NEWS BRIEFS:
Bob Morgan "Retires":
Prof. Robert Morgan, who founded the Department of Technology and Human
Affairs at Washington University, St Louis, has retired from his
position and is moving permanently to Washington, DC where he will pursue
a variety of interests related to science, technology and public policy.
Princeton Workshop:
Science and engineering educators discussed new models for graduate
education and research at an NSF-sponsored workshop at Princeton last
winter. Presentations were made by faculty involved in Princeton's
new Ph.D.+ program, in which traditional graduate students in science
and engineering add courses and research in environmental policy as
well as by faculty from a number of other innovative programs around
the US. EPP Associate Head, Mitchell Small (CEE/EPP) described
the EPP undergraduate and graduate programs. Kathryn Jackson (EPP Ph.D.
1990), Catherine Peters (EPP Ph.D. 1992), and former EPP post-doc, Valerie
Thomas, were active participants in the meeting, providing a tangible
illustration of the value of a fundamental, yet flexible and interdisciplinary
graduate education. The workshop report is available on the web at http://www.princeton.edu/~cees/.
Diwekar Chairs Conference:
Urmila Diwekar (EPP/CEES) ran a topical conference entitled "Batch Process
Design and Operations," at the AIChE Spring National Meeting. The conference
dealt with all aspects of the design of batch processes, including retrofit,
trade-offs between design and operations, design under uncertainty,
industrial case studies, scheduling and planning, and new design methodologies.
Diwekar was recently elected as Director of the Computing and Systems
Technology (CAST) division of AIChE.
Bostrom Recognized:
Ann Bostrom, former EPP Post-doc now an Assistant Professor in the School
of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, received the 1997 Chauncey Starr Award
from the Society for Risk Analysis for her outstanding research in risk
perception and communication.
Siegel Joins IBM:
Stuart Siegel (EPP Ph.D. 1997) has left EPA to join the supply chain
optimization group at IBM's T.J. Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights,
NY. The group provides software solutions to optimize manufacturing
and distribution.
ECE Recognized:
Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(ECE) has received an Innovative Program Award from the National Electrical
Engineering Department Heads Association (NEEDHA) for its innovative
undergraduate curriculum which has had significant impacts on other
EE curricula across the US. This is only the second such award granted
in NEEDHA's 15-year history.
4th International Conference
on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Under the sponsorship
of seven Chinese professional societies, this conference will be held
in Shanghai, China in May of 1999. For information contact Mr.
Song Yun, ICRMS '99 secretariet, The Research Institute of Machinery
Science and Technology, 2 Shouti South Road, Beijing, China 100044.
Lachow in DC:
Irving Lachow (EPP Ph.D. 1994) is a recipient of the 1998-99 AAAS Defense
Policy Science and Engineering Fellowship beginning in August.
He will be working for the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Advanced
Technology.
Heinz Scholar:
Heather MacLean (EPP Doctoral Student) has received a Teresa Heinz Scholars
Award for Environmental Research to support her work on "Life Cycle
Models of Conventional and Alternative-Fueled Automobiles." |
|
Blumstein Elected to NAE:
Alfred Blumstein (Heinz/EPP) has been elected to the National Academy
of Engineering. Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban
Systems and Operation Research and Director of the National Consor-tium
on Violence Research. Other EPP faculty who are mem-bers of the
National Academies include Herb Toor and Robert White (NAE) and Lester
Lave and Baruch Fischhoff (IOM).
North Establishes NorthWorks:
D. Warner North, a long time principal at Decision Focus, a leading decision
analysis firm, has recently established a new firm called NorthWorks located
at 650 Castro Street, Suite 300, Mountain View, CA 94041.
Director Honored:
Former Carnegie Mellon Engineering Dean, Steve Director, received the
1998 IEEE Education Medal "for contributions to electrical engineering
education." Director is now Dean of Engineering at the University
of Michigan.
Jasanoff Joins Harvard:
Sheila Jasanoff, formerly Professor of the Department of Science and Technology
Studies at Cornell, has moved to the Kennedy School at Harvard.
Marberg Joins Harmon Industries:
Bill Marberg (EPP Ph.D. 1983) has recently been named Executive Vice President
for System Sales & Support of Harmon Industries, Inc., an international
company with strengths in audio and video.
Corbett Recognized:
Jim Corbett (EPP Doctoral Student) received the Outstanding Student Paper
Award at the 1997 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting for his paper
titled "Nitrogen and Sulfur Emissions from Oceangoing Ships."
Krug Presidential Scholar:
Bryon Krug (ECE/EPP BS 1998) has received an ACS Presidential Scholarship.
This is the fifth year in a row that EPP's nominee for the Andrew Carnegie
Scholar has gone in to receive a Presidential Scholarship.
Pinkston Receives Resnik
Award: Karen Pinkston (CEE/EPP BS 1998) is the recipient of
the 1998 Judith Resnik Award. She is the second EPP student so honored.
Previous Resnik winner, LeeAnne Sgro (MechE/EPP BS 1993) is now finishing
her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at UC-Berkeley.
Farrell Joins EPP:
Alex Farrell has completed a post-doc at Harvard and joined the Center
for the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change in EPP.
Married: Congratulations
to the following on their recent marriages: Natesan Mahasenan (EPP
doctoral student) and his wife Swathy; Elena Shevliakova (EPP Post-doc)
and her husband, Alexander Sokol; Margaret Taylor (EPP doctoral student)
and her husband, Angelo Del Priore; and Esther Lara (former EPP student)
and her husband Jonathan Luntz.
New Arrivals:
Congratulations to Eric Arnett (EPP Ph.D. 1988) and his wife Reyes Samanes
Ara, on the birth of their son, Marcos; Cindy Atman (EPP Ph.D. 1990) and
her husband Mike Meyer on the birth of their daughter, Tobyn Skye; to
Jean Camp (EPP Ph.D. 1996) and her husband Shawn McDermott on the birth
of their daughter, Amelia Ruth; to Mike DeKay (EPP/Heinz) and his wife
Judy Hartman on the birth of their daughter, McKencie; to Jun Long and
her husband Kelly Li on the birth of their son, Michael; to Spyros Pandis
(ChemE/EPP) and his wife Angeliki Papalou on the birth of their son, Nikos;
and to Kevin Sembrat (EE/EPP BS 1984) and his wife Heather on the birth
of their son, Spenser. |
