November 19, 2004
Purdue trustees approve appointments for 4 professors
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, Nov. 19) approved the appointment of designated professorships.
The board approved the appointments of the following professors: Monika Ivantysynova as the Maha Named Professor in Fluid Power Systems, Philip Nelson as the first Scholle Chair in Food Processing, Herbert Ohm as a Purdue Distinguished Professor, and Vladimir P. Shalaev as the Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With these appointments, the Purdue faculty has 102 named or distinguished professors.
"These scholars are pre-eminent in their fields, attracting major research grants as well as the very best students and faculty," said Purdue Provost Sally Mason. "They are essential to our strategic plan."
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Ivantysynova, a professor within the School of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, came to Purdue in August. She specializes in computer-based pump and motor design, modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems, motion control with advanced hydraulic actuators, and the development of design algorithms.
Her current research efforts also include the development of new energy-saving hydraulic actuators for heavy-duty manipulators and robots, drive-line control and active oscillation damping of off-road vehicles, virtual prototyping of power split drives, as well as condition monitoring and prognostics of mechatronic systems. In addition to the book "Hydrostatic Pumps and Motors," published in German and English, she has published about 80 papers in technical journals and at international conferences. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Fluid Power.
A native of Polenz, Germany, she earned a doctoral degree in 1983 from the Slovak Technical University of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. She then worked for seven years in the fluid power industry. She was a professor of mechatronic systems at the Institute for Aircraft Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg in Germany from 1999 to 2004, a professor of fluid power and control at Duisburg University in Germany from 1996 to 1999, a senior researcher and manager at the Institute for Aircraft Systems Engineering from 1992 to1996, and a project leader at the Institute for Machine Design at the Technical University of Hamburg from 1990 to1992.
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Nelson, a professor in the Department of Food Science, has broad experience in the field of food processing. He was a plant manager of a tomato processing plant from 1956 to1960 and came to Purdue in 1961 as an instructor. He earned a doctoral degree in food science from Purdue in 1967. He was appointed director of the Food Sciences Institute, was head of the Department of Food Science from 1984 to 2003, has taught food preservation and product development courses, and has assisted food processors throughout the United States and several foreign nations.
Nelson also has carried out an active research program, creating the first viable application for aseptic processing. His bulk aseptic storage process received the Institute of Food Technologists' Industrial Achievement Award in 1976, the first time the award was given to a university researcher. In 1995 he received the Nicholas Appert Award, the institute's top honor. Two years later he was honored by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture with the USDA Secretary's Award for Personal and Professional Excellence. Nelson worked closely with William Scholle to allow Scholle's containers to remain sterile during their filling with food products.
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Ohm, a professor of agronomy who has been at Purdue since 1972, specializes in wheat and oat genetics and breeding for important agronomic traits; genetics and breeding for resistance to yellow dwarf viruses, Hessian fly, and fungal diseases; and the development of DNA markers and their use in marker-assisted selection in an ongoing crop improvement program.
Ohm earned a doctoral degree from Purdue in 1972, a master's degree from North Dakota State University in 1969 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He has co-authored more than 135 refereed publications on wheat and oat genetics and breeding and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Meritorious Service Award from the Organization of African Unity and the Crops and Soils Merit Award from the Indiana Crop Improvement Association. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Crop Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy.
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Shalaev, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializes in nanophotonics, nonlinear optics and spectroscopy, mesoscopic physics, quantum electronics, and optoelectronics. He earned a doctoral degree in physics and mathematics in 1983 and a master's degree in physics in 1979, both from the Krasnoyarsk State University in Russia.
Shalaev, who came to Purdue in 2001, was the George W. Gardiner Professor of Physics at New Mexico State University. He previously taught and conducted research at the University of Toronto and Krasnoyarsk State University. Shalaev also was a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, director of Summer School on Physics & Math for gifted students at Krasnoyarsk State University and a research fellow at the Institute of Physics in Krasnoyarsk. He authored and edited four books, 13 invited book chapters, and more than 200 research papers. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a co-editor of the Elsevier Book series "Advances in Nano-Optics & Nano-Photonics," co-editor of Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics, and a chair of a topical group of the Optical Society of America's Optical Science Division.
Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Sources: Sally Mason, (765) 494-9709, sfmason@purdue.edu
Monika Ivantysynova, (765) 496-6578, mivantys@purdue.edu
Philip Nelson, (765) 494-8256, nelsonpe@foodsci.purdue.edu
Herbert Ohm, (765) 494-8072, hohm@purdue.edu
Vladimir Shalaev, (765) 494-9855, shalaev@ecn.purdue.edu
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