Faculty awards and honors, 2014

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Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from July through October 2014. 

Hojjat Adeli, professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering; Hesham El Gamal, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and Ness Shroff, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar of computer science and engineering; are three of the 13 Ohio State researchers included on Thomson Reuters' 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers. Based on journal papers published between 2002-2012, these faculty members ranked in the top one percent for the number of citations by their peers.

Gunjan Agarwal, associate professor of biomedical engineering, received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's biosensing division of for her research on indirect magnetic force microscopy for sensing magnetic nanoparticles. She was also awarded a $60,000 grant from the Institute for Materials Research for her work developing novel high-resolution microscopy techniques for clinical pathology, particularly in iron detection.

Taylan Altan, professor emeritus of intergrated systems engineering, Glenn Daehn, Fontana Professor of materials science and engineering and John Lippold, professor materials science and engineering, were appointed to the Advanced Joining and Forming Technology (AMTech) Steering Committee, which will help develop the first-ever comprehensive U.S. advanced joining and forming technology roadmap

Meyer Benzakein, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named chairman of the International Advisory Committee for Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Aero-Engine, composed of internationally renowned scholars in the field of energy and power engineering.

Paul Berger, professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics, received the Ohio Society of Professional Engineer’s 2014 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award.

Jeffrey Bielicki, assistant professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, received a $444,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for his research efforts in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop methods using disparate and spatially disaggregated data to identify the likelihood of geothermal resources.

Jacob Boswell, assistant professor of landscape architecture, was named a top 25 finalist for his collaborative submission to the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative with two Knowlton alumni. The submission was featured at the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen.

Rudolph G. Buchheit, professor and chair of materials science and engineering, was named the College of Engineering’s new associate dean for academic affairs and administration.

Stuart Cooper, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received the 2014 Founders Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering.

Justin Diles, assistant professor of architecture, won the TEX-FAB Plasticity design competition.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, professor of city and regional planning and vice provost for capital planning and regional campuses, received the Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations for her digital book, "Plan For Opportunity."

Gerald Frankel, professor of materials science and engineering, was received the Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Institute of Metal Research in Shenyang, China.

Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, chair and professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was elected a 2014 Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN).

W.S. Winston Ho, distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was elected to membership in the Academia Sinica as an Academician in the Republic of China in Taiwan—the highest form of academic recognition in the country.

Dee Jepsen, associate professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, received an Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Award at the 2014 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) conference.

Joel Johnson, professor of electrical engineering, was named chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Kay Bea Jones, associate professor of architecture, published the book, “Franco Albini: Suspending Modernity.” 

Mary Juhas, clinical professor of materials science and engineering and associate vice president for Gender Initiatives in STEMM, was named president-elect for the Women in Engineering ProActive Network.

Minnie McGee, assistant dean of the Minority Engineering Program, was honored with the 2014 Larry Williamson Distinguished Service Award by The Ohio State University African American Alumni Society.

William Marras, Honda Chair Professor of integrated systems engineering, was elected the next president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Andre F. Palmer, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was named interim chair of the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, professor of computer science and engineering, will lead Ohio State’s team on a National Science Foundation $10 million cloud computing research project in collaboration with Northwestern University and University of Texas at San Antonio.

A team led by Sudhir Sastry, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, was named a finalist in the $2 million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE competition for his team’s work on an advanced pH sensor.

Scott Shearer, chair and professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, received the 2014 PrecisionAg Institute Legacy Award for his groundbreaking work in the field of precision agriculture and was inducted as an American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Fellow.

Andy Ward, professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering, was chosen to represent Ohio State on the Land Grant University Hypoxia Task Force Initiative that will work to address nutrient pollution and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Linda Weavers, professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering and earth sciences, was elected to serve a three-year term on the Association of Environmental Engineers and Science Professor (AEESP) Board of Directors.

Longya Xu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the 2014 Industry Application Society (IAS) Outstanding Achievement Award

Yi Zhao, associate professor of biomedical engineering, received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on commercialization of high throughput cell mechanical stimulation.

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