Awards, People

Engineering professor, alums elected to the National Academy of Engineering

By Brett Israel

Constance Chang-Hasnain
New National Academy of Engineering member Constance Chang-Hasnain (Photo by Noah Berger)
Constance Chang-Hasnain

New National Academy of Engineering member Constance Chang-Hasnain (Photo by Noah Berger)

The National Academy of Engineering has elected Berkeley engineering professor Constance Chang-Hasnain to its ranks, widely considered one of the highest professional honors in engineering. Chang-Hasnain holds an endowed chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and is an expert in nano-optoelectronics.

The academy cited Chang-Hasnain’s contributions to wavelength tunable diode lasers and multi-wavelength laser arrays in its announcement (For more on her work, read this 2015 Berkeley News story on her lab’s development of a new chameleon-like material that changes color.) She is Berkeley’s 74th faculty member elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Others with Berkeley ties who were elected to the academy include:

  • Diane Greene (M.S.’88 EECS), senior vice president of Google Cloud at Google Inc.
  • Gary May (M.S.’88, Ph.D.’91 EECS), chancellor at UC Davis
  • David Tse, Berkeley engineering adjunct faculty and professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
  • Norman Abrahamson, Berkeley adjunct professor in civil and environmental engineering and researcher at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center , headquartered on campus. Abrahamson is now the chief engineering seismologist at Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

New academy members will be inducted later this year at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Read the full story at Berkeley Engineering