NAE Names New Inductees

Seventy-four new members and ten foreign associates were inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in October, which brings the organization’s total US membership to 2195 and the number of its foreign associates to 178. Of the new inductees, 35 are involved in physics-related work:

Ilan Asriel Blech, technical officer at Oraxion Inc in Pasadena, California, and retired president of Flexus Corp in Los Altos, California

John Edward Bowers, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Chau-Chyun Chen, technology fellow at Aspen Technology Inc in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joseph M. DeSimone, William R. Kenan Jr Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Dominic M. Di Toro, Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark

Gerald G. Fuller, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University

George Georgiou, Joan and Keys Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

Steven A. Goldstein, Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Or-thopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Carol K. Hall, Alcoa Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Allan S. Hoffman, professor of bioengineering and adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle

Roger T. Howe, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in the department of mechanical engineering, and director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center at the University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth A. Jackson, professor emeritus of materials science at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Lawrence L. Kazmerski, director of the National Center for Photo-voltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado

David A. Landgrebe, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University

James O. Leckie, C. L. Peck Class of 1906 Professor of Environmental Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences, director of the Environmental Engineering Laboratory, and codirector of the Singapore Stanford Partnership at Stanford University

Marc D. Levenson, editor in chief of Microlithography World, contributing editor for Solid State Technology and Wafer News, and a consultant in Saratoga, California

Frances S. Ligler, senior scientist for biosensors and biomaterials at the Naval Research Laboratory

Subhash Mahajan, chair of the department of chemical and materials engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe

Arunava Majumdar, Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley

Robert M. McMeeking, professor of mechanical and environmental engineering and materials at UCSB

Andrew J. Ouderkirk, corporate scientist with 3M Film and Light Management in St. Paul, Minnesota

Tresa M. Pollock, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Howard B. Rosen, vice president of commercial strategy at Gilead Sciences Inc in Foster City, California

Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein, professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego

Roger R. Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer with IBM Corp in Pough-keepsie, New York

Subhash C. Singhal, Battelle Fellow and director of fuel cell research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington

Spencer R. Titley, professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson

Jeffrey Wadsworth, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University

Thomas Leslie Youd, professor emeritus at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

The following newly elected foreign associates are physicists or work in physics-related areas:

Genevieve M. Comte-Bellot, professor emeritus at École Centrale de Lyon in Ecully, France

Rik Willem Jan Huiskes, professor of biomedical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Ora Kedem, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel

Nikolay P. Laverov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow

Raymond E. Smallman, professor emeritus of metallurgy and materials at the University of Birmingham in the UK.