EXTERNAL
 David Barbe, director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise
Institute, was named a "Champion of Change" by the White House. Champions were selected for their work
in helping to create high-quality jobs in the United States. Barbe also was named a 2011 Innovator
of the Year by The Daily Record.
 University System of Maryland Regents Professor and Glenn L. Martin Institute
Professor of Engineering C. D. (Dan) Mote, Jr. (mechanical engineering [ME]) will be
honored with the 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Medal, the highest honor bestowed
by ASME.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Assistant Professor Edo Waks was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) to receive a Young Faculty Award in recognition of his status as a rising star in university
nanophotonics and quantum information research. DARPA, in conjunction with the Navy, will provide Waks with a
grant of approximately $300,000 to further develop his research. Waks received the funding for his research
proposal titled "Ultra-Fast Quantum Information Processing Using Quantum Dot Spin Coupled to Photonic
Crystals."
Professor James G. Quintiere
(fire protection engineering [FPE]) was honored with the Kunio Kawagoe Gold Medal for Outstanding
Lifelong Contributions to Fire Safety Science at the 10th Symposium of the International Association
of Fire Safety Science.
Professor S.K. Gupta (ME/Maryland Robotics Center/Institute
for Systems Research [ISR]) is the recipient of the inaugural Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award, given by the
ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle committee. The award recognizes sustained
meritorious contributions to the use of optimization and other modeling techniques to support design,
manufacturing and the cycle management decisions in product development.
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Norman M. Wereley, Techno-Sciences
Professor and associate chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), was named the recipient
of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize.
Distinguished University Professor Ashwani K.
Gupta (ME) was awarded the Percy Nicholls Award for Notable Scientific or Practical Contributions
in the Field of Solid Fuels at the 36th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal and Fuel Systems.
The award, jointly sponsored by the Power Division of ASME and the Coal Division of the American Institute
of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering, recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of
solid fuels.
ME Professor Michael Ohadi received
the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers 2011 Exceptional Service
Award.
Professor Allen P. Davis (civil
and environmental engineering [CEE]) will serve on the National Research Council Committee on Review
of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for
Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida.
Associate professors Srinivasa Raghavan
(chemical and biomolecular engineering [ChBE]) and Jaydev Desai (ME) are among 65 of the
nation's most innovative young engineering educators who have been selected to take part in the National
Academy of Engineering's third Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium.
Assistant Professor Anya Jones (AE)
has been named a recipient of the 2011 NATO Research and Technology Organization's (RTO) Scientific
Achievement Award, in recognition of her revolutionary work in unsteady flows of micro air vehicles,
including significant contributions to the mission of NATO's RTO task group in this topic area.
The ASME dedicated its 2011 Pacific Rim Technical
Conference and Exposition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Systems to former ME
chair and ASME honorary member Avram Bar-Cohen. ASME recognized Bar-Cohen’s achievements
and leadership in the field of thermal science and technology for electronic systems as the centerpiece
of the conference’s technical program.
ISR Assistant Research Scientist
Raj Madhavan will serve as the next vice president of the Institute for Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Robotics Automation Society's Industrial Activities Board for the
2012-2013 term.
A paper by Assistant Professor Sarah
Bergbreiter (ME/ISR) and her students received the New Technology Foundation Award for
Entertainment Robots and Systems at the IEEE/Robotics Society of Japan International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems. The award was given for the paper, “First Leaps Toward Jumping
Microrobots,” written by Bergbreiter and students Wayne A. Churaman and Aaron P. Gerratt.
J. Gordon Leishman, Minta Martin
Professor of Engineering (AE), and alumnus Angelo N. Collins (B.S. ’09, AE) won the
Bernard Lindenbaum award for best historical paper at the American Helicopter Society Forum. The paper
was titled “The Aeronautical Exploits of Jacob Ellehammer.”
The Capital Wireless Information Net program, led
by Executive Director Roddy Moscoso and housed within CEE’s Center for Advanced
Transportation Technology, has been presented with the Improving Maryland Policing and Advancing
Communications and Technology Award.
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INTERNAL
 Michael Pecht, George E. Dieter Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, was inducted into the Clark School’s
Innovation Hall of Fame for making electronics more reliable, predicting when they will fail and
enabling proactive programs to maintain them successfully.
 Professor Michael Zachariah (ME and chemistry) is the recipient of
the Clark School’s 2011 Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award for the development of new characterization
tools for studying nanoparticles and use of these tools to further our understanding of the properties of
nanoparticles.
Assistant Professor John Cumings
(materials science and engineering) is the recipient of the Clark School’s 2011 Junior Faculty Outstanding
Research Award for a novel in-situ thermal imaging technique, his design of multiferroic device structures
with unique functionalities and leading the synthesis of one-of-a-kind lithiated silicon nanostructures
for future advanced batteries.
Associate Professor Pamela Abshire
(ECE/ISR) is the recipient of the Clark School’s 2011 E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior
Faculty.
Jeff McKinney, director of computing
for ECE, ISR, physics and math, received a 2011 Board of Regents Award. This prestigious award is the
highest honor the board bestows to publicly recognize distinguished performance and faculty
achievements.
FPE Chair James A. Milke has been
selected as the 2010-2011 Provost’s Faculty Academic Advisor of the Year. Additionally, Clark School
Director of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Jenna Dolan received the 2010-2011
Provost's Professional Advisor of the Year Award and Alan Santos, director of student
services in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Board of Regents University
System of Maryland Staff Award for Outstanding Service to Students in an Academic Environment.
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FELLOWS
 AE Chair Mark Lewis has been
elected to the International Academy of Astronautics.
 The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected Dan Lathrop (pictured; physics and director, Institute for Research in Engineering and Applied Physics) and Rama Chellappa (ECE interim chair) as fellows.
Professor Ray Adomaitis (ChBE/joint,
ISR) has been elected to fellowship in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Associate Professor John Fisher
(Fischell Department of Bioengineering) has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and
Biomedical Engineering as a fellow.
Ben Shneiderman (ISR/computer
science/University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies) and Thomas M. Antonsen
Jr. (IREAP, ECE and physics) have been elected fellows of IEEE.
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KEYNOTES / CHAIRS
University System of Maryland Regents Professor and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor
of Engineering C. D. (Dan) Mote, Jr. (ME) delivered a keynote lecture on "The 21st Century
Global Innovation Environment" at the 23rd Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise.
 Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) was invited to deliver a
plenary keynote at National Taiwan University during the first International Workshop on Machine to
Machine Technology. Ephremides spoke on “A Broader View of Cooperation in Wireless Networks.” He also was
the 2011 Ultra High-speed Mobile Information and Communication Distinguished Lecturer at Rheinisch-Westfälische
Technische Hochschule Aachen University. Ephremides spoke to the Ultra high-speed Mobile Information and
Communication Cluster of Excellence on "Stable Throughput, Rate Control, and Delay in Multi-Access
Channels."
Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR) gave
the invited plenary lecture at the 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. The title
of his talk was “Cooperative Networked Systems: Multiple Graphs, Coalitional Games, New Probabilistic
Models.” He also gave the invited keynote address at the kick-off meeting of the new center of excellence
at Labex Comin Labs. Baras’s lecture was titled “Challenges and Opportunities for Future Broadband Networks:
From Physical to Services to Social.” Finally, Baras recently delivered a keynote lecture titled
“Control Science and Engineering: Providing Foundations for the Emerging Model-Based Systems Engineering
Discipline” at the 2011 GE Global Research Controls Symposium.
Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor of Information
Technology and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research K.J. Ray Liu (ECE) delivered
a keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and
Conference. Liu’s talk was titled, “Information Anti-Forensics.” He also delivered a keynote speech at the
International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis titled “Information
Anti-Forensics.”
Associate Professor André W. Marshall
(FPE) was a keynote lecturer and delivered a plenary paper titled “Unraveling Fire Suppression Sprays”
at the 10th Symposium of the International Association of Fire Safety Science.
Professor Anthony Ephremides
(ECE/ISR) served as the general chair of the 2011 International Symposium on Information Theory.
Professor Agis Iliadis (ECE)
served as the co-chair of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium,
a biennial conference focusing on exploratory research in electronic and photonic materials
and devices.
Assistant Professor Alireza Khaligh
(ECE) served as the program chair of the 2011 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference.
Ankur Srivastava (ECE/ISR) received
an appointment to the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Speaker Panel. This designation
provides a platform from which Srivastava can share his research and ideas with professional organizations,
peer institutions, and many others who are seeking speakers in particular topic areas.
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BOOKS / EDITORS
 Professor K. J. Ray Liu (ECE) has co-authored a new book titled
Behavior Dynamics in Media-Sharing Social Networks with his former advisees, ECE alumnae
W. Sabrina Lin (Ph.D. ‘09, electrical engineering [EE]) and H. Vicky
Zhao (Ph.D. ‘04, EE).
 Professor A. Yavuz Oruç (ECE) has published a new book titled
Handbook of Scientific Proposal Writing (CRC Press/Taylor Francis Group).
Professor James E. Hubbard, Jr. (AE) and Jared
Grauer of the Clark School's Morpheus Laboratory are contributing authors to the first comprehensive
book on morphing aircraft. The book, titled Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures, was edited by
John Valasek and will be available in April 2012 through Wiley Publishers.
IEEE has appointed ECE Professor
Gang Qu as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Computers.
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 Gerald Galloway (CEE) once again served as a frequent expert
on flooding and water policy issues, with quotes in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The New York
Times, St. Louis Today, FOX Business News and more.
AE Chair Mark Lewis was interviewed by CNBC about the future of
human spaceflight and by Popular Mechanics about attacks using model airplanes.
ECE Assistant Research Scientist Mehdi
Kalantari’s bridge sensing technology was highlighted by WTOP Radio, Forbes and a Washington,
D.C., ABC affiliate.
After the earthquake that affected the East Coast,
CEE Associate Professor Yunfeng Zhang spoke with several newspapers, including
The Washington Post, about the impact on the region’s infrastructure. Other media outlets spoke
with Professor Ashok Agrawala (ECE/computer science) about why cell phones failed at
the height of the earthquake’s aftermath; interviewed Marino di Marzo (FPE/ME) about
nuclear reactor safety; and featured the Clark School’s earthquake simulator in ME Chair
Balakumar Balachandran’s research lab.
Professor Cynthia Moss
(psychology/ISR) was interviewed by many media outlets, including the BBC, Popular Mechanics,
Science and Discovery News regarding bat wing hair research she conducted with ISR Assistant
Research Scientist Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo.
Maryland Robotics Center faculty members were featured
in a number of venues including five hours of live broadcasting from the Clark School’s Neutral Buoyancy
Research Facility, where robotic vehicles and students under the tutelage of Profs. Dave Akin
(AE), S.K. Gupta (ME), Derek Paley (AE/ISR) and Sarah
Bergbreiter (ME/ISR) were featured on local Fox affiliate WTTG. In addition, Bergbreiter’s
micro-robots were highlighted by Fast Company and the Associated Press sent a film crew out for the
2011 Maryland Robotics Day.
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