2015 AAAS
Engineering Section Business Meeting
Friday
February 13, 2015
San
Jose, CA; Fairmont Hotel, Room: Atherton
MINUTES
1.
Introductions: Nicholas Peppas, Section Chair,
called the meeting to order at 9:35 AM after around 15 minutes of networking
with coffee and snacks being served. He
asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in
Appendix A.
2.
Approval of Minutes: Dr. Peppas asked for
comments and suggested corrections to the draft minutes of the Section Business
Meeting held on February 14, 2014, at the Chicago, IL meeting. The draft
minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m
shortly after the 2014 Chicago 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. Peppas’s
remarks focused on the convergence of engineering in service to society. He pointed out that many members of the
section were in biomedical engineering and that section members, as well as
AAAS, should focus on recruiting members from other engineering disciplines.
4.
2016 AAAS Annual Meeting:
Geraldine Richmond, President-Elect and soon to be President of AAAS, discussed
the theme of the 2016 meeting which will be held in Washington, DC February
11-15, 2016. The theme is: Global Science Engagement”. 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 are
typically characterized by 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 http://meetingd.aaas.org/. The deadline
for submission is Friday April 24, 2016, 11:59pm, PT. Decisions will be announced in late July. Before leaving, Dr. Richmond answered several
questions from the attendees largely focused on how to increase the acceptance
rate of proposals submitted from our section.
5.
Announcements: Dr. Peppas
announced the results of the AAAS elections for 2015-16. In the General Election, Barbara A. Schaal (Washington University in St. Louis) was elected as
President-Elect, Michael S. Gazzaniga (UC Santa
Barbara) and Mercedes Pascual (Univ. of Michigan)
were elected to the Board of Directors and Peter C. Agre
(Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute), Francis H. Arnold (Caltech),
Michael A. Marletta (Scripps Research Institute) and
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Rockefeller Univ.) were elected
to the Committee on Nominations. For Section M:
Larry V. McIntire (Georgia Tech) was elected as Chair-Elect; Lance V.
Collins (Cornell University) was elected as Member-at-Large; Carol K. Hall (North Carolina State
University) and Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) were elected as members of
the Section Electorate Nominating Committee and Molly Sandra Shoichet, 2-year term (University
of Toronto) and Stuart L. Cooper,
3-year term (The Ohio State University) were elected as Section M
Council representatives. The term for all those who were elected starts on
February 17, 2015.
Dr.
Peppas thanked all the officers whose terms ended
after this Annual Meeting: Kristina
Johnson as Retiring Chair, J. Gary Eden as Retiring Member-at-Large, and Linda Katehi and Gregory Stephanopoulos as Retiring Members of
the Electorate Nominating Committee. On
February 17, 2015 Dr. Peppas 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.
Peppas also announced that this year 30 members of
our section were elected Fellows of AAAS. A list of the names of the newly
elected Fellows was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix
B. The Newly elected Fellows were
invited to attend our business meeting and 14 of the 30 were able to
attend. Dr. Peppas
welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting.
6.
Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Peppas 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 7,115 Members
(primary affiliation: 3,546, secondary affiliation: 2,204, and tertiary
affiliation: 1,365). 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,
2011.
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 22, 2015, and that
there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows
method. By May 19, 2015, 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 16, 2015. 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.
A
discussion followed which centered on issues related to the lack of diversity of
Fellows, including disciplines, employment sector such as industry, gender, and
international. It was also mentioned that many engineers may not find a need to
become members because they get Science magazine via their university or Lab
license. There is a need to educate engineers about the value of AAAS
membership. It was also mentioned that community building
was needed to not only increase the number of engineering Fellows but to also
increase the number of AAAS officers who are engineers.
Dr. Peppas mentioned
that AAAS has appointed a committee to review the Fellows nomination process.
Concern was expressed about the 4 year membership requirement to be nominated
for Fellow. It was suggested that if member dues have lapse for a short period
of time, members should be able to pay back dues and not be penalized for not
having 4 years of continuous AAAS membership.
Concerns were also expressed that Science
magazine seldom publishes articles in engineering. Other concerns were raised
about print journals becoming obsolete. Dr. Peppas
pointed out that AAAS launched a new online journal called Science Advances, http://scienceadvances.org/
7.
Planning for the 2016 Annual Meeting: The 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in
Washington, DC, February 11-15, 2016.
The theme of the meeting is “Global
Science Engagement”. AAAS asked our
section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three hot topics to
be discussed at the 2016 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on
Sunday afternoon 2-4:30pm. These hot
topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our
section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2016 Annual meeting. Dr. Peppas 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 Science and Diplomacy: Transatlantic
Cooperation in Engineering and Science
Duration: 180 min Session
Co-Organizers:
1.
Dr.
Igor Linkov, US Army Engineer Research and
Development Center, State Department Embassy Science Fellow at the US Embassy
Berlin, 2013, Fellow, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), (SRA representative to Section “M”).
2.
Dr.
Sankar Basu, National
Science Foundation , State Department Embassy Science Fellow, US Embassy
Berlin, 2012, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fellow IEEE, Fellow AAAS (Section
“M”).
Tentative Discussant: Dr. Norm Neureiter. AAAS
Description: While many countries already collaborate on
engineering and science, efforts to
continuously deepen cooperation is required in areas of global scope and
pressing current need. The need for
enhanced transatlantic collaboration arises from two central considerations:
1.
The
nature of global challenges alongside the sheer scientific potential that may
arise through transatlantic cooperation has opened an expanded window of
opportunity for research on the technological, economic, and societal
implications of global transitions.
Issues ranging from environmental protection, climate change and energy
resources, personalized medicine, to cybersecurity and emerging technologies
are inherently global in nature, and therefore require international attention
if they are to be adequately addressed. Enhancing connectivity and synergism
among seemingly different technologies and communities creates added value and
provides an excellent opportunity for technology convergence and human progress
in an evolving knowledge based society.
2.
Sharing
timely information on scientific breakthroughs, new research and development
programs, and related technological development is essential for operating at
the cutting edge of scientific discovery.
Scientific innovation is an ongoing process in virtually all fields
across the globe. By providing expertise
within each respective nation’s science framework, the envisioned bilateral
cooperative venture brings scientists together and creates an environment of
mutual exchange, dialogue, and cooperation that stimulates cross-discipline
convergence and scientific discovery. Evolving European and US models of
education and technology transfer will be compared and contrasted in this
context.
Potential Speakers (only a subset may be invited in the final program):
1. Frances Colon, Acting Science and Technology Adviser to the USA Secretary
of State
2. Dr. Bill Colglazier,
Visiting Scientist at the Center for Science Diplomacy at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); previously Science and
Technology Adviser to the USA Secretary of State
3. Dr.
Mark Suskin, acting Head, Europe/Eurasia Office,
National Science Foundation
4. Dr. Celia Merzbacher,
NRC Committee on Globalization of Science and Technology, and Semiconductor
Research Corporation
5. Dr. Cathleen S. Fisher,
President, American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
6. Dr. Andrea Noske,
Head of the Science and Technology Section, the Embassy of the Federal Republic
of Germany in Washington
7. Professor Ortwin
Renn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
8. Professor Jürgen Mlynek, President, Helmholtz Association
9. Dr. Max Voegler,
Head of the Deutsche Forschungsgemainschaft,
Washington DC office
10. Dr. James P. Gavigan,
Minister-Counsellor and Head of the Science, Technology and Innovation,
European Union Delegation to US in Washington DC
7.2 X-Ray Imaging for Low Dose, High Performance,
and Global Reach.
Organizer: Ge Wang
Duration: 90 Minutes
Description: Just like the TV technology evolving from gray-scale
to full-color, x-ray CT is now in transition to spectral CT with energy
resolution for less radiation dose and K-edge/molecular imaging. There are also
active efforts on CT scanners for developing countries, such as the news on our
work (Dineley J: Linear CT scanning lowers system
costs, http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/research/59198,
Nov. 4, 2014). A new twist we have is to use big data (existing CT scans) as
prior knowledge for CT. Big data enables optimal image reconstruction,
segmentation, and on-demand analysis/interpretation. A futuristic type of CT
scanners could support multi-screening abilities to image lung cancer, bone
density, coronary artery atherosclerosis, and fatty liver all in one exam at
lowest dose. Robotic ability of the CT scanner means no requirement of trained personnel as well as reduction of
inter-operator variation. What has been a high-tech, expensive, high-dose
workhorse imaging modality in hospitals and clinics, CT can become a safer,
cheaper and more accessible machine in the world (attached is my abstract just
submitted to CERN, with more details).
Speakers:
TBD
7.3 Medical Imaging for Global Healthcare
Organizer: Ge Wang
Duration: 90 Minutes
Description: The symposium will be focused on what medical imaging
technologies can do for the developing world, and how can global collaboration
help meet those needs? For example, portable ultrasound,
low-cost/reliable turnkey CT with CAD/teleradiology,
open MRI, etc. My institution is in the same town as GE Global Research
Center where world-class R&D laboratories cover all imaging modalities. We
collaborate closely with leading medicine schools on the eastern coast, and
also with international collaborators in different countries. Hence, we are
able to cover the ground well.
Speakers: TBD
7.4 The ERC Story: Social context driven
STEM Research Enterprise
Organizer: Krishna Athreya
Duration: 180 Minutes
Description: The (20) Engineering Research Centers that are active
across the nation (with significant NSF support) at any given time are
multidisciplinary, multi-institution partnerships engaging in cutting- edge
research, each focused on a major social challenge/opportunity that transcends
geo-political boundaries. A key distinguishing feature/value within each ERC is
also the urgency for translation of results/products from the laboratory to the
market via entrepreneurship and tech transfer.
Students engaged in research within ERCs are fully cognizant of the social
context and transformation potential of their work and have demonstrated their
ability to articulate the social value of their center in 90 sec perfect pitch
(es).
My suggestion is therefore to consider a student-led symposium
highlighting the global social impact (potential) from the ERC research
enterprise at the 2016 AAAS annual meeting in DC.
Speakers: TBD
7.5 Transforming Manufacturing and
Preserving World Heritage through 3D Laser Scanning
Organizers: Bjorn Johansson (Sweden), Ram D. Sriram (Section M)
and Ramesh Jain (Section T)
Duration:
180 Minutes
Description:
3D laser scanning is a technology
for capturing spatial data in three dimensions. The technology originates from
the field of surveying and has since been spread to several other application
areas. The common denominator for the technology’s application across different
fields is the ability to capture spatial attributes of the real world and make
them available for analysis and visualization in virtual environments. For
example, this technology is transforming the way that multinationals are
collaborating in improving manufacturing productivity and how various heritage
sites across the world are being preserved. In this 180 minute symposium
presenters will provide state of the art visual presentations on collaborative
ventures across the globe, in particular Sweden, China, U.S., Egypt, and
Mexico.
Speakers: TBD
7.6 Crowd Sourcing and Smart Cities
Proposers: Section M: Eswaran Subrahmanian (CMU), Ram D. Sriram (NIST)
and Carla Gnomes (Section T)
Duration: Symposium time: 180 minutes
Description: Crowd sourcing is changing the way that innovation is
happening in various fields, with considerable reduction in costs and
improvements in quality. The Crowd
Sourcing paradigm started with open-source software and is rapidly becoming the
norm in other fields. The dramatic illustration is Foldit,
where 58,000 people collaborated to arrive at the structure of a protein. One can clearly see the potential of what the collective
intelligence of millions of people on the Internet would do for future
innovations in science and engineering. The focus of this symposium is to
understand why and where crowd sourcing works, what are the current paradigms, and wshat are the counter argument to crowd sourcing.
Possible
Speakers:
Louis Van Ahn, Professor of
computer science, CMU. Founder of Duo-Linguo – corwd sourced language learning and translation system and Captacha.
The FoldIt group, University
of Washington, Center for Game science
Prof. Robert Verganti,
“several books on Innovation,” Politechnico Milano. “against crowd sourcing”
Prof. Steven Weber, Author of “Success of open
Source”, UC Berkeley
Prof. Karim, Lakhani, using crowd sourcing as an
innovation partner.
https://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/
One of the Open source Car companies: Open source Car
project.
http://www.theoscarproject.org/
http://www.gizmag.com/osvehicle-open-source-tabby/30679/
Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University and
President of Israeli Innovation Institute.
7.7
Material Recovery and Recycling in a Resource-Depleted World
Organizer: Vilupanur
Ravi
Duration: 90 Minutes
Description: As we continue to deplete the world’s supply of
natural resources of metals and rare-earths, we have to deploy innovative methods
to recover these materials from urban waste. One telling statistic is
that “one-third of the world’s supply of copper is now sitting in landfills
Potential Speakers: who will address different aspects of “resource
recovery and recycling”.
Diran Apelian (WPI),
Alex King (Iowa State)
and
Brajendra Mishra (Colorado School of Mines)
Some references:
http://www.wpi.edu/research/magazine/2010/nextbigthing.html
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_scarcity_of_rare_metals_is_hindering_green_technologies/2711/
7.8 Global
Science and Engineering Partnership for Healthy Communities
Organizers: Sushanta Mitra (York University) and Kristina
Johnson (Enduring Hydro)
Duration: 180 minutes
Description:
From a $100 tablet to the
distribution of affordable energy, water, and public health systems requires a
global partnership in science and engineering. Access to clean water, energy
and healthcare should be a global right.
These three resources affect each other.
For example, clean energy from renewables such as solar, wind and
hydropower consume much less water than fossil-fuel generation and do not contribute to global climate change and associated
health care costs of breathing polluted air.
At the same time information technology can play a significant role in
all three critical sectors. This symposium will focus on specific case studies
to cross-disciplinary, pilot projects that can scale to meet the needs of a 9
billion person planet by 2050.
List of Speakers and Topics:
Access to Clean Water
1. Alexander Zehnder,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2. Karl Linden, Professor, University
of Colorado at Boulder
3.
Dean
Kamen, DEKA, Portable Water Purification Systems
Access to Distributed Energy Systems
1. Secretary
Ernie Moniz, US Department of Energy
2. Dan Kammen, Professor, University of California at Berkeley
3. Lynn Jurich, CEO, SunRun
Scaling Healthy Communities Around
the Globe
1. Michael Klagg,
John Hopkins, US
2. Paul Yager,
Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Washington, US
3.
Amy
Flatten, Director of International Affairs, American Physical Society, US
Integration through IT
Platform
1. Suneet Tuli,
CEO, Datawind
7.9 Global Education and Career Pathways: Current Trends in
Engineering Talent
Organizer: Catherine Dideon, Senior Program Officer, NAE
Duration: 90 minutes
Description: This session will explore the career choices of
engineering graduates and those employed as engineers with non-engineering
degrees in the United States, and compare and contrast with similar
populations in Europe and Asia in order to provide a comprehensive view of the
career pathways and related decision making of engineering graduates and
working engineers. This session will identify opportunities, challenges, and
potential actions for all stakeholders to strengthen the engineering workforce
and the education enterprise that supports it. A BS in engineering has
long been viewed as a professional degree that prepares students for
well-defined career paths closely linked to their field of study.
Engineering and engineering technology graduates are less likely than graduates
of other fields to be unemployed and more likely to have a job related to their
field. At the same time, a variety of datasets and research studies show that
nearly a quarter of individuals who are working as engineers in the US do not have
a degree in the field, and more than 40 percent of those with a BS degree in
engineering work in non-engineering related occupations. For that matter,
as much as one-quarter of newly minted engineers are actively considering a
career outside engineering, suggesting even at this early stage in their
careers engineers are contemplating out-of-degree job options and
non-engineering career pathways.
Whatever the contributors to career choices among engineering graduates
and among those working as engineers without such degrees—and there are likely
many—the current picture raises several fundamental questions that speak to the
“value proposition” for engineering in the United States and globally. Does the
movement of degreed engineers into other fields represent “leakage” in the
engineering “pipeline” and therefore a net loss of potential and real
engineering talent to other less productive, value-adding activities? Or might
this movement of talent reflect an unrecognized net gain for the world, the
economy, and employers? This session will explore these questions and others
about the global market place for engineering occupations.
Dr. Peppas
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
24, 2016.
Finally,
Dr. Peppas asked for suggestions for plenary and
topical lectures speakers. The names of
Robert Langer (MIT), Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice),
and Martin Fisher (Kickstart) were suggested as plenary or topical speakers.
8.
Adjournment: The meeting
was adjourned at 11:45AM. Lunch was
served.
Submitted
by:
Marwan
A. Simaan
Secretary,
Engineering Section (M)
February
24, 2015
Appendix A
Attendance List
1. Nicholas Peppas Chair
2. Kristina Johnson, Retiring Chair
3. Kent Fuchs, Chair-Elect
4. Marwan Simaan, Secretary
5. Stuart Cooper, Council Delegate
6. Larry McIntire, Council Delegate
7. Edmund Seebauer, Member
Electorate Nominating Committee
8. Cristina Amon, Former Chair and Former Member-at-Large
9. Yolanda George, Program Office
10. Krishna Athreya, COOS Chair
11. Catherine Dideon, Senior
Program Officer, NAE
12. Edward
J. Berbari,
Newly Elected Fellow
13. Placid
M. Ferreira,
Newly Elected Fellow
14. Brendan
A. Harley,
Newly Elected Fellow
15. Gilbert
V. Herrera,
Newly Elected Fellow
16. David
A. Kofke, Newly Elected Fellow
17. Manos
Mavrikakis, Newly Elected Fellow
18. Vilupanur A.
Ravi, Newly
Elected Fellow
19. Wolfgang
M. Sigmund, Newly
Elected Fellow
20. Igal Szleifer, Newly Elected Fellow
21. George
Alexander Truskey, Newly Elected Fellow
22. Marjolein
Christine H. van der Meulen, Newly Elected Fellow
23. Ge
Wang, Newly
Elected Fellow
24. Robert
K. Whitman,
Newly Elected Fellow
25. Jessica
O. Winter, Newly
Elected Fellow
26. Sankar Basu
27. Jerry Huang
28. Mos Kaveh
29. David Lubman
30. Sushanta Mitra
31. Larry Nagahara
32. Alok Sinha
33. Ram D. Sriram
Appendix B
Fellows affiliated
with Section M (Engineering) Elected in 2014
John S. Baras,
University of Maryland: For distinguished contributions to the fields of
systems and control, communication networks, network security, and leadership
in establishing outstanding crossdisciplinary
research and education programs.
Edward J. Berbari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis:
For distinguished contributions to the field of cardiac electrophysiology, in
particular sudden cardiac death, and to bioengineering education.
Roger T. Bonnecaze, University
of Texas at Austin: For distinguished contributions to the field of computational
engineering, particularly for theoretical modeling, understanding, and design
of complex fluids and nanomanufacturing systems.
Lance R. Collins, Cornell University: For distinguished
contributions both to the study of turbulent flow processes and to the
participation and success of underrepresented minorities in engineering.
Placid M. Ferreira, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For distinguished contributions in areas of manufacturing research, including
precision engineering and machine tools, nanoscale manufacturing and flexible
automation, and for excellence in leadership.
Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
For distinguished contributions to molecular-level understanding of water and hydrophobicity
using modern theory and simulations, and for communicating science to children
through the Molecularium Project.
Brendan A. Harley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For outstanding contributions to the fields of biomaterials and tissue
engineering.
Gilbert V. Herrera, Sandia National Laboratories: For
distinguished contributions to microelectronics for national security
applications and professional service to the national security community.
Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern University: For
distinguished contributions to the fundamentals and applications of nanoelectronic materials, including the development of
methods for isolating monodisperse carbon nanotubes, graphene, and related
nanomaterials.
Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Technological University: For distinguished
contributions to the field of novel materials and catalysts, particularly for
molecular design and synthesis of nanomaterials for energy conversion, storage,
and utilization.
David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo, SUNY:
For seminal contributions in thermodynamics of fluids and statistical mechanics
of molecular systems.
K. Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences: For discovery of nano-twinned materials and outstanding contributions to
advancement of nanostructured materials for technological applications.
Joseph William Lyding, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign: For distinguished contributions in nanotechnology,
particularly advances in atomic resolution nanofabrication and discovery of the
giant deuterium isotope effect and its application to CMOS technology.
Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
For outstanding contributions to our fundamental understanding of the
site-specific chemical reactions leading to new catalytic materials.
Karen Anne Moxon, Drexel University:
For distinguished contributions to the field of neural engineering,
particularly in advancing our understanding of the encoding of sensory and
motor signals within the brain.
Debbie A. Niemeier, University of California, Davis: For distinguished contributions to energy and
environmental science studies and policy development.
Christopher Kemper Ober, Cornell University: For
distinguished contributions to the field of polymer science and the chemistry
of polymers, particularly photoresists used by the microelectronics industry to
build nanoscale circuits.
Vilupanur A. Ravi, Cal Poly Pomona: For
distinguished contributions to the synthesis and environmental stability of
advanced materials, particularly in the areas of thermoelectric devices,
protective coatings, and advanced titanium alloys.
Clinton T. Rubin, Stony Brook University: For distinguished
academic contributions in biomedical engineering and for fostering and
promoting the role of technology to the field of medicine.
Ka-Yiu San, Rice University: For
distinguished contributions to the field of metabolic engineering, particularly
for new methods to control pathways, cofactor engineering, and engineering the
production of valuable compounds.
Wolfgang M. Sigmund, University of Florida: For distinguished
contributions to synthesis and processing techniques of nanomaterials,
particularly demonstrating that ceramic nanofibers can be made via
electrospinning.
Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University: For
distinguished contributions to the field of biomaterials and biointerfaces, particularly for theoretical modeling of
molecular organization and biorelated function in
polymer modified surfaces.
George Alexander Truskey, Duke University: For
excellence in research, teaching, service, and administration in biomedical
engineering.
Marjolein Christine H. van der Meulen, Cornell University: For distinguished contributions to the field
of biomedical engineering, particularly for leadership in musculoskeletal mechanobiology and the role of bone tissue mechanics in
orthopedic disease.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University: For
distinguishing contributions to the field of tissue engineering, particularly
by developing functional human tissues for regenerative medicine, stem cell
research, and modeling of disease.
Norman J. Wagner, University of Delaware: For distinguished
contributions to the field of soft matter and engineering, particularly the
fundamentals of colloid and particle science and rheology, and for academic leadership.
Ge Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: For distinguished
contributions to the field of biomedical imaging, particularly for x-ray
computed tomography, optical molecular tomography, interior tomography, and
multi-modality fusion.
Robert K. Whitman, University of Denver:
For distinguished contributions to the furthering of science in Native American
communities as a leader, advocate, role model and communicator of Science.
Jessica O. Winter, Ohio State
University: For distinguished contributions in the field of chemical and
biomedical engineering, particularly the synthesis and development of magnetic
quantum dots for cell imaging and separations.
Mohammed A. Zikry, North Carolina State University: For distinguished contributions
to the field of computational materials science and mechanics, particularly for
predictions at scales ranging from the nano to the
micro.