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| UC Honors and Awards in Medicine and Engineering
Date: June2, 2000 Buckberg, Hopper Win Drake Awards Gerald D. Buckberg, MD, and Cornelius L. Hopper, MD, have been selected to receive the 2000 Daniel Drake Awards presented by the UC College of Medicine. The awards commemorate the founder of the College of Medicine, Daniel Drake, and are the highest honors bestowed by the college to honor distinguished living faculty or alumni who have made outstanding or unique contributions to medical education, scholarship or research. The Drake Awards were presented during the College of Medicine Honors Day program, Sunday, May 28 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Buckberg, a 1961 graduate of the College of Medicine, is professor of surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. His initial research interest studied methods to optimize myocardial protection during cardiac surgical procedures. His laboratory and clinical investigations led to the introduction of blood cardioplegia and the blood cardioplegic solutions that are now used by the majority of surgeons in the United States and abroad to decrease the heart's need for oxygen during adult and pediatric heart operations. He extended his research to simply, safely, and rapidly deliver cardioplegic solutions throughout all heart segments, further optimizing cardiac protection. Hopper, a 1960 graduate of the College of Medicine, is the recently retired emeritus Vice President for Health Affairs for the University of California System. For 20 years, until his retirement in January 2000, he served as the senior administrative officer for the nation's largest university health sciences system, encompassing 14 health professions schools on six campuses, an enrollment of 13,000 students, and a budget of over $3 billion. During his tenure he: reorganized the Board of Regents' governance of the university's academic medical centers; managed the mid-1980s downsizing of selective health professions enrollments; revised the university's Union for Clinical Compensation Plan for medical and other health sciences clinical faculty; and, developed a plan to modify the mission and curriculum of the university's five medical schools to accommodate expanded undergraduate and postgraduate training in primary care. Engineering College Awards Announced The College of Engineering has announced its top faculty awards for the 1999-2000 academic year. The winners are: Milind A. Jog, mechanical, industrial and nuclear engineering Jog was selected for the award in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments in the areas of plasma heat transfer, combustion and liquid atomization, and interfacial transport phenomena. Since joining the university in 1993, Jog has developed a very successful, aggressive, and nationally recognized research program. He has received substantial funding from government agencies and industries including NSF, NASA, the Ohio Aerospace Institute, Parker Hannifin, and GE Aircraft Engines. Jog received the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (1998-2003). Earlier he received the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation (1994-1998). These prestigious awards on the basis of national competition have brought much recognition to his research program and visibility to the university. Jog's work has been published in some of the best journals in the field. He has co-authored 25 papers in archival journals and 34 in refereed conference proceedings. In a relatively short period of time, his contributions to heat transfer are extensively cited and reported in books, monographs, and state-of-the-art reviews. His groundbreaking work in fuel atomization using a novel computational/analytical technique has received much acclaim in the atomization community. Jog has chaired several technical sessions on combustion and heat transfer in national and international conferences. He serves as a reviewer for many leading international journals and conferences, and has been invited by NSF and the Department of Energy to serve as a panel reviewer for several major initiatives. 2000 Wandmacher Teaching Award for Young
Faculty Karen Davis was recognized for her excellence in classroom teaching, her innovation in curriculum and course development, as a mentor for senior design projects, her work with freshmen students and her participation in recruiting high school students. Since arriving at UC in 1991, she has advised 32 senior design students, graduated one doctoral and 14 master's students, and served on 21 thesis committees. Coauthors on her publications include both graduate and undergraduate students. She serves as an associate department head in ECECS. Davis participated in two curricular innovations this year. One was restructuring the administration and management of senior design projects, and the other was the creation of an entirely new course for incoming freshmen. In the senior design project, electrical and computer engineering students produce a design report in an incremental fashion following a rigorous schedule of due dates; the senior receive multiple iterations of feedback on their writing. The new Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering course includes both lecture and lab components. Professor Davis designed the lecture portion and taught five sections in the autumn quarter, 1999. A major goal of the course is to improve retention, and early professor contact and identification with students' chosen disciplines are essential. Davis was awarded a Strategic Enrollment Management Grant and a Success Challenge Freshman Experience Grant, used in-part to purchase programmable Lego robot kits for the labs. Davis participates actively in undergraduate academic advising, as well as in extracurricular activities to promote and encourage women in engineering. She has served as the Society of Women Engineers adviser for six years and participates in the Women in Engineering Summer Camp Program for high school students. Recently, she was named a Senior Member of IEEE and an ABET Evaluator for Computer Engineering Programs. 2000 Wandmacher Teaching Award Students have recognized Professor Vijay K. Vasudevan as a gifted teacher, both inside and outside the classroom, and also, as one who genuinely cares about their welfare and education. The goal of his teaching is to prepare the students for challenges of modern engineering, to motivate them to think, generate new ideas, follow these to break new ground, and to instill in them the desire for lifelong learning. He has developed many new undergraduate and graduate courses, significantly revised others, provided comprehensive lecture notes and lab manuals to students, and integrated the use of modern computer methods of instruction, analysis, simulation and problem solving. Through NSF funding, he has also been actively engaged in the design and development of new innovative lab classes that use resources and instrumentation efficiently. He is respected and liked by students, sets high standards, is tireless in his efforts to help them learn, and routinely appears on the College of Engineering Honor Roll for outstanding teaching. He has also been closely involved in student education and activities as chairman/member of the MSE curriculum committee, as advisor of the Graduate Students Association, through service on the College Curriculum Committee and through the local ASMI Chapter. He also strongly believes in teaching through research and has involved many undergraduates in his research through their senior projects, and with industry participation. He has also sustained an active research program (through funding from NSF, AFOSR, industry, etc.), served as major advisor of two postdoctoral associates, 11 doctoral, 12 master's and 23 baccalaureate students/graduates. He has published 83 scientific articles, approximately 70 percent of them with his students. Mentoring is another area he has concentrated on, since it crucially affects the career interests and aspirations of students. Through personal interactions, he has helped students identify their goals and deal with problems, make them aware of career opportunities, motivated them to pursue advanced studies and helped them strive for their goals. 2000 College of Engineering Research Award Professor Wim van Ooij was selected for this award in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in the area of corrosion and development of novel anticorrosion corrosion protection methods, for his work with industries worldwide and for his international activities. Van Ooij joined UC in 1993 after holding several academic and industrial positions in Europe and the United States. He brought expertise in corrosion, electrochemistry and surface analysis techniques such as Time-of-Flight SIMS. His current research interests encompass such diverse topics as corrosion and corrosion control, rubber chemistry, plasma polymerization, hot-dip galvanizing of steel and TOFSIMS. He has pioneered and developed novel technologies that have resulted in UC patents and licenses. In the area of plasma polymerization, Van Ooij has developed the unique technology of modifying surface properties of fine powders, including nanoparticles. In the field of rubber chemistry, he has pioneered novel adhesion promoters for steel tire cords. His greatest reputation for his work on the use of silanes for corrosion protection of metals. His productivity and creativity are demonstrated by his high rate of publications (well over 200 total) and patents (over 50, with more than 10 USA patents issued during his tenure at UC.) In the past two years he has submitted 24 invention disclosures to UC on a wide range of topics. Many of his students are co-inventors. He is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the State of Ohio and industrial companies in the USA, Japan, Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and the EPA. He has won several awards during his six years at UC, the most significant ones being the Plueddemann Award (1994), the BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award (1997) and an R&D 100 Award (1999) for his development of silane-based novel treatments for metals. This same technology won him the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry's Industrial Innovation Team Award 1999 (United Kingdom.) Other major awards are the $1,150,000 OBR award in 1997 for which he acquired the Time-of-Flight SIMS Instrument at UC. This is one of only three that exist in the nation in academia. His diverse expertise in many areas has made him a sought-after expert witness in litigations and trials. he has been a witness in court cases involving corrosion problems, failed tires, paint failures on galvanized steel and others. Professor Van Ooij is a frequently invited speaker at national and international conferences. This year he has been invited to speak in Sydney, Australia on composites, at Rubber 2000 (New Delhi, India), NACE (Orlando), Rubber Bonding 2000 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the International Conference on Polymer Interfaces (Newark, NJ), Intergalva 2000 (Berlin, Germany), the Gordon Conference on Corrosion (New Hampshire), Eurocorr 2000 (London, England), Tire and Rubber Conference and Workshop (Akron), and the Symposium on Elastomer Technology in Cincinnati later this fall. |
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