The Computer Science and Software Engineering Department added three new professors: Salman Azhar, former vice president of professional services for the SoftWeb Corporation (Calif.); Stephen Chenoweth, former employee for Millennium Services (N.J.), Lucent Technologies and NCR Corporation; and Archana Chidanandan, a former graduate research assistant at the University of Louisiana.

New members of the Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering Department include Alicia Cecil,a former graduate student at Indiana University, and Janice Bossart, a former professor at The College of New Jersey.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Department has welcomed Economics Professor Elham Mafi, formerly a graduate assistant at West Virginia University; Spanish Professor David Gohre, formerly from Notre Dame; and History Professor Samuel Martland, a Harvard graduate who was a doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois.

New faculty in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering are Mihaela Elena Radu, a former professor at the Technical University of Romania, and Brandon Laflen, a doctoral fellow at Purdue University.

Other new faculty include David Branning and Sergio Granieri, in the Physics and Optical Engineering Department; and Mark Inlow and Christopher Leisner, in the Mathematics Department. Branning came from the University of Illinois and Granieri was a post doctoral research fellow at Rose-Hulman. Inlow formerly taught at the University of Arizona while Leisner was at Florida Atlantic University.

Returning to the Engineering Management faculty is William Kline, after serving as chief operating officer of Montronix (Mich.).

Lt. Col. David Allen is the new head of the aerospace studies and Air Force ROTC programs, while Major Bruce Guggenberger is head of the Army ROTC unit. Captain John Creighton is a professor of aerospace studies (Air Force) and Master Sergeant Gregory Pennell is the Army’s senior military instructor.

Returning from sabbatical are Phillip Cornwell, from the University of Western Australia and the Los Alamos National Laboratories; Heinz Luegenbiehl and Andrew Mech, who taught at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan; Dennis Lewis, who assisted in identifying the detection methodologies for chemical and biological terrorist attacks; Michael McInerney, who worked at Fairchild Semiconductor in the Philippines; and Niusha Rostamkolai, who worked at Cinergy and the Midwest Independent System Operator Operating Reserve Task Force.