Assistant Professor Mitchell Walker
(Aerospace Engineering)
has received a grant through the Air Force’s Young
Investigator Research Program. With the grant, funded
by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Walker
will focus on annular helicon plasma sources for high
thrust-to-power Hall thrusters.
For its 2007 Defense Technology marketing campaign,
Georgia Tech Distance
Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) has been
awarded first place by The Learning Resources Network.
The campaign was led by Jennifer Wooley,
account manager, and the creative team of Shamika
Hill and Wendy Cromwell.
Professor Said Abdel-Khalik (Mechanical
Engineering) will receive the 2006 Outstanding Achievement
Award of the American Nuclear Society’s Fusion
Energy Division, in recognition of “a continued
history of exemplary individual achievement requiring
professional excellence and leadership of a high caliber
in the fusion science and engineering area.”
Professor Catherine Ross (Architecture)
has been named a 2006 fellow by the National Academy
of Public Administration.
For his paper “A Theory of Enterprise Transformation,”
Professor William Rouse (Industrial
and Systems Engineering) received the Outstanding
Journal Paper Award from the International Council of
Systems Engineers.
With its annual Golden Torch Academic Awards, the National
Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has recognized OMED
Educational Services Director S. Gordon
Moore as Minority Engineering Program Director
of the Year.
Georgia Tech Lorraine Assistant Professor Nico
Declercq (Mechanical Engineering) received
the International Dennis Gabor Award from the NOVOFER
Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation,
honoring young researchers who have made a significant
contribution to science.
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