Biomedical Engineering

Professor Milton Adams received the Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award from the Teaching Resource Center

Assistant Professor Timothy E. Allen received from the Trigon Society the 2009 Hutchinson Faculty Award for his dedication and excellence in teaching.

Assistant Professor Kevin Janes received a Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Award.

Chemical Engineering

Professor Giorgio Carta was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has received an All-University Teaching Award from the Teaching Resource Center.

Emeritus Professor Elmer L. Gaden Jr. received the National Academy of Engineering 2009 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize for his pioneering research that enabled the large-scale manufacture of antibiotics.

Assistant Professor Michael R. Shirts received a Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Award.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor and Department Chair Michael J. Demetsky received the S.S. Steinberg Outstanding Educator Award from the American Road and Transport Builders Association (ARTBA) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to transportation education.

Associate Professor Brian L. Smith was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Computer Science

Associate Professor James P. Cohoon received an IEEE Taylor-Booth Educator Award.

Professor Jack W. Davidson was elected a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery and received an IEEE Taylor-Booth Educator Award.

Associate Professor David Evans won the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Professor Andrew Grimshaw and Lucien Carr III Professor Joe Campbell (ECE) were invited to participate in the U.Va. Venture Summit held in April 2009.

Assistant Professor Sudhanva Gurumurthi and Professor Mircea Stan (ECE) received a Google Research Award in support of their research on “Energy-Efficient Storage Architectures for Data Centers.”

Professor John Stankovic was the keynote speaker at the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks in Cork, Ireland, in February 2009, and he will be the keynote speaker at PETRA 2009 in Corfu, Greece, in June 2009.

AT&T Professor William Wulf, former president of the National Academy of Engineering, received the Award for Distinguished Public Service from the IEEE-USA Board of Directors “for advancing engineering professionalism and promoting U.S. competitiveness in science and technology.” He was also elected chair of the board of trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Scott T. Acton received the All-University Teaching Award from the Teaching Resource Center.

Louis T. Rader Professor James H. Aylor was elected director of the Engineering Deans Council Executive Board.

Professor John C. Bean received a 2009 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Lucien Carr III Professor Joe Campbell and Professor Andrew Grimshaw (CS) were invited to participate in the U.Va. Venture Summit held in April 2009.

Professor Mircea Stan and Assistant Professor Sudhanva Gurumurthi (CS) received a Google Research Award in support of their research on “Energy-Efficient Storage Architectures for Data Centers.”

Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Physics

Alice and Guy Wilson Professor of Engineering Physics and Materials Science Raul Baragiola received a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee on Atomic Collisions in Solids for his work on ion-solid interactions.

Research Assistant Professor Jiwei Lu received a Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Award.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Assistant Professor Silvia Salinas Blemker was named a University Teaching Fellow.

Associate Professor Richard W. Kent was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki was elected a Fellow of IEEE.

Professor James C. McDaniel will head the new Center for Hypersonic Propulsion, a facility that will be used to develop the analytical tools needed to design the engines for a future hypersonic aircraft — one that could fly up to 12 times the speed of sound. The center is being established at the University of Virginia under a new $10 million grant from NASA and the U.S. Air Force. Associate Professor Harsha Chelliah and Assistant Professor Chris Goyne are CO-PIs for the center.

Professor Houston G. Wood gave an invited plenary talk at the Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) in Hamburg, Germany, on March 5, 2009. The title of the talk was “On the Challenges of Containing the Spread of Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants.” He also published the invited article “The Gas Centrifuge and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation” in the September 2009 issue of “Physics Today.”

Science, Technology and Society

Professor W. Bernard “Bernie” Carlson has been named secretary of the Society for History of Technology.

Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Department Chair Deborah G. Johnson co-edited an anthology, “Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future,” with Jameson M. Wetmore of Arizona State University. It was published by MIT Press. The fourth edition of her computer ethics book has been published by Prentice Hall.

Systems and Information Engineering

Professor and Department Chair Barry M. Horowitz will head the U.Va. designated research team in the first University Affiliated Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Systems Engineering Research Center includes a prestigious consortium of 18 leading universities and research centers throughout the United States. The principal collaborator is the Stevens Institute of Technology at the University of Southern California.

School Highlights

The Board of Visitors approved Rice Hall as the name of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s new information technology engineering building, in honor of its lead donors, Paul Rice, a 1975 graduate of the Engineering School, and his wife, Gina. The groundbreaking is scheduled for April 17, 2009.

U.Va. to Lead New $10 Million Center for Hypersonic Propulsion. A new center to develop the analytical tools needed to design the engines for a future hypersonic aircraft — one that could fly up to 12 times the speed of sound — is being established at the University of Virginia under a new $10 million grant from NASA and the U.S. Air Force.

Engineering School Links of Interest:

National Academy of Engineering Members

Professional Society Fellows

NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Awards