Faculty Honors | CU Engineering 2001

Professor Frank Barnes Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Professor of electrical and computer engineering Frank Barnes was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in February, joining nine other faculty from the campus who have been elected since the Academy's formation in 1962.

Election to the National Academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Barnes was recognized for his fundamental research on the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, surgical procedures and contributions to telecommunications education.

A CU-Boulder faculty member since 1959, he served as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1964 to 1980 and was acting dean of the college in 1980-81. He co-founded the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program in 1971 and has served as the program director three times.

Barnes is the president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He a recipient of the IEEE's Centennial Award and its Third Millennium Medal. He also received the univer-sity's Stearns Award in 1980 and the college's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1986. He was named Distinguished Professor by the University of Colorado Board of Regents in 1997.

Other CU-Boulder faculty who are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and their years of election, are: Delores Etter, 2000; Martin Mikulas, 1999; Valerian Tatarskii, 1994; Earl Gossard, 1990; Don Hearth, 1989; Richard Strauch, 1989; Jacques Pankove, 1986; Klaus Timmerhaus, 1975; and Max Peters, 1969. Professor Richard Seebass also was a member.

Faculty Honors

Recent Major Foundation and Society Awards and Recognitions

Kristi Anseth (ChE)
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award

Frank Barnes (ECE)
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Christopher Bowman (ChE)
Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education

Carol Cogswell (ECE)
Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education Career Award, National Science Foundation

Charbel Farhat (AES)
Computational and Applied Sciences Medal,
U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics

K.C. Gupta (ECE)
Distinguished Educator Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Jacques Pankove (ECE)
Honorary Doctorate, National Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France
Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, University of California, Berkeley

Melinda Piket-May (ECE)
Scholar, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Stein Sture (CEAE)
Richard R. Torrens Award, American Society of Civil Engineers

Jorge Zornberg (CEAE)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Collingwood Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers

Professional Leadership Positions, Conference Awards and Keynote Lectures

Mark Balas (AES)
General Chair, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance and Navigation Control Conference, June 2000

Frank Barnes (ECE)
President, Bioelectromagnetics Society

Melvyn C. Branch (ME)
Health Effects Institute Research Committee

Victor M. Bright (ME)
Executive Committee, MEMS Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Ross B. Corotis (CEAE)
Chair, Executive Board, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability and Scientific Chair, Eighth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Newport Beach, Calif., June 2001

Subhendu Datta (ME)
Best Paper Award, Non Destructive Evaluation Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000

Dan Frangopol (CEAE)
Keynote Speaker, First U.S.-Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2000
Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Optimal Maintenance of Structures, Delft, The Netherlands, October 2000
Keynote Speaker, Fourth Japan Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Tokyo, Japan, November 2000

Thomas L. Geers (ME)
Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2000-2001

Y.C. Lee (ME)
Executive Committee, Electrical and Electronic Packaging Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
General Chair, ASME InterPACK'01 Conference Committee, July 2001, Kauai, Hawaii

Michael Lightner (ECE)
Vice President for Technical Affairs, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Roop L. Mahajan (ME)
Founding Editor in Chief, International Journal of Microstructures Packaging
Keynote Speaker, ENCIT Conference on Heat Transfer, October 2000, Porte-Allegre, Brazil

Lucy Pao (ECE)
Exemplary Project Award, Colorado Advanced Software Institute

Melinda Piket-May (ECE)
ERM Helen Plants Award, Best Non-Traditional Session, 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, American Society for Engineering Education

Rishi Raj (ME)
Chair, Executive Committee, Materials Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Alexander Repenning (CS)
"Best of the Best" Innovators, Association of Computing Machinery Conference and Expo, San Jose, March 2001
Invited Expert, Improving Learning through Information Technology Symposium, National Academies of Science and Engineering

Fabio Somenzi (ECE)
Best Paper Award, ASM Design Automation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, June 2000

Ganesh Subbarayan (ME)
Associate Editor, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology
Best Paper Award, IEEE Seventh Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems 2000

Patrick Weidman (ME)
Executive Committee, Fluid Dynamics Division, American Physical Society

The following faculty join 78 other college faculty as fellows of professional societies

Robert Erickson (ECE)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Charbel Farhat (AES)
Fellow, U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics

Dan Frangopol (CEAE)
Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences

Karl Johnk (ECE)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Stein Sture (CEAE)
Fellow, U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics

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