Kenneth F. Galloway

James H. Clarke

James H. Clarke, professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization Division. The division is charged with promoting the development and use of technologies associated with the management of nuclear facilities and materials.

Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering Kenneth F. Galloway has been named to the Academy of Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education. Galloway is the current past chair of the ASEE Engineering Deans Council.

H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering Michael Goldfarb has received the inaugural Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Goldfarb is the director of the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics.

Michael Goldfarb

Paul H. King

Paul H. King, professor of biomedical engineering, emeritus, is the 2011 recipient of the highest award given by the biomedical engineering division of the American Society for Engineering Education. The Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award honors lifetime achievement in teaching, research and administration.

Clare McCabe, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received Vanderbilt University’s Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The winner is selected by the university’s chancellor from nominations by undergraduate students.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering W. David Merryman has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award. The grant will further his research in tissue engineering. Merryman has also been named a 2011 University of Tennessee Alumni Promise Award recipient.

Clare McCabe

W. David Merryman

Hak-Joon Sung

Hak-Joon Sung, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award. The grant will support Sung’s new approach to regenerate injured small blood vessels as well as create a new toolbox for minimally invasive surgery.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert J. Webster III has been awarded a National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award. The award will aid his efforts to design more accurate and less invasive surgical tools called continuum robots.

 Sharon Weiss, associate professor of electrical engineering, has been accepted into the 2012-2013 class of the Defense Science Study Group. The group introduces selected scientists and engineering professors to the challenges facing national security and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues.

Robert J. Webster III

Sharon Weiss

Yaqiong Xu

Yaqiong Xu, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award. The grant supports her efforts to measure, at the single-molecule level, the electrical and mechanical interactions between individual carbon nanotubes and DNA molecules.

J. Michael Fitzpatrick

E. Duco Jansen

J. Michael Fitzpatrick, professor of computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering, emeritus, has been named an IEEE Fellow.

John P. Wikswo

John C. Gore

John C. Gore and John P. Wikswo have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the categories of neuroscience and physics, respectively. Gore, Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine and professor of biomedical engineering, was honored for distinguished contributions to the development and application of imaging methods for biomedical science, and as director of the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science. Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor, A. B. Learned Professor of Living Physics and professor of biomedical engineering and physics, was honored for distinguished contributions at the interface of physics, biology, bioengineering and medicine.

Bradley Malin, research assistant professor of computer science and assistant professor of biomedical informatics, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for pioneering approaches to managing and protecting the privacy of electronic health records and research data.

Bradley Malin

Sokrates Pantelides

Robert Reed

Ron Schrimpf

Sokrates Pantelides, William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics and professor of electrical engineering, has been named University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Robert Reed has been elected one of three representatives from the Radiation Effects Technical Committee to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Administrative Committee.

Ron Schrimpf, Orrin Henry Ingram Chair in Engineering, director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE) and faculty head of Memorial House on The Commons, received Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor’s Cup for the greatest recent contribution outside the classroom to undergraduate student–faculty relationships.

Nabil Simaan

Janos Sztipanovits

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Nabil Simaan received the 2010 Benjamins Award from the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS). It is regarded by many as the most impressive international award given by the otolaryngology society. Simaan and his research partners were honored for work on robotic insertions of steerable cochlear implant electrodes.

Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, and director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), received the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award Medal for his service to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. The honor is commonly the second highest award and medal provided to civilian employees within agencies of the federal government of the United States.

Bonds

Cummings

Fisher

A.B. Bonds, professor of electrical engineering and associate chair of electrical engineering and computer science, received the Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service for his 30 years exemplary service to the School of Engineering.

Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the 2010 recipient of the AIChE Founders Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was honored for outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering and achievements that advance the profession.

Douglas H. Fisher, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, received a Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence from the National Science Foundation. Fisher served three years as a program director at the NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering before returning to VUSE this fall.

Luo

Jansen and Mahadevan-Jansen

Kosson

Haoxiang Luo, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in the area of fluid dynamics. He will research computational modeling of insect flight and how it might inform the development of micro air vehicles.

Biomedical engineering professors E. Duco Jansen and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen were named fellows of the International Photonic Science and Engineering Society (SPIE). This is only the second time in the society’s history that a husband and wife have been honored as fellows simultaneously.

David Kosson, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, received Vanderbilt’s Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award, given for the development of significant new knowledge from research or exemplary innovations in teaching. The award conveys the title for one year.

McCabe

Pintauro

Sztipanovits

Young

Clare McCabe, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received the school’s Excellence in Teaching Award, given to a faculty member who makes significant contributions to excellence in undergraduate or graduate instruction during the academic year.

Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, and director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Sciences Section. The honor is for eminent Hungarian scholars who live outside Hungary.

Jamey Young, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The grant will support research into the mechanisms by which saturated fatty acids induce metabolic dysfunction and cell death in liver tissues.

Adams

Biswas

Dawant

Julie Adams, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, has been awarded a Department of Defense program grant to support her work in the area of human and robotic teams.

Gautam Biswas, professor of computer science and computer engineering, has received a National Science Foundation award for re-search regarding intelligent learning environments.

Benoit Dawant, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow by the board of directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IEEE board honored Dawant for his contributions to biomedical image analysis and image-guided medical interventions.

W. Wesley Eckenfelder, Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, emeritus, published WWE (W. Wesley Eckenfelder/Wastewater Extraordinaire)–The Life of an Environmental Pioneer. The memoir follows Eckenfelder from his student days to his more than 20 years at Vanderbilt and beyond. [Ed. note: Sadly, W. Wesley Eckenfelder, professor, emeritus, died shortly after Vanderbilt Engineering went to press. He was 83. The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering expresses its sympathy to his family and many friends.]

The NSF has awarded Aniruddha Gokhale, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, a nearly half-million dollar award for his work with distributed real-time embedded systems. This is in addition to his CAREER award announced in 2009.

Gokhale

McCabe

Jennings

Xue

Xenofon Koutsoukos, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, participated in the National Academy of Engineering’s first Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium. He was chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants nominated by fellow engineers or deans.

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to fund graduate fellowships in the area of advanced materials. The grant is part of the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program, and will be directed by Associate Professors Clare McCabe and G. Kane Jennings.

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science Yuan Xue has been awarded a Department of Defense program grant regarding the science of integration for networked systems.

Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been named a member of the leadership team and a co-principal investigator for a new Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the direction of the Department of Energy. The center is one of the new multimillion-dollar Energy Frontier Research centers recently announced by the White House. Cummings has also been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Dean Kenneth F. Galloway has been elected by his national peers to a two-year term as chair of the Engineering Deans Council, which includes more than 300 deans of engineering institutions across the United States. The council is one of the leadership organizations of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Aniruddha S. Gokhale, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Scott A. Guelcher, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, have received highly competitive National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards.

Sanjiv Gokhale, professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, was honored with the inaugural Distinguished Professor Award given by the Construction Industry Institute.

Michael Goldfarb, professor of mechanical engineering, recently received a new NIH R01 grant of $1.4 million for his work on developing an exoskeleton for gait restoration for paraplegics. He also has been awarded a five-year, Army-funded project that leverages his current NIH R01 on powered leg prostheses. The project will support work on a version of his team’s robotic leg with neural interfaces being developed at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

George M. Hornberger, the Craig E. Philip Professor of Engineering and a University Distinguished Professor, has received a new presidential appointment to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. He has served on the board since 2005.

E. Duco Jansen, professor of biomedical engineering, was elected president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, becoming only the third nonphysician ever elected to lead the organization.

David S. Kosson, chair of civil and environmental engineering, received the 2009 ISCOWA Award given by the International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Material. The award is an international recognition for contributing most significantly to the use of alternative materials in construction applications.

Sankaran Mahadevan, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the Outstanding Professional Service Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for sustained service to the aerospace division over the past two decades.

Clare M. McCabe, associate professor and co-director of graduate studies of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is chair-elect of the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Ronald D. Schrimpf, the Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering, received Vanderbilt’s university-wide honor, the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award. The Branscomb Award is for outstanding accomplishments in furthering the aims of Vanderbilt University.