The Academy is a national and independent organization composed of elected members with the highest honor in the community of engineering and technological sciences of the nation. Its missions are to initiate and conduct strategic studies, provide consultancy services for decision-making of nation’s key issues in engineering and technological sciences and promote the development of the undertaking of engineering and technological sciences in China and devote itself to the benefit and welfare of the society.
This lifelong honor is granted every two years to no more than 60 people per cycle. This year's group of 51 includes four from the United States, one from Australia, and one from Denmark, bringing the total number of foreign CAE inductees to date to 45. More than 550 candidates were under consideration for the honor.
Crittenden is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering; director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems; Hightower Chair, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Environmental Technologies. Crittenden's research interests span a breadth of topics under the broad theme of sustainability is evolved from his initial and ongoing research interests in the treatment and removal of hazardous materials from drinking and groundwater. These include pollution prevention, physical-chemical processes, nanotechnology, air and water treatment, mass transfer, and numerical methods. With insight gained into how these processes interconnect with each other, and with people, markets, and nature, he is most interested right now in tools and educational programs that connect social decision making, regional development, material flows, energy use, and local, regional, and global environmental impacts.
Wong is the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair and Regents’ Professor. After his doctoral study, he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories for many years and became an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow in 1992. His research interests lie in the fields of polymeric materials, electronic packaging and interconnect, interfacial adhesions, nano-functional material syntheses and characterizations. nano-composites such as well-aligned carbon nanotubes, grahenes, lead-free alloys, flip chip underfill, ultra high k capacitor composites and novel lotus effect coating materials. He holds over 50 U.S. patents, numerous international patents, has published over 1000 technical papers, 10 books and a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA since 2000.
