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CoES inducts three new Thomas Green
Clemson Academy members
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The
spirit of Thomas Green Clemson, whose vision and generosity
made Clemson University possible, was alive and well
at this year’s engineering banquet (see related
story, page 2). Clemson made a surprise “ visit” and
encouraged students to “cherish their legacy” and
to “ walk boldly with purpose. ” |
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The
College of Engineering and Science celebrated National Engineers
Week by inducting three new members into its prestigious
Thomas Green Clemson Academy of Distinguished Engineers and
Scientists. Selected on the basis of outstanding career accomplishment,
the three new inductees bring the total Academy membership
to 29.
Academy Inductees
David
Bell, who earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral
degrees from Clemson, has built an international reputation
for his work in satellite image processing, signal processing,
topographic data processing and accuracy improvement. He
is a senior scientist at Florida-based Harris Corp., an
international communications equipment company. He has
mentored countless engineers in Harris's Digital Processing
Lab and also worked with his local Odyssey of the Mind
competitions, coaching one team to the World Finals.
Bobby
Prochaska has the distinction of being the first
person to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at Clemson. He
became the youngest faculty member to serve as president
of the faculty senate in his third year at Clemson. He
later joined the operations research department at Milliken & Co.,
where he quickly developed a reputation for solving problems.
He has held executive positions at Milliken, Fab Textile
Companies, Valdese Textiles and Kayser-Roth Corp. and Gerber
Children's Wear, in addition to heading his own consulting
company.
John
Butt is recognized as an international expert in
the field of reaction engineering. He earned his bachelor's
degree from Clemson, then his master's and doctoral degrees
in Chemical Engineering from Yale, where he joined the
faculty as an assistant professor. He later became a chemical
engineering professor at Northwestern, eventually being
named the Walter P. Murphy professor of Chemical Engineering
- a post he held from 1981 until his retirement in 1997.
He has won numerous awards, including being named a Fellow
by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Outstanding Young Alumnus recognized
Joy
Laskar, whose parents were both Clemson faculty,
was named Outstanding Young Alumnus. He is currently the
Joseph M. Pettit Professor of Electronics in the School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
This honoree heads a research group of 25 members that
focuses on integration of high-frequency electronics with
opto-electronics for next-generation wireless and optical
systems.
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