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Chairman’s Corner Included in these endeavors are the LA Council
changes now taking place within the Los
by: Ray Aker Angeles Council, ECI and WESCON. All Election Results
should learn and know of these changes, By: Kip Haggerty
The Month of some of which have been reported in pre- The Tellers Committee for the IEEE
February is Engi- vious Bulletins. We will now have a new Los Angeles Council 2001 Fall Election
neers’ Month, slate of Council Officers, and we are met on 27 December 2001 to count the
and the last week working to mold a new WESCON within ballots received and certify the election
in February is the IEEE organizational structure to best results. We would like to thank all candi-
Engineers’ Week. fit the efficiency and effectiveness of our dates who participated in this years elec-
During these present operation. tion. With their enthusiastic support we
times, many and We are now preparing to work with were able to run contested elections for
numerous pro- IEEE Headquarters to achieve the best all but one office bringing us close to full
Ray Aker
fessional meet- fit so that we can proceed to produce the compliance with IEEE nominations pro-
ings and activities will take place. They best ever WESCON Show and Conven- cedures. Our failure was one of not find-
all provide visibility to the designs and tion. Everyone’s patience and forbear- ing a second willing candidate for Vice
works of Engineers. These works thereby ance is needed to produce this fit. A Tran- Chair - Chapters and we urge all mem-
show the public the vital role that Engi- sition Committee is now being formed bers to consider running for a Council,
neers play in supporting and enhancing to work out the details of the new orga- Section, or Chapter office next fall. Fur-
the social and technical structure upon nization. You are all welcome to attend thermore, we expect the Council, Sec-
which our way of life rests. the next Los Angeles Council meeting to tions, and Chapters to consider for ap-
You are all encouraged to participate participate in organizing the new pointive office those enthusiatic volun-
in these meetings and activities, includ- WESCON structure. teers who were not successful in their bid
ing those of our brother engineering so- Again, I encourage everyone to par- for elective office this year. The winner
cieties as well as those of the IEEE. ticipate in the activities of Engineers’ for each of the four Council Offices is
Please review the Calendar section in this Week. There are several events planned identified by an asterisk (*).
Bulletin, read the technical articles that that should be of interest to all. Look at Los Angeles Council 2001 Fall Election Results
follow them and decide to attend a meet- the Calendar Listings, Meeting Notices Total Ballots Received: 103
Invalid Ballots: 3
ing and activity from among these offer- and Technical Articles to get acquainted Total Valid Ballots Received: 100
ings. At these events, you can meet new with the various activities planned just Candidates Votes For Chair
people, learn new technology and plan for you! Ray Aker 74 *
Baruch Berman 25
to be prepared for future opportunities Write In 0
and challenges. Blank 1
Of course, the first place to start your
Election Results Vice Chair - Publications
Justin M. Biddle 53 *
Engineers’ Week adventures is to attend Los Angeles Council Sumner Matsunaga 46
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a meeting of your own Council, Section, Blank 1
New Officers are:
Chapter or Affinity Group. They offer Vice Chair - Chapters
many chances for enhancing your ac- Chair — Ray Aker Arthur W. Sutton 94 *
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quaintances and knowledge. There, you Vice-Chair, Publications — Justin Biddle Blank 6
will become aware of the many new fron- Vice-Chair, Chapters — Art Sutton Treasurer
Donald Mayer 59 *
tiers of human endeavors and achieve- Jay Park 35
Treasurer —Donald Mayer
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2 February 2002 • IEEE BULLETIN
Engineers Week Activities
Monthly Meetings On
National Engineers Week is coining up February 17-23. 2002. This year’s cel- Homeland Security
ebration is co-sponsored by ASCE, DuPont and NSPE. The theme for this year’s By: Martin S. Roden
celebration is “Without Engineers the World Stops.” Visit the NSPE website
www.eweek.org for details of the National Celebration. The IEEE Los Angeles Chapters
Here is a brief list of local events and the person(s) to contact for more information. for Communications, Signal Process-
ing, and Vehicular Technology will
IAE Installation of Fellows and Orange County Engineering Coun- hold a series of monthly meetings
Awards: cil Annual Awards Banquet during 2002 with a theme of Home-
February 16th, 2002 February 24 th, 2002 land Security. Mr. Dennis Quine of
Social: 6 p.m. The Aerospace Corporation will pro-
Socia1: 6 p.m.
Dinner: 7 p.m. vide a kickoff presentation during a
Dinner: 7 p.m.
Cost: $65 per person luncheon meeting on Wed, 20 Feb.
Cost: $60 per person
Hyatt Regency, Corner of Harbor Blvd. 2001. He will provide an overview of
The Reef Restaurant, 880 Harbor Scenic
and Chapman Ave. in Anaheim. the 200-year history of homeland de-
Drive, Long Beach
Contact: Stuart Leigh 714-227-4223 fense challenges and a perspective on
Contact: Gary Sumner, 562-491-5749
Menu not finalized at time of print- our national responses. This histori-
Menu not finalized at time of print-
ing, but will allow the usual choices. cal perspective provides the founda-
ing, but will allow the usual choices.
tion for understanding the challenges
Reservations: 2/8/02 Reservations: 2/15/02
of the new era of terrorism with weap-
Inland Empire Council of Engineers San Diego Engineering Council An- ons of mass destruction, and the new
and Scientists: nual Awards Banquet: kinds of problems homeland defense
February 20 th, 2002 February 22 th, 2002 must address in the 21st century.
Social: 6 p.m. Social: 6 p.m. Mr. Quine has a B.S. in Mathemat-
Dinner: 7 p.m. Dinner: 7 p.m. ics from Florida State University, an
Cost: $25 engineers, $20 spouses Cost: $35 per person (not conf.) M.S. in Engineering Physics from Air
and/or guests, $13 students Double Tree Hotel in Mission Valley Force Institute of Technology, and an
University of Redlands, Casa Loma Room Speaker: Frank Pace, M.S. in Systems Management from
Speaker: Frank Demartino, P.E., General Atomic AeroNautical Systems, Inc. USC. He is a retired Air Force Lt. Col.
President & CEO of Parsons Corporation. Topic: Predator Remotely Operated He was with General Research Cor-
Topic: “Military Preparedness, a Pri- Aircraft System. poration from 1984 to 1988, and has
vate Section Point of View” Contact: Tom Kanneman 714-227-4223 been at the Aerospace Corporation
Contact: Art Sutton, P.E., 909-869-2524 Menu: Chicken Aubergine,Baked since 1988. He conducts support stud-
Menu: Roast Prime Rib of Beef, “Native” Sea Bass,or Vegetarian Entree. ies and analysis for several classified
Chardonnay Dijon Chicken, or Baked Reservations: 2/15/02 national space programs, and is also
Beefsteak Tomato. conducting analysis of homeland de-
The deadline fense/security issues under the Cor-
Make reservations with John Herring porate Strategic Initiative.
at 909-686-4985 prior to 2/13/02 for advertising
and editorial material Subsequent meetings in this series
Engineers’ Council (San Fernando will deal with computer security and
is the
Valley) Honors and Awards: st data processing for law enforcement
1 of each month
February 23th, 2002 applications, facial recognition tech-
preceding the date of issue. nology, computer security and data
Social: 5 p.m.
Schilling Graphics fusion.
Dinner: 6 p.m.
Cost: $65 per person Martin Roden, Professor, Electri-
626 N. Garfield Ave. cal Engineering co-chair IEEE Com-
Sportsman Lodge, 4234 Coldwater Canyon
Studio City. Alhambra, Ca. 91801 munications/Signal Processing/Ve-
Contact: Lloyd Higginbotham, (626) 281-8907 (Phone) hicular Technology Chapters, Califor-
818-992-8292 nia State University, Los Angeles
(626) 289-1762 (Fax) 5151 State University Drive Los An-
Menu not finalized at time of print-
ing, but will allow the usual choices. E-mail: geles, CA 90032, (323) 343-4485,
schilling@sbcglobal.net FAX: (323) 343-4547
“Note New start time of 5 p.m.”
IEEE BULLETIN • February 2002 3
IEEE LAC Meeting Calendar for February / March 2002
AEROSPACE & ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS/INSTRUMENTATION & have to move to a larger facility. RSVP is very important so we can keep
MEASUREMENT/GEOSCIENCE & REMOTE SENSING/OCEANIC you informed of any location changes.
ENGINEERING, LAC CHAPTER ______________________________________________________
No meeting announcement for February COMPUTER SOCIETY, LAC CHAPTER ALONG WITH THE
______________________________________________________ ACM (ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTING MACHINERY)
ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, LAC CHAPTER Who: Wayne Smith
No meeting announcement for February What: Information Architecture on the Wild, Wild Web:
______________________________________________________ When: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION/MICROWAVE THEORY AND Time: 8:00 pm talk, 7:00 pm dinner (optional)
TECHNIQUES, FOOTHILL CHAPTER Where: Ramada Plaza, Lobby Level
No meeting announcement for February A map for Ramada Plaza can be found at this website:“http://
______________________________________________________ www.calendarlive.com/E/V/LAXCA/0001/18/74/1.html
RSVP: mail to: fkoo@ieee.org
BUENAVENTURA SECTION
_____________________________________________________________
No meeting announcement for February
______________________________________________________ ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY SOCIETY, LAC CHAPTER
No meeting announcement for February
CALTECH/MIT ENTERPRISE FORUM _____________________________________________________________
No meeting announcement for February
ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, LAC CHAPTER
______________________________________________________
No meeting announcement for February
CENTRAL COAST SECTION _____________________________________________________________
Who: TBA ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT/EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL
What: TBA
COMMUNICATION, LAC CHAPTER
When: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Where: Cal Poly Engrg. Bldg. 20, Rm. 206 No meeting announcement for February
Details: Refreshments available around 6:30 pm _____________________________________________________________
Parking: stop at kiosk on Grand Ave & say “IEEE meeting” FOOTHILL SECTION
Contact Stephanie Allen at sallen@calpoly.edu for an e-mail of particulars Who: Mr. Frank Demartino, P. E., President and Chief Operating
See Web for latest info: www.ieee.org/central_coast Officer of the Parsons Corporation
John T. Armstrong, 1740 Portola St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-4716 What: Military Preparedness, a Private Section Point of View
805-541-5702, Fax 541-3457, Cell 704-9666 When: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
______________________________________________________ Where: Casa Loma Room at the University of Redlands. Social hour
CHINA LAKE SECTION begins at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m.Cost of the dinner is $ 25 for
No meeting announcement for February engineers, $ 20 for spouses and guests, and $ 13 for engineering students.
______________________________________________________ From west, exit I-10 at University in Redlands. Go left on to University.
From east, exit at Cypress, go left two blocks, and turn right onto
CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS/ELECTRONIC DEVICES, LAC CHAPTER
University. From either direction follow University 0.8 mile (north) to
No meeting announcement for February
Brocton (next stop sign after Colton). Turn right onto Brocton (east) and
______________________________________________________
after one block turn right in either 3rd or 4th driveway to enter parking lot.
COASTAL LOS ANGELES SECTION (Ted Runner Stadium will be on opposite side of Brockton.) The Casa
No meeting announcement for February Loma Room is on the east side of the lot. Reservations by Wednesday,
______________________________________________________ February 13 to John Herring, 5443 Argyle Way, Riverside, CA 92506
COMMUNICATION/SIGNAL PROCESSING/VEHICULAR (909) 686-4985. Make checks payable to IECES. State choice of Roast
TECHNOLOGY, LAC CHAPTER Prime Rib of Beef, Chardonnay Dijon Chicken or Baked Beefsteak
Who: Jim Takach, Dir. Advcd. Prgrms CDMA Devpmnt Grp. Tomato. For information call Art Sutton (909) 869-2524.
What: CDMA 2000 ______________________________________________________
When: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION SOCIETY, LAC CHAPTER
Where: Wyndham Gardens Hotel, 3350 Ave. of the Arts, No meeting announcement for February
Costa Mesa, CA 714-751-5100 _____________________________________________________________
Dinner: IEEE members $18.00 with advance reservations, $23.00 at the LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS, LA METROPOLITAN CHAPTER
door Non-IEEE members: $23.00 & $28.00 respectively Students with No meeting announcement for February
IDs $5.00 No charge for technical portion of the meeting only. ______________________________________________________
RSVP: e-mail to Martin Roden at m.roden@ieee.org or, 343-4485 FAX: MAGNETICS, MAG 33 SOCIETY, LAC CHAPTER
(323) 343-4547 No meeting announcement for February
--------------- _____________________________________________________________
Who: Dennis Quine of The Aerospace Corporation METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES/PES
What: Kickoff presentation on Homeland Security as part of monthly series. No meeting announcement for February
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2002. NOON - 1:30 P.M. _____________________________________________________________
Where: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo ( See Important Note Below) MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, LAC CHAPTER
Cost: No charge for meeting. Suggested donation for lunch is $5.00. No meeting announcement for February
RSVP: Respond to m.roden@ieee.org. _____________________________________________________________
NOTE: Location for this meeting is the Aerospace Corporation. However we may
4 February 2002 • IEEE BULLETIN
Mini-Lasers And Silicon On Sapphire Technology Lead
IEEE LAC Meeting Calendar for
Febraury / March 2002 To Speedier And Cost-effective
Interconnects Between Computer Chips
Replacing Wires With Optical Components for high-performance
Chip-to-chip Communication
MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES,
SFV CHAPTER By using light beams in place of metal laser beam, the Johns Hopkins research-
Who: Joe Ellison, Senior Vice President, wires, engineers at The Johns Hopkins ers believe a signal could move 100 times
Morgan Stanley University have devised a cost-effective faster than it does along a metal wire. Also,
What: “Keys to Successful Investing” way to speed up the way microchips talk” the optoelectric interface circuits require
When: Thursday, February 21st, 7:30 PM
Where: Morgan Stanley, 335 N. Maple Dr., to each other. The method, created by a much less power because the sapphire sub-
Suite 150, Beverly Hills, CA team in the Department of Electrical and strate is an insulating material, not a semi-
Details: RSVP M&O 800-275-8765 or Computer Engineering, takes advantage of conductor. This property of the substrate
mostaff@mo-rep.com, free parking, http:// unusual characteristics associated with sili- reduces the power dissipation that com-
www.mo-rep.com/sfvmtt.htm,
____________________________________
con on sapphire technology, a new way to monly occurs in modern microprocessors
ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTERS OF THE manufacture microchips. when signals travel through wires that have
IEEE COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION “We’ve developed a very fast and cost- capacitances. which are parasitic compo-
SOCIETIES effective way of getting data on and off a nents that not only degrade the signals but
No meeting announcement for February also increase the power cons consumption
________________________________________
chip without using wire,” says Andreas G.
POWER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY, LAC Andreou, a professor in the department and of the system.
CHAPTER director of the lab in which the work was The now design is expected to signifi-
________________________________________ done. “It really promises to revolutionize cantly speed the movement of data be-
POWER ENGINEERING SOCIETY, LAC how computer systems for homes and tween electronic components (across a
CHAPTER
No meeting announcement for February
businesses are put together.” single chip and from one chip to another
________________________________________ Andreou’s team relies on the same fiber for a simple reason. “Without the parasitic
REGION 6 SOUTHERN AREA optics technology that is used to carry phone capacitances, it’s much faster to send sig-
No meeting announcement for February nals at the speed of light,” says Alyssa
________________________________________ conversations across great distances. These
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY SECTION components are incorporated into a new type Apsel, a doctoral student in the Anderou’s
No meeting announcement for January of microchip technology. The microchips lab who helped developed the system.
________________________________________ inside most modern computers are as- Andreou and Apsel wrote about the
SOCIETY ON THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS sembled on thin slices of silicon, a material breakthrough in an article published in the
OF TECHNOLOGY, LAC CHAPTER that is a semiconductor. The Johns Hopkins November 2001 issue of IEEE Circuits a
No meeting announcement for February engineers use microchips in which silicon Systems Magazine. Their co-authors were
____________________________________ is layered onto thin slices of synthetic sap- Zaven K. Kalayjian, a former Johns
SOLID STATE CIRCUITS, JOINT LAC/OC
phire, a material that is an insulator and also Hopkins doctoral student; Phillippe 0.
CHAPTER
No meeting announcement for February allows light to pass through it. Pouliquen, a Johns Hopkins postdoctoral
________________________________________ In the microsystem devised by Andreou’s’ fellow, Ravi A. Athale, formerly of George
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AFFINITY s team, a signal that originates in a wire is Mason University and now at the Defense
GROUP, COASTAL LOS ANGELES SECTION transformed into light and beamed through Advanced Research Projects Agency
No meeting announcement for February the transparent sapphire substrate via a la- George Simonis of the Army Research
________________________________________
ser that is only slightly larger than a human Laboratories, and Ron Reedy of the Per-
IEEE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTRE
No meeting announcement for February hair. Microlenses and other optical compo- egrine Semiconductor Corp. Also, in the
____________________________________ nents, manufactured at the same time as the Sept. 13, 2001, issue of the journal Elec-
electronic circuits on the microchip, collect tronics Letters, Apsel and Andreou re-
the light beam and guide it to another place ported on this new design and described a
Election Results on the microchip or, using an optical fiber, high-speed. very-low -power optical re-
move it to another chip. ceiver that uses this new technology.
San Fernando Valley Section
At its destination, the light enters a high- The project was supported by grants
new officers are:
speed optical receiver circuit that trans- from the Army Research Laboratories and
Chair — Ramin Roosta forms the stream of photons into a stream the National Science Foundation.
Vice-Chair —David Franklin of electrons that continue their journey Johns Hopkins University news releases can
through electrical wiring connected to be found on the World Wide Web at http://
Secretary — Chris Maddox www.jhu.edu/news_info news/Information on au-
other computer components. By using tomatic E-mail delivery of science and medical
Treasurer —Mehrdad Zomorrodi optical signals, or simply an unhindered news releases is available at the same address
IEEE BULLETIN • February 2002 5
Calendar
Calendar Articles Articles
Information Architecture top technology program of the CSUN Military Preparedness, a
on the Wild, Wild Web: Continuing Education program in 1986.
Private Sector Point of View
He has been a network manager at a large
Improving the Structure, Presen-
UC campus and has also taught Finan- Frank Demartino President and Chief
tation, Accessibility, and Seman-
cial and Managerial Accounting at a lo- Operating Officer, Parsons Corporation
tics of Our Electronic Content cal community college. From 1991 to (See Meeting Foothill Chapter
By: Wayne Smith, Director, Office 1994, Mr. Smith supervised a team of Section Calendar)
of Information Technology, College of programmers who designed and devel-
Business and Economics, California oped a major magazine imposition data- Immediately following the events of
State University, Northridge, base and layout computer application for September 11, 2001, Parsons Corpora-
wayne.smith@csun.edu a Fortune 125 printing firm. tion, like many of the other major engi-
(See Meeting in the IEEE Computer Reliability Mr. Smith is currently the Director of neering and construction companies was
and CPMT Societies Chapter Section Calendar) Technology in the College of Business asked to respond to numerous requests
Administration and Economics at CSUN for assistance for the federal government
Deciphering the W3C alphabet soup
where he helps manage the technology and public and private sectors. Mr.
(XML, CSS, SVG, DOM, SOAP, RDF,
needs for 5,000 students, 150 faculty, and DeMartino will discuss several of the
WAI, P3P, etc.) for publishing standards-
35 staff. Mr. Smith has daily contact with more interesting challenges being ad-
based documents on the World Wide Web
students, most notably as the faculty ad- dressed by the engineering community in
is rapidly becoming a full time job.
visor to the Management Information the post 9/11 environment.
Moreover, each of the “document” stan-
dards has subtle technological, architec- Systems Association student organization For details see Calendar Section
tural, design, and organizational and as a frequent guest lecturer in the Wednesday Military Preparedness, a Pri-
touchpoints. Understanding the genesis, College. He has some enterprise-wide vate Sector Point of View Frank
direction, and status of each of the W3C involvement as well, including network Demartino President and Chief Operat-
standards is increasingly critical in a and server management, implementation ing Officer, Parsons Corporation.
highly interconnected world. of ERP (Peoplesoft) systems, developing
Probably the most ambitious initiative custom DSS/OLAP solutions, classroom
multimedia design, strategic planning and WESCON NEEDS YOUR HELP!
yet is the one to build the “Semantic
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In the past two years, Mr. Smith has Anaheim, CA USA
tic meaning on the Web. This presenta-
been involved in doing pro bono work As many of you know, the LA Council
tion will summarize these activities and is a co-sponsor of Wescon. IEEE’s world-
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Biography of Presenter:
area of hiring and selecting quality IT Wescon is currently looking for volun-
Mr. Smith has been involved with teers to serve on Attendance Promotion
computers since 1975. He graduated with professionals and executives. Mr. Smith
and Technical Advisory committees. If
a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Man- is a licensed amateur radio operator and
you’re interested in joining the Wescon
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(CSUN) in 1984, and is currently a doc-
toral student in the School of Informa-
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tion Science at Claremont Graduate Uni- Consulting Engineer in H. Clark Bell Ph.D., P.E., Consulting Engineer
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“Herbie Hydrant” Wins Best Consumer Electronics Product in the 2001
Hammacher Schlemmer Invention Contest
By: David Whitmoyer
Tragedy prompts veteran fireman to invent innovative child safety product
It’s a product firefighter Mike Lucas And Herbie Hydrant is already receiv- posed to the smoke. There is even a stor-
wishes he didn’t have to invent. But, a ing rave reviews from some of the top age compartment where pertinent medi-
fire tragedy years ago led Lucas on a product development experts nationwide cal records of the child can be kept for
mission to create a product called Herbie as well. Out of more than 550 entries, the quick reference by rescuers. If a child is
Hydrant that would help in similar disas- product was named Best Consumer Elec- not able to make it out of the fire, the
ters all over the world. tronics Product in the prestigious lights and alarm aid the firefighters in
While fighting a residential fire in Hammacher Schlemmer Invention Con- locating the child.
Vail’s Gate, New York, Lucas and his fel- test on November 12, 2001.http:// The company is producing a long list
low firefighters sought desperately to find www.herbiehydrant.com of additional fire safety education acces-
two small children lost in the burning Herbie Hydrant is a kid-friendly, sories and Herbie will soon be available
home. When the children were finally multi-dimensional unit designed to be for fundraising efforts and fire education
found, they had died from smoke inhala- perched beside a child’s bed. In the event services for firestations, EMS depart-
tion. Lucas says this haunting experience, of a fire or other emergency, children are ments and schools nationwide. http://
one that is shared all too often by taught to grab Herbie to help them find w w w. h e r b i e h y d r a n t . c o m / d o c s /
firefighters across the nation, led him to their way to safety. Once lifted from the fundraiser.htm
take action. With no previous invention mounted base, Herbie’s flashlight shines, Herbie will also be available in retail
or product development experience, an alarm bellows and strobe lights flash. outlets nationwide in the months to come.
Lucas set forth the arduous task of bring- Additionally, the unit’s digital timer be- In keeping with Lucas’ original intention,
ing Herbie Hydrant to life — soon to be gins, letting emergency personnel know portions of all proceeds from Herbie
followed by Holly Hydrant. how long the child may have been ex- Hydrant will be donated to the Burn Cen-
ters of America.
IEEE BULLETIN • February 2002 7
Thinking Big On A Small Scale
USC Engineers Look For Ocean Pathogens With Swarms Of Tiny Robots
By: David Whitmoyer
The University of Southern Califor- kind of scanning probe - microscope - to David Caron, professor of biological
nia School of Engineering has received slide the “nanoscale” particles into pre- sciences and a co-investigator on the
$1.5 million research grant from the Na- cise positions on tiny slabs of mica or sili- project, said ocean robots needn’t be ter-
tional Science Foundation to create con. They can chemically link the particles ribly complicated or powerful to be use-
swarms of microscopic robots to moni- to form crude assemblies, and they can ful. A single robot might sense only
tor potentially dangerous microorganisms make “nanowires” by depositing metals whether the water is fresh or saline and
in the ocean. on strings of carefully positioned balls. communicate by a faint radio signal only
“With increasing urban runoff, sew- “We do this at room temperature and with other robots closest to it, which
age spills and blooms of harmful algae at normal air pressure, and we can also would then relay the information to other
off heavily populated coastal areas, it is work in water and other liquids, which is robots in the network linked to the
very important to be able to sense, and crucial for biological applications,” said Internet by still more robots.
then identify, particular ocean microor- Requicha. In the next year, Caron hopes to at-
ganisms quickly,” said Ari Requicha, a The group has made a nanoscale tach an antibody to a microscope tip. He
USC professor of computer science and single-electron transistor and an optical recently created an antibody that binds
the project’s principal investigator. waveguide, which is a structure used to to Aureococcus anophagefferens, the
“The quicker we learn that a pathogen guide light. They are working on an ac- toxic algae known as Brown Tide. With
is present in the water, the sooner we can tuator, or switch, and are starting to fab- the same procedure widely used to test
warn people and begin action to correct ricate more complex 3D “nanostructures” for HIV and other diseases, he can reli-
the situation.” The project spans the fields by building up successive layers of ably test for the algae.
of nanotechnology, robotics, computer nanoscale assemblies. Each layer is sur- “That test takes a day in the lab, which
science and marine biology, but is cen- rounded by a “sacrificial” material that is an improvement over current testing,
tered on the development of the ultra- holds it in place and that is removed when but it’s still not fast enough,” said Caron.
small robotic sensors and software sys- all the layers are complete to leave a tiny The microscope should detect the algae
tems to control them. nanoelectromechanical device. Sub- the instant a microorganism binds to the
Requicha directs the USC School of stances being investigated for use as the antibody on its tip.
Engineering’s Laboratory for Molecular sacrificial material include charged poly- Requicha estimates that it will be a
Robotics where his team has been experi- mers, zinc phosphonate films and organic decade before the researchers can build
menting with nanometer-scale structures compounds containing silicon known as and deploy nanoscale robots in the ocean
for nearly seven years. One nanometer is silanes. Requicha said it will be possible capable of the kind of instant and spe-
one/one-billionth of a meter - roughly the to build nanoscale devices with electri- cific test like Caron’s for Brown Tide.
length of a yardstick. A nanometer is to a cal and mechanical components so that Along the way, he hopes the project will
meter what a small grape is to the entire the devices could propel themselves, send spin off technology in marine biology and
Earth. electronic signals and even compute. other areas. “Suppose we put 15-nanom-
In the 1980s, scientists discovered that While individual nanoscale devices eter particles on a grid with 100-nanom-
the sharp silicon tip of the newly invented would have far less computing power and eter spacing, which we can routinely do
scanning probe microscope not only pro- capability than full-sized devices, the in our lab today. If we interpret the pres-
duced images revealing individual atoms plan is to have vast numbers of them op- ence of a particle as a binary one and its
and molecules, but it sometimes moved erating in concert. absence as a zero, we have a scheme to
them. The computer-controlled micro- It often takes Requicha’s team weeks store data,” he said. “The bit density is
scope scans microscopic samples, sens- to assemble even a simple nanoscale ob- 10 gigabytes per square centimeter,
ing their minute atomic forces and pre- ject, but the procedure can be automated which means we have data storage that
cisely mapping the surface at a molecu- once the computer programming is per- is 100 times better than today’s compact
lar or even atomic level. fected. Other labs are working on atomic disks. And it could be even greater with
Working with colloidal gold and sil- force microscopes with more than one tip. smaller particles and spacing.”
ver balls as small as two nanometers, and Requicha said a single atomic force mi- The USC researchers will first build
string-like organic molecules called croscope could theoretically have an ar- small robots that will move, sense and
dithiols that tether the balls to each other, ray containing thousands or even millions communicate while tethered in a tank of
Requicha’s group has programmed their of tips, all controlled by the same com- water in a laboratory. They will gradu-
atomic force microscope - a particular puter program to manufacture large num-
bers of nanoscale devices. (Continued on Page 9)
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Thinking Big… The Fourth IEEE BME/ and presentation received awards in the
amounts up to $1,000 (First Place) and
(Continued from Page 8) BioTech Applications
proportionally lower were awarded for
ally progress to building and controlling Contest will take place the second, third and forth places. The
increasingly larger numbers of increas- February 9, 2002 amounts depended on the funding level.
ingly smaller freely moving robots. The
end goal of the project will be to create Also, the winners were recognized at
Eligibility: College students enrolled the awards banquet being held during Na-
robots that are as small as the microor- in six or more units whose campus is lo-
ganisms that they seek to monitor. tional Engineers Week and received com-
cated in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, plimentary tickets. The previous contests
“Today, we commonly do experiments San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, were sponsored by IEEE Engineering in
with five or ten robots,” said Gaurav San Luis Obispo, or Kern counties. Medicine and Biology, and Circuits and
Sukhatme, USC assistant professor of Theme: To develop and present a con- Systems/Electron Devices Los Angeles
computer science and a co-investigator cept using Electrical, Electronic, Bio- Council Chapters and the Communica-
on the project. “But we’ll need algorithms medical, and/or Electro-Optics tech- tions/Signal Processing Joint Chapter in
to coordinate a million or more robots. niques to assist a persons’ disability or to addition to the IEEE LAC South Bay
That is a daunting problem, and we must improve a persons’ ability to manage Section (support and sponsorship). Com-
start laying out the foundations for large tasks that usually require assistance. panies or individuals interested in the
numbers of robots long before they are a sponsorship of this event contact Dr.
reality.” Requirements and Dates: Abstract of
50 to 500 words submitted for judging Chris Druzgalski at druz@csulb.edu.
Requicha said that nanotechnology before February 1, 2002. An earlier let- For questions about this contest you may
today is at the same stage of development ter of intention to participate is strongly contact the Contest Panel members and/
as the Internet was in the late 1960’s. encouraged and should be mailed at the or judges (not more that one per partici-
“The idea that we’ll have swarms of beginning of January. All abstracts should pating institution) are: Dr. Willis Down-
nanorobots in the ocean is no more far- be typed, using no smaller than size 10 ing, CSUN; Dr. Bogdan Kuszta, Caltech;
fetched than the idea of connecting mil- font, and must not exceed four pages in Mr. Jack Iverson, IEEE/EMBS; Dr.
lions of computers was then,” he said. “I length including any attached diagrams, David Braun, Calpoly SLO; Dr. Richard
don’t think these robots will be confined schematic, and/or pictures. The concept Cockrum, CSUP; Dr. Ernesto Suaste,
to the ocean. We will eventually make submitted shall be that of the students, CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Fleur Tehrani,
robots to hunt down pathogens or and shall note all references. The stu- CSUF; Dr. David Whitmoyer, IEEE; Mr.
repaircells in the human body.” dent shall present a brief overview of the Frank Stankis, IEEE and contest coordi-
The grant is from the National Science basic concept, either a totally new idea nators: Larry Dalton, IEEE/LAC, Dr.
Foundation’s Information Technology or a conceptual modification to an exist- Chris Druzgalski, IEEE/LAC/EMB, and
Research program. Maja Mataric, asso- ing item or system. The contest will be Dr. Maryam Moussavi, IEEE/LAC/Stu-
ciate professor of computer science and held on Saturday, February 9, 2002 at the dent Activities.
director of the USC School of CSULB Campus in Long Beach, Ca.
Engineering’s Robotics Research Labo- (seewww.csulb.edu/~druz/
Awards: At the previous contests, the BMEBIOTECH)
ratories, and Deborah Estrin, a computer college students with the best concepts
networking specialist from UCLA, are
also co-investigators on the project.
NANOBIOLOGY.BC-USC-JAN. 9, 2002
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Ask an Engineer
• Question — I am a chemical engi- wheel on its support and tightening the graduate research programs, summer in-
neer working on my Masters. I would like bolts. There may be opportunity for im- ternships, and/or co-op programs avail-
to know to what extent is computer lit- provement in each task, and if they are able. Talk to professors and people in the
eracy needed to work in the chemical in- classified as one task, the opportunities workplace to try and find out informa-
dustry. I am familiar with languages like for improvement may not be as obvious. tion about various companies. The
C. To be more specific, what are the well There are a number of text books avail- internet is another good option for explor-
known packages for equipment design, able about time and motion studies. They ing companies. Also try and get involved
process design and simulations used in can be obtained at university book stores in the student section of ASME and any
the chemical industry. Can you tell me or through professional societies - try the projects/competitions that they are in-
of a site where I can obtain more infor- mechanical engineers or industrial engi- volved with, as these are often sponsored
mation. neers societies. They each have web by corporations.
Answer — Programming ability is not pages. • Question — Can you tell me about
as important as familiarity with an abil- • Question — I’m interested in engi- embedded microprocessors?
ity to use spreadsheets, databases, and neering, particularly in computers or Answer — Embedded microproces-
word processors, and other applications. computer programming. Please advise sors are ones used in systems where the
Most organizations have programmers me on the institutions that can provide software running on the processor is spe-
who take care of the programming issues. this kind of course. cific to the application. For example, a
There are a number of design, modeling Answer — A number of institutions VCR has a microprocessor and it’s sole
and simulation programs that are used, throughout the country that have com- function is to run the VCR. The micro-
and the best vary depending upon the puter programming and computer engi- processor reads input signals that tell it
specific application. neering curriculums - way to many to when the tape is put in the machine,
• Question — I have just accepted a mention here. And the selection of a which buttons are pushed, and whether
position with a manufacturing company school should involve much more that or not the tracking must be adjusted. The
requiring time and motion studies to de- just the curriculum, but things such as code running the microprocessor makes
termine cost of production and labor with religious affiliation, cost of tuition, the decisions about what it has to do in re-
the goal to reduce costs and determine area of the country in which it’s located sponse the actions of the operator. The
more efficient methods to achieve the and the size of the school. There are ref- software written for the VCR is consid-
same quality product outcome. I am in erences - such as Barrons - that can be ered embedded.
need of information or web sites that can found at book stores and libraries that • Question — Was the windshield
give me detailed information on conduct- summarize this information and rank the wiper invented by a woman?
ing these studies; how to approach the schools based upon a number of factors
Answer — Mary Anderson is credited
overall task and how to break down the including difficulty of curriculum and
with the invention of the windshield
functions into manageable segments. difficulty of admission, and provide in-
wiper. She was a southern belle with no
Answer — The first step is to list ev- formation about admission requirements.
mechanical experience. When visiting
ery task in the process to be analyzed. • Question — I am a mechanical en- NYC she felt sorry for streetcar drivers
Each task can then be broken down into gineering student who is looking for the who had to hop out and clean their wind-
smaller tasks/motions. Each task has to ideal job. My goal is to find a company shields periodically, so she designed a
be clearly defined - where it begins and with a product that I am interested in, and lever that would activate a swinging arm
where it ends. Variables that can occur then make that product better. What outside to mechanically clean the snow
within the task generally indicate that it course of study should I follow? and ice. From “Feminine Ingenuity, How
should be broken down into separate Answer — I fairly generic mechani- Women Inventors Changed America” by
tasks. For example, if 2 people are work- cal engineering curriculum, with more Anne L. Macdonald.
ing on an assembly line to make toy emphasis on the mechanical aspects that More questions and answers can
trucks. The person at station A puts the the thermodynamic/heat transfer aspects b e f o u n d a t h t t p : l l w w w. e x p a g e /
wheels on. But there are actually 2 tasks would be recommended. To explore the pagelaskanengineer6
in putting on the wheels - placing the perfect job, take advantage of under-
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