Society Awards

ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award

Y. Shirley Meng is the Associate Professor of NanoEngineering at the University California, San Diego. Her cutting-edge work focuses the direct integration of experimental techniques with first principles computation modeling for developing new intercalation compounds for electrochemical energy storage.

Meng received her PhD in Advanced Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005. Since then, she has founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center, which consists of faculty members from interdisciplinary fields that focus on making breakthroughs in energy generation, storage, and the accompanying integration-management systems.

She is also the principle investigator of the research group called Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC). The more recent programs include the design, synthesis, processing, and operando characterization of electrode materials in advanced rechargeable batteries; novel intercalation materials for sodium ion batteries; and advanced flow batteries for grids large scale storage. Meng is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and two patents.

Edward Goodrich Acheson Award

Barry Miller served as President of ECS (1997-1998) and as Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (1990-1995). He is a graduate of Princeton University (AB, 1955) and MIT (PhD, 1959). Throughout his career, Miller has held positions at Harvard University (1959-1962), AT&T Bell Laboratories (1962-1993), and Case Western University (1993-2000) – where he has held the title of Emeritus Professor since his retirement in 2000.

Miller has been highly involved with ECS over the years: from his position on the Board of Directors, to leadership within the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division, to co-organizing various Society symposia. Outside of ECS, Miller has served as President of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, Chair of the Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry, Associate Member of the IUPAC Commission of Electrochemistry, and as National Secretary of the International Society of Electrochemistry. Additionally, he has been a member of U.S. Government Panels including the Panel on the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium of the National Research Council and the Cold Fusion Panel of the Department of Energy.

He has been awarded the David C. Grahame Award from the ECS PAED Division (1991), Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (1992), Charles N. Reilley Award from the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (1994), Honorary Member of the ECS (1999), and the Ernest B. Yeager Award of the Cleveland Section of the ECS (2004).

Honorary Member

Dennis W. Hess is the Thomas C. DeLoach Jr., Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Over the course of his career, Hess has focused his impactful research on thin films, surfaces, interfaces, and plasma processing.

Previously, Hess was Supervisor of Process Development at Fairchild Semiconductor (1973-1977) where he worked with Bruce Deal. He then joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, eventually becoming the Assistant Dean of the College of Chemistry and Vice Chair of the ChE Department. Hess then served as the Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Lehigh University before obtaining his current position in 1996.

Hess has served on various editorial boards, including the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (2012-present), Electrochemical and Solid State Letters (2004-2012), and Chemistry Materials (1988-1996). He was President of ECS from 1996-1997. Hess has been presented with many awards throughout his career, including the ECS Edward Goodrich Acheson and Henry B. Linford Distinguished Teaching Awards and AlChE’s Charles M.A. Stine Award. He holds Fellow status in the following professional societies: ACS, AAAS, AlChE, and ECS.

Bruce Deal & Andy Grove Young Author Award

Norman Hackerman Youth Author Award