Dear Colleagues,
We have received notification that Amit Bandyopadhyay, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)! Congratulations, Amit!!
NAI Fellow status recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. The academic inventors and innovators elected to the rank of NAI Fellow are named inventors on U.S. patents and were nominated by their peers. Below my signature is the announcement from the NAI – you can see the outstanding company that Amit joins.
Amit is the second NAI Fellow in Washington State, and he joins an elite group of fellows that includes 21 Nobel Prize winners, 21 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and 10 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Science, among other awards and distinctions. A total of 414 fellows have been named since the fellow program was established in 2012. You can read more about Amit and the NAI on WSU news.
The Deputy U.S. Commissioner for Patent Operations, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will induct the NAI Fellows at a ceremony to be held at the California Institute of Technology on March 20, 2015.
We would like to invite you to join us for coffee and pastries to celebrate Amit’s receiving this honor, this Thursday at 9 am in Sloan 245 (the MME conference room).
Again, congratulations, Amit!
Sincerely,
Candis Claiborn, Professor and Dean