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The World Technology Network selected Steenbock Professor of
Chemical and Biological Engineering
James Dumesic
and Virent Energy Systems, Inc., Chief Technology Officer Randy Cortright as fellows in recognition of their accomplishments in creating renewable energy technology. The World Technology Network calls itself a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business or science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types into reality.
Dumesic
and Cortright were among the top five nominees in the energy category for the World Technology Award.
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The search committee for a new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has forwarded three candidates to Chancellor John Wiley for his consideration. They are College of Engineering Executive Associate Dean
Pat Farrell;
Sue V. Rosser, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; and Kumble R. Subbaswamy, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University in Bloomington.
Farrell;
has been with the College of Engineering since 1982 as a member of the
mechanical engineering
faculty. He was director of the
Engine Research Center
from 1999 to 2001, and beginning in 2001 became the College of Engineering associate dean for academic affairs. He was named executive associate dean in 2005.
A member of the National Research Council Board on Assessment of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Programs,
Mechanical Engineering
Professor and Chair
Neil Duffie
has been appointed chair of the board's Assessment Panel for the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. The board assesses the technical merit and relevance of NIST's laboratory programs in the context of NIST's mission to promote U.S. economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements and standards. The board informs NIST executives, program managers, and its statutory Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology of its findings, and assesses annually the programs of NIST's seven major laboratories, including the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory.
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Professor
Patti Brennan
was appointed by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt as one of five new members of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. The council consists of 21 members from academia and the private sector and seven ex-officio members from federal health agencies. The council provides advice and recommendations to the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the secretary of HHS on priorities for a national health services research agenda. In making the announcement, Secretary Leavitt said, “These five new members bring a wealth of experience to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare for all Americans. The expertise of this group will go a long way toward helping the agency to achieve that goal.”
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Professor
Pascale Carayon
has been invited to join the Peer Review College for the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the leading funding agency of the UK government for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.
Carayon
will serve on the Peer Review College from 2006 to 2009. She has also been asked to become a reviewer of the Canada Research Chairs Program for the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian equivalent of the National Science Foundation. The Canada Research Chairs Program enables Canadian universities and their affiliated research institutes and hospitals to foster research excellence and enhance their role as world-class research institutions.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professors
Ian Dobson
(left) and
Ian Hiskens
have recently been named as fellows of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a technical, professional association of more than 365,000 members in approximately 150 countries. The IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of fellow upon people with extraordinary records of accomplishment in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research recently presented
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor
Daniel Noguera
its Paul L. Busch Award. The group selected Noguera for his innovative research in microbiology and environmental engineering, as well as for his role in mentoring young scientists. Hoping to develop novel, cost-effective and reliable enhanced biological phosphorous removal processes, Noguera and his research team are attempting to isolate primary and secondary phosphate-accumulating organisms, which are responsible for removing phosphorous at many of the world's wastewater treatment facilities, and reproduce what these elusive microorganisms do in their natural environment. The award carries with it a $100,000 grant that will enable the team to further its work.
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Professor
Rajan Suri
has been selected to receive the 2006 Albert M. Sargent Progress Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). This award is one of seven major international honor awards presented annually by the society. The Albert M. Sargent Progress Award specifically recognizes technical accomplishments in the field of manufacturing processes, methods or systems.
Suri
is being honored for his creation, development and implementation of the quick response manufacturing (QRM) philosophy, a comprehensive lead time and cost reduction strategy that aligns the entire enterprise to enable quick response to customer needs.
Suri
will accept the award at the SME International Honor Awards Ceremony on March 28, 2006, in Los Angeles, California.
The U.S. Department of Energy renewed a basic energy sciences grant to Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of
Materials Science and Engineering
Y. Austin Chang
The $379,356, three-year grant was initiated in 1999. It funds research on the interfacial chemistry, structure and properties of magnetic nanostructures.
Chang
also will receive a three-year, $409,985 grant from the Air Force Office for Scientific Research beginning in May. He will use cluster-site approximation to study the phase diagrams of multicomponent nickel-based alloys containing the element platinum as well as the interphase boundary energies between gamma and gamma ' in these alloys.
Chang
received the 2005 Distinguished Award from the International Workshop on Advanced Intermetallic and Metallic Materials in October 2005.
Kerst Professor Emeritus of
Engineering Physics
and Physics
James Callen
has been appointed to the Plasma 2010 committee of the National Research Council arm of the National Academies. The major tasks of the “Plasma 2010: An Assessment of and Outlook for Plasma Science” decadal study are to assess progress in plasma science over the past decade, identify major opportunities for the next decade, appraise current and future applications of plasma science, and offer guidance aimed at realizing these opportunities. The study, which should be complete in about a year, will put forth a framework for addressing the challenges and exploiting applications of plasma science over the next decade.
Callen
is the working group leader of the magnetic fusion plasma science part of the study.
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of
Engineering Physics
Michael Corradini
will serve a five-year term as a member of the scientific committee of the Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire (DEN). The DEN is the chief scientific advisory committee to the Civilian Branch of the French Atomic Energy Agency.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin recently asked Grainger Professor of
Engineering Physics
and
Fusion Technology Institute
Director
Gerald Kulcinski
to join the NASA Advisory Council and serve as chair of its Human Capital Committee. The council, which is made up of five committees, provides Griffin advice on program and policy matters related to the U.S. space program.
Engineering Physics
Adjunct Professor
Harrison Schmitt,
a former Apollo astronaut, is chairing the council.
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Date last modified: 03-Feb-2006
Date created: 03-Feb-2006
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