News About Our Faculty

Professor Graham Candler received the Taylor Research Award and is an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal.

Professor William Garrard has been re-appointed as one of three AIAA Representatives to the Engineering Accreditation Committee (EAC) of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology. He was also appointed as a Program Evaluator for INTAC, the international section of ABET.

Professor Ellen Longmire, gave invited presentations at the: DOE Workshop: Defining Scientific Issues in Multiphase Flow, University of Illinois at California Institute of Technology, GALCIT at the University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering; and at the University of Colorado, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Professor Richard James was named to the editorial advisory board of the SIAM Journal of Multiscale Analysis, and was appointed as contributing editor of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. He gave invited lectures at NASA Langley, the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, and a plenary lecture at the International Conference on Adaptive and Smart Technologies at the University of Maryland. He also participated in a “Jam Session” on multiscale methods at Villard de Lans, France, a MURI Workshop on Multiscale Physics, Newport, RI, an NSF Conference on “Future Directions in Solid Mechanics” at Northwestern University and a meeting on Magnetic Sensor Materials and Devices at Iowa State University. Professor Richard James will visit Cornell University during Fall semester 2002 and will hold the Mary Upson Visiting Chair.

Professor Ashley James gave a presentation at the American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, San Diego, CA, November 18-20, 2001.

Professor Daniel Joseph was honored at the Symposium on Multi-Component and Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, in conjunction with the 14th U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, June 24-26, 2002, in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Symposium celebrated the pioneering contributions to all kinds of fluid mechanics by Professor Joseph.

Professor Roger Fosdick gave the invited Plenary Talk at the 2nd Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 19—23, 2002.

Professor Ivan Marusic received the Taylor Career Development Award. He also received a David and Lucile Packard Faculty Fellowship. Only 25 of these very competitive awards are made annually. This year both of the University’s nominees were awarded, a very rare occurrence. Professor Ivan Marusic was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure this past year.

Professor Krishnan Mahesh received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He organized a symposium on "Numerical simulation of turbulent flows" at the 14th United States National Congress of Applied Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and delivered an invited tutorial on turbulence simulation at the Summer Program of the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. He gave invited presentations at Honeywell Technologies and an Army workshop at Clark Atlanta University.

Professor Mehran Mesbahi left the department at the end of this past academic year to join the faculty at the University of Washington, in Seattle, WA.

Dover Publications has reprinted the two textbooks Statics and Dynamics by Professors Lawrence E. Goodman and William H. Warner. Engineering students of the sixties and early seventies will remember these. Professor Warner is somewhat bemused to have a work of his described in the Publisher’s blurb as “This long out-of-print classic ...”

Dr. Demoz Gebre-Egziabher Joins the Faculty Fall 2002

Dr. Demoz Gebre-Egziabher will join the AEM Faculty in October of this year in the area of Aerospace Systems. He is currently a Research Associate at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, GPS Laboratory at Stanford University. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1990; his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University, D.C. in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, Stanford in 2002. He was an officer in the U.S. Navy for six years and is a Registered Professional Engineer. His research interests are in the areas of sensor fusion; design of multi-sensor systems for navigation; guidance and control of aerospace vehicles; global positioning system (GPS); inertial navigation; and GPS-based precision landing systems.

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