Ferreira elected as AAAS Fellow

Department Head and Tungchao Julia Lu Professor Placid Ferreira was recently honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election to Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers, and the award is given based on the recipient’s scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. 

The honor recognizes Ferreira’s achievements in the fields of nanomanufacturing and systems control. His current research focuses on the development of solid-state superionic stamping (S4), a process for stamping nanoscale metallic structures; high-resolution electrohydrodynamic writing for direct writing of sub-micron structures; fully functional parallel-kinematics two and three degree-of-freedom MEMS and Mesoscale nanopositioning stages.

Ferreira joined the department in 1987 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1993, then professor in 1998. He has served as department head since 2009. He holds a PhD in industrial engineering from Purdue University, an M.Tech degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Bombay.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science, as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes 254 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million people. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, and science education.