Edwards, Lenoir win
Bing Fellowships
Two faculty members have
been selected to receive the 1998 Bing Fellowships for
Excellence in Teaching. The new Bing Fellows are
Christopher F. Edwards, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering, and Timothy Lenoir, professor of history.
The awards are for a
three-year term and carry a stipend of $10,000 a year.
Fellows can use one-third of the money for any purpose,
while two-thirds is designated for the support of
projects designed to improve teaching or the curriculum.
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Edwards has been an
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford
since 1995. He received his doctorate from the University
of California-Berkeley in 1985 and worked for a number of
years at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.
Edwards' expertise is in
liquid sprays, combustion and heat transfer. He uses new
optical diagnostic and theoretical modeling approaches to
understand combustion systems that involve liquid sprays.
One example is the fuel-injected automobile engine that
injects fuel gasoline into cylinders as a spray. The tiny
droplets vaporize into a gas that ignites, producing the
power to drive the car. His work has application to the
development of cleaner-burning, more compact and safer
engines, and also to the surface coatings essential for
manufacturing digital chips.
In 1997 Edwards was the
recipient of both Terman and Powell fellowships. He also
has won the Adams Award from Sandia National Laboratories
and awards from both the 1994 International Conference on
Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems and the Institute of
Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
Lenoir, chair of the
interdisciplinary Program in History and Philosophy of
Science, is a specialist in the history of German
science, especially biological science, in the 19th
century. More recently he has studied the history of
Silicon Valley. He is the author of The Strategy of
Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century
Biology and Reforming Vision: Optics, Aesthetics,
and Ideology in Germany 1845-1890.
Lenoir earned his
doctorate in history and philosophy of science at St.
Mary's College in 1974. Before joining the Stanford
faculty in 1987, he taught at Notre Dame, the University
of Arizona and the University of Pennsylvania, and
directed the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History,
Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and
Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 1989 Lenoir founded the
Wissenschaftsverbund and Institute for Postdoctoral
Studies in Berlin, a summer program in which recent
Ph.D.s in diverse fields such as history, art,
literature, social and economic history, and history of
science and technology work in areas of related thematic
focus.
A Guggenheim Fellow and
member of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin), Lenoir has
received numerous fellowships, grants and awards,
including the Zeitlin-Ver Brugge Prize. SR
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