Engineering News, February 23, 2007

February 23, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 6S

Three professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Three faculty members from Berkeley’s College of Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions for an American engineer.

The new members are EECS professor Eric Brewer, MSE professor John (Bill) Morris Jr. and ME professor Paul Wright. Six UC Berkeley alumni are also among the 64 new NAE members whose election to the academy was announced on Friday, Feb. 9.

This brings to 85 the total number of UC Berkeley faculty members in the society. The total U.S. membership in the academy is now 2,217, and the number of foreign associates is 188. Among academic institutions, UC Berkeley, including its alumni, has one of the highest representations in the academy.

This year’s NAE members from UC Berkeley were honored as follows:

EECS PROFESSOR ERIC BREWER
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* Eric Brewer for the design of highly scalable Internet services. Brewer’s research interests include Internet systems, developing regions, sensor networks and security.

MSE PROFESSOR JOHN “BILL” MORRIS JR.
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* John (Bill) Morris for advancing our understanding of the strength and toughness of materials through microstructural manipulation. A faculty member since 1971, Morris’s other interests include materials for superconducting magnets and electrical interconnections and packaging.

ME PROFESSOR PAUL WRIGHT
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* Paul Wright for the invention of the first open-architecture control of manufacturing systems and for the development of Internet-based CAD/CAM systems. Wright’s current research focuses on energy scavenging and storage for micro-electronics.

Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of engineering research, practice or education. This includes significant contributions to engineering literature, the pioneering of new and developing technologies, major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, and the development and implementation of innovative approaches to engineering education.

—Written by Sarah Yang, Media Relations

Additional information about the NAE is available online at www.nae.edu.

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