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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

• Prof. Prabhas Moghe Receives EGC BME-UG Teaching Excellency Award • Prof. Sofou Receives EGC CBE-UG Teaching Excellency Award • Professors David Shreiber and Marianthi Ierapetritou awarded the SoE 2012

Outstanding Faculty Award • Prof. Prabhas Moghe awarded SOE 2012 Faculty of the Year Award • Professors Martin Yarmush (PI), Rene Schloss and David Shreiber have been

awarded a 3-year, $540,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research for a project entitled, "Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Traumatic Brain Injury Therapeutics".

• Professor Stavroula Sofou received a 4-year, $720,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to design and evaluate a targeted liposomal antivascular alpha-particle therapeutic approach for the treatment of cancer.

• Professor Martin Yarmush has been awarded a 4-year, $2.3M NIH grant entitled, "Recellularization of Liver Bioscaffolds".

• Professor Anant Madabhushi (PI) and Ibris Inc., a start-up company founded by Professor Madabhushi and Dr. James Monaco in 2010, has been awarded a 1 year Phase 1 NIH SBIR award.

School of Engineering

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

• Three BME students were recipient of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3-year) to pursue a doctoral degree at a program and institution of student choice:

• Elaine Yu, BME senior (current advisor Professor Anant Madabhushi) • Alyssa Kosmides, BME senior (current advisor Professor Androulakis) • Dana Mastrovito, BME grad student (current advisor Professor Hanson)

• George Lee, a 4th year BME Grad student received 2-year Department of Defense Pre-Doctoral Training Award (current advisor Professor Anant Madabhushi)

• Nine BME Undergraduates Receive Aresty Research Awards for Spring 2012: 1) Donrey Acharon, current advisor Professor Martin Schwander. 2) Molly Carroll, current advisor Professor Charles Roth. 3) Kaivalya Deshpande, current advisor Professor Martin Schwander. 4) Jarrett Johnson, current advisor Professor Jeffrey Zahn. 5) Vincent Luo , current advisor Professor Bonnie Firestein. 6) Ajay Menon , current advisor Professor Joseph Freeman. 7) Elayne Schneebacher, current Professor Adrian Mann. 8) Dhara Zala, current advisor Professor Li Cai. 9) UnChan Pyon, current advisor Professor Francois Berthiaume


CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

• Engineering Research Center was renewed for 4 more years by NSF

• NSF Director Subra Suresh’s testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on the Manufacturing Industry used our ERC as the example of how these centers support manufacturing, and how our ERC has revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry

• Alex Neimark elected a Fellow of the AIChE

• Charles Roth was promoted to Professor I

• Tewodros Asefa was promoted to Associate Professor

• Tewodros Asefa was awarded one of four Board of Trustees Research Fellowships For Scholarly Excellence

• Professor Stavroula Sofou received a 4-year, $720,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society

• Dr. Mathew Metzger Received the 2011-2012 School of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

• Rutgers ChemE Car Team B qualified for the National competition in Pittsburgh, PA

• Rutgers AIChE Student Chapter will host the next Mid Atlantic Regional Conference


CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Long Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program

• Evaluation, monitoring and collection of high-quality data on bridges nationwide to develop better management solutions and improve the performance, durability and safety of highway bridges.

• A twenty year initiative by Federal Highway Administration.

• CAIT (CEE faculty lead) Phase 1 (5 years) - $25.5M


ANDERS PROJECT (Automated Nondestructive Evaluation and Rehabilitation System)

• Rapid nondestructive local and global assessment of bridges combined with minimally invasive early stage rehabilitation using robotics.

• Project sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology-Technology Innovation Program (NIST-TIP) - $9M+$9M match. CAIT project with participating faculty from CEE, ISE and MAE.

departments.


ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

• ECE Prof. Dario Pompili receives 2012 ONR Young Investigator Award ECE Prof. Dario Pompili receives 2012 DARPA Faculty Program Award ECE Prof. Wei Jiang receives 2012 DARPA Faculty Program Award Rutgers and IBM announce collaborative venture to create a high-performance computing center on campus. Spearheaded by ECE Prof. Manish Parashar.

• ECE Prof. Janne Lindqvist's mobile privacy project featured on MIT Technology Review • ECE Prof. Marco Gruteser’s work featured on MIT Technology Review (App battles driver

distraction but spares drivers) • ECE Faculty K. Dana, Y. Lu, R. Raychaudhuri, D. Silver awarded US patents • ECE Prof. Peter Meer, 2012 IEEE Fellow • Publications by ECE Profs. Meer, Rabiner and Walling among top 100 IEEE downloads • ECE Prof. N. Mandayam elected as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications

Society • ECE Prof. A. Petropulu elected to the IEEE Fellow Reference Committee of IEEE Signal

Processing Society • ECE Prof. Y. Zhang and team receive Best Poster Award at SENSYS 2011 • ECE Prof. M. Gruteser and team receive Best Paper Award at MOBICOM 2011 • ECE Prof. M. Parashar briefs Congress on cloud computing. The Co-Chairs of the event were

Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) and Rush Holt (D-N.J.) • Senators Franken and Coons cited ECE Prof. M. Gruteser’s work


ECE Student Achievement


ECE WINLAB TEAM

Best Poster Award at SenSys 2011

Proposed RF based device-free passive localization. This technique observes how people disturb the pattern of radio waves in an indoor space and derives their positions accordingly.

Best Paper Award at MobiCom 2011

The work addresses the problem of distinguishing between a driver and passenger using a mobile phone, which is a key milestone for enabling numerous driver safety and phone interface enhancements. The project developed a detection system that leverages the existing car stereo infrastructure, in particular, the car speakers and hands-free Bluetooth system.


ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING FACULTY

Mobile Privacy

ECE Prof. Janne Lindqvist's mobile privacy project featured on MIT Technology Review.

Give people simple ways to opt out of tracking, and communicate the often privacy threats associated with many smart-phone apps.

Outsource the screening task and then give consumers intuitive warnings about dubious data-access settings. The prototype system, built for Android apps for now, sends the app's description—and its associated data-access requests—to human workers through Amazon's Mechanical

Turk crowdsourcing service.

Rutgers and IBM Collaborate A collaborative venture to create a high-performance computing project that will focus on the application of "big data" analytics in life sciences, finance, and other industries.


https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

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http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/node/794

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FACULTY

• US News Report Ranking of ISE in 2012: #21

• 2 NSF CAREER Award winners

• 5 IIE Fellows

• 1 ASME Fellow

• 1 IEEE Fellow

• Fulbright Scholar Awards

• 2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award

• Engineer of the Year Award by IEEE RS.

• Faculty published over 40 journal articles, 3 books

• Faculty serve as INFORMS President, EICs, Editors, Associate Editors,

Editorial Board of over 20 journals

• Faculty delivered conference keynotes/plenary: 6


MATERIALS SCIENCE ENGINEERING

• Professor Haber wins $9m share of US Army Cooperative Research Alliance (CRA) in Materials for Extreme Dynamic Environments (MEDE). Announced April 16, 2012. 10 year program.

• Inovative culture of Materials Science Department has generated high level of intellectual property for Rutgers. 79 patent applications and18 patents in last 5 years. Greater than 11% of University-wide total.

• $500,000 gift received from Corning Incorporated for advancing research and education in glass materials.

• Advanced Electron Imaging. Professors Batson and Cosandey. High Resolution EELS in an Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope project cited by President Obama as one of the 100 Recovery Act Projects that is Changing America.”

• Beyond Electron Microscopy. Helium microscope $2m proposal wins! Professors Fabris, Mann, Feldman acquire novel unit with exceptionally small de Broglie wavelength and high source brightness.

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• AMIPP Polymer Center structural composite technology reaches new levels of international commercialization as bridges are built in Europe (photo of construction in Scotland). Licensee Axion International is ramping to $25m/year sales in 2012.

• Professor Nosker Wins Top Honor at R&D 100 Awards In combination with the Army Corps of Engineers and Axion International, the Rutgers polymer technology (above) was chosen as one of the “Top 3 Technologies” worldwide for 2011.

• Photo: Professor Thomas Nosker receives the award with Rich Lampo (Army Corps of Engineers and James Kerstein, President of Axion International.



• Professor Riman’s green technology for low temperature, carbon-absorbing synthesis of high performance building materials, in stealth mode until late 2011, is moving strongly to a global commercialization strategy in 2012.

• The technology combines minerals with carbon dioxide using low temperature and pressure, resulting in building materials with a far lower carbon and energy footprint than current building materials on the market.

Solidia External Wall Panels

(Image courtesy of Payton Chung http://gigaom.com/cleantech/solidia-low-energy-

building-materials/)


MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Faculty Scholarship

Jaluria, Y., Computer Methods for Engineering with Matlab Applications, Second Edition, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), Boca Raton, FL. 2011. Completely revised, updated and with Matlab.

2011 Ellis Dill, “The Finite Element Method for the Mechanics of Solids with ANSYS Applications”, CRC Press, 2011.


MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Faculty Scholarship

Haym Benaroya "Turning Dust to Gold - Building a Future on the Moon and Mars," is the recipient of the 2012 Engineering Sciences Book Award by the International Academy

Jaluria, Y., Manca, O., Poulikakos, D., Vafai, K., and Wang, L., "Heat Transfer in Nanofluids 2012," Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Hindawi Pub. Corp., 2012


MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE FACULTY

• Prof. Liping Liu received 2012 AFSOR YIP Award. • Prof. Andy Norris delivered the NCAD 2011 Rayleigh Lecture at the IMECE 2011. • Prof. Jingang Yi nominated as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation

Science and Engineering. • Prof. Yogesh Jaluria received ASME 2011 Dedicated Service Medal. • Prof. James Guo elected as workshop Co-Chair, International Workshop on Heat Transfer

Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control, Xi’an, China, October, 2011. • Prof. Haym Benaroya a featured speaker at Smithsonian commemoration of the 50th

anniversary of human spaceflight. • Prof. Assimina Pelegri Program Chair and Organizer of Undergraduate Student Expo, IMECE

2012. • Prof. Andy Norris elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications,

awarded February 2012. • Prof. Doyle Knight received NASA Administrator’s Certificate Of Appreciation. • Prof. Jerry Shan appointed to the editorial-board member of the Proceedings of the Royal

Society of London A: Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Sciences. • Prof. Quinze Zou appointed Associate Editor to JDSMC. • Prof. Andy Norris awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, awarded April 2012. • Prof. Assimina Pelegri appointed as Technical Program Vice Chair for 2012 IMECE


MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE Faculty and Students

• Prof. Andy Norris named the editor in chief of Wave Motion, January 2012 • Prof. Yogesh Jaluria received Luikov Award in recognition of his outstanding work done over his

career in Heat and Mass Transfer. • Prof. James Guo elected as a Fellow of ASME, Jan. 2012 • Prof. Yogesh Jaluria delivered the opening Plenary Lecture, " Optimization of Thermal Systems for

Energy Conservation and Reduced Environmental Impact," Chinese National Heat Transfer Conf., Xi'an, China, October 2011 and "Challenges in the Accurate Numerical Simulation of Practical Thermal Processes and Systems," 2nd Int. Conf. on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Dalian, China, September 2011.

• Prof. Guo’s student, Dr. Lei Huang, awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2011-2012 • Prof. Diez Forum co-organizer and chair of Forum on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid

Mechanics” at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, Nov., 2011.

• Prof. Assimina Pelegri leads research DoD efforts in Failure Mechanisms of Individual High Performance Fibers and Multifunctional Graphene Composites for Lightning Strike Protection with nearly 1MM in funding.

• Structural Mechanics and System Integration • Adam Nagy (Ph,D. student) awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship • Brian Hunter (Ph.D. Student) received the SMART scholarship by DoD


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