Noteworthy Awards and Appointments

Luis Amaral

Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jose Andrade

2008 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

Zdenek Bazant

Outstanding Contributions Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
Nadai Medal, ASME
Exner Medal, ASME

Linda Broadbelt

2008 Mentorship Excellence Award, AIChE Women’s Initiative Committee

Fabian Bustamante

E.T.S. Walton Award, The Science Foundation of Ireland
Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery

Jian Cao

Chair, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division

Isaac Daniel

Best Paper Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics

Horacio Espinosa

Board of directors, Society of Engineering Science

Morris Fine

TMS 2009 Application to Practice Award

Richard Finno

2009 Karl Terzaghi Award, Geo-Institute Board of Governors

Emmanuel Gdoutos

Award of Merit, European Structural Integrity Society
Lazan and Theocaris Awards, Society for Experimental Mechanics

Abraham Haddad

IFAC Fellow Award, IFAC 17th World Congress

Mitra Hartmann

2008 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

Walter Herbst

Gold Medal Award, 2008 Industrial Design Excellence Awards

Invited to the World Intellectual Propery Organization of the United Nations

Dean Ho

Early Career Award for Translational Research, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
John G. Bollinger Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
2008 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, UCLA School of Engineering

Leon Keer

2008 Mayo D. Hersey Award

Prem Kumar

Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Photonics Society

Lincoln Lauhon

Kavli Fellow, Kavli Foundation

Paul Leonardi

Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication and Informations Systems division of the Academy of Management

Outstanding Published Paper Award, Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association

Tobin Marks

2009 Herman Pines Award, Chicago Catalysis Society
2008 Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific Research

Phil Messersmith

Langmuir Lecture Award, American Chemical Society,
Division of Colloids and Surface Chemistry

Chad Mirkin

2008 Distinguished Achievement Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
Esselen Award for Chemistry, American Chemical Society
2009 Havinga Medal, University Leiden in the Netherlands
2009 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award

National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow

Joseph Moskal

Fran A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award, American Psychological Association

Teri Odom

2009 Young Investigator Award, Materials Research Society

Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Vice chair, Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academies

Julio M. Ottino

“One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2008 Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society

Aaron Packman

Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

Surendra Shah

Honorary professor, University of L’Aquilla in Italy

Karen Smilowitz

NAE Workshop on Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development

Sam Stupp

Honorary doctorate, Eindhoven University of Technology
2009 Israel Pollack Distinguished Lecture Series Award,
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Allen Taflove

Excellence in Teaching Award, Northwestern Alumni Association

Jeff Thomas

Brunauer Award for best paper published by the American Ceramic Society in area of cements, Materials Science and Technology Conference

Jane Wang

1st Class Science-Technology Award of University Research for collaborative research on methods for thermal-elasto-plastic contact modeling considering surface features

Hai Zhou

Technical Leadership Award, ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation)

National Academy for the Arts

Larry Booth

National Academy of Engineering

Chad Mirkin

Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship

Harold Kung

NSF CAREER Award Winners

Dean Ho

Jason Hartline

Advisory and Editorial Positions

Dan Apley

Editor in chief, Journal of Quality Technology

Jian Cao

Board of directors, Society of Manufacturing Engineers North American Manufacturing Research Institute

Horacio Espinosa

Co-editor, Wiley book series in micro and nano technologies
Board of directors, Society of Engineering Science

Ken Forbus

Governing board, Cognitive Science Society

Dean Ho

Editor in chief, Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation

Don Norman

Advisory committee, NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
2008 Motorola Visionary Board

Thrasos Pappas

Editor in chief, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Fellows of Societies

Jan Achenbach

Member-at-large, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

Guillermo Ameer

Elected to College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Zdenek Bazant

Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Foreign corresponding member, Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering

Wei Chen

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering

Isaac Daniel

Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Member, European Academy of Sciences

Horacio Espinosa

Fellow, Society for Experimental Mechanics

Emmanuel Gdoutos

Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens
Member, Academia Europaea
Member, Academy of Sciences
Member, Scientific Committee of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering of the European Academy of Sciences
Fellow, European Structural Integrity Society

Abraham Haddad

Fellow, Internation Federation of Automatic Control

Aggelos Katsaggelos

Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering

Prem Kumar

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Rich Lueptow

Fellow, American Physical Society

Tobin Marks

Honorary fellow, Chemical Research Society of India
Fellow, Materials Research Society

Amanda Petford-Long

Fellow, American Physical Society

John Rudnicki

Fellow, American Society of Chemical Engineering
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Peter Scheuermann

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Surendra Shah

Member, Indian National Academy of Engineering

Selim Shahriar

Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering

Sam Stupp

Fellow, Materials Research Society
Honorary membership, Israel Chemical Society

Endowed and Keynote Lectures

Luis Amaral

Keynote address, Networks & Neuroscience Symposium

Zdenek Bazant

Plenary lecture, CONCREEP-8
Semi-plenary lecture, 8th World Congress of Computational Mechanics

Yan Chen

Distinguished lecturer, Intelligent Automation, Inc.

Ed Colgate

Plenary talk, International Symposium on Robotics 2009
Keynote speech, ASME Asia-Pacific Engineering Education Congress

Horacio Espinosa

Plenary lecture, International Conference on Experimental Mechanics in Greece

Ken Forbus

Keynote speech, Australasian Interactive Entertainment 2008 conference

Dean Ho

Plenary lecture, 34th Conference of the Fullerene and Nanotube Research Society Symposium

Yonggang Huang

Nowinski Lecture, University of Delaware

Plenary lecture, International Conference of Micro- and Nano-mechanics

Hamlin Jennings

Keynote speaker, LABEIN-Tecnalia workshop on multiscale modeling on cementitious materials in Spain

Aggelos Katsaggelos

Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society

Prem Kumar

IEEE-LEOS distinguished lecture, Time and Frequency Division of the NRC
Plenary speaker, Photonics 2008
Distinguished lecture, Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico

Harold Kung

Keynote lecture, 14th International Congress on Catalysis
Keynote lecture, 20th North American Catalysis Society Meeting

Hani Mahmassani

Keynote speech, Chinese Institute of Transportation Annual Meeting and Conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Keynote speech, Fourth International Gulf Conference on Roads in Doha, Qatar

Ann McKenna

Plenary lecture, MIT-led CDIO annual meeting

Barry Nelson

Keynote address, Annual IIE Conference

Don Norman

Keynote address, Hong Kong, Netherlands, San Francisco

David Seidman

Turnbull Lecturer, Materials Research Society

Surendra Shah

Keynote address, 50th Brazilian Concrete Congress

Jeff Thomas

Keynote speaker, LABEIN-Tecnalia workshop on multiscale modeling on cementitious materials in Spain