EXTERNAL
 André
Marshall, associate professor of fire protection engineering (FPE) and mechanical engineering (ME)
and director of the Fire Testing and Evaluation Center, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers in recognition of his research exploring jet fragmentation and atomization for
combustion and fire suppression systems. Marshall also was honored with the International Association for
Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Best Image Award for his poster titled "Advances in water-based fire suppression
modeling: evaluating sprinkler discharge characteristics" at the 9th IAFSS Symposium.
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor Peter
Petrov was presented with the 2008 John Atanasoff Award for achievement in the development of
computer and information technology. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov personally
presented the award. Each year, one young Bulgarian is recognized with the award for his or her significant
contribution to the development of computer and information technology.
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa (ECE/University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies [UMIACS]/computer science [CS]) received a 2008 Technical Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. He was recognized for "fundamental and pioneering contributions to face and human motion modeling and recognition from still images and video sequences." Chellappa is the only person to have received this recognition from both the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
ME Professor Ali Mosleh has been reappointed to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) for a second 4-year term by U.S. President George W. Bush. The NWTRB is an independent federal agency established to provide oversight of the scientific and technical activities related to the packaging, transportation, and disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed Associate Professor Pamela Abshire (ECE/Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) to its new Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee. The committee will advise the department on the application of export controls to cutting-edge research and innovation, and on identifying emerging technologies and research and development activities that may be of interest from a dual-use perspective.
The National Institutes of Health have appointed Professor Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR) to serve as a member of the Auditory System Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review. Shamma was selected for his achievements in the discipline of auditory systems, his mature judgment and objectivity, as well as his scientific activities, achievements and honors.
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Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Associate Professor Luz J. Martínez-Miranda recently served as co-leader of the U.S. delegation to the Third International Conference on Women in Physics in Seoul, Korea.
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Professor Allen Davis has been appointed to the BayStat Program Scientific Advisory Panel, a subcabinet of Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. O'Malley established the panel to measure the state's efforts to restore the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays.
Three recent publications by Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) Professor and Chair Bill Bentley, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHE) alumni Matthew Wook Chang (Ph.D. '03) and David Small (M.S. '03 and Ph.D. '07), and Freshteh Toghrol (Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]), received a Scientific and Technological Achievement Award from the EPA's Science Advisory Board. All are members of the EPA's Microarray Research Laboratory, which conducts groundbreaking research in toxicogenomics.
Howard R. Baum, FPE Glenn L. Martin Professor, and Arvind Atreya, University of Michigan ME professor, received the 31st International Symposium on Combustion Distinguished Paper Award in Colloquium Fire Research for their paper, "A model of transport of fuel gases in a charring solid and its application to opposed-flow flame spread."
ME assistant professor Byeng Dong Youn and graduate students Pingfeng Wang and Zhimin Xi have been awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award for 2008. The group received this award for their paper titled, “Bayesian Reliability Analysis with Evolving, Insufficient, and Subjective Data Sets.”
ECE Professor Shuvra Bhattacharyya and his post-doctoral and student researchers won a best paper award at the International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. The research group, consisting of post-doctoral research associate Will Plishker and ECE graduate students Nimish Sane and Mary Kiemb, won the award for a paper titled "Heterogeneous Design in Functional DIF."
Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR) and co-authors Vahid Tabatabaee, an assistant research scientist at UM, ECE graduate student George Papageorgiou, and alumnus Nicolas Rentz (M.S. '07, electrical engineering), received the Best Paper Award for Wireless Networks at the 2008 IEEE GLOBECOM Conference.
Aerospace Engineering (AE) Professor Alison Flatau received a CONNECT Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation for collaboration with German scientist/engineer Uwe Marshner of the University of Dresden, who will be a visiting lecturer at the Clark School in the spring semester.
Associate Professor Jeffrey Herrmann (ME/ISR) has been named a Maryland Daily Record Innovator of the Year. He received the award for his Clinic Planning Model Generator, an emergency preparedness planner, used in state and county public health departments across the United States.
The Operations Academy Senior Management Program, an initiative in the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) led by CEE Senior Research Engineer Phil Tarnoff and CATT Program Manager Kathleen Frankle, has received the Innovation in Transportation Education Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
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UNIVERSITY
 Professor Emerita Sandra C.
Greer (CHE, chemistry & biochemistry) was named the 2008 recipient of the Kirwan Undergraduate
Education Award. The award recognizes faculty or staff who have made exceptional contributions to the quality
of undergraduate education at the university. Greer also was awarded the Clark School's 2008 Poole and Kent
Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. The award is given to a senior faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Greer was recognized for her active role in mentoring undergraduates in research, and constantly involving
them in her own research group.
 Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Jan Sengers (CHE and Institute for Physical Science and Technology) has received the 2008 Office of International Programs Distinguished International Service Award. The award recognizes significant contributions to the development of international programs at the university.
ECE Professor K. J. Ray Liu received the
A. James Clark School of Engineering Faculty Outstanding Research Award. The award was given to Liu in recognition
of his pioneering work in the research areas of information forensics and security, wireless communications,
and bioinformatics. Liu is the only Clark School faculty member who has received both the Outstanding Faculty
Award and the Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Senior Faculty.
The following Clark School faculty members are the
latest additions to Keystone: The Clark School Academy of Distinguished Professors: Professor
Deborah Goodings (CEE), Assistant Professor Tom Murphy (ECE), Assistant
Professor Peter Sunderland (FPE), Associate Professor Peter Sandborn (ME/ISR),
Associate Professor David Lovell (CEE/ISR) and Associate Professor Christopher
Cadou (AE). Keystone professors make a commitment to improving the quality of education provided in
the school’s most fundamental engineering courses, such as "Introduction to Engineering Design."
Norman M. Wereley has been named the
Techno-Sciences, Inc. Faculty Fellow in Aerospace Engineering. This named professorship was established in
January 2008.
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KEYNOTES/CHAIRS
 Professor John
Baras (ECE/ISR)
delivered the plenary keynote address at the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking. The title of his lecture was “Multi-hop Mobile Wireless Network Design: Implicit Cross-Layer
Loss Models and Performance Sensitivities."
 Professor Anthony
Ephremides (ECE/ISR) was the keynote speaker at a special IEEE International Information
Theory Workshop. His topic was "Beyond Shannon?"
Rama Chellappa (ECE/UMIACS/CS) gave a keynote
plenary talk at the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Conference.
James A. Milke (B.S. '76, FPE; M.S. '81, ME;
Ph.D. '91, AE), FPE professor and associate chair, delivered a keynote presentation at the Society of
Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Professional Development Conference and Exposition: The Annual Meeting.
His talk was titled, "Smoke Management: State-of-the-Art and Areas for Improvement." Milke
serves as a vice-president on the SFPE Board of Directors.
Professor Mario Dagenais (ECE) was invited to
attend Photonics North 2008, the premier optical conference on photonics in Canada, where he gave a plenary
talk titled “Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: The Next Generation.”
Jan V. Sengers (CHE) delivered
the plenary scientific lecture, titled "Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Fluids: A History of
Surprises," at the 8th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion. He also served on the conference's
scientific advisory board.
CATT Director Philip Tarnoff
(CEE) provided the keynote
address on "Traffic Signal Timing - A Review" at the Baltimore Regional Signal Forum.
Rama Chellappa (ECE/UMIACS/CS)
was elected president
of the IEEE Biometrics Council, a new entity that will coordinate all biometrics-related activities sponsored
by the IEEE.
Professor Agisilaos Iliadis
(ECE) was named chair
of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Master and Ph.D. Graduate Student Fellowships committee for 2007 and 2008.
Professor Steven Gabriel (CEE)
was the general chair of
the second Trans-Atlantic Infraday Conference on Applied Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis.
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FELLOWS
 Professors K. J. Ray Liu
(ECE) and Avis Cohen (biology/ISR) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Liu was singled out for “distinguished contributions to signal processing for wireless
communications, multimedia, information forensics and security.” Cohen was recognized for "distinguished
contributions in spinal regeneration and in the development of the fields of computational neuroscience and
neuromorphic engineering, especially as applied to motor control."
 Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR) has been appointed a Fellow
of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for the academic year 2008–2009. She is in residence at Harvard
and will make a presentation of her work in progress as part of the Radcliffe Institute Fellows’
Presentation Series.
ME Associate Professor Hugh Bruck has been elected Fellow of the ASME. This distinction recognizes his many contributions in the processing of new metal alloys and composite materials, and in the development of multi-scale mechanical characterization techniques for materials and structures.
Rama Chellappa (ECE/UMIACS/CS) was recently named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Chellappa was recognized for pioneering contributions in image and video-based pattern recognition and computer vision.
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EDITORS/BOOKS
 Associate Professor
Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) has been named an associate editor
for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS). JMEMS is considered to be the
premier publication in the worldwide MEMS community.
 ME Professor
Shapour Azarm has been selected to serve as a review editor of the Springer-Verlag
journal publication Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
Assistant Professor Nuno Martins
(ECE/ISR) has been appointed an associate editor to the IEEE Control Systems Society's Conference Editorial
Board. The board is known as IEEE's most important conference editorial board in the area of controls.
Associate Professor Arnaud Trouvé has
joined the Editorial Board of Combustion and Flame and Combustion Theory and Modelling and the Proceedings
of the International Symposium on Combustion.
Professor Michael Pecht, George E. Dieter
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, authored a
book titled Prognostics and Health Management of Electronics, published by Wiley Publishing Co.
Professor Isaak Mayergoyz (ECE) has
co-authored a new book titled Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics in Nanosystems. This book, published by Elsevier
Science, deals with the analytical study of nonlinear magnetization dynamics in nanomagnetic devices and
structures.
ECE Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
and Research K. J. Ray Liu is the co-author of a new book titled Cooperative Communications
and Networking.
Jan V. Sengers (CHE) is part of a team
that is compiling and editing Applied Thermodynamics of Fluids, the eighth book in a series on experimental
thermodynamics. The book was proposed by the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics.
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 MSE Professor Ichiro
Takeuchi's replacement for lead in electronic devices sparked a lengthy discussion on Slashdot
and articles by numerous media outlets, including one on the New York Times web site.
 CEE Professors Lewis "Ed" Link and Gerry Galloway
(pictured left) continue to be quoted by publications across the country as experts regarding flood risks
and hurricane protection systems. The Associated Press tapped Link for comment on the problems that continue
to plague the levee system in New Orleans. Galloway provided expertise to the Baltimore Sun and San
Francisco Chronicle.
BioE Professor and Chair William Bentley
was interviewed by NPR and Wired, who featured his research on gene therapy, and CNN, who featured him in a
report on bioterrorism.
Daniel Lathrop (Institute for Research
in Engineering and Applied Physics/physics) and his Dynamo project, which seeks to study the Earth's core by
creating large-scale models of the planet's liquid-iron center, received coverage in publications like Popular
Mechanics and by the Discovery Channel.
MSE Assistant Professor John Cumings was
interviewed by the Washington Post concerning crane collapses, participated in an online discussion with Post readers on that topic, and was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.
BioE Associate Professor Elias Balaras's
modeling of the aerodynamics of golf balls (with the University of Arizona) was featured across the globe,
including in the New York Times and London's Sunday Times.
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