EXTERNAL
 Assistant Professor Derek Paley (aerospace engineering [AE]/Institute for Systems Research [ISR] affiliate, pictured left) and Associate Professor Peter Sunderland (fire protection engineering [FPE], pictured right) have each won National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career (CAREER) Awards. Paley was recognized for work that
will study information transmission in biological groups (like schools of fish) and apply the same principles to design motion coordination strategies for autonomous vehicles. Sunderland won for work to study soot oxidation in the hopes of reducing environmental soot pollution, which has been shown to cause respiratory illnesses and cancer, in addition to contributing to climate change.
 Senior Research Professor Ed Link (civil and environmental engineering [CEE]) received the U.S. Army Engineer Association and Regiment's Gold de Fleury Medal. The U.S. Army Chief of Engineers awards one gold medal each year to an individual who exemplifies boldness, courage and commitment to a strong national defense.
Two materials science and engineering (MSE) faculty members, Professor Gottleib Oehrlein and Professor Emeritus Richard J. Arsenault, are recognized as being among the 250 most highly cited authors in their discipline over the past three decades by Thomson Reuters' ISIHighlyCited.com web site. According to the site, these authors represent the researchers "who have contributed to the progress of science through their insight and accomplishments."
A. James Clark Endowed Chair Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management Miroslaw Skibniewski (CEE) will become the founding dean of engineering at Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research August 1. Skibniewski also was awarded an honorary doctorate by Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitatetas in Lithuania.
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]/University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies [UMIACS]/computer science [CS]) received the highest award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society, known as the Society Award. He was recognized for pioneering and fundamental contributions to image and video-based analysis and understanding.
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Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher K. J. Ray Liu (ECE) received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for pioneering and outstanding contributions for the advances of signal processing in multimedia forensics, security and wireless communications.
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) Director and Professor Michael Pecht (mechanical engineering [ME]) received the 2010 Exceptional Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society for his more than 20 years of contributions to the area of electronics reliability, which includes his development of the field of prognostics for electronics. In addition, CALCE received the 2009 Systems Engineering Excellence Group Award from the National Defense Industrial Association.
Yunho Hwang, ME research associate professor and associate director of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, received the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Distinguished Service Award for 2010.
The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, affiliate CEE professor, professor at UM's School of Public Policy and former high-level Pentagon official, has been appointed to serve on a key Department of Defense advisory board focusing on research and development strategies for the 21st century.
CEE Research Professor Gerry Galloway (a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering) has been named an Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas Senior Fellow by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Galloway also was selected to serve on the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies.
Professor Gregory Baecher (CEE) was appointed a member of a National Academies committee that will review the new "Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies," the U.S. government's overriding policy instrument for evaluating water resources projects.
Ashwani Gupta, Distinguished University Professor, has been re-appointed to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Board of Directors as the director of the Technical Propulsion and Energy Group.
Professor Rama Chellappa (ECE/UMIACS/CS) was selected to receive the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer alumni award from Purdue University.
A research paper by ISR-affiliated Professor Ben Shneiderman (CS/UMIACS) and colleagues was named one of the top search marketing and social media research projects of 2009 by wordstream.com, a search engine marketing company.
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INTERNAL
 The UM Office of Technology Commercialization named two projects by Clark School professors as 2009's top UM inventions. Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR) and research graduate assistant Srikanth Vishnubhotla were recognized for "Multi-Pitch Tracking in Adverse Environments." Professors Gary Rubloff (materials science and engineering, Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland Energy Research Center and ISR) and Sang Bok Lee (chemistry), research assistant Parag Banerjee and others were recognized for "Nano Arrays for Energy Storage."
 Professor Cynthia Moss (psychology/ISR) won a 2010 Regents' Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities. Regents' Faculty Awards are given out through the University System of Maryland’s Office of Academic Affairs and publicly recognize distinguished performance on the part of faculty members.
Associate Professor Thomas Murphy (ECE and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics) received the inaugural Clark School Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award.
Adrian Papamarcou (ECE) received the Clark School's Poole & Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty for his course and curriculum development efforts.
Min Wu (ECE/ISR affiliate) won the Clark School's E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty for creativity in developing course materials and mentoring.
Norman Wereley (AE) received the Clark School's Faculty Service Award for his work to advise and mentor Clark School students.
CEE Chair and Professor Ali Haghani has been named director of the Center for Integrated Transportation Systems Management.
David Lovell, CEE and ISR associate professor, will be the new faculty advisor of the Clark School's chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
FELLOWS
 Professor Michael G. Pecht (ME/CALCE)has been elected
Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named ISR-affiliated Assistant Professor
Patrick Kanold (biology) a 2010-2011 Sloan Research Fellow. He is the only
person in the state of Maryland to be so honored this year.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
 Professor Mirosław J. Skibniewski (CEE) delivered the keynote address at
the PM-05 Project Management Conference. His talk was titled "Risk Identification and Mitigation in
Installing ERP Systems in Project-based Enterprises."
 Professor Gregory Baecher (CEE), of the department’s Center for Excellence in Project Management, delivered a plenary lecture to the SUNY Buffalo Seminar on Reliability and Risk Analysis in Civil Engineering. His lecture was titled "Tolerable Risk for Flood and Coastal Protection."
Professor Mohamad Al-Sheikhly (MSE) was a keynote speaker at the 11th Pacific Polymer Conference, held in conjunction with the 31st Australasian Polymer Symposium.
An ECE faculty member and an ECE alumnus were the two featured speakers at the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Cynthia Kim Professor of Information Technology Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) gave one of the two plenary talks. The title of his talk was "Simply Cooperative." The other plenary talk was given by alumnus Rajiv Laroia (M.S. '89 and Ph.D. '92, electrical engineering), senior vice president for engineering at Qualcomm, a member of the ECE Advisory Board and the Clark School Board of Visitors and a Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame inductee. Laroia's talk was titled "Proximate Internet."
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) also gave a series of four lectures as Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society. During his lecture tour, he spoke at Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), University of Adelaide (Adelaide, South Australia), University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) and Canterbury University (Christchurch, New Zealand). His lectures were on the subject of cooperative wireless networking.
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR) gave an invited plenary presentation to the National Science Foundation’s annual Engineering Research Center meeting on the history, current status and future of ISR. He also participated in an invited presentation and discussion panel, organized and sponsored by MathWorks, with the theme "Designing Better Control Systems with Computational Models." The panel was held in Shanghai, China, as part of the joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and of the 28th Chinese Control Conference. Baras’s presentation was titled "COMPonent-based Architecture and System Synthesis (COMPASS)." Baras also gave a distinguished lecture, “Trust and Reputation in Networked Systems: Social, Information, Communication, Control,” at the University of California, Irvine.
ISR Director Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) chaired the 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2009) conference, which was held at the Clark School.
Fischell Distinguished Professor and Chair William Bentley, Associate Professor Keith Herold and Adjunct Professor Jafar Vossoughi (all of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering) co-chaired the 2010 Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, which was held at the Clark School.
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BOOKS/EDITORS
 James Hubbard, Jr., Langley Distinguished Professor of the Department of Aerospace
Engineering, has published a new book titled Spatial Filtering for the Control of Smart Structures.
 Prof. Shuvra Bhattacharyya is the co-author of Embedded Multiprocessors: Scheduling and Synchronization, a second-edition book recently published by CRC Press. The book was co-authored by Sundararajan Sriram of Texas Instruments.
ECE Professor K. J. Ray Liu is the co-author of a new book titled Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks (Wiley). The book is co-authored by Simon Haykin, a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
ISR Director Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) is one of three guest editors of the “Special Proceeding” March 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. The issue focuses on energy harvesting from ambient energy resources.
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
The Wall Street Journal, CNN and other media outlets relied on the expertise of Michael Pecht (ME and CALCE) in the wake of the Toyota recalls.
 AE Chair Mark Lewis was quoted by New Scientist, The Los Angeles Times and Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine about various defense and aerospace initiatives.
AE Assistant Professor Derek Paley's work on synchronized submarines was covered by Washington, D.C., and Baltimore-area news stations.
Phil Tarnoff, now-retired director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology, was featured on CNN and a local Washington, D.C., television station regarding traffic congestion. In addition, the Associated Press and Hampton Roads, Va., media outlets quoted him extensively regarding the area's I-64 Bridge-Tunnel.
The Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun, among others, covered the efforts of ChBE Assistant Professor Ganesh Sriram and his colleagues to grow poplar trees for biofuel.
A number of Keystone Professors were interviewed, along with their students, when a local FOX affiliate broadcast its morning news show live from the Clark School's spring hovercraft competition, a culmination of the ENES100 course that all freshmen must take and that is taught by Keystone professors.
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