Faculty Service
UT Engineering Faculty serving on Federal Boards, Committees 2003-2008
- Professor David Allen, chemical engineering:
- Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Board
- National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
- Professor Suzanne Barber, computer engineering:
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Science Study Group
- Professor Chandra Bhat, civil engineering:
- National Transportation Research Board Committee on Passenger Travel Demand Forecasting (chair)
- National Transportation Task Force
- Professor David Blackstock, mechanical engineering:
- National Research Council, Ford Foundation Panel, evaluator of diversity in pre-doctoral or postdoctoral fellowships
- Professor Bob Gilbert, civil engineering:
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers External Review Panel on Katrina Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force
- Professor John Howell, mechanical engineering:
- National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Committee of Visitors to Evaluate the Chemical and Transport Systems Division
- National Academy of Engineering panel member, "Benchmarking the Status of Mechanical Engineering in the United States"
- Professor Dale Klein, mechanical engineering:
- Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Professor Kara Kockelman, civil engineering:
- National Academy of Engineering Committee for the Study on the Relationships Among Development Patterns, VMT, and Energy Conservation
- Professor Stelios Kyriakides, engineering mechanics:
- National Research Council, U.S. National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (member at large)
- Professor Larry Lake, petroleum engineering:
- National Academy of Science Committee to review groundwater protection plan at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Research Council Committee of geotechnical and geological engineering
- Professor Lance Manuel, civil engineering:
- National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
- Professor Nicholas Peppas, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmaceutics:
- President Bush's Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group
- Professor Gary Pope, petroleum engineering:
- National Research Council Committee on source removal of contaminants in the subsurface
- Professor Ted Rappaport, computer engineering:
- Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Council
- Professor Ellen Rathje, civil engineering:
- Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee
- Professor Danny Reible, environmental engineering:
- National Research Council Committee on OMB Risk Assessment Guidance
- National Research Council Committee on Dredging Effectiveness
- Co-Chair, Science Committee for National Science Foundation CLEANER Initiative
- National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology
- Professor Sharon Wood, civil engineering:
- Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Structural Safety
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction
- Professor Zhamin Zhang, civil engineering:
- National Research Council Committee on the Department of Energy Infrastructure Renewal
