Faculty Awards
Most Recent Awards
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will award its Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal to Ronald A. Roy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. The award will be presented on 21 April 2010 at the ASA’s 159th meeting to be held in Baltimore, MD. The Helmholtz-Rayleigh Medal is given annually to a member of the world acoustics community whose research overlaps at least two technical areas within the ASA. Professor Roy’s medal is in recognition of outstanding contributions to research in physical acoustics and biomedical ultrasonics.
Trained as a physicist and an engineer, Prof. Roy specializes in the application of physical acoustics principles to problems in biomedical acoustics, acousto-optics, industrial ultrasonics, and acoustical oceanography — however, his true passion is the acoustics of bubbles and bubbly media. Sonoluminescence (light from sound), acoustic cavitation dynamics, and bubble-mediated therapeutic ultrasonics are topics of past and current interest. He received his BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine, an MS in Physics from the University of Mississippi, and an MPhil and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. Before joining Boston University in 1996, Roy served on the technical staff at both the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington and the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi.
Professor Don Wroblewski has been chosen as an inaugural Innovative Engineering Education Faculty (IEEF) Fellow. His proposed project will create tangible contextual threads tying a stream of related courses together and link them to specific “integrated systems.” This selection honors Professor Wroblewski as an innovative educator in engineering and his proposed project to enhance engineering education at Boston University in a sustainable way.
Professor Sean Andersson is the College’s newest recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. The research objective of his Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to establish a rigorous theoretical and experimental foundation for tracking single nanometer-scale particles and for tracking multiple particles simultaneously. Measurement of nanometer-scale particles often relies on a point-like sensor such as the focal point of a confocal microscope, the tip of a magnetic force microscope, or the probe of a near-field scanning optical microscope. The research approach centers on a nonlinear tracking control law and proceeds from analysis and design of the law to implementation on a scanning confocal microscope and experimental study of the approach using freely diffusing fluorescent nanoparticles.
Faculty Awards
- 2009 NSF CAREER Award
- Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society and Robotics and Automation Society
- 2001 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 1995 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 2009 Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM
- 2008 Inaugural Distinguished Lecturer Series Award, College of Engineering, Boston University
- 2000 IEEE Third Millenium Medal
- 1992 Fellow of the IEEE
- 2008 Rising Star Teaching Award for the Faculty of Science, University of Bristol, UK
- 2007 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2000 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award
- 1999 R. Bruce lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America
- 1995 Young Investigator Award ONR
- Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2007 Plenary Talk in the International Conference of Advanced Materials and Composites, Trivandrum, India, October 24-26
- 2005 Keynote Talk in OPE-8 International Conference, Melbourne, Australia
- Elected to the Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society at MIT
- 2008 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
- 2005 NSF CAREER Award
- 2004 Best Paper Award, International Conference Systems Biology, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1997 Fulbright Study Award
- 1994 BU Alumni of the Year
- 1981 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2009 Bepi Colombo Award
- 2007 R&D 100 Award: Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (MAOSLO)
- 2003 R&D 100 Award: MEMS-based adaptive optics phoropter (MAOP)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS
- 2004 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- Member of Editorial board, IIE Transactions in Design and Manufacturing
- Past Editor, IIT Transactions in Design and Manufacturing
- 2007 Silver Medal from the Acoustical Society of America, Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics
- 2005 Distinguished Service Award IEEE/OES
- 2000 3rd Millennium Award IEEE/OES
- 1999 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award IEEE/OES
- 1986 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- Fellow of IEEE
- Past Chief Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- 2009 BU Mechanical Engineering Department Award of Teaching Excellence
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2006 Outstanding Paper of the Year IEEE-Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
- 2004 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2001 BU Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2000 R. Bruce Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America
- 1995 F.V. Hunt Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2008 BU Manufacturing Engineering Department Award of Teaching Excellence
- 2007 BU Manufacturing Engineering Department Award of Teaching Excellence
- 2005 BU Manufacturing Engineering Department Award of Teaching Excellence
- 2007 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2002 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2000 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 1997 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 1988 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 1985 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2007 NSF CAREER Award
- 2007 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2008 Massachusetts Technology Investigation Award of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
- 2005 AIAA Associate Fellow
- 2002 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 2001 AIAA National Faculty Advisor Award
- 1979 American Chemical Society’s Arthur K. Doolittle Award
- 2008 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 1983 ONR Graduate Fellowship
- 1982 DAAD/Fulbright Grant to study and research at the Third Physical Institute, University of Gottingen, Germany
- 2007 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics
- 2000 Per Bruel Gold Medalof the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1997 Rayleigh Lecturer of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, UK
- 1998 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 1993 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 2005 BU Technology Development Award
- 2004 BU Provost’s Innovation Award
- 2008 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 2006 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2006 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2000 NSF CAREER Award
- 1999 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award
- Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2009 Vernon T. Tolo Basic Science Paper Award: H Bian, J Aya-ay, A Garces, EF Morgan, SR Gilbert, HK Kim, “Epiphyseal cartilage plays an important role in revascularization of the femoral head following ischemic osteonecrosis,” at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
- 2008 BU College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award
- 2005 International Osteoporosis Foundation-Servier Young Investigator Research Award
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2008 BU Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2003 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 2002 BU College of Engineering Professor of the Year
- 1999 BU Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Principal Editor, Journal of Materials Research
- 2008 Massachusetts Technology Investigation Award of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
- 2008 TMS Resource Education Award in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
- 2003 TMS Extraction and Processing Technology Award
- 2000 TMS Extraction and Processing Technology Award
- 1990-1997 John Chipman Chair at MIT
- 2004 BU Department of Manufacturing Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2003 BU Department of Manufacturing Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2002 BU Department of Manufacturing Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence
- 1989 IBM Manufacturing Research Graduate Fellowship
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2009 Gold Medal of the Acoustical Foundation of India
- 2004 Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education, Acoustical Society of America
- 1995 Per Bruel Fold Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1992 Rayleigh Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1991 Silver Medal In Physical Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America
- 1989 Best paper award, Noise Control and Acoustics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1976 Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Life Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2008 R. Bruce Lindsay Young Investigator Award of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2008 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2003 F.V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2002 National Society of Black Engineers Graduate Student of the Year
- 2010 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America
- 2008 University of Maine Francis Crowe Society Distinguished Engineer Medal
- 2006 65th George Eastman Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UK
- 2005 Outstanding paper of the year, SPIE: Photons + Ultrasound: Imaging & Sensing
- 1995 University of Washington College of Ocean & Fisheries Sciences Distinguished Research Award
- 1995 University of Washington Applied Physics Lab Innovative Technology Award
- 1994 University of Washington Applied Physics Lab Innovative Technology Award
- 1993 University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Director’s Award
- 1993 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 1984 GTE’s Leslie H. Warner Achievement Award
- Over 80 US and International Patents
- Fellow of the German Biophysics Society
- Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- 2009 Massachusetts Technology Investigation Award of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
- Member of the IEEE
- Associate Editor, Automatica
- 2006-2008 Member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society
- 2001 Senior Member of the IEEE
- 2001 Plenary speaker, Chinese Control Conference, Dalian, China
- 2000 Cheung Kong Scholar, Ministry of Education, China and Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong
- 2000 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award
- 1999 IFAC Congress Best Poster Paper Prize of the Fourteenth Triennial World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 1994 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control
- 2006 NRC/Air Force Senior Associateship Award
- 2006 BU Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2003 BU College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
- 1999 BU Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence
- 1992 NSF Research Initiation Award
- 2007 BU Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Award for Teaching Excellence
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2007 Young Faculty Award DARPA/MTO
- 2006 Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship
- 2009 BU College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award
- 2008 BU College of Engineering Inaugural Distinguished Faculty Fellow
- 2007 National Academy of Engineering Invitee
- 2004 BU Technology Development Award
- 2003 NSF CAREER Award
- 2002 BU SPRInG Award