"The election of these two outstanding professors highlights the distinction of our engineering faculty at Princeton," said Maria Klawe, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. "Since our engineering school is relatively small, it is quite an achievement if just one of our faculty is elected in a particular year. To have two members of the faculty elected into this elite body in one year is indicative of the high quality of our faculty. Each of them has contributed in innumerable ways to their respective scholarly fields, as well as to the successes of our teaching and research programs here in the SEAS."

Professor Forrest was elected for making "advances in optoelectronic devices, detectors for fiber optics, and efficient organic LEDs for displays."

He came to Princeton in 1992 from the University of Southern California, where he was a professor of electrical engineering and materials science and director of the national Center for Integrated Photonics Technology. At Princeton, he was director of the Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials from 1992 to 1997, when he was named chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, a position he held until 2001.

His current topics of investigation are photonic materials and devices, organic and inorganic semiconductor growth, microwave photonics, optical interconnects, and optoelectronic integrated circuits. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1972 from the University of California at Berkeley; his master's degree in 1974, and his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Professor Saville was elected for "advancing our understanding of electrokinetic and electrohydrodynamic processes and their application to the assembly of colloidal arrays."

He came to Princeton in 1968 as assistant professor of chemical engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 1971 and to professor in 1977. Professor Saville's current research interests are fluid dynamics and electrohydrodynamics and electrokinetic properties of suspensions. Professor Saville earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1954 and 1959, respectively, from the University of Nebraska and his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of Michigan.

Membership in the NAE is one of the highest distinctions in the field of engineering. Membership is reserved for those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice," and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."

Professors Forrest and Saville join 15 other faculty members of the SEAS as members of the NAE (see table above). The decade beginning in the year 2000 has already eclipsed, with seven elections, the productivity of the three previous decades for NAE inductions of SEAS faculty members.

SEAS faculty in NAE

Name Year elected

Wallace Hayes* 1975

Seymour Bogdonoff* 1977

James Wei 1978

David P. Billington 1986

Robert Tarjan 1988

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 1988

William Grassley* 1990

William Russel 1993

Irvin Glassman* 1996

George Scherer 1997

Richard Lipton* 1999

Pablo Debenedetti 2000

H. Vincent Poor 2001

Brian Kernighan 2002

C.K. (Ed) Law 2002

Bede Liu 2002

Stephen Forrest 2003

Dudley Saville 2003

*emeritus

Terman Award goes to Wayne Wolf

Wayne Wolf received the Terman Award, which is given to an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of professional contributions.

The award is sponsored by the Hewlett-Packard Co. and presented at the ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference.

Criteria for consideration of the Terman Award include:

* Being the principal author of an electrical engineering textbook published prior to the age of 40 and judged by peers to have made original contributions to the field.

* Having outstanding achievements in teaching, research, and guidance of students and related activities.

* Being an electrical engineering educator before the age of 45.

* Being a full-time member of a college faculty and actively engaged in teaching in the United States or Canada.

Charikar receives Sloan Fellowship

Moses Charikar, assistant professor of computer science, is one of 117 recipients nationwide to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

He will receive $40,000 in unrestricted research support. The highly selective fellowships are designed to help researchers who are at an early stage of their career and show exceptional promise.

Malik named center's associate director

Sharad Malik is the new associate director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. In this role, he will help coordinate a multi-university effort spanning 14 universities and 37 faculty members dedicated to addressing electronic system design methodology challenges over a 10-year horizon. The center is funded by DARPA and Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp., an industrial consortium. For more information, see www.gigascale.org. (See the summer issue of EQuad News for a detailed story.)

Law is second-term president of institute

Chung K. Law, the Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was re-elected president of the Combustion Institute, an international organization established for the promotion of combustion science and technology. The institute has 28 international sections in countries throughout the world.

CAREER Award goes to EE's Professor Peh

Li-Shiuan Peh, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). A CAREER award is the NSF's most prestigious early-career research grant.

Professor Peh's research project is titled "Self-Regulating Power-Aware Interconnection Networks." The project is investigating the power consumption of communication elements of an increasingly interconnected digital world. She hopes to develop and build self-regulating power-aware interconnection networks that trade off power and performance automatically. Such a system would reconcile the design goals of high- performance and low-power usage.

Professor Peh came to Princeton in February 2002 from Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. Her thesis was titled "Flow control and micro-architectural mechanisms for extending the performance of interconnection networks." Her 1995 B.Sc. in computer and information systems is from the National University of Singapore.

Professor Peh has two patents pending: "Flit-reservation flow control" and "Merging algorithm for designing interconnect fabrics." Her research interests are in interconnection networks, the fast networks that traditionally connect shared-memory and message-passing multiprocessor systems.

Recognition grows

Professor Chou's research garners accolades

Stephen Chou, the Joseph Elgin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, recently received two accolades recognizing the significance of his research in nanotechnology.

The Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report named Professor Chou's research, which could greatly reduce the size and cost of computer chips, the top nanotechnology breakthrough of 2002.

The report, a joint publication of Forbes magazine and venture capital firm Lux Capital, cited Professor Chou's work for eliminating "the costly and time-consuming step of etching, or photolithography, the conventional way to make silicon transistors used in today's electronics."

Professor Chou invented a production method called Laser-Assisted Direct Imprint, which could allow electronics manufacturers to increase the density of transistors on silicon chips by 100-fold while dramatically streamlining the production process. Packing more transistors onto chips is the key to making more powerful computer processors and memory chips.

Researchers in Professor Chou's laboratory used the new technique to make patterns with features measuring 10 nanometers--10 millionths of a millimeter. The method involves pressing a mold against a piece of silicon and applying a laser pulse for just 20 billionths of a second. The surface of the silicon briefly melts and resolidifies around the mold.

Professor Chou's method eliminates the etching process, which typically takes 10 or 20 minutes to make a single chip. The imprint method accomplishes it in a quarter of a millionth of a second.

In addition, Technology Review, the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's magazine, featured Professor Chou's research in the February issue as one of 10 emerging technologies that will change the world by dramatically affecting the way lives are led and business is conducted.

The 10 technologies selected are glycomics, injectable tissue engineering, molecular imaging, grid computing, ad hoc wireless networks, software verification, quantum communications, nanoimprinting, nanosolar energy, and mechatronics.

Exhibit celebrates Swiss structural designers

The Princeton University Art Museum is celebrating the contributions of six Swiss engineers (Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Heinz Isler, Christian Menn, Wilhelm Ritter, and Pierre Lardy) in The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy through June 15, 2003.

"Rarely does a new art form emerge to challenge old ideas about artistic boundaries," said David P. Billington '50, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and director of the Program in Architecture and Engineering, who organized the exhibition and the accompanying publication. "This has happened in our present age, with the birth of the art of structural engineering. Swiss Legacy illustrates how this new art form is a powerful expression of our culture, and demonstrates why aesthetics are an essential part of the education of engineers."

For example, Menn designed the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston to reflect, with its inverted Y-shaped towers, the shape of the Bunker Hill Monument.

Swiss Legacy also is a tribute to Professor Billington, who pioneered the integration of the liberal arts into engineering education during his 45 years of teaching at Princeton. "Engineers--and especially academics--often argue that aesthetics are not part of their profession," Professor Billington said. "If you want beauty, hire an architect or, more radically, a sculptor. One major objective of education in engineering should be to encourage students to see, accept, and begin to use that elemental sense of aesthetics."

A related event--a symposium in honor of Professor Billington--is set for Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3.

Details of the symposium, titled "Teaching and Scholarship in the Grand Tradition of Modern Engineering," can be found at www.princeton.edu/~seasweb/Billington/agenda.html.