2014 AAAS
Engineering Section Business Meeting
Friday February 14, 2014
Hyatt Regency Chicago, Room: Crystal
Ballroom C
MINUTES
1.
Introductions: Kristina Johnson, Section Chair, called the meeting to
order at 9:30 AM after around 15 minutes of networking with coffee and snacks
being served. She asked those present to
introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in Appendix A.
2.
Approval of Minutes: Dr. Johnson asked for comments and suggested changes
to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 15, 2013,
at the Boston Annual meeting. The draft minutes were prepared by Marwan Simaan,
Section Secretary, and posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m
shortly after the 2013 Boston 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.
Section Chair Remarks: Dr. Johnson’s remarks reflected on the opening
plenary session by AAAS President Phil Sharp, including the need for focusing
on manufacturing, engineering research, and education. She discussed the NSF research centers that
were established as a collective action over 30 years ago. She also discussed
cash grants for doubling of renewal energy, a program that was implemented
during her tenure as Undersecretary in the US Department of Energy. This
program addressed the question of how to scale the energy infrastructure,
including (1) a broader view of energy (emissions, mitigation), (2) what
engineering can give back to the people (complexity of the system), and (3)
finding skilled workers (the average age of the energy worker was 48). She concluded by saying that we need to
figure out ways to train the workforce to deal with the complexities associated
with scaling the energy infrastructure.
4.
Announcements: Dr. Johnson announced that W. Kent Fuchs
(Cornell University) has been elected Chair-Elect and Nicholas L. Abbott
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been elected Member-at-Large of the
Engineering Section’s Steering Group both effective February 18, 2014. She also announced that Linda Broadbelt (Northwestern University) and David B. Williams
(Ohio State University) have been elected to the Engineering Section Electorate
Nominating Committee.
Dr.
Johnson thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual
Meeting: John L. Anderson as Retiring
Chai, Gary S. May as Retiring Member-at-Large, and Margaret Murnane
and Sarah Rajala as Retiring Members of the
Electorate Nominating Committee.
On
February 18, 2014 Dr. Johnson will become the Retiring Chair and in that
capacity she will serve on the AAAS Council and she will also Chair the
Electorate Nominating Committee.
Dr.
John Anderson, Chair of the ENC, thanked the members of the Electorate
Nominating Committee for their hard work in identifying nominees during this
last election cycle.
Dr.
Johnson also announced that 30 of the 388 elected AAAS Fellows in 2013 are
affiliated with our section. A list of their names was distributed at the
meeting and is attached as Appendix B.
All the newly elected Fellows from our section were invited to attend
our business meeting. Unfortunately due
to a snow storm on the East Coast only 4 of the 10 Fellows who responded were
able to attend. Stephen A Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sharon
C. Glotzer, University of Michigan; Klaus S. Lackner, Columbia University; and Carlo Uberto
Serge, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Dr. Johnson welcomed them, and
thanked them for attending the meeting. She asked each of them to briefly
describe their research interests. The newly elected Fellows introduced
themselves and each said a few words about his/her research interests.
5.
2015 AAAS Annual Meeting:
At the section officers meeting which was held prior to our business meeting,
Dr. Simaan invited AAAS President-Elect Gerald Fink to come to our business meeting at
his convenience anytime between 9:30 am and 12:30pm to discuss the theme of the
2015 Annual Meeting with those present at our meeting. Dr. Fink joined our meeting at the point when
the last newly elected Fellow was describing his research. Dr. Johnson welcomed
him. Dr. Fink introduced the theme of
the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting: Innovation,
Information and Imaging. He
mentioned that science and technology are being transformed by new ways to
collect and use information. Progress in all fields is increasingly driven by
the ability to organize, visualize, and analyze data. Advances in information
and imaging technologies are generating novel applications in fields such as
biochemistry, computer science, particle physics, genomics, and oceanography,
and creating ways to interpret data across disciplines. This transformation
makes scientific information more open, available, and accessible globally. The
escalating amount of data, and advances in data analysis, are changing the ways
we discover answers to scientific and societal problems. Thoughtful
consideration of how information is used for societal benefit, evaluated for
potential risks, and communicated beyond the scientific community will allow
this revolution to reach its full potential.
Dr. Fink indicated that the theme was appropriate
for the Silicon Valley. He reflected on his high school calculus teachers who
were from local engineering school and his path into bio and his best friend’s
path into engineering and now how they were both working on projects that were
bioengineering related. He further discussed how imaging has led to the
convergence of fields in many areas and how the overlap in fields is dependent
on engineering, including neurocircuits and degenerative
diseases. This convergence is occurring in both industry and academia for the
common good.
He
then encouraged members of our section to submit symposia proposals for the
meeting. He added that the proposal submission site and instructions, including
further description of the theme, can now be accessed at https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/cfp.cgi.
The deadline for submission is Friday April 25, 2014, 11:59pm, PT. Decisions will be announced in late
June. Before leaving, Dr. Fink answered
several questions from the attendees largely focused on how to increase the
acceptance rate of proposals submitted from our section.
6.
Fellow Nomination Process: Dr.
Johnson 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 7,463 Members
(primary affiliation: 3,767, secondary affiliation: 2,291, and tertiary
affiliation: 1,405). This year 30 members of our section were elected Fellows
of AAAS. He also mentioned that there is
a new rule beginning last 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,
2010. The new rule also limits to no more than two the number of three Fellow
nominations that a AAAS Fellow can serve on as a
sponsor.
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 15 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 (http://www.aaas.org/page/aaas-fellows).
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 16, 2014, and that
there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows
method. By May 16, 2014, 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 13, 2014. Dr. Simaan 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.
Update on AAAS Council Issues of Interest to Section M: Our council delegates Drs. Anderson, Cooper and
McIntire provided an update on the council delegate term issue. They mentioned
that the Committee on Council Affairs (CCA) has recommended approval of
staggering the delegate terms and that this recommendation will now move
forward to the Council for approval. It will
be on Council’s agenda for the February 16th council meeting. The
proposal for staggering the terms reads as follows:
“The
CCA recommends approval of staggering the terms of Council Delegates in
sections with more than one delegate. In order to accomplish this, instead of
asking delegates to extend or shorten their terms, it is proposed that next
time there is an election; there should be temporary altered terms until
normalization. For example, if a section has three delegates and they are up
for election in 2015, one delegate will be asked (by the section’s electorate
nominating committee) to run for a one-year term (until 2016), one delegate
will be asked to run for a two-year term (until 2017), and the third delegate
will be asked to run for a three-year term (until 2018). This would establish a
yearly pattern of elections in 2016 (one delegate), 2017 (one delegate) and
2018 (one delegate). Beginning in 2018, one delegate position will be up every
year and go back to serving three year terms but on a staggered basis.
One
potential issue is that the number of delegates is tied to the primary
membership count of that section, and the count can change from year to year,
potentially affecting the number of delegates a section is allowed to have.
With the above proposal, any potential over-representation or
under-representation will only persist for a year, and can be addressed at the
next election by running additional or fewer delegates as needed.
The
sections with fewer than three delegates can have an off year between running
candidates.”
It
was noted that if the recommendation is approved, our section will have a
council delegate election coming up in 2014 (for terms beginning in 2015). As noted above one delegate will be elected
for a 2 year period and the other for a 3 year period.
8.
Proposed Symposia for the 2015 Annual Meeting: The 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in
San Jose, CA, February 12-16, 2015. The
theme of the meeting is “Innovation in
Information and Imaging”.
“Science
and technology are being transformed by new ways to collect and use
information. Progress in all fields is increasingly driven by the ability to
organize, visualize, and analyze data. Advances in information and imaging
technologies are generating novel applications in fields such as biochemistry,
computer science, particle physics, genomics, and oceanography, and creating
ways to interpret data across disciplines. This transformation makes scientific
information more open, available, and accessible globally. The escalating
amount of data, and advances in data analysis, are changing the ways we
discover answers to scientific and societal problems. Thoughtful consideration
of how information is used for societal benefit, evaluated for potential risks,
and communicated beyond the scientific community will allow this revolution to
reach its full potential.”
AAAS
asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three or
more hot topics to be discussed at the 2015 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 2015 Annual
meeting. Dr. Johnson 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. Proposals 8.4 and 8.5 were emailed to Dr. Simaan
after the business meeting due to the fact that the organizers were not able to
attend the meeting because of the snow storm.
8.1 Sealed
Leaks and Avoided Spills: Next Generation Sensors for Energy and Water Infrastructure
Organizers: Sushanta Mitra (University of Alberta), Kristina Johnson (Enduring Hydro), and Alex Dale (Engineers for a Sustainable
World)
Potential Collaboration
with: Information, Computing
and Communication Section
Symposium Length: 180 min
Synopsis: Energy
and water resources and their associated infrastructure are critical to
providing economic growth, and a creating a sustainable future Water
infrastructure in many developed countries is aging, leaky, and easily
compromised, as witnessed by recent cases of water contamination by chemical
spills (WV January 2014) and coal ash spills (VA February 2014). Access to safe
drinking water is an even bigger challenge for developing countries.
In
the energy sector, infrastructure plays a crucial role in ensuring energy security and economic prosperity. The recent debate
related to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to connect Canada’s oil sands to
refineries and ports in the United States are focused in large part on the
potential for spills and subsequent environmental disasters. .Can ground
breaking innovation in sensor, imaging, and data analysis help predict and
mitigate environmental risks of harvesting these natural resources? The aim of
the symposium is to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders from academia,
industry, government, and investment community to discuss state of the art
sensing, imaging and information systems that can assess and predict water and
energy infrastructure failure, thus allowing us to be better stewards of the
environment and our natural resources.
Tentative Speakers:
1.
Challenges with Energy Infrastructure, (Speaker:
TBD. ATD suggested Greg Reed, U. of Pittsburgh)
2.
Challenges with Water
Infrastructure, (Speaker: TBD)
3.
New Paradigms in Sensor Technology, (Speaker: TBD)
4.
Data Analytics: Convergence of Imaging,
Sensor for ICT Platform (Speaker: TBD)
5.
Policies Related to Safe Energy and
Water Infrastructure, (Speaker: Dr Ernest Moniz)
6.
Investments in Energy and Water
Infrastructure, (Speaker: TBD)
8.2
Our Computational Foundation Crisis and Life Beyond
Organizers: Jon Candelaria,
Director, Interconnect & Packaging Sciences, Semiconductor Research
Corporation, PO Box 12053, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2053; Phone Number:
919- 941-9400; Fax Number: 919-941-9450; Email: Jon.Candelaria@src.org, and Larry A. Nagahara,
Director, Office of Physical Sciences - Oncology, National Cancer Institute, 31
Center Drive, MSC2580 Bldg. 31, Rm 10A03, Bethesda, MD 20892; Phone Number:
301-451-3388; Fax Number: 301-480-9944; Email: Larry.Nagahara@nih.gov
Potential Collaboration with: TBD
Symposium Length: 180 min
Scheduling
and Time Justification: In the now famous and highly cited report
commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences entitled” The Future of
Computing Performance: Game Over or next Level?” the following statements were
made: “The essential engine that made exponential growth possible is now in
considerable danger. The implications of
a dramatic slowdown in how quickly computer performance is increasing - for our
economy, our military, our research institutes, and our way of life - are substantial.”
These dramatic Statements were not hyperbole nor were they arbitrary,
unfounded, “doomsday’ statements. Such a crisis is very real and has been
building for the last decade and while not gone unnoticed, has not yet been
addressed nor has a clear solution path been identified.
Session
Description: In a report from a workshop entitled “Architecture and technology
for Extreme Scale Computing,” which was driven by DOE’s Scientific Grand
Challenges initiative, the following summary statement were made: The
challenges and projected trends elaborated on in depth within this report
“…will make it increasingly difficult for a broad range of computational scientists to use the most powerful
computing systems. This suggests that computational scientists and computer
architects must sit down together to understand the complete range of tradeoffs
possible for each of them, and then co-design their codes and systems to
maximize scientific throughput.” In
line with the 2015 theme “Innovation, Information and Imaging”, the
transformation in the way we collect and use information (i.e., progress)
assumes that these pending challenges either do not exist or assumed to be
circumvented. Hence in order for this
revolution to reach its full potential we will need to address this pending
challenge in computing performance.
Because of the diversity of the participants that
the AAAS Conference attracts, it is the ideal forum to bring together the broadest
cross-section of the scientific community
who are dependent on the continuum of computational performance
capabilities to advance their discoveries, and expose them to this crisis as
well as engage them in direct dialog with the computer science community to
begin this critically important process. It is proposed that this session
begins with a series of brief talks that begin
with a history
of how computers were
created and for what
purposes, through the description of the technical challenges
that now define the crisis being faced, to the visions of a few world experts
on the possibilities that lie ahead. The most important part of this session
however will be the open panel session which will involve an open dialog
between the invited speakers and the scientific and computer community
represented in the audience. Beyond educating the audience about the crisis and
opening this critical dialog, this session will be aimed at an ambitious goal
of drafting together a list of a minimal set of category designations that
could describe the full range of problem types and ‘workloads’ projected to be
faced in the future. This event will be
expected to jump start further such forums and direct dialogs that are suggested
above in the DOE’s report as critical
to the advancement of the foundational computing
infrastructure upon which
all of our scientific and engineering advancement will be based.
Suggested
Speakers:
1.
George Dyson: World Renown Author and Historian;
Author of “Turing’s Cathedral”
2.
William Dally:
Professor at Stanford
University and CTO of Nvidia
Corp.
4. John Kelly III: IBM Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research
5. W. Danny Hillis: Co-Chairman and
Chief Technology Officer of Applied
Minds,
co-founded
Thinking Machines Corporation
Suggested
Panel Moderator:
Tom Kalil:
Deputy Director for Policy and Assistant Director of the Office of Science Technology Policy
8.3
Integrative Imaging: From Molecules to Man
Organizers: Stephen Boppart, M.D.,
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Ted Conway, Ph.D., Florida Institute of Technology
Potential Collaboration with: TBD
Symposium Length: 180 min
Synopsis:
Imaging science and technology have enabled us to see the unseen, and visualize
enormous amounts of data in a more comprehensible way. To enable solutions for the complex questions
we now face in biology and medicine, imaging across spatial and temporal scales
that span many orders of magnitude is required to provide the data for
simulations, models, visualization of structure and function, and to
fundamentally enhance our understanding of these complex processes. In medicine, traditional clinical imaging
modalities such as x-ray CT, MRI, and PET enable visualization at the level of
the human body and its organs.
Currently, these technologies are limited in their resolution to visualize
at the cellular scale. Optical imaging
technologies excel at visualizing cells and even single molecules, but few
technological solutions exist to integrate imaging technologies and data across
these scales, from molecules to man. In order to address these challenges, a
variety of funding agencies including DARPA, NIH and NSF have allocated funds
directed at using these multi-scale imaging technologies to map a myriad of
brain activities and to investigate the tumor treatment response. This symposium will assemble a unique group
of leading researchers that highlight these challenges while offering the
promise that can come from using imaging, computational power, and
visualization science to advance our systems-level understanding of states of
health and disease.
Potential Invited Speakers:
1) TBD, System-level
thinking in medicine and biology and the need for integrative imaging across
spatial and temporal scales.
2) TBD, Brain imaging of
function and dysfunction (presenting state-of-the-art for imaging at large
spatial scales).
3) TBD, Cellular and
molecular imaging of dynamic neural circuits using optogenetics
and fast optical imaging.
4) TBD, Imaging the therapeutic response of cancer (presenting
clinical patient results, limitations).
5) TBD, Cellular and
molecular intravital imaging of tumor pharmacotherapy
and response.
6) TBD, Computational
imaging and visualization of enormous data sets (how do we make sense of image
data overload?).
8.4 Designing Secure and
Sustainable Engineering Systems under Information Uncertainty and Overload
Symposium Organizers: Dr. Sankar Basu,
National Science Foundation (CISE/CCF), Embassy Science Fellow at the US
Embassy Berlin, 2011. Dr.
Igor Linkov, US Army Engineering Research and
Development Center, Embassy Science Fellow at the US Embassy Berlin, 2012.
Potential Collaboration
with: Information, Computing
and Communication (T). Industrial Science and Technology (P).
Symposium Length: 180 min
Synopsis: A
huge volume of data has been collected to develop threat scenarios, assess
vulnerabilities and model consequences associated with potential attacks on
complex engineered systems, yet our understanding of the threats affecting
these systems, and the relevance of this data in modeling them is uncertain.
Escalating losses associated with unexpected events such as cyber-attacks have
focused attention on new approaches to reducing damages and mitigating
consequences that rely not just on the measureable components of the system.
The dominant management paradigm of the past several decades centered on risk
analysis but may be difficult to implement in dealing with emerging threats
given a paucity of relevant information on extensively interconnected systems.
This session will explore the concept of resilience as the guiding principle
for assessing properties of the whole system, including physical, information,
cognitive, and social domains. The current knowledge on threats,
vulnerabilities and consequences, whilst limited, can nevertheless guide design
of systems to avoid future risks, provided that we apply an integrated approach
that addresses the complete product supply chain. This session brings together
government officials and technology industry representatives responsible for
cyber risk management and top scientists studying secure and sustainable systems. The dynamic nature of cyber risks requires
semi-quantitative design and evaluation methods that integrate technical data
and with value judgments in a framework that can be deployed rapidly and is
adaptive to new information.
Discussant: Ken Heffner, Honeywell
Corp.
Tentative Speakers:
8.5
Improving Quality of Life through Transforming Images to Decisions
Organizers: Ram Sriram (section M), Ramesh Jain (section N), and Donald
Henson, MD Section N, to be confirmed)
Potential
Collaboration with: TBD
Symposium Length: 180 min
Brief
Description: Images have become prevalent in our lives as a means
of observing our surrounding at multiple scales. While the progress in
developing and applying imaging sensors has been tremendous, there is still a
lack of knowledge on how to transform images into decisions. This is especially
true in applications where images could improve quality of our life. We will
focus this workshop session on a broad range of applications where a human
subject and the well-being are of main concern. These applications span
assisted living environments equipped with video cameras to monitor elderly,
medical imaging instruments acquiring measurements of human body to understand
anomalies (MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound), to bio-manufacturing and tissue
engineering using high-throughput microscopes to guarantee quality and safety
of cell therapies. We will focus on contributions that describe challenges
encountered in use cases seeking to improve quality of life through
transforming images to decisions.
Tentative
Speakers: TBD (will be from all over the globe (e.g. US, S Korea, Poland, …)
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 25, 2014.
Finally,
Dr. Johnson asked for suggestions for plenary and topical lectures
speakers. The name of Dean Kamen was suggested as a plenary speaker.
9. New Business: Dr. Johnson asked if there is any other new business
or issues to be discussed before adjournment. None were brought to the floor.
10.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:45am. Lunch was served.
Submitted
by:
Marwan
A. Simaan
Secretary,
Engineering Section (M)
February
25, 2014
Appendix A
Attendance
List
1. Kristina M. Johnson, Chair
2. John L. Anderson, Retiring Chair
3. Nicholas A. Peppas,
Chair-Elect
4. Marwan A. Simaan, Secretary
5. Ilesanmi Adesida, Member-at-Large
6. Stuart L. Cooper, Council Delegate
7. Larry V. McIntire, Council Delegate
8. Edmund G. Seebauer, Member,
Electorate Nominating Committee
9. Duncan T. Moore, Past Section Chair
10. Yolanda George, Program Office
11. Carlo Uberto Segre, Newly
Elected Fellow
12. Klaus S. Lackner, Newly
Elected Fellow
13. Stephen A. Boppart, Newly
Elected Fellow
14. Sharon C. Glotzer, Newly
Elected Fellow
15. U. Sunday Tim, Representative AWRA
16. Krishna S. Athrey (COOS
Committee Chair)
17. Mario Gomes
18. Ted Conway
19. Alexander Dale
20. Christine Grant
21. Wei Zhang
22. Sankar Basu
23. David Lubman
24. Sushanta Mitra
25. Catherine Didion
26. Raphael Lee
27. Kelly A. Rusch
28. Ihab Awad
Appendix B
New
AAAS Fellows elected in 2013
Newly elected Fellows affiliated with section M (Engineering) are:
François Baneyx, University of Washington: For distinguished contributions to the fields of recombinant
protein expression and protein-aided materials synthesis.
Mark A.
Barteau, University of Michigan Energy Institute: For groundbreaking contributions to metal oxides and
transition metal catalysis, which led to the development of fundamental understanding
and design of novel, improved catalysts.
Stephen A.
Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For distinguished contributions to optical
coherence tomography and its applications to biomedical imaging.
James J.
Collins, Boston University: For pioneering contributions to synthetic biology and engineered gene
networks, as well as fundamental discoveries regarding the actions of
antibiotics and the emergence of resistance.
Harold G.
Craighead, Cornell University: For distinguished contributions to nanotechnology and
its applications in electronic, mechanical, optical, and biomedical fields.
Horacio Dante
Espinosa, Northwestern University: For distinguished contributions to the field of
mechanics of materials, particularly for the development of novel in-situ
microscopy experiments and their interpretation with atomistic modeling.
Glenn H.
Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara:
For contributions to our understanding of block
copolymers, complex fluids, and other soft matter.
Sharon C.
Glotzer, University of Michigan: For groundbreaking simulations of the self-assembly of
nanoparticles into complex structures, and theoretical contributions to patchy
particles, colloidal crystals, quasicrystals and glass forming liquids.
Kenneth E.
Goodson, Stanford University: For distinguished contributions in the thermal
sciences, particularly for the advancement of heat transfer research in
electronic nanostructures and packaging.
Kevin Edward
Healy, University of California, Berkeley: For distinguished contributions to the fields of
bioengineering and biomaterials science, particularly for the understanding and
development of bioinspired materials.
Kanti Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For the invention and development of fundamental
manufacturing processes and systems for high resolution and large area micro-
and nanolithography.
Ali Khademhosseini, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard
Medical School: For outstanding
contributions at the interface of engineering, materials sciences, and biology,
and in particular for the application of micro- and nanoengineered materials
for regenerative medicine.
William P.
King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For seminal contributions to the engineering of
nanometer-scale thermal and mechanical systems and their applications to
fundamental understanding of the properties of materials.
Klaus S.
Lackner, Columbia University: For groundbreaking innovations in the fields of
sustainable energy and carbon management.
Robert Samuel
Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: For inventions and discoveries that led to the
development of controlled drug release systems, engineered tissues, and new
biomaterials.
Cato Thomas
Laurencin, University of Connecticut: For international leadership in biomaterials sciences
and engineering, for the development of revolutionary technologies for
musculoskeletal regeneration, and for extraordinary work in mentoring.
Frances S.
Ligler, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: For creation of biosensor systems and fostering
careers in interdisciplinary science and engineering.
Bruce Ernest
Logan, Pennsylvania State University: For important contributions to environmental engineering,
with pioneering research in microbial fuel cells and related electrochemical
technologies for achieving an energy sustainable water infrastructure.
Hang Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology:
For distinguished contributions to the field of
engineering systems for high-throughput quantitative and systems biology,
particularly for microfluidics, automation, image-based science, and phenomics.
Glenn E.
Lucas, University of California, Santa Barbara: For distinguished contributions to the field of
mechanical deformation and fracture in structural materials and for
extraordinary leadership in university administration.
Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin:
For seminal contributions to bioinformatics and imaging
physics to improve the detection of cancer, and for leadership in biomedical
engineering education.
Suresh Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology:
For distinguished and innovative contributions
to the field of multi-scale computational simulation and modeling of turbulent
combustion in power and propulsion systems.
Adrienne R.
Minerick, Michigan Technology University:
For leading contributions to the field of
nonlinear electrokinetics, particularly discernment of surface molecules with
electric fields in microdevices, and for leadership of the field as the AES
Electrophoresis Society president.
Brij M.
Moudgil, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions to the field of
particle science and technology, particularly for engineered particulate
systems for enhanced performance in existing and emerging technologies.
Carlo Uberto
Segre, Illinois Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions to materials science
and engineering, particularly high temperature superconductivity and
development of facilities for synchrotron radiation studies of electrochemical
and catalytic systems.
David N.
Seidman, Northwestern University: For distinguished pioneering and seminal applications of
field-ion microscopy and atom-probe tomography to fundamental scientific and
technological problems in materials science and engineering.
Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego:
For unique and outstanding contributions at the
interface of engineering, life sciences, and informatics, particularly in
applications to systems biology and medicine.
Grétar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame: For the advancement of numerical methods to track the
motion of fluid interfaces and innovative approaches to undergraduate
engineering education.
Bruce C.
Wheeler, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions to in vitro neural
engineering technology and research, to the development of biomedical
engineering departments, and to the engineering education.
Xi-Cheng Zhang, University of Rochester/Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China): For
distinguished contributions to the generation and detection of broadband
terahertz waves, particularly for free-space electro-optic sampling and
terahertz air photonics with femtosecond lasers.