The honorary rank of Emeritus Professor may be conferred on retired or retiring faculty upon evidence of outstanding academic accomplishment and service to the University.
Andrew Grimshaw is the chief designer and architect of Mentat and Legion. In 1999 he co-founded Avaki Corporation, and served as its Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, until 2005 when Avaki was acquired by Sybase. In 2003 he won the Frost and Sullivan Technology Innovation Award.
Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lloyd Harriott is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Professor in The Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received…
Prof. Herakovich specializes in fibrous composite materials. He founded the NASA Virginia Tech Composites Program, authored and edited many books, and held key roles in engineering organizations. Athletically known as "Rocky," he led in football scoring in 1958 and later coached at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus
Lester A. Hoel is the L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Virginia. He held the Hamilton Professorship in Civil Engineering from 1974 to 1999. From 1974 to 1989, he was Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. Before this, he served…
Wills Johnson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Emeritus, University of Virginia
Cornelius O. Horgan is the Wills Johnson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He was educated at the National University of Ireland (B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1965, Mathematical…
James M. Howe's research focuses on: i) the application of in-situ high-resolution and analytical transmission electron microscope techniques to study mechanisms of phase transformations and the structure and properties of interphase boundaries at the atomic level, and ii) the use of valence electron energy-loss spectroscopy (plasmons).
Professor Emeritus, Engineering and SocietyOlsson Professor Emeritus of Applied EthicsAdjunct Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
During her career, Johnson has taught engineering students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Virginia. In research, Johnson is best known for her work on computer ethics and engineering ethics. She published one of the first textbooks on computer ethics in 1985.
I study ion, electron, and photon interactions with surfaces of low-temperature condensed-gas solids and biomolecular solids and with atmospheric gases. The principal processes studied are the ejection of molecules from the surface, called desorption or sputtering, and atomic…
Anita Jones received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973. She left CMU as an Associate Professor when she co-founded Tartan Laboratories. She was vice-president of Tartan from 1981-87. In 1988 she joined UVA as a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department. She is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow.
