NAE Elects New Members

Abstract

The National Academy of Engineering has elected 74 engineers and 8 foreign associates to its membership. Among the new members and foreign associates are the following who work in physics or closely related fields: Eric Ash, treasurer and vice president of the Royal Society in London. Frank S. Barnes, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Rafael L. Bras, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor; head of the civil and environmental engineering department; and a professor of Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at MIT. George H. Brimhall, director of the Earth Resources Center and a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. Joost A. Businger, an independent consultant in Anacortes, Washington. William C. Cavanaugh III, chairman, president, and CEO of Progress Energy in Raleigh, North Carolina. John M. Cioffi, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. Robert F. Davis, Kobe Steel Ltd Distinguished University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Antonio L. Elias, senior vice president and general manager of the advanced programs group at Orbital Sciences Corp in Dulles, Virginia. Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor and chair of the chemical engineering department at the Ohio State University. James G. Fujimoto, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Alice P. Gast, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and a professor of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Karl Hess, Swanlund Endowed Chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of physics, and full-time faculty in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Peter Bernhard Hirsch, a professor emeritus of metallurgy at Oxford University. Fazle Hussain, Cullen Distinguished Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston. Shirley A. Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Barry C. Johnson, senior vice president and chief technology officer with Honeywell International Inc in Morristown, New Jersey. Marshall G. Jones, a senior mechanical engineer with GE Corporate Research and Development in Niskayuna, New York. Kristina B. Katsaros, director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida. Sangtae Kim, vice president and information officer for Lilly Research Laboratories of Eli Lilly and Co in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stephanie L. Kwolek, a consultant with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co in Wilmington, Delaware. Max G. Lagally, Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science in materials science and engineering and in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Douglas A. Lauffenburger, J. R. Mares Professor, codirector of the bioengineering and environmental health division, and director of the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center at MIT. Brian R. Lawn, NIST fellow at the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Christopher W. Macosko, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Frederick J. Moody, a consulting engineer in Murphys, California. Norman R. Morrow, a professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Sia Nemat-Nasser, John Dove Isaacs Professor of Natural Philosophy, director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Amos M. Nur, Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Sciences and a professor of geophysics at Stanford University. Paul S. Peercy, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s college of engineering. Kurt E. Petersen, president, chief operating officer, and cofounder of Cepheid in Sunnyvale, California. Albert P. Pisano, FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems and director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. H. Vincent Poor, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Lloyd M. Robeson, principal research associate with Air Products and Chemicals Inc in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Theodore Rockwell, a founding officer of MPR Associates Inc in Alexandria, Virginia. Sosale Shankar Sastry, chairman of the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley. Wolfgang Schmidt, director of the aeronautics, defense, and space research program at DaimlerChrysler’s corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Peter C. Schulz, president of Heraeus Amersil Inc in Duluth, Georgia. Dwight C. Streit, vice president for advanced semiconductors at TRW in Redondo Beach, California. Gerald B. Stringfellow, dean of the college of engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Felix J. Weinberg, professor emeritus of combustion physics at Imperial College, London. Marvin H. White, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University.© 2001 American Institute of Physics.