Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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Appointments and promotions– Jennifer Sinclair, an associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named Purdue's new head of Freshman Engineering, effective July 31. She replaced Victor Goldschmidt, who has retired. Sinclair, who holds a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University, earned a bachelor of science degree from Purdue in 1983, also in chemical engineering. She has won various awards and honors, including a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991 and a college research award from Carnegie Mellon University, where she previously served on the faculty. Faculty and staff honors– Gavriel Salvendy, a professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University, was one of 23 people elected to the first class of Fellows of the International Ergonomics Association, an international group of ergonomics societies from 41 countries. He received the award during an association gathering on Aug. 1 in San Diego. Salvendy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990, an honor never before granted to a member of his professional group, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. In 1991, he was the first person outside of the former USSR to receive the Founder Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, making him only the fourth person ever to receive the honor from the fields of science and engineering in the 45-year history of the academy.
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