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Three Rensselaer student-athletes have been selected to the 2004 District 1 College Division Football All-Academic First Team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Shawn Herrmann, a sophomore offensive lineman, is an aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering dual major with a 3.86 cumulative GPA. Carl Harding, a senior defensive lineman, boasts a 3.47 GPA as an industrial management engineering major and industrial/organizational psychology minor. Grant Cochran, a junior linebacker, is a biomedical engineering major with a cumulative GPA of 3.80. As first team honorees, all three are eligible for National Academic All-American consideration.
Achille Messac, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, served as general chair of the international conference titled the “10th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization,” which was held in Albany, N.Y. The conference was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and by the Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO). There was record attendance and record number of papers. The conference features presentations by scientists and engineers from 16 countries, and participants from as many as five continents. For more information, go to http://www.rpi.edu/~messac/mao-2004
Rensselaer student-athlete Ed Sellitto has been selected to the 2004 District 1 College Division Soccer All-Academic First Team as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America. This is the second consecutive year Sellitto, a chemical engineering major with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average, has been chosen to the First Team. As a first team honoree, Sellitto is now eligible for National Academic All-American consideration.
Michael Shur, the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts ’48 Professor of Solid State Electronics, was recently selected by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microwave Theory and Techniques Society to serve as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.
Xi-Cheng Zhang, the J. Erik Jonsson ’22 Professor of Science and director of Rensselaer’s Center for Terahertz Research, was recently selected to participate in the National Research Council – Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Distinguished Visiting Scientist Program in Ottawa, Canada.
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