Center for e-Design News

• Congratulations to Dr. Jack Wileden for his promotion to Associate Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, UMass-Amherst.

• Dr. Janis Terpenny delivered the keynote address for the 6th Symposium on International Design and Design Education at the ASME IDETC Conference

• Dr. Ian Grosse has been named the Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Computing Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), and Dr. Sundar Krishnamurty has been named the Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanisms & Robotics (JMR)

• Dr. Janis Terpenny received the College Award for Outreach Excellence from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech

• Dr. Janis Terpenny was selected as a Diggs Teacher Scholar at Virginia Tech

• The UMass Center for e-Design's papers were nominated for Best Paper Award at the 2009 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society and the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems Conference

• Dr. Janis Terpenny received the College Award for Outreach Excellence from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech

• John Altidor (Dr. Jack Wileden, Advisor) received the 2009 GEM Doctoral Fellowship Award from the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science

• Congratulations to Dr. Ian Grosse and Dr. Janis Terpenny for their promotion to Full Professor.

• Congratulation to Dr. Michael Lovell for his appointment at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He began his new position on August 1, 2008. Learn more about this here

• Tracee Gilbert has been appointed the new Administrative Assistant for the Center

• Congratulations to Dr. Christopher D. Geiger on receiving the 2008 College of Engineering and Computer Science Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Central Florida

• The new improved website for the NSF Center for e-Design was launched during the Spring 2008 IAB meeting

• Completed LIFE Forms from the Spring 2008 IAB Meeting are available in the Members Area for researchers' review

• Dr. Janis Terpenny of Virginia Tech has been appointed the new Director of the Center

• The University of Central Florida has provided additional workspace dedicated to the research and development activities at the UCF Research Site