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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 89-102

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From page 89...
... Council on Competitiveness. He received the 2001 National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies, and the American Society of Civil Engineers has recognized him with seven national 89
From page 90...
... from the Department of EngineeringEconomic Systems at Stanford University in 1984. She has authored over 120 scholarly publications in the areas of microelectronic mechanical systems/mechatronics design methods; nonlinear optimization; intelligent learning systems; multiobjective and strategic product design; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing; graphics, multimedia, and computer-aided design; design databases; digital libraries; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and gender and technology.
From page 91...
... His responsibilities included managing the activities for the Department of Energy's Concentrating Solar Power Program and Biomass Power and Solar Buildings Program. He also served as manager of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque)
From page 92...
... Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 1994 and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, elected in 1968. As a member of the NAE, Cruz currently serves on the Peer Committee on Electronics Engineering and served on the Committee on Diversity in the Engineer
From page 93...
... She was part of three start-up operations: Satellite News Channel, Monitor News Channel (Christian Science Monitor) , and Video News International (a New York Times company attempting to pioneer the use of small-format video journalism)
From page 94...
... He serves as a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advisory Council and the National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable and is chair of the Applied Physics Lab Science and Technology Advisory Panel as well as the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is a member of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Committee and is on the board of trustees of the Aerospace Corporation.
From page 95...
... In 2000 Professor Johnson received the ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award, and in 2001 she received the American Society for Engineering Education Sterling Olmsted Award for "innovative contributions to liberal education within engineering education." ALAN C KAY is a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founder and president of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc., best known for the ideas of personal computing, the intimate laptop computer, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented programming.
From page 96...
... Dr. Khalil is the recipient of many awards, including the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering; Doctor Honoris Causa from the Institut National Polytechnique de Loraine, France; the University of Miami College of Engineering Researcher of the Year Award; the IIE Phil Carroll Award; the David F
From page 97...
... The textbook on data communications that he coauthored became the most cited reference in the communications field over the period of a decade. At Bell Labs he became executive director of the Communications Sciences Research Division in 1982, where he was responsible for research on the methods and technologies for future communications systems.
From page 98...
... These systems link the key risks within the organization and assist the company in making high-level decisions. In addition, he has built significant planning systems for government agencies, including the Office of Tax Analysis for the Treasury Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Defense Department, and personal planning for the U.S.
From page 99...
... He has been a Guggenheim fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, and a National Humanities Center fellow. Among his other honors are the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers; honorary degrees from Clarkson University, Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)
From page 100...
... His alma mater, the University of Missouri, Columbia, chose him for the Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering and in December 2003 awarded him an honorary degree, doctor of science, honoris causa. He was program cochair for an international colloquium on engineering education in Berlin sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education, the European Society for Engineering Education, and the Berlin Technical University.
From page 101...
... Committee on Engineering Education and as chair of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Deans Council. He chaired the former NAE Academic Advisory Board.


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