Two Caltech Professors Named to National Academy of Engineering

Two prominent Caltech faculty have been named members of the
National
Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the
highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer, says NAE
President Charles M. Vest.

Ares J. Rosakis, the Theodore von Karman Professor of
Aeronautics, professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the
Division of Engineering and Applied Science, was elected for his
"discovery of intersonic rupture, contributions to understanding
dynamic failure, and methods to determine stresses in thin-film
structures," according to the NAE.

Michael Hoffmann, the James Irvine Professor of Environmental
Science, was elected for his work on "oxidative treatment
technologies for the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants
from water."