The election of 76 new members and 9 foreign associates to the National Academy of Engineering brings the organization’s total US membership to 2216 and its foreign associates to 186. Of the new members and associates, who will be inducted during the academy’s 41st annual meeting in Washington, DC, this October, 20 are involved in physics-related work:
Ilesanmi Adesida, interim dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cristina H. Amon, Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dimitri A. Antoniadis, Ray and Maria Stata Chair of Electrical Engineering at MIT
Mark A. Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Professor and chair of the department of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark
Samuel Wright Bodman, secretary of the US Department of Energy
William J. Boettinger, research...