Julie Zimmerman, the Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions and jointly appointed professor at Yale's School of the Environment and School of Engineering & Applied Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Cited for her “leadership in education and the development of green technologies that enhance the sustainability of engineered systems,” Vice Provost Zimmerman will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on October 5.
“Julie is a brilliant, highly innovative thinker and educator whose research has led to advances in integrated biorefinery and the design of renewable chemicals, among other breakthroughs,” said Indy Burke, the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of the Environment. “Her leadership — first at YSE, and now as the Vice Provost of Planetary Solutions — is enabling us to bring the levels of collaboration, creativity, and systems thinking needed to address the climate crisis and other urgent global challenges.”
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering practice, research, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”
