Besides
Mr. Tata, eight Indian-Americans have been inducted into the institute,
considered among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an
engineer.
Mr. Tata, the 75-year-old Chairman emeritus of the Tata Group, has been inducted as a Foreign Associate.
Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is a
private, independent, non-profit institution that provides engineering
leadership in service to the nation. This year it has elected 69 new
members and 11 foreign associates, thus bringing the total US membership
to 2,250 and the number of foreign associates to 211.
Anant Agarwal, President, edX (online learning initiative of MIT and
Harvard University) and Professor at the electrical engineering and
computer science department in Massachusetts Institute of Technology has
been elected for his contributions to shared-memory and multicore
computer architectures.
Murty. P. Bhavaraju, Senior
Consultant, has been elected for probabilistic reliability evaluation
tools for large electric power systems; and Ashok Gadgil, Director and
Senior Scientist, environmental energy technologies division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, for engineering solutions to the problems
of potable water and energy in underdeveloped nations.
Other
Indian-Americans inducted into the Academy are Ganesh Kailasam, from
Dow Chemicals, Vijay Kumar, from University of Pennsylvania, Bal Raj
Sehgal, emeritus professor of nuclear power safety, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Pradeep S Sindhu, founder, Juniper Networks and
Krishna P Singh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Holtec
International.
C. D. Mote, President of the NAE,
addressing the annual meeting of the institute on Sunday, said the
recruitment of talented international students over the past half
century has contributed remarkably to US engineering.
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