The National Academy of Engineering announced today that it had elected 68 new members and nine new foreign associates, bringing its total membership in the United States to 2,290 and the number of foreign associates to 202. Membership in the academy is awarded to engineers who have made significant contributions to engineering research, practice, or education. The full list of new members and foreign associates is available on the academy’s Web site.
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11 Responses to National Academy of Engineering Elects 77 New Members and Foreign Associates
vmiroshnik1969 - July 20, 2011 at 2:11 am
Very few Indians are good in English; as a result they cannot perform well in GRE. This is an important matter to look at.
gabrile - July 20, 2011 at 11:37 am
Not really. Many of them are applying to graduate programs in math and science. Their Quant scores are more important. Their advisors can teach them how to properly present their research.
dtobst - July 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm
To help U.S. higher education institutions participate more actively in the efforts announced yesterday by Secretary of State Clinton, the Institute of International Education has just released a new report, “Expanding U.S. Study Abroad to India: A Guide for Institutions.” This report was produced with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and in cooperation with the U.S.-India Educational Foundation’s EducationUSA staff. It provides an overview of the Indian higher education sector, with a particular focus on Indo-U.S. academic relations and the current state of U.S. study abroad to India, and an analysis of the challenges and recommendations for expanding study abroad to India and developing institutional partnerships with Indian institutions. The report can be downloaded without charge at http://www.iie.org/publications.
IIE is also helping U.S. colleges and universities to implement and sustain partnerships with institutions in India, in order to expand opportunities for their students. The International Academic Partnership Program, launched with an initial two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), will work with its second cohort of ten U.S. campuses over the coming year through a program of webinars, workshops and site visits, to assist them in developing partnerships and to establish a toolkit of best practices for international partnerships that will be helpful to other campuses seeking to establish linkages. For more information, see http://www.iie.org/iapp.
Daniel Obst
Institute of International Education (IIE)
academentia - July 20, 2011 at 6:14 pm
For me this is exciting but my hope that it includes the humanities is hanging by a thread after revisiting my Fulbright institution in south India. Internet was often not working; the websites hardly worth traversing; and the expertise in my field — 16th century history — practically gone; access to recent expert publications was surprisingly poor. And with all those manuscripts being eaten away, I hope that the initiative is serious about all disciplines, even crumbs for the humanities would denote progress. Whatever the case, I am happy to hear this.
ecuador - July 21, 2011 at 1:10 pm
At the UNESCO world confernce on higher education in 2009, India led the way in making a case for education as a commodity and a willingness to step back from a social commitment by govenrments to “public” education, particularly in higher ed. As noted in reports in the Chronicle about “outsourcing” Graduate Assistant work and essay grading to Indian for-profit businesses, the for-profit topic model is a key article of critical focus. This summit should be a valuable beginning to a dialogue about these topics and the broader the community at the table the more meaningful the discussion. At a time when public education seems to be under attack this forum needs to be carefully watched.
pesor33 - July 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm
I think the U.S. collaborating with Indian to strengthen education ties is a great idea. I am interested in knowing what the dispute was that almost kept this initivative from happening.
_perplexed_ - September 6, 2011 at 4:37 pm
The suggestion that a drop in the rankings might be used by a public university in arguing for increased state support presumes that legislators and the public they represent desire excellence and are willing to pay for it. I fear they want mediocrity, but only at bargain prices.
realtyannie - September 6, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Perhaps we should go more in the direction of the Education Trust, which tries to focus on results. There is probably more to the story, of course, than just 6 year graduation rates, but this seems to be solid information, something for prospective students and parents to add to other rankings systems:
http://www.collegeresults.org/
perspective2 - September 7, 2011 at 1:03 am
I love University of
California (UC) having been a student and lecturer. But today I am concerned
that at times I do not recognize the UC I love. Like so many Alumni, Donors, Legislators,
and Californians I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failures of UC
senior management and regents
.
Californians suffers
from 19% unemployment (includes those working part time, and those no longer
searching), mortgage defaults, loss of unemployment benefits. And those who
still have jobs are working longer for less. Chancellor/Faculty
wages must reflect California’s
ability to pay, not what others are paid.
UC Berkeley (Cal) planned pay raises
for generously paid Faculty is arrogance. UC Berkeley (ranked # 70 Forbes)
tuition increases exceed national average rate of increase. Chancellor
Birgeneau’s leadership molded Cal into the
most expensive public university in the USA.
Can we do better with a spirit of shared sacrifices by Faculty, Provosts, and Chancellors?
(17,000 earn more than $100,000)
No furloughs.
18 percent decrease UCOP
salaries, $50 million budget cut.
18 percent prune chancellors’ salaries.
15 percent trim tenured faculty salaries,
increase teaching.
10 percent non-tenured faculty pay decrease,
increase research, teaching.
100% elimination
of Academic Senate, Academic Council budgets.
There is no question the necessary realignments with reality will be painful.
UC Board of Regents Chair
Sherry Lansing can bridge the public trust gap with reassurances salaries reflect
depressed California
wages. With UC’s shared financial sacrifices, the sky above
UC will not fall.
Opinion, email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu
v8573254 - September 8, 2011 at 12:27 pm
The people who conceived and passed the Land Grant college act and those who fostered the GI Bill need their own monuments, somewhere. Their stories and the contributions their acts made for all of us, not only those who have attended as a result, are rarely honored.
richardtaborgreene - September 12, 2011 at 1:32 am
The reduction in funds is only just beginning—the next two years should involve reducations at least matching all reductions of the past 10 years, PER YEAR in 2012, 2013, 2014. By 2015 a new consensus that public universities are below rank 50 and staying there for generations will emerge. The US public did NOT benefit, they feel, from the enrichment of faculty and universities from 1980 to the present—so the US public are withdrawing all support for higher education. Derek Bok predicted this in three books in the late 1980s and 1990s. He warned that unless all higher education was seen doing ONE highly visible multi-decade mass service to America—they would lose political support and wither. Watch the withering! Though Wall Streeters steal more faster, faculty stole a lot and will now pay for it. The era of theft as US spending-GDP basis is drawing to an end. This was obvious and inevitable 15 years ago. Let us stop the phony surprise over this.