Two Johns Hopkins faculty members — one with
expertise in coastal engineering and the other in speech
recognition technology — have been elected to the
prestigious National Academy of Engineering.
The Whiting School's Robert A. Dalrymple and Frederick
Jelinek were among 76 new members and nine foreign
associates named to the academy, according to a Feb. 10
announcement from the organization. This brings the
academy's total U.S. membership to 2,216 and the number of
foreign associates to 186, the group said. Election to the
National Academy of Engineering is among the highest
professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. The
formal induction ceremony will take place in October in
Washington, D.C.
Dalrymple, who is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman
Professor of Civil
Engineering, was honored for his contributions to
theories and their application to coastal and ocean
engineering.
Jelinek is the Julian Sinclair Smith Professor in the
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering and director of the
university's Center
for Language and Speech Processing. He was recognized
for his contributions to statistical language processing
with applications to automatic speech recognition.
Dalrymple and Jelinek join six other Whiting School
faculty members who are also members of the National
Academy of Engineering: Alan Goldman, professor emeritus in
the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Statistics; Charles O'Melia, chair of
the
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
and Abel Wolman Professor of Environmental Engineering;
Murray Sachs, professor and Bessie Darling Massey Chair in
Biomedical
Engineering; Eugene Shchukin, research professor
emeritus in
DOGEE; James West, research professor in the
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering; and M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman,
the B. Howell Griswold Jr. Professor of Geography and
International Affairs in DOGEE.
In addition to the two faculty members newly elected
to the academy, three Johns Hopkins Engineering alumni were
also chosen: William J. Boettinger, a fellow at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, Md.; Menachem Elimelech, the Roberto C.
Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical
Engineering at Yale; and Michael D. Griffin, administrator
of NASA and former director of the Space Department at the
university's Applied
Physics Laboratory.