{"427481":{"#nid":"427481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE Chair Vigor Yang elected to National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that it has elected AE School Chair and W. R. T. Oakes Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/yang-v\u0022\u003EDr.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Vigor Yang\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eas a member of the exclusive organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing Yang\u0027s election, the NAE commended his \u201ccontributions to combustion physics in propulsion systems and to aerospace engineering education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Yang in this honor were two other Georgia Tech faculty,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=133\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeepak Divan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ECE) and\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ajit-Yoganathan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAjit P. Yoganathan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(BME). All three will be formally inducted in ceremonies to be held in Washington, D.C., this October.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe typically low-key Yang was reticent about commenting on the career-defining honor, but his colleagues were not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Vigor is a world-class scholar and a gifted teacher,\u0022 said associate chair Dr. Lakshmi Sankar, a Regents Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He has raised a generation of student researchers who have gone on to be highly successful in industry and academia. His innovations are in wide use within industries and government labs. This is a well-deserved, long overdue recognition of all he has done for our nation and our field. I am thrilled.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElection to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0022engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,\u0022 and to the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDeepak, Vigor and Ajit have made exceptional contributions to their fields and to Georgia Tech,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGary S. May\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean of the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a tremendous honor for these outstanding and deserving researchers. We are honored to have them as part of our engineering faculty.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYang received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. Following a year as research fellow in jet propulsion at Caltech, he joined the Pennsylvania State University in 1985, becoming the John L. and Genevieve H. Chair in Engineering in 2006. He joined Georgia Tech as the aerospace engineering school chair in January 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.yang.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYang\u2019s research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;encompasses a wide spectrum of topics, including combustion instabilities in propulsion systems, chemically reacting flows in air-breathing and rocket engines, combustion of energetic materials, high-pressure transport phenomena and combustion, active control of gas-turbine combustion dynamics, and nanotechnologies for propulsion and energetic applications. He has established, as the principal or co-principal investigator, more than 68 research projects dealing with fluid dynamics and combustion in aerospace propulsion and power systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003EMinutes after the NAE announcement was made, Yang was surrounded by faculty and other colleagues who wanted to congratulate him. Seen here are Dr. Julian Rimoli, left, and Dr. Graeme Kennedy. Dr. Yang met their congratulations by saying \u0022You\u0027re next.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther GT-AE\u0026nbsp;faculty who have been elected to the NAE\u0026nbsp;include:\u0026nbsp;Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Dr. Robert Braun, Dr. Robert Loewy and\u0026nbsp; Dr. Don P. Giddens.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that it has elected AE School Chair and W. R. T. 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