[CCoE Notice] Faculty Accolades for Parameters

[Lewis, Lindsay R]

Greetings!

Below is the list of faculty accolades that we have compiled for the upcoming issue of Parameters magazine. If you have any additional accolades to submit, please email me back. We're publishing news from April 2011 onward. If you have news that was not published in the spring 2011 issue, let me know and we'll include it in this issue.

Thanks!
Lindsay

Lindsay Lewis
Executive Director of Communications

University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Metin Akay delivered the keynote address titled, "Global Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities," at the first Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering.

Kirill Larin has been named a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
Vincent Donnelly is the 2011 recipient of the American Vacuum Society's John A. Thorton Memorial Award and Lecture. He will receive the honor during AVS' 58th International Symposium and Exhibition in November.

Demetre Economou received the W.T. Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award from the college.

Miguel "Micky" Fleischer received a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the Engineering Alumni Association.

Raymond Flumerfelt received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the college.

James Richardson was honored with an Excellence in Applied Catalysis Award by the Southwest Catalysis Society, the local chapter of the North American Catalysis Society.

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Abdeldjelil "DJ" Belarbi received the American Concrete Institute's Joe W. Kelly Award, an international award given to distinguished individuals to recognize outstanding contributions in education relating to the broad field of concrete.

Mina Dawood received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the college.

Thomas Hsu was recognized at the 2011 American Concrete Institute Annual Convention for 50 years of membership.

Javad Mohammadpour received an Outstanding Lecturer Award from the college.

Jerry Rogers received the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute's 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. He will also receive ASCE's 2011 Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award this November.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Betty Barr received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston. She also received a Career Teaching Award from the college.

Joe Charlson received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the college.

Ji Chen received a 2011 Technical Achievement Award from the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Ovidiu Crisan received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 5 Outstanding Student Branch Counselor Award for the second consecutive year. Region 5 is home to more than 90 IEEE student chapters in 13 states.

Diana de la Rosa-Pohl received an Outstanding Lecturer Award from the college.

Zhu Han and his two co-authors received the 2011 Fred Ellersick Prize Award for their paper on cognitive radio providers published in the April 2009 edition of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine. The award honors the best paper in an IEEE communications magazine during the last three years. He also received an Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award at the assistant professor level from the University of Houston.

Dmitri Litvinov was named a John and Rebecca Moores Professor. He also received the Senior Faculty Research Award from the college.

Wei-Chuan Shih received the Best Poster Award at the Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery conference for his poster titled, "High Throughput Chemical Imaging of Living Cells."

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Qianmei "May" Feng received the Junior Faculty Research Award and an Outstanding Teaching Award from the college.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Keith Hollingsworth received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the college.

Karolos Grigoriadis received the Abraham E. Dukler Distinguished Engineering Faculty Award from the Engineering Alumni Association.

Pradeep Sharma received an Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award at the associate professor level from the University of Houston.

Gangbing Song received the 2011 Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research Students from the University of Houston.

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