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Two Clark School faculty members received National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Awards: Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) Assistant Professor Yu Chen (pictured) received a $400,000 award for his work to create a system that combines the power of two biomedical imaging technologies to produce more detailed, near-live images of brain activity; chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE) assistant professor Jeffery Klauda received a $252,000 award for his proposal "Secondary Active Membrane Transporters: Determining Protein Structure and Transport Mechanism with a New Hybrid Simulation."

Clark School Assistant Professor Jeremy Munday (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]) has received a NASA Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty award for "Radiation Pressure on Tunable Optical Metamaterials for Propulsion and Steering Without Moving Parts." This is the working principle behind solar sails, a form of propulsion for deep space exploration.

A proposal to create an inexpensive sensor for the rapid, point-of-care diagnosis of metabolic disorders in infants has earned professor and associate dean Peter Kofinas (BioE) the Clark School's first Translational Sciences Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE) Chair and Minta Martin Professor Norm Wereley will receive the 2013 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

K.J. Ray Liu, Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology and associate chair of graduate studies in ECE, has received the honor of Chair Professor bestowed by National Chaio Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

ECE Chair and Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa (ECE/computer science [CS]/ University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)/Center for Automation Research) received the 2012 King-Sun Fu Prize at the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

Professor Emeritus James Dally (mechanical engineering [ME]) received the Daniel C. Drucker Medal for his contributions to mechanical engineering at the 2012 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.

Anthony Ephremides, Cynthia Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology in ECE and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), and Distinguished University Professor, received the 2012 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Recognition Award.

BioE Professor and Chair William E. Bentley received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' 2012 Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award in Chemical Engineering.

University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) Director Eric Wachsman (Departments of Materials Science and Engineering [MSE] and ChBE) received the 2012 Fuel Cell Seminar & Energy Exposition Award.

Clark School Professor Emeritus and National Academy of Engineering member John Anderson (AE) received the George Sarton Medal from the University of Ghent in Belgium for his lifetime of scholarly achievement in the field of the history of science. Anderson also received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Award for 2012.

The Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest association for project managers, has honored John H. Cable, RA, PMP, with a 2012 PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his service to PMI and his dedication to excellence in project management education.

Satyandra K. Gupta, professor of ME and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and director of the Maryland Robotics Center, will go on inter-governmental personal act assignment to serve as program director in the Robust Intelligence Cluster within the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation.

Professor Eric Wachsman (University of Maryland Energy Research Center [UMERC]/MSE/ChBE) has been asked to participate in a series of roundtable discussions on "Improving the Resiliency of Maryland's Electric Distribution System." The participants involved in the roundtables will report back to Gov. O'Malley with suggestions for legislative changes, regulatory reforms and other actions.

Associate Professor Pamela Abshire (ECE/ISR) has been elected to the Board of Governors for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society.

ChBE professor Kyu Yong Choi has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center (KUSCO), which fosters scientific and engineering research and education exchanges between the United States and South Korea. KUSCO is supported by the Korea Research Foundation, the counterpart to the U.S.'s National Science Foundation.

A team led by Dr. Satyandra Gupta won the best paper award at ASME’s Computers and Information in Engineering Division Conference for “Using GPUs for Realtime Prediction of Optical Forces on Microsphere Ensembles.” Gupta and CS professor Amitabh Varshney supervised research performed by graduate students Sujal Bista and Sager Chowdhury.

A paper by Assistant Professor Alireza Khaligh (ECE/ISR) published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology received the Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. “Advanced Integrated Bidirectional AC/DC and DC/DC Converter for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles” was co-authored by Khaligh, Young-Joo Lee and Ali Emadi and appeared in the journal’s October 2009 issue.

Professor Charles Silio (ECE) and his co-authors were awarded Best Paper at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering. “System of Systems to Provide QoS Monitoring, Management and Response in Cloud Computing Environments” was co-authored with Paul Hershey, Shrisha Rao, and Akshay Narayan.

MSE adjunct professor Tim Foecke received a 2012 Maryland Association of Science Teachers Award for Excellence in Science Education. Foecke, the deputy chief of the Metallurgy Division, leader of the Materials Performance Group, and director of the Center for Automotive Lightweighting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was recognized as the "College Level Teacher Showing Excellence in Science Education."

Two Clark School teams graduated from NSF's new Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) startup accelerator program. One team consisted of Professor Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya (ECE and UMIACS); Assistant Research Scientist Chung-Ching Shen (ECE); and Mtech Ventures Director Dean Chang in the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech). Andre Marshall (fire protection engineering) is leading another team of colleagues to form a startup company called Custom Spray Solutions as part of the I-Corps Program. The company is based on a software solution that came out of Marshall's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) research.

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INTERNAL

Six Clark School professors have been selected as Minta Martin Professors:

• Norman Wereley (AE, pictured)
• Chris Davis (ECE/ISR)
• Balakumar Balachandran (ME)
• Amr Baz (ME and Smart Materials and Structures Research Center)
• Mohammad Modarres (ME and Reliability Engineering Program director)
• Reinhard Radermacher (ME and Center for Environmental Energy Engineering director)

Minta Martin Professors are full professors who have made significant scholarly contributions in their areas of research.

Minta Martin Professor and Center for Environmental Energy Engineering Director Reinhard Radermacher received the University of Maryland’s Distinguished International Service Award.

UMERC director Professor Eric Wachsman was elevated to the rank of Society Fellow of The American Ceramic Society.

Professor Howard Milchberg (ECE) was named a 2012 fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Associate Professor Nuno Martins (ECE/ISR) is one of 18 faculty members selected for the University of Maryland’s new Leadership Fellows program.

KEYNOTES/CHAIRS

MSE professor Aris Christou delivered a keynote address, "Compound Semiconductors: From Discrete Devices to Integrated Circuits, and Understanding Process Science-Reliability Physics Relationships," at the Fifth International Conference on Micro – Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnologies and MEMS.

Ali Mosleh, Nicole J. Kim Professor of ME and director of the Clark School’s Center for Risk and Reliability, presented the closing plenary lecture of the 11th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety and Management.

AUTHORS/EDITORS

ME professors Peter Sandborn (also ISR) and Michael Pecht have co-authored a book with two other colleagues -- Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation, and Management of Product Obsolescence (Wiley).

Steven A. Gabriel (civil and environmental engineering [CEE]/ISR) is the lead author of Complementarity Modeling in Energy Markets, published by Springer.

BioE associate professor Keith Herold is the co-editor of a new book, Biosensors and Molecular Technologies for Cancer Diagnostics, on the use of biosensors for cancer diagnostics, part of the "Series In Sensors" produced by CRC Press.

Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering Gerry Galloway (CEE) contributed to the National Academy of Sciences report “Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative.”

Professor Gary Rubloff (MSE/ISR) is the co-author of a major report on mesoscale science commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences Program. Rubloff, the director of the Maryland NanoCenter, was tapped to serve on the subcommittee that produced the report by John Hemminger, chair of the DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.

Alireza Khaligh (ECE/ISR) is one of three guest editors of the “Special Proceeding” October 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. The issue focuses on sustainable transportation systems.

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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

Newspapers like The Washington Post and other media outlets have picked up research by Clark School CEE professor Bilal Ayyub and colleagues on the potential for catastrophic impacts on Washington, D.C., should a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy hit closer to this area.

The Gamera human-powered helicopter team, led by Gessow Rotorcraft Center Director Inderjit Chopra, continued to garner media attention, including in Popular Mechanics, Wired and Le Monde, and on NPR, Good Morning America and CBS News, among other media outlets.

NPR quizzed Gerry Galloway (CEE) on the Mississippi River and Hurricane Sandy, while other media outlets interviewed him about flooding issues.

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