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Mark J. Kushner
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New faculty for fall 2006
Eleven new faculty members have joined the college this fall. Below are name, title, PhD information, and (previous employer) for each individual.
AerE—Stephen D. Holland, assistant professor, Cornell University, 2002 (Iowa State Center for Nondestructive Evaluation)
CBE—Aaron Clapp, assistant professor, University of Florida, 2001 (Naval Research Laboratory)
CCEE—Jennifer Shane, assistant professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006
ECpE—Jaeyoun Kim, assistant professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1997 (University of California at Berkeley); Santosh Pandey, assistant professor, Lehigh University, 2005; Aditya Ramamoorthy, assistant professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005 (Marvell Semiconductor Inc.); and Joseph Zambreno, assistant professor, Northwestern University, 2006
ME—LeAnn Faidley, assistant professor, Ohio State University, 2006; and Terry Meyer, assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001 (Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.)
MSE—Richard LeSar, professor and chair, Harvard University, 1981 (Los Alamos National Laboratory); and MSE/ECpE—Nicola Bowler, associate professor, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, 1994 (Iowa State CNDE).
Retention and Recruitment grants awarded
The Professional and Scientific Council’s Retention and Recruitment Committee recently awarded 20 grants totaling $45,000 to support retention and recruitment efforts. Four of these projects are in the College of Engineering. (More information)
- Engineering PERK (promoting engineering/recruiting kids) Kits, Camille Schroeder, program coordinator, Engineering Undergraduate Programs, $1,300
- Enhancing Climate in Engineering Classrooms, Nancy Knight, director, Diversity and Graduate Student Affairs, $5,000
- iTunes U, Hiro Iino, program coordinator, Engineering Distance Education, $8,000
- Take the Adventure Home, Deb Martin, academic advisor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, $1,200
