{"id":81732,"date":"2019-02-14T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=81732"},"modified":"2024-03-05T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:12:55","slug":"bishopnae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2019\/02\/14\/bishopnae\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bishop Elected to the National Academy of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Becomes third BU engineer to join prestigious society<\/h2>\n

By Liz Sheeley<\/em><\/p>\n

When Division Head of Materials Science and Engineering Professor David Bishop (ECE, Physics, MSE, ME, BME) checked his phone last Thursday afternoon, he was stunned by what he saw.\u00a0After a 50-year research career, Bishop received the news via e-mail that he had just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the premiere professional society for engineers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing group of people and I\u2019m humbled to be a part of it,\u201d says Bishop. \u201cI feel like the only rational response in this situation is to feel honored. I feel gratitude, surprise and humility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NAE pointed to his work in high-capacity optical switch technology he worked on at his 33-year stint at Bell Labs as a major accomplishment to highlight. This was also the reason that he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. It has more than 2,000 peer-elected members, drawn from senior professionals in business, academia and government who are among the world\u2019s most accomplished engineers, according to the NAE. Members are nominated and elected based on contributions to engineering research, practice or education; pioneering or advancing fields of engineering; and professional integrity. Notable members include the late Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, astronaut Neil Armstrong, synthetic biology pioneer George Church, transistor co-inventor John Bardeen and Draper Laboratory Founder Charles Stark Draper.<\/p>\n

As one of only three members of the NAE at BU, the other two are President Robert A. Brown and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Research Professor Farouk El-Baz (Archaeology, ECE), Bishop stands out\u2014but he says that as BU and the College of Engineering continue to grow, he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if more faculty are recognized in this way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe College of Engineering has had amazing growth over the past 10 to 15 years, and awards like this is an example of the recognition that the University and College are getting shows that we\u2019ve moved into the upper echelons of engineering schools,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He also adds that this is one of the top honors of an engineer\u2019s career and he\u2019s not sure how it could get much better than this. But that doesn\u2019t mean his career is over by any means.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now I\u2019m 67 and I\u2019m in the middle of the biggest intellectual challenge of my life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Bishop is heading up the interdisciplinary team at BU and two other universities that, under a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center grant, are working to develop personalized heart tissue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m part of a team that\u2019s working to create an all-encompassing solution for heart disease that might save the lives of millions of people,\u201d says Bishop. To him, this long-term research is akin to playing in his own Super Bowl. \u201cWe haven\u2019t won yet, but we are part of this cohesive and extraordinary team that\u2019s constantly strategizing and working together to meet our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop feels just as he did when he began his career in science when he was 17 years old\u2014excited to solve really difficult problems. \u201cI always knew I wanted to be a scientist\u2014even when I was 10 or 11 years old,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd if you asked me when I was that age what type of career I wanted to have, it would have been the career that I have had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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