Since 2007, thirteen School of Engineering junior faculty have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards. NSF's prestigious awards "support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
8-17-10 -- Regents’ Professor of Chemical, Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering Mohamed S. El-Genk has been named the recipient of the 2010 Donald Q. Kern Memorial Award by the Transport and Energy Process Divisions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
UNM Chemical Engineering Research Professor Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society
7-22-10 -- David G. Whitten, Research Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Interim Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been named a 2010 fellow of the American Chemical Society.
CS Professor Saia's paper on scalable Byzantine agreement selected as a best paper at PODC
6-28-10 -- The paper "Breaking the O(n^2) Bit Barrier: Scalable Byzantine Agreement with an Adaptive Adversary" by Valerie King and Jared Saia was selected to appear in the best paper session at the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) conference.
UNM Chemical Engineering Research Professor Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society
7-22-10 -- David G. Whitten, Research Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Interim Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been named a 2010 fellow of the American Chemical Society.
CS Professor Melanie Moses Receives Faculty of Color Award
5/13/10 -- The 4th Annual Faculty of Color Awards winners were announced by the Committee for Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color (PNMGC) on May 13 2010.
Prof. Krishna Named UNM Teacher of the Year
5-3-10 -- UNM notified ECE Associate Professor Sanjay Krishna today that he has been selected to receive one of UNM's three 2009-10 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards.
5-3-10 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just announced that ECE Assistant Professor Jamesina Simpson is the recipient of a 2010 CAREER award. Dr. Simpson's project is titled "3-D Global Full Maxwell's Equations Modeling of the Effects of a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Earth."
ECE, Dr. Pattichis Honored by Santa Fe School Board
4-20-10- The Board of Education of Santa Fe Public Schools awarded ECE its Silver Zia Award this month, thanks to efforts by Associate Professor Marios Pattichis and Department Chair Dr. Chaouki Abdallah.
Dimiter Petsev
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering,
Center for Biomedical 
Engineering
Dimiter Petsev received a $400,000, five-year CAREER award for his research on transport control in fluidic micro and nanochannels. "A big part of the research is dedicated to studying the effects of space confinement and proximity of semiconductor materials on the electrostatics in electrolyte solutions and charged biomolecules," he says.
Rafi Tarefder
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering 
Rafi Tarefder has received a $400,000 five year CAREER award to study moisture-induced damage to our nation's asphalt paved roads. His novel approach uses neural networks and finite element modeling to understand and quantify moisture interactions with asphalt-aggregate bonds at the nanoscale, and relates those interactions to the moisture-induced damage at the macroscale. "This could lead to the manipulation of the molecules of asphalt,additives, and other modifiers to create moisture resistant pavements," says Tarefder.
Yasamin Mostofi
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yasamin Mostofi researches ways to make mobile cooperative networks more efficient and robust. She received a $400,000, five-year CAREER award to develop the foundations of sensing and navigation in mobile cooperative networks from a compressive sampling perspective. "The proposed research will make a significant contribution to the understanding and optimization of mobile cooperative networks in information-rich environments," says Mostofi.
Pradeep Sen
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pradeep Sen is developing more effective ways to capture and experience visions of our world. Sen received a $495,000, five-year CAREER Award to develop the mathematical foundations to solve problems in rendering and light transport acquisition for computer graphics. "With this research, we’ve taken ideas from physics and applied mathematics to create a novel framework that accelerates light transport acquisition. It could be a new way to solve many problems in graphics," explains Sen.
Marwan Al-Haik
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Marwan Al-Haik received a $430,000, five-year CAREER award for "Next Generation Multifunctional Composites for Radiations and Impact Hazards Mitigation."
Rafael Fierro
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
A paper published in 2006 by ECE Prof. Rafael Fierro has been selected by the ISA Transactions editors as a Best Paper for 2007. The paper is titled "Mobile robotic sensors for perimeter detection and tracking," by J. Clark and R. Fierro, and was published in ISA Transactions Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 3-13, 2007.
Sudharman Jayaweera
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Sudharman Jayaweera won the Best Paper Award for IEEE's International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance. The paper is titled "Large System Decision Fusion Performance in Inhomogeneous Sensor Networks.”