Electrical and Systems Engineering professor Nader Engheta was named one of Scientific American's top-fifty leaders in science and technology in the magazine's December issue.
Engheta - who earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Tehran and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology - made the list in its Beginning to See the Light section, which highlighted work with light waves.
Engheta's own research could make it easier to build circuits with light rather than electricity, which has potential applications in electronics. The field is called "plasmonics," a new scientific field that examines the optical properties of solid matter.
"One day soon, the fantastic world of plasmonics may be hanging from the rack at Radio Shack," Scientific American reporter George Musser wrote in the article.
The list included researchers in science and technology from top universities around the country.
