By Chhavi Sachdev

Every year, the National Science Foundation recognizes up-and-coming professors for promising research. This year, four College of Engineering faculty members received these Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards for outstanding potential.

Approximately 400 5-year CAREER grants are given every year to professors early in their careers, of which about 100 are from the Engineering directorate, said Sharon Middledorf, the Engineering Representative at the NSF CAREER program. Fourteen of the 23 CAREER awards at Boston University between 2001 and 2005 have been in Engineering.

“The number of successful candidates is indicative of the quality of the faculty we attract and also of the problems they want to tackle,” said Solomon R. Eisenberg, Dean ad interim for the College of Engineering.

Click through the link on the right to see this year’s recipients.