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February 7, 2005 Vol. 76, no. 4S
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New BioE acting associate professor Steven M.
Conolly received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston
University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
Stanford University. He is interested in cost-effective medical
imaging instrumentation, molecular imaging, neuro MRI, musculoskeletal
MRI, and MRI pulse sequence optimization. He developed a prepolarized
MRI scanner at Stanford University, and demonstrated high-quality
human wrist images with a low-cost scanner.
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Professor
Minute with new BioE associate professor Steve Conolly
If you had not decided
to go into engineering, what other career would you have today?
I would wind up
in marketing. I enjoy talking with MDs or biologists and hearing
their real-world challenges. Ideas occur to you that might fix the problems.
This blue-sky invention phase is exhilarating, perhaps even addictive.
I imagine good marketing is like that.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to hike on the beach or up in the hills with my wife, Eliza.
I enjoy cutting the grass on my postage stamp-sized yard. We also
love to travel. From our grad school days, we developed the (then critical)
habit of traveling as inexpensively as possible.
How can a student get through your hardest class?
Students should keep up with the material, do the problem sets on their
own, and read over all the material for understanding.
To date, what has been your most memorable moment in your career
and why?
When I got my first successful experimental results, it really hit me
that my idea was practical.
What CD are you listening to at the moment?
I have been commuting from Palo Alto to the Hayward BART station and
found that classical music keeps me relatively calm while driving. The
soundtrack to the movie "Emma" has been very soothing amidst
the menacing trucks on 880.
If you would like us to
feature your favorite professor, please e-mail his or her name to engnews@coe.berkeley.edu.
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