The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry is one of the fifteen schools and colleges at the University of California,Berkeley. It houses the department of chemistry and the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering,both of which are ranked among the best in the world. Its faculty and alumni have won 18 Nobel Prizes,9 Wolf Prizes,and 11 National Medals of Science.
The UC Davis College of Engineering is one of four undergraduate colleges on the campus of the University of California,Davis. One of the largest engineering programs in the U.S.,the UC Davis College of Engineering offers 11 ABET-accredited undergraduate engineering majors. The college offers majors from a broad scope of engineering disciplines,including aerospace science,biochemical,biological systems,biomedical,chemical,civil,computer science,electrical,materials science,and mechanical engineering.
Clayton Daniel Mote Jr. is the President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as the president of the NAE from July 2013 to June 2019. He also served as President of the University of Maryland,College Park from September 1998 until August 2010. From 1967 to 1991,Mote was a professor in mechanical engineering at the University of California,Berkeley,and served as Vice Chancellor at Berkeley from 1991 to 1998. Mote is a judge for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
John D. Anderson Jr. is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C.,Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland,College Park.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering is the engineering college of the University of Maryland,College Park. The school consists of fourteen buildings on the College Park campus that cover over 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2). The school is near Washington,D.C. and Baltimore,as well as several technology-driven institutions.
Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan is an aerospace scientist,fluid dynamicist,and applied physicist whose research includes physics and applied mathematics. He studies turbulence,nonlinear and statistical physics,astrophysical fluid mechanics,and cryogenic helium. He was the dean of engineering and executive vice provost for science and technology of New York University. Sreenivasan is also the Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and a professor of physics and mathematics professor at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
The University of Maryland,College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park,Maryland. Founded in 1856 as the Maryland Agricultural College,UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is also the largest university in both the state and the Washington,D.C. Metropolitan Area. Its 12 schools and colleges offer over 200 degree-granting programs,including 113 undergraduate majors,107 master's programs,and 83 doctoral programs. UMD is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
Masayoshi Tomizuka is a professor in Control Theory in Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of California,Berkeley. He holds the Cheryl and John Neerhout,Jr.,Distinguished Professorship Chair. Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Keio University,Tokyo,Japan in 1968 and 1970,and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Ulfila Mark J. Lewis is a senior American aerospace and defense executive with special expertise in hypersonics. He is currently the Executive Director of the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies Institute,following his role in the second half of 2020 as the acting US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,and before that the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Modernization. He was the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force,Washington,D.C. from 2004 to 2008 and was the longest-serving Chief Scientist in Air Force history. He served as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force,and provided assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. In this role he identified and analyzed technical issues and brought them to attention of Air Force leaders,and interacted with other Air Staff principals,operational commanders,combatant commands,acquisition,and science &technology communities to address cross-organizational technical issues and solutions. His primary areas of focus included energy,sustainment,long-range strike technologies,advanced propulsion systems,and workforce development.
The history of the University of Maryland,College Park began in 1856,when the Maryland Agricultural College was chartered. The state took complete control of the school in 1916,and consequently the institution was renamed Maryland State College. In a massive 1988 restructuring of the state higher education system,the school was designated as the flagship campus of the newly formed University of Maryland System and was formally named University of Maryland,College Park.
Morrough "Mike" Parker O'Brien,Jr. was an American hydraulic engineering professor and is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering. In addition to his academic work,O'Brien served as a consultant on a variety of government and private sector projects including work for General Electric. O'Brien's government career culminated in a presidential appointment to the National Science Board.
Reza Ghodssi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) at the University of Maryland,College Park,where he directs the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab and holds the Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering. Ghodssi is also the Inaugural Executive Director of Research and Innovation for the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland (USMSM). He is best known for his work designing micro- and nano-devices for healthcare applications,particularly for systems requiring small-scale energy conversion and biological and chemical sensing.
Donovan C. Pines is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for League One club Barnsley. Pines previously played college soccer for the University of Maryland,and for D.C. United.
James William Dally is an American engineer and professor.
The Patti Grace Smith Fellowship is a non-profit program in the United States that provides paid internships,scholarships,and executive mentorship to exceptional Black undergraduate students seeking a career in aerospace. The fellowship is named after Patricia Grace Smith,a United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official whose regulatory work helped lay the foundations for commercial spaceflight. The program was founded in her honor in 2020.
Grace D. O'Connell is an American biomechanical engineer known for her research on the biomechanics of the human spine,on the degeneration and regeneration of spinal tissue,and on the comparison of its properties with the spines of animals used in the study of lumbar disc disease. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California,Berkeley,where she also held the Don M. Cunningham Chair in Mechanical Engineering.
Balakumar "Bala" Balachandran is an Indian-American mechanician and applied mathematician recognized for his contributions to the fields of nonlinear dynamics,experimental methodologies,and data-driven approaches. He is a Minta Martin Professor and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland,College Park,where he serves as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Don L. DeVoe is an engineer recognized for his contributions to the fields of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland,College Park,where he serves as Associate Chair of Research and Administration in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fischell Institute Fellow within the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices,and holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Alison B. Flatau is an American aerospace engineer whose research involves smart materials and magnetostriction,changes in the physical shape of materials under magnetic fields,and in the application of nanowires built from these materials in controlling the flight of micro air vehicles. She is a professor and department chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland,College Park.
