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From my IEEE email...I figured people here might be interested. The Fritz Award is described as the highest award in the engineering profession.


ASHINGTON (16 May 2008) -- Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, provost and senior
vice president for Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, recently
received the John Fritz Medal from the American Association of Engineering
Societies (AAES). She is the first woman so honored.

Johnson was one of seven honorees during the AAES’ 29th annual awards
ceremony in the Great Hall of the National Academy of Engineering on 5 May.
She was cited “for her internationally acknowledged expertise in optics,
optoelectronic switching and display technology.”

The John Fritz Medal, referred to as the highest award in the engineering
profession, is presented each year for scientific or industrial achievement
in any field of pure or applied science. It was established in 1902 as a
memorial to the great engineer whose name it bears. Past recipients include
Alexander Graham Bell (1907), Thomas Edison (1908), Alfred Nobel (1910),
Orville Wright (1920) and Guglielmo Marconi (1923).

Johnson is an IEEE Fellow and electrical engineer who, as the former dean
of engineering at Duke University, increased the engineering faculty by 50
percent, tripled the size of the teaching and research facilities, and
tripled the number of women engineering faculty, many in leadership
positions. She co-founded the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute for
Excellence in Optoelectronics and started several companies that are
commercially successful in color projection devices and intellectual
property licensing.