Spring 2002
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Faculty
awards and honors
CEE professor Robert G. Bea was awarded
the Ralph Peck Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers,
citing his "pioneering contributions to the design of pile
foundations for offshore platforms and application of reliability
methods to the design of deep foundations." Bea also received
the Blakely Smith Medal from the Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers (SNAME) for his "vital contributions to the
safety and integrity of a broad range of offshore and marine systems."
Elwyn Berlekamp, Professor of EECS and
Mathematics, and Alan Smith, Professor of EECS, were named 2002
Fellows by the American Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science.
Smith was honored for his performance analysis of computer systems,
"particularly the design of memory hierarchies and cache memory
design."
CEE professor Anil K. Chopra has been awarded the George W. Housner
Medal. The highest honor of the Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute, the Housner medal is bestowed on one individual per year
for extraordinary and lasting contributions to public earthquake
safety through the development and application of earthquake hazard
reduction practices and policies. Chopra also received the 2001
Norman Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
given for the best paper among all journals published by ASCE.
Chenming Hu, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics, shared the
2002 Solid-State Circuits Award from the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers with former EECS professor Ping-Keung
Ko. The award recognized their distinguished contributions to Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) physics and development of the
Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model (BSIM) for circuit simulation
using complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS).
Douglas W. Fuerstenau, Professor in
the Graduate School, MSE, was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was one of
only two people elected as Foreign Fellows by the Australian Academy
in 2001.
IEOR professor Shmuel S. Oren has been elected an Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers Fellow in recognition of his research
and development in power-system economics.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Professor
of EECS, was named the 2001 recipient of the Electronics Design
Automation Consortium's prestigious Phil Kaufman Award. The Kaufman
Award honors individuals "who have made a substantial sustainable
contribution to the success and advancement of the electronic design
industry." Sangiovanni-Vincentelli's involvement with the design
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