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,
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,
Michael D. Amiridis,
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,
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,
Panagiotis D. Christofides,
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,
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,
Yogesh Jaluria,
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.
Chung K. (Ed) Law,
Alberto Leon-Garcia,
Daniel A. Lidar,
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,
Samir Mitragotri,
Andreas F. Molisch,
H.
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.
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,
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,
Christine E. Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin: For leading contributions to biomaterials science and
tissue engineering.
John M. Torkelson,
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,
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,
Yuntian T. Zhu,