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Faculty Receive International And National Recognition
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology faculty are increasingly
receiving international, national and state recognition that helps enhance the
college’s reputation with higher-education officials and leaders in the
engineering profession. Recent faculty achievements include the following:
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Among the newest members elected to the European Academy of
Sciences is Cary Laxer, professor and head of the computer science and
software engineering. The Academy acts as an advisory body on scientific and
technological matters to governmental and private institutions. Academy
President Nicola Andreano said, "Cary Laxer’s opinion will be important to
creating the most efficient policies in science and technology for years to
come."
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Dan Moore, associate dean of the faculty and associate
professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected as a senior
member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The
honor is bestowed on less than seven percent of the organization’s 377,000
members.
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Rose-Hulman Chemistry Department head and professor, Dan
Jelski, was among only eight faculty from across the nation honored this
fall by the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University for their
contributions in chemistry. Faculty were honored for their research
contributions as well as for their work as mentors who encourage students to
pursue careers in science.
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The American Council of Engineering companies presented Jim
McKinney, Roland Hutchins Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering,
with its Public Service Award. The award is bestowed upon a non-member of the
council who has made significant contributions to the engineering profession.
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Mechanical engineering professors Patricia Brackin and
Darrell Gibson received the Best Session Paper Award from the
Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering
Education. Their paper was titled, "Methods of Assessing Student Learning in
Capstone Design with Industry: A Five-Year Review." The paper was presented at
the annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
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Mathematics Professor Tom Langley has been named a NeXT
Fellow. He is the fourth Rose-Hulman mathematics faculty member to receive the
honor. He will participate in a national conference about innovative teaching
techniques, and will be part of a network to enhance teaching by young
faculty.
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Patricia Carlson, professor of American Literature, has
been named co-editor of the Journal of Computing in Higher Education and a
member of the editorial board of the Journal of Interactive Learning
Environments. Carlson was honored by Sarah Scott Middle School in Terre Haute
for her work to help teachers increase the use of computers to improve math
and science education.
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Steve Carlson was recently presented with the
Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical
Association of America. Carlson served as an MAA officer for 10 years,
including a term as Indiana MAA governor.
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The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has named
Atanas Serbezov, assistant professor of chemical engineering, as one the
nation’s top advisers to a student chapter of AICHE. Serbezov has been named
an Honor Roll Adviser by AICHE.
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The second edition of Michael Cain’s textbook,
Discover Biology, is now in print. It is an introductory biology textbook
for non-biology majors. The 751-page textbook is co-published by Sinauer
Associates and W.W. Norton & Co.
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Elaine Kirkpatrick, assistant professor of physics and
optical engineering, received a NASA/American Society for Engineering
Education Summer Faculty Fellowship. This highly competitive program allows
professors to work with NASA scientists on research projects. Kirkpatrick
worked on a project with a shape memory polymer that can be compressed to 1/40
of its bulk size, the polymer can then be "frozen" in the compressed state and
finally redeployed by heating the polymer. The report for this project was
entitled "Adhesion characteristics and deployment methods of Cold Hibernated
Elastic Memory (CHEM) foam".
Finishing
Touches
Hatfield Hall construction neared completion this fall. Located
at the front of campus, the building houses a new theater, an alumni center, and
offices for the development and external affairs staffs. The next issue of
Echoes will provide an in-depth look at the building and the gift from
alumnus Mike Hatfield, class of 1984, that made it possible.
 
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