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