King named ASME Fellow

MechSE professor William King has been named ASME Fellow, the group’s highest membership grade of distinction. The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, ASME Fellows have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous active corporate membership in ASME.

Professor King is a College of Engineering Bliss Professor. Before coming to Illinois, King spent 16 months in the Micro/NanoMechanics Group of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and was on the faculty at Georgia Tech. At Illinois, his group works on nanoscale thermal and mechanical measurements, engineering of nanomechanical devices, nanomanufacturing, and nanometrology.

King is the winner of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the PECASE award from the Department of Energy, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. He was named Young Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2006). In 2006, Technology Review Magazine named him to the TR35−one of the people under the age of 35 whose innovations are likely to change the world. In 2007 his innovations were selected for an R&D 100 Award and a Micro/Nano 25 Award, and in 2008 he won his second R&D 100 Award. He is co-founder of two companies.