For Immediate Release
February 17, 2010
Contacts: Lee Tune, 301 405 4679 or ltune@umd.edu

Three UM Faculty Elected to NAE

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-Three University of Maryland faculty members were inducted this week as members of the National Academy of Engineering.

	John Anderson

The NAE has more than 2,000 peer-elected members and foreign associates. These are senior professionals in business, academia and government who are among the world's most accomplished engineers. They provide leadership and expertise for numerous academy projects focused on the interconnection of engineering, technology and our quality of life. The Maryland inductees are:

John Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Clark School of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Inducted for aerospace engineering and history textbooks and for contributions to hypersonic gas dynamics.

Ali Mosleh

Ali Mosleh, Jeong H. Kim Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clark School Department of Mechanical Engineering. Inducted for contributions to the development of Bayesian methods and computational tools in probabilistic risk assessment and reliability engineering.

Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science, College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Institute for Systems Research, and founder and past director of the university's Human Computer Interaction Laboratory.

	Ben Shneiderman

Inducted for research, software development and scholarly texts concerning human-computer interaction and information visualization.

"The University of Maryland congratulates John Anderson, Ali Mosleh, and Ben Shneiderman on their election to membership in the National Academy of Engineering," said University President C. D. Mote, Jr., who is a member and current treasurer of the NAE. "Their induction is a testament to their extraordinary contributions to engineering and brings great credit to themselves and the university. We are fortunate to have faculty members of such talent and dedication to our campus, to nurture the next generation of engineers."

Their induction ranks among the largest number of University of Maryland faculty members ever elected in one year. Only about 70 people are recognized with this honor; the Maryland inductees represents nearly 5 percent of U.S. inductees for 2010. Their election brings to 19 the number of Maryland faculty who are NAE members and to 36 the number of faculty who are National Academies (NAE, NAS, IOM) members.

Clark School

10031