Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28,1881,it was founded by John Martin Henni,the first Bishop of the diocese of Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Initially an all-male institution,Marquette became the first coeducational Catholic university in the world in 1909.
The College of Engineering and Applied Science is a college within the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. It offers bachelor,master and doctoral degrees in civil engineering,electrical engineering,industrial engineering,materials engineering,mechanical engineering,and computer science.
Thomas “Rock”Mackie is a medical physicist.
The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award is a Technical Field Award given annually to an individual or team that has made an outstanding contribution to the generation or utilization of electric power. It is awarded by the Board of Directors of the IEEE. The award is named in honor of Nikola Tesla. This award may be presented to an individual or a team.
The Swanson School of Engineering is the engineering school of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846,the Swanson School of Engineering is the second or third oldest in the United States.
Albert Kingsbury was an American engineer,inventor and entrepreneur. He was responsible for over fifty patents obtained between the years 1902 to 1930. Kingsbury is most famous for his hydrodynamic thrust bearing which uses a thin film of oil to support weights of up to 220 tons. This bearing extended the service life of many types of machinery during the early 20th century. It was primarily outfitted on Navy ships during World War I and World War II.
Edwin Niblock Lightfoot,Jr. was an American chemical engineer and Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the department of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in transport phenomena,including biological mass-transfer processes,mass-transport reaction modeling,and separations processes. He,along with R. Byron Bird and Warren E. Stewart,co-authored the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. In 1974 Lightfoot wrote Transport Phenomena and Living Systems:Biomedical Aspects of Momentum and Mass Transport. He was the recipient of the 2004 National Medal of Science in Engineering Sciences.
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is a doctoral-degree granting public research university that consists of 14 colleges and schools,and 70 academic centers,institutes and laboratory facilities. It offers a total of 180 degree programs,including 94 bachelor's,53 master's and 32 doctorate degrees. The School of Freshwater Sciences is the only graduate school of freshwater science in the U.S. and the third in the world. The School of Architecture and Urban Planning,the College of Nursing and the College of Health Sciences are the largest in Wisconsin.
Michael Khonsari is Dow Chemical Endowed Chair,and Professor and Director of the Center for Rotating Machinery (CeRoM) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering,Louisiana State University,Fellow of the ASME.
Brett A. Peters is an American industrial engineer and the current dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He has held this position since September 1,2012. Prior to his appointment at UW-Milwaukee,Peters chaired the industrial and systems engineering department at Texas A&M University.
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav is an Indian chemical engineer,inventor and academic,known for his research on nanomaterials,gas absorption with chemical reaction and phase transfer catalysis. He served as the vice chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology,Mumbai from 2009 until November 2019. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Eminence at ICT Mumbai.
Digvijai Singh was an Indian mechanical engineer and a former vice chancellor of the University of Roorkee before its reconstitution as the Indian Institute of Technology,Roorkee. He was also a former vice chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and a former director of Central Road Research Institute. He is known for his studies on dynamics of single track vehicles and Fluid film lubrication and was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences,and the National Academy of Sciences,India as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1978.
Laura Albert is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the College of Engineering. Albert is an expert in Operations Research,specializing solving and modeling discrete optimization problems arising from applications in homeland security,disaster management,emergency response,public services,and healthcare.
Elizabeth G. Loboa is an American biomedical engineer,inventor,researcher and academic administrator currently serving at Southern Methodist University (SMU) as provost and vice president for academic affairs.
David A. Vorp is an American bioengineer,researcher,entrepreneur,and academic administrator noted for his contributions to aortic aneurysm biomechanics and pathobiology,and tissue engineered vascular grafts. He currently holds the titles of Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and the John A. Swanson Professor of Bioengineering,with secondary appointments in the departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery,Surgery,Chemical &Petroleum Engineering,and the Clinical &Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as the co-director of the Center for Medical Innovation.,the acting director of the university's GRID Institute,and the director of the Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory.
