2014 AAAS Engineering Section Business Meeting

 

Friday February 14, 2014

 

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Room: Crystal Ballroom C

 

MINUTES

 

1.   Introductions: Kristina Johnson, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:30 AM after around 15 minutes of networking with coffee and snacks being served.  She asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in Appendix A.

 

2.   Approval of Minutes: Dr. Johnson asked for comments and suggested changes to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 15, 2013, at the Boston Annual meeting. The draft minutes were prepared by Marwan Simaan, Section Secretary, and posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2013 Boston meeting.  Copies of the draft minutes were also distributed at the meeting.  There were no comments made or changes suggested.  A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

3.  Section Chair Remarks:  Dr. Johnson’s remarks reflected on the opening plenary session by AAAS President Phil Sharp, including the need for focusing on manufacturing, engineering research, and education.  She discussed the NSF research centers that were established as a collective action over 30 years ago. She also discussed cash grants for doubling of renewal energy, a program that was implemented during her tenure as Undersecretary in the US Department of Energy. This program addressed the question of how to scale the energy infrastructure, including (1) a broader view of energy (emissions, mitigation), (2) what engineering can give back to the people (complexity of the system), and (3) finding skilled workers (the average age of the energy worker was 48).  She concluded by saying that we need to figure out ways to train the workforce to deal with the complexities associated with scaling the energy infrastructure.

 

4.   Announcements:  Dr. Johnson announced that W. Kent Fuchs (Cornell University) has been elected Chair-Elect and Nicholas L. Abbott (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section’s Steering Group both effective February 18, 2014.  She also announced that Linda Broadbelt (Northwestern University) and David B. Williams (Ohio State University) have been elected to the Engineering Section Electorate Nominating Committee.

 

Dr. Johnson thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual Meeting:  John L. Anderson as Retiring Chai, Gary S. May as Retiring Member-at-Large, and Margaret Murnane and Sarah Rajala as Retiring Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee.

 

On February 18, 2014 Dr. Johnson will become the Retiring Chair and in that capacity she will serve on the AAAS Council and she will also Chair the Electorate Nominating Committee. 

 

Dr. John Anderson, Chair of the ENC, thanked the members of the Electorate Nominating Committee for their hard work in identifying nominees during this last election cycle. 

 

Dr. Johnson also announced that 30 of the 388 elected AAAS Fellows in 2013 are affiliated with our section. A list of their names was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix B.  All the newly elected Fellows from our section were invited to attend our business meeting.  Unfortunately due to a snow storm on the East Coast only 4 of the 10 Fellows who responded were able to attend.  Stephen A Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan; Klaus S. Lackner, Columbia University; and Carlo Uberto Serge, Illinois Institute of Technology.  Dr. Johnson welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting. She asked each of them to briefly describe their research interests. The newly elected Fellows introduced themselves and each said a few words about his/her research interests. 

 

5.   2015 AAAS Annual Meeting: At the section officers meeting which was held prior to our business meeting, Dr. Simaan invited AAAS President-Elect Gerald Fink to come to our business meeting at his convenience anytime between 9:30 am and 12:30pm to discuss the theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting with those present at our meeting.  Dr. Fink joined our meeting at the point when the last newly elected Fellow was describing his research. Dr. Johnson welcomed him.  Dr. Fink introduced the theme of the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting: Innovation, Information and Imaging.  He mentioned that science and technology are being transformed by new ways to collect and use information. Progress in all fields is increasingly driven by the ability to organize, visualize, and analyze data. Advances in information and imaging technologies are generating novel applications in fields such as biochemistry, computer science, particle physics, genomics, and oceanography, and creating ways to interpret data across disciplines. This transformation makes scientific information more open, available, and accessible globally. The escalating amount of data, and advances in data analysis, are changing the ways we discover answers to scientific and societal problems. Thoughtful consideration of how information is used for societal benefit, evaluated for potential risks, and communicated beyond the scientific community will allow this revolution to reach its full potential.

 

Dr. Fink indicated that the theme was appropriate for the Silicon Valley. He reflected on his high school calculus teachers who were from local engineering school and his path into bio and his best friend’s path into engineering and now how they were both working on projects that were bioengineering related. He further discussed how imaging has led to the convergence of fields in many areas and how the overlap in fields is dependent on engineering, including neurocircuits and degenerative diseases. This convergence is occurring in both industry and academia for the common good.

 

He then encouraged members of our section to submit symposia proposals for the meeting. He added that the proposal submission site and instructions, including further description of the theme, can now be accessed at https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/cfp.cgi. The deadline for submission is Friday April 25, 2014, 11:59pm, PT.  Decisions will be announced in late June.  Before leaving, Dr. Fink answered several questions from the attendees largely focused on how to increase the acceptance rate of proposals submitted from our section.

 

6.   Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Johnson asked Marwan Simaan, the section secretary to review the AAAS Fellow nomination process which is the same as in previous years.  Dr. Simaan mentioned that our  section currently has 7,463 Members (primary affiliation: 3,767, secondary affiliation: 2,291, and tertiary affiliation: 1,405). This year 30 members of our section were elected Fellows of AAAS.  He also mentioned that there is a new rule beginning last year, which mandates that a nominee for Fellow must have been a AAAS member in good standing for the four consecutive years prior to the time of nomination.  This means that for the upcoming election, a member must have been a continuous member in good standing since December 31, 2010. The new rule also limits to no more than two the number of three Fellow nominations that a AAAS Fellow can serve on as a sponsor.

 

Dr. Simaan then described the Fellow nomination process. There are three ways a AAAS member can be nominated:

 

1)      By a member of the Steering Group (method 1)

2)      By a group of three Fellows (method 2), and

3)      By the AAAS Chief Executive Officer (method 3).

 

For Fellow nominations by members of the Steering Group (method 1), he mentioned that this method is subject to a quota of no more than 0.4% of the section primary membership, which is equal to 15 for this year.  Information on the nomination process by a group of three Fellows (method 2) and a copy of the nomination form can be found on the AAAS main website (http://www.aaas.org/page/aaas-fellows).

A link to that website can also be found on our section Website (http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m).  Dr. Simaan also mentioned that the deadline for Fellow nominations by a group of three Fellows is April 16, 2014, and that there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows method.   By May 16, 2014, all members of the Steering Group will receive from the AAAS Executive Office copies of the nomination materials for all nominees by the section and a voting sheet that they will need to complete and return to him by June 13, 2014.  Dr. Simaan will then forward all votes to the Executive Office.  He concluded by saying that in all three methods, a successful candidate must receive no less than five “Yes” votes and no more than two “No” votes.

 

7.  Update on AAAS Council Issues of Interest to Section M: Our council delegates Drs. Anderson, Cooper and McIntire provided an update on the council delegate term issue. They mentioned that the Committee on Council Affairs (CCA) has recommended approval of staggering the delegate terms and that this recommendation will now move forward to the Council for approval.  It will be on Council’s agenda for the February 16th council meeting. The proposal for staggering the terms reads as follows:

 

“The CCA recommends approval of staggering the terms of Council Delegates in sections with more than one delegate. In order to accomplish this, instead of asking delegates to extend or shorten their terms, it is proposed that next time there is an election; there should be temporary altered terms until normalization. For example, if a section has three delegates and they are up for election in 2015, one delegate will be asked (by the section’s electorate nominating committee) to run for a one-year term (until 2016), one delegate will be asked to run for a two-year term (until 2017), and the third delegate will be asked to run for a three-year term (until 2018). This would establish a yearly pattern of elections in 2016 (one delegate), 2017 (one delegate) and 2018 (one delegate). Beginning in 2018, one delegate position will be up every year and go back to serving three year terms but on a staggered basis.

 

One potential issue is that the number of delegates is tied to the primary membership count of that section, and the count can change from year to year, potentially affecting the number of delegates a section is allowed to have. With the above proposal, any potential over-representation or under-representation will only persist for a year, and can be addressed at the next election by running additional or fewer delegates as needed.

 

The sections with fewer than three delegates can have an off year between running candidates.”

 

It was noted that if the recommendation is approved, our section will have a council delegate election coming up in 2014 (for terms beginning in 2015).  As noted above one delegate will be elected for a 2 year period and the other for a 3 year period. 

 

 

8.  Proposed Symposia for the 2015 Annual Meeting:  The 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in San Jose, CA, February 12-16, 2015.  The theme of the meeting is “Innovation in Information and Imaging”.

 

“Science and technology are being transformed by new ways to collect and use information. Progress in all fields is increasingly driven by the ability to organize, visualize, and analyze data. Advances in information and imaging technologies are generating novel applications in fields such as biochemistry, computer science, particle physics, genomics, and oceanography, and creating ways to interpret data across disciplines. This transformation makes scientific information more open, available, and accessible globally. The escalating amount of data, and advances in data analysis, are changing the ways we discover answers to scientific and societal problems. Thoughtful consideration of how information is used for societal benefit, evaluated for potential risks, and communicated beyond the scientific community will allow this revolution to reach its full potential.”

 

AAAS asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three or more hot topics to be discussed at the 2015 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday afternoon 2-4pm.  These hot topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2015 Annual meeting.   Dr. Johnson asked for ideas and suggestions.  A discussion followed with everyone present contributing ideas. A summary of these ideas is given below including details obtained after the meeting but before the Sunday afternoon planning meeting. Proposals 8.4 and 8.5 were emailed to Dr. Simaan after the business meeting due to the fact that the organizers were not able to attend the meeting because of the snow storm.

 

8.1 Sealed Leaks and Avoided Spills: Next Generation Sensors for Energy and Water Infrastructure

 

Organizers: Sushanta Mitra (University of Alberta), Kristina Johnson (Enduring Hydro), and Alex Dale (Engineers for a Sustainable World)

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Information, Computing and Communication Section

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Synopsis: Energy and water resources and their associated infrastructure are critical to providing economic growth, and a creating a sustainable future Water infrastructure in many developed countries is aging, leaky, and easily compromised, as witnessed by recent cases of water contamination by chemical spills (WV January 2014) and coal ash spills (VA February 2014). Access to safe drinking water is an even bigger challenge for developing countries.

 

In the energy sector, infrastructure plays a crucial role in ensuring energy security and economic prosperity. The recent debate related to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to connect Canada’s oil sands to refineries and ports in the United States are focused in large part on the potential for spills and subsequent environmental disasters. .Can ground breaking innovation in sensor, imaging, and data analysis help predict and mitigate environmental risks of harvesting these natural resources? The aim of the symposium is to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and investment community to discuss state of the art sensing, imaging and information systems that can assess and predict water and energy infrastructure failure, thus allowing us to be better stewards of the environment and our natural resources. 

 

Tentative Speakers:

1.      Challenges with Energy Infrastructure, (Speaker: TBD.  ATD suggested Greg Reed, U. of Pittsburgh)

2.      Challenges with Water Infrastructure,  (Speaker: TBD)

3.      New Paradigms in Sensor Technology,  (Speaker: TBD)

4.      Data Analytics: Convergence of Imaging, Sensor for ICT Platform (Speaker: TBD)

5.      Policies Related to Safe Energy and Water Infrastructure, (Speaker: Dr Ernest Moniz)

6.      Investments in Energy and Water Infrastructure, (Speaker: TBD)

 

8.2 Our Computational Foundation Crisis and Life Beyond

 

Organizers:   Jon Candelaria, Director, Interconnect & Packaging Sciences, Semiconductor Research Corporation, PO Box 12053, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2053; Phone Number: 919- 941-9400; Fax Number: 919-941-9450; Email: Jon.Candelaria@src.org, and Larry A. Nagahara, Director, Office of Physical Sciences - Oncology, National Cancer Institute, 31 Center Drive, MSC2580 Bldg. 31, Rm 10A03, Bethesda, MD 20892; Phone Number: 301-451-3388; Fax Number: 301-480-9944; Email: Larry.Nagahara@nih.gov

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Scheduling and Time Justification:  In the now famous and highly cited report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences entitled” The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or next Level?” the following statements were made: “The essential engine that made exponential growth possible is now in considerable danger.  The implications of a dramatic slowdown in how quickly computer performance is increasing - for our economy, our military, our research institutes, and our way of life - are substantial.” These dramatic Statements were not hyperbole nor were they arbitrary, unfounded, “doomsday’ statements. Such a crisis is very real and has been building for the last decade and while not gone unnoticed, has not yet been addressed nor has a clear solution path been identified.

 

Session Description: In a report from a workshop entitled “Architecture and technology for Extreme Scale Computing,” which was driven by DOE’s Scientific Grand Challenges initiative, the following summary statement were made: The challenges and projected trends elaborated on in depth within this report “…will make it increasingly difficult for a broad range of computational   scientists to use the most powerful computing systems. This suggests that computational scientists and computer architects must sit down together to understand the complete range of tradeoffs possible for each of them, and then co-design their codes and systems to maximize scientific throughput.”   In line with the 2015 theme “Innovation, Information and Imaging”, the transformation in the way we collect and use information (i.e., progress) assumes that these pending challenges either do not exist or assumed to be circumvented.   Hence in order for this revolution to reach its full potential we will need to address this pending challenge in computing performance.

 

Because of the diversity of the participants that the AAAS Conference attracts, it is the ideal forum to bring together  the broadest  cross-section  of  the scientific  community  who are  dependent  on the continuum of computational performance capabilities to advance their discoveries, and expose them to this crisis as well as engage them in direct dialog with the computer science community to begin this critically  important  process. It is proposed that this session begins with  a series of brief talks that  begin  with  a  history  of  how computers  were  created and  for  what  purposes,  through  the description of the technical challenges that now define the crisis being faced, to the visions of a few world experts on the possibilities that lie ahead. The most important part of this session however will be the open panel session which will involve an open dialog between the invited speakers and the scientific and computer community represented in the audience. Beyond educating the audience about the crisis and opening this critical dialog, this session will be aimed at an ambitious goal of drafting together a list of a minimal set of category designations that could describe the full range of problem types and ‘workloads’ projected to be faced in the future.  This event will be expected to jump start further such forums and direct dialogs that are suggested above in the DOE’s report as critical  to  the advancement of  the foundational  computing  infrastructure  upon  which  all of our scientific and engineering advancement will be based.

 

Suggested Speakers:

 

1.       George Dyson: World Renown Author and Historian; Author of “Turing’s Cathedral”

2.       William Dally:  Professor at Stanford University and CTO of Nvidia Corp.

  1. Eric Schmidt: Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google and Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

4.       John Kelly III:  IBM Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research

5.       W. Danny Hillis:   Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds, co-founded

Thinking Machines Corporation

 

Suggested Panel Moderator:

 

          Tom Kalil: Deputy Director for Policy and Assistant Director of the Office of Science            Technology Policy

 

8.3 Integrative Imaging: From Molecules to Man

 

Organizers:  Stephen Boppart, M.D., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Ted Conway, Ph.D., Florida Institute of Technology

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Synopsis: Imaging science and technology have enabled us to see the unseen, and visualize enormous amounts of data in a more comprehensible way.  To enable solutions for the complex questions we now face in biology and medicine, imaging across spatial and temporal scales that span many orders of magnitude is required to provide the data for simulations, models, visualization of structure and function, and to fundamentally enhance our understanding of these complex processes.  In medicine, traditional clinical imaging modalities such as x-ray CT, MRI, and PET enable visualization at the level of the human body and its organs.  Currently, these technologies are limited in their resolution to visualize at the cellular scale.  Optical imaging technologies excel at visualizing cells and even single molecules, but few technological solutions exist to integrate imaging technologies and data across these scales, from molecules to man. In order to address these challenges, a variety of funding agencies including DARPA, NIH and NSF have allocated funds directed at using these multi-scale imaging technologies to map a myriad of brain activities and to investigate the tumor treatment response.  This symposium will assemble a unique group of leading researchers that highlight these challenges while offering the promise that can come from using imaging, computational power, and visualization science to advance our systems-level understanding of states of health and disease.

 

Potential Invited Speakers:

1)      TBD, System-level thinking in medicine and biology and the need for integrative imaging across spatial and temporal scales.

2)      TBD, Brain imaging of function and dysfunction (presenting state-of-the-art for imaging at large spatial scales).

3)      TBD, Cellular and molecular imaging of dynamic neural circuits using optogenetics and fast optical imaging.

4)      TBD, Imaging the therapeutic response of cancer (presenting clinical patient results, limitations).

5)      TBD, Cellular and molecular intravital imaging of tumor pharmacotherapy and response.

6)      TBD, Computational imaging and visualization of enormous data sets (how do we make sense of image data overload?).

 

8.4 Designing Secure and Sustainable Engineering Systems under Information Uncertainty and Overload

 

Symposium Organizers:  Dr. Sankar Basu, National Science Foundation (CISE/CCF), Embassy Science Fellow at the US Embassy Berlin, 2011. Dr. Igor Linkov, US Army Engineering Research and Development Center, Embassy Science Fellow at the US Embassy Berlin, 2012.

 

Potential Collaboration with:  Information, Computing and Communication (T). Industrial Science and Technology (P).

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Synopsis: A huge volume of data has been collected to develop threat scenarios, assess vulnerabilities and model consequences associated with potential attacks on complex engineered systems, yet our understanding of the threats affecting these systems, and the relevance of this data in modeling them is uncertain. Escalating losses associated with unexpected events such as cyber-attacks have focused attention on new approaches to reducing damages and mitigating consequences that rely not just on the measureable components of the system. The dominant management paradigm of the past several decades centered on risk analysis but may be difficult to implement in dealing with emerging threats given a paucity of relevant information on extensively interconnected systems. This session will explore the concept of resilience as the guiding principle for assessing properties of the whole system, including physical, information, cognitive, and social domains. The current knowledge on threats, vulnerabilities and consequences, whilst limited, can nevertheless guide design of systems to avoid future risks, provided that we apply an integrated approach that addresses the complete product supply chain. This session brings together government officials and technology industry representatives responsible for cyber risk management and top scientists studying secure and sustainable systems.   The dynamic nature of cyber risks requires semi-quantitative design and evaluation methods that integrate technical data and with value judgments in a framework that can be deployed rapidly and is adaptive to new information.

 

Discussant: Ken Heffner, Honeywell Corp.

 

Tentative Speakers:

 

  1. Dr. Stephan Lechter, Director, European Commission Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (Italy).
  2. Prof. Shankar Sastry, Dean of Engineering, UC Berkeley, and Lead investigator NSF STC program on cybersecurity research.
  3. Prof. Stephanie Forrest, U of New Mexico (Jefferson Fellow, State Department) or Prof. John Savage, Brown University (past Jefferson Fellow, State Department).
  4. Prof. Fred Schneider, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
  5. Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstad, Germany.

 

8.5 Improving Quality of Life through Transforming Images to Decisions

 

Organizers: Ram Sriram (section M), Ramesh Jain (section N), and Donald Henson, MD Section N, to be confirmed)

 

Potential Collaboration with: TBD

 

Symposium Length:  180 min

 

Brief Description:  Images have become prevalent in our lives as a means of observing our surrounding at multiple scales. While the progress in developing and applying imaging sensors has been tremendous, there is still a lack of knowledge on how to transform images into decisions. This is especially true in applications where images could improve quality of our life. We will focus this workshop session on a broad range of applications where a human subject and the well-being are of main concern. These applications span assisted living environments equipped with video cameras to monitor elderly, medical imaging instruments acquiring measurements of human body to understand anomalies (MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound), to bio-manufacturing and tissue engineering using high-throughput microscopes to guarantee quality and safety of cell therapies. We will focus on contributions that describe challenges encountered in use cases seeking to improve quality of life through transforming images to decisions.

 

Tentative Speakers: TBD (will be from all over the globe (e.g. US, S Korea, Poland, …)

Dr. Anderson encouraged all those who have suggested these ideas to develop them further and submit them on the AAAS proposal submission website by the deadline of April 25, 2014.

 

Finally, Dr. Johnson asked for suggestions for plenary and topical lectures speakers.  The name of Dean Kamen was suggested as a plenary speaker.

 

9.   New Business: Dr. Johnson asked if there is any other new business or issues to be discussed before adjournment. None were brought to the floor.                                                                                                                                          

 

10.   Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:45am.  Lunch was served.

 

 

Submitted by:

Marwan A. Simaan

Secretary, Engineering Section (M)

February 25, 2014

 

 

Appendix A

 

Attendance List

 

1.      Kristina M. Johnson, Chair

2.      John L. Anderson, Retiring Chair

3.      Nicholas A. Peppas, Chair-Elect

4.      Marwan A. Simaan, Secretary

5.      Ilesanmi Adesida, Member-at-Large

6.      Stuart L. Cooper, Council Delegate

7.      Larry V. McIntire, Council Delegate

8.      Edmund G. Seebauer, Member, Electorate Nominating Committee

9.      Duncan T. Moore, Past Section Chair

10.  Yolanda George, Program Office

11.  Carlo Uberto Segre, Newly Elected Fellow

12.  Klaus S. Lackner, Newly Elected Fellow

13.  Stephen A. Boppart, Newly Elected Fellow

14.  Sharon C. Glotzer, Newly Elected Fellow

15.  U. Sunday Tim, Representative AWRA

16.  Krishna S. Athrey (COOS Committee Chair)

17.  Mario Gomes

18.  Ted Conway

19.  Alexander Dale

20.  Christine Grant

21.  Wei Zhang

22.  Sankar Basu

23.  David Lubman

24.  Sushanta Mitra

25.  Catherine Didion

26.  Raphael Lee

27.  Kelly A. Rusch

28.  Ihab Awad

                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appendix B

 

New AAAS Fellows elected in 2013

 

Newly elected Fellows affiliated with section M (Engineering) are:

 

François Baneyx, University of Washington: For distinguished contributions to the fields of recombinant protein expression and protein-aided materials synthesis. 

Mark A. Barteau, University of Michigan Energy Institute: For groundbreaking contributions to metal oxides and transition metal catalysis, which led to the development of fundamental understanding and design of novel, improved catalysts. 

Stephen A. Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For distinguished contributions to optical coherence tomography and its applications to biomedical imaging. 

James J. Collins, Boston University: For pioneering contributions to synthetic biology and engineered gene networks, as well as fundamental discoveries regarding the actions of antibiotics and the emergence of resistance. 

Harold G. Craighead, Cornell University: For distinguished contributions to nanotechnology and its applications in electronic, mechanical, optical, and biomedical fields. 

Horacio Dante Espinosa, Northwestern University: For distinguished contributions to the field of mechanics of materials, particularly for the development of novel in-situ microscopy experiments and their interpretation with atomistic modeling. 

Glenn H. Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara: For contributions to our understanding of block copolymers, complex fluids, and other soft matter. 

Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan: For groundbreaking simulations of the self-assembly of nanoparticles into complex structures, and theoretical contributions to patchy particles, colloidal crystals, quasicrystals and glass forming liquids. 

Kenneth E. Goodson, Stanford University: For distinguished contributions in the thermal sciences, particularly for the advancement of heat transfer research in electronic nanostructures and packaging. 

Kevin Edward Healy, University of California, Berkeley: For distinguished contributions to the fields of bioengineering and biomaterials science, particularly for the understanding and development of bioinspired materials. 

Kanti Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For the invention and development of fundamental manufacturing processes and systems for high resolution and large area micro- and nanolithography. 

Ali Khademhosseini, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School: For outstanding contributions at the interface of engineering, materials sciences, and biology, and in particular for the application of micro- and nanoengineered materials for regenerative medicine. 

William P. King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For seminal contributions to the engineering of nanometer-scale thermal and mechanical systems and their applications to fundamental understanding of the properties of materials. 

Klaus S. Lackner, Columbia University: For groundbreaking innovations in the fields of sustainable energy and carbon management. 

Robert Samuel Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: For inventions and discoveries that led to the development of controlled drug release systems, engineered tissues, and new biomaterials. 

Cato Thomas Laurencin, University of Connecticut: For international leadership in biomaterials sciences and engineering, for the development of revolutionary technologies for musculoskeletal regeneration, and for extraordinary work in mentoring. 

Frances S. Ligler, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: For creation of biosensor systems and fostering careers in interdisciplinary science and engineering. 

Bruce Ernest Logan, Pennsylvania State University: For important contributions to environmental engineering, with pioneering research in microbial fuel cells and related electrochemical technologies for achieving an energy sustainable water infrastructure. 

Hang Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions to the field of engineering systems for high-throughput quantitative and systems biology, particularly for microfluidics, automation, image-based science, and phenomics. 

Glenn E. Lucas, University of California, Santa Barbara: For distinguished contributions to the field of mechanical deformation and fracture in structural materials and for extraordinary leadership in university administration. 

Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin: For seminal contributions to bioinformatics and imaging physics to improve the detection of cancer, and for leadership in biomedical engineering education. 

Suresh Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology: For distinguished and innovative contributions to the field of multi-scale computational simulation and modeling of turbulent combustion in power and propulsion systems.

Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technology University: For leading contributions to the field of nonlinear electrokinetics, particularly discernment of surface molecules with electric fields in microdevices, and for leadership of the field as the AES Electrophoresis Society president. 

Brij M. Moudgil, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions to the field of particle science and technology, particularly for engineered particulate systems for enhanced performance in existing and emerging technologies. 

Carlo Uberto Segre, Illinois Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering, particularly high temperature superconductivity and development of facilities for synchrotron radiation studies of electrochemical and catalytic systems. 

David N. Seidman, Northwestern University: For distinguished pioneering and seminal applications of field-ion microscopy and atom-probe tomography to fundamental scientific and technological problems in materials science and engineering. 

Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego: For unique and outstanding contributions at the interface of engineering, life sciences, and informatics, particularly in applications to systems biology and medicine. 

Grétar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame: For the advancement of numerical methods to track the motion of fluid interfaces and innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering education. 

Bruce C. Wheeler, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions to in vitro neural engineering technology and research, to the development of biomedical engineering departments, and to the engineering education. 

Xi-Cheng Zhang, University of Rochester/Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China): For distinguished contributions to the generation and detection of broadband terahertz waves, particularly for free-space electro-optic sampling and terahertz air photonics with femtosecond lasers.