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Notes John A. Bers, Associate Professor, EECS, conducted a workshop on “Marketing Your Invention” for the Inventors Association of Middle Tennessee in January. Jack Cannon, Research Associate, EECS, received the first VUSE Award for Professionalism in Staff Service for his 42 years of service to the faculty and staff of the School. Jimmy L. Davidson, Professor, EECS, was an invited speaker at the 2001 Energy Technology Expo. Davidson spoke on technological innovations that can solve problems such as recent power outages in California. Benoit Dawant, Associate Professor, EECS, has been appointed for a second one-year term to the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging as representative of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Daniel M. Fleetwood, Professor, EECS, was appointed Associate Dean for Research. He has also been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and appointed to the IEEE Fellows Committee, which evaluates candidates for Fellow Grade membership. Kenneth D. Frampton, Assistant Professor, ME, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Noise Control and Acoustics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Ronald D. Schrimpf, Professor, EECS, attended the Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems conference in September in Grenoble, France, and presented a paper entitled “Effect of Amplifier Parameters on Single-Event Transients in an Inverting Operational Amplifier,” which was nominated for the Outstanding Paper Award of the conference. The paper was co-authored by Lloyd W. Massengill, Professor, EECS, A.L. Sternberg, Y. Boulghassoul, H.J. Barnaby, S. Buchner, R.L. Pease and J.W. Howard. Todd D. Giorgio, Associate Professor, BME, was given the VUSE Award for Faculty Research in recognition of his work in gene therapy. Michael Goldfarb, Associate Professor, ME, was appointed Associate Technical Editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. Goldfarb was also awarded the VUSE Award for Excellence in Teach-ing for the 2000-2001school year. Peter G. Hoadley, Professor, CEE, was awarded the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award recognizes “continuing efforts to promote appreciation of the history, tradition, developments, and technical and professional activities of the Society.” Thomas R. Harris, Chair, BME, has been appointed the Orrin H. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering (see article, page 2). William H. Hofmeister, Research Associate Professor, ChE, has joined the Metal Powder Industries Federation Technology Roadmap committee. Hofmeister also delivered “Rapid Prototyping by Direct Metal Deposition” to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand. L. Ensign Johnson, Professor, EECS, emeritus, was awarded the Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service for his many contributions to recruitment of undergraduate engineering students. Paul H. King, Associate Professor, BME, was elected member-at-large, BME Division, of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He also presented “Electrocardiogram Capture and Analysis” and “Biomedical Engineering in the New Millennium” at the ASEE annual conference. Kazuhiko Kawamura, Professor, EECS, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. He also represents the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society of the Committee on Communications and Information Policy and the Research and Development Policy Committee of IEEE-USA. Arthur M. Mellor, Centennial Professor, ME, received an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Certificate for Outstanding Contributions and Leadership. Sankaran Mahadevan, Professor, CEE, served as a Guest Editor of the October issue of the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering. He also recently began serving a five-year term as Member of the Executive Committee in ASCE’s Aerospace Division, and a three-year term as Chairman of the Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Committee in ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute. Ales Prokop, Research Professor, ChE, was awarded a Special Appreciation Award by the United Engineering Foundation of New York for his involvement as co-chair of the UEF conference “Bioartificial Organs III: Tissue Sourcing, Immunoisolation and Clinical Trials.” He also delivered an invited lecture to the conference on “Bioartificial Organs in the 21st Century: Nanobiological Devices.” Prokop is the founder of the conference series. Robert J. Roselli, Professor, BME, marked 25 years as a faculty member in ceremonies at the Fall Faculty. In the tradition of the University, Chancellor Gordon Gee awarded him a chair bearing a brass strip engraved with Roselli’s name and a brass disk engraved with the University shield. Nilanjan Sarkar, Assistant Professor, ME, was appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and was a panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation’s Information Technology Research Program. Karl B. Schnelle Jr., Professor, ChE, has authored Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook with Charles A. Brown. Julie E. Sharp, Associate Professor of the Practice, ChE, presented “Using Kolb Learning Styles as a Teaching Tool” to the 2001 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. She also presented selected preliminary results of a learning styles study of engineering students to the Frontiers in Education Annual. Her paper, “Teaching Teamwork Communication with Kolb Learning Style Theory,” was published in the proceedings. Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, EECS, gave a presentation on “Embedded Software Develop-ment Research” to the Advisory Group on Electron Devices of the Office of the Under-secretary of Defense. The goal of the January meeting was to aid in assessing science and technology investment alternatives for the Director of Defense Research & Engineering. Edward L. Thackston, Professor, CEE, emeritus, has been selected as “Engineer of the Year” by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers. Thackston also won the Landmark Paper Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors for his 1969 paper on reaeration prediction. He was named a Chapter Honor Member by Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor society and the 2001 Outstanding Teacher of the Year by Tau Beta Pi. Robert A. Weeks, Research Professor, emeritus, served as session chair for both the Interna-tional Glass Congress in Scotland and the “SiO2 and Advanced Dielectrics” symposium in France. He gave the plenary lecture to the Brazilian Glass Conference and First International Conference on Glass. Weeks is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and served as the 1998-2001 conference editor. Robert A. Weller, Associate Professor, EECS, won an “R&D 100 Award” as a co-inventor, with colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories, of the ion electron emission microscope. The device was judged by R&D Magazine to be one of the 100 most significant technological inventions of the year. John Wikswo, the Gordon A. Cain University Professor and Professor, BME, presented an invited talk, “The Magnetocardiogram, Tissue Anistropy, and the Cardiac Bidomain,” co-authored by Franz Baudenbacher, to the conference “The Integrated Heart: Cardiac Structure and Function” in Queenstown, New Zealand. Wikswo presented “Analysis of Topological Charge in Electrodynamic Systems Using Fourier Decomposition,” co-authored by Mark Bray, to the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. Wikswo also presented an invited talk titled “Multiphasic, Dynamic, High Throughput Measurements and Modeling for Postgenomic Cellular Biophysics” and participated in a panel discussion, “Automating Physiological Data Collection: A Link to High-Throughput Modeling,” at the Scientific Advisory Board Meeting of Physiome, Inc. At an Air Force Corrosion Program Office/S&K Technologies Working Group Meeting, he presented a progress report on “SQUID Imaging of Exfoliation and Intergranular Corrosion,” co-authored with Yu Pei Ma, Kevin Cooper, James Suzel, and Robert Kelly. New
Faculty Istvan Bartok, Research Instructor, EECS, joins the School from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary, where he served on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Informatics Department. An experienced software engineer, he will work with the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. He earned his master’s degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. James Bentley, Adjunct Professor, EECS, comes to VUSE from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. An international expert in analytical electron microscopy, he will study applications of these techniques to develop thin films and other new materials. Bentley obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Salford, England, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Birmingham, England. Sanjiv Gokhale, Visiting Associate Professor, CEE, joins VUSE from Purdue University, where he was Associate Professor of Construction Engineering Technology. Gokhale obtained his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a master’s degree from Vanderbilt, and another master’s degree and his doctorate from Columbia University. Moonil Kim, Research Associate, CEE, will conduct research on bacterial source tracking in Davidson County, Tennessee, streams. Kim obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Hanyang University in Korea and his doctoral degree from Vanderbilt. Young Chol Kim, Visiting Professor, ME, comes to VUSE from Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, Korea, where he is Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Kim will be working with the Tennessee Space Grant Consortium and will also be a collaborating scientist at the Tennessee State University Center of Excellence in Information Systems. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Korea University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Seoul National University. Endre Magyari, Research Instructor, EECS, joins VUSE from Nextra Ltd, Romania, where he served as a network engineer. He earned his master’s degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Christopher D. McKinney, Lec-turer, EECS, and Director of the Vanderbilt Office of Technology Transfer will teach in the Master of Technology program. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Willamette University, his master’s degree from Oregon State University, and his doctoral degree from Idaho State University. David C. Noelle, Assistant Profes-sor, EECS, joins VUSE from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh, where he was a postdoctoral researcher. His research interests include cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and computational models of brain and behavior. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of California in Los Angeles and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California in San Diego. Linda Bright Lankewicz, Visiting Associate Professor, EECS, is Associ-ate Professor at the University of the South. She will conduct research at Vanderbilt during her sabbatical on multi-relational and distributed data bases. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia, her master’s degree from the University of South Alabama, and her doctorate from Tulane University. William R. Mahaffey, Professor, EECS, will serve as Director of the Management of Technology program. His research interests include systems engineering and information technology. He obtained his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Alabama. Osman Parlaktuna, Lecturer, EECS, will teach Electrical Engineer-ing and Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Middle East Techni-cal University in Turkey and his doctoral degree from Vanderbilt. Gabor Szokoli, Research Instruc-tor, EECS, joins VUSE from Synergon Ltd. in Hungary. His major research interests include computer networks and routing protocols. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Technical University of Budapest. Kevin K. Tseng, Assistant Profes-sor, CEE, comes to VUSE from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he was Assistant Professor. His research interests include structural health assessment, computational solid/structural mechanics, and modeling of composite materials. Tseng obtained his bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. John P. Wikswo Jr., Professor, BME, is the Gordon A. Cain Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and the School of Medicine. His research interests include biophysics, biomedical engineering, cardiac and cellular electrophysiology, and electromagnetism. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford. Luoyu Roy Xu, Assistant Profes-sor, CEE, comes to VUSE from the California Institute of Technology, where he was Research Assistant in Solid Mechanics. His research interests include applied and experimental mechanics, material science and engineering. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. In Memoriam Engineering News Home
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