ES&T associate editor Dzombak named to NAE

摘要

David Dzombak began life with a chemistry professor at home: his father, William Dzombak, taught at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., for 35 years. Now the junior Dzombak has achieved one of the highest professional distinctions for an engineer: election into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). "Dave has been a leader in fostering multidisciplinary research," says Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, who asked Dzombak to be his associate dean a year and a half ago. "He is extremely hard-working and very focused, to the point that people might think he is too serious, but believe me, he has a great sense of dry humor." Dzombak is the Walter J. Blenko Sr. Professor of Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He became an associate editor of ES&T in 2005. ES&T Editor Jerald Schnoor notes his versatility: "He is a true scholar in environmental sciences and engineering, with applications to both the natural and built environment."