National academy of engineering names new inductees

The election of 76 new members and 9 foreign associates to the National Academy of Engineering brings the organization’s total US membership to 2216 and its foreign associates to 186. Of the new members and associates, who will be inducted during the academy’s 41st annual meeting in Washington, DC, this October, 20 are involved in physics-related work:

Ilesanmi Adesida, interim dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Cristina H. Amon, Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ray and Maria Stata Chair of Electrical Engineering at MIT

Mark A. Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Professor and chair of the department of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark

Samuel Wright Bodman, secretary of the US Department of Energy

William J. Boettinger, research fellow at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Gary Harold Glover, professor of radiology and director of the Radiological Sciences Laboratory of Stanford University in Stanford, California

Michael D. Griffin, administrator of NASA

George M. Homsy, professor of mechanical and chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Frederick Jelinek, Julian Sinclair Smith Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

Thomas L. Koch, Daniel E. ′39 and Patricia Smith Chair and director of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

James C. M. Li, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

Hans Thomas Rossby, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett

William S. Saric, professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station

Ricardo B. Schwarz, fellow in the materials science and technology division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Ching Wan Tang, distinguished research fellow at Eastman Kodak Co in Rochester, New York

Vaclav Vitek, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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

Jörg Imberger, professor of environmental engineering and chair of the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia in Nederlands, Australia

Markus V. Pessa, professor and research director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland

Anthony P. F. Turner, head of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, UK.