EXTERNAL
 Three Clark School faculty members received National Science Foundation
Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Awards: Assistant Professor Lei Zhang
(civil and environmental engineering [CEE]) won for “Reliability as an Emergent Property
of Transportation Networks”; materials science and engineering (MSE) assistant professor
Oded Rabin won for “Plasmonics with a Twist - Chiral Nanostructures for
Advanced Spectroscopy”;
and Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) assistant professor Ian White won for
“Paper-Based Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (P-SERS) for Biosensing Using
Inkjet-Fabricated Devices.”
 Mechanical engineering (ME) professor Santiago Solares was
selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2012 Early Career Award for his research
project “Trimodal Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy: Simultaneous 4D Mapping of
Conservative and Dissipative Probe-Sample Interactions of Energy-Relevant Materials.”
 Aerospace engineering (AE)
assistant professor Anya Jones received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Young Investigator Award for her proposal “Lift Production on Flapping and Rotary Wings
at Low Reynolds Numbers.”
Assistant Professor Lei Zhang (CEE) is the 2012 recipient of the Fred Burggraf Award from the Transportation Research Board
under the National Academy of Sciences. Zhang also received the Best Overall Paper Award at
the 2011 World Symposium on Transportation and Land Use Research for “How Built Environment
Affects Travel Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of the Connections between Land Use and
Vehicle Miles Traveled in U.S. Cities.”
University of Maryland Energy Research
Center (UMERC) director Eric Wachsman (joint, MSE and chemical & biomolecular engineering
[ChBE]) has received the Electrochemical Society High Temperature Division’s 2012 Outstanding
Achievement Award.
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The Automatic Fire Alarm Association’s
(AFAA) Board of Directors selected Professor and Chair James A. Milke (fire protection engineering [FPE])
as the AFAA Person of the Year for 2011 in recognition of his research on smoke detectors
and sprinklers.
David Lovell, Clark School associate
professor of CEE and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and advisor to UMD’s Engineers
Without Borders chapter, was named the 2012 recipient of the “Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Advisor
Award for Outstanding Leadership” by Engineers Without Borders USA.
MSE associate professor
Luz Martinez-Miranda was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the William Fulbright
Foreign Scholarship Board, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
Professor Gregory Baecher (CEE)
received a National Award for Significant Contributions in Science and Technology from the
National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama. Baecher also was appointed
to the new Scientific and Engineering Advisory Council of the Water Institute of the Gulf.
Professor P. S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR)
has been awarded the 2012 Baetjer Colloquium Lectureship of Princeton University’s Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Department.
Distinguished University Professor
Emeritus Jan Sengers (ChBE) chaired a standards task force of the New International
Formulation of Thermal Conductivity of Water and Steam.
MSE professor Aris Christou was
selected to serve on a panel of experts in condensed matter physics under the new European
Union-funded Aristeia Research Program managed by the National Council for Research and
Technology in Greece.
ME associate professor Yunho Hwang,
associate director of the Clark School’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, was
appointed chair of the International Institute of Refrigeration Working Party on Life Cycle
Climate Performance Evaluation.
Distinguished University Professor
Avram Bar-Cohen (ME) was elected to the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Society Board of Governors.
FPE associate professors Peter Sunderland and Arnaud Trouvé were appointed to the Combustion Institute’s U.S. Eastern States Section Executive Board.
Mark Lewis, professor and former chair of the Clark School’s Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), was selected to become the new director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute at the Institute of Defense Analyses. Norman Wereley replaced Lewis as chair of the department.
Professor Min Wu (ECE and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies) and Associate Dean and Professor Alison Flatau (AE) participated in the National Academies' Presidents' Circle 2012 Annual Meeting. Only a few dozen guests participated in the event.
Associate Professor Jonathan Simon (ECE/biology/ISR) was selected to attend the 10th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference. Participants were selected through a competitive application process.
The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab), led by Michael Pack (CEE), was recognized with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America Smart Solution Regional Award.
Professor Pamela Abshire (ECE/ISR) was recently named to a “Best Kept Secrets: 5 of D.C. Tech’s Most Brilliant Women” list by the website InTheCapital.
Experts in soft condensed matter systems from around the world met at the International Symposium on Mesoscale and Fluctuation Dynamics, held in honor of the 70th birthday of their friend and colleague, ChBE and Institute for Physical Science and Technology professor Mikhail A. Anisimov.
ISR Professor of the Practice Marvin Sambur was selected as the 2012 recipient of the City College of New York’s Career Achievement Award.
Professor S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR), his postdoctoral researcher and former Ph.D. student Atul Thakur (Ph.D. ’11), and his former Ph.D. student Ashis Banerjee (M.S. ’06 and Ph.D. ’09) won the Elsevier 2012 Most Cited Paper Award for “A survey of CAD model simplification techniques for physics-based simulation applications,” which was published in Computer-Aided Design.
Norman M. Wereley, Techno-Sciences Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Chair, along with Benjamin K.S. Woods (B.S. ’05, M.S. ’07 and Ph.D.’12, AE) and Curt Kothera (Techno-Sciences Inc.) won the 2012 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Best Paper Award in Structural Dynamics and Control for “Wind Tunnel Testing of a Helicopter Rotor Trailing Edge Flap Actuated via Pneumatic Artificial Muscles.”
BioE assistant professor Ian White (affiliate, ISR), received the 2012 Best Paper Award from the journal Sensors. The winning article, “Aptamer Based Microsphere Biosensor for Thrombin Detection,” was co-authored by Hongying Zhu, Jonathan D. Suter and Xudong Fan.
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INTERNAL
 ME associate professor Kenneth Kiger received the 2012 Regents Faculty
Award for Teaching from the University System of Maryland Board of Regents.
 Cynthia Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology
Anthony Ephremides (electrical and computer engineering [ECE] and ISR) was named a
Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He was recognized for
founding the field of ad hoc wireless networks, and as a leading international scholar
in communication.
 Professor Carol Espy-Wilson
(ECE/ISR) and Professor and Chair Rob Briber (MSE, pictured) are two of this year’s University
of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher honorees.
Clark School BioE professors
Benjamin Shapiro (joint, ISR) and Ian White have
received two of the University of Maryland
Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation’s four inaugural Innovation Awards.
Shapiro received his award for a proposal titled “FDA Safety and Performance Assessment
of Emerging Autonomous Neonatal Ventilators by State-of-the-Art Robust Analysis Methods.”
White received his award for a proposal titled “Collaborative Evaluation of Emerging
Plasmonic Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Low-resource Settings.”
Professor Christopher Davis
(ECE) received the Clark School’s 2012 Poole and Kent Senior Teaching Award for Senior
Faculty.
FELLOWS
 Clark School AE faculty members Norman Wereley
and James Hubbard have been named fellows of the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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KEYNOTES / CHAIRS
 Michael Pecht, George E. Dieter Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, delivered two keynote
addresses: “Battery Management Systems—The Key Challenge to the Electric Vehicle” at the
2nd International Conference on Electric Information and Control Engineering and
“Battery Health and Safety Management” at the 2012 Prognostics and Health Management
Solutions Conference.
 Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR) gave the keynote address at a
University of Michigan event honoring the life and legacy of Willie Hobbs Moore, the first
African American woman to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering
from the University of Michigan, and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in
physics at any institution.
 Professor Miroslaw Skibniewski is chair of
the International Scientific Committee of the Creative Construction
Congress 2012. He gave the first keynote address of the event—“Creativity in Construction:
A Look at the Past and a Peak into the Future.”
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Herrmann (ME/ISR) co-chaired the 2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Conference.
Professor Rami Kishek of the Institute for Research in Electronics and
Applied Physics chaired the 4th Microbunching Instability Workshop. The workshop
addressed a key phenomenon that affects fourth-generation light sources and can potentially
limit their intensity.
C.D. Mote, Jr., Regents Professor, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
in ME and former UMD president, recently coordinated and hosted a regional meeting of the
National Academy of Engineering titled “Government-University-Industry Partnerships in
Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” The meeting was held on the UMD campus.
ISR Director Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) chaired the organizing committee for the
National Science Foundation Workshop on Micro, Nano, Biosystems.
Professor Agis Iliadis (ECE) served as the co-chair of the International Semiconductor
Device Research Symposium.
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AUTHORS / EDITORS
 Associate Professor Ben Shapiro (BioE/ISR) co-edited and
contributed to Feedback Control of MEMS to Atoms, a book designed to introduce scientists
who specialize in the design of micro- and nanoscale devices to control theory, and to
familiarize control systems researchers with micro- and nanoscale applications.
 Professor A. Yavuz Oruç (ECE) has published a new book, titled
“Handbook of Scientific Proposal Writing.”
Michael Pecht (ME) has been named the chief editor of
the Society for Reliability and Safety’s Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety
Engineering.
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MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 UMERC director Eric Wachsman was featured by The New York Times,
MIT’s Technology Review, Scientific American, local radio and other media outlets regarding
fuel cells and better national energy research strategies.
CNN and The Huffington Post turned to CALCE Director Michael Pecht regarding Toyota’s continuing engineering troubles.
 Keystone Program instructor Kevin Calabro was
interviewed by The Washington Post and other media outlets regarding
better methods of teaching engineering to young students.
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