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Faculty Honors and Awards - 2000 to Present
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
2007
- Nominated by the ME Department for Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 2008-2009
- Appointed Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Standards Services Division
Elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the management Sciences (INFORMS)
Selected Co-Award Recipient (with Tony Ambler, ECE) of the 2008 Women in Engineering Advocate Award, for aiming to make a difference in their respective deparments; directly addressing both the recruitment and retention issues for the students.
- Research showcase in a national Popular Science feature on innovative surgery techniques entitle, "The Brain Surgeon's New Toolbox."
- Research showcased in an international biophotonics Magazine article entitled "Gold Nanorods Attract Attention."
- Invited to give a Plnary Talk at the opening session of Focus on Microscop Converence in Osaka, Japan.
- Received two grants totaling $2.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study nerve repair mechanisms using femtosecond laser nanosurgery and microfluidic devices.
Awarded the 2007 Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education at the fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The Rossing Prize recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions toward furthering acoustics education through distinguished teaching, creation of educational materials, textbook writing and other activities.
Appointed Director of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication in February 2007.
- Elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.
- Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
- Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
Contributing organizer and coordinator for the LEGO MINDSTORMS Mania event, showcasing what students learned while using engineering principles to build and program robots under the guidance of 28 central Texas teachers trained through DTEACh (Design Technology and Engineering for America's Children), the university's training program integrating engineering design principles into classroom curricula.
Chaired one of four subcommittees associated with the Task Force on Faculty Gender Equity. The task force is charged with assessing the status of women faculty at UT-Austin.
- Chosen to be an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2007)
- Chosen to be an Associate Editor of International Journal of Reacting Systems (2007)
- Elected to be a Member Cockrell School Dean’s Search committee (2007)
- Selected to be a Texas Exes Black Alumni Legacy Award winner (October 2007)
- Invited to Kyoto University through the 21st Century COE Program for Research and Education on Complex Functional Mechanical Systems and delivered a Special Seminar and Lecture at Kyoto University
- Received a Special Research Grant from the VP for Research
- Guest Editor (February issue of MRS Bulletin). Cover page depicts some of the TEM images of Dr. Ferreira’s group.
- Cover page of the HTML Laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- For a semester, second best paper in the journal Acta Materialia
- Supervised Christopher Carlton, a Materials Science and Engineering doctoral student, who received the Silver Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) for his significant observations and imaging of silver nanoparticles undergoing the deformation process
- Invited keynote/plenary speaker at several international conferences: SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (Santa Fe, March 2007); High Performance Computing Symposium (Saskatoon, May 2007); and Applied Inverse Problems (Vancouver, June 2007).
- Director and PI of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) -- UT-Austin Academic Excellence Alliance partnership; the award is worth at least $27M over five years
- Co-organizer, Sandia/NSF/AFOSR Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification in Large-Scale Inverse Problems, Santa Fe, September 2007
- Chair of the Applications Technical Program Committee, SC07: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Reno, November 2007
- Chaired the Workshop on Electrical Energy Storage for the Office of Basic Energy Science of the DOE on April 2-5, 2007
- Work and efforts cited as seventh of the top ten advances in Materials Science, in the feature article of the January-February 2008 issue of Materials Today.
Elected as the 2008 president of the Acoustical Society of America at their Spring meeting. He will succeed the current president in July 2008, and his term as president will last for one year. His election also includes one-year terms as president-elect and past-president on the governing board of the society.
- Received the University Research Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association in March 2007.
- Delivered the keynote lecture at the Materials for Advanced Metallization Conference held at Brugge, Belgium in March, 2007
- Served as a Co-Chair of the 9th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization, Kyoto, Japan, April 4-6, 2007
Selected by a committee of distinguished INFORMS members as the recipient of the 2007 INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
Celebrated 40 years of teaching in UT Mechanical Engineering at August reception.
Received the Fellows Award from the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). The award is given to members exhibiting outstanding accomplishments over an extended period of time in contributing to the advancement of material and process science or engineering.
- Awarded the 2007 American Nuclear Society’s Author Holly Compton Award for outstanding achievements in education in nuclear science and engineering for designing and implementing “one of the most advanced distance learning programs in the nation” for nuclear engineers.
- Delivered two lectures in Niger, Africa on implementing computer-based methods of teaching for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
A team led by Arumugam Manthiram, with nine faculty at UT-Austin and one at Stanford University, has won a Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for $5.8 million over 5 years.
Has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that helps guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect nuclear smuggling attempts. Dr. David Morton, Dr. Erich Schneider and Dr. Elmira Popova will spend five years improving the model. The basic nuclear smuggling model was developed by Dr. David Morton and former graduate student Feng Pan to help combat a trend of smuggling in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union that have insufficient security, by providing guidance for national decisions on radiation detector placement in Russia and nearby countries.
Led successful proposal team for a $17M DOE center on application of advanced simulation and uncertainty quantification to atmospheric reentry vehicles (PECOS Center). Will serve as director of the new center.
- Elected as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering by the ASME Bioengineering Division’s Executive Committee
- Rode in a 3,043-mile Race Across America, from Oceanside, Calif., to Atlantic City, N.J., raising awareness and funds for organ donation.
- Dr. Rick Neptune received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve computer tools for assisting people with stroke-related impairments in walking.
- Received the ASEE 2007 Kauffman Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award
- Appointed Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Center in February 2007
Has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that helps guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect nuclear smuggling attempts. Dr. David Morton, Dr. Erich Schneider and Dr. Elmira Popova will spend five years improving the model. The basic nuclear smuggling model was developed by Dr. David Morton and former graduate student Feng Pan to help combat a trend of smuggling in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union that have insufficient security, by providing guidance for national decisions on radiation detector placement in Russia and nearby countries.
Celebrated 40 years of teaching in UT Mechanical Engineering at August reception.
Has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that helps guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect nuclear smuggling attempts. Dr. David Morton, Dr. Erich Schneider and Dr. Elmira Popova will spend five years improving the model. The basic nuclear smuggling model was developed by Dr. David Morton and former graduate student Feng Pan to help combat a trend of smuggling in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union that have insufficient security, by providing guidance for national decisions on radiation detector placement in Russia and nearby countries.
Received a 2007-08 Faculty Research Assignment award for his project entitled "Development of Experimental Grain Boundary Plasticity Studies".
Drs. Delbert Tesar and Chetan Kapoor, the Robotics Research Group’s director and associate director respectively, received the 2007 Outstanding Paper Award from the Emerald Literati Network for a paper published in the Industrial Robot Journal.
Received a 2007 Marshall Memorial Fellowship for emerging leaders. The Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF) was created by the German Marshall Fund of the United States to introduce a new generation of European leaders to America's institutions, politics, and people. In 1999, GMF launched a companion program to expose future U.S. leaders to a changing and expanding Europe.
Dr. Wilson received the prestigious A.B. Wood Medal and Prize from the UK Institute of Acoustics.
2006
Drs. Alex Heltzel, Senthil Theppakuttai (both recent ME PhD graduates) and Profs. Shaochen Chen and John Howell's technical paper "Excitation of Surface Plasmons with Gold Microspheres," has been named as recipient of the 2006 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Best Paper by the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee.
Drs. Alex Heltzel, Senthil Theppakuttai (both recent ME PhD graduates) and Profs. Shaochen Chen and John Howell's technical paper "Excitation of Surface Plasmons with Gold Microspheres," has been named as recipient of the 2006 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Best Paper by the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee.
Dr. Jensen was an excellence in innovation awardee for the 2006 Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program. IITAP honors the accomplishments of faculty who are enhancing their instruction through Teaching with Technology and Resource Development, to celebrate teaching effectiveness.
Dale Klein
Dr. Dale E. Klein, designated by President Bush as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), was sworn
in Saturday, July 1, in a private ceremony at the NRC headquarters. Klein is a professor of mechanical engineering at
The University of Texas at Austin.
As a commissioner, Klein will serve a five-year term on the NRC.
"As the NRC faces the challenges of the coming years, I intend to do all I can to ensure the safety and
security of the American public as the NRC does the critical job of overseeing the operations of nuclear reactors,
the use of nuclear materials and effectively reviewing expected applications for new reactors in a timely
manner," Klein said.
"I consider regulatory stability a crucial element in ensuring that our work is done in a timely manner,"
added Klein, who holds a doctor's degree in nuclear engineering.
Klein, 58, previously served as assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear and chemical and biological
defense programs, a position he assumed in 2001.
Prior to his appointment by President Bush, Klein was the vice-chancellor for special engineering programs at
The University of Texas System while also serving as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
(Nuclear Program) at The University of Texas at Austin. Klein was the chairman and executive director of the
Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium, where he oversaw more than $45 million of funding concerning
plutonium research and nuclear weapon dismantlement issues.
Received the Arthur Holly Compton award from the American Nuclear Society for outstanding achievements in education in nuclear science and engineering for designing and implementing "one of the most advanced distance learning programs in the nation" for nuclear engineers.
Dr. Manthiram was elected as a Founding Fellow of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME-World) in June 2006. AMME-World was founded in December 2005 with a goal of propagating and supporting the development of materials engineering and science, manufacturing engineering of materials and products, and computer-aided manufacturing.
Awarded the DOE Junior Faculty Award for $75K a year for three years. There were only a few chosen in the country in an extremely competitive environment. His proposal was directed in the advanced fuel cycle which of course is of high priority in the overall energy thrust in DOE. He also received a small NASA grant from the Texas Space Grant Program to look at using Monte Carlo Methods to determine materials needed for space exploration subjected to high energy radiation particles. Erich is also a Co-PI on a grant with Dr. Sheldon Landsberger for Oak Ridge National Laboratory to look at non-proliferation issues. He has taken the lead in this area.
2005
ASEE Campus Recruitment Award and President. His article "U.S. Needs More Engineering Students" was published in the Miami Herald. (The article was subsequently published in several other publications).
Received 2005-2006 Research Grant for her work on Femtosecond Laser Nano-Surgery of Carbon Nanostructures.
Editor in chief of the ASME Journal of Tribology. Series Editor for Dynamic Systems & Control and Mechatronics, Springer Mechanical Engineering Series. Awarded the Innovative Research Award for 2005, ASME Tribology Division, for Design & Testing of Micro Gas Bearings. Dr. Bryant's Tribology expertise was featured in a Newhouse News Service article, "Five-blade razor: Exactly how many do you need?".
Awarded the 2005 Outstanding Faculty Award at the Cockrell School of Engineering's Graduate and Industry Networking Day, April 2005.
Melba Crawford
Received the 2005 Outstanding Service Award from the U.S. Department of State.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching. For 49 years, Lockheed Martin has sponsored an award for excellence in engineering teaching to reward a Cockrell School of Engineering faculty member for exceptional teaching. This prestigious award is given to a faculty member dedicating time and energy in abundance to teaching undergraduate and graduate students. As a result, his or her work leaves a mark of excellence on the entire Cockrell School of Engineering. Nominations for this award are made by The University of Texas at Austin engineering students and faculty. Final selection is made by a committee composed the five most recent faculty recipients of the award and the student presidents of the Student Engineering Council (SEC) and the Graduate Engineering Council (GEC).
Winner of the 2005 Women in Engineering Student Advocate Award.
Dr. Paulo Ferreira has accepted an appointment from the Portuguese Government to be Special Advisor to the Minister of Economics and Innovation. As part of his appointment, Dr. Ferreira will be a member of the Coordinating Unit for Technology, which is directly responsible to the Portuguese Prime Minister and the Minister of Economics and Innovation. The Unit is charged with the creation and sustaining of a Technological Push in Portugal. The objective of the Technological Push is to mobilize the Public Administration, industries, Institutions of Science and Technology, schools and students for the promotion of economic growth. Dr. Ferreira will head a team responsible for establishing international protocols between government, industry, and universities.
"Professor Paulo Ferreira has been chosen by the Technological Plan Coordination Unit as a special advisor on governmental strategy for innovation and growth in Portugal. Professor Ferreira has been chosen for this high responsibility on the basis of his excellent academic curriculum and extraordinary ability to assess the role of science and technology in promoting economic growth and productivity in society." -Jose A. Tavares, Coordinator, Technological Plan Coordination Unit
Named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at their fall meeting in San Francisco.
Received the 2005 UT-Austin Student Engineering Council Favorite ME Teacher Award, awarded during Faculty Appreciation Week.
Dale Klein
Recipient of the 2005 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorary Engineering Award.
He delivered the Keynote speech: "An Engineer's Quest for Universal Method," at the Norms, Knowledge, and Reasoning in Technology Conference, June 3-4, 2005, in Boxmeer, The Netherlands. The conference was sponsored by the Philosophy and Ethics of Technology Department, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands. He also delivered the Keynote speech: "The Definition of Engineering Method and Its Implications for the Liberal Arts, Ethics, and Religion," at the Role of Engineering at Catholic Universities (RECU), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. September 22, 2005.
One of four UT-Austin professors involved in an innovative, collaborative nanotechnology and materials research with Mexican research institutions; leading to the formation of the International Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (ICNAM).
Received the Glenn Murphy Award from the Nuclear and Radiological Division of the American Society of Engineering Education, recognizing his notable professional contributions to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering students. He also received the Hayden Head Centennial Endowed Professorship from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Dr. Manthiram led research team to discover how to substitute less-expensive metals for platinum, as electronic catalysts in fuel cells. This work led to a media spotlight and visit from Rep. Lamar Smith, featuring his research in fuel cell technology and innovation.
Dr. Neptune was an MS Student Paper Competition Finalist at the 2005 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference for "Goldberg, E.J. and Neptune, R.R. Compensatory strategies in response to muscle decreased muscle strength during normal walking." He also won the Poster Award: Runner Up for "Goldberg, E.R. and Neptune, R.R., Compensatory strategies in walking due to decreased rate of force development and increased hip stiffness." at the 22nd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research. In addition, he was a Finalist for the Komor Award - Zmitrewicz, R., Neptune, R.R. and Sasaki, K. "Mechanical power analysis of unilateral transtibial gait: contributions from individual muscles and energy storage and return prostheses", at the 10th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, July 28-30, 2005 in Cleveland, OH.
Dr. Nichols received the Olympus Innovation Award from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) in March, 2005. This the inaugural award was for his visionary development and implementation of an integrated technology entrepreneur program at the university, and work to create similar programs at 17 other universities globally. The NCIIA noted that Nichols' innovative and interdisciplinary education, research and service programs have expanded student opportunities for entrepreneurship, while increasing the number of start-up companies based on university developed technology. Dr. Nichols also received the E.D. Walker Centennial Fellowship for research and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Distinguished Lecturer Award for teaching.
Dr. Popova received a $370,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled "Risk informed nuclear asset management - models and methods" with Co-PIs David Morton, ORIE and Paul Damien, MSIS. The project will address risk assessment, risk management, and reliability problems that arise in nuclear power generation.
Faculty Spotlight in the Faculty Innovation Center newsletter as an innovative new faculty member at UT-Austin. Dr. Seepersad also won the 2005-2006 ME faculty appreciation award from the Student Engineering Council.
Dr. Shi's new sensor technology research was featured on the cover of Applied Physics Letters, 2005, Vol.86, No.6, and in a number of news media, including PhysicsWeb, EE Times, and others. Dr. Shi and a research group have developed a highly sensitive nano-sized, nerve-gas detector, potentially capable of detecting as few as a single molecule of a biological warfare agent such as sarin nerve gas. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, which honors those reviewers who have made exemplary contributions to the Journal. This award was presented at the Heat Transfer Dinner during the ASME International Congress and Exposition, in November 2005, in Orlando, Florida.
Received the Charlotte Maer Patton Centennial Fellowship in Engineering.
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded him $4.5 million for further development of robots to handle nuclear materials. He was the Keynote speaker at the International Forum on Manufacturing Innovation in South Korea. Dr. Tesar, along with colleagues Chetan Kapoor and Chalongrath Pholsiri, received the MSC Simulation Software Award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Mechanisms and Robotics Conference. He also received the Engelberger Award in Academics from the Robotics Industries Association and was named the Dr. Charles LeMaistre Endowed Research Fellow from the ICC Institute.
Received the 2005 Office of Graduate Studies'Outstanding Thesis/Report Award as supervisor to H. John Camin, III, for his thesis, "A Comparison of Spherical Wave Sediment Reflection Coefficient Measurements to Plane Wave Models".
2004
Robert W. Hamilton Author Award for Operations Research: Models and Methods , cowritten with Dr. Paul Jensen.
Dr. Barr was voted President-Elect of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) by a national ballot in the Spring of 2004. He will assume the role of ASEE President in June 2005.
Dr. Chen received a 2004 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
Melba Crawford
Dr. Crawford was selected as one of five innaugural members of the U.S. State Department's Jefferson Science Fellow program.
The Cockrell School of Engineering recognized Dr. Howell's outstanding research contributions with the Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award.
Robert W. Hamilton Author Award for Operations Research: Models and Methods , cowritten with Dr. Jonathan Bard.
Elected as Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
Da Vinci Award from the Engineering Society of Detroit and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for the application of Selective Laser Sintering techniques to improve mobility for people with lower-limb disabilities in 2004. He received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the neuromotor adaptations amputee gait and the interactions between limb loading and prosthetic design characteristics, as well as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study how stroke patients walk, hopefully leading to more effective therapies that help patients recover faster and regain their pre-stroke quality of life.
Received the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Dr. Shi received a $300,000 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research to research developing efficient nanowire thermoelectric coolers and generators.
Dr. Wilson received a $300,000 Office of Naval Research Entry-Level Faculty Award in Ocean Acoustics for his Project Investigation of the Acoustics of Marine Sediments Using an Impedance Tube.
Mr. Wood was presented with the 2004 Women In Engineering Advocate Award by the Women in Engineering Program.
2003
Kenneth Ball
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board2004-06 Advanced Technology Program Award for his research submission entitled Accurate Infrared Sensors for Measurement of Surface Temperature Distributions.
Best Paper Award for Feature Applications from the Institute of Industrial Engineers for the paper Optimizing aircraft routings in response to groundings and delays, co-written with Gang Yu and Michael F. Arguello.
Best Paper award from the March ASEE GSW Section Conference for a paper he co-wrote entitled Classroom Testing of Virtual Biomechanics Laboratory (VBL) Learning Modules.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board2004-06 Advanced Technology Program Award for his research submission entitled Interfacial Engineering for Electromigration Reliability for Cu Interconnects Beyond 65nm Technology.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board2004-06 Technology Development and Transfer Program Award for his research submission entitled Nanocomposite Manganese Oxides for High Power, Environmentally Safe Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries.
Engineering Education Excellence Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers.
Big XII Faculty Fellowship for work over the summer at the University of Colorado.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board2004-06 Technology Development and Transfer Program Award for his research submission entitled Semi-Active Suspension System Technology Development and Transfer.
CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on thermal transport and thermoelectric measurements of nanotransistors, nanowires, and superlattices.
Gary Vliet
Received the Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award and named a Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society. His selection for the honor, which is bestowed on only a small number within the organizations membership, was based on "many years of exceptional services to the American Solar Energy Society, and for countless efforts in advancing the utilization of solar energy."
Elected to the University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
2002
Fellow of ASME International.
David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, which recognizes contributions to the advancement of the IE profession through outstanding research activity, for lifetime achievement from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Spread the Word and Campus Representative awards from the ASEE - recognizing the group's campus representative who has recruited the highest number of new faculty and student members to the society's local region in the last year.
UT Cockrell School of EngineeringJoe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for exemplary leadership in the engineering profession.
Outstanding Graduate Advisor at the University of Texas at Austin.
2002 Mechanical Engineering Division Best Paper Award for his paper entitled "Teaching Machine Design through Product Emulation".
CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Serope Kalpakjian Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
Ken Diller
awarded the H. R. Lissner Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "for significant scientific contributions in the area of bio - heat and mass transfer."
Along with Dr. Ron Matthews and former Ph.D. students Yiqun Huang and Terrence Alger, she won the Myers Award for Outstanding Student Paper during the Society of Automotive EngineeringSAE 2002 World Congress and Exhibition in Detroit. Yiqun was the primary author of the paper, "The Effects of Fuel Volatility and Structure on HC Emissions from Piston Wetting in DISI Engines."
Received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Santiago de Compostela and the 2001-2002 Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award.
CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project entitled "Scheduling of Multiclass Queueing Networks via Fluid Models."
CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Appointed as Director of the UT Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL).
Along with Dr. Janet Ellzey and former Ph.D. students Yiqun Huang and Terrence Alger, he won the Myers Award for Outstanding Student Paper during the Society of Automotive EngineeringSAE 2002 World Congress and Exhibition in Detroit. Yiqun was the primary author of the paper, "The Effects of Fuel Volatility and Structure on HC Emissions from Piston Wetting in DISI Engines." Dr. Matthews also received three other SAE awards in 2002: The Faculty Advisor Award; The "Triple E" (Excellence in Engineering Education) Award, which is presented by the society to one engineering educator each year for outstanding contributions in promoting student activities; and was named a Fellow of SAE, a prestigious and honorary grade to recognize individuals whose technical or scientific achievements have brought about meaningful advances in the fields of technology covered by SAE.
Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
American Society of Biomechanics Young Scientist Award and Whitaker Foundation Grant to conduct research in hopes of preventing hip fractures in senior citizens.
Named the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching.
2001
Named a Fellow of the Center for Decisions Under Uncertainty in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Japan Prize for his innovative work on lightweight rechargeable batteries.
Thomas D. Callinan Award of the Dielectric Science and Technology Division, The Electrochemical Society 199th Meeting, Washington, DC, March 25-30, 2001.
IEEE Fellow "for contributions to metallization of and metrology for multi-level interconnects and electronic packaging", December 14, 2001.
Dale Klein
Named United States Assistant Secretary of Defense by President Bush.
Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
Recognized for 15 years of excellent teaching at Austin Community College.
2000
Teaching Excellence Award, Student Engineering Council, University of Texas at Austin.
Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.