At least eight Indian Americans are included to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the newly elected 84 members and 22 foreign members. This brings the total membership to 2,281 and the number of foreign members to 249.
Elected Indian-American are Arindam Bose, Bimal K. Bose, Jay Giri, Omkaram Nalamasu, Jagdish Narayan, Sorab Panday, Sridhar R. Tayur and George Varghese.
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Arindam Bose is a consultant in a business organization, biotechnology, bioengineering and biosimilars at AbiologicsB LLC, Pawcatuck, Conn. He is elected for the innovations in the manufacture of biologics and service to the professional society organizations that represent the biopharmaceutical industry.
Bimal Bose is a consultant and an emeritus professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is elected for the contributions in the advancing power electronics technology and power conversion and education.
Giri is the director of power systems technology and strategic initiatives at GE Grid Solutions in Redmond, Wash. He is elected for the contributions to utility control center technologies to enhance grid situational awareness and reliability.
Nalamasu is the senior vice president and chief technology officer at the Applied Materials Inc., and president at the Applied Ventures LLC in Santa Clara, Calif. He is elected for the technical innovation spanning materials development, atomically controlled thin film fabrication and commercialization in microelectronics and energy generation and storage.
Narayan is the John C.C. Fan distinguished Chair Professor in the department of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He is elected for the contributions in heteroepitaxial film growth by laser ablation in large misfit systems and new materials.
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Panday is the principal engineer at GSI Environmental Inc., in Herndon, Va. He is elected for the development of computer codes for solving complex groundwater problems.
Tayur is the Ford distinguished Research Chair Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is elected for developing and commercializing innovative methods to optimize supply chain systems.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. The NAE website says that the academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/ implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”
The newly elected will be formally inducted during the ceremony at the NAE’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8.
By Premji
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