WASAN ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
Darsh T. Wasan, Motorola Chair professor and vice president for international affairs, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, considered among the highest professional distinctions for engineers.
In naming Wasan, the Academy cited his pioneering research, inspirational teaching and the development of novel technology in colloidal processing and interfacial rheology. He is among 75 new members and 11 foreign associates elected this month and among a handful of IIT professors to achieve this professional distinction. Total U.S. membership is just over 2,100.
Academy membership honors those who have made important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice and those who have demonstrated accomplishment in the pioneering of new fields of engineering, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.
Other Academy members from IIT include Professor Henry Linden, retired Professors Thomas Martin and Mark Morkovin along with longtime trustees and benefactors Robert Pritzker and Robert Galvin. Wasan joined the IIT faculty in 1964 and has served as chairman of the department of chemical engineering, dean of engineering, vice president for research and provost.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
