Honoring contributions to engineering research and new technology, the National Academy of Engineering has elected 64 new members and 9 foreign associates, bringing its total US membership to 2217 and its foreign associates to 188. The new members and associates will be inducted this October during the academy's 42nd annual meeting in Washington, DC. Of the new members, 24 are involved in physicsrelated work:
Asad Ali Abidi, professor in the electrical engineering department at UCLA
Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, dean of engineering at the University of California, Irvine
Peter Michael Asbeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego
William R. Brody, president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
Edwin A. Chandross, consultant at Materials Chemistry LLC in Murray Hill, New Jersey
Stephen Y. Chou, Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering and an electrical engineering professor at Princeton University
Harold Gene...
