Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
UCLA Engineer: Spring
2006
Talented
Faculty Honored - New Professional Fellows
Elected fellows of a professional engineering organization are honored
by their peers for achievements in research and substantial contributions
to their discipline. Recently, four faculty at the UCLA Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science have been recognized for
their notable accomplishments.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Vijay
Gupta has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, an honor that recognizes exceptional engineering achievements
and contributions to the engineering profession.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Jeff
Shamma and computer science professor Lixia
Zhang have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Shamma “for contributions to feedback
control and systems theory” and Zhang “for contributions to the
architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks.”
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors
upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in
any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Civil and environmental engineering professor J.
S. Chen has been elected a Fellow of the United States Association
for Computational Mechanics for his contributions in “nonlinear
finite element and meshfree methods, stabilized meshfree methods,
and recently in multi-scale materials modeling.” Fellows are elected
every two years and are recognized for a distinguished record of
research, accomplishment and publication in areas of computational
mechanics.
