Nicholas Lownes, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, participated by invitation of the British Embassy on a “Future Cities” panel for visiting transportation delegates from the UK on Feb. 6 in New York City.

Baki Cetegen, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was elected a Councilor to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). He will serve a five-year term, beginning July 1, 2014.

A paper co-authored by Marten van Dijk, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, “AEGIS: Architecture for Tamper-evident and Tamper-resistant Processing,” was one of 100 most-cited papers from among 1,800 published in the ICS Proceedings between 1987 and 2011, and was chosen for inclusion in the volume “25 Years of International Conference on Supercomputing.”