A Carle Illinois College of Medicine module subordinate has been named a chap of the National Academy of Inventors.
Bill King, a prof and the Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair successful the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering successful the GCOE, was presented the grant due to the fact that helium has “demonstrated a highly prolific tone of innovation successful creating oregon facilitating outstanding invention that person made a tangible interaction connected the prime of life, economical development, and payment of society.”
“This is simply a fantastic accidental to observe the civilization of innovation astatine Illinois,” said King. “It is an grant to beryllium recognized alongside large innovators successful the 2023 people of fellows.”
King came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign successful 2006. King besides holds appointments successful Carle Illinois College of Medicine's Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He works connected manufacturing science, micro-and nanotechnology, precocious materials, and thermal vigor systems.
He is the co-founder of 3 companies, including Anasys Instruments which was acquired by Bruker and sells materials characterization instrumentality that is wide utilized by academia and industry. He besides co-founded Fast Radius, a institution that sells software-driven manufacturing and was recognized by the World Economic Forum arsenic 1 of the world’s astir precocious factories. King was the founding main exertion serviceman astatine the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, present known arsenic MxD, which was 1 of the archetypal institutes successful the U.S. National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. In this role, helium created and led a $100 cardinal portfolio of exertion projects.
King is an elected chap of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and SME International.
King volition beryllium inducted during a peculiar ceremonial successful June 2023. It volition hap astatine the NAI 12th Annual Meeting successful Washington, D.C.
Editor’s note: Adapted from an nonfiction written by Cassandra Smith of The Grainger College of Engineering. You tin work the archetypal version here.
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