2013 AAAS Engineering Section Meeting

 

Friday February 15, 2013

 

Boston, MA; Sheraton Boston Hotel, Room: Fairfax

 

MINUTES

 

1.   Introductions: John Anderson, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:45 AM after around 30 minutes of networking with coffee being served.  He asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in Appendix A.

 

2.   Approval of Minutes: Dr. Anderson asked for comments and possible changes to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 21, 2012, at the Vancouver, Canada meeting. The draft minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2012 Vancouver, meeting.  Copies of the draft minutes were also distributed at the meeting.  There were no comments made or changes suggested.  A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

3.   2014 AAAS Annual Meeting: Sallie Ann Keller, Member of the Program Committee, discussed the theme of the 2014 meeting which will be held in Chicago, February 13-17, 2014.  The theme is: “Meeting Global Challenges: Discovery and Innovation.”  She mentioned that the program committee is particularly interested in proposals that highlight the theme.  However, proposals that are not directly related to the theme will be considered if they involve ground-breaking areas of research, new and exciting developments, or cross cutting activities in support of science, technology and education.   She added that successful proposal typically include interesting topical subjects that are thoughtfully developed and include capable and articulate speakers from a broad range of institutions who represent the diversity of science and society.   Proposals that cover policy are expected to primarily focus on cutting-edge aspects of the scientific research driving policy in that particular subject, rather than focusing wholly on the issues beyond the science.   She encouraged members of our section to submit symposia proposals for the meeting. She added that the proposal submission site and instructions, including further description of the theme, can now be accessed at www.aaas.org/meetings/2013/submit2014. The deadline for submission is Tuesday April 23, 2013, 11:59pm, PT.  Decisions will be announced in late June.  Before leaving, Dr. Keller answered several questions from the attendees largely focused on how to increase the acceptance rate of proposals submitted from our section as well as the lack of engineering articles in Science magazine.

 

4.  Section Chair Remarks:  Dr. Anderson’s remarks focused on a recent meeting he had with congressional leaders.  He mentioned that policy issues related to higher education including accountability, retention and degree completion (score card for higher education as connected to accreditation) are of great concern to congressional leaders.  He further elaborated on work being done to compare degree completion at for-profit versus not-for-profit institutions.  He then discussed the NAE report on retention; tuition and affordability, the congressional proposals to cap charitable deductions and to tax earnings of endowments; and the impact of sequestration on science and engineering research funding.  A discussion followed largely focused on recruitment and retention of women in engineering.   Dr. Poor and Dr. Johnson mentioned some of the approaches that were adopted at Princeton’s and Duke’s engineering schools such as introducing design early and adding courses that are socially relevant in the curricula.  Both stressed the importance of having women engineering faculty as role models. Additional discussion on this topic centered on the poor marketing and branding of the engineering degree as well as the lack of exposure of students in elementary and middle schools to the importance of engineering to society.

 

5.   Announcements:  Dr. Anderson announced that Nicholas A. Peppas (University of Texas-Austin) has been elected Chair-Elect and Ilesanmi “Ade” Adesida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section’s Steering Group both effective February 19, 2013.  He also announced that William E. Bentley (University of Maryland, College Park) and Edmund G. Seebauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) have been elected to the Engineering Section Electorate Nominating Committee.  Dr. Seebauer was in attendance.

 

Dr. Anderson thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual Meeting:  H. Vincent Poor as Retiring Chair, Christine M. Maziar as Retiring Member-at-Large, and Richard C. Alkire and Cynthia Bruckner-Lea as Retiring Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee. On February 19, 2013 Dr. Anderson will become the Retiring Chair and in that capacity he will serve on the AAAS Council and he will also Chair the Electorate Nominating Committee. 

 

Dr. Poor thanked the members of the Electorate Nominating Committee for their hard work in identifying nominees during this last election cycle. 

 

A list of the names of the new Engineering Section Fellows was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix B.  The Newly elected Fellows were invited to attend our business meeting and 18 of the 54 were able to attend.  Dr. Anderson welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting. He mentioned that he will ask each of them to briefly describe their affiliations and research interests before adjourning for lunch.

 

6.   Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Anderson asked Marwan Simaan, the section secretary to review the AAAS Fellow nomination process which is the same as in previous years.  Dr. Simaan mentioned that our section currently has 7,111 Members (primary affiliation: 3,564, secondary affiliation: 2,160, and tertiary affiliation: 1,387). This year 54 members of our section were elected Fellows of AAAS.  He also mentioned that there is a new rule beginning this year, which mandates that a nominee for Fellow must have been a AAAS member in good standing for the four consecutive years prior to the time of nomination.  This means that for the upcoming election, a member must have been a continuous member in good standing since December 31, 2009.

 

Dr. Simaan then described the Fellow nomination process. There are three ways a AAAS member can be nominated:

 

1)      By a member of the Steering Group (method 1),

2)      By a group of three Fellows (method 2), and

3)      By the AAAS Chief Executive Officer (method 3).

 

For Fellow nominations by members of the Steering Group (method 1), he mentioned that this method is subject to a quota of no more than 0.4% of the section primary membership, which is equal to 14 for this year.  Information on the nomination process by a group of three Fellows (method 2) and a copy of the nomination form can be found on the AAAS main website.  A link to that website can also be found on our section Website (http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m).  Dr. Simaan also mentioned that the deadline for Fellow nominations by a group of three Fellows is April 17, 2013, and that there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows method.   By May 17, 2013, all members of the Steering Group will receive from the AAAS Executive Office copies of the nomination materials for all nominees by the section and a voting sheet that they will need to complete and return to him by June 14, 2013.  Marwan will then forward all votes to the Executive Office.  He concluded by saying that in all three methods, a successful candidate must receive no less than five “Yes” votes and no more than two “No” votes.

 

7.  Planning for the 2014 Annual Meeting:  The 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, IL, February 13-17, 2014.  The theme of the meeting is “Meeting Global Challenges: Discovery and Innovation”.  AAAS asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three or more hot topics to be discussed at the 2014 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday afternoon 2-4pm.  These hot topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2014 Annual meeting.   Dr. Anderson asked for ideas and suggestions.  A discussion followed with everyone present contributing ideas. A summary of these ideas is given below (including details obtained after the meeting but before the Sunday afternoon planning meeting):

 

7.1 Virtual Humans:  Helping Facilitate Breakthroughs in Medicine

 

Organizer: Ram Sriram (NIST)

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Information, Computing and Communication Section

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description: Advances in computer hardware and software has made it possible to model the human system in silico, conduct virtual experiments, and validate these with in vitro/vivo experiments. This, in turn, has allowed us to make rapid advances in medical diagnosis and treatment.  In addition to developing realistic simulations of the human, a new emerging field – systems medicine – is facilitating the integration of various “omics,” along with detailed engineering and mathematical models of the human system. In this panel various experts in computer graphics, engineering, and medicine will discuss current state of the art and future directions in modeling humans at various levels of abstraction, using state of the art computer graphics.

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

1.      Virtual Human and Applications in Medicine: Phen Ann Heng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2.      Learning Anatomy without Cadavers: John Qualter, NYU Langone Medical Center

3.      Virtual Humans and Medicine: The European Perspective: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Switzerland

4.      The Virtual Liver: In Silico Experiments For Better Drug Designs: Vijay Chandru, Strand Genomics, India

5.      Enabling Groundbreaking Biomedical Research Via High Quality Simulation Tools: Russ Altman, Stanford University

6.      Systems Medicine: Integrating Computational Models of “Omics” for Medical Decision Making: Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle , Washington

7.      Understanding the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease through in silico and in vitro Experiments:  Harish Pant, National Institutes of Health

8.      Computational Systems Biology: Path to Innovations in Drug Discovery, Medicine, and Engineering:  H.  Kitano, Systems Biology Institute Japan OR H.  Tanaka, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

 

7.2  Unlocking the Power and Possibilities of Big Data:  Innovation in the Convergence of Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Life Science

 

Symposium Organizers:  Sean Hanlon & Larry Nagahara (National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health; sean.hanlon@nih.gov &larry.nagahara@nih.gov)

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Information, Computing and Communication, Astronomy, Math, Physics, Statistics, and Medical Sciences sections

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description: Investment in both basic and applied research has transformed many of innovations in the 20th century.  One of the current and future global challenges that may limit future innovation is the accumulation of “Big Data”.  Advances of core science and technology in this area (e.g., data management, analysis, visualization, and data mining) will accelerate scientific discovery and lead to new fields of studies that would otherwise not be possible.  The transformation and innovative use of Big Data will benefit biomedical research, energy, national security to name a few.  However in order to successfully nurture and harness the potential usage of Big Data incorporation of multiple perspective, innovative approaches in the education, as well as technological challenges will be needed.  This symposium will highlight some of the emerging opportunities to address major questions and barriers associated with Big Data and challenges facing the integration of multiple fields in this area.

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

1.      IBM Watson Scientists (David McQueeney, Vice President of Software Research, IBM)

2.      Seth Cooper (Center for Game Science, University of Washington)

3.      Usama Fayyad (Co-Founder & CTO of ChoozOn Corporation)

4.      Tom Kalil, (Deputy Director for Policy, White House OSTP)

5.      Lucila Ohno-Machado (Division of Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego)

 

7.3  Interplay between Population (Community) Ecology and Engineering: Learning from each other towards improved Robustness of Uncertain Dynamic Systems”

 

Organizer:  Prof. Rama K. Yedavalli, Professor, Department of  Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description: The proposed symposium is related to the ongoing research on the use of principles of population and community ecology to build robust engineering systems. The overarching objective of this symposium is to foster true collaboration between population and community ecologists and engineers as there is clear evidence through current research that the fascinating concepts of population and community ecology are extremely useful for engineering and there is considerable interest in the ecology community to know and explore what engineering can offer to population and community ecology. 

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

1.      Stuart Pimm, Duke University and his Post-Doc researcher

2.      Jeffrey Dambacher from Australia and his colleague from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

3.      Ariane Verdy, UCLA

4.      Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

5.      James Justus, University of Texas, Austin

6.      Kirk Winemiller, Texas A&M University

and some Engineering researchers to be identified later.

 

7.4 Scaling Energy Innovation: Lessons from Past and Way Forward

 

Organizers: Sushanta Mitra (University of Alberta), Kristina Johnson (Enduring Energy, LLC), and Thomas Thundat (University of Alberta)

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description:  In recent years there has been a huge push towards innovative solutions for energy systems, which is primarily due to the combination of high energy price and reduction in overall carbon footprint. In parallel, there has been a significant advancement in areas like material science, fabrication, nanotechnology, etc. which has provided us with a tremendous opportunity  to re-think about some of  the most efficient systems of the past like Sterling Engine (1816), Tesla coils (1900s) etc. The lessons learned from such unique discoveries of the past can provide us with "leap-frog" technologies of the future. Coupled with such new innovation cycle, others parameters like finance and policy are to be re-evaluated in order to accelerate the scaling of new energy technologies and systems. The proposed symposium will discuss such technology bridge between past and future pathways of innovation.

 

Tentative Speakers: TBD

 

7.5 Periodic Structures in Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences

 

Organizer: Alok Sinha, Penn State University

 

Potential Collaboration with: Biology, Physics, Neuroscience and Medical Sciences Sections

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description:  Periodic structures are ubiquitous in physical, life, and engineering sciences. They refer to repeating patterns. A unique aspect of this periodicity is that it can lead to wave localization because of infinitesimally small amount of nonlinearities or disorder which are inevitable. This Nobel prize winning phenomenon is known as Anderson localization in condensed matter physics, where it refers to electron localization. Carbon nanotubes and graphenes can have localization of both electrical and mechanical waves.  In life sciences, DNA    molecules have periodic structures and they receive nutrients by opening up at certain locations. This is known as breathing phenomenon and basically is localization of waves. Localized transient waves are found in cortical spreading depression in migraine. In engineering applications, jet engine rotors are periodic structures. Because of manufacturing tolerances, all blades do not have identical geometries. This phenomenon is known as geometric mistuning which can cause a few blades to have significantly more vibration leading to fatigue failure.

 

The goal of this symposium is to unify works and concepts developed in periodic structures and inevitable disorder in physical, life and engineering sciences. There are striking similarities in various applications. It is also interesting to note that there are many open problems in this area. For example,  it is not possible to directly identify worst or best disorder or  mistuning patterns . Bringing techniques developed in different fields together on the same platform,  we may be able to find innovative solutions to many  open problems, resulting in more  durable jet engines, treatment of migraine, enhanced mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanotubes and migraine.

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

1.      Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT (Carbon Nanotubes)

2.      Marcus Dahlem, Technical University of Berlin, (Cortical Spreading Depression)

3.      Mauricio Terrones, Penn State (Graphene)

4.      Alok Sinha, Penn  State (Jet Engines)

5.      Michel Peyrard, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon ,( DNA Breathing Phenomenon)

     

      7.6  Engineering, Innovation and Social Sciences

 

Organizer: Eswaran Subrahmanian

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Brief Description: Engineers are usually about 2% of a country’s population. Nevertheless their impact on society and people’s lives are quite significant (Engineering as a Social Enterprise, NAE Press, 1991). Their work often changes the patterns of daily lives.  Their impact has been significant especially since the industrial revolution to the current information revolution. In a sense engineers while not being sociologists themselves have played the role of sociologists and economists through their innovations.   Besides, engineers such as Benjamin Whorf, Pareto, and Fredrick Taylor while being engineers made significant contributions to social sciences. Nevertheless engineers and the larger population are seldom made aware of their contributions from a social science perspective. Further, how engineering is shaped and informed by Social Sciences (The Fall 2012 issue of NAE publication “Bridge”, has an article by Don Metlay, “How Social Science Informs Engineering Practice”)

 

Innovations are discoveries and inventions that have been socially embedded just as the cell phone is transforming the economic, social and physical well-being of poor sections of the society. With global warming, economic crisis and other problems facing the world, the goal of this symposium is bring engineers and social scientist together in examining the role engineers have and will play in the future of our living environment and our economies. How science and culture have played a role in shaping the engineer’s view of himself or herself in the transformation of society.

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

1.      Henry Petroski, Professor Of Civil engineering, Duke University

2.      Charles Perrow, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University.

3.      Langdon Winner, RPI

4.      Armand Hatcheul, Professor Management and Innovation, Ecole de Mines, Paris.

5.      Sherry Turkle, Professor at MIT

6.      and another person.

 

7.7  Innovation in Deployment of Water Monitoring and Treatment Solutions in Communities

 

Organizers: Sushanta Mitra (University of Alberta) and Jamie Bartram (University of North Carolina)

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description:  There has been a tremendous push from the researchers to deploy technologies related to water monitoring and treatment in communities.  However, historic data suggest that in most cases such deployment has failed and in some cases there are hardly any uptakes of technologies by the communities. It is important that the water research community look for innovation in deployment strategies, particularly for developing countries and within developed countries under limited resource setting. The symposium will discuss new innovative strategies for deployment of water monitoring and treatment solutions and supply challenges, which should be sustainable, environment friendly and at the end should benefit the communities where these technologies are implemented.

 

Tentative Speakers: 5 Speakers TBD

 

7.8  Development of Economic Ecosystem in Chicago

 

Organizer: TBD

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Societal Impact of S&E section

 

Symposium Length:  90 or 180 min

 

Brief Description:  TBD

 

7.9  Innovation in Architectural Engineering: Zero Net Energy Buildings

 

Organizer: TBD

 

Potential Collaboration with: Psychology; General Medical Sciences; General Interest in S&E sections

 

Symposium Length:  90 or 180 min

 

Brief Description:  TBD

 

7.10  Fracking

 

Organizer: TBD

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Chemistry and General Interest in S&E sections

 

Symposium Length:  90 or 180 min

 

Brief Description:  TBD

 

 

Dr. Anderson encouraged all those who have suggested these ideas to develop them further and submit them on the AAAS proposal submission website by the deadline of April 23, 2013.

 

Finally, Dr. Anderson asked for suggestions for plenary and topical lectures speakers.  The names of Dean Kamen and William Baker were suggested as plenary speakers.

                                                                                                                                                                                            

8.   Adjournment: The newly elected Fellows introduced themselves and each said a few words about his/her research interests.  The meeting was adjourned at 12:00PM.  Lunch was served.

 

 

Submitted by:

Marwan A. Simaan

Secretary, Engineering Section (M)

February 25, 2013

 

 

 

Appendix A

Attendance List

 

1.      John L. Anderson, Chair

2.      Kristina Johnson, Chair-Elect

3.      H. Vincent Poor, Retiring Chair

4.      Marwan Simaan, Secretary

5.      Stuart Cooper, Council Delegate

6.      Larry McIntire, Council Delegate

7.      Edmund Seebauer, Member-Elect, Electorate Nominating Committee

8.      Cristina Amon, Former Chair and Former Member-at-Large

9.      Sallie Keller, Member, Program Committee

10.  Yolanda George, Program Office

11.  Paschalis Alexandridis, Newly Elected Fellow

12.  Amit Bandyopadhyay Newly Elected Fellow

13.  Kent Choquette, Newly Elected Fellow

14.  Louis Chow, Newly Elected Fellow

15.  Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Newly Elected Fellow

16.  Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Newly Elected Fellow

17.  Mark Horstemeyer, Newly Elected Fellow

18.  Yogesh Jaluria, Newly Elected Fellow

19.  Soundar Kumara, Newly Elected Fellow

20.  Chung K. Law, Newly Elected Fellow

21.  Alberto Leon-Garcia, Newly Elected Fellow

22.  Zongli Lin, Newly Elected Fellow

23.  Azad Madni, Newly Elected Fellow

24.  Tatsuki Ohji, Newly Elected Fellow

25.  Zhihua Qu, Newly Elected Fellow

26.  Rama Venkatasubramanian, Newly Elected fellow

27.  Darsh Wasan, Newly Elected Fellow

28.  Rama K. Yedavalli, Newly Elected Fellow

29.  Andriana Parisi Amon

30.  Raenita Fenner

31.  David Lubman

32.  Sushanta Mitra

33.  Larry Nagahara

34.  Alok Sinha

35.  Ram D. Sriram

36.  Moe Win

 

 

 

 

Appendix B

 

Newly elected Fellows affiliated with section M (Engineering) are:

 

Ilhan A. Aksay, Princeton University: For contributions to the fundamentals of materials processing and transfer of new technologies to industry. 

 

Paschalis Alexandridis, University at Buffalo: For fundamental discoveries on block copolymer thermodynamics, structure, and dynamics, for development of functional products utilizing self-assembly methodologies, and for outstanding graduate student mentoring. 

 

Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University: For distinguished contributions to the theoretical and computational study of complex systems, particularly for the development of a cartographic framework for characterizing large networks. 

 

Michael D. Amiridis, University of South Carolina: For distinguished contributions to the field of catalytic NOx reduction using in-situ vibrational spectroscopic characterization and the synthesis of supported metal nanoparticles using dendrimer scaffolds. 

 

Dionissios (Dennis) N. Assanis, Stony Brook University: For distinguished scientific contributions to improving fuel economy and reducing emissions of internal combustion engines, and for contributions to engineering education and academic leadership. 

 

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, University of California, Davis: For distinguished contributions to biomedical engineering and bioengineering, particularly for biomechanics-driven tissue regeneration, for leadership in engineering-in-medicine, and for commercial technologies based on his research. 

 

Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University: For distinguished contributions to the field of materials science and engineering, particularly for innovations in biomaterials and their manufacturing and applications in orthopedics. 

 

Kent D. Choquette, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For distinguished contributions to the science and technology of semiconductor vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. 

 

Louis C. Chow, University of Central Florida: For outstanding contributions in the areas of heat transfer in electro-optical, computing and power systems and two-phase spray cooling.

 

Panagiotis D. Christofides, University of California, Los Angeles: For the development of rigorous methods for analysis and control of nonlinear, hybrid and distributed parameter processes. 

 

Alan W. Cramb, Illinois Institute of Technology: For research achievements in process metallurgy, excellent teaching in materials science, and academic leadership as department chair, dean and provost.

 

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, University of Florida: For seminal contributions to the understanding of particle flow and the dynamics of gas-solid flows. 

 

John G.  Ekerdt, University of Texas at Austin: For seminal contributions to kinetics and reaction engineering and for pioneering and groundbreaking contributions to the reaction chemistry of electronic materials and ways to apply the reaction kinetics in the production of electronic materials. 

 

David P. Fyhrie, University of California Davis Medical School: For distinguished contributions to computational and experimental biomedical engineering, particularly for novel contributions to the prediction and prevention of osteoporotic fracture. 

 

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Virginia Commonwealth University: For seminal contributions to a broad range of science and engineering fields, including turbulence, flow control, experimental methods, microelectromechanical systems, and large-scale disasters. 

 

Andrés José García, Georgia Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions to the field of biomaterials and regenerative medicine, particularly for the engineering of materials for therapeutic and cell delivery and tissue repair.

 

Emmanuel E. Gdoutos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece: For distinguished contributions to the field of engineering mechanics, particularly for research contributions on experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, and advanced composite materials. 

 

Peyman Givi, University of Pittsburgh: For pioneering contributions in computational combustion, education of the next generation of engineers, and dedicated efforts to the engineering profession. 

 

Robert Goldstein, Russian Academy of Sciences: For distinguished contributions to the field of engineering mechanics, particularly for research contributions on solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and mechanics of materials. 

 

Mark A. Handschy, Enduring Energy, LLC: For contributions to liquid-crystal optoelectronics and electronic displays, particularly for development of display products based on the silicon foundry model.

 

Mark F. Horstemeyer, Mississippi State University: For distinguished contributions to the field of integrated computational materials engineering, particularly for developing lightweight structures and for advancing graduate education at Mississippi State University. 

 

Jacob N. Israelachvili, University of California, Santa Barbara: For distinguished contributions to the fields of intermolecular forces and surface science, experimentally resolving roles of these forces in self-assembly, adhesion, friction, lubrication and wear. 

 

Yogesh Jaluria, Rutgers University: For outstanding pioneering contributions to the field of thermal science and engineering, particularly to materials processing, buoyancy-induced flows, fire spread, energy storage and environmental flows. 

 

Suhada Jayasuriya, University of Central Florida: For outstanding contributions to the fields of robust control of nonlinear systems, quantitative feedback theory and multi-agent systems.

 

Brian A. Korgel, University of Texas at Austin: For pioneering contributions to nanomaterials science and engineering. 

 

Thomas F. Kuech, University of Wisconsin-Madison: For outstanding research in the field of solid-state materials synthesis and characterization, particularly metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) of semiconductors.

 

Soundar Kumara, Pennsylvania State University: For pioneering contributions in interdisciplinary research in industrial engineering integrating, manufacturing, computing, complex networks and operations research. 

 

Chung K. (Ed) Law, Princeton University: For distinguished technical contributions to the field of combustion theory and chemistry, and for dedicated service to the profession as president of the Combustion Institute.

 

Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada: For distinguished contributions to the design, management and operation of communication networks and the creation of innovative educational programs in network engineering. 

 

Daniel A. Lidar, University of Southern California: For distinguished contributions to the areas of quantum information science and quantum control. 

 

Zongli Lin, University of Virginia: For fundamental contributions to control theory and its applications, excellent teaching, and exemplary services to professional societies. 

 

Azad M. Madni, University of Southern California: For pioneering contributions to systems engineering and related research and education, particularly through modeling, simulation and gaming technologies. 

 

Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto, Canada: For distinguished contributions to the development of diffusion-wave engineering sciences and associated technologies, and their practical application across several academic and industrial fields. 

 

Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara: For distinguished contributions to the science and technology of drug delivery, particularly needle-free methods of administering biologics and for academic leadership in bioengineering. 

 

Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California: For distinguished contributions to physical-layer wireless communications, particularly multi-antenna and ultrawideband communication systems and propagation channels. 

 

H. Keith Moo-Young, California State University, Los Angeles: For distinguished contribution in the field of environmental engineering and engineering education, particularly for the solid and hazardous waste management and EPA SAB service. 

 

Ranga Narayanan, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions in interfacial fluid mechanics, and for leadership in international research, education and outreach in multiphase fluid mechanics. 

 

Arye Nehorai, Washington University in St. Louis: For distinguished contributions to the field of statistical signal processing with broad applications, and for academic leadership in electrical and systems engineering. 

 

James C. Newman, Jr., Mississippi State University: For distinguished contributions to the fields of fatigue and fracture mechanics, particularly stress analyses, modeling, and applications to life/strength prediction of damaged aircraft structures. 

 

Ellen Ochoa, NASA Johnson Space Center: For distinguished contributions to the operations and management of human space exploration, and for sustained efforts to encourage underrepresented students to study and excel in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

 

Tatsuki Ohji, National Institute of Advanced Science & Technology, Japan: For pioneering and seminal contributions and global leadership in the field of science, technology, and application of advanced ceramics and related materials. 

 

Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Princeton University: For outstanding contributions to the development of simulation methods for thermodynamics properties and engineering education.

 

Doug D. Perovic, University of Toronto, Canada: For distinguished contributions to the study of heterostructures, microstructures and thin film nanostructures, and the development of the world's first undergraduate degree program in nanoengineering. 

 

Zhihua Qu, University of Central Florida: For distinguished contributions to the field of nonlinear systems and control, particularly for control of networked systems with applications to robotics and energy systems. 

 

Rodney S. Ruoff, University of Texas at Austin: For distinguished contributions to the field of materials science and engineering, particularly for experimental studies of carbon materials and carbon-based composites. 

 

Maria M. Santore, University of Massachusetts Amherst: For important contributions to applied macromolecular and interfacial science, and for exemplary service as an editor, program organizer, and creator of innovative outreach and diversity initiatives. 

 

Christine E. Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin: For leading contributions to biomaterials science and tissue engineering. 

 

John M. Torkelson, Northwestern University: For outstanding contributions to the field of polymer science and engineering and for formulating core principles underlying dynamics in confined polymer systems and nanoparticle-polymer interactions. 

 

Rama Venkatasubramanian, RTI International: For pioneering, seminal, and sustained contributions in nanoscale thermoelectric materials and devices for thermal management and energy harvesting, and turning knowledge to practice. 

 

Darsh T. Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology: For outstanding research in colloid and interface science, for teaching and mentoring students at all levels, and for academic and professional leadership. 

 

Ralph E. White, University of South Carolina: For pioneering work on the mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems, particularly in the areas of fuel cells, batteries, corrosion, electrodeposition, and electrolysis. 

 

David B. Williams, Ohio State University: For distinguished contributions to metal and material sciences, particularly on electron microscopy, and to higher education, providing academic leadership at three major research universities. 

 

Rama Krishna Yedavalli, Ohio State University: For distinguished research and education contributions to the fields of robust and distributed control of mechanical and aerospace systems, and for service to multiple professional societies. 

 

Yuntian T. Zhu, North Carolina State University: For pioneering and innovative work on nanotechnology development and fundamental science of nanomaterials.