Dr. K.J. Ray Liu, Christine Kim Eminent Professor in Information Technology and Associate Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was the recipient of the 2012 Faculty Service Award.

Dr. Liu was instrumental in revamping the Clark School’s Master’s inTelecommunications Program as ECE’s associate chair of graduate studies and research. He also revised the department’s graduate program to increase the size and number of Ph.D. students to rank among the largest and highest quality in the country, while leading curriculum reform at both the graduate and undergraduate level to enhance quality.

Meanwhile, Dr. Liu led by example with his research and service contributions in the field of signal processing. He is a world-renowned speaker and scholar, has been recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and serves as editor-in-chief of IEEE’s Signal Processing Magazine. Amidst all of this great work, he also has advised numerous graduate students who have gone on to tenured faculty positions across the nation.

Associate Professor Dimitrios Goulias of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the lead undergraduate advisor in his department and faculty advisor to the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers in addition to being actively involved with the national organization.

Dr. Goulias has represented the Clark School at various student competitions including the concrete canoe competition. He represents the Clark School on two University Senate Committees and assists his department with matters varying from ABET accreditation to career fairs to faculty recruitment.

Colleagues compliment Dr. Goulias for his willingness to take on additional responsibilities without hesitation or complaint. Students remark on his dedication to and interest in their college experience, career goals and projects.

Teng Li

Associate Professor Teng Li won the 2012 E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty.  The award has been given since 1986 to honor Clark School junior faculty members for excellence in teaching.

Li’s teaching philosophy – to help students “develop an inquisitive mind in seeking knowledge” - drives the way he approaches the undergraduate and graduate courses he teaches such as ENES220 Mechanics of Materials, ENME382 Engineering Materials and Manufacture, and ENME670 Continuum Mechanics.
Li has been honored not only for inspiring and motivating his students in the classroom, but also for developing educational and research collaborations through iMechanica.org, a blog he co-founded that has become the largest online community of mechanics in the world.

Peter Kofinas

Peter Kofinas, professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate programs focuses on the synthesis, characterization and processing of novel polymer-based nanostructured systems that have a variety of uses across medicine, energy storage and microelectronics. Presently, he focuses on novel blood coagulation-inducing polymer hydrogels, sensors for the detection of chemical and biological threats, nanocomposites for flexible antennae and design of shape-conforming nanostructured polymeric battery energy storage systems.

After 15 years at the Clark School, Kofinas and his students have published 57 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited 966 times, with a steep climb in citations over the past 5 years. He has filed nine patent applications, speaks extensively at other academic institutions and serves annually on review panels for several federal agencies.

Kofinas has earned more than $11 million in federal research grants. He is a CAREER Award winner and a two-time recipient of the UMD Outstanding Invention award. He is a Keystone Professor and received the Clark School’s Junior Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999.

Michael Zachariah

Michael Zachariah, professor of mechanical engineering and chemistry, pioneered the development of new characterization tools for studying nanoparticles and use of these tools to further our understanding of the properties of nanoparticles in these fields. A significant contribution of Zachariah’s was the development of a one-of-a-kind mass spectrometer to study ultra-fast condensed state reactions. His research group has been working on the development of ion-mobility methods for characterization of nanoparticles, with applications for nanomedicine, global climate changes and new materials for energy. He has also pursued making new nanoparticle-based materials for drug delivery and energetic materials applications. Finally, Zachariah is also noted for having a tremendous impact on his doctoral and post-doctoral students as their mentor. Zachariah received his B.S. in biochemistry, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering, from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Silvia Muro

Associate Professor Silvia Muro is the only molecular and cell biologist in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. A main direction of her work is the application of targeted nanocarriers to provide more effective therapies for lysosomal storage diseases. She creates tools for enabling new discovery and therapy, including nanobiotechnological drug delivery systems, among others. Her efforts to understand diseases such as propionic academia, a life-threatening genetic disease among newborns, led to the world’s first genetic pre-natal diagnosis. The European and Spanish Societies for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism has recognized Dr. Muro three times with awards. She was awarded an NIH RO1 grant on her first attempt. She has published more than 30 high quality manuscripts in top-tier journals and her students already have won several awards for their research, including best meeting presentations and the UMD Invention of the Year award.

John Cumings

Assistant Professor John Cumings (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has pioneered a novel in-situ thermal imaging technique, designed multiferroic device structures with unique functionalities and lead the synthesis of one-of-a-kind lithiated silicon nanostructures for future advanced batteries. Cumings received a NSF CAREER Award earlier this year. He has taught several courses since joining the Clark School in 2005, including three semesters of ENES 100 as a Keystone Professor. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics with distinction from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Aerospace Engineering
The Department is seeking highly qualified tenure-track faculty to complement its core research areas, which include aerodynamics and propulsion, smart and composite structures, space systems, rotorcraft, autonomous vehicle systems and small smart aerospace systems. Towards this goal, the department is seeking candidates with demonstrated competency and academic leadership in the areas of space systems and human factors, as well as satellite design. Additionally, candidates working in the areas of micro- and nano- air vehicles; morphing aircraft systems; V/stol systems; human factors; green aviation; wind turbines; and hypersonic aerodynamics and propulsion are also encouraged to apply.
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
Seeks applicants for a tenure-track position in environmental engineering. The purpose of the position is to fill the need for teaching and research in the Environmental Engineering discipline with an academic background in in water sustainability and biological processes, possibly including biological energy conversion processes.
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Appointments at all ranks will be considered. Candidates at the rank of Assistant Professor should have a high potential for both teaching and research. Candidates at the ranks of Associate and Full Professor should have distinguished records in research and a strong interest in educational programs. Priority will be given to candidates with expertise in the following areas: Cyber Security; Cyber Physical Systems and Embedded Systems.
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Appointments at all ranks will be considered. Candidates at the rank of Assistant Professor should have a high potential for both teaching and research. Candidates at the ranks of Associate and Full Professor should have distinguished records in research and a strong interest in educational programs. Priority will be given to candidates with expertise in the following areas: Signal/Image Processing.
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Institute for Systems Research
We seek applicants with a doctoral degree who have research expertise in model-based systems engineering, formal approaches to engineering design and validation, requirements engineering, and multi-objective optimization and trade-off analysis, with appropriate connections to an engineering and/or biological domain. The opportunity provides a tenure track position in a Clark School department (Aerospace, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical, Civil and Environmental, Chemical and Biomolecular, or BioEngineering) with a joint appointment to the Institute for Systems Research.
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Materials Science & Engineering
The Departments of Materials Science and Engineering  and Mechanical Engineering  seek outstanding individuals for tenured/tenure-track faculty position(s) in the areas of computational materials science, first principles methods to materials design, multi-scale modeling methods, and/or computational micro-/nano-mechanics. Successful applicants will have a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline. We seek candidates who can transcend traditional boundaries and establish a vibrant research and teaching program at the University of Maryland. The tenure home can be either in materials science and engineering or mechanical engineering. Academic rank is open depending on qualifications, but we expect at least one position to be filled at the junior faculty level.
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Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, seeks exceptionally qualified candidates to apply for tenure-track and tenured faculty positions to begin in August 2013 in the following priority areas:

• Design for Resilience and Failure Recovery
• Thermal Sciences, Fluids, and Energy Systems

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Rama Chellappa

Colleagues note that Professor Rama Chellappa (electrical and computer engineering) has been instrumental in developing a series of courses on image processing and computer vision that did not exist before he joined the Clark School. Students remark on his infectious enthusiasm toward learning and research, his ability to effectively impart knowledge and his dedication to teaching students to learn more material independently. Dr. Chellappa has trained and graduated more than 60 Ph.D. students. He has been an instructor in the Gemstone program since 2006 and assisted with the Clark School's Future Faculty Program. He has already been honored with the University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, Gemstone Faculty Mentor Award and as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Clark School faculty members present their research to external audiences around the world.  In those situations in which a brief introduction to the school would be useful, faculty members may draw from the following PowerPoint resources:

Clark School Overview: Leading Indicators

The standard set of Clark School introductory slides [ppt] is intended to provide an overview that faculty, students, alumni, and friends of the Clark School can use at conferences or other meetings to make others aware of the Clark School's key attributes and strengths. The slides are updated every six months in coordination with the school's Leading Indicators handout sheet and Significant Accomplishments e-newsletter. The presentation consists of 17 slides covering the Clark School campus, the school's advantageous location in the federal region, research, education, entrepreneurship and service. Faculty members may use the entire overview presentation or select individual slides as appropriate.