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For more information about the Future Faculty Program, please contact:

Peter Kofinas
kofinas@umd.edu
(301) 405-7335

Fall 2011

Steve Marcus
Future Faculty Program Seminar II (ENES 602)

Spring 2012:

Amr Baz
Future Faculty Program Seminar I (ENES 601)

Rama Chellappa
Future Faculty Program Seminar III (ENES 603)

For more information about the Future Faculty Program, please contact:

Peter Kofinas
kofinas@umd.edu
(301) 405-7335

The program consists of a sequence of three one-credit training seminars, a teaching practicum and a research mentoring practicum. Typically, the participant will undertake the teaching practicum and research mentoring practicum after completing all of the training seminars. However, if there is insufficient time until graduation, the student can do one or both of the practicums in parallel with the final seminar. The program takes between three and five semesters to complete depending on the timing of the practicums.

Course Descriptions

• Future Faculty Program Seminar I (ENES 601)
  Introduction to and development of skills necessary to obtain and succeed in a university faculty position. Emphasis on technical writing and effective presentations. Discussion of research diversification, networking, ethics and professionalism.
• Future Faculty Program Seminar II (ENES 602)
  Effective teaching techniques. Basic principles of education and learning. Developing a course; promoting active learning, problem solving and critical thinking; designing exams and assignments; and communicating effectively with students.
• Future Faculty Program Seminar III (ENES 603)
  Developing a successful faculty research program. Establishing and maintaining a research group. Finding funding opportunities and writing grant proposals. Mentoring graduate students. Faculty position application process. Preparing research and teaching statements.
• Future Faculty Program Teaching Practicum (ENES 604)
  Future Faculty Fellow (FFF) to co-teach a course under supervision of a faculty mentor. FFF to be involved in all aspects of the course including development of a syllabus, presenting lectures, writing and grading examinations, and evaluating students in the course.
• Future Faculty Research Mentoring Practicum
  Non-credit activity. Future Faculty Fellow (FFF) gains experience providing research mentorship for either a less experienced graduate student or an undergrad doing a research project. FFF's tasks may include: providing guidance on selection of a research topic, helping mentee partition larger goals into manageable tasks, providing regular consultation on research projects, providing training on the use of specialized equipment, supervising software code development, critiquing written work. Further, FFF may be required to provide consultation on preparation of conference or journal submissions, and provide training in research ethics.

For more information about the Future Faculty Program, please contact:

Peter Kofinas
kofinas@umd.edu
(301) 405-7335

Clark School alumni have secured faculty positions at universities around the world

• Pinar Akcora (Ph.D. '05, chemical engineering) has been appointed to a tenure-track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri.
• Sean Anderson (Ph.D. ’03, electrical engineering) is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University.
• Sasan Bakhtiari (M.S. '03, electrical engineering, and M.A. '05 and Ph.D. '08, economics) has joined the faculty of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia as a lecturer.
• Kirk M. Cantor (B.S. ’81) is Professor of Plastics and Polymer Technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
• Amy Childress (B.S. '92) is Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.
• Matthew DeLisa (M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '00) is Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University.
• Andrew J. Dick (Ph.D. '07) is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University.
• Xiaojiang Du (Ph.D. '03) is Assistant Professor of Computer & Information Sciences in the College of Science and Technology at Temple University.
• Lingze Duan (M.S. ’98 and Ph.D. ’02) is Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
• Mounya Elhilal (M.S. ’03 and Ph.D. ’04) is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
• Azadeh Faridi (M.S. ’02 and Ph.D. ‘07) is on the faculty at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department de Tecnologia in Barcelona, Spain.
• Farhan Gandhi (M.S. ’92 and Ph.D. ’95) is Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State University.
• Tolga Girici (Ph.D. ’07) is on the faculty at Tobb University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• John A. Gubner (Ph.D. '88) is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Steve Haga (B.S. '95, M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '05) is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.
• Jiaqiao Hu (Ph.D.'06) is Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
• Brian Hughes (Ph.D. '85) is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NC State University.
• Hamid Jafarkhani (M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '97) is on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.
• Koushik Kar (M.S. '99 and Ph.D. '02) is on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Sanjeev Khudanpur (Ph.D. '97, electrical engineering) was recently promoted to the position of associate professor with tenure in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
• Can E. Korman (B.S. ’85, M.S. ’87 and Ph.D. ’90) has been appointed as associate dean for research and graduate studies at George Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Korman, who joined the faculty at GWU in 1991, has previously served as chairman of GWU's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
• Andres Kwasinski (M.S. '00 and Ph.D. '04, electrical engineering) has joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Leila Ladani (M.S. '05 and Ph.D. '07) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University.
• Naomi Leonard (Ph.D. '94) is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.
• Keith Lindler (B.S. ’75, M.S. ’78 and Ph.D. ’84) is Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, MD.
• Mingyan Liu (M.S. ’97 and Ph.D. ’00) is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Ioannis Lambadaris (Ph.D. '85) is a Professor of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Canada.
• John C. March (Ph.D. '05) is Assistant Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University.
• Thomas Mason (B.S. '89) is Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.
• Vahid Motevalli (B.S. '83, M.S. '85 and Ph.D. '89) is Associate Provost for Rresearch and Graduate Studies at Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University.
• Douglas Oard (Ph.D. '96) is Associate Dean for Research for the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
• Balaji Panchapakesan (Ph.D. ’01) is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware.
• Radha Poovendran (Ph.D. '99 EE) is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.
• Priya Ranjan (M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’03, electrical engineering) joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
• Beatrice Roget (M.S. ’01, Ph.D. ’04, aerospace engineering) has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming as an assistant professor.
• Saswati Sarkar (Ph.D. '00) is Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Simarjeet Saini (Ph.D. ’01) is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
• Karim Seddik (M.S. '07 and Ph.D. '08, electrical engineering) has accepted a position as assistant professor of electrical engineering at Alexandria University, Egypt.
• Pradeep Sharma (M.S. and Ph.D. '00) is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston.
• Nathan Sniadecki (M.S. and Ph.D. '03) is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.
• Alkan Soysal (M.S. '06 and Ph.D. '08, electrical engineering) has joined the faculty of Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
• Narasingarao "Sree" Sreenath (Ph.D. 1987, EE/Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) has been promoted to full professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
• Ryan Starkey (M.S. ’98 and Ph.D. '00) is Assistant Professor and McAnally Faculty Fellow for Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Yan Lindsay Sun (Ph.D. '04) is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.
• Xiaobo Tan (M.S. ’99 and Ph.D. ’02) is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University.
• Sami Tantawi (Ph.D. ‘92) is Associate Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
• Leandros Tassiulas (Ph.D. '92) is a faculty member at the University of Thessala, Volos, Greece.
• Shih-Huang Tung (Ph.D. '07, chemical engineering) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at National Taiwan University's Institute for Polymer Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University, the most prestigious university in Taiwan.
• Hsu-Wei Fang (M.S. '96 and Ph.D. '03) is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan.
• Nathan Williams (Ph.D. ’07) is Assistant Professor at the Washington State University School of Architecture and Construction Management in Pullman.
• Fumin Zhang (Ph.D. ’04) is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Hong (Vicky) Zhao (Ph.D. '04) is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada.
• Haitao Zheng (Ph.D. ’99) is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Xiangrong Zhou (Ph.D. '08, electrical engineering) has accepted a faculty position with the University of Hawaii's electrical engineering department.

The next group of Future Faculty Fellows will be selected in December 2013. To be considered for selection, an application must be received by November 1, 2013. Eligible applicants are all Engineering and Computer Science PhD Students who are currently within 2 years from graduation.  When you apply, the Future Faculty Program (FFP) will request letters of recommendation from your research advisor and one other faculty member. The research advisor is required to engage in the mentoring of the Fellow. The research advisor commitment to actively monitor the progress of their Fellow towards preparing to apply for a future faculty position must be explicitly stated on the recommendation letter.

Applicants will be notified of selection by early January 2014. Selected Fellows must enroll in the one-credit course ENES601 in Spring 2014. This course meets on Thursdays from 4:00-5:15pm.

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To Apply, please fill out the form below. The personal statement should explain your motivation to become a faculty member, as well as research accomplishments and any teaching experience.

Cultivating Tomorrow’s Great Engineering Teachers

As a leading academic institution, the Clark School has a responsibility to help produce the great engineering teachers future generations of students will rely on. While many Clark School alumni have already secured academic positions around the world on their own initiative, we have created the Future Faculty Program to:

• Increase the number of highly qualified teachers the Clark School produces for the world’s engineering schools
• Prepare selected Clark School doctoral students to achieve career-long success in the academic world as teachers and researchers
• Provide selected students with a $3,000 travel stipend to present their research at professional conferences
• Place selected students in leading institutions where their impact can be greatest and where they can continue to partner with the Clark School

This year the Clark School Future Faculty Program has expanded to include PhD Students from the Department of Computer Science.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities (You must be on campus to access)
Since some of you will decide to do a postdoctoral fellowship prior to obtaining a faculty position, we have undertaken to compile a list of postdoctoral opportunities. We are focusing on institutions that grant fellowships on a regular basis.

Congratulations to the 2013 Future Faculty!

If you are a Clark School doctoral candidate who is considering participating in the program, please:

1. Review the Future Faculty Program course descriptions
2. Review list of current and past future faculty fellows
3. Review roster of current program faculty members
4. Review list of Clark School alumni that are now holding academic positions
5. Apply to the program

We look forward to discussing your interests.

For more information about the Future Faculty Program, please contact:

Peter Kofinas
kofinas@umd.edu
(301) 405-7335

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The Clark School offers full-time undergraduate programs leading to the Bachelor of Science degree, and full-time graduate programs leading to the Master of Science, Master of Engineering and Public Policy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

The Professional Master of Engineering Program of the Clark School’s Office of Advanced Engineering Education offers a part-time Master of Engineering degree and a Graduate Certificate in Engineering in a variety of academic subjects. The program’s Master of Engineering in Fire Protection Engineering is available online, with additional online programs under consideration.

Undergraduate

The Bachelor of Science degrees offered by the Clark School, and the academic units offering them, are:

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Graduate

The graduate degrees offered by the Clark School, and the academic units offering them, are:

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Professional Master of Engineering

Through the Professional Master of Engineering Program of the Clark School’s Office of Advanced Engineering Education, the Master of Engineering degree and/or Graduate Certificate in Engineering are offered in the following academic subjects:

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Exploring Clark School Departments

For engineering students, faculty and collaborators, exploring the Clark School's departments can be a process of discovery with virtually endless possibilities for learning and cross-disciplinary connection. Browse this page for brief introductions to our departments.

Aerospace Engineering

Understanding flight, exploring space and designing components, vehicles and systems are the abiding interests of the faculty and students at the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Whether simulating the environment of space in a neutrally-buoyant underwater environment, studying flight of helicopters and hypersonic planes, or developing advanced structures made of largely unknown composite materials, they are soaring beyond traditional aerospace engineering education and research.

The department has broadened its traditional emphasis on aeronautics to develop additional strengths in astronautics, new technologies and interdisciplinary activities. Distinctive facilities such as the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel and the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility ensure that the educational and research opportunities available in aerospace engineering at the Clark School are unlike those at any other institution in the world.

Visit the Department of Aerospace Engineering web site »

Bioengineering

The Fischell Department of Bioengineering provides exceptional educational and practical experiences for students while having a direct impact on human lives. The department strives to prepare its students to meet the challenges of a rapidly-growing field and the needs of employers in industry, medicine, and the government. The department believes that developments at the intersection of biology and engineering will advance the efficacy of healthcare by developing new paradigms for the diagnosis of disease, and the development and delivery of new therapeutics.

Undergraduate students take engineering foundation courses in biology, chemistry, physics, and math during their first two years of study. In the third and fourth years, the focus shifts to the areas of biomedical imaging, biomechanics, physiological systems, and transport. Capstone courses, taken in year four, feature visiting experts and allow students the opportunity to engage in discussion on current issues in bioengineering such as ethics, clinical trials, regulatory issues, venture capitalism, business principles, and entrepreneurship.

The Graduate Program in Bioengineering offers research and education opportunities leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. It provides a basic understanding of bioengineering at the molecular and cellular level, focusing on biomolecular and cellular rate processes, cellular and tissue biomechanics, the electrophysiology of the cell and cellular and physiological transport phenomena. In addition, the program stresses the application of this fundamental understanding to the development of medical diagnostics systems, bio-devices and vaccines.

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Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Chemical and biomolecular engineers explore opportunities and challenges that have a direct impact on people's lives, from devising new methods to protect and improve the environment, to creating new biotechnologies that battle disease, to developing new processes to produce advanced materials.

This discipline weds them chemical, physical sciences and life sciences with engineering practice. Faculty members have a variety of strengths, including particle science and nanotechnology, biochemical and biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, transport phenomena and mixing, polymer science and polymerization reaction engineering, process control, systems modeling and thermophysical properties.

Unique opportunities are available for students and faculty to work closely with researchers in the Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility, Institute for Systems Research, Institute for Physical Science and Technology and University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Additional research partners include the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Institutes of Health, Maryland biotechnology firms and companies such as W. R. Grace, ExxonMobil, and DuPont.

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil and environmental engineers provide vital infrastructure services for our nation that include clean and safe drinking water, sanitary waste disposal, transportation services and construction management. But the role of the civil engineer has broadened beyond those traditional fields to urban and city planning, hazardous waste disposal and management, pollution control and the planning and building of superhighways, power stations and rapid transit systems.

The department is the Clark School's second oldest, yet it is contemporary in its orientation. Faculty and students are involved in solving some of the most fundamental problems in our society, such as repairing the nation's aging infrastructure and developing new ways to protect the environment from hazardous waste and misuse. The department is committed to research and education programs that focus on analysis and creative thinking, that integrate the latest information technology, and that utilize new technologies such as geographic information systems, intelligent transportation systems, and new materials. Balancing fundamental science, engineering science and design, the department produces highly trained students and new knowledge for the 21st century.

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

The fields of electrical and computer engineering have had a profound impact on industry and society throughout the 20th century, and will continue to shape the technologies of the future. Electrical engineering is the discipline that develops the applications of electrical and electronic devices and systems, while computer engineering cultivates computer software, hardware and integrated system design. These disciplines are everywhere: in computers, private and broadcast communications, consumer electronics, medical devices, energy storage and transmission, transportation systems and space technology.

In the Information Age, electrical and computer engineers are playing a leading role, fueling the explosive growth of information technology through the miniaturization of computer circuitry and the proliferation of reliable communication links.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering maintains the largest graduate program at the University of Maryland, and is among the nation's leaders in the number of bachelor's degrees awarded. The department administers the joint M.S. in Telecommunications, and the undergraduate Computer Engineering Degree program, in conjunction with the Department of Computer Science.

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Fire Protection Engineering

Fire is a complex physical phenomenon. Fire protection engineers integrate the increasingly sophisticated understanding of fire and fire hazards in a complex human and technological environment. Through the use of engineering fundamentals, the fire protection engineer assesses fire and fire-related problems and formulates solutions that are not only functional but also economically and socially feasible.

The Clark School of Engineering is home to the premier fire protection engineering program, offering the only ABET-accredited undergraduate program in the nation. ABET accreditation is assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards established by the profession for which it prepares its students. For example, an accredited engineering program must meet the quality standards set by the engineering profession.

Graduates find employment in the public and private sectors and are involved in designing fire protection systems for high-rise buildings and industrial complexes; analyzing fire protection systems in nuclear or conventional power plants, aircraft and aerospace vehicles; and researching fire propagation, detection and suppression. Fire protection engineering alumni have been active in formulating fire-related codes, regulations and standards that have been adopted throughout the nation and the world.

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Materials Science and Engineering

The fabrication of novel materials with high performance properties and the construction of systems characterized by reliability, safety and maintainability will be critical to the successful functioning of a modern, technologically oriented society. At the same time, these advanced technological developments must be sustained by environmentally prudent sources of energy. The ability to produce technologically sophisticated goods will also be a major factor in the future prosperity of contemporary societies.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is positioned to address these societal needs through its unique combination of educational and research programs in advanced materials, reliability and radiation-nuclear engineering. With emphases on developing new practices for material processing and manufacturing, new approaches toward achieving quality and reliability, the development of smart materials for consumer products and the refined utilization of nuclear engineering to solve national environmental and energy problems, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is involved in interdisciplinary research and education in gateway technologies-those technologies that open up new ones in other engineering disciplines.

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Mechanical Engineering

Today's mechanical engineers use cutting-edge computing, smart sensors and electronic technology to design and manufacture automated products for the future. Science and technology will continue to expand, and so will the demand for skilled mechanical engineers.

With research emphases in areas such as smart structures, electronics packaging, energy and environmental engineering and manufacturing, the department has strong links with other engineering departments, centers and institutes. This interdisciplinary focus benefits students, faculty and industry.

The Clark School's mechanical engineering graduates choose from a wide array of career paths, demonstrating that the degree is an excellent stepping stone for a rewarding professional life. Currently mechanical engineering graduates are pursuing divergent careers in medicine, software design and environmental engineering in addition to the traditional mechanical engineering fields such as heat transfer, fluids, manufacturing and fracture mechanics.

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