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By
Denise Brehm, Civil & Environmental
Engineering – October 26, 2007
Joseph
M. Sussman, the JR East Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and the Engineering Systems Division,
is one of six MIT faculty members
to be elected Fellows of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science for 2007, the AAAS announced
today.
Election
to the AAAS by one’s peers is
considered a high honor, reflecting
the Fellow’s “efforts
toward advancing science applications
that are deemed scientifically or
socially distinguished,” according
to the AAAS. The six MIT faculty members
are among 471 new Fellows who will
be presented with a certificate and
a gold and blue rosette pin on February
16 during the association’s
annual meeting in Boston. The colors
of the AAAS pin represent science
(gold) and engineering (blue).
Sussman’s
research focuses on large transportation
networks and Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS). He was elected to the
AAAS engineering section for his “contributions
to understanding large, complex engineering
systems with emphasis on transportation,
freight, and traveler systems, and
for pioneering work in transportation
systems education.”
He
has been on the MIT faculty for 40
years and is author of a widely used
graduate textbook, “Introduction
to Transportation Systems,”
(Artech House, 2000), which has been
translated into Greek, Chinese and
Spanish. His latest book, “Perspectives
on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS),” (Springer) was published
in 2005.
Sussman
specializes in the study of “Complex,
Large-Scale, Interconnected, Open,
Sociotechnical (CLIOS) Systems,”
for which he has developed the CLIOS
Process. He has focused recently on
developing a new methodology for regional
strategic transportation planning
and applying it to cases in the U.S.
and abroad. His work in the CLIOS
area deals with transportation, technology
and sustainability applied in Mexico
City; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and
Portugal. Sussman has helped build
the U.S. ITS program and regional
programs within the U.S., and an “intelligent
corridor” in Bangkok. He has
made a comparison of ITS programs
in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S.
His research in both freight and passenger
railroads focuses on service reliability,
rail operations, maintenance, high-speed
rail and risk assessment.
Sussman
received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished
Service Award from the Transportation
Resources Board in 2001, that organization’s
highest honor, and the Award for Distinguished
Contribution to University Transportation
Education and Research from the Council
of University Transportation Centers,
in 2003. In 2002 the ITS Massachusetts
named its annual Joseph M. Sussman
Leadership Award in his honor.
The
AAAS is one of the world’s largest
general scientific societies, and
is publisher of the prestigious journal,
Science, which has the largest paid
circulation of any peer-reviewed general
science journal in the world, according
to the AAAS. Members of the society
are nominated to the rank of Fellow
by the steering groups of the association’s
24 sections, by any three Fellows,
or by the AAAS chief executive officer.
The
other 2007 MIT Fellows are:
Professor
Jeffrey P. Freidberg
of the Department of Nuclear Science
and Engineering—for “distinguished
contributions to research and teaching
in the areas of theoretical plasma
physics and magnetohydrodynamics as
applied to problems in magnetic fusion.”
Klavs
F. Jensen, the Warren K Lewis
Professor of Chemical Engineering
in the Departments of Materials Science
and Engineering and Chemical Engineering,
and head of chemical engineering—for
the “elegant use of detailed
simulations of reactive systems to
gain new insight into the underlying
basic physical and chemical rate processes.”
Daniel
G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus
Professor of Energy and Professor
of Chemistry—for “distinguished
contributions to the development of
renewable energy at the molecular
level, with emphasis on the splitting
of water with solar light.”
Leona
D. Samson, director of the
Center for Environmental Health Sciences
and Professor of Biological Engineering
and Biology—for “distinguished
contributions to cancer prevention
and treatment, particularly for elucidating
ways in which cells, tissues, and
animals respond to carcinogenic and
chemotherapeutic agents.”
Maria
T. Zuber, professor and head
of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences—for “outstanding
research contributions and scientific
leadership in the geophysical studies
of Earth and the solid planets."
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