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National Academy of Engineering Elects 66 Members and 10 Foreign Associates
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 66 new m
embers and 10 foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest to
day. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,254 and the number of forei
gn associates to 206.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest profess
ional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those
who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice,
or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to th
e engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fiel
ds of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of enginee
ring, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering educat
ion."
A list of the newly elected members and foreign associates follows, with the
ir primary affiliations at the time of election and a brief statement of the
ir principal engineering accomplishments.
New Members
Mark Adamiak, director of advanced technologies, GE Digital Energy Multilin,
Wayne, Pa. For contributions to power system protection, control, monitori
ng, and communications.
Robert D. Allen, senior manager, advanced materials chemistry department, IB
M Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif. For innovations in chemistries
and materials for semiconductor manufacturing.
Michael I. Baskes, adjunct professor, department of mechanical and aerospace
engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Di
ego, La Jolla. For contributions to the embedded atom method for predicting
the structure and properties of metals and alloys.
Craig H. Benson, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, director of sustainabili
ty research and education, and chair of civil and environmental engineering
and of geological engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison. For improv
ements in design, construction, and monitoring of earthen liners and covers
for municipal hazardous and radioactive waste landfills.
Barbara D. Boyan, professor; Price Gilbert Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering;
associate dean for research, College of Engineering; and Georgia Research Al
liance Eminent Scholar, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineer
ing, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience; Georgia Institute of Techn
ology, Atlanta. For engineering implant technologies for bone and cartilage
repair.
Mary C. Boyce, Ford Professor of Engineering and department head of mechanic
al engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For contr
ibutions to understanding the mechanics of deformation in engineered and nat
ural polymeric solids.
Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular E
ngineering and director of the Energy Center, University of Notre Dame, Notr
e Dame, Ind. For innovation in the use of ionic liquids and supercritical f
luids for environmentally benign chemical processing.
Max William Carbon, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering, University of
Wisconsin, Madison. For establishing engineering educational programs for
nuclear reactor design and safety.
George M. Church, director, Center for Computational Genetics, and professor
of genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston. For contributions to human ge
nome sequencing technologies and DNA synthesis and assembly.
Jared L. Cohon, president and professor of civil and environmental engineeri
ng, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. For contributions to environmen
tal systems analysis and national policy and leadership in higher education.
James J. Coleman, Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engi
neering, professor of materials science and engineering, and director of the
Semiconductor Laser Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana. For contri
butions to semiconductor lasers and photonic materials.
Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox Jr., president, Cox Associates, Denver. For applic
ations of operations research and risk analysis to significant national prob
lems.
Robert L. Crippen, former astronaut and director of the NASA Kennedy Space C
enter; and retired president and chief executive officer, Thiokol Propulsion
Group, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. For leadership in human space flight and d
evelopment of solid fueled rockets.
Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Compu
ter Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. For quantum transp
ort modeling in nanoscale electronic devices.
Akhil Datta-Gupta, regents professor and L.F. Peterson '36 Chair, Harold Van
ce Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Statio
n. For developing the theory and practice of streamline simulation for flui
d flow in heterogeneous reservoirs.
William P. Delaney, Director's Office Fellow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexing
ton, Mass. For contributions to radar systems for national defense.
Steven P. DenBaars, Mitsubishi Chemical Professor in Solid State Lighting an
d Displays, materials department, University of California, Santa Barbara.
For contributions to gallium nitride-based materials and devices for solid s
tate lighting and displays.
Dennis E. Discher, Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng
ineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For elucidation of the
effects of mechanical forces on cell physiology and stem cell development.
Elazer R. Edelman, Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Scien
ces and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For c
ontributions to the design, development, and regulation of local cardiovascu
lar drug delivery and drug eluting stents.
Gordon R. England, president, E6 Partners LLC, Arlington, Va. For advances
in digital avionics for aircraft, land, and naval platforms.
Robert W. Farquhar, executive for space exploration, KinetX Inc., Tempe, Ari
z. For deep space missions to asteroids and comets and for leading the NEAR
mission to Eros.
Peter C. Farrell, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer, ResMed Inc
., San Diego. For research and development of devices for treatment of slee
p disorder breathing.
James R. Fienup, Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics; professor, Center fo
r Visual Science; senior scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics; and pro
fessor of electrical and computer engineering; University of Rochester, Roch
ester, N.Y. For development and applications of phase retrieval algorithms.
Huajian Gao, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering, School of Enginee
ring, Brown University, Providence, R.I. For contributions to micromechanic
s of thin films and hierarchically structured materials.
William W. George, professor of management practice, Harvard Business School
, Cambridge, Mass. For applying engineering principles to manufacturing to
advance health care.
Peter W. Glynn, Thomas W. Ford Professor and chair, management science and e
ngineering department, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. For contributi
ons to simulation methodology and stochastic modeling.
Alan H. Gnauck, distinguished member of the technical staff, Bell Labs, Alca
tel-Lucent, Holmdel, N.J. For contributions to high-speed, high-capacity li
ghtwave communications systems.
Steven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, department of environmental e
arth system science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. For optimization
techniques and transport models for groundwater and remediation of contamin
ated aquifers.
Alfred Grill, IBM Fellow, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hei
ghts, N.Y. For contributions to low dielectric constant insulators for VLSI
[very large-scale integration] interconnects.
Victoria F. Haynes, president and chief executive officer, RTI International
, Research Triangle Park, N.C. For integrating research, economics, and soc
ial sciences to solve multidisciplinary problems.
Richard Hogg, professor emeritus of mineral processing and geoenvironmental
engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. For contributi
ons to the science and engineering of coagulation and flocculation in partic
ulate systems.
Ray R. Irani, executive chairman, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Los Angeles.
For leadership in the petrochemical industry and processes for applications
of particulate systems.
James W. Jones, distinguished professor, department of agricultural and biol
ogical engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. For contributions t
o understanding climate change, environmental impacts, and sustainable agric
ultural systems.
Mujid S. Kazimi, TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering, professor of mechan
ical engineering, and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Sys
tems, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge. For contributions to t
echnologies for the nuclear fuel cycle and reactor safety.
Richard Wilker Korsmeyer, senior research fellow and head of business develo
pment and licensing for pharmaceutical sciences, Pfizer Inc., New London, Co
nn. For contributions to drug delivery formulations and medical devices.
Helmut Krawinkler, John A. Blume Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, Calif. For development of performance-based earthqua
ke engineering procedures for evaluating and rehabilitating buildings.
Fikri J. Kuchuk, fellow and chief reservoir engineer, Schlumberger Testing S
ervices, Clamart, France. For contributions in pressure transient analyses
for petroleum reservoirs.
Juan C. Lasheras, Stanford S. and Beverley P. Penner Distinguished Chair Pro
fessor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, distinguished professor of engin
eering, and director of the Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation,
Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, L
a Jolla. For studies of atomization, turbulent mixing, and heat transfer an
d for the development of medical devices.
Kai Li, Paul M. Wythes ‘55, P’86 and Marcia R. Wythes P’86 Professor, dep
artment of computer science, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. For adva
nces in data storage and distributed computer systems.
Henrique S. Malvar, chief scientist and distinguished engineer, Microsoft Re
search, Redmond, Wash. For contributions to multiresolution signal processi
ng and multimedia signal compression and standards.
Tobin J. Marks, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, prof
essor of materials science and engineering, and Vladimir N. Ipatieff Profess
or of Catalytic Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. For inno
vation in electronic, photonic, and photovoltaic materials and catalytic pol
ymerization.
Jyotirmoy Mazumder, Robert H. Lurie Professor of Mechanical Engineering, pro
fessor of materials science and engineering, director of the Center for Lase
r-Aided Intelligent Manufacturing, and director of the NSF I/UCRC for Lasers
and Plasmas for Advanced Manufacturing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
For quantitative transport modeling for laser interaction and design and co
mmercialization of direct metal deposition machines.
Diane M. McKnight, fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and
professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, University
of Colorado, Boulder. For elucidating the interrelationship between natura
l organic matter and heavy metals in streams and lakes.
Antonios Georgios Mikos, Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemic
al and Biomolecular Engineering; director, J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedica
l Engineering; and director, Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering; Ri
ce University, Houston. For advances in tissue engineering, regenerative me
dicine, biomaterials, and drug delivery, including development of biodegrada
ble polymers.
Richard K. Miller, president and professor of mechanical engineering, Frankl
in W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass. For establishing a new pa
radigm for undergraduate engineering education and establishment of Olin Col
lege.
Robert A.K. Mitchell, consultant and retired vice president, Northrop Grumma
n Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif. For development of autonomous un
manned aerial systems and their applications.
Philip M. Neches, chairman, Foundation Ventures LLC, New York City. For the
architecture and software of parallel database appliances.
James J. O'Brien, consulting engineer, James J. O'Brien P.E., Riverton, N.J.
For development of standards of practice for computerized scheduling of co
nstruction projects and capital programs.
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, interim dean; William L. Friend Chair of Chemical En
gineering; and professor, Center for Systems Biology - DBI; University of De
laware, Newark. For advances in process systems, process engineering practi
ce, and systems engineering education.
Norbert Joseph Pelc, professor and associate chair for research of the radio
logy department, and professor of electrical engineering (by courtesy), Stan
ford University, Stanford, Calif. For development of algorithms and technol
ogies for MRI, CT, and hybrid X-ray/MRI imaging.
Leonard Pinchuk, co-founder, president, and chief executive officer, Innovia
LLC and Related Companies, Miami. For development of biomedical polymeric
materials for angioplasty balloons, drug eluting stents, and other devices.
Andrea Prosperetti, Charles A. Miller Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineerin
g, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. For contributions to the fundamental
s and applications of multiphase flows.
Kaushik Rajashekara, chief technologist, electric power and control systems,
Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis. For contributions to electric power conve
rsion systems in transportation.
Nambirajan Seshadri, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Wirel
ess Group, and chief technology officer, Mobile Platforms and Wireless Conne
ctivity, Broadcom Corp., Irvine, Calif. For contributions to wireless commu
nications theory and development of mass market wireless technology.
David E. Shaw, chief scientist, D.E. Shaw Research, New York City. For the
architecture, design, and implementation of the Anton protein-folding superc
omputer.
Scott J. Shenker, professor, electrical engineering and computer science dep
artment, University of California, Berkeley. For contributions to Internet
design and architecture.
Christine A. Shoemaker, Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, School of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. For
development of decision-making optimization algorithms for environmental and
water resources problems.
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. For contrib
utions to information retrieval and search.
Robert E. Skelton, Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamic Systems and Contro
ls (emeritus) and director, Structural Systems and Control Laboratory, Unive
rsity of California, San Diego, La Jolla. For contributions to robust contr
ol, system identification, and methodology for control-structure interaction
.
David A. Stahl, professor, department of civil and environmental engineering
, University of Washington, Seattle. For application of molecular microbial
ecology to environmental engineering.
Roger H. Stolen, distinguished visiting professor in materials science and e
ngineering, and faculty member in the Center for Optical Materials Science a
nd Engineering Technologies, Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. For contribu
tions to fiber nonlinear optics and invention of polarization preserving fib
er.
Samuel I. Stupp, director, Institute for Bionanotechnology in Medicine, and
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine, N
orthwestern University, Evanston, Ill. For advances in processes of self-as
sembled polymers for biomedical applications.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, vice chair and professor of biomedical engineering
, and director of the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Colu
mbia University, New York City. For bioreactor systems and modeling approac
hes for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Michael S. Waterman, University Professor, USC Associates Chair in Natural S
ciences, and professor of biological sciences, computer science, and mathema
tics, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern Califor
nia, Los Angeles. For development of computational methods for DNA and prot
ein sequence analyses.
K. Dane Wittrup, C.P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
, and associate director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Ma
ssachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For developments in protein
engineering, protein expression, and quantitative pharmacology.
Steven J. Zinkle, UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow and director, Materials Scien
ce and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
For advancing understanding of radiation damage in metallic and ceramic com
ponents.
New Foreign Associates
E. (Edward) John Hinch, professor of fluid mechanics, department of applied
mathematics and theoretical physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Unive
rsity of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. For contributions to the mechanics of f
luids, suspensions, and polymeric liquids and to industrial processes.
Sue E. Ion, consultant and visiting professor, Imperial College-London, Leyl
and, U.K. For contributions to nuclear fuel development.
Frank P. Kelly, professor of the mathematics of systems, and master of Chris
t's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. For contributions to
the theory and optimization of communication networks.
Kinam Kim, president, Samsung Electronics Co., Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
. For contributions to semiconductor technologies for DRAM and nonvolatile
memories.
Chao-Han Liu, distinguished visiting scholar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwa
n. For contributions to ionospheric research and international leadership i
n atmospheric remote sensing.
Gennady A. Mesyats, director, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, and vice pres
ident, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. For development and application
of pulsed power technology.
Pradip, chief scientist and head of the Process Engineering Lab, Tata Resear
ch Development and Design Centre, Pune, India. For contributions to process
ing of minerals and waste materials.
P. Rama Rao, chairman, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Met
allurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. For adv
ancing the understanding of deformation and fracture of structural materials
and development of materials research infrastructure for societal needs.
Willem P.C. Stemmer, chief executive officer, Amunix Inc., Mountain View, Ca
lif. For co-invention of directed evolution and development of protein ther
apeutic platforms.
Andrés Weintraub, professor, department of industrial engineering, Universi
ty of Chile, Santiago. For deployment of innovative decision support system
s for natural and human resources in South America. |
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