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Faculty Awards and Honors
Georgia Tech faculty and staff receive recognition.

G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, received the 2004 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The ASCE instituted the OPAL Awards in 2000 to recognize the lifetime achievements of civil engineers whose contributions have greatly enhanced the health, safety and economy of the nation and the world.

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Clough is Georgia Tech’s 10th president and the Institute’s first alumnus in that office. During his tenure, enrollment has increased from 13,000 to 16,600, and test scores and retention rates have increased dramatically.

Two Georgia Tech Professors have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Georgia Tech’s new members are: Biing-Hwang “Fred” Juang, the Motorola Foundation Chair Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for contributions to speech coding and speech recognition; and Chien-Fu “Jeff” Wu, the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, for conceiving

photo by Nicole Cappello Gary May

and building modern systems of experimental design based on contemporary methods for parameter estimating to provide quality improvements.

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) gave its 2004 ASEE Minorities in Engineering Award to Gary May, executive assistant to the president and Motorola Foundation Professor of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. May is also chair of the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers.

Julia Kubanek, an assistant professor

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in the School of Biology and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was presented with a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by John H. Marburger III, the science advisor to President Bush and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Kubanek was nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds her research in aquatic chemical ecology with a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

College of Computing Professor Mary Jean Harrold received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring on behalf of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, for which she is co-chair.

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