General Engineering | 1999 Summary of Engineering Research

General Engineering

AWARDS AND HONORS



Scott A. Burns
NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award, 1989
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1998
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1990
Center for Advanced Study, Beckman Associate, U of I, 1992
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1996
State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998


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James V. Carnahan
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1986, 1991
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1989
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993


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Thomas F. Conry
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers


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Harry E. Cook
Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers
Fellow, American Society of Metals
Member, National Materials Advisory Board, 1993-96
National Academy of Engineering, National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Paris, Orsay, France, 1966-67
Robert Lansing Hardy Medal, American Institute for Mechanical Engineers, 1968
Ralph E. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1977
Woodside Memorial Lecturer, ASM International, Detroit Chapter, 1991
Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professorship, U of I Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1990-95
C. J. Gauthier Professorship, U of I Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1995-98


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Wayne J. Davis
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1990, 1993
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I College of Engineering, 1995


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Jerry S. Dobrovolny, Emeritus
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Life Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
Life Member, National Society of Professional Engineers
Award of Merit, National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1973
Illinois Award, Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, 1983
Distinguished Service Award, Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, 1986
Gamma Epsilon Distinguished Alumni Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1988


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David E. Goldberg
Prater Exchange Professor, University of Alabama and National Taiwan University, 1986
Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Research Award, University of Alabama, 1989-90
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985-90
Distinguished Visiting Professor, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, 1990
Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1995-96
Wickenden Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1996
Gambrinus Fellow, University of Dortmund, Germany, 1997


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W. Brent Hall
Excellence in Teaching Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1995, 1997
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1996
General Electric Scholar, Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education, U of I, 1998


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Edward N. Kuznetsov
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1984, 1994


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Juraj V. Medanic
Dusan Mitrovic Award for Best Paper in Control, ETAN (Yugoslavia), 1983


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L. Daniel Metz, Emeritus
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1970
Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1972
Urbana-Champaign Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, U of I, 1977
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1983
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1988
Best Paper Presentation, Society of Automotive Engineers Passenger Car Meeting, 1989


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Manssour H. Moeinzadeh
Ralph R. Teetor National Educational Award for Teaching Excellence, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1984
Centennial Recognition for Exceptional Contribution to American Society for Engineering Education and the Profession of Engineering, 1993
United Nations Development Programme Award for Collaborative Research and Educational Projects with Overseas Institutions, 1994 and 1995


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Julian I. Palmore
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Rocket Society Award, 1960
Bernard Friedman Prize, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
Lilly Postdoctoral Teaching Award Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-75
Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study, 1979
Sigma Xi National Lecturer, 1989-91
Commander's Award for Distinguished Public Service, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 1991
Editor, PHALANX, The Bulletin of Military Operations Research, 1995-
Chair, Menger Prize Committee, American Mathematical Society, 1995-98
Director, Military Operations Research Society, 1996-2000
Chair, Warfare Analysis and Complexity Mini Symposium/Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, September 1997
MCAP Award, Military Operations Research Society, 1995, 1997
Impact Award, Military Operations Research Society, 1997


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Michael H. Pleck
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1974
Campus Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, U of I, 1975
Champaign-Urbana Jaycees Outstanding Young College Educator Award, 1976-77
Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1980
Western Electric Fund Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1983
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1987
National Computer Graphics Association, Micro CADD Academic Award, 1990
Joe B. Wyatt Challenge Award, Educom, 1991
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1991, 1993, 1994
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1995, 1998
Robert P. Larsen Human Development Award, 1996
Delta Sigma Omicron Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997


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Henrique L. M. dos Reis
Fellow, British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing
Fellow, Acoustic Emission Working Group


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Mark W. Spong
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1982
Best Paper Award, 1987 Robotics and Expert Systems Symposium
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Best Video Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1999


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R. S. Sreenivas
Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1994


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Rayadurgam Srikant
NSF CAREER Award, 1997


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Mark G. Strauss
Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Student Award for Teaching, Research, and Academic Standing, University of Texas at Arlington, 1985
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1990, 1994


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Deborah L. Thurston
NSF Initiation Award, 1988
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1990, 1993, 1994
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1992, 1995
Eugene L. Grant Award for best paper of the year in The Engineering Economist (with A. Locascio), 1996


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Louis Wozniak
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Gamma Epsilon Teaching Excellence Award, U of I Department of General Engineering, 1985
Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Advising,
U of I College of Engineering, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995
Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper Award, International Joint Power Generation Conference, 1990
Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper Award, International Joint Power Generation Conference, 1993
Engineering Council Advisors List for Outstanding Advising, U of I, 1996
Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper Award, 1999


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General Engineering | 1999 Summary of Engineering Research