National Awards and Honors

Our faculty are not only well-known among their campus colleagues and students for the quality of their research and teaching, they also have received national recognition from the following organizations:

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Jim Wallace (left), mechanical engineering (ME), 2005 Professor of the Year for the State of Maryland


National Academy of Engineering Founders Award Winners
C.D. Mote, Jr., ME (university president; left)
John W. Morris, civil and environmental engineering (CEE)

Induction into the National Academy of Engineering

Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Members Who Are NAE Members:
• Gregory Baecher, CEE (left)
• Jacques Gansler, CEE
• C.D. Mote, Jr., ME
• Katepallie Sreenivasan, ME

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members Who Are NAE Members:
• Arthur E. Bergles, ME
• Mel Bernstein, materials science and
   engineering (MSE)
• Howard Baum, fire protection engineering (FPE)
• James Dally, ME
• Robert Deutsch, Fischell Department of
  Bioengineering (BIOE)
• George Dieter, ME
• Millard S. Firebaugh, ME
• Robert Fischell, ME
• Gerald Galloway, CEE
• Eugenia Kalnay, CEE and meteorology
• Jeong Kim, ECE
• Lyle Schwartz, MSE

Retired or Deceased NAE Members
• Howard Frank, electrical and computer
   engineering (ECE), retired
• George Irwin (1907-1998), ME, deceased

National Science Foundation Faculty Young Investigator/Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards
Pamela Abshire (left), ECE and Institute for Systems Research (ISR)
Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Bioengineering (BioE)
Ella Atkins, (AE)†
Ilias Balaras, ME
Rajeev Barua, ECE and ISR
Jennifer Becker, biological resources engineering
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, ECE
Steven G. Buckley, ME
Michel Cukier, ME and ISR
Jaydev Desai, ME
Donald Devoe, ME
Sheryl Ehrman, chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE)
John Fisher, ChBE
Alison Flatau, AE
Manoj Franklin, ECE
Reza Ghodssi, ECE and ISR
Romel Gomez, ECE
Adam Hsieh, BioE
Jeffrey Hollingsworth*
Peter Keleher, ECE**
Satyandra Kumar Gupta, ME and ISR
Timothy Horiuchi, ECE and ISR
Bruce Jacob, ECE
Richard La, ECE and ISR
K. J. Ray Liu, ECE
Andre Marshall, AE and FPE
Nuno Martins, ECE and ISR
Thomas E. Murphy, ECE
Babis Papadopoulos, ECE**
Darryll J. Pines, AE
Linda Schmidt, ME
Ray Sedwick, AE
Benjamin Shapiro, AE and ISR
Elisabeth Smela, ME
Santiago Solares, ME
David B. Stewart, ECE**
V. S. Subrahamanian, ISR
Ichiro Takeuchi, MSE
Leandros Tassiulas, ECE**
Sennur Ulukus, ECE and ISR
Edo Waks, ECE
Norman M. Wereley, AE
Min Wu, ECE and UMIACS
Donald Yeung, ECE
Miao Yu, ME

*CMPS faculty affiliated with ECE
**no longer affiliated with ECE
†no longer affiliated with UMCP

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Don Devoe, ME (left)
Satyandra Kumar Gupta, ME and ISR
Andre Marshall, AE and FPE
Elisabeth Smela, ME
Bruce Yu, Bioengineering/Pharmacy