EXTERNAL
 Sarah
Bergbreiter (mechanical engineering [ME]/Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) has received
a 2008 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency. The award is given annually to "39 rising stars in university
microsystems research." The $150,000 award is designed to seek out ideas from non-tenured
faculty to identify the next generation of researchers working in microsystems technology.
Bergbreiter's research is titled, "Silicon/Elastomer Components for Autonomous Jumping
Microrobots."
 Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Associate
Professor Ichiro Takeuchi is among 100 of the nation's most outstanding young
engineers invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2008 U.S. Frontiers
of Engineering Symposium. Takeuchi was nominated to participate in the NAE Frontiers Symposium
by University of Maryland President C.D. (Dan) Mote and Clark School Interim Dean Herbert Rabin.
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
Rama Chellappa (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]/University of Maryland
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies/computer science) has received a 2008 Technical Achievement
Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. He was
recognized for "fundamental and pioneering contributions to face and human motion modeling and
recognition from still images and video sequences." Chellappa is the only person to have received
this recognition from both the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Chellappa also received the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2007 Meritorious Service Award.
Civil and environmental engineering (CEE)
professors Gregory B. Baecher and Bilal M. Ayyub were each awarded
the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service by the US
Army Corps of Engineers, to recognize their contributions to the Interagency Performance
Evaluation Task-force, which studied the New Orleans hurricane protection system in Katrina's aftermath.
Gerald Galloway (CEE),
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor and affiliate faculty member of
the Master of Engineering and Public Policy program, won the 2008 American Association of
Engineering Societies (AAES) Norm Augustine Award in recognition of his continuous work on
promoting national policy on floodplain and wetland management. The AAES Norm Augustine Award
is presented to engineers who demonstrate the capacity for communicating the excitement and
wonder of engineering. Galloway also was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) with the organization's 2008 Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Achievement
Award. The ASCE award recognizes how Galloway's lifetime achievements and contributions have
greatly enhanced the health, safety and economy of our nation and the world.
David Barbe, professor of
ECE and executive director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), won the Olympus
Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award. This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated
a sustained contribution throughout their careers to stimulating and inspiring innovative thinking
in students in their own universities and throughout academia.
Professor Michael Pecht,
George E. Dieter Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Life
Cycle Engineering (CALCE), was awarded the IEEE Reliability Society's Lifetime Achievement Award. This
recognition is the highest reliability honor awarded, given to Pecht for his major contributions to
the Reliability Society, reliability research and education, and to the reliability community as
a whole.
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Professor Art Johnson
(Fischell Department of Bioengineering [BIOE]) has received the Brahm and Sudha Verma Lifetime
Visionary Award from the Institute of Biological Engineering. The citation reads, in part, "Before
biological engineering was popular, [Johnson] worked to make people notice; when [it] needed to be
explained, he wrote about its philosophical foundations...when [it] was overlooked, he stubbornly
reminded others of its importance; when [it] needed an educational base, he created a curriculum...[and]
wrote original textbooks about the field. No one has worked more assiduously on behalf of the
biological engineering vision."
Professor Mohammad Modarres
(ME) was granted the 2008 International Research Leadership Award from the Society for Reliability
Engineering, Quality and Operations Management. Modarres was recognized for his exceptional and
pioneering research leadership in Probabilistic Risk Assessment. Modarres is the director of the Clark
School's Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program and a faculty member of the Reliability Engineering
program.
Prof. James Quintiere (fire
protection engineering [FPE]) has been selected for the 2008 Rabash Medal from the Board of Engineering
Councils Division of the Institution of Fire Engineers. The award is given to individuals for
outstanding contributions to the field.
Professor John Melngailis
(ECE) has been appointed a guest professor at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, as part of
the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. During his guest professorship, he will teach a course on
nanostructure fabrication, conduct a seminar, and collaborate on research related to ion beam -
solid interaction and on novel applications of the ion multi-beam system being developed at
IMS Inc.
Gregory Baecher (CEE), Glenn L.
Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, was appointed to the Planetary Protection Subcommittee of
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The committee assesses issues and risks of biological contamination
for planetary missions and for the launch and return of spacecraft in interplanetary missions.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Jim Milke (FPE) has been appointed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Board
of Directors to the association's Standards Council, a 13-member body charged with overseeing the NFPA
codes and standards-making process.
Professor Sandra Greer (chemical
and biomolecular engineering [ChBE], chemistry and biochemistry) has been appointed the new provost and
dean of the faculty at Mills College, an independent liberal arts college for women (with coeducational
graduate programs) located in Oakland, Calif.
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
has chosen Associate Professor Linda Schmidt (ME) to receive the 2008 ASEE Fred Merryfield
Design Award.
A paper authored by CALCE/ME researchers
Sony Mathew, Diganta Das, Michael Osterman, Professor
Michael Pecht (ME), Robin Ferebee (NASA), and Joseph
Clayton (BD Systems) has received the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology
2008 Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award for their paper "Virtual Remaining Life Assessment of
Electronic Hardware Subjected to Shock and Random Vibration Life Cycle Loads."
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UNIVERSITY
 Mechanical engineering (ME) Professor Ashwani K. Gupta has been
appointed Distinguished University Professor by the University of Maryland (UM). This title is the highest
academic honor the university bestows on members of the faculty and is reserved for a very
small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars.
 The UM Office of
Technology Commercialization awarded its Invention of the Year award for a Physical Science Invention
to ME professors Jaydev Desai and S. K. Gupta
(pictured left) along with University of Maryland School of Medicine professors Marc
Simard and
Rao Gullapalli. ME graduate students Nicholas Pappafotis and
Wojciech Bejgerowski were also recognized. The group's invention is a robot that can
assist surgeons operating on brain tumors. The Invention of the Year in the Life Sciences category went
to BIOE Professor Peter Kofinas and MSE graduate student Daniel Janiak. Their
invention is a molecularly imprinted polymer capable of filtering viruses from the blood.
Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) has
been appointed Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor. The four-year appointment recognizes his sustained
and influential scientific and scholarly work. The professorship will provide discretionary funds to
further support Ghodssi’s research and educational programs.
CEE Associate Professor Elise
Miller-Hooks is chair-elect of the University Senate. Miller-Hooks will become chair of the
senate during the 2009-2010 term, presiding over the Senate Executive Committee and the senate as a
whole. The chair also represents the UM faculty at meetings with legislators in Annapolis.
BIOE Assistant Professor Yu
Chen has received a Research Support Award from the university's General Research Board.
The award comes in the form of funding for research materials, equipment, and other expenses.
Professor Sandra Greer
(ChBE/chemistry/biochemistry) was named this year's recipient of the Clark School's Poole & Kent
Outstanding Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. Greer was honored for her advocacy for, and teaching of,
research ethics and professional ethics; for her teaching of chemistry to engineers; for her mentoring of
undergraduates in research; and for her commitment to improving the climate for female students.
Professor Rick McCuen (CEE) was named
this year's winner of the Clark School's Faculty Service Award. McCuen was recognized for his work with
the Clark School Honors Program, the Future Faculty Program, high school outreach, mentoring and his
previous service as associate dean for undergraduate studies.
ECE Assistant Professor Thomas E.
Murphy was presented with the junior faculty award at the Clark School commencement ceremony.
He was honored for his passion for education, versatility as an instructor and the supportive environment
he creates in the classroom.
The student members of Pi Tau Sigma, the ME honor
society at the University of Maryland, selected ME Associate Professor Hugh Bruck to
receive the Faculty Appreciation Award for Fall 2007. Bruck currently teaches ENME 382, "Engineering
Materials and Manufacturing Processes." Pi Tau Sigma members cited as factors in his selection Bruck’s
excellent teaching ability and the rigor with which he taught the material.
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KEYNOTES/CHAIRS
 Michael Pecht, George E. Dieter Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and director of CALCE, will be the keynote speaker at the 46th annual IEEE International Reliability
Physics Symposium. His address, "A New Approach to Qualification Testing," confronts the fact that over
the past 10 years there have been an increasingly large number of products that have passed qualification
tests, but failed in the field.
 Professor
Alison Flatau (AE) gave the plenary keynote lecture at the fourth international
conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics in Jeju, South Korea.
Professor K. J. Ray Liu
(ECE/ISR) delivered a keynote at the IEEE International Conference on Communications’ Workshop on
Cooperative Communications and Networking in Beijing, China. The title of the talk was “Toward A
New Communication Paradigm via Cooperation.”
Associate Professor David Akin
(AE) gave the keynote talk at the 2008 Orbital Space Robotics Workshop of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation in Pasadena, Calif.
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR)
delivered a plenary address at the 2007 European Control Conference. The title of Baras’s lecture was
“Security and Trust for Wireless Autonomic Networks: System and Control Methods.”
Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad
gave the Bode Lecture at the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. The lecture is part of the
honor Krishnaprasad received for winning the 2007 IEEE Control Systems Society Hendrik W. Bode Prize.
Krishnaprasad spoke on "Pursuit and Cohesion: in Nature and by Design."
For the second year in a row, Assistant
Professor John Cumings (MSE) delivered a presentation titled "Artificial Kagome
Spin Ice" at a meeting of the American Physical Society. The work was also published in Physical
Review B. The talk focused on the Cumings group's work on artificial spin ice, a meta-material
that mimics the behavior of ice, allowing scientists to study the mysteries of its crystalline
structure.
Professor Shuvra Bhattacharyya
(ECE) was elected the new chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society technical committee on Design and
Implementation of Signal Processing Systems. The purpose of the committee is to promote and support
activities of the Signal Processing Society in the areas of design, development and implementation of
signal processing systems.
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FELLOWS
 Professor Inderjit Chopra (AE)
was named an honorary fellow of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International. Honorary fellowships
are granted to society members whose career-based leadership and innovation have advanced significantly
the interests of the vertical flight community.
 Professor Norman Wereley (AE)
has been named a technical fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This honor
recognizes his many contributions to the field of smart structures with a special emphasis on his
research related to smart fluids.
ME Professor Ashwani K. Gupta
has been elevated by SAE International to SAE Fellow status, the highest grade of membership bestowed
by the organization, in recognition of outstanding engineering and scientific accomplishments by an
individual that have resulted in meaningful advances in automotive, aerospace, and commercial-vehicle
technology.
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EDITORS/BOOKS
 ME Associate Professor Jaydev
Desai was approved as associate editor for the ASME Journal of Medical Devices.
 Assistant Professor Nuno Martins
(ECE/ISR) has been appointed to the editorial board of Systems & Control Letters, one of the leading
journals in the field of systems and control.
Associate Professor Donald Yeung
(ECE) has been appointed associate editor of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on
Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO). The ACM TACO is a journal focusing on hardware, software, and
system research spanning the fields of computer architecture and code optimization.
Associate Professor Reza Ghodssi
(ECE/ISR) has been named as an associate editor for Biomedical Microdevices, the first journal to focus
on biomedical applications of micro- and nanotechnology.
A new edition of Theory and Design of Charged
Particle Beams, authored by Professor Martin Reiser (ECE) and published by Wiley-VCH
has been released. The updated edition covers experiments, theory, and simulation in beam physics
research since 1993, when the first edition was published. The book also includes information about
the University of Maryland Electron Ring, which is being used to study space-charge dominated beams
in rings and re-circulators.
Professor K. J. Ray Liu
(ECE/ISR) has co-authored a new book titled Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks, published by
Cambridge University Press. Liu's co-author is a former student and alumnus, Zhu Han (M.S. '99 and
Ph.D. '03, electrical engineering), who is now assistant professor of electrical engineering at
Boise State University.
A new edition has been released of Communication
System Design Using DSP Algorithms, authored by ECE Professor and alumnus Steve
Tretter (B.S. ’62). The book, designed for senior electrical engineering students, focuses on
communication systems and explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing (DSP)
by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware. Tretter retired this spring.
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 Professor Christopher Davis
(ECE/ISR) and ECE Research Scientist Igor Smolyaninov were featured in DISCOVER magazine's top 100
science stories of 2007 for their innovative superlens microscope technology. The team developed a
powerful superlens using advanced applications of plasmon technology to help reveal fine, nano-scale
details that were previously undetectable. The lens can be used to see objects on the scale of small
viruses. The research was published in Science and Physical Review Letters, and has received attention
from many science and technology publications.
 Gerry Galloway (CEE), Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor and
affiliate faculty member of the Master of Engineering and Public Policy program, and CEE Senior Fellow
Lewis "Ed" Link Jr. were interviewed extensively by the media regarding a study they participated in
regarding flooding risk in California. Galloway also contributed to an article in Science magazine about
reclaiming old infrastructure sites for ecological restoration.
Media nationwide continue to feature a virtual-reality
"serious game" developed by the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory and its director,
Michael Pack (CEE), to train emergency responders to work together more efficiently.
Washington D.C.'s newstation, WUSA 9, featured
AE Assistant Professor Ray Sedwick on the recent segment "Can Spy Satellites Be Blasted
From the Sky?" Sedwick was also interviewed by a Baltimore television station and the Baltimore Sun regarding
U.S. plans to shoot down one of its satellites.
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