The National Academy of Engineering elected, on February 15, 74 new members of whom four are Chinese. They are:
Morris Chang, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation in Taipei, for contributions to the integrated-circuit industry, the creation of the pure-foundry business model, and the enabling of the fabless semiconductor industry.
W.S. Winston Ho, University of Kentucky, in Lexington, for the invention and commercialization of novel separation technologies and the development of new theoretical models for membrane separations.
Chung K. (Ed) Law, Princeton University, for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the fundamentals of combustion processes and theory and the application in propulsion systems.
Bede Liu, Princeton University, for contributions to the analysis and implementation of digital-signal-precessing algorithms.
Membership in the Academy is awarded to those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice" and to those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology." The Academy has a total membership of more than 1,800 in the United States, in addition to 158 foreign associates.