endowedscholarship
12/03

2004

$50,000 to $99,999$25,000 to $49,999

Stephen Arnold and Laurie Bauman
Lyle and Marsha Asplin
Winslow and Linda Buxton
Harold and Anita Campbell
Rose Christie
David and Devon Cohn
Douglas and Jill CrowDavid Cutler and Debbie Girdler
Paul Franklin
Nicholas and Mary Graves
Allan Hoffman
Naveen and Anu Jain
George and Enid Jeffs
Harold Kawaguchi and Shaun Hubbard
Scott Kildall
Kristin Kildall
Pavel Khijniak
Agnes Kwan
Scot and Diana Land
Mark and Nicole Lawrence
Steven and Arlene Lazarus
Donald Lobo and Mari Tilos
Lawrence Medwin and Eleanor Hertzberg
Richard and Susan Martin
Ruth Meese*
Dorothy Mills
Dale and Marjorie Myers
Russell and Whitney Paul-Jones
Arthur and Linda Pederson
Gary and Pauline Sager
Katie Sako and Kendall Flint
Mary Tecklenburg
Arthur Thue
Jack and Sallie Tuttle
James* and Virginia Webster
Stewart and Teresa Wu

Paul and Kathleen Anderson
Jean-Loup and Diane BaerDavid and Leigh Bangs
Pauline Batchelor*
Samuel and Ardis Beard
Gwendolyn Bell
Gordon BellPhilip Bernstein and Luisa Recalcati
Robert and Nancy Betcher
Ted Biggerstaff and Patricia Downey
Carl Binding
Byron and Sheila Bishop
David Bonn
Stephen and Sylvia Burges
Robert and Nancy Burr
Richard and Martha Draves
Joseph Duncan
Richard Edwards and Anita Gale
Daniel and Nancy Evans
Bruce Forstall and Linda Plato*
Jennifer Flexman
Steven Frank
Rolf-Dietrich and Beate Fromm
Tetsuya Fukuoka
Peter and Beth Golde
Hellmut and Marcy Golde
Dwight and Dorothy Gowdey
Keith* and Claire Grinstein
Keith Grochow
Scott and Susan Hauck
Paul Hertzberg
James and Suzanne Hewitt
Gregory and Lisa Hitchcock
Lin Holley
Takashi and Tetsuko Honda
James Hoskins and Jean Hertzberg
Dennis Irvin*
Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen
William King
H. William* and Barbara KirschnerCharles Klawitter
Albert and Elizabeth Kobayashi
Richard and Linda Koffenberger
Michael and Deborah Koss
Bruce Kuramoto and Yumi Takeuchi
Edward Lazowska and Lyndsay Downs
Rebecca Liebman
Greg and Corina Linden
Marilyn Lytle
Donald and Sally Mack
Mary Maybee
Kelly McGeeFirst ME
endowed chair

Foege Bldg
opens

6/04

3/06

2005		
$150 million
reached12/04

2006			

Michael McKibben and Sarah Merner
Richard and Kathryn MiyauchiPeter ModelDavid and Jacquelyn Moore
Joseph and Marian Mullally
Craig and Marie Mundie
Cameron and Linda Myhrvold
Brandt and La Vey Norquist
David Notkin and Catherine Tuttle
Kenneth Oien
Judith Ramey
Rao and Satya Remala
Bard and Julie RichmondLouis and Carol Scharf
Michael and Jackie Schmidt
Richard and Joanna Segal
William and Christa ShacklefordThomas and Anne Snyder
Charles Stephens
Michael Templeman
J. Hayden Thomas and Shannon Bell
Padma and Sridevi Venkata
Douglas and Margaret Walker
Daniel Weld and Margaret Rosenfeld
Edward Wenk and Betty Wagner
Raymond West
Jo-Anne Wisniewski
Wayne and Wei Liu Yamamoto
Continued on page 18

First IE endowed
scholarship

Guggenheim
renovation
completed

Dean
O’Donnellarrives

9/07

8/06

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6/08

312 Endowments
Market value $151.4 million

2008$250 million
reached2/08$268 million
reached6/30/08

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CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008$10,000 to $24,999
Douglas and Barbara AllanDavid and Vickie Allstot
James and Maureen Anable
Arnold and Ellen AndersenCharles and Barbara Anderson
Dennis and Connie Anderson
Thomas Anderson and Robin Briggs
Leo and Judith Azure
Frederick Bachmann*
Gregory Badros
Leonard and Dorothy Barlow
Joseph Benezra*Mark and Judith Benjamin
Arvid Berg and Sophia Zervas-Berg
Jay* and Mary Berkman
Christophe Bisciglia and Theresa MacDuff
Curt Blake and Kelli Curtis
Karl Bohringer
Derek BoothDavid Bosi
J. Ray and Priscilla Bowen
David Bradlee and Kathryn Gardow
Suzanne Brainard
Douglas and Nancy Calkins
Craig and Sylvia Chambers
Ark and Winifred Chin
Richard Christie
Sung ChungJohn Colleran and Michelle Kastner
Brian and Mimoza Countryman
Clyde Crawford andSidnee Andersen-Crawford
Daniel and Sheila Dahlgren
Damon and Ania Danieli
John Davis
Kurt and Suzan DelBene
Christopher D’Hondt and
Theresa Avanti-D’Hondt
Wesley and Evelyn DicksonJohn and Marilyn Dimmer
Chris and Mary-Ellen Diorio
Dempster and Sylvia Drowley
Larry and Virginia Erickson
Oren and Ruth Etzioni
Brian and Mary FabienPeter Farrell
Bruce and Patricia Finlayson
John and Susan Fluke, Jr.
Frank and Norma Fogde
Daniel Frech
Curtis and Kristine Fuehr
Bill and Mimi Gates
Joseph Gerberg
Harry and Lynn Glaze, Jr.
Keith Golden and Ellen Spertus
James and Betty Gustafson
Christopher and Rebecca Guzak
William* and Ann Hadley
Alon and Oriana Halevy
Michael and Molly Hanlon
Richard and Mary Kay Hansen
Gary Hansen
Richard and Jo Ann Harbert
Brett and Simone Helsel
Noel Henry
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Charles and Carol Hirsch
Brian and Lee Horman
Tai and Yuang HouRoderick and Patricia Howard
Patricia Hsu
George and Margaret Huang
Tudor Huddleston and Elizabeth Otis
Wendell and Carrilou Hurlbut
Satoru Izawa
Herve Jamrozik and Ana TessadroAlex and Meei-Jane Jen
James Jensen
David Johnson
Larry and Naomi Johnson
William Joyce and Diane Melde
Yoshio Kataoka
Chris and Lisa Kenworthy
Karl Kirker
Alexander Knight
Edward and Arlene Koetje
Janet Koplowitz
Leonard and Carolyn Kosonen
Mary Kravik
Jesse and Sharon Krider
Dave Larson
Robert Larson*
Walter and Heather Lee
Dennis and Jean Lee
Henry Levy and Ronit Katz
Yi-Bing Lin and Sherry Wang
Henry and Fayne Loew
Michael and Vanessa Lorengo
Henrique and Regina Malvar
Udi and Rachel ManberJohn Manferdelli and Catherine Stricklin
Matthew and Carol McIlwain
James and Patricia McManus
John and Diane Milton
Wilmarth and Josephine Mootz
Willa Mylroie
Allison Myrick
Robert Nelsen and Ellyn Hennecke
Mahlon and Jeanne Nichols
Warren and Ellen Nielsen
Bruce Oberg
Matt and Catherine O’Donnell
Grace and Richard Okita
Wayne Olson
Steven Omoto
Lloyd and Sue Otteman
Jerome and Linda Paros
Leo and Irene Peden
Richard and Edna Perrault
George Petersen
Dmitriy Portnov
Allen Potvin
Andrew and Carol Price
Ceon Ramon and Barbara Hlavin
Mamidala and Vinati Ramulu
Lois Rathvon
Paul and Sharon Reeves
Garth Reistad
Betty Richey
Larry and Beverly Ricker
James and Joyce Riley
Scott and Catherine Roberts

August and Margo Rossano
Keth Rowe and Ann Stover
Barbara Sando
Friedrich and Roberta Scholz
Richard and Judith Schweikhardt
Ralph and Loraine Scriba
Jonathan Shakes and Xi Tian
Olga Shen
James Shibley
Ward Spear
Paul Goodrich and Shannon Sperry
Scott Stark
Thomas and Janet Stoebe
Adam Stone
Helmer Sundt*
Joseph Sutter
John* and Martha Swanson
Stephen and Terri Thomas
John Thomas
Ritchie and Lorna Tilson
Gerard Tolentino
Brian Valentine
Taylor Van Vleet
Cathy Wasem
Elsie Wetter
Hugh Williams
Daniel and Joann Wilson
Ross and Bonnie Wolf
William P. Wood*
Phil Wood and Judy Mahoney
Jimmy and Gloria Yoshinaka
Clark Zentrum
Douglas Zongker$5,000 to $9,999
Einar Andersen
Arthur Anderson
Brian and Jane Andrew
Anonymous Gift – Friend
John Brew and Mary Asmundson
John Balciunas
Alan and Lois Bauer
Lois Baugh
Emilio Beltran
Kermit Bengtson*
Andrew and Deborah Berman
Brian and Carol Bershad
Jeffrey and MacKenzie Bezos
Eric Blohm
Milton and Ann Bohart
Gaetano Borriello and Melissa Westbrook
Christopher Bradley
Vladimir and Sophia Brayman
Aaron Bregel
Richard Brown
Charles Brown
George Butler and Barbara Krieger-Brockett
Neal Cardwell and Genevieve GuentherRonald Champoux
Arthur and Lisa Chan
J. Bradley Chen and Elizabetta Conti
Cary Cherng
Stephen and Robin Ching
James and Susan Claypool
Tinsely CobleRobert Cochran and Lauri McNeal
Addison and Ann Cole
Larry Cooper
Brian and Jelena CurlessDaniel and Helen Dahlgren
Denice Denton*
David Dion and Shelley Pennell Dion
Jeffrey and Jacqueline Dirks
John and Christa Donahue
John and Kathleen Ehrenberg
A. Herbert and Billee Ershig
Jake Ferderer
Hugh Ferguson
John and Lynn Ferguson
David and Patricia Fischbach
Harold and Marilyn Fogelquist
Patricia Foley
Eric Forbes
Harold and Betty Forsen
Joseph Garbini and Jamie Leschen
John and Derenda Gray
Maya Gupta
Jeremy and Kathryn* HalesCharles and Dolores Harbert
James and Debra Hartl
Terry and Carol Hartman
Darryl and Sherri Havens
Robert and Mary Hawthorn
Lucille Hebner
Stanley and May Holm
Allen Holmes
Frank and Lynda Holmstrom
Richard and Debra Howarth
Donald and Jing Huang
Harry Hull
Allen and Nettie Israel
Ivor and Doreen James
Samson Jenekhe
Patrick Jenny and Kathleen Higgins
Edwin and Kathleen Johnson
Simon Kahan
David and Anita Kaplan
John and Gloria Kasonic

Geoffrey and Erika Keith
Heng-Pin and Shirley Kiang
Yongmin and Eunai Kim
Jeffrey and Kimberly Johnson
Alan and Carolyn King
Michael and Nancy Kirk
Stephan Kleine and Gloria Van Dusen
Donald* and Julia Krick
Yasuo and Tomoko Kuga
Philip Kummer and Cynthia Weeks-Kummer
Alan and Sue Lampson
Chuck Lenzmeier
A. Gudran LeRose
Gene LeRose
Derek Leslie-Cook
Dennis Lettenmaier
Marc and Alice Levin
Mark and Bernadette Lielke
Jing Jing LongMark and Cynthia Lucovsky
William and Kiesha MacLean
Philip Magnusson
Norm* and Judy Maleng
Erik Mattson
Carol Matsumoto
Edwin and Grace Merrill
Thomas and Teresa Miller
Emmett and Carol Miller
Kent MurdochMark Murray
Joshua Newman
Brian Ngo
Jerre* and Margarete Noe
Jonathan Nowitz
Rebecca Oliver
Christopher and Allyson Olsen
Eugene Onishi
Vincent Orgovan
U-Sun and Haijoo Park
M. Dean Parsons
William and Becky Parzybok
Frank and Cheryl Perazzoli
John Perkins

Estate Gifts gfEstate of Mitchell Taylor Bowie
Estate of Paul Arnold Bundy
Estate of Paul Carlstedt
Estate of N. Craig Crawford
Estate of Clayton Emida Danner
Estate of Robert J. Dorwart
Estate of George K. Dragseth
Estate of Douglas B. Duckering
Estate of Evelyn S. Egtvedt
Estate of Ruth S. Ellerbeck
Estate of Ammie B. Ford
Estate of Bernice Frank
Estate of Ruth Frink
Estate of John H. Goldie
Estate of Louise Graves Trust
Estate of Abraham Hertzberg
Estate of Verelynn M. Hewett
Estate of Edward E. Johnson
Estate of Leon C. Johnson
Joel Manley Kenney Irrevocable Trust

Estate of Paul C. Leach
Estate of Brian W. Mar
Estate of Joseph L. McCarthy
Estate of Myrtle Louise Michalski
Estate of Ronald E. Morud
Estate of Ralph Wells Moulton
Estate of Kathleen B. Ogle
Estate of Richard Carl Outsen
Estate of Robert A. Pearse
Lawrence E. Putnam Testamentary Trust
Estate of Suparb Putnam
Estate of Helen A. Reynolds
Estate of Margaret Frances Skelton
Estate of Karsten Solheim
Estate of Frances I. Stulle
Estate of John A. Tershin
Estate of Dean D. Thornton
Estate of Henrik Valle
Estate of Alma Zaloudek

Kenneth Pierce
Ernest and Emma Pogge
Rahda PoovendranJames Prekeges
Carol Purvis
James Ramsey*
V.N. Padmanabha and Visweswari Rao
Dorothy Reed
Eddie Rhone
Jeffrey and Joanna Richey
Norman Ringlee
Gary Garrabrant and Eve Riskin
Andris and Inara Rogainis
Theodore and Shannon Romer
Samuel and Josephine Roskin
Kevin Ruddell and Heather Kroll
Patrick Russell
Scott and Mary Rutherford
Gerald and Sylvia Rutledge
Bruce and Christine Schwager
Daniel Schwartz and Susan Damon
William and Joan Scott
James Seferis and Anne Vernez-Moudon
Jane Shafer
I-yeu and Judy Shen
James and Betty Skaggs
Leon and Marian Smoot
Stephen Snelling
George and Adeena Snyder
George Soli
Anne Steinemann
H. David and Patricia Stensel
Richard and Margaret Storch
Duane Storti
Hilmer Swanson
Tsuneo Tanaka
Cameron Tangney
Arthur Teare
Ingrid TenggrenDavid Thompson and Judy Jesiolowski
Phillip and Jeanne Thompson
Jon and Kay Tompkins
Michael and Melissa Trumbore
Alberto and Jean Velez
Geoffrey Voelker
Daniel and Joyce Waldorf
Vernon and Jean Wambo
James and Diane Watson
J. William and Joan Whitaker
Anthony Wiederkehr
Valerie Williams
Alastair and Yvonne Wolman
Gary and Keri WoodJohn and Elizabeth Zahorjan
Paul and Dora Zia
Mary Zosel

Donors acknowledged here have madecumulative contributions of $5000 or more
between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.
Every effort has been made to create an
accurate and complete list. If an error oromission has occurred, please contact theCollege of Engineering donor relations
office at 206-616-8259 so we may correct
our records.

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CAMPAIGN UW: CREATING FUTURES 2000~2008

Corporate Partnership Spotlight
The Boeing Company

Sam Jenekhe, Boeing-Martin Professor ofEngineering and professor of chemistry, isusing nanotechnology methods to develop
organic solar cells with self-assembled polymer
nanowires. He watches a thermal evaporator
complete the final steps of fabrication.

The partnership between Boeing and the UW College of Engineering dates
to the earliest days of both institutions. Each year the college turns out
high-caliber, innovative graduates — and thousands have launched careers
at Boeing. Since 1986, Boeing has endowed nine faculty positions, several
honoring UW Engineering graduates who became world leaders in shaping
the aerospace industry. These endowed positions encourage exceptional
faculty to pursue fascinating, leading-edge research and to train and mentor
the next generation of engineers.
Boeing has been a true partner with the college, touching many aspectsof our mission. The company has funded directed research and donatedsurplus equipment and supplies for research and student design projects.
Boeing engineers have collaborated with college faculty and offered advice
and guidance on several student-led design projects. The company continues
to provide critical funding for scholarships, curriculum development,
and programs. Perhaps most significantly, Boeing consistently supports
our diversity initiatives, including outreach efforts for student recruiting,partnerships for K-12 initiatives, and retention programs that help students
thrive within the engineering fields once they arrive at the UW.

PACCAR

Jim Riley, PACCAR Professor of Engineering and professorof mechanical engineering, conducts research on fluid
dynamics and turbulent flows.

An endowed professorship established by PACCAR in 2001 rotates
between Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
PACCAR technical experts continue long-standing collaborative
partnerships with these departments, serving on advisory boards andproviding guidance and support for student-led design projects. A
favorite student field trip is a visit to the PACCAR Technical Centertest track in Mount Vernon to learn about the company’s technicalinnovations and observe vehicle tests. Engineering faculty and
PACCAR technical experts collaborate on research that benefits bothorganizations, such as fluid dynamics, advancements in manufacturing processes, and combustion research. These experiences at thecompany help to bring classroom learning to life for our students.

Weyerhaeuser

For many years, Weyerhaeuser has supported UW efforts to increase thenumber of students from diverse backgrounds who enter the science,
math, and engineering fields. As an early supporter of Washington MESA
(Mathematics, Science, Engineering Achievement), Weyerhaeuser plays
a significant role in expanding programs to serve teachers and develop
curricula in school districts with a significant percentage of students fromgroups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering. To
honor the success of MESA, Weyerhaeuser in 2004 established the first
endowed scholarship program for MESA program participants studying
at UW. The Weyerhaeuser Foundation furthered its commitment to thecollege by establishing the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in Chemical
Engineering to support a professor teaching and conducting research
related to the forest products industry.
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Proud of their Awards Middle school students are
excited about winning individual medals and aplaque for their school during a Seattle MESA Day
math, engineering, and science program.

~ Corporations and Foundations~$10,000,000 and above

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation

Cumulative gifts and pledges of $100,000 and above
between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2008.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
American Heart Association
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Eastman Kodak Company
Ford Motor Company
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Grainger Foundation Inc
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IBM Corporation
Intel Foundation
M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Madrona Venture Group
Pentax Corporation
The Seattle Foundation
Semiconductor Research CorporationSRI International
Tektronix, Inc.
United Way of King County
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
Washington Research Foundation
The Whitaker Foundation

HDR Engineering, Inc
High Q Foundation
Honda Research and Development 		
Company, Ltd
Industrial Technology Research InstituteInsitu Group Incorporated
J.S.S. Foundation
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center
LG Electronics, Inc
Martin Marietta Space Group
Microvision, Inc.
National Action Council for Minorities inEngineering, Inc
National Space Biomedical Research InstituteR & D Institution of Metals & Composites
RealNetworks
SAMSUNG
Siemens Corporation
Smartronix Inc
Social Venture Partners
Sony Corporation
Stroud Water Research Center
Sun Microsystems, Inc
Telcordia Technologies, Inc
Texas Instruments, Inc
Unmanned Systems Technology
Laboratory, Inc
Xilinx, Inc$500,000 to $999,999$100,000 to $249,999$1,000,000 to $9,999,999

Adobe Systems Incorporated
Alias Wavefront, Inc
Battelle Memorial Institute
Canon, Incorporated
Electric Power Research InstituteGoogle Inc.
The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc
Institute for the Study of Learningand ExpertiseInternational Computer Science Institute
Lumera Corporation
Merck & Co., Inc.
Micron Technology Foundation, Inc
Micron Technology, Inc
Montefiore Medical Center
MSNW
PACCAR Foundation
Pacific Earthquake Engineering
Research Center
Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation
Teranode Corporation
Universities Space Research Association
VisionGate Inc.
Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation$250,000 to $499,999

Advanced Technology InstituteAgilent Technologies
Akibene Foundation
American Chemical Society
Andrews Space & Technology
Archus Orthopedics, Inc
Areva T & D
Artemisinin Research Foundation
Chevron Corporation
Dragoon Technologies, Inc
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Foster-Miller, Inc

Alcoa Foundation
Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy
American Institute of Steel Construction Inc.
American Society of Civil Engineers
Amgen, IncApple Computer
Archer OpTx, Inc
ATR Research Laboratories
Avago Technologies Limited
Barlow Scientific, Inc
Biomolecular Switches, Inc
Bosch Corporation
Boston Scientific Corporation
Cabot Microelectronics Corp
Cambridge Systematics, Inc
Carl M. Hansen Foundation, Inc
Ceramatec, Inc
CESI Centro Elettrotecnico, Ltd
Chongqing Holley Holdings
Chunghwa Telecom Company, Ltd
Citigroup Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc
College Spark Washington
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
DaimlerChrysler AG
Dow Chemical Company Foundation
Dr. Clark Research Association
Economic and Engineering Services Inc
Electronic ArtsEM Photonics Inc
EMX GroupEngineering Information Foundation
ERA Digital Media Inc.
ERC Inc
Ewing Technology Associates
Ex One Corporation
Extrude Hone Corporation
Exxon Mobil Foundation

Fidelity Foundation
Fordham Street Foundation
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
GE Foundation
General Dynamics
Genie Industries
Genzyme Corporation
Health Services of Fox Chase Cancer Center
High Speed Connectivity Consortium
Hydrogen Power Inc
Information Storage Industry Consortium
Insightful Corporation
Institute for Responsible Management
Institute for Systems Biology
Integration Partners, Inc
International Vision
Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Isotron Corporation
J. David Gladstone Institutes
JP Innovations, LLC
Kronos Advanced Technologies, Inc
LaZure Scientific, Inc
Lightwave Microsystems Corporation
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Materials Resources International, Inc
MathSoft, Inc
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd
Medina Foundation
Medtronic, Inc
Mesosystems Technology, Inc
Micro Magnetics Inc
MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc
Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc
Molecular Sciences InstituteNational Applied Science, Inc
National Hemophilia Foundation
National Semiconductor
National Steel & Shipbuilding Company
New Energy and Industrial Technology 		Development Organization
Newaz Technologies, Inc
Nintendo of America, Inc
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
Nokia
PATH
PJM Interconnection, LLC
The Procter & Gamble Company
Sakson & Taylor, Inc
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Seattle Art Museum
Sequoia Scientific, Inc
Shannon & Wilson, Inc
Solar Turbines, Inc
SunPlus Technology Co, Ltd
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Swiss Federal Institute Zurich Institut
Fuer Polymer
Syshubs Global Service, Inc
T-Mobile USA, Inc
Toray Industries, Inc
Toyo Kohan Company, Ltd
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Voyager Capital, LLC
Water Environment Research Foundation
Western Digital Corporation
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Yadav Technology, Inc
Yahoo! Inc
ZymoGenetics
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2008

E ngineering
Lecture Series

Engineering Inspired by Nature
Join us for these exciting, free programs • 7 pm ~ Kane Hall 110 UW Seattle

Beyond Oil: Powering the Future Thursday, October 30, 1008
Miles P. Drake, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, andChief Technology Officer, Weyerhaeuser

Daniel Schwartz, Boeing-Sutter Professor, UW Chemical Engineering, andAssociate Dean of New Initiatives, UW College of Engineering

Transportation consumes 70 percent of the oil used in our country. But as worldwide demandfor oil soars, supplies tighten and prices skyrocket, how will we keep transportation moving?
Current and emerging technologies can quickly convert a wide range of plant matter totransportation biofuels, offering a partial solution. Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, tidal andwave power will contribute to an increasingly diversified and “greener” energy future.

Back to Nature for the Next Technology Revolution Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Babak Parviz, Associate Professor, UW Electrical Engineering
Just 40 years ago, a computer had 2,000 transistors. Today’s CPUs have one billion andtomorrow’s units will have billions and billions of tiny components. But they can’t be
manufactured with today’s technology. So where do we turn? Engineering researchers
such as Bakak Parviz are studying nature on the nanoscale to create the next technology
revolution. Imagine using DNA as a template to ”grow” electrical devices, or custom
designing molecules to build transistors. It could transform our future.
The lecture series is sponsored by theCollege of Engineering in partnershipwith the UW Alumni Association.

All lectures are free, but seating is limited. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Register online at UWalum.com or by calling 206-543-0540.
http://www.engr.washington.edu • Tel: 206.543.0340 • Fax: 206.685.0666

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