Professors Muhammad Hajj and Mark Stremler honored at College Awards ceremony

ESM Professors Muhammad Hajj and Mark Stremler were honored by Dean Benson during the College Awards ceremony held recently.  Dr. Hajj received the Dean's Service Award and Dr. Stremler was named as an Engineering Faculty Fellow.

Professor Hajj, who received the Service Award, served as the president of the Engineering Faculty Organization for the past two years. He chaired the 18th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference in June 2007 in Blacksburg. He also serves on the Virginia Tech Advisory Council on Strategic Budgeting and Planning and the UniversityPromotion and Tenure Committee among his numerous research, teaching and service commitments. More importantly, through his diligent service on ESM faculty search committees, he has been involved in the successful search for each of our faculty members hired over the past four years.

Professor Stremler, who received the $5,000 Faculty Fellow Award, was named by the Army Research Office as a Young Investigator in 2004.  According to the ISI Web of Science, his publications have been cited over 650 times and his h-index is 10 (that is, 10 of his papers have been cited at least 10 times).  He is a pioneer in the application of topological chaos to fluid mixing.  Dr. Stremler has cultivated a cross-college biological transport group that developed an invited NSF IGERT proposal.  The momentum behind the Multi-Scale Transport in Environmental and Physiological Systems (multiSTEPS) effort shows significant promise for years of productive interdisciplinary research activity.

ESM is very pleased to have scholars of high caliber on its Faculty.

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