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Special New Faculty EditionBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING/MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGDANIEL CLUPPER Clupper earned his BS from Purdue University, an MS from Clemson University and his PhD from University of Florida. His areas of interest include novel absorbable polymers and other biomaterials, tape cast bioactive metal-ceramic laminates, resorbable technology and fluorescent molecules on polyethylene oxide chains. Clupper has three patents pending and published 14 articles; some of these include entries in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Materials Science: Material in Medicine, and the Journal of the European Ceramic Society. Clupper has worked as a research associate for Imperial College London, a postdoctoral associate for the University of Florida and a graduate research assistant for both the University of Florida and Clemson University. He has received two awards for his research in biomaterials, one for student travel and one research award for "Surface Activation of Phosphate Glass for Composite Formation." Clupper is also a member of Alpha Sigma Mu Materials Engineering and Keramos Ceramics Engineering. He has volunteered for International Children's Advocacy Network, for Habitat for Humanity in the United Kingdom, and as a math and science tutor. JEREMY GOLDMAN Goldman earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. His areas of interest include the molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis. Goldman has worked as a graduate research assistant and a teaching assistant in neurophysiology at Northwestern University's Biomedical Engineering Department. He has coauthored nine articles appearing in publications such as the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Advances in Biomechanics, the Journal of Biomechanics and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He has also received grants and fellowships from the American Heart Association and Northwestern University and served as the Walter P. Murphy Fellow from 1998 to 2000. ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGPIYUSH MISHRA Mishra earned his BE from Birla Institute of Technology at Mesra, India, and a PhD from Polytechnic University. His areas of interest include adaptive security and reliability protocols; energy-efficient embedded system design; high-speed, low-power cryptographic architectures; and computer-aided design. Mishra has experience teaching at Polytechnic University, where he was also a research fellow, and worked as a software engineer for Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, India. He has published one book chapter and coauthored three publications in the Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications, IEEE Transactions on CAD, and Microelectronics Journal. He has fellowships from IEEE Design Automation and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University. Mishra has also received a scholarship from Cisco Systems Information Assurance Group. He has professional affiliations with the IEEE Computer and Communications Society, and the Special Interest Group in Design Automation. ____________ MECHANICAL ENGINEERING-ENGINEERING MECHANICSJEFFREY ALLEN Allen earned his BME and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, all from the University of Dayton. While at NASA, Allen investigated micro-fluids, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, micro-fuel cells, phase-change heat transfer and bioreactors. He received NASA achievement awards for his efforts on a number of programs, including the Light Microscopy Module Development Program, the Spread across Liquids Failure Review Board and the Microgravity Science Laboratory Mission. He also was an Ohio Aerospace Institute Fellow. Allen has authored and coauthored three articles in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, and he has made dozens of presentations. He also has funding for five projects and three proposals pending. Allen has also served the public and community through science seminars to fourth, fifth and sixth graders, and as a council member for his local churches. JEFFREY NABER He earned his BS, MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Motorola, he managed a diverse group working on a mix of development and production projects including spark ignition and diesel management systems, diesel-HCCI combustion control with ionization feedback, emissions control and on-board diagnostics. While a graduate intern, he received the 1988 SAE Horning Award for his work in multiphase CFD programming. Previously, Naber was employed by Sandia National Laboratories as a researcher in the Diesel Engine Simulation Laboratory, where he worked on a constant volume vessel for combustion studies with optical access. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison he served as a research assistant in the Engine Research Center investigating two-phase flows. He also served in U.S. Army Intelligence. He has numerous skills in experimental systems, diagnostics and simulation. Naber is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers' Advance Powerplant Committee. He has also published 12 papers and obtained 11 patents issued in the areas of sensors, OBD and control. GREGORY ODEGARD He earned his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Denver. Odegard's areas of interest include constitutive modeling of nano-structured, multi-functional, and composite materials; experimental characterization of materials; and finite element analysis. His teaching interests include mechanics of materials, statics and dynamics, mechanics of composite materials, mechanical behavior of materials, continuum mechanics, material science, nanotechnology, aerospace structures, polymer science, theory of elasticity and finite elements. Odegard has served on many technical committees as a reviewer for several journals. He has received the National Research Council Fellowship for three consecutive years and the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering. Odegard has experience working as a postdoctoral research associate at NASA Langley Research Center, a graduate research assistant and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Denver, an engineer at Composite Technology Development, Inc., and as an undergraduate teaching assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has coauthored numerous articles appearing in Composites Science and Technology, Journal of Composites Technology and Research, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Journal of Composite Materials, and Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures. CHEMISTRYSHIYUE FANG He earned his BS in Chemistry Education at Anhui Teachers University, an MS in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and a PhD from the University of Missouri. Fang's interests include researching the synthesis of natural and unnatural useful molecules and the development of synthetic methodology; and teaching general chemistry, introductory and advanced organic chemistry and organometallic chemistry. He has coauthored 17 articles appearing in publications such as the Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, Organic Letters, the Journal of Chemistry, the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, and the Journal of Natural Products. Fang has been awarded several fellowships from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Anhui Teachers University. He has also received awards for his research efforts in nucleotides and nucleic acids. COMPUTER SCIENCEZHENLIN WANG He earned his BA and an MS in Computer Science at Beijing University, in China; and an MS and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts. Wang worked as a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts and Beijing University. He was also a teaching assistant and instructor at both the University of Massachusetts and Beijing University. Wang's research interests include optimizing compilers and high-performance architectures; static compiler analysis; memory system architecture; data locality; programming languages; automatic memory management; dynamic optimization; parallel computing; and embedded systems. He has coauthored three conference publications and two workshop publications. Wang also served as a referee for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the First International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, and the International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques. PHYSICSBRIAN FICK He earned his BS in Physics at Wheaton College and an MS and a PhD in Physics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Fick previously worked as a research professor at the University of Utah. His research focus is the nature and origins of extremely high-energy cosmic rays, and he has been actively involved in the Pierre Auger Observatory. He envisions the construction of a northern observatory in Utah. He has had experience in lecturing and working as a lab assistant. Fick has authored and coauthored 43 articles and presentations appearing in such publications as Astroparticle Physics and High Energy Physics. He holds memberships in the Center for Cosmological Physics, the American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society. RANJIT PATI Pati earned his BS and an MS in Physics at Utkal University, India, and a PhD in Physics at the State University of New York. His interests include electron transfer/transport theory, the electronic structure theory, molecular/nano electronics, surface physics, porous silicon, and spectroscopic properties. Pati has experience working as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico, a research affiliate at State University of New York, and as a lecturer at Science College, India. He has coauthored 12 articles appearing in publications such as Hyperfine Interactions. Pati has also given 22 presentations at professional meetings and seminars. He was awarded a national merit scholarship from the government of Orissa in India and a teaching fellowship and a benevolent research grant from State University of New York.
JAMES ORTON Orton earned his BA in English Literature and an MOB in Organizational Behavior at Brigham Young University, and a PhD in Business Administration at the University of Michigan. His areas of interest include bridging organization theory and strategic management, reorganizing processes, strategy-making processes in loosely coupled networks, US national security strategy-making processes, and the enactment of the European mobile phone value network. Orton has experience as an instructor and assistant professor at Boston College. He also served as a visiting assistant professor in the Behavioral and Policy Sciences Group at MIT and was an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award and a New Investigator Award. He has written and coauthored several journal publications, book chapters, reviews, encyclopedia entries, newsletter interviews and commentaries appearing in Academy of Management Learning and Education, the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Studies, Organization and Management Theory Newsletter, the Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, and Communication Yearbook. He has received awards for his teaching, research and service from HEC Research Foundation, Strategic Management Society, and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management. Orton has been an investigator on numerous funded research projects, including a $75,000 proposal to study high-tech ventures. JOANNE SCILLITOE She earned an AAS in Biological Technology from Middlesex County College, New Jersey, a BS in Business Administration from the College of New Jersey and MBA and PhD degrees in Organizational Management from Rutgers University. Scillitoe's area of interest includes the development and growth of new ventures affiliated with the university-linked technology incubators. She has experience as a lab manager/undergraduate administrator at Princeton University, a quality assurance specialist/metabolism scientist at XenoBiotic Laboratories, in Plainsboro, N.J., and as a laboratory technician for FMC Corporation, also in Plainsboro. Scillitoe has teaching experience as a lecturer and teaching assistant at Rutgers. She has presented several papers and a number of works in progress and certification as a lifetime certified scientific materials manager. Scillitoe is a member of the Academy of Management, the Eastern Academy of Management, and the Strategic Management Society
VICTOR BUSOV He earned his BS from Bulgarian Higher Forestry Institute, an MS from Southern Illinois University, and a PhD from North Carolina State University. Busov's areas of interest include functional genomics of woody development, gibberellins metabolism and signal transduction pathways, molecular biology of adventitious and lateral root formation, and small RNA regulation of wood formation. He has worked as a teaching assistant, research associate, graduate research assistant, and postdoctoral research associate. Busov has published peer-reviewed articles in Planta, Trends in Plant Science, Plant Physiology, Forest Genetics, and Population Genetics and Gene Conservation. He has been an investigator on four grants totaling $547,245. Busov has served as an ad hoc reviewer for the USDA_NRI Competitive Grants Program. Among his awards, he has received the Namkoong's Family Fellowship for Academic and Teaching Excellence and the North Carolina Biotechnology Consortium Travel Award. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Busov has also volunteered as a presenter to seventh and eighth graders demonstrating classroom laboratory exercises. GUY HEMBROFF Hemboff has worked as a research assistant at Michigan State University's Department of Telecommunications, where he researched three grants for Marquette General Hospital's Telehealth Program. He also was a senior plan administrator at the accounting firm of Larson, Allen, Weishair, & Co., St. Cloud, Minn., and a teaching assistant at Northern Michigan University's Department of Political Science. Hemboff is a member of the American Society of Public Administration and the Graduate Association of Public Administration, and is a certified Cisco Systems member. MICHAEL POWERS Powers earned his BS in Mathematical Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn, and an MSEE in Communications Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. He has worked as the president/commanding officer of the Coast Guard electronics systems support unit in Seattle. Previously, Powers worked as an executive officer, second in command, aboard the USCGC Polar Sea, a polar icebreaker, which was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. He also served as a chief information officer of the Eighth Coast Guard District in New Orleans and chief of the radio systems section of the Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command in Alameda, Calif. Powers has a general radiotelephone operator's license from the Federal Communications Commission and a certificate as a communications technology technician from the Electronics Technicians Association. He is also a member of several professional associations, including the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Electronics Technician Association and the Society of Broadcast Engineers. |
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