WPI Research Publication

FALL 2013

WPI Research is the research magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It contains news and features about graduate research in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering, along with notes about new grants, books, and faculty achievements.

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Thomas Eisenbarth Maria Chierichetti (for Asst. Prof., Mechanical Eng.) Tech. - PhD, aerospace engineering, Georgia Grad. Research Assistant, - Was Georgia Tech. ident tion, - Studies response and model tural ifica h structural vibrations, structural healt construc monitoring, innovative figurations for aerospace applications - Received Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International Fl PatrickProfaherty cal Eng.) ., Biomedi (for Asst. Prof., Electrical and Computer Eng.) - PhD, EE, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany - Asst. Prof., Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic U. - Works in embedded systems security, physical attacks/countermeasures, applied cryptology - NSF CAREER Award; practical leakage resilience in cryptography (for Asst. d mp. Science, - PhD, EE ania, Co rkeley Californ Be U. rd - Postdoc., Stanfo learning, ormatics, machine - Expertise: bioinf omics cancer gen at dent paper award - Outstanding lstu formation Processing In 2005 Neura Symposium - NI Scouting the Field A Multitude of Talents Just as the scouts who seek out new talent for the major leagues need to hit the road to see their prospects in action, WPI's faculty recruiters — its provost, deans, department heads, and faculty members — regularly attend conferences, review CVs, and meet with candidates, seeking out bright minds with the potential to make their mark as educators and researchers. And like those baseball scouts, they know that great teams are more than the sum of their parts; they're built with individual stars who can work together, across disciplinary boundaries, to achieve great things. Recent engineering hires have come from Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Georgia Tech, and more of the best technologically centered universities around the world. WPI also draws forward-thinking minds in the sciences, business, the humanities and arts, and the social sciences from these and other top-tier schools, providing the well-balanced education that the Institute's project-based curriculum, the WPI Plan, demands. Those recruits have helped the university build and expand a host of innovative new interdisciplinary programs in such areas as architectural engineering, environmental engineering, interactive media and game development, life sciences and bioengineering, and robotics engineering (WPI was the frst school with a BS in that feld and the frst with BS, MS, and PhD programs). As a school where undergraduate education is highly valued, Overström says WPI looks for men and women who are passionate about teaching. "We're an interesting place," he notes. "Our size and scale and our project-based approach to education allow for a deep and rich engagement with students, so we are always fltering in our selection process for those faculty members who really value that. Finding those highly skilled, highly motivated folks who understand WPI's DNA will ultimately lead to their success, which leads to the success of our students, which leads to the overall success of the institution." In a way, good teaching is like good batting. Baseball managers hope all their players will produce at the plate. But they also need each player to excel in a particular position in the feld. For WPI that means fnding rising faculty stars who have emerging research programs that will mesh well with existing research thrusts at the university, that offer opportunities to take those programs in exciting new directions, or that can help establish and build new research strengths in strategically important areas. With its focus on entrepreneurship (BusinessWeek in 2013 ranked WPI's undergraduate business program No. 1 in this area), WPI also looks for faculty members whose work can have an impact beyond the lab, notes Mark Rice, they will come. Worcester Polytechnic Institute > 27

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