National Academy of Engineering NOMINATION FOR MEMBERSHIP SPRING OF 1985 JUNE 6, 1984 JUNE 30, 1984

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1 PRIVILEGED INFORMATION Nominators and references are requested to maintain SECRECY with regard to nominations. Every effort should be made by the nominators and the references to ensure that candidates do not know that they have been nominated for membership in the NAE. National Academy of Engineering NOMINATION FOR MEMBERSHIP TWENTY SECOND ELECTION Last Date for Receipt of Nominations: Last Date for Receipt of References: SPRING OF 1985 JUNE 6, 1984 JUNE 30, 1984 NAE Membership Office: 202/

2 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP INSTRUCTIONS FOR NOMINATING CANDIDATES Please type all information. Before completing this form, refer to "Criteria for Election to Membership" printed on the inside back cover. To be considered for election, a nomination, complete in all respects, must be received in the National Academy of Engineering Membership Office, Room 305, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C , on or before June 6, Allow adequate time for delays in mail delivery. Failure to provide all information requested will put the candidate at a serious disadvantage in the evaluation process. I. EVALUATION AND QUALIFICATIONS This nomination form must be made as complete and informative as possible. Only this form will be used in the evaluation of your candidate and sent to the membership for balloting. Citizens of the United States shall be qualified as candidates for membership, and nationals of other countries shall be qualified for election as foreign associates, if they personally have made identifiable accomplishments in one or both of the following categories: 1. Important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering. 2. Demonstration of unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. A candidate for membership shall be recognized by associates and others for professional integrity, as well as for engineering accomplishments. Effectiveness and efficiency in leadership of organizations that have conducted pioneering or complex programs or that have made noteworthy contributions to the field of engineering education should be weighed as supplementing the primary qualifications outlined above. Refer to "Clarification of Criteria for Membership in the Academy" which is printed on the back cover. Each nominator shall accept the responsibility for assuring that the requisite number of references supporting the nomination return completed forms to the NAE Membership Office on or before June 30, II. ENGINEERING CATEGORIES AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Indicate which of the following engineering categories best describes your candidate's work (Item 7 of the Nomination Form): 1. Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering 2. Agricultural Engineering 3. Chemical/Petroleum Engineering 4. Civil Engineering 5. Electrical Engineering Communications/Computers/ Control 6. Electrical/Nuclear Power Engineering 7. Manufacturing Engineering 8. Mechanical Engineering 9. Mining/Metallurgy/Ceramics/Materials Engineering 10. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering 11. General, includes General Engineering, and other categories not specified above (please identify) HI. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Lists of publications, issued patents and biographical material beyond what is included in the Nomination Form should not be submitted. If the nominator believes it is necessary to augment some of the areas covered in the Nomination Form, the enclosed Supplementary Page should be used. No additional material mil be accepted. The Supplementary Page will be transmitted only to the appropriate Peer Committee and to the Committee on Membership. It will not accompany the ballot book to the membership at large in the final step of the election. Each candidate must be nominated by and requires references from NAE members. Oral agreement from the references shall be obtained before sending them the reference forms. The nominator should send those persons supplying the references: 1 A reference form. (At least three references are required for a candidate for membership; at least two references are required for a candidate for foreign associate. In each case, a maximum of four references may be included. At least two persons from the group of the nominator and references should be from other than the candidate's institution.) 2. An envelope addressed to the NAE Membership Office. Members of the NAE Committee on Membership shall not serve as either nominators or references. Roster of the Committee on Membership is printed on the back cover.) Foreign Associates shall not serve as either nominators or references.

3 CRITERIA FOR ELECTION IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Membership Article V of the Articles of Organization of the National Academy of Engineering deals with the election to membership in the Academy. Election to the Academy is to be on the basis of outstanding contributions to or accomplishments in engineering; this most frequently consists of a combination of personal technical achievement, technical leadership, professional integrity, and service to the profession and to the public. Individual candidates may excel in one or more of these attributes and consideration for nomination should strive to reflect the balance of contributions. Thus a candidate may be qualified on the basis of exceptional technical achievement although by reason of his interests, health, age or other factors, his contributions to the other professional areas may be minimal. Similarly, a candidate may be qualified as a result of exceptional technical leadership in education, industry, government, etc., although his personal technical achievements, while significant, may be relatively diffuse. In cases where contributions have been focused in limited areas of professional performance, the level of performance should be truly exceptional to compensate for the more limited focus. By striving to develop a membership which spans the spectrum of engineering accomplishment, the Academy will serve to distinguish and honor those individuals whose personal, technical achievements alone have raised engineering to the highest levels. In addition, the Academy will seek those individuals whose organizational and leadership abilities have brought engineering's potential to the service of mankind and whose talents are critical to the fulfillment of the Academy's mission of service to the nation. Election is to be on the basis of outstanding contributions to or accomplishments in engineering in the sense described above. The achievement which qualifies a candidate for membership can be scholarly in nature, in research or teaching, as measured by academic standards. It can be in the application of engineering knowledge and art as by an outstanding practitioner. It can be as a leader of an engineering team as by a project engineer who leads and coordinates the work of many specialists in a successful multidisciplinary enterprise. NAE membership is conferred upon individuals and not upon institutions. Membership in the Academy, on the other hand, is not to be conferred on one whose role is, and has been, primarily managerial, financial, or political, without a major engineering component. Candidates without formal education in engineering who achieve outstanding engineering results by applying the laws of nature to meeting the needs of mankind are eligible for membership provided their contributions to and accomplishments in engineering rank in quality and impact with others who are being elected to membership. It is highly desirable for the Academy to seek members from previously un- or under-represented groups including women, racial minorities, geographical areas, technical disciplines, younger age groups, etc. Election to membership from such groups is not to be achieved by lowering standards, but rather by energetic efforts to identify fully qualified candidates from them. It is believed and hoped that a substantial fraction of the members of the Academy will want to take part in the advisory functions of the Academy through committee work or otherwise. It is felt that since engineers are committed to the application of knowledge for the benefit of mankind, members who have been elected to the Academy for outstanding engineering contributions or accomplishments will in the great majority of cases respond well to requests for participation in the activities of the Academy. While there is no absolute limit to the permissible rate of growth of the Academy, it is considered that the growth rate should be such that two primary objectives are achieved: recruitment into membership only of individuals who have been conscientiously screened and are fully qualified; and involvement of sufficient new members in the affairs of the Academy. Foreign Associates At its meeting on February 8, 1974, the Council voted to activate Article II, Section 4 of the Bylaws which includes the following statement: "Candidates for election as foreign associates shall meet the requirements for qualification forrmembership, but shall be nationals of other countries." An important criterion for selecting an individual for election as a foreign associate is incontrovertible evidence of superior professional stature in the candidate's own country. Factors which are considered to contribute significantly to this attribute are recognition by technical peers of that country through major national and international awards or similar honors and contributions to international engineering activities in either academe, industry, or government. Aliens residing permanently in the United States may be elected as foreign associates but they should be judged on the basis of their outstanding stature in the world-wide engineering community. The same forms used for a member nomination may be used for a foreign associate nomination.

4 EXCERPTS FROM NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION A person shall be qualified as a candidate for membership in the Academy if identifiable contributions or accomplishments have been made in one or both of the following categories: 1. Important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering. 2. Demonstration of unusual accomplishments in the The main criteria for membership are important or unusual personal contributions or accomplishments in relation to: 1) engineering theory, practice and the literature of engineering; and/or 2) the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. Such important or unusual personal contributions or accomplishments may be in specific technical areas, in the integration of technologies or in the strong active and noteworthy leadership of a group involved in significant innovation or technological progress. Ralph E. Fadum, CHAIRMAN, Committee on Membership Erich Bloch, VICE CHAIRMAN, Committee on Membership Jordan J. Baruch, CHAIRMAN, General W. Spencer Bloor Alfred E. Brown Donald C. Burnham, CHAIRMAN, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Peer Committee Ray W. Clough Thomas E. Everhart, CHAIRMAN, Electrical Engineering Communications/Computers/ Control Peer Committee John J. Oilman Hermann A. Haus John D. Hoffman, CHAIRMAN, Mining/Metallurgy/ Ceramics/Materials Engineering Peer Committee William M. Kays Jack L. Kerrebrock Leon K. Kirchmayer, CHAIRMAN, Electrical/ Nuclear Power Thomas R. Kuesel, CHAIRMAN, Civil Engineering Peer Committee May not serve as either nominators or references for nominations submitted in the NAE Twenty-Second Election (1985) January 1984 ARTICLE V MEMBERSHIP Clarification of Criteria for Membership in the Academy (Approved by the NAE Council in August 1983) Committee on Membership* Twenty-Second Election pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. A candidate for membership shall be recognized by associates and others for professional integrity, as well as for engineering accomplishments. Effectiveness and efficiency in leadership of organizations that have conducted pioneering or complex programs or that have made noteworthy contributions to the field of engineering education should be weighed as supplementing the primary qualifications outlined above. The supplementary qualification of "effectiveness and efficiency in leadership of organizations that have conducted pioneering or complex programs or that have made noteworthy contributions to the field of engineering education" is of a more general nature and is additional to the specific contributions and accomplishments in the foregoing qualifications. Ludwig F. Lischer M. Eugene Merchant, CHAIRMAN, Manufacturing Gordon H. Millar, CHAIRMAN, Agricultural Peter Murray William A. Nierenberg Simon Ostrach, CHAIRMAN, Mechanical Milton Pikarsky John A. Quinn, CHAIRMAN, Chemical/Petroleum William R. Sears Lawrence H. Skromme Z. J. John Stekly Monte C. Throdahl M. E. Van Valkenburg James Wei Robert H. Widmer, CHAIRMAN, Aeronautical/ Astronautical Ex officio Members Robert M. White, President, NAE Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., Chairman, NAE Ralph Landau, Vice President, NAE Harold Liebowitz, Home Secretary, NAE

5 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING 2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C February 1984 IMPORTANT - GUIDELINES NAE Twenty-Second Election (1985) Membership Office (202) t Secrecy Concerning Nomination of Candidates Nominators and references are requested to maintain secrecy with regard to nominations. Every effort should be made by the nominators and the references to ensure that the candidates do not know that they have been nominated for membership in the NAE. t Nomination Packets Additional Nomination Packets may be obtained by calling the Membership Office at the above number. 0 Nomination Forms All Nomination Forms must be typed using standard elite or pica. Please use black ribbon only. (Type smaller than elite does not reproduce well, is difficult to read, and therefore cannot be accepted.) THE MEMBERSHIP OFFICE MUST HAVE ORIGINAL FORMS PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT PHOTOCOPIES. Proposed Citations The proposed citation (Item 13 of Nomination Form) should reflect the specific contributions/work of the candidate. Each citation should begin with the word "For." The examples below are provided as a guide: a. For the development of digital signal processing theory and processors and their applications to speech compression and pattern recognition. b. For basic contributions to the technology of disk file design that permitted high recording densities for digital computer mass storage. CONTINUED ON REVERSE SIDE

6 Supplementary Page Lists of publications, issued patents and biographical material beyond what is included in the Nomination Form should not be submitted. If the nominator believes it is necessary to augment some of the areas covered in the Nomination Form, the enclosed Supplementary Page should be used. No additional material will be accepted. The Supplementary Page wttt be transmitted only to the appropriate Peer Committee and to the Committee on Membership. It will not accompany the ballot book to the membership at large in the final step of the election. Reference Forms The information on these forms is privileged; the nominator will not be informed of the views you express. Reference Forms are used exclusively by the appropriate Peer Committees, Special Peer Committees, and Committee on Membership in evaluating the candidate's qualifications. If form cannot be typed, block printing in BLACK INK is acceptable. PLEASE DO NOT USE BLUE INK IT REPRODUCES POORLY OR NOT AT ALL. All four factors on the front page of the Reference Form should be rated to ensure full and fair consideration of the candidate's qualifications. Nominators should communicate verbally with the proposed references before mailing Reference Forms to them. Only NAE members (other than members of the Committee on Membership) may serve as references. (Note: In the past, there have been cases where references were not NAE members, thus delaying the processing of the nominations.) The roster of the Committee on Membership is listed on the back cover of the Nomination Packet. Nominators and References Neither members of the the Committee on Membership nor foreign associates may serve as nominators or references.