Electrical Engineering Alum Russell Taylor Johns (’82) Elected to the NAE

Electrical Engineering alum Russell Taylor Johns (’82) has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Johns is the George E. Trimble Chair of Energy and Mineral Sciences and professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering.

Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Johns was cited for “developing thermodynamically rigorous algorithms for modeling hydrocarbon recovery processes.”