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BIOGRAPHIES OF
A COMMITTEE
MEMBERS
DON P. GIDDENS (NAE), chair, is dean of the College of Engineer-
ing (since 1992), Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Chair in Bioengineering,
and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Georgia Institute of
Technology. After receiving all three of his degrees (B.S.E. 1963, M.S.
1965, and Ph.D. 1966) from Georgia Tech, he joined the faculty there
in 1968. Dean Giddens is a member of the National Academy of Engi-
neering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Big 10+ Deans
Council, a founding fellow and past president of the American Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering, and fellow of the American
Heart Association and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME). He received the H.R. Lissner Award from ASME in 1993 and
was the ASME Thurston Lecturer in 1996. In June 2007, he was elected
chair of the Executive Board of the Engineering Deans Council of the
American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Giddens is a mem-
ber of several advisory boards and councils for academic institutions,
corporations, and professional societies. He is also the author of more
than 300 refereed publications, book chapters, and presentations and
maintains an active research program in cardiovascular hemodynamics
at Georgia Tech.
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RICK E. BORChELT is director of communications at the Genetics
and Public Policy Center, Berman Bioethics Center, Johns Hopkins
University, where he also teaches science policy and politics in the sci-
ence writing program. Previously, he was director of communications
and public affairs at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an independent research enter-
prise. Mr. Borchelt’s varied career includes stints as director of media
relations for the National Academy of Sciences; press secretary for
the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology; special assistant for public affairs in the Executive Office
of the President during the Clinton Administration; and director of
communications for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office
of Science. He chaired a three-year study by a blue-ribbon panel of
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists, scientists, public affairs officers,
and science writers, funded by DOE and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, on best practices in communicating to
the public about science, technology, and health, which culminated
in an international conference in March 2002, “Communicating the
Future.” Mr. Borchelt is currently an advisor to a project funded by
the National Science Foundation (NSF) on nanoscale informal science
education. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 2004 and is a commentary editor for Science
Communication.
vIRGIL R. CARTER is executive director of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where his responsibilities include over-
seeing budgets, staff, and technical and educational activities, as well as
management of the ASME Foundation and affiliated business entities.
His professional career spans 42 years and includes military service,
executive and ownership positions in business, academic teaching and
administration, and association management. After earning a Bachelor
of Architecture degree from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 1964,
he served as a captain on a Special Forces A-Team in Vietnam. After the
war, he earned a master’s degree in architecture from the University of
Illinois in 1969. In 1986, after 17 years of private architectural practice,
he returned to OSU as head of the School of Architecture. From 1990
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Appendix A
to 1996, Mr. Carter was senior executive at the American Institute
of Architects, Washington, D.C., and in 1996 he founded Business &
Educational Advisory Services, in Falls Church, Virginia. In 1997, be
became executive director of the Project Management Institute, which
experienced a 350 percent net growth in membership and expanded
its global membership to 120 countries under his leadership. In 2002,
he accepted his current position at ASME. Mr. Carter travels frequently
throughout the world in support of ASME, engineering, and technol-
ogy. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a mem-
ber of several other organizations, including the American Society
of Association Executives, the Pennsylvania Art Association, and the
Special Forces Association.
WILLIAM S. hAMMACK, a professor of chemical and biomolecular
engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, earned a
B.S. in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University
and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He taught for
10 years at Carnegie Mellon University before returning to Illinois,
where he worked on outreach to the public to explain engineering and
technology. He has created more than 300 pieces for pubic radio, which
have been heard on “Marketplace” and around the world on Radio
National Australia, for which he received the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers Service to Society Award, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineer’s Edwin F. Church Medal, the American Society
of Engineering Education’s President’s Award, the IEEE Award for Dis-
tinguished Literacy Contributions, the American Chemical Society’s
Grady-Stack Award, and the American Institute of Physics Science
Writing Award. In addition, he teaches a General Education course
on engineering for non-majors. He spent 2005–2006 on leave from
the university as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of
State.
LEAh h. jAMIESON (NAE) is John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineer-
ing and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Purdue University; she also has a courtesy appointment in
Purdue’s Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Jamieson has been
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recognized for her achievements as co-founder (with Edward J. Coyle)
and co-director (with William C. Oakes) of the Engineering Projects
in Community Service (EPICS) Program, which was awarded the
National Academy of Engineering’s 2005 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for
Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. Also for EPICS-
related activities, she (and Coyle) received the 1997 Chester F. Carlson
Award for Innovation in Engineering Education from the American
Society for Engineering Education, and Dean Jamieson received the
IEEE Education Society 2000 Harriet B. Rigas “Outstanding Woman
Engineering Educator” Award. Dr. Jamieson was one of the inaugural
recipients of the NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
Scholars (2001), was inducted into Purdue’s Book of Great Teachers
(2003), and was named 2002 Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carn-
egie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of
Education. Dr. Jamieson has conducted research on speech analysis and
recognition and the design of parallel processing algorithms and soft-
ware for digital speech, image, and signal processing, and is the author
of more than 175 papers and co-editor of Algorithmically Specialized
Parallel Computers (Academic Press, 1985) and The Characteristics of
Parallel Algorithms (MIT Press, 1987). She is 2007 president and CEO
of IEEE and has held many other leadership positions at IEEE since
1998. She has also been associate editor and a member of the editorial
board for several IEEE publications, a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee for the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science
and Engineering (1998–2000), and a member (1998–2001, 2001–2004,
2005–2007) and secretary (1999–2001) of the Board of Directors of the
Computing Research Association. She received her S.B. in mathematics
from MIT and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
jAMES h. jOhNSON, jR., is a professor of civil engineering and dean
of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Sciences
at Howard University. He received his B.S. from Howard University,
his M.S. from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. from the Uni-
versity of Delaware. His research interests include the treatment and
disposal of hazardous substances, environmental policy in relation
to minorities, nanomaterials in environmental restoration, and envi-
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Appendix A
ronmental curricula and strategies for increasing the participation
of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics disciplines. A member of the National Research Council
(NRC) Division of Earth and Life Sciences Oversight Committee,
Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Committee on Diversity and Women
in Civil Engineering, and vice chair of the Anne Arundel Community
College (Maryland) Board of Trustees, he has also served on several
university, private-sector, and research-center advisory committees,
NRC boards and committees, and government advisory committees.
The author of more than 60 scholarly articles, a contributor to three
books, and co-editor of two books, Dr. Johnson is a registered profes-
sional engineer in the District of Columbia, a diplomate of the Ameri-
can Academy of Environmental Engineers, and the 2005 recipient of
the National Society of Black Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award
in Academia.
vIRGINIA KRAMER, executive creative director at the advertising
and public relations firm keiler & Co., oversees creative products
of all kinds, including print and broadcast advertising, collateral
products, direct mail products, and interactive products. Ms. kramer
is an award-winning copywriter with broad experience working with
clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, banking,
insurance, health care, aerospace, high technology, medical devices,
pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, publishing, and the performing arts.
Ms. kramer graduated (magna cum laude) from the University of
Hartford. She was a participant in the NAE preliminary focus group in
April 2005 on public understanding of engineering messaging.
PATRICK j. NATALE is executive director of the American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the recipient of the 2006 kenneth Andrew
Roe Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies.
Prior to joining ASCE in 2002, Mr. Natale was executive director of
the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), where he had
been active in leadership and internal management for many years at
both national and state levels. In 1997, Mr. Natale received the NSPE
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Distinguished Service Award, and in July 2000, he was named a Fellow
of the society. He was also president, national director, and practice
division officer of the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers.
Mr. Natale had a 28-year career at Public Service Electric and Gas Com-
pany of New Jersey, where he held many top-level jobs. Over the years,
he was responsible for managing sales, marketing, strategic planning,
and customer service; he also led the corporate effort to develop the
process and systems for deregulating the energy marketplace in New
Jersey. Mr. Natale holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Newark College
of Engineering and an M.S. in engineering management from the New
Jersey Institute of Technology. He completed the Executive Manage-
ment Program at Yale University and is a licensed professional engineer
in New Jersey and a certified association executive.
DIETRAM A. SChEUFELE is a professor in the Department of Life
Sciences Communication and a member of the steering committee
of the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology
Studies at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison. He is also the
Wisconsin principle investigator of the National Scence Foundation-
funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society, located at Arizona
State University, and a member of the Nanotechnology Technical
Advisory Group to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology. The focus of Dr. Scheufele’s research is shaping public
attitudes toward science and technology. He has received the Young
Scholar Award for outstanding early research from the International
Communication Association, the Young Faculty Teaching Excellence
Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
University, and the Vilas Associate Award from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His professional experience includes consulting
work for major marketing firms and public-sector clients, including
the Public Broadcasting System and the World Health Organization.
Prior to joining UW in 2004, he was a tenured associate professor and
director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication at
Cornell University.
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Appendix A
jACQUELyN F. SULLIvAN is founding co-director and director of
k-12 Engineering Education for the Integrated Teaching and Learning
Program at the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, a program
that is working toward integrating hands-on engineering throughout
the k–16 learning experience. In 2008, Sullivan was co-recipient of
the National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Prize for
Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, and in 2005
she received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the
k–12 Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Dr. Sullivan had 13 years of engineering and leadership experience
in industry prior to joining CU in 1990, and she was instrumental in
founding the university’s Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,
which provides hands-on engineering experience to more than 4,000
undergraduates annually. She also initiated a k–12 engineering educa-
tion program for teachers and underserved students and is currently
leading a multi-institutional initiative to create an online, search-
able, standards-based, digital library of k–12 engineering curricula.
She heads a U.S. Department of Education and National Science
Foundation-funded project, the TEAMS Program (Tomorrow’s Engi-
neering—creAte. iMagine. Succeed.) that incorporates weekly hands-
on, inquiry-based engineering into engineering and science classes
in grades 3 through 12. Dr. Sullivan is a founding board member of
the Denver School of Science and Technology—a public, urban high
school that incorporates science, engineering, and technology into
a humanities-rich setting focused on student achievement. In addi-
tion, she is a long-standing member of (and has chaired) the board of
directors of a non-profit community school of the arts. She received
her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and aquatic toxicology from
Purdue University.
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