Engineering Kudos
Zhang, Ray receive prestigious ASCE national awards
Tian Zhang, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the 2020 Rudolph Hering Medal for a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE) titled, “Application of Microbial Transformation to Remediate Hg-Contaminated Water: Strain Isolation and Laboratory Microcosm Study.” The Hering Medal, endowed in 1924, is given annually to a paper that had been published in an ASCE journal in the previous year and that “contains the most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the engineering profession.”
Zhang and Chittaranjan Ray, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the 2020 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper, “Decay Kinetics of Chlorite under Simulated Distribution System Conditions,” from the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute. The Greeley Award, instituted in 1968, is given annually to the authors of a paper that is published in an ASCE journal in the previous year and that “makes the most valuable contribution to the environmental engineering profession.”
Psota, team receive 2019 Omtvedt Innovation Award
Study of ceramics manufacturing using lasers featured by national lab
Paper by Cui, Lu among most-cited in Journal of American Ceramic Society
Jafarzadeh, Bobaru receive NACE society's 2020 Best Paper Award
Image from Dzenis' team on cover of journal
Nelson chosen as special editor for ASME
Carl Nelson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been selected a special issue editor for ASME Journal of Medical Devices. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/society-news/asme-news/asme-journal-accepting-papers-for-special-journal-issue-on-medical-robotics-and-human-interfaces