Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Darek Ceglarek, assistant professor, industrial engineering, received the 2001 Best Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Engineering Division for his paper “Modeling Variation Propagation of Multi-Station Assembly Systems with Compliant Parts.” The paper was selected from 64 papers presented in the area of design for manufacturing during the 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference in Pittsburgh.

Al McCoy, professor, history, has been awarded the Philippine National Book Award for the third volume of his edited trilogy “Lives at the Margin: Biography of Filipinos Ordinary, Heroic, Obscure” on the making of the modern Philippine nation state. An earlier volume, “An Anarchy of Families” previously won the award.

Stephen Kantrowitz, professor, history, has been awarded the Mark H. Ingraham Distinguished Teaching Award. The award honors newly tenured professors in the College of Letters and Science.

John G. Webster, professor, biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2001 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Career Achievement Award. The award is the society’s highest honor.

Mareda Weiss, associate dean, graduate school, will receive the National Council of University Research Administrator’s highest honor, the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Administration, during the council’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in November.

John J. Moskwa, professor, mechanical engineering, has received a $382,000 grant from General Motors Corporation to perform research and develop control algorithms for a new cam-less engine. Prototype cam-less hardware for both single- and multi-cylinder engines are expected to be delivered to his Powertrain Control Research Laboratory as part of this program. Also, Moskwa and Ph.D. student John L. Lahti are designing and developing a new type of single-cylinder engine transient dynamometer that will extend the capabilities and range of operation significantly beyond the current test systems used in the industry. WARF is pursuing joint patents on this technology with GM.

Joseph J. Bisognano has been appointed executive director of the Synchrotron Radiation Center. The SRC is a national facility that produces soft X-rays, infrared light and ultraviolet light for a diverse research program including studies of high-temperature superconductors and magnetic materials, nanolithography for cutting-edge semiconductor devices and microanalysis of cells to develop procedures such as advanced cancer treatments. Bisognano came to SRC in 1999 as associate director for accelerator development after spending over a decade at the Department of Energy’s Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Va. Previously, Bisognano was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Richard D. Pierce, director of facilities for the Wisconsin Union, has been named chair of the International Facility Management Association. Pierce, who has more than 30 years experience in facility management, has been an IFMA member since 1989. He is serving on IFMA’s board of directors for the third consecutive year. In the Madison chapter, he has served in every major office and as chair of every major committee. IFMA is a Houston-based professional association for facility management with approximately 19,000 members in 130 chapters and more than 50 countries.

Kevan Klingberg has been hired to coordinate the Discovery Farms Agricultural Training Program. The Agricultural Training Program, which started in 1995, is a nutrient management education program. Participating farmers learn reasons for improving their nutrient management practices from an economic and environmental perspective. Klingberg will be working with UW-Extension county agents, Land Conservation Departments, technical colleges and other organizations and institutions throughout Wisconsin to hold training sessions for producers as well as potential nutrient management plan trainers.

John Milton Cooper Jr., professor, history, has published a new book, “Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the United Nations.”