2014 NAE Annual Meeting

Zhou Ji is president of both the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS). He has previously served as president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, director-general of the Department of Science and Technology of Hubei Province, mayor of Wuhan, ...

Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD, is the first director of the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and in 2013 was also appointed NIH’s acting chief officer for scientific workforce diversity. This position was established by the NIH director for the coordination and oversight of all NIH programs and ...

 Siegfried S. Hecker (NAE) is a professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He was codirector of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in ...

I graduated from Dartmouth with an AB and BE in 1973 and became interested in biomedical engineering and metallurgy. As a graduate student at Thayer I merged my interests and developed technology that provides high-strength, porous metal coatings on orthopedic implants to permit bone to grow into them for biological fixation. After graduation I ...

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., is the former chairman of the board of directors (1999–2009) and chief executive officer (1998–2008) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., where he began his career in 1970 as an engineer. During the 1970s and 1980s he worked in nearly every branch of the company, serving as a business analyst for the fibers ...