The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early CAREER Development Program recognizes and supports the activities of teacher-scholars, early in their careers, deemed likely to be academic leaders of the 21st Century.

The following Engineering School faculty members have received NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Awards:

Avik Ghosh, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Understanding Electron Dynamics at the Nano-Micro Interface

Kim Hazelwood, Computer Science
An Evolutionary Approach to Hardware/Software Collaborative Design

Jason Lawrence, Computer Science
The Inverse Shade Tree Framework for Material Acquisition, Analysis, and Design

David L. Green, Chemical Engineering
Connecting the Wetting and Rheological Behaviors of Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles in Polymer Melts

Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Computer Science
Architectural Techniques and Tools for Adaptive Active Storage Systems

Steven McIntosh, Chemical Engineering
A Novel Approach to Catalysis for Next Generation Direct-Hydrocarbon Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Jason A. Papin, Biomedical Engineering
Interrogating the pathogen-host relationship with genome-scale network analysis

Sean R. Agnew, Materials Science and Engineering
Understanding the Anomalous Ductility of Select B2 Intermetallic Compounds: Polycrystal Plasticity Modeling and Validation by In-Situ Diffraction Techniques

Greg R. Humphreys, Computer Science
Systems For Effective Visualization in Education and Engineering

Hilary Bart-Smith, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Development of a Biologically Inspired Morphing Structure

Leonid V. Zhigilei, Materials Science and Engineering
Computer Modeling of Short Pulse Laser Interaction with Metals

N. Scott Barker, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Development of an Integrated Millimeter-wave Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Detection and Identification of DNA

Tetsuya Iwasaki, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Feedback Control Theory for Biological Pattern Generation

Roseanna Neupauer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wavelet Analysis of Scale Effects on Subsurface Flow and Transport

Rosalyn Berne, Science, Technology and Society
Ethics and Belief Inside the Development of Nanotechnologies

Kevin Skadron, Computer Science
Control-Theoretic Techniques and Thermal/Power Modeling for Dynamically Managing Temperature and Power in Microprocessors

Giovanni Zangari, Materials Science and Engineering
Fundamental Aspects of Electrocrystallization Phenomena: An Experimental and Modeling Approach

Matthew Begley, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Determining Time and Temperature-Dependent Material Properties for Small Components: Integrated Education and Research

David Evans, Computer Science
Programming the Swarm

Stephanie Guerlain, Systems and Information Engineering
Cognitive Engineering of Surgical Work Processes

Susan Burns, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interfacial Behavior of Microbubbles During Contaminant Stripping in Saturated Soils: Multiscale Investigations in Research and Education

Garrick Louis, Systems and Information Engineering
Integrated Municipal Sanitation Systems

Brian Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Time-Critical Applications of Nonparametric Regression: Harnessing the Power of Information Technology for Infrastructure Systems Management

Marcel Utz, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Understanding Plasticity In Polymer Glasses at The Molecular Level by Computer Simulation and Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Stephen Patek, Systems and Information Engineering
Regulation of Packet-Switched Networks: Stochastic Optimal Control Models and Computational Methods

Maite Brandt-Pearce, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Optimizing Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Through Analytical Modeling of Linear and Nonlinear Signal Degradations

Matthew Neurock, Chemical Engineering
Molecular Engineering of Catalytic Surface Chemistry Through First-Principles Simulation

Mircea R. Stan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advances in Theory, Design Methods, and CAD for Low-Power VLSI

Jorg Liebeherr, Computer Science, Systems and Information Engineering
Resource Management in Distributed Multimedia Systems

Teresa B. Culver, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dynamic Optimal Control of Groundwater Remediation

Erik Fernandez, Chemical Engineering
Nuclelar Magnetic Resonance Analysis of Protein Conformation During Bioprocessing

Pamela M. Norris, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Microscale Energy Transport In Aerogels

Edmund Russell III, Science, Technology and Society
War and Nature: Science, Technology and Metaphor

Kevin Sullivan, Computer Science
Toward a Scientific Basis for the design of Integrated Systems

John R. Scully, Materials Science and Engineering
Passivity of Intermetallics and Bond Percolation in Intergranular Cracking