Congratulations to College of Engineering faculty members - Craig Forest, ME, Brian German, AE, Todd Sulchek, ME, and Ying Zhang, ECE , who were named the recipients of the 2012 Lockheed Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding educators from among the untenured junior faculty at the Assistant Professor level from the Georgia Tech Schools of Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and the College of Computing.  Award recipients are selected for extraordinary effectiveness in classroom teaching, educational innovations, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, and impact on the postgraduate success of students.

Forest's research interests are in ultra-high throughput genomics instrumentation; detection, separation, amplification of DNA; 3-D microfabrication technologies for genomics applications; and micro-lenslet arrays. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and his B.S. from Georgia Tech.

German's research areas are in multidisciplinary design, multi-objective optimization, and decision methods applied to air vehicle design and systems engineering. He also conducts research in aerodynamic, propulsion, subsystem, and performance models suitable for aircraft design studies. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. degrees from Georgia Tech.

Sulchek focuses primarily on the measurement and prediction of how multiple individual biological bonds produce a coordinated function within molecular and cellular systems. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford and his B.A. from Johns Hopkins.

Zhang's research interests focus on systems level of interdisciplinary problems, and she has extensive research experience and publications in multiple engineering disciplines. Her doctoral dissertation topic, "MEMS/NEMS Design Automation and Synthesis," illustrated her creation of powerful, efficient design synthesis tools for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and her B.S. degree from Tongji University.