New Director of NSF Engineering Directorate Announced

New engineering director at NSF - Richard O. Buckius has been named to head the Engineering Directorate at the US National Science Foundation.
An expert in thermal sciences, he has been professor of mechanical engineering and is former head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his academic degrees in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. At NSF he previously served as head of the Thermal Systems and Engineering Program and the Division of Chemical and Transport Systems, then acting assistant director for engineering.
 (See http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=3D107926)