New members, associates are elected to NAE

Honoring contributions to engineering research and new technology, the National Academy of Engineering has elected 64 new members and 9 foreign associates, bringing its total US membership to 2217 and its foreign associates to 188. The new members and associates will be inducted this October during the academy’s 42nd annual meeting in Washington, DC. Of the new members, 24 are involved in physicsrelated work:

Asad Ali Abidi, professor in the electrical engineering department at UCLA

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, dean of engineering at the University of California, Irvine

Peter Michael Asbeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego

William R. Brody, president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

Edwin A. Chandross, consultant at Materials Chemistry LLC in Murray Hill, New Jersey

Stephen Y. Chou, Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering and an electrical engineering professor at Princeton University

Harold Gene Craighead, Charles W. Lake Jr Professor of Engineering at Cornell University

John J. Dorning, Whitney Stone Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, professor of engineering physics, and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Robert M. Gray, Lucent Technologies Professor in Communications and Networking at Stanford University

Karl A. Gschneidner Jr, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in the department of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University in Ames

Paul M. Horn, senior vice president of research at IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York

Larry J. Hornbeck, TI Fellow, Texas Instruments Inc in Plano, Texas

Stuart Dodge Jessup, senior research scientist in the Carderock division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in West Bethesda, Maryland

Timothy Laurence Killeen, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado

Stelios K. Kyriakides, Temple Foundation Endowed Professor in the department of aerospacscodee engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin

David B. Marshall, principal scientist at Rockwell Scientific Co in Thousand Oaks, California

Robin K. McGuire, president and principal of Risk Engineering Inc in Boulder, Colorado

John W. Morris Jr, professor of metallurgy, materials science, and mineral engineering at UC Berkeley

Lloyd N. Trefethen, professor of numerical analysis at Oxford University

James J. Truchard, president, chief executive officer, and founder of National Instruments Corp in Austin, Texas

Anil V. Virkar, professor of materials science and engineering and chair of the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City

David A. Whelan, vice president, general manager, and deputy president of Boeing Phantom Works, Boeing Co, in Seal Beach, California

James Clair Wyant, dean of the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson

Charles F. Zukoski, William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor and vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Below are the newly elected foreign associates involved in physics:

Timothy Berners-Lee, senior research scientist at MIT

Joachim Heinzl, president of Bayerische Forschungsstiftung at the Technical University of Munich in Germany

Kenichi Iga, executive director of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Tokyo

Joseph (Yosi) Kost, professor in the chemical engineering department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel

Arnold Migus, general director of CNRS in Paris

Xi Yao, professor and dean in the School of Electronic and Informatic Engineering at Jiaotong University in China.