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Faculty and Staff Achievements

Duncan Buell

The professor and chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been named co-Editor in Chief of the new publication Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems by the Association for Computing Machinery. Dr. Buell will serve as co-Editor with Dr. Wayne Luk of Imperial College London. (5/07)

Hanif Chaudhry and Ahmed Kassem

A $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will continue a study by USC's College of Engineering and Computing researchers Hanif Chaudry and Ahmed Kassem of New Orleans' 17th Street canal levee breach-with possible implications for levees worldwide. More

Tom Davis

The research professor of chemical engineering has formed a corporation and signed an exclusive deal to let Dow Chemical commercialize his new desalination process. Davis has formed ZDD Inc., named for his Zero Discharge Desalination technology, with a USC alumnus, and is awaiting patent approval on his process -- which would give him 14 patents for products or technology. More

Gamecock Research Administrators Network Training (GRANT)

Referring to their important role in faculty proposal development, Provost Mark Becker said, "Research administrators’ support of faculty sponsored research efforts is key to USC's continued development as a top-tier research university.” More

Asif Khan

The Carolina Distinguished Professor and former department chair of Electrical Engineering has been named an IEEE Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. More

William Ranson

The engineering professor has been inducted into the Pan American Academy of Engineering as a charter member for his research contributions. More

Michael Sutton

The Savannah River National Laboratory and the University of South Carolina have announced that USC professor Dr. Michael Sutton is the SRNL's director for University Relations. More

Homayoun Valafar

The assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering recently won a National Science Foundation CAREER award. (5/07)

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Charles W. Brice

Associate professor of electrical engineering has won the Samuel Litman Distinguished Professor Award. (5/07)

Edward P. Gatzke

Assistant professor in Chemical Engineering won the Young Investigator Research Award. (5/07)

Joseph Gibbons

The professor of chemical engineering has received the Order of the Palmetto, the highest honor that the governor can bestow on an individual in the state. More

Liv Haselbach

Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering has won the USC Environmental Stewardship Award for Faculty. The award, presented on Earth Day by the USC School of the Environment (environ.sc.edu) recognizes a student and/or student group, staff member, and faculty member who has demonstrated a high standard of stewardship of the USC environment. (5/07)

Ruth E. Heacock

College of Engineering and Computing staff member recently won the College's Staff Distinguished Service Award. (5/07)

Antonello Monti

The associate professor of electrical engineering was awarded the Research Progress Award. Dr. Monti also won the 2007 Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. (5/07)

Jeffrey Morehouse

The associate professor of Mechanical Engineering recieved the Joseph M. Biedenback Distinguished Service Award, the highest award presented by the Continuing Professional Development Division of ASEE given to a member who has rendered noteworthy leadership and service within the division. The award recognizes outstanding service to the continuing professional development of engineers. (5/07)

Branko N. Popov

Professor and Director of the Center for Electrochemical Engineering, Dr. Popov was awarded the Research Achievement Award. (5/07)

NSC CAREER Award Winners

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education. CEC 2007 Award winners are: Jon Bender (Chemical Engineering), Melissa Moss (Chemical Engineering) and Homayoun Valafar (Computer Science and Engineering). (5/07)

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Biomedical Engineering

USC has received a $3 million share of three-year, $9 million NSF grant through a federal-state university partnership known as the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR. The money will help fund salary and laboratory start-up costs for new faculty members in the biomedical engineering program that was approved in spring 2006. More

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, building on one of 18 grants USC funded for post-Hurricane Katrina research, received a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant to continue their study of levee failures in New Orleans. The researchers say they have found a cost-effective and efficient way to halt flooding caused by breached levees using a technique for damming rivers. More

U.S. Aid has funded a $600,00 project to allow the Civil and Environmental Engineering to collaborate with a Pakistani university on water resources management in Pakistan and exchange faculty and graduate students. The proposal was one of only 11 approved among 112 submitted. More

Computer Science and Engineering

Jijun Tang (CSE) recently received NSF funding for his three-year project, totalling over $450,000.

Mechanical Engineering

Major airplane manufacturers, aerospace materials suppliers, and NASA are collaborating with Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty at USC and three partner universities in a cooperative research center focused on friction stir welding -- an innovative technique to join metal components. The NSF-sponsored research shows that friction stir welding can eliminate the need for riveted joints on airplane fuselage skins, providing stronger, lighter airframes.

NSF I/UC Research Center for Fuel Cells

CEC is a national leader in fuel cell research and is the site of the nation's only Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells. It also is a leader in microelectronics research, with more than $10 million in research grants. More

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