2008 Awards and Recognitions
May
Jennifer Evans-Cowley, associate professor, City and Regional Planning, received the award for the Outstanding Use of Technology in and Urban and Regional Planning program from the Technology Division of the American Planning Association in recognition of three years of work by her and her students to aid the Hurricane Katrina recovery in Harrison County, Miss. In addition, she has been selected as one of eight finalists for Campus Compact’s 2008 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education, will present the Ehrlich Award at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Jan. 21-24, 2009, in Seattle. Evans-Cowley also received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Community-based Scholarship from Ohio State’s Service-Learning Initiative for her ongoing work in Mississippi.
Brian K. Hajek, senior research engineer and associate chair, Nuclear Engineering, on June 10 will receive the 2008 Arthur Holly Compton Award from the American Nuclear Society for his inspirational leadership creating enthusiasm among students about nuclear science and engineering, promoting diversity, forging industrial links for faculty and students, and providing service to the education and training community.
Donald Houser, professor emeritus, Mechanical Engineering, received the 2007 Darle W. Dudley Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Power Transmission and Gearing Committee. This award is given once every four years to honor an individual those who have made life-long contributions to the art and science of power transmission and gearing technology.
Atanas (Nasko) Rountev, assistant professor, Computer Science and Engineering, received the Distinguished Paper Award for “Precise Memory Leak Detection for Java Software Using Container Profiling,” co-author Guoqing Xu, graduate student, Computer Science and Engineering, from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering at the International Conference on Software Engineering.
Ness Shroff, Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, and Changhee Joo, post-doctoral researcher, Electrical & Computer Engineering, received a best paper award at IEEE INFOCOM 2008 for their paper, “Understanding the Capacity Region ofthe Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,” co-author Xiaojun Lin.
DeLiang Wang, professor, Computer Science and Engineering, received the 2008 Helmholtz Award from the International Neural Network Society for his contributions in sensation and perception. The society’s awards program annually recognizes up to three individuals in the field of neural networks who have made outstanding contributions in biological learning, sensation/perception, or engineering/application. Wang will receive his award at the 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Hong Kong June 1-6.
David Woods, professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, received a best paper award for “See is Believing? The effects of real-time image-based feedback on emergency management decision-making,” co-authors J.M. McGuirl and N.B. Sarte, at the5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Washington, D.C., May 4-7, 2008.
March
Rebecca Dupaix, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering, received a $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project, “Integrated Approach to Modeling, Simulation, and Design for Manufacture of Micro-hot Embossing Using a Polymer Glass Transition Modeling Framework.”
Rongxing (Ron) Li, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, is one of 24 scientists selected by NASA as a participating scientist for a new moon exploration mission, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Scheduled for launch later this year, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter represents NASA's first step toward returning humans to the moon. On the mission, the selected scientists will initiate new investigations and assist with planned measurements to be conducted by the orbiter to identify future robotic and human landing sites and study lunar resources and how the moon's environment will affect humans.
Li's role specifically will be integration of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data for Precision Lunar Topographic Mapping and Landing Sites Assessment.
Rongxing (Ron) Li, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and his research staff were first place recipients of the 2008 ESRI software company’s award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems for the paper “A WebGIS for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER 2003 Mission.” Co-authors are Kaichang Di, research scientist; Jue Wang, doctoral candidate; Xutong Niu, ’04 PHD, Sanchit Agarwal, ’06 MS; Evgenia Brodyagina, ’06 MS; Eric Oberg, ’05 MS; and Ju-Won Hwangbo, doctoral student, all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science.
Robert A. Rapp, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering, was named an Honorary Member of the Japan Institute of Metals in March.
DeLiang Wang, professor, Computer Science and Engineering, received the 2008 Helmholtz Award from the International Neural Network Society for his contributions in sensation and perception. The awards program annually recognizes up to three individuals in the field of neural networks who have made outstanding contributions in biological learning, sensation/perception, or engineering/application.
Yusu Wang, assistant professor, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $420,000 National Science CAREER Award for her project, “Geometric and Topological Methods in Shape Analysis, with Applications in Molecular Biology.”
February
Yann Guezennec, professor, Mechanical Engineering, received the Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award for fall 2007 from the GM Technical Education Program. This award is given to the finest instructors who practice exceptional instruction and exemplary course delivery utilizing distance learning technologies. Guezennec’s program is “Energy Modeling of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles.”
Joel Johnson, professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, a professional association for the advancement of technology formerly known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for his contributions to ocean surface remote sensing using microwave systems.
Robert Lee, chair and professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, a professional association for the advancement of technology formerly known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for his contributions to finite element and finite difference methods in electromagnetic.
D.K. Panda, professor, Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, a professional association for the advancement of technology formerly known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for his contributions to high performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems.
Robert Parker, professor, Mechanical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his work in the vibration of mechanical system and development of a major research program on the dynamics of geared transmissions and high-speed belt drives. In addition, Parker and a research team at Ford Motor Co. received a Chief Engineer Award at the Ford Powertrain Technology Innovation Awards this year. Parker and his doctoral students Tugan Eritenel and Gang Liu conduct research on a range of gear vibration problems using computation and experiments. They applied their expertise in cooperation with the Ford team to reduce transmission gear whine and rattle in automotive engines and received the award in recognition of a particularly effective case where use of the tools developed in Parker’s lab led to dramatic noise reduction.
Rama K. Yedavalli, professor, Aerospace Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his pioneering contributions at the systems level in the area of robust stability and control of linear uncertain state space systems with interval parameters. At the disciplinary level, he also has made contributions in the areas of dynamics and control of flexible structures, smart structural control, flight dynamics and control, neural network control, robust control via ecological sign stability and in estimation and diagnostics of turbine engines.
January
The Antenna Measurement Techniques Association has honored several Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members and researchers at the College of Engineering’s ElectroScience Lab. Dennis Burnside, faculty emeritus; Jiti Gupta, senior research scientist; Leon Peters, faculty emeritus; and Eric Walton, senior research scientist, all were elected Fellows of the organization. Teh-Hong Lee, research scientist and Roger Rudduck, faculty emeritus, were elected Senior Members.
Gerald Frankel, professor, Materials Science and Engineering, received the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Project of the Year Award at the 13th annual Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop in Washington, D.C. Frankel received the SERDP Weapons Systems and Platforms Project of the Year Award for his work on the project “Development of Chrome-Free Welding Consumables for Stainless Steels.” Building on prior research, Frankel and his team developed a chromium-free welding consumable that provides the same strength and corrosion properties as conventional welds and that protects the workforce that repairs ships and tanks while minimizing the need for costly monitoring and mitigation measures.
Andre Palmer, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named the 2008 Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Recipient by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.