All, Congratulations to Jim Litster and his team! Arvind
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Subject: 2014-15 Preeminent Teams Competition
Colleagues -
I am pleased to announce the four teams selected in this year's College of Engineering Preeminent Teams competition:
Team #3 Designer Particulate Products
Lead: Jim Litster, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Members:
Klein Ileleji, Associate Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Zoltan Nagy, Professor of Chemical Engineering
Lynne Taylor, Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Carl Wassgren, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Team #5 Nanomanufacturing
Lead: Ali Shakouri, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center
Members: Jan Allebach, Hewlett Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gary Cheng, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
George Chiu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Timothy Fisher, James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Joe Kokini, Professor of Food Science
Kinam Park, Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Rodo Pinal, Associate Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Arvind Raman, Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs and Robert V Adams Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Alex Wei, Professor of Chemistry
Jeff Youngblood, Associate Professor of Materials Engineering
Babak Ziaie, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Team #7: Spintronics: Atoms to Systems
Lead: Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Members: Joerg Appenzeller, Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director of Nanoelectronics in the Birck Nanotechnology Center
Yong Chen, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhihong Chen, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ernesto Marinero, Professor of Engineering Practice of Materials Engineering
Anand Raghunathan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kaushik Roy, Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Team #11: Cold Plasmas
Lead: Sergey Macheret, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Members: Alina Alexeenko, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sally Bane, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Timothy Fisher, James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Allen Garner, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Ahmed Hassanein, Paul L. Wattelet Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Head, School of Nuclear Engineering
Kevin Keener, Professor of Food Science
Robert Lucht, Ralph and Bettye Bailey Professor of Combustion in Mechanical Engineering
Dimitrios Peroulis, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Please join me in congratulating the members of this year's Preeminent Teams.
This year 27 teams, comprising of more than 150 faculty members, participated in the Preeminent Teams competition. The panelists were unanimous in their compliments to all of the teams for the evidence of strength, teamwork, and the impressive
array of ideas. I extend my thanks and congratulations to all of the faculty who participated.
Over the next couple of weeks, watch the College of Engineering homepage for a spotlight describing the selected teams' proposed research.
Best,
leah
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