Ellis Meng was elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society Class of 2017 Fellows for demonstrating exceptional achievement and experience in the field of biomedical engineering.

In addition, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Committee of Past Presidents conferred the Fellow grade of membership to Meng in recognition of her outstanding achievements in engineering.

Dean Yortsos accepted the ASEE President’s Award in June on behalf of the Viterbi School, which recognizes the best use of media by organizations to encourage K-12 students to pursue an engineering education and/or influence public opinion to create awareness about the importance of engineering in modern day society.

Mark S. Humayun (2018) and K. Kirk Shung (2016) are recent recipients of the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award for outstanding contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.  This award is sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.