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Alumnus Brian Hinman, B.S. ’82 electrical engineering (EE) and sponsor of the Hinman CEOs program, was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus at the University of Maryland Alumni Association's Seventh Annual Awards Gala. Hinman, who is the co-founder, president and CEO of 2Wire, also delivered a Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture on “IP Video and the New Age of Entertainment.”

Courtesy of the Department of DefenseECE alumnus Gordon England, B.S. ’61 EE, was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense by President George W. Bush and later confirmed by the U.S. Senate. England had previously served as Secretary of the Navy. England also received the National Defense Industrial Association's Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for his contributions to national security.

Courtesy of NASANASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin, Ph.D. ’77 aerospace engineering (AE), was elected into the National Academy of Engineering for technical leadership on the Delta 180/181/183 flight experiments that led to the first quantitative measurements of space intercept physics.

A. James Clark, B.S. '50 civil engineering (CE) and benefactor of the Clark School, won the OPAL 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award for construction from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award recognizes a civil engineer for innovation and excellence in construction of civil engineering projects and/or programs. His company, Clark Construction Group, LLC, received the prestigious Honor Award for 2006 from the National Building Museum. This award recognizes outstanding individuals and companies who have made significant contributions in the fields of architecture, planning, construction and building.

Michigan State University Assistant Professor Xiaobo Tan, M.S. ’99 and Ph.D. ’02 EE, won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research, "Dexterous Biomimetic Micromanipulation Using Artificial Muscles: Modeling, Sensing and Control." Tan was co-advised by Professor John Baras (ECE and Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) and Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE and ISR). He also worked with Associate Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE and ISR).

Balaji Panchapakesan, Ph.D. ’01 mechanical engineering (ME), an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for his work in the development of carbon nanotube actuators, which have applications in both medicine and deep space research. Panchapakesan was the first Ph.D. student advised by ME Professor Don DeVoe.

U.S. Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte presented Dwight Williams, Ph.D. ’05 nuclear engineering, with the DNI Fellows Award—a $200,000 research grant to perform government intelligence technology research.

Jun Ouyang, M.S. ’03 and Ph.D. ‘05 materials science and engineering (MSE), was honored by the Chinese government with an award for Outstanding Research by a Graduating Chinese Ph.D. Student Studying Abroad. Ouyang was one of 53 students given this award throughout the world and the only one at the University of Maryland. Ouyang did his Ph.D. work with MSE Professor Alex Roytburd.

Balaji Sampath, Ph.D. ’97 EE, a former student of Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE and ISR), was awarded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Indus Technovator Award for his work with the Association for India's Development, a non-profit, volunteer organization committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India.

The work of ISR alumna Haitao “Heather” Zheng, M.S. ’98 and Ph.D. ’99 EE, is featured in MIT Technology Review's Ten Emerging Technologies, a short list of technological innovations “ready to have a big impact on business, medicine, [and] culture.” Zheng, who was advised by Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE and ISR), was cited for her work with cognitive radio technology as a method for enabling wireless devices to more efficiently share available airwaves.

A new book titled Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers features ECE alumna Judith Resnik, Ph.D. ‘77 EE (pictured), who went on to become an astronaut and perished in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Three other Clark School alumnae were also featured in the new book: Mary Lacey, B.S. '78 ME; Norine Walker, B.S. '81 urban studies and '83 CE; and Anh Duong, B.S. '82 chemical engineering.

Kevin Greenaugh (pictured), Ph.D. ’98 nuclear engineering, was named Black Engineer of the Year for achievement in government at the 20th Annual Black Engineer Conference. Rodney Bryant, B.S. ’91 and M.S. ’93 AE, received the Outstanding Technical Contribution in Government Award at the same conference.

Keith Lindler, B.S. ’75, M.S. ’78 and Ph.D. ’84 ME (photo not available), has been selected as the new chair of the mechanical engineering department at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Md. Lindler formerly served as program director for the marine engineering curriculum at USNA. He was advised by ME Professor Emeritus Davinder Anand.

Can E. Korman , B.S. ’85, M.S. ’87 and Ph.D. ’90 EE, was promoted to chair of the electrical and computer engineering department at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Korman is a former advisee of ECE Professor Isaak Mayergoyz.

Azadeh Davoodi, M.S. ’02 and Ph.D. ’06 EE, was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship for the spring semester 2006. She was one of only 14 students from across campus to receive these fellowships. Davoodi, advised by ECE Assistant Professor Ankur Srivastav, has accepted a position as assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Alumna Hong (Vicky) Zhao, Ph.D. '04 EE, will join the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Alberta, Canada, as assistant professor this July.

Sami Tantawi, Ph.D. ‘92 EE (photo not available), has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Tantawi, now an associate professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, was a student of Professor Victor Granatstein (ECE and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics). Tantawi was cited for his contributions to the theory and technology of the production and distribution of high power RF.

Hamid Jafarkhani, M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '97 EE, was selected as an IEEE Fellow. He is on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.

The Marshall Tan Award was presented to Andreas Bernhard, M.S. ’95 and Ph.D. ’00 AE (photo not available), for advancing vehicle health and usage monitoring systems of the Integrated Vehicle Health Management System (IVHMS) for the UH-60M aircraft. The award is presented to an individual under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to vertical flight in the preceding calendar year. Bernhard is a senior dynamicist at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.

Courtesy of Mass High TechAlumna Julianne Zimmerman, M.S. ’96 AE, was one of nine women chosen as a 2006 Woman to Watch in the New England region by Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology. As director of business development, GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, Zimmerman was recognized as a notable and accomplished “up and comer" in her field. Zimmerman was advised by AE Professor Dave Akin.

Norine Walker, B.S. ‘81 urban studies and ‘83 CE, received the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Trailblazer Award. The award recognizes women who have made significant contributions to the transportation industry in the Washington Metropolitan area. Walker was a project manager for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project and is now starting her own business.

Kirk M. Cantor, B.S. ’81 AE, a professor of plastics and polymer technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was honored for the second time in two years in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." Cantor has taught at Penn College since 1990 and previously worked at NASA as an aerospace engineer.

ISR alum Robert Day, Ph.D. ’04 applied mathematics, was one of two winners of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science's George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in operations research. The award is presented for operations research and management science that is innovative and relevant to practice. Day is currently an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut.

Sarmad (Sam) A. Rihani, M.S. ‘02 CE (photo not available), has been elected to serve as chairman-elect for 2005-2006 of the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Ronald N. Carstens, Jr., B.S. ’88 EE, was named the 2006 Baltimore Chapter IEEE Power Engineering Society Outstanding Engineer.

Mingyan Liu, M.S. ’97 systems engineering and Ph.D. ’00 EE (photo not available), was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her advisor was Professor John Baras (ECE and ISR).

Anh Duong, B.S. ’92 chemical engineering, was profiled by The Washington Post in April regarding her expertise on explosives.

Michael J. Nusca, B.S. '82, M.S. '86 and Ph.D. '97 AE (photo not available), received a best paper award from the JANNAF Liquid Propulsion Subcommittee. He is an aerospace engineer at the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Fred Cohn, B.S. ’80 EE, was elected president of Modbus-IDA, a growing membership-based trade association committed to promoting Modbus as the world's leading protocol for industrial automation.

 

 


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