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Faculty Notes
Tim Anderson
was the recipient of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University
Joint Lectureship. He was also named to the editorial board of the Journal of
SMET Education.
Oscar Crisalle
received the 2002 University of Florida Teacher of the Year Award. Oscar also
organized an international conference in Brazil last year. The 2nd Pan American
Workshop on Process Systems Engineering, held in September 2001 in Guaruja,
Brazil, brought together industrial practitioners and university researchers
specializing in the area of Process Engineering. The goal of the activity was to
foster international cooperation, and to exchange views on the state-of-the-art
regarding process control, process design, and optimization of process
operations. Participants from the US, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, and
Peru contributed papers that will be published in a Special Issue of Computers
and Chemical Engineering that will appear in March of 2003.
Tony Ladd
was invited to Bulgaria and Japan in 2002 to give lectures on his research. Tony
gave a talk titled "Simulations including Hydrodynamics" in Varna, Bulgaria and
plans to give a talk titled "Dynamics and Structure in a Settling Suspension" in
Kyoto, Japan this December.
Mark Orazem
returned in July from a year’s sabbatical leave at the Université Pierre et
Marie Curie in Paris France. Mark has accepted a position as Associate Editor
for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and for Electrochemical and
Solid-State Letters, and he is organizing the 6th International Conference on
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to be held in Florida in May 2004.
Fan Ren is a
member of two editorial boards: Solid State Electronics and Materials Research
Society Internet Nitride Journal.
Raj Rajagopalan
serves as an advisor to the Joint University of Illinois (UC) - Singapore
research and educational program. He has also been invited to Japan as a
visiting scholar (Kyoto & Tohoku).
Jason Weaver
received the 2001 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award, sponsored by
Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Dr. Yoshihiro Irokawa from Toyota is visiting UF for 2 years to work with
Professor Pearton (Mat. Sci. & Eng.) and Professor Ren (Chem.
Eng.) on wide bandgap energy electronic devices as power switches for Toyota
hybrid car.
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