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Appendix B: Biographic Sketches of Symposium Speakers
Pages 91-106

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From page 91... ... & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. She was Director of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, a national engineering education research center that was funded by NSF. Read the entire page →
From page 92... ... Dr. Atman has given many invited talks and received numerous awards for her work, including the IEEE Professional Communication Society Alfred N Read the entire page →
From page 93... ... Rory A Cooper, PhD is Assistant Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Professor, and FISA Foundation and Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; and Founding Director and VA Senior Research Career Scientist, Human Engineering Research Laboratories; at the University of Pittsburgh and US Department of Veterans Affairs. Read the entire page →
From page 94... ... is the John A Blume Professor and Director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. Read the entire page →
From page 95... ... She attended law school at the University of Colorado and completed additional graduate coursework in applied communications at the University of Denver. Susan Estrada, BS is president and CEO of Aldea Communications. Read the entire page →
From page 96... ... Among numerous awards, Hammond has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Margaret H Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship, the ETH Zurich Chemical Engineering Medal, and the American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science. Read the entire page →
From page 97... ... and international patents and founded the clean energy hydroelectric generation company Cube Hydro Partners. She previously served as dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering; senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Johns Hopkins University; undersecretary of energy in the U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 98... ... G Baker Prize Award, the IEEE CSS George Axelby Best Paper Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Service Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Read the entire page →
From page 99... ... program, a program designed to attract talented minority students into graduate school. He also is the founder and director of Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science program, which encourages minority engagement in engineering and science careers. Read the entire page →
From page 100... ... Her current research examines pulmonary surfactant, the complex protein-lipid substance lining the alveoli. Before joining the Northeastern University faculty, she held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chemical Theory Center with a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Read the entire page →
From page 101... ... , director of the Electronics Research Laboratory (UC Berkeley's largest organized research unit) , and faculty head of the Program Office for Operational Excellence, among other leadership positions. Read the entire page →
From page 102... ... Dr. Rajala's previous leadership positions were at Mississippi State University as dean of engineering from 2008-13, and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department prior to being named dean. Read the entire page →
From page 103... ... Earlier, he served as Director of the Information Technol ogy Office at DARPA and, from 1996-1999, was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, an organized research unit on the Berkeley campus conducting research in computer sciences and all aspects of electrical engineering. Previously, he was the NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci ences and held faculty appointments in the Departments of Bioengineer ing, EECS and Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley. Read the entire page →
From page 104... ... . Before coming to S tanford University, she held several positions in the automotive industry, including senior research engineer at Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Lab. Read the entire page →
From page 105... ... She earned her BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology and her PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. Kon-Well Wang, PhD is the Stephen P Read the entire page →
From page 106... ... Woodson was a visiting research fellow at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) where he designed, built, and tested an earth-air heat exchanger for rural West Africa villages. Read the entire page →

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... & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. She was Director of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, a national engineering education research center that was funded by NSF.

Appendix B: Biographic Sketches of Symposium Speakers Pages 91-106

Appendix B: Biographic Sketches of Symposium Speakers
Pages 91-106