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Faculty and staff recognized during 2015 College of Engineering Convocation

On Sept. 15, Sarah Rajala, dean and James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering, welcomed College of Engineering faculty and staff to the start of the new year with the 2015 Convocation. During the presentation, she discussed the past year’s accomplishments and goals for the next year, provided a financial update, and recognized new faculty and staff as well as those who recently received promotions. She also congratulated named faculty positions, patent awards and college awards.

New Named Faculty Positions

  • In-Ho Cho (CCEE) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Shan Hu (ME) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Mingyi Hong (IMSE) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Ran Dai (AerE) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Soumik Sarkar (ME) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Martin Thuo (MSE) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Mark Mba-Wright (ME) Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
  • Say-Kee Ong (CCEE) Cerwick Faculty Professorship
  • James Alleman (CCEE) Cerwick Faculty Professorship
  • Wenzhen Li (CBE) Seagrave Professorship
  • Meng Lu (ECpE/ME) Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green
  • Kaitlin Bratlie (MSE/CBE) Michael and Denise Mack Fellow
  • Larry Cormicle (CCEE) Weitz Faculty Fellowship
  • Arun Somani (ECpE) Sproul Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Degang Chen (ECpE) Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor

Patent awards

  • Iver Anderson (MSE) Dispersoid reinforced alloy powder and method of making
  • Nicola Bowler (MSE/ECpE) Concentric coplanar capacitive sensor system with quantitative model
  • Robert Brown (ME/CBE/ABE) Selective temperature quench and electrostatic recovery of bio-oil fractions
  • Ayman Adel Fayed (ECpE) System and method for providing power via a spurious-noise-free switching device
  • Brian Gleeson (MSE) Pt metal modified γ-Ni+γ’-Ni3Al alloy compositions for high temperature degradation resistant structural alloys
  • David Grewell (ABE) and Gowrishankar Srinivasan (CIRAS) Depolymerization of polylactic acid
  • Ratnesh Kumar (ECpE) Semantic translation of stateflow diagrams into input/output extended finite automata and automated test generation for simulink/stateflow diagrams
  • Balaji Narasimhan (CBE) Antimicrobial polyanhydride nanoparticles
  • Arun Somani (ECpE) Dynamic advance reservation with delayed allocation
  • Sri Sritharan (CCEE) Wind turbine tower system (2 separate patents awarded)
  • Srikanta Tirthapura (ECpE) Computing time-decayed aggregates in data streams
  • Akhilesh Tyagi (ECpE) Reconfigurable block encryption logic

Faculty and Staff Awards

  • Nancy Qvale (CCEE) Dean’s Staff Excellence Award
  • Beth Hartmann (CCEE) Superior Engineering Advisor Award
  • John Wagner (ME) Superior Engineering Advisor Award
  • Monica Lamm (CBE) Superior Engineering Teaching Award
  • Matt Rouse (CCEE) Superior Engineering Teaching Award
  • Matthew J. Darr (ABE) Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award
  • Wei Hong (AerE) Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award
  • Balaji Narasimhan (CBE) D.R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research

 

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