2/9/2017 Rick Kubetz, Engineering Communications Office
On February 8, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected 84 new members and 22 foreign members. Engineering alumni were well-represented in the 2017 class.
Written by Rick Kubetz, Engineering Communications Office
On February 8, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected 84 new members and 22 foreign members. Engineering alumni were well-represented in the 2017 class. Congratulations!
David Vernon Boger (MS, 1964, Chemical Engineering), professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. For discoveries and fundamental research on elastic and particulate fluids and their application to waste minimization in the minerals industry.
Xiangli Chen (PhD, Mechanical Engineering), vice president, General Electric Co., and president, GE China Technology Center, Shanghai. For pioneering work in optical sensing and precision laser processing, and for leadership in globalizing industrial research and development.
Dianne Chong (BS, 1971, Biology), retired vice president, assembly, factory, and support technologies, Boeing Engineering, Operations, and Technology, Boeing Co., Bellevue, Wash. For advances in process and production technologies for composites in large commercial aerospace vehicles.
Joe H. Chow (MS, 1975, PhD 1978, Electrical and Computer Engineering), professor, electrical and computer systems engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. For technical contributions to the modeling, analysis, and control of large-scale power systems.
Jingsheng Jason Cong (MS 1987, PhD 1990, Computer Science), Chancellor's Professor and director, Center for Dynamic-Specific Computing, computer science department, University of California, Los Angeles. For pioneering contributions to application-specific programmable logic via innovations in field-programmable gate array synthesis.
Jennifer A. Lewis (BS, 1986, Ceramic Engineering), Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. For development of materials and processes for 3-dimensional direct fabrication of multifunctional structures. Lewis was a former faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and former director of the Materials Research Lab at Illinois.
Michael S. Strano, Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For contributions to nanotechnology, including fluorescent sensors for human health and solar and thermal energy devices. From 2003-2012, Strano was a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and at the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at Illinois.
Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/ implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Individuals in the newly elected class will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., later this year.