2008 Service
May
Robert E. Burns, research specialist, Engineering Experiment Station, served as a Member of the OH-MARKAL Model Development Advisory Committee from August 2007 through February 2008. MARKAL is a generic computer model developed in a cooperative multinational project over two decades by the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme of the International Energy Agency to represent the evolution over a period of usually 40 to 50 years of a specific energy system at the national, regional, state or province, or community level. OH-MARKAL is a MARKAL model tailored to Ohio.
February
Jim Williams, professor, Materials Science and Engineering, chaired a 14-member international panel convened by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Council to assess the academic materials research program, Jan. 13-19, 2008, in the United Kingdom.
January
Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska, associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, was elected Eastern Vice President of the Institute of Navigation (ION).
Brian Hajek, associate chair, Nuclear engineering, and senior research engineer, Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed to serve as a judge on the U.S. Nuclear Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, which considers issues arising out of the operation of the nation’s more than 100 nuclear power plants and out of programs related to approximately 5,000 nuclear materials licenses.