Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor John R. Buck, who has received the prestigious Office of
Naval Research Young Investigator award and the National Science
Foundation CAREER award, is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of
America, a Fulbright Scholar and a Senior Member of IEEE. His
scholarship focuses on underwater acoustics, signal processing, animal
bioacoustics and engineering pedagogy. Professor Buck received fifteen
research grants from federal agencies. Many of his graduates have
continued their research at prestigious universities and national
laboratories. Professor Buck’s classes incorporate active and
collaborative learning, making the students’ learning the central focus
of the classroom. He was UMass Dartmouth’s inaugural winner of the
Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for outstanding development of
curricular materials and innovative assessment of student learning.
Professor Buck also received the IEEE Education Society’s Mac Van
Valkenburg Award, and the Faculty Federation Leo M. Sullivan Teacher of
the Year Award. Professor Buck founded and led several faculty mentoring
programs in the Office of Faculty Development, as well as directly
mentoring several junior faculty from across the campus.
Bioengineering
Professor Qinguo Fan has made substantial leadership contributions to
the College of Engineering overseeing the transformation of Textiles
Department into its current form as Bioengineering. As Bioengineering
chairperson, he led the development of the new undergraduate major in
bioengineering, recruitment and mentoring of new faculty, major
renovations to laboratories and formation of an industrial advisory
board. Under his strong leadership, the BNG undergraduate program
successfully completed its first ABET accreditation in Fall 2016,
considered exceptional for a new program doing the ABET accreditation
the first time. The Bioengineering department now offers, in addition to
the Bioengineering major, a Bioengineering minor, the 4+1 BS/MS program
and a Biomedical Engineering concentration. Several Bioengineering
graduates have gone on to medical schools, research positions and work
at medical device companies. Professor Fan’s research has primarily
focused on structural color, blue light cured polymers, and conducting
polymers during the last ten years. He is a co-inventor on one U.S.
patent. Professor Fan is a member of the American Association of Textile
Chemists and Colorists and the International Society for Pharmaceutical
Engineering. Professional recognition includes receipt of the Highly
Commended Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence for one of
his research articles.
Mathematics
Professor Gottlieb has demonstrated a deep passion for incorporating
research into undergraduate education. She has adopted an exploratory,
discovery-based approach by using “computing for intuition” as a
critical tool to learning, and has worked to engage her undergraduate
students in research in computational mathematics. Her advisees have
gone to have successful careers at universities and research
laboratories. Professor Gottlieb is known internationally as an expert
in strong-stability-preserving time discretizations and other schemes
for hyperbolic equations. As PI or co-PI, she has been responsible for
securing well in excess of $3.5M to support her research. In recognition
of her expertise and impact on the field, Professor Gottlieb was
recently elected a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Gottlieb’s most significant service has
been her leadership of the Center for Scientific Computing and
Visualization Research (CSCVR), which she helped form and served as
director (2013-2017) and co-director (2017-present). In this capacity
she has worked to support, facilitate, and promote the research
activities of the scientific computing group and to mentor students and
junior faculty of scientific computing in a supportive, broad, and deep
interdisciplinary research environment.
Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
Professor Howes played an integral role in the initial development of
the marine science graduate program, an internationally recognized
marine science and technology program. He has advised and funded
graduate students who have gone on to pursue successful careers.
Professor Howes has maintained a high level of scholarly productivity in
his field, as well as produced numerous technical reports as part of
the Massachusetts Estuaries Program (MEP) requirements. He has raised
over $23M in extramural research funding through federal, state and
municipal extramural grants and contracts. Professor Howes has also made
significant contributions to his profession in the form of scientific
advances, as well as practical applications that have had a major impact
on coastal ecosystem health and water quality in the region.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor Yuegang Zuo has a record of contributing to active learning
and has sustained a record of graduating M.S. and Ph.D. students. He
provides high quality mentorship resulting in graduate students winning
external awards for their work. He has also worked with undergraduate
students, who have won American Chemical Society awards. Professor Zuo
has maintained a high level of scholarly publishing and is successful in
attracting substantial extramural funding. He has contributed to the
University and his profession serving on diverse departmental, college
and university committees as well as the Faculty Senate. He has served
his profession as a reviewer, editor, and meeting organizer and serves
on the editorial board for seven journals and recently became the
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Endocrinology Research.
