April 20, 2007UIC College of Engineering14 Faculty Awards and Honors Fellows of Societies during 2005-07 Derong Liu, ECE, became Fellow of IEEE Sabri Centinkunt, Farid Amirouche, Suresh Aggarwal, Farzad Mashayek, Tom Royston, became Fellows of ASME Prith Banerjee, Gyungho Lee became Fellows of AAAS Brings total number of Fellows in College to 43 CAREER Awards in during 2005-07 Laxman Saggere, MIE, received NSF CAREER Award in 2005 Sudip Mazumder, ECE, received ONR Young Investigator in 2006 Daniela Tuninetti, ECE received NSF CAREER Award in 2006 Brings total number of NSF CAREER Awards in College to 21 Named Professorships in 2005-07 Ouri Wolfson, CS and Ahmed Shabana, MIE and Michael Stroscio, ECE/BIOE named Richard and Loan Hill Professors of Engineering in 2006, 2007 Wally Minkowycz, MIE, named James Hartnett Professor of Energy Engineering in 2006 Phillip Yu, CS was appointed Wexler Chair in Information Technology in 2007 Brings total number of Professorships in College to 4, also 4 UIC Distinguished Professors
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