Faculty & staff awards and honors
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Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from October 2013 through January 2014.
Lisa Barclay, associate director of minority engineering outreach and programs, was named Region C Chair of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates.
Lisa Barclay, associate director of minority engineering outreach and programs, was named Region C Chair of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates.
Bharat Bhushan, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers’ 2014 International Award.
Jeffrey Bielicki, assistant professor of energy policy, received a $544,219 grant from the National Science Foundation to study innovative ways to use carbon dioxide for geothermal energy production and storage.
Jeffrey Bons, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Yuejie Chi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $44,969 grant from the Google Research Awards program to study ways to improve analysis of massive amounts of streaming data.
Datta Gaitonde, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for leadership in the field of advanced computational methods and their application to turbulent flows.
Liang Shih Fan, distinguished university professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Yebo Li, associate professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, were named to Columbus Business First’s list of “Who’s Who in Energy” as educational impact players in the Columbus energy market.
Liang Shih Fan, distinguished university professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Engineering and National Academy of Inventors.
Richard Hart, chair and professor of biomedical engineering, was elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Walter Lempert, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for innovative and insightful contributions to the development and application of optical diagnostic methods for the study of nonequilibrium molecular plasmas and turbulent flows.
Rongxing Li, professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Candy McBride, academic program coordinator for food, agricultural and biological engineering, received the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences’ 2013 Staff Advisory Council Shirley Brooks-Jones Award for excelling in service to faculty, staff and students.
Shawn Midlam-Mohler, assistant professor - clinical of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the Department of Energy’s Applied Automotive Engineering Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to the Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition Applied Automotive Engineering Curriculum Project.
Paula Mouser, assistant professor in civil, environmental, and geodetic engineering, is principal investigator of a $2 million National Science Foundation grant awarded through the Division of Environmental Biology to researchers from The Ohio State University and West Virginia University. The grant will fund the study of the microbial biodiversity found in deep underground shale formations.
Umit Ozguner, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is head of the new Crash Imminent Safety University Transportation Center which received a $1.41 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
Shawn Pruchnicki, lecturer for the Center for Aviation Studies, is an associate producer for the film Sole Survivor, a documentary about major plane crash survivors which broadcasted Jan. 9 on CNN.
Philip Schniter, professor of electrical and computer science, was named a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to signal processing in communications.
Christopher Stewart, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, received a $500,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award for his research project, “Carbon Footprint Modeling and Elastic Caching for Green Services.”
John Volakis, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the ElectroScience Laboratory, received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop technology that wirelessly and unobtrusively collects and records brain waves to be analyzed for improvement in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of patients with neurologic issues.
Junmin Wang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was appointed associate editor for the journal Control Engineering Practice, an Elsevier journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control.
Jessica Winter, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and biomedical engineering, was named one of the “20 People to Know in Technology” by Columbus Business First.
David Wood, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received $500,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to adapt his intein-based protein purification system into a proposed, laptop sized device that would produce and purify a ready-for-delivery therapeutic protein in a few hours using only a few liters of water.
Ji-Cheng Zhao, professor of materials science and engineering, and Hamish Fraser, Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor of materials science and engineering, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future initiative to study the properties of alloys on the molecular scale in order to create a reference guide to be used for medical implants.
