COE hires Subrata Chakrabarti First NAE member to its faculty

Dear colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that the UIC College of Engineering has been successful in hiring its first member of the National Academy of Engineering to its faculty.  Today, Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti has accepted our offer to be a member of our faculty with a 25% appointment in the Civil and Materials Engineering department, and a 25% appointment in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department.  He will start August 16, 2005.  He plans to teach a course on "Dynamics of Floating Structures" to our graduate students, and be involved with research proposals and directing graduate students.  His biography is enclosed below.

I want to thank the members of the CME and MIE department faculty for meeting with Dr. Chakrabarti during his multiple visits to the campus.  He told me that he was very impressed with the quality of our faculty and looks forward to interacting with all of us in the near future.

Best wishes.

Prith Banerjee
Dean, College of Engineering and
UIC Distinguished Professor

BIO OF SUBRATA CHAKRABARTI