AAAS Honors Two Notre Dame Engineers

In September 2005, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Frank P. Incropera, the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering and H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Wolfgang Porod, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, to the rank of fellow. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and one of the 100 most frequently cited engineers in the world, Incropera was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field of heat transfer and convection and for significant contributions to engineering education as both classroom teacher and engineering dean.” His research is in the areas of free and mixed convection, double-diffusive convection, boiling and two-phase flow, materials processing, and electronic cooling. He joined the University in 1998.
	Incropera
	Porod

Porod joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1986. In addition to his teaching
and research duties, he serves as director of the University’s Center for Nano Science and Technology. The co-inventor of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA), a transistorless approach to computing, his research focuses on solid-state physics and its application to electronics, quantum devices, and architectures for nanoelectronics. He also studies the limits imposed by
the laws of physics on computation.

Founded in 1848, the AAAS is the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the prestigious journal Science. Members of the AAAS can only be considered for the rank of fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the association’s 24 sections or by any three fellows who are current AAAS members or by the AAAS chief executive officer.

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