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MIT SWEpresents

Welcome!The MIT Society of Women Engineers would like to welcome allgraduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff to the firstannual 2002 Engineering the Future Conference. This year’sconference theme is “Careers in High Technology.”

The purpose of this conference is to discuss the futures of up andcoming industries. This year the conference will focus on the fieldsof telecommunications and wireless, energy, biotech, andnanotechnology. Panels composed of industry experts, venturecapitalists, academics and members of regulatory agencies willdiscuss where the industry has been, where it is now and where itis headed in the future. Panelists will answer questions about thekinds of opportunities that await industry players and recentgraduates considering a career in that industry.

Highlights include keynote addresses from Sycamore Networksfounder Desh Deshpande and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert, analumni luncheon where students can network with recent alumniworking in these high tech fields, the four panel discussions and anevening banquet at the University Park Hotel.

We hope you enjoy the conference and we look forward to seeingyou there!

Sincerely,

Stephanie NorrisConference Director

Jennifer ClarkeMIT SWE co-President

Anne DreyerMIT SWE co-President

Table of Contents

About SWE 4

Agenda 5

Opening Keynote Speaker 6Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande

Second Keynote Speaker 8David Kestenbaum

Third Keynote Speaker 9Walter Gilbert

Panel: Telecommunications 10

Panel: Biotechnology 14

Panel: Energy 16

Panel: Tiny Technologies 22

Conference Organizers 26

Thanks 27

Notes 28

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The Society of Women Engineers originated when small groups of women engi-neers and women engineering students began meeting independently in Boston,New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Nearly 50 women from these groupscame together on May 27, 1950, in New Jersey at Green Engineering Camp of theCooper Union and formed the Society of Women Engineers.

SWE is a non-profit educational service organization dedicated to making knownthe need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an en-gineering education. The organization’s four objectives are as relevant today asthey were more than 50 years ago:

The mission statement, adopted in 1985, states: The Society of Women Engineersstimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders,expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in the quality oflife, and demonstrates the value of diversity.

While most SWE members are women engineers or women engineering studentslocated in the United States and Puerto Rico, anyone who supports the organization’sobjectives may apply for membership.

•To inform young women, their parents, counselors, and the public in gen-eral of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the op-portunities open to them.

•To assist women engineers in readying themselves for a return to activework after temporary retirement.

•To serve as a center of information on women in engineering.•To encourage women engineers to attain high levels of educational and pro-fessional achievement.

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Saturday, March 16, 2002Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

9:15 - 9:45 Breakfast 10-250

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome 10-250

10:15 - 11:00 Opening Keynote Address 10-250“Desh” Deshpande

11:15 - 11:45 Second Keynote Address 10-250David Kestenbaum

11:45 - 12:30 Third Keynote Address 10-250Walter Gilbert

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Stratton Student Center

2:15 - 3:45 Panels 1 & 2Telecommunications 4-270Biotechnology 4-370

4:00 - 5:30 Panels 3 & 4Energy 4-270Tiny Technologies 4-370

6:30 - 7:30 Cocktail Reception University Park Hotel

7:30 - 8:45 Dinner Reception University Park Hotel


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R Gururaj “Desh” DeshpandeFounder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is co-founder and chairman of SycamoreNetworks, Inc.

Dr. Deshpande co-founded SycamoreNetworks in 1998 with the vision ofcreating next-generation optical net-working technology that will revolu-tionize the backbone of the publicnetwork. Sycamore has already re-ceived numerous awards. The companywas named one of the Top 25 Hot StartUps (Data Communications), Hot 100Private Companies (UPSIDE), Top100 Companies of the ElectronicEconomy (Red Herring), and bothCool Companies for 1999 and Top 10Picks for 2000 (Fortune).

Sycamore’s products received theSuperQuest Award at SUPERCOMM’99 with Williams Communications;the Communications Equipment Awardin the Top Ten Hottest Technologiesfor 1999 from UPSIDE; and the Top

Ten Hottest Technologies from Tele-communications.

Prior to co-founding Sycamore Net-works, Dr. Deshpande was founder andchairman of Cascade Communications.Between 1991 and 1997, Cascade grewfrom a one-person startup to a companywith $500 million in revenue and 900employees. Cascade was named one ofthe “Top 25 Very Cool Companies”(Forbes, 1996). In June of 1997, Cas-cade was acquired by Ascend Commu-nications for $3.7 billion.

Prior to Cascade, Dr. Deshpande co-founded Coral Network Corporation in1988 and was with the company until1990. Previously, he served in variousmanagement positions for Codex Cor-poration, a subsidiary of Motorola, andtaught at Queens University inKingston, Canada.

Dr. Deshpande has garnered many topindustry honors. In 1999, both RedHerring and Massachusetts Investor’sDigest named him one of 1999’s TopEntrepreneurs and Dr. Deshpande wasnamed the 1999 Mass High Tech All-Star in the telecommunications indus-try. The MassachusettsTelecommunications Council namedhim Industry Player for 2000. In 2001,the International Institute of Bostonpresented Dr. Deshpande with theGolden Door Award, an honor reserved


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for U.S. citizens of foreign birth whohave made outstanding contributions toAmerican society. He has also been thesubject of numerous business and tradepress articles.

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.S. inElectrical Engineering from the IndianInstitute of Technology in India, anM.E. in Electrical Engineering fromthe University of New Brunswick inCanada and a Ph.D. in DataCommunications from QueensUniversity in Canada.


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David Kestenbaum became unreason-ably obsessed with small things at ayoung age. He studied quarks as anundergraduate at Yale University andin his graduate work in physics atHarvard University where he receivedhis Ph.D. in 1996. David’s thesis de-tailed part of the discovery of the topquark. David received a journalismfellowship from the American Physi-cal Society the same year, and won theEvert Clark award for young sciencejournalists in 1997. His work has ap-peared in Science magazine, The NewYork Times, The New Republic andother places. David spent a year as areporter for Science, before moving toNational Public Radio in 1999. Heloves his job.


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Walter Gilbert

Dr. Gilbert is a renowned scientist whowon a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in1980 for developing DNA sequencingtechnology. He has held professorshipsat Harvard University in the Depart-ments of Physics, Biophysics, Bio-chemistry, and Biology, and since1985, in Molecular and Cellular Biol-ogy (formerly Cellular and Develop-mental Biology). He presently holdsthe Carl M. Loeb University Profes-sorship. Dr. Gilbert received his Ph.D.in Mathematics from Cambridge Uni-versity in 1957, a M.A. in Physics in1954, and a B.A. in Chemistry andPhysics in 1953 from Harvard Univer-sity. His current research interests in-clude molecular evolution and intron/exon gene structure.

Dr. Gilbert was a co-founder of Biogen,Inc. and served as its Chairman of the

Board and Chief Executive Officerfrom 1981 to 1984. In 1992, he was aco-founder of Myriad Genetics, Inc.,and serves as Vice Chairman, and in2001, he was a co-founder of MyriadProteomics, Inc., and serves as Chair-man. In 1994, he founded MemoryPharmaceuticals Corp., of which he isa Director, and in 1996 ParatekPharma-ceuticals, Inc., of which he isChairman. In 1999, he was a co-founder of Pintex Pharmaceuticals,Inc., and serves as Chairman. Since2001, he has been a partner inBioVentures Investors. He participatedin the establishment of the Human Ge-nome Project. He received an “Entre-preneur of the Year” award in 1991from the Institute of American Entre-preneurs.


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Between the expanding possibilities of the Internet, and the fierce competi-tion amongst all players involved, the Telecommunications Industry has beenevolving very rapidly in unforeseen ways. The potential for an enormouslylucrative payoff attracted a massive investment capital influx, fueling thecreation of new companies and the rate of mergers and acquisitions. Nowfaced with a decline in the initial investment frenzy, many are left wonderingwhether new companies will provide enough revenue growth to continue theindustry improvements. What will the new ‘killer applications’ be and whatwill serve as the driver for wireless? Will broadband take off for consumers,or will it remain a business focused utility? How will optical switching shapethe industry? What careers show the greatest potential for growth? The panelcomposed of venture capitalists, industry experts and academics will debatethese issues. Moderator: David Kestenbaum.

Sanjeev Verma

Prior to founding Airvana, Sanjeevwas most recently Director ofMarketing and Business Developmentfor Broadband Networking atMotorola, responsible for wireless andwireline broadband residentialgateway solutions. Sanjeev has anextensive software developmentbackground, which includes leadingthe development of Motorola’s firstV.34 modem. He was also a seniormanager in Motorola’s strategy groupresponsible for the Internet andNetworking Group’s broadband

networking strategy. Sanjeev holds anMBA from the MIT Sloan School ofManagement and an M.S. in ElectricalEngineering from the University ofRhode Island.

Vincent W. S. Chan

Vincent W. S. Chan (Principle Investi-gator) is the Joan and Irwin Jacob Pro-fessor of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science and Aeronautics andAeronautics, and Director of the Labo-ratory for Information and DecisionSystems (LIDS) at MIT. He receivedhis BS (71), MS (71), EE (72), andPh.D. (74) degrees in electrical engi-neering from MIT in the area of com-


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munications. From 1974 to 1977, hewas an assistant professor with theSchool of Electrical Engineering atCornell University. He joined LincolnLaboratory in 1977 as a staff memberof the Satellite Communication SystemEngineering Group working on mili-tary communications and networking.In January 1981, he became the Assis-tant Leader of the CommunicationTechnology Group starting a researchand development program on opticalspace communications. In July 1983,he formed and became Leader of theOptical Communication TechnologyGroup and Manager of the LITE (La-ser Intersatellite Transmission Experi-ment) Program. In 1990, he became theDirector of the AON (All-Optical-Net-work) Consortium formed among MITAT&T and the Digital Equipment Cor-poration. He became the Head of theCommunications and InformationTechnology Division of Lincoln Labo-ratory until joining LIDS in 1999. Hecurrently also serves as the principalinvestigator of a Next GenerationInternet Consortium (ONRAMP)formed among AT&T, Cabletron, MIT,and JDS Fitel and another SatelliteNetworking Consortium formedamong MIT, Motorola, Teledesic andGlobalstar. He is a member of theBoard of Directors of Vitesse Semicon-ductor Corporation and the Chairmanof its Technical Advisory Board. Healso serves on the Technical AdvisoryBoards of Agility Communications,Axiowave Networks (Chairman), andLaersharp (Chairman) and is a mem-ber of the Strategic Advisory Board ofLoral Space Corporation. He is a mem-ber of the DARPA (Defense Advanced

Research Project Agency) ISAT (Infor-mation Science and Technology) Com-mittee. His research interests are inoptical communications, wireless com-munications, space communicationsand networks. He is a Fellow of theIEEE and the Optical Society ofAmerica.

David E. Schantz

David Schantz joined Matrix Partnersin January 1998. From 1996 to 1998he was director of product managementand marketing and was a member ofthe founding team at Cadia Networks,Inc. Prior to that, he served as productline manager of the Service ProviderProducts Division at Bay Networks,Inc. from 1993 to 1996. Schantz wasa member of the technical staff and aproduct manager in the Data Commu-nications Business Unit at AT&T BellLaboratories (Lucent) from 1988 to1993.

Mr. Schantz received a Master of Sci-ence in Electrical Engineering degreefrom Columbia University and a Bach-


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elor of Science in Electrical Engineer-ing degree from SUNY Stony Brook(summa cum laude) and did postgradu-ate work at New York University’sStern School of Business.

Schantz currently serves or served onthe Board of Directors of Airvana, Inc.,Appian Communications, Inc., CerevaNetworks, Inc., Convergent Networks,Inc., Crossbeam Systems, Inc., NetezzaCorporation, SandBurst Corporation,SilverBack Technologies, Inc. andSnowshore Networks, Inc.

David Aronoff

David Aronoff is a General Partner atGreylock Partners, working from theBoston office. David joined Greylockin 1996 after a career in communica-tions equipment development and man-agement at Chipcom and Bell Labs. Hereceived a B.S. in Computer Science,cum laude, from the University of Ver-mont, an M.S. in Computer Sciencefrom the University of Southern Cali-fornia and an M.B.A. with Distinctionfrom the Harvard Business School.

David specializes in networking and

communications investments, and hisportfolio investments include: Akara,Cimaron (Acquired by AMCC in1999), eDial, Emperative, Ikanos Com-munications, Mazu Networks,Sandburst, SiTera (Acquired by Vitessein 2000), T-Networks, Tiburon Net-works, Xedia (Acquired by Lucent in1999), and Xros (Acquired by Nortelin 2000).

Allyson Hartzell

Allyson Hartzell is a Senior Staff Sci-entist at the Micromachined ProductsDivision of Analog Devices in Cam-bridge MA. The MPD Division is nowdeveloping integrated micromirrorswith electronic feedback control foroptical switching networks and is alsodeveloping other optical telecommu-nications components. Allyson is cur-rently the manager of Optical MEMSReliability Engineering; she started atAnalog Devices in 1997 and developedthe reliability function for accelerom-eters while also working in the areasof yield engineering andmicrocontamination control. Prior toworking for Analog, Allyson workedfor 10 years at Digital Equipment inHudson MA where she worked in reli-


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ability and also developed the airbornemolecular contamination lab in Fab6.Allyson worked in failure analysis andreliability at IBM in Manassas VA from1982-1988.

Allyson has a ScB from Brown Univer-sity in Materials Engineering (1982), andworked 10 years prior to getting her ScMfrom Harvard University in AppliedPhysics (1994), achieving her degreewhile at Digital Equipment. Allyson wasthe keynote speaker at the 2001 SPIEConference on MEMS and delivered atalk on MEMS Reliability. In addition,she contributed a chapter to the 2001 text“Contamination-Free Manufacturing forSemiconductors and Other PrecisionProducts” (edited by Robert Donovan);the chapter is titled “Deposition of Mo-lecular Contaminants in Gaseous Envi-ronments”. Allyson has published journaland conference papers in the fields of:microcontamination, MEMS reliability,electromigration, failure analysis andindoor air chemistry.


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From revolutionizing the pharmaceutical industry to creating artificial or-gans, biotechnology is a rapidly growing field and a booming business. Notonly do biotechnological innovations make great advancements in the medi-cal field, but they also create huge opportunities for venture capilalists. Asthe “Dot Com Age” fades into the past, the “Biotech Age” looms as theexciting future. This panel will discuss topics including diagnostic proce-dures, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and many more. The panel will alsodiscuss the regulation of a field that tends to be in the limelight of ethicaldebates.

Wolf W. von Maltzahn

Wolf W. von Maltzahn, Vice Presidentfor Biomedical Engineering at theWhitaker Foundation, received hisundergraduate education in electricalengineering from the University ofStuttgart (Germany) and his graduateeducation in biomedical engineeringfrom the Ohio State University inColumbus, OH. After completing hisdoctorate in biomedical engineering in1979 at the University of Hannover,Germany, he accepted a facultyposition in biomedical engineering atthe University of Texas at Arlington.

His research focused on biomedicalinstrumentation, mathematicalmodeling, and the mechanicalcharacterization of soft tissues, inparticular small arteries. His researchwas funded by grants from NSF, NIH,AHA and some industry contracts. In1994 he became the Director of theInstitute for Biomedical Engineeringat the University of Karlsruhe,Germany before joining the WhitakerFoundation in 1995. He runs the YoungInvestigator and Industrial InternshipPrograms, manages the WhitakerAnnual Conference, participates inuniversity site visits, and contributesto the strategic planning of theFoundation. He is a Fellow of AIMBE,a senior member of IEEE/EMBS, anda member of BMES and ASEE. Heserves on the Board of Directors ofBMES.

Scott A. Uhland

Dr. Scott A. Uhland is a Materials Sci-entist with MicroCHIPS, Inc.MicroCHIPS, founded in 1999, is pio-neering the use of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems)technology in the medical field, par-ticularly the development of implant-able drug delivery and sensing systems.


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He joined MicroCHIPS in January2000 as one of its initial principal in-vestigators and is currently developingcore technologies for the integration ofmedicine and MEMS devices. Priorto joining MicroCHIPS, Dr. Uhlandreceived his Ph.D. in Materials Scienceand Engineering from the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology. His the-sis research focused on the fabricationof advanced ceramic components us-ing colloidal-based rapid prototypingtechniques. In 1996, Scott graduatedsumma cum laude from Rutgers Uni-versity, where he received his B.S. inCeramic Engineering while serving asPresident of the Tau Beta Pi honor so-ciety. During his undergraduate ten-ure, Dr. Uhland assisted in thedevelopment of passive and active fi-ber optic chemical sensors.

Gillian Isabelle

Dr. Isabelle works with PureTechVentures, a life sciences venturecreation firm in Boston. Prior tojoining PureTech, Dr. Isabelle spent 10years with Corning Inc. Her mostrecent role was as a project managerat Corning Microarray Technology,where she was responsible for leadingthe commercial development of early-

stage emerging technology ventures.Primary activities included screeningexternal technologies and negotiatinglicensing agreements, assessingcompeting technologies, anddeveloping product road maps forgenomics, proteomics, andmicrofluidics platforms. From 1991 to1994, Dr. Isabelle worked as a seniorscientist in Corning’sTelecommunications Group, whereshe developed a new manufacturingprocess for optical fibers. Her workled to a 100% rate improvement in oneof the key production steps. Prior tojoining the Life Sciences Division atCorning, she performed doctoralresearch in tissue engineering in theCenter for Biomedical Engineering atMIT. She holds a B.S., M.S., andPh.D. in Materials Science andEngineering from MIT, UC Berkeleyand MIT, respectively.

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“Oil prices rise, signal inflation to come,” “Rolling blackouts cripplebusinesses in CA,” and “LA Nox emissions reach all time highs.” Everyday,newspapers and magazines remind the world that finite resources powertechnological progress. After the recent energy crisis some advocated theneed for energy conservation while others advocated more exploration. Thisyear’s abnormally warm winter raises questions of global warming. Thereare already many clean forms of alternative energy available which are notwidely used. The panel will look at the future of the fossil fuels. It will alsodiscuss the effects of deregulation on the power industry and will look atthe future of energgy in a greenhouse gas constrained future. Finally it willlook at the future of alternative energy and the barriers that have kept itfrom becoming widely used. Moderator: Professor Ernest Cravalho.

Dr. Yeona Jang

Dr. Yeona Jang is responsible for stra-tegic technology planning, architec-tures, and management of theenterprise-wide technology investmentportfolio, serving various of lines ofbusiness in PSEG, as CTO and the Di-rector of IT Development. PSEG is adiversified energy company (NYSE:PEG) with Power Generation andTrading, Utility, and Energy Manage-ment Services.

Before joining PSEG, Dr. Jang’s expe-rience includes stints at zoggle.com, asone of the founding partners.zoggle.com was created with the visionof changing teen life by providing abest-in-class open-source platform to

educate and empower this Internet-savvy generation. At zoggle.com, shewas CTO and COO, responsible forcreating and managing the Internet-based business platform and fulfillmentinfrastructure.

Prior to zoggle.com, she served as VicePresident and Executive Director inCitigroup, responsible for the develop-ment of Internet-based financial ser-vices and e-commerce applications.Dr. Jang’s experience in Citigroup in-cludes strategic IT planning; Internet/wireless banking, trading, Internet se-curity; Business-to-Business supplychain and commercial card manage-ment; smart card applications; andEBPP (electronic bill presentment andpayments).

With 14 years’ business experience instrategic IT planning, large-scale infor-mation solution development, andmanaging complex system integra-tions/migrations in various industries,Dr. Jang enjoys utilizing technology toimprove the way we do business. Sheholds an MS and Ph.D. in ComputerScience from the Massachusetts Insti-


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tute of Technology. She also earned anMS in Business Management from theMIT Sloan School of Management, anda bachelor’s degree in Computer Sci-ence and Statistics from Seoul NationalUniversity, Korea. Dr. Jang serves anadvisor for technology companies.

Vicki Norhberg-Bohm

Dr. Vicki Norberg-Bohm is the Direc-tor of the Energy Technology Innova-tion Project (ETIP) at BCSIA. ETIPfocuses on the policies and institutionalchanges needed to develop and deploya new generation of energy technolo-gies that can address the multi-facetedchallenges in the energy sector, includ-ing environment, development and se-curity. She is currently leading tworesearch projects: Technology Innova-tion for Global Change: The Role ofR&D, Regulation and Assessment,which focuses on lessons for policydesign from 3 energy technologies –gas turbines, wind turbines, and solarphotovoltaics; and Voluntary, Collabo-

rative and Information-based ap-proaches to reaching energy and envi-ronmental goals, which examines theeffectiveness of this new set of policymechanisms. Prior to joining theBelfer Center, Dr. Norberg-Bohm wasan assistant professor in the Depart-ment of Urban Studies and Planning atMIT. While at MIT, she was co-PI ofthe Environmental Technology andPublic Policy Program, and part of theresearch team on “Creating Incentivesfor Environmentally Enhancing Tech-nological Change” at MIT’s Center forEnvironmental Initiatives. From 1998-1999, she was also co-Director of theProgram for Environmental Educationand Research, which focused on devel-oping multidisciplinary educationalinitiatives. She has a Ph.D. in PublicPolicy from Harvard University. Priorto returning to school to pursue a Ph.D.,she was a practicing engineer in thearea of energy and environmental sys-tems. She has a M.S./ B.S. in Mechani-cal Engineering from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis.

John B. Heywood

Professor Heywood did his under-graduate work in Mechanical Engineer-ing at Cambridge University and hisgraduate work at MIT. He then worked


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for the British Central Electricity Gen-erating Board on magnetohydrody-namic power generation. Since 1968he has been on the faculty in Mechani-cal Engineering Department at MIT,where he is now Director of the SloanAutomotive Laboratory and Sun JaeProfessor of Mechanical Engineering.His current research is focused on theoperating, combustion and emissionscharacteristics of internal combustionengines and their fuels requirements.He is involved in studies of automo-tive technology and the impact of regu-lation. He is also working on issuesrelating to engine design in MIT’sLeaders for Manufacturing Program;he was Engineering Co-Director of theProgram from 1991-1993. He is cur-rently involved in a major study of fu-ture road transportation technology andfuels. He has published over 160 pa-pers in the technical literature and haswon several awards for his researchpublications. He holds an Sc.D. de-gree from Cambridge University for hispublished research contributions. Heis a the author of a major text and pro-fessional reference “Internal Combus-tion Engine Fundamentals,” andco-author with Professor Sher of “TheTwo-Stroke Cycle Engine: Its Devel-opment, Operation, and Design.” From1992-1997 he led MIT’s MechanicalEngineering Department’s efforts todevelop and introduce a new under-graduate curriculum. In 1982 he waselected a Fellow of the Society of Au-tomotive Engineers. He was honoredby the 1996 U.S. Department of Trans-portation Award for the Advancementof Motor Vehicle Research and Devel-opment. He is a consultant to the U.S.

Government and a number of indus-trial organizations. He was elected tomembership in the National Academyof Engineering in 1998. In 1999,Chalmers University of Technologyawarded him the degree of Doctor ofTechnology honoris causa. He waselected a Fellow of the American Acad-emy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Nancy Mohn

Nancy Mohn is responsible for man-aging the strategic marketing activityas well as marketing communicationsfor ALSTOM’s Utility Boiler Busi-nesses. These businesses represent a$1 billion plus division which suppliespower generation systems and servicesto domestic and international utilities,industries, and independent power pro-ducers.

Ms. Mohn has more than 20 years ex-perience in the power industry begin-ning in a technical role as a research


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and product development engineer,working hands-on with power genera-tion equipment operators, followed byexpanded responsibilities in marketingand strategic business development.She has significant experience in tech-nology commercialization for indus-trial markets, including the evaluationof environmental issues related topower generation technologies. A reg-istered professional engineer, Ms.Mohn holds a patent for an intelligentchemistry monitoring system for steamgenerators, and has authored numeroustechnical papers in the industry.

She is an active participant in a num-ber of industry related activities, in-cluding the MIT Forum on GlobalClimate Change and the AspenInstitute’s Energy Policy Forum. Inaddition, Ms. Mohn serves on the Ad-visory Board for Engineering Educa-tion at Penn State University.

She received a BS in Civil Engineer-ing from Penn State, an MS in Civiland Environmental Engineering fromthe University of Wisconsin, and anMBA from the University of Connecti-cut.

John T. Preston

Mr. Preston is President and CEO ofAtomic Ordered Materials LLC.,(AOM) and Senior Lecturer at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.Before joining AOM, Mr. Prestonstarted Quantum Energy TechnologiesInc., which is commercializing envi-ronmentally clean combustion tech-nologies. Prior to Quantum Energy he

was the Director of Technology Devel-opment at M.I.T., where he was respon-sible for the commercialization ofintellectual property developed atM.I.T. In this capacity he participatedin founding dozens of technologybased companies as well as negotiat-ing hundreds of licenses to existingcompanies. The market capitalizationof the companies founded by his of-fice is currently greater than $20 bil-lion.

Mr. Preston is also Chairman of Quan-tum Catalytics and Director of CleanHarbors Corporation.

Prior appointments include director oradvisory positions for the Governor ofMassachusetts, the US Department ofDefense, the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, the NationalScience and Technology Board ofSingapore and several others. Mr.Preston has testified seven times be-fore the US Congress on issues relatedto technology commercialization andhas chaired meetings of this subject forPresident George H. W. Bush and


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YH.R.H. Prince Charles among others.

Mr. Preston received a Bachelors of Sci-ence in physics from the University ofWisconsin and a Masters of BusinessAdministration from Northwestern Uni-versity. He is the recipient of numerousawards and honors, including the Tho-mas Jefferson Award, given to the lead-ing American in technology transfer andthe Renaissance Engineering and ScienceAward from Stevens Institute of Tech-nology. President Mitterand named Mr.Preston “Knight of the National Orderof Merit” of France. Mr. Preston is alsoan Honorary Alum of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. Mr. Preston, in1999, received the “Hammer Award”from Vice President Gore for reinvent-ing Government. He is the only civilianto receive this award.


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Microtechnology: is it only computer chips, or is it something more? Therewas a time when the word called to mind images of transistors built on asilicon wafer, or perhaps the circuit board found inside an old Apple II.Today, the technology has progressed far beyond that with computerprocessing speeds reaching over 2 GHz and novel applications for MEMSand silicon wafer fabrication technology appearing every day. The field isno longer limited to electrical and computer engineering: microscale devicescan be found in biotechnology, robotics, and aerospace, among otherindustries. So what can we do today and where is this all going? What doesthe future hold for this fast-developing technology? This panel will take alook at current trends in tiny, micro-, nanotechnology and where they willbe headed. Moderator: Lionel Kimmerling, MIT Materials Science.

Qing Ma

Qing Ma is a technical manager at theIntel Labs. Since joining Intel in 1994,his research interests have includedeffects of chemistry and plasticity oninterface adhesion for various thinfilms used for IC interconnects, slowcrack growth in interconnect structuresdue to moisture and temperature cy-cling, advanced packaging technolo-gies such as BBUL, and most recently,design and characterization of MEMSdevices. Ma received his BS degree inphysics from Zhejiang University in1984 and his PhD degree in physics

from MIT in 1991. As a postdoctoralfellow at UC - Santa Barbara between1992 and 1994, he co-developed tech-niques of using the piezospectroscopiceffects of optical fluorescence to mea-sure localized stresses in compositesand microelectronic devices. Ma hasco-authored more than 40 papers inmaterials and mechanics, and he is co-inventor on five patents.

Jeffery Andrews

Jeff Andrews joined Atlas Venture in2001. Most recently, he was at IntelCapital, where he invested in early-stage optical networking companies.Prior to that, Jeff spent four years asan optical engineer and program man-ager at Becton Dickinson BioSciences,


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commercializing optical instrumenta-tion for genomics applications. Duringthe previous five years, he was atLockheed Martin Aero and Naval Sys-tems, developing fiber optic technol-ogy. Jeff holds five patents, four in fiberoptics and one in biotechnology. Hewas twice named Inventor of the Yearat Lockheed Martin Aero and NavalSystems. Jeff has a BS in Physics fromthe State University of New York inBinghamton, a Masters in ElectricalEngineering from Virginia Tech and anMBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Mark Spearing

His technical interests include materi-als and structural analysis and designof MEMS, electronic packages andadvanced composites. Spearing waschairman of the AIAA Materials Tech-nical Committee from 1998-200, amember or the American Ceramic So-ciety, ASME and MRS and a deputyeditor of Acta Materialia. Since 1995he has been responsible for materials,structural design and packaging tasksof the MIT MicroEngine,MicroRocket, Micro-chemical powerand MicroHydraulic transducer

projects as well as conducting cross-cutting underpinning technology devel-opment.

Amy Duwel

As an undergraduate, Amy’s interest inastronomy led her to a fascination withthe CCD cameras and the super-cooledJosephson junctions which are used todetect light. After receiving a BA inphysics from Johns Hopkins Univer-sity, Amy did her graduate work at MITin the Electrical Engineering and Com-puter Science Department. Here shestudied Josephson Junctions and thenonlinear dynamics of junction net-works. After receiving her PhD in1999, Amy went to Draper Laboratory,where she currently studies Micro-electro-mechanical Sensors (MEMS).Her research focuses on the dynamicsof MEMS resonators and their appli-cations as inertial sensors, RF filters,and chemical detectors. Amy is alsocurrently a resident advisor at Harvard,where she serves as a mentor and tutorto undergraduates.


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Tanya Kanigan

Tanya Kanigan grew up in westernCanada, studied Chemistry and Physicsas an undergraduate at Carleton Univer-sity in Ottawa, and then earned a Ph.D.in Chemistry from McGill University in1996. Her doctoral work involved us-ing integrated optics techniques to studypolymer thin films. After finishing herthesis, she came to MIT to dopostdoctoral research in an ultrafast spec-troscopy lab in the Department of Chem-istry. In her second year at MIT, shejoined Professor Ian Hunter’s lab in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering.There, she contributed to several projectsincluding polymer artificial muscle tech-nology and a nano-fluidic microarraytechnology called the Living Chip. Inthe fall of 2000, she left MIT to joinBioTrove, a company founded by her-self, Professor Hunter, and three otherresearchers from the Department of Me-chanical Engineering. At Biotrove sheis continuing to develop the Living Chipmicroarray technology which the com-pany licensed from MIT.


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RS Conference DirectorStephanie Norris [[email protected]]

Director of BanquetJulia Thrower [[email protected]]

Director of Telecommunications PanelAnne Dreyer [[email protected]]

Director of Biotechnology PanelJennifer Clarke [[email protected]]

Director of Energy PanelStephanie Norris [[email protected]]

Director of Tiny Technologies PanelTrisha Montalbo [[email protected]]

Conference Committee MembersCatherine Chen [[email protected]]Jennifer Liu [[email protected]]Monica Sircar [[email protected]]Michelle Nyein [[email protected]]Farrah Sanjan [[email protected]]


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The conference committee would like to thank the following peoplefor their contributions to the Future of Engineering Conference:

Hannah BernsteinJoost BonsenDenise BrehmBarbara ClarkBernadette FloodJean-Francois HamelProf. Jerry HausmanGwelle Hsu-BoissiereProf. Ian HunterRobert LinProf. MarksProf. MonitzProf. Kenneth MorseProf. Alan OppenheimVadim PolikovPaula Ragan, Ph.D.Steven SaccaProf. Martin SchmidtProf. Michael Scott-MortonJo Ann SorentoBenjamin Zeskind


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