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College of Engineering faculty members honored

Paul V. Braun, the Racheff Professor in the department of materials science and engineering, has been selected to serve as the next director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. An Illinois alumnus – and a faculty member since 1999 – Braun is recognized as a world leader on the synthesis and properties of 3-D architectures with a focus on materials with unique optical, electrochemical, thermal and mechanical properties.
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Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is the recipient of the Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. Named for Charles Thom, a pioneer in industrial microbiology and mycology, the award is given to individuals who have made outstanding research contributions in industrial microbiology and/or biotechnology.
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During its annual conference in March, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society honored Jianming Jin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, with its highest award, recognizing his career-long contributions to the field of computational electromagnetics. Jin has worked in the field of computational electromagnetics for 34 years. He literally wrote the book on the finite element method in 1993, helping generations of engineering graduate students understand abstract concepts in electromagnetics.
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The American Nuclear Society has recognized Rizwan Uddin, a professor of nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering, with the 2016 Arthur Holly Compton Award for his excellence and innovation in teaching. Through a unique teaching style that emphasizes student learning and involvement in the classroom, Uddin has made a tremendous impact on the evolution of the learning process through interactive and innovative techniques.
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Jessica Krogstad, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is one of two Illinois faculty members to receive an Early Career Research Program grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Her research group is working to capitalize on thermodynamic and kinetic driving forces that influence morphological and compositional changes in nonequilibrium materials and ultimately dictate material response, with a particular interest in materials that must survive in extreme conditions such as temperature, cyclic loading and corrosion.
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Former nuclear reactor becomes national ANS Nuclear Historic Landmark

The American Nuclear Society honored the University of Illinois Advanced Teaching Research Isotope General Atomic reactor (TRIGA Mark II) with the ANS Nuclear Historic Landmark Award. The TRIGA Mark II stood on campus from 1960-98, educating students on reactor operations, as they were required to take a laboratory class in which they operated the reactor to enhance their understanding of reactor physics concepts.
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