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Three
New Department Chairs Appointed
Vasilios Manousiouthakis
Chemical Engineering
Dr. Manousiouthakis is the director of the Systems Engineering Laboratory.
His research focuses on the development of globally optimal design
methodologies, and their application to engineering systems that pertain
to energy and the environment. He is known worldwide as the creator
of the field of mass integration, which is used in both academia and
industry for the design of environmentally friendly manufacturing
systems.
His research group is currently working on the theoretical and computational
development of a conceptual framework for the globally optimal design
of process networks. Applications of this methodology range from semiconductor
manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, and oil refining, to power
generation, cryogenic processing, and pollution prevention. He earned
his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986.
William
W-G. Yeh
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Yeh has been a faculty member of the School for 35 years and was
one of the founding members of the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department as it exists today. This will be Yeh's second time as department
chair, as he held the position in the mid 1980s.
Yeh's research focuses on groundwater modeling and the development
of methodologies for optimizing large-scale water resources systems.
He helped to develop computer models for optimal real-time operation
of the California Central Valley Project and the Central Arizona Project.
Yeh earned his PhD from Stanford in 1967.
H.
Thomas Hahn
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Hahn holds the Raytheon Company Chair in Manufacturing Engineering
in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and serves
as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Composite Materials. His current
research focus is on multifunctional polymer nanocomposites.
Hahn joined the UCLA faculty in 1992, coming from Penn State University
where he was the Harry and Arlene Schell Professor. Other previous
experiences include a professorship at Washington University in St.
Louis and research positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
and the Air Force Materials Laboratory. He served as an IPA/Program
Manager of the Mechanics of Materials and Devices Program at the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research from 1999 until 2001. Hahn earned
his PhD from Penn State University in 1971.
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