Notables

Three members of the College of Engineering faculty have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) fifth annual Symposium on the Frontiers of Engineering. The symposium will be held Oct. 14-16 in the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif. The three participants are: Kevin T. Kornegay, assistant professor of electrical engineering; Matthew P. Miller, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Yuri Suzuki, assistant professor of materials science and engineering. The three-day event will bring together 78 of the nation's top younger engineers from industry, academia and government who are conducting leading-edge research and technical work. The participants were nominated by fellow engineers or by an organization and were chosen from a field of more than 170 candidates. The symposium will feature topics in the areas of information technology, bioengineering, energy and the environment and optics.

Kifle G. Gebremedhin, professor of agricultural engineering, was presented with the Henry Giese Structures and Environment Award at the annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) last month in Toronto. Gebremedhin's research focuses on post-frame building design and for the development of structural analysis of metal-clad, timber-framed agricultural buildings. His work has become the basis for engineering practice standards. The society cited Gebremedhin's development of two computer software packages of two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures, which, it said, "have been proven to be highly effective for teaching, research and engineering practices" throughout the United States and Canada.