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Faculty honors and awards

Berkeley Engineering faculty receive the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies, foundations and other civic organizations. Among these are nearly six dozen active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Berkeley Engineering’s Ashok Gadgil honored for bridging innovation and humanitarianism to help millions globally

Dr. Ashok Gadgil is the recipient of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his steady pursuit to blend research, invention, and humanitarianism for broad social impact. Gadgil is a chair professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at UC Berkeley, and director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Washington calling

The White House has tapped two of Berkeley Engineering’s own for leadership on critical presidential initiatives.

Berkeley Engineering professor Ron Gronsky selected as one of Princeton Review’s 300 “Best Professors”

Materials science and engineering professor Ron Gronsky is among seven UC Berkeley instructors listed as the country’s 300 best professors in a book published by the Princeton Review. “We developed this project as a tribute to the extraordinary dedication of America’s undergraduate college professors and the vitally important role they play in our culture, and our democracy,” said Robert Franek, senior vice president of content development and publishing at Princeton Review.

Dr. David Dornfeld receives AMT’s Charles F. Carter Jr. Advancing Manufacturing Award

Dr. David Dornfeld, Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability at UC Berkeley, has received the Association of Manufacturing Technology’s Charles F. Carter Jr. Advancing Manufacturing Award. Dr. Dornfeld is specifically recognized for his research toward advancing the understanding of burr formation and prevention, sustainable manufacturing, micro-machining, precision manufacturing and chemical-mechanical planarization

Ashok Gadgil wins Zayed Future Energy Prize’s Lifetime Achievement Award

UC Berkeley civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil has won the Lifetime Achievement award of the 2012 Zayed Future Energy Prize. The $3.5 million prize recognizes and rewards innovation, leadership and longterm vision in renewable energy and sustainability. Gadgil was recognized for “his sustainable humanitarian work in Darfur — providing energy efficient cooking stoves known as Berkeley-Darfur stoves, cutting the need for firewood by 55 percent.”

Berkeley Engineering nanotechnology expert Paul Alivisatos wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering, and the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012. Alivisatos is an internationally recognized authority on nanochemistry and a pioneer in the synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots and multi-shaped artificial nanostructures.