[Staff] 2015 Areas of Excellence

[Monte Mehrabadi]

In case you have not heard, the University announced three Areas of
Excellence today and Engineering faculty are involved in all three:

*1. Smart Health Institute: Wearable Biomedical Sensors for Precision
Medicine*

Core Faculty: Kee Moon, Sam Kassegne, and Yusuf Ozturk and two others.
Other Faculty involved: Mahasweta Sarkar and Kaveh AkbariHamed and 4 others.

This AoE proposes two new Engineering faculty hires as follows:

Mechanical Engineering – Associate or Assistant Professor: The proposed new
faculty hire could be for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at all
levels (assistant, associate, or full professor) in the area of nanoscience
and nanotechnology, with emphasis on nanomaterials, or biological and
environmental nanosensors.

Electrical and Computer Engineering - Assistant Professor: Biomedical
circuits and systems are demanding with extreme power limitations. Addition
of a new faculty member in the area of mixed-signal and digital circuits
will enable the Smart Health Institute to miniaturize the sensors  and
circuits they develop  and   address  critical research problems in areas
of low power IC design and low power communication.

*2. Blue Gold: Mitigating the Effects of Water Scarcity*

Core Faculty: Natalie Mladenov and 4 others.
Other Faculty: Alicia Kinoshita and 7 others.

This AoE proposes one new Environmental Engineering faculty hire in the
area of reuse and treatment technologies.

*3. Digital Humanities and Global Diversity*

Core Faculty: Mahasweta Sarkar.

Please join me in congratulating the above faculty for their outstanding
accomplishments.

Thanks,

Monte
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