National Academy of Engineering elects 65 members and 9 foreign associates

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 65 new members and nine foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,246 and the number of foreign associates to 197.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."

A list of newly elected members and foreign associates follows, with their primary affiliations at the time of election and a brief statement of their principal engineering accomplishments.

NEW MEMBERS

PAUL M. ANDERSON, consultant, Power Math Associates, San Diego. For contributions that have advanced the analysis and control of electric power systems worldwide.

KRISTI S. ANSETH, distinguished professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, department of chemical and biological engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. For pioneering the rational design of biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing applications.

DIRAN APELIAN, Howmet Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director, Metal Processing Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. For contributions to solidification processing and for outstanding leadership in engineering education and university-industry collaboration.

DAVID C. AUTH, consultant, Kirkland, Wash. For the invention and application of minimally invasive devices for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and coronary artery obstructions.

AMOS A. AVIDAN, senior vice president, Bechtel Corp., Houston. For contributions to the understanding, scale-up, and commercialization of fluid-bed reactors, liquefied natural gas facilities, and gasification plants.

JAY P. BORIS, chief scientist and director, Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. For fundamental contributions in core computational fluid dynamics algorithms and their application to national problems.

FRANK (SKIP) L. BOWMAN, former chief of naval personnel and former director, Nuclear Propulsion Program, U.S. Department of the Navy, North Potomac, Md. For leadership in the design of nuclear-reactor propulsion plants to support the power requirements of evolving combat systems.

SERGEY BRIN, co-founder and president of technology, Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. For leadership in development of rapid indexing and retrieval of relevant information from the World Wide Web.