USU USTAR Faculty Becomes AAAS Fellow
Krishna Shenai of Utah State University has been awarded the distinction of becoming an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
As part of the AAAS Section on Engineering, Shenai was elected an AAAS Fellow for his pioneering contributions to high-frequency, solid-state electric power management technologies and applications.
“It is such an honor to become a Fellow because you are nominated by your peers around the world,” said Shenai. “I am fortunate to be a member of an exclusive club. I am humbled and honored”
Shenai is a member of USU’s electrical and computer engineering department and was recruited to Utah State as part of the Utah Science, Technology and Research Initiative. Passed in the 2006 state legislative session, USTAR provides funding for research personnel and facilities at USU and the University of Utah with the expectation that the research will create new technologies, jobs and businesses.
“Dr. Shenai’s work in electrical engineering complements some of USU’s strongest competitive advantages,” said Stan Albrecht, president of Utah State. “This honor of becoming an AAAS Fellow not only enhances Dr. Shenai’s resume, but also our nationally renowned engineering program and Space Dynamics Laboratory. We’ll see some great ideas and technologies coming from this program in the near future.”
“It is such an honor to become a Fellow because you are nominated by your peers around the world,” said Shenai. “I am fortunate to be a member of an exclusive club. I am humbled and honored”
Shenai is a member of USU’s electrical and computer engineering department and was recruited to Utah State as part of the Utah Science, Technology and Research Initiative. Passed in the 2006 state legislative session, USTAR provides funding for research personnel and facilities at USU and the University of Utah with the expectation that the research will create new technologies, jobs and businesses.
“Dr. Shenai’s work in electrical engineering complements some of USU’s strongest competitive advantages,” said Stan Albrecht, president of Utah State. “This honor of becoming an AAAS Fellow not only enhances Dr. Shenai’s resume, but also our nationally renowned engineering program and Space Dynamics Laboratory. We’ll see some great ideas and technologies coming from this program in the near future.”
AAAS honored 449 members for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. This year’s AAAS Fellows were announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Nov. 24.
New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, from 8-10 a.m. at the Fellows Forum during the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
Shenai earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986. Between 1980 and 1993, he held senior scientist positions at COMSAT Labs, General Electric Corporate R&D Center and Intel Corporation. He then took an academic position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993 and then at the University of Illinois in 1995, where he has been a tenured professor until 2004.
Shenai has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and four books, and has served in many editorial and leadership capacities for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
“Dr. Shenai’s academic reputation is excellent, but he stands out because of his experience in technology commercialization,” said Brent Miller, vice president for research at Utah State. “Shenai holds 15 issued patents and 10 pending patent applications. He has co-founded three high-tech startup companies and consults for major corporations around the world. Those are qualities that will help him achieve the aims of USTAR.”
The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the association's 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (as long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee's institution) or by the AAAS chief executive officer.
Each Steering Group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list.
The council is the policymaking body of the association, chaired by the AAAS president, and consisting of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more.
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USU USTAR Professor Krishna Shenai
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