AN HONORED FACULTY |  The recipient of Metals, and Materials Society's Extraction and Processing Technology Award Manufacturing Engineering Professor Uday Pal has devoted his research to the promise of environmentally sound manufacturing. The paper that earned him this recent honor, "Metals Extraction and Processing Technology," is based on new high temperature chemical and electrochemical processing technology that will eventually "decrease waste generation in the metal making industry, allowing for more energy efficiency as well as economic viability," he says. Pal's paper was considered by MMMS to be the best on the subject in the last two years.
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|  In collaboration with scientists and engineers from major oceanographic institutions, naval laboratories, and industrial concerns, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Professor William Carey conducts research in many of the world's ocean basins to better understand shallow-water acoustics. A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a past recipient of the IEEE's Oceanic Engineering Society's Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, Carey received the IEEE/OES Third Millennium Award this year for his work in the areas of noise field and sound propagation, work that has led directly to the measurement of the physical acoustic properties of oceanic bubble distributions. This "bubble work," as Carey puts it, is part of a greater scientific effort to more accurately measure water depth through the use of sound and, via sonar technology, to strengthen established systems of underwater communication. | | |
|  Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Roscoe Giles works in computational science, focusing on applications of parallel supercomputing to physics and materials problems. He has also worked to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in the computing disciplines, for example as a faculty advisor and mentor for the BU Minority Engineers Society, an affiliate of the National Society of Black Engineers. Giles has also mentored high school, undergraduate, and graduate students for the New England Board of Higher Education and participated extensively in the National Science Foundation's Education Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. In recognition of these efforts, the Computing Research Association, a private group made up of 180 research computer science departments and organizations in the U.S., awarded Giles its annual A. Nico Habermann Award this year. -RA | |
Six new faculty members joined the College of Engineering this fall. Robert C. Berwick, now professor of bioinformatics, comes from MIT, where he was professor of computer science and engineering and professor of brain and cognitive sciences. He has lectured and published extensively in fields including machine learning, statistics, natural language processing, and computational complexity theory. Coming on board as a professor of biomedical engineering, Simon Kasif had previously headed research in bioinformatics at Compaq's Cambridge Research Laboratory. He will help develop ENG's new bioinformatics program. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Princeton University. Enrico Bellotti, now an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining ECE as an associate professor, Janusz Konrad taught for seven years at McGill University. ECE Assistant Professor David Starobinski earned his Ph.D. from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Ari Trachtenberg received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and joins ECE as an assistant professor. | | | |
