UFFC Society Awards in 2017

The UFFC Society award winners from 2017:

[caption id="attachment_6216" align="aligncenter" width="222"] Wallace Arden Smith, US Office of Naval Research, VA, USA[/caption]

Wallace Arden Smith - Achievement Award, for major contributions to the fields of piezoelectric ceramic - polymer composites, handheld medical ultrasound scanners, and relaxor-based piezoelectric single crystals and continuing advocacy for piezoelectric materials and transducers Bernhard R. Tittmann, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA[/caption]

Bernhard R. Tittmann - Distinguished Service Award, for a career of dedicated service to the IEEE UFFC Society in many positions including symposia management, Distinguished Lecturer, elected member of AdCom, and Chair of Nominations and Awards committees.

[caption id="attachment_6215" align="aligncenter" width="285"] Left to right from top left Douglas Wildes; Warren Lee, Bruno Haider; Scott Cogan; Krishnakumar Sundaresan; David M. Mills; Christopher Yetter; Patrick H. Hart; Christopher R. Haun; Mikael Concepcion; Johan Kirkhorn; Marc Bitoun[/caption]

Dr Douglas Wildes and a team from GE Global Research - 2017 Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE UFFC Transactions publication, “4-D ICE: a 2-D Array Transducer with Integrated ASIC in a 10-Fr Catheter for Real-Time 3-D Intracardiac Echocardiography”, IEEE Trans. UFFC 63 (12) Dec. 2016.