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Electronics Engineers and for Defense Advanced Projects Agency. He is presently Chair of the Nominating Committee for the IEEE James L. Flanagan Technical Field Award in Speech and Audio Processing.
Richard Stern has also lectured extensively on advanced technical top- ics and on science and engineering top- ics of general interest throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America (in Spanish and English). He has taught a broad range of courses at Carnegie Mellon, and he was named the CMU Electrical Engineering Professor of the Year in 1979 by the stu- dents in his Department in recognition of his classroom teaching activities. In addition to his professional activities, Richard Stern has maintained long- standing interests in international development and in the role that sci- ence and technology can play in improving people’s lives in developing countries.
Leon Keer receives ASME award
Leon M. Keer has been named recipient of the Mayo D. Hersey Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The award will be presented at the International Joint Tribology Conference held October 2008 in Miami, Florida.
The Mayo D. Hersey Award, estab- lished in 1965, is bestowed for distin- guished and continued contributions over a substantial period of time to the advancement of the science and engi- neering of tribology. Distinguished contributions may result from signifi- cant original research in one or more of the many scientific disciplines related
to lubrication. The award citation for Dr. Keer reads: "for pioneering research and distinguished contribu- tions in contact mechanics, particular- ly the modeling of surface interaction, friction, adhesion, wear and fraction of bodies under concentrated contacts, as well as crack initiation and rolling-con- tact fatigue."
Leon Keer has been a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinios since 1964. He is currently the Walter P. Murphy profes- sor of mechanical and civil engineering, and director of the Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology. He has made outstanding contributions to tri- bological and lubrication technology as well as fundamental contributions in the design of gears and bearings through research on engineering problems asso- ciated with concentrated contacts. Keer has over 300 journal publications on engineering and applied mechanics.
Dr. Keer is a Fellow of the ASME and was awarded the Tribology Division’s Innovative Research Award in 2001 and the Society’s Daniel C. Drucker Medal in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, where he served as president; the American Society of Civil Engineers, where he served as chair of the Engineering Mechanics Division; the Acoustical Society of America; and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship (1972-73) and a NATO postdoctoral fellowship (1962- 63); and he was selected to present Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s First Chau Wai-yin Memorial Lecture (2000) and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign’s 2008 Talbot Distinguished Lecture.
Keer received his bachelor’s degree in engineering and his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1956 and 1958, respec- tively. In 1962 he earned his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a registered professional engineer in California.
Hugh McDermott awarded the Callier Prize
Hugh J. McDermott has been selected as the first recipient of the Callier Prize in Communication Disorders, a biennial award from The University of Texas at Dallas’ Callier Center for Communication Disorders. McDermott is a professor in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Otolaryngology, as well as a leading researcher and designer of cochlear implant systems and digital hearing aids.
The newly established Callier Prize recognizes individuals for their leader- ship in fostering scientific advances and significant developments in the diagnosis and treatment of communi- cation disorders. The award, which will rotate among the fields of audiology and speech and language pathology, includes a $10,000 prize.
Dr. McDermott’s selection was based on his research, which has often led to the development of new or improved sound processing schemes for cochlear implants or hearing aids. He has published extensively in refer- eed journals, and he has received numerous patents in the United States and internationally that have improved the ability of cochlear implant users to understand speech. He will receive the award at a special one-day conference in his honor sponsored by the Foundation for the Callier Center at its
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