Chemical Engineering Fall Seminar Series: Vincent G. Harris

Seminar Title: TBD

Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center

Abstract: TBD

Vincent G. Harris (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1985, 1988, and 1990, respectively, the M.S. degree in engineering management from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 1995, and the M.Eng. degree in executive technology management from the Wharton Busniess School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 2003.,He was a Technical Staff Member and also the Head of the Complex Materials Section and the Materials Physics Branch with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA. He currently holds positions as a University Distinguished Professor and the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor with Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. He has authored more than 400 technical peer-reviewed articles, including book chapters, review articles, and invited technical feature articles that have been cited more than 14 000 times. He holds more than 20 patents or patent applications. His research interests encompass a wide range of functional materials and their applications in devices and systems used principally in high-frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Dr. Harris has been recognized with national and international awards for scholarship including the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)’s Distinguished Scientist Award and the Lee Hsun Research and Lectureship Award by the Institute of Metals Research—Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). He has been elevated to Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), the International Engineering and Technology Institute (Distinguished Fellow, IETI), the Institute of Physics (GB, Inst. of Phys.), the J. William Fulbright International Scholars Program, the Foreign Expert Program of the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (on the topic of Rare Earth Physics and Magnetism), and the U.S. State Department Jefferson Science Fellowship.