EXTERNAL
The following four Clark School assistant professors have received National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards in 2009:
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| Adam Hsieh |
Ray Sedwick |
Santiago Solares |
Edo Waks |
• Adam Hsieh (bioengineering [BioE]) for "Engineering Cellular Mechanotransduction."
• Ray Sedwick (aerospace engineering [AE]) for "Development and Application of Compact Helicon Sources."
• Santiago Solares (mechanical engineering [ME]) for "Sub-Nano Newton Force Spectroscopy in Liquids with Dual-Frequency-Modulation AFM."
• Edo Waks (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]) for "Coherent Interactions Between Photons and Quantum Dots Using Photonic Crystals."
Several Clark School faculty members are involved in three different research projects that have been awarded Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURIs) by the U.S. Department of Defense:
• John Baras (ECE and Institute for Systems Research [ISR]), Nuno Martins (ECE and ISR) and Eyad Abed (ECE and ISR) are involved in a MURI awarded to Georgia Tech and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on "Distributed Learning and Information Dynamics in Networked Autonomous Systems."
• Shihab Shamma (ECE and ISR) is working with Johns Hopkins University and the Office of Naval Research on "Figure-Ground Processing, Saliency and Guided Attention for Analysis of Large Natural Scenes."
• Rama Chellappa (ECE and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies [UMIACS]) is involved with two other University of Maryland faculty members in a MURI awarded to Rice University and the Army Research Office, "Opportunistic Sensing for Object and Activity Recognition."
Clark School faculty members have won five Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Awards from the Department of Defense.
• Inder Chopra (AE): "Microsystem Mechanics"
• Rama Chellappa (ECE): "Multi-sensor Remote Biometrics System"
• James Duncan (ME): "Measurement of Spray"
• Edo Waks (ECE and Institute for Research in Engineering and Applied Physics [IREAP]): "Superconducting Magnet for Quantum Information Processing with Spin States"
• Thomas Murphy (ECE and IREAP): "Complexity-Based Optical Sensor Networks"
Professor Michael Pecht (ME) accepted the National Science Foundation’s Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation on behalf of the Clark School’s Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE). CALCE won the award for its research on physics-of-failure reliability analysis methods and advanced supply chain management concepts for electronic products and systems.
Associate Professor Benjamin Shapiro (AE and ISR) has obtained a Fulbright Scholar grant for his research on "Optimization and control of magnetic drug delivery to better target chemotherapy to deep tumors."
Professor Shuvra Bhattacharyya (ECE and UMIACS) has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. The grant will allow Bhattacharyya to provide advice on a new Master’s degree program that the Austrian university is developing in embedded signal processing.
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Associate Professor Ahmet Aydilek (civil and environmental engineering [CEE]) and CEE alumnus M. Emin Kutay (M.S. '02 and Ph.D. '05) received the 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Arthur M. Wellington Prize for their article titled “Dynamic Effects on Moisture Transport in Asphalt Concrete,” published in ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has elected Willis Young Professor Mark Lewis (AE) as its president-elect.
Professor K. J. Ray Liu (ECE) is president-elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society (SPS).
Associate Professor Min Wu (ECE) has been elected vice president for finance of the IEEE SPS for a three-year term.
Gerald Galloway, a Clark School Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor (CEE) and affiliate professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, has been appointed by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to serve on the Governor's Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation.
Fredric H. Schmitz (AE) has been selected to receive the Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship by the American Helicopter Society. The lectureship is awarded to “an individual who has a highly distinguished career in vertical flight aircraft research and development and is skilled at communicating their technical knowledge and experience.”
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Professor Bilal M. Ayyub (CEE) a certificate of recognition for dedicated voluntary service in 2009.
Assistant Professor Sean Humbert (AE) has been awarded the 2009 Hal Andrews Young Engineer/Scientist Award from the National Capital Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics "for revolutionary contributions to modeling of micro-air vehicle (MAV) dynamics, insect sensorimotor pathways and associated bio-inspired sensors that will enable the next generation of autonomous MAVs."
Professor John Baras (ECE and ISR) and his alumni co-authors, Paul Yu (Ph.D. '08, electrical engineering [EE]), and Brian Sadler (B.S. '81 and M.S. '84, EE), both of the Army Research Laboratory, received the Best Paper Award for Information Technology/C4ISR at the 26th Army Science Conference.
Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE and ISR) was included in an exhibit titled "Soul of Technology," sponsored by Palo Alto Weekly. The exhibit showcased the 50 most important African Americans in technology. Espy-Wilson is named among 16 educators on the list, and was recognized for her research and scholarly work in speech recognition and speech science.
The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology presented Associate Professor Jeffrey Herrmann (ME and ISR) and his student Timothy W. Hoy with the 2009 Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award for their paper, “Optimal Utilization of Test Facilities to Replicate Operational Environments.”
Researchers at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab) received the Greg Herrington Award from the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board for Excellence in Visualization Research for their paper titled, “Visual Analytics for Transportation Incident Datasets.” The awardees include CATT Lab director Michael L. Pack along with graduate research assistants Darya Filippova, Andreea Olea, Michael VanDaniker and Krist Wongsuphasawat.
SAE International recognized Greg Schultz, ME adjunct associate professor and the advisor to the TerpsRacing team, with its Faculty Advisor Award. Schultz received the award for his outstanding commitment to the team.
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UNIVERSITY
 Professor
Patrick O'Shea, chairman of ECE, is a University of Maryland 2009-2010 Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher. The award recognizes faculty members
who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement along with equally outstanding
accomplishments as teachers.
 Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) Associate Professor Srinivasa Raghavan has been named the first Patrick and Marguerite Sung Professor in Chemical
Engineering. The five-year professorship is supported by a $500,000 endowment given by
alumni T.K. "Patrick" Sung (M.S. '69 and Ph.D. '72, chemical engineering) and his wife,
Marguerite (B.S. '70, mathematics).
The
UM Office of Technology Commercialization
named three projects by Clark School professors and their colleagues as this year's top
University of Maryland inventions:
• In the Physical Science category,
Professors Martin Peckerar
(ECE) and Neil Goldsman (ECE and ISR), won for their "World's Highest Energy
Density Thin-Film Battery."
• In the Life Science category, Matt Dowling (a BioE graduate student and
Fischell Fellow) and Associate Professor Srinivasa Raghavan (ChBE) were honored for their
"nano-velcro" chitosan-based bandage.
• In the Information Science category, Professor John Baras (ECE and ISR) was
recognized for his work with the Army Research Laboratory on a key exchange system to secure
Internet transactions.
Professor Rama Chellappa (ECE/UMIACS/computer science)
received an Outstanding Gemstone Mentor Award. Chellappa was nominated for the award by the
Gemstone students he advised. The Gemstone Program at the University of Maryland is a unique
multidisciplinary four-year research program for selected undergraduate honors students of all majors.
Professor Alison Flatau (AE) received the Clark School's Faculty Service
Award for her extensive work with undergraduate aerospace engineering students, among other activities.
Professors Peter Sandborn (ME and ISR) and Kenneth Kiger (ME) received the Clark School's Poole & Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. Sandborn
was recognized for his work to develop new, engaging courses. Kiger was noted for involvement
with the Keystone program and related hovercraft competition.
Assistant Professor Peter Sunderland (fire protection engineering)
received the Clark School's E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty
in recognition of his teaching, mentoring and recruiting efforts.
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KEYNOTES/CHAIRS
 ECE Professor
K. J. Ray Liu delivered a plenary keynote at the International Symposium on Intelligent
Signal Processing and Communication Systems. The title of the talk was "Genomic/Proteomic
Signal Processing for Cancer Classification and Prediction.” Liu also delivered a plenary
keynote at the fourth annual IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications.
The title of the talk was "Reverse Engineering of Electronic Devices: An Information
Forensic Paradigm."
 Professor
Miroslaw Skibniewski (CEE), A. James Clark Chair in Construction Engineering and Project
Management, was the keynote speaker at the Symposium on Pipeline Construction and Maintenance:
Project Management Approach. His presentation focused on "Information Technologies for
Planning and Management for Development of Sustainable Construction Projects."
 Professor Christopher
Davis (ECE and ISR) recently
gave an invited keynote talk, titled “Emerging Technologies for Indoor Wireless Sensor
Networks: the Last 100 Meters,” at the Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information
Processing Conference.
Professor Amde M.
Amde recently gave a keynote paper titled "The Evolution of Masonry Mortars,"
at Congress 2008 - Concrete: Construction's Sustainable Option. He also served on the international
scientific committee and gave a keynote paper titled "Field Study of Bridges in Eastern US
for Internal Sulfate Attack" at the Second International Conference on Advances in Concrete
and Construction.
Herbert Rabin Distinguished
Associate Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE and ISR) is the organizing committee
chair for the 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and
Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2009).
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FELLOWS
 Professor
Steven I. Marcus (ECE and ISR) has been elected a Fellow of the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
 The Institute of
Biological Engineering has elected BioE's Professor Art Johnson to fellowship.
The Board of Directors of the
National Academy of Public Administration recently named CEE's Prof. Gerald Galloway a
2008 fellow-elect.
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EDITORS/BOOKS
 Assistant
Professor Ankur Srivastava (ECE and ISR) has been invited to become associate editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI). Srivastava also was
named associate editor of Integration, the VLSI Journal.
 Associate
Professor Jeffrey Herrmann (ME and ISR) has been appointed to an editorial position for
the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) publication, IIE Transactions. He will be the
departmental editor for homeland security for the journal’s “Focused Issue on Operations
Engineering and Analysis.”
Associate Professor Keith Herold
(BioE) edited and contributed to a new two-volume work on biosensors and biodetection:
Biosensors and Biodetection: Methods and Protocols, Volume 1: Optical-Based Detectors
and Biosensors and Biodetection: Methods and Protocols, Volume 2: Electrochemical and Mechanical
Detectors, Lateral Flow and Ligands for Biosensors (Humana Press).
Professor Miroslaw Skibniewski
(CEE) is the co-author of a new book chapter in the recently published Springer Handbook
of Mechanical Engineering (Springer Verlag).
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 Professor
Gerry Galloway (CEE) was interviewed about flood risks by Minnesota Public Radio,
Engineering News-Record and the New York Daily News in addition to penning an editorial
that ran in several dailies across the country.
 CATT Lab and its director, Michael Pack, were featured on CNN,
National Public Radio, ABC Nightly News and several other news outlets after providing
traffic technology to assist with congestion and security surrounding Pres. Obama's
inauguration in January.
Professor Gary Rubloff (materials science and engineering, ISR and NanoCenter) was featured in MIT's Technology
Review and New Scientist, among others, for his work on more efficient storage for alternative energy.
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