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Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements
Dean Jean Zu (SES), was named one of the 2019 Notable Women in Tech by Crain’s New York Business.
Muhammad Hajj, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering (SES), received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the American University of Beirut.
EH Yang, Mechanical Engineering (SES), has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
An exhibition now running in the Netherlands features work by Jeff Thompson, director of the CAL Visual Arts and Technology Program.
Suman Banerjee (SB) gave a keynote speech about his research on the mitigating effects gender-diverse boards have on overconfident CEOs at the Magnolia Finance Conference in March.
Largest New Research Awards, March-April 2019
- March 1: Abhishek Sharma, Biomedical Engineering (SES) – Department of Defense, Army Medical Research, $471,719 – A Novel Class of Antagonists for Robust Inhibition of Mutant Estrogen Receptor Action in Endocrine-Resistant Metastatic Breast Cancer
- March 1: Samantha Kleinberg, Computer Science (SES) – Kodjo Apedjinou, $20,000 – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Summer Research Program
- March 8: Nicole Hutchison (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $445,885 – WRT-1004: Helix – Organizational Systems Engineering Effectiveness 2019
- March 10: Mehmet Kurt, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – Xenith LLC, $19,312 – Design a Youth Helmet
- March 15: Mehmet Kurt, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $438,212 – R21: Amplified MRI (aMRI): A Novel Way to Investigate the Pathophysiology of Chiari Malformation I
- March 15: George Korfiatis (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $362,446 – WRT-1005: Safety Assessment Methods for Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) Facility at Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP)
- March 19: Thomas McDermott (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $339,377 – WRT-1001: Digital Engineering Measures
- April 15: Negar Tavassolian, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $381,795 – Advanced Wearable Cardiovascular Monitoring Platform
- April 15: Nick Parziale, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $86,158 – Solid State Read Step for Simple, High-Speed Krypton Tagging Velocimetry
- April 19: Thomas McDermott (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $248,093 – Methods to Evaluate Cost/Technical Risk and Opportunity Decisions for Security Assurance in Design
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