New Faculty Serve Up Sustainable Ideas and Practice What They Teach

This fall, we have recruited four tenure-track faculty in the area of Engineering for Sustainability. Associate Professor Marc Hodes (Ph.D., MIT) joins the Mechanical Engineering Department from Ireland's Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Bell Labs) company, where he has served as co-manager of a group of researchers working on thermoelectric power generation and architectures for energy efficient, next-generation telecom/datacom centers. He holds three U.S. patents and has filed an additional 16 in thermoelectronics. Also a MIT alumna, Luisa Chiesa joins ME as an Assistant Professor in January 2009. Chiesa's doctoral thesis relates to superconducting cable in conduit conductors subject to mechanical loads. Prior to her graduate work at MIT, she was a guest scientist at FERMILAB. New Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thomas Vandervelde (Ph.D., University of Virginia) was a research assistant professor in the Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico, and has research interests in quantum electronics and ultra-efficient monolithic multi-lattice and quantum dot-enhanced photovoltaics. He holds a U.S. patent for the formation of quantum dots at predetermined positions on a substrate. Assistant Professor Babak Moaveni joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department from a post-doctoral position at the University of California, San Diego, where he has researched structural health monitoring and damage identification of civil structures.

The School of Engineering will also welcome seven Professors of the Practice (PoPs), including full-time PoPs, David Vinson (ChBE) (Ph.D., Lehigh Univsersity) and Thomas James (ME) (Ph.D., Marquette Univsersity). Recruitment of these individuals is part of the School's continuing commitment to bringing industry experts into the engineering classroom. Vinson joins us after a more than 30 years at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he most recently served as the company's Principal Engineering Associate, identifying, developing, and demonstrating next-generation advanced control technologies. James, who holds nine utility patents, joins us from his most recent position as Senior Vice President, Professional Power Tools - Asia Operations, Techtronic Industries Co., Ltd., an international power instruments company.

Tufts will also welcome Michael Levin (A92) to its faculty as Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and Adjunct Professor of biomedical engineering. Levin is the former director of Harvard's Forsyth Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and will work closely with the Advanced Technology Laboratory faculty.

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